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Some scientists even refer to them as canaries in the coal mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why both locally here in California, as well as globally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06578-4\">amphibians are on the decline\u003c/a>, in large part due to habitat destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to, up until literally just a couple hundred years ago, have this vast untouched landscape full of pristine wetlands,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Pacific tree frog sits inside a sprinkler box on campus after West Valley College student Galen Ventresca discovered it during a frog hunt on Feb. 19, 2026, at West Valley College in Saratoga. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, much of that habitat has been paved over for interstate freeways and housing developments, or cultivated for farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time, the climate has also changed a lot, which has led to more drought. 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The chytrid fungus is a major factor in amphibian declines around the world, as well as here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at California frogs in general, more than half of them are threatened or endangered,” Taylor said. “It’s really dire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A resilient species\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, though, that global trend doesn’t apply to the Pacific tree frog species, the one that Dave grew up hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, statewide, the population is thriving.[aside postID=news_12052988 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250804-BC-BIODIVERSITY-01-KQED.jpg']“They are known for being very resilient,” Taylor said. “So whereas other species of frogs have become locally extinct in certain areas, Pacific chorus frogs are doing very well still.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their propensity for living in urban areas, including under garden hose drips, in backyard water features and small creeks, has made them resilient to all the changes the Bay Area has seen over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which means the fact that Dave isn’t hearing those specific frogs anymore means there’s something going on more locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s actually something that’s really concerning, because this is probably one of the most resilient amphibian species that we have,” Taylor said. “So if it is being impacted, then that does imply that there’s probably something amiss in that particular neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, Taylor said, the solution to bringing them back is quite simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the best thing people can do to encourage a thriving tree frog population in their neighborhoods is avoid pesticide use, have a water feature and plant native plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: If you grew up here in the Bay Area … or if you’ve lived here a long time … I bet this sound is familiar to you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Pacific tree frogs chorusing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Tree frogs. A quintessential soundtrack to the Bay Area. These aren’t your stereotypical big, bloated bullfrogs. They’re little green frogs just a couple inches long, with bulging eyes and giant toe pads that allow them to climb trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re especially noisy during the springtime, which is their mating season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis: \u003c/strong>I used to wonder how people that lived next to them could sleep in the springtime because the frogs were so loud. It was really cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Dave Ellis grew up in the South Bay city of Saratoga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis: \u003c/strong>We live about a quarter mile from the creek, and you could hear the tree frogs that far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: When he was a kid, he used to go to the creek, which ran through a community college campus, to try to see the frogs for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis:\u003c/strong> We used to go to West Valley College and we used to catch them in the creek there um because they had like a little bridge you could climb down it was really easy to get into the creek um and you could hear lots of them there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Dave still lives in Saratoga, not too far from that creek. But now, come springtime, it’s silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis:\u003c/strong> It’s so weird, it used to be so loud this time of year, and it’s just dead silent. All of a sudden, the silence was just deafening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: He says he has hardly heard a single frog sound for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis:\u003c/strong> So I was wondering what happened. I mean, it could be pesticides. It could be climate change. It could mean, who knows, but it’s such a dramatic change because for years and years and probably before we moved here when I was a kid, even there was tree frogs and now there’s like literally none. There’s not a single one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Dave’s question won a public voting round at BayCurious.org. Which reminds me, head over to Bay Curious dot org to cast your vote in this month’s contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme music\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: I’m Olivia Allen-Price, and today on Bay Curious, we look into the mystery of the disappearing tree frogs. We’ll visit that creek on the West Valley College campus … and enlist the help of some students … all to find out what happened to the tree frogs. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: This week, we’re looking into the odd lack of tree frog choruses that one Bay Curious listener has noticed. We sent Bay Curious reporter Dana Cronin on a hunt to find out what’s going on with the tree frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I can totally relate to Dave’s nostalgia for the sound of frogs in the springtime. I, too, grew up across the street from some frogs. I’m not sure how many of them there were, but boy, were they loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I figured the best way to find out what happened to Dave’s frogs was to go straight to the source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I headed to the West Valley College campus — the one in the neighborhood where Dave grew up, with the creek running through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> So this is the creek?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>This is the Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>I met up with West Valley College biology professor Leticia Gallardo … who has agreed to go on this frog hunt with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>I thought we’d walk up a little bit farther up … We have a little, bit of a wetland. I’m hoping we might have some luck looking for some frogs up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene): \u003c/strong>That sounds great!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>So, we set off. It’s early fall, which isn’t the best time of year to be looking for them since it’s so dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nonetheless, Professor Gallardo tells me we’re looking for the Pacific tree frog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> Their characteristic look is this black stripe over their eye. So if you see a little frog, maybe about two inches or so, with a black almost mask. Over their face, you’re probably looking at a tree frog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Pacific tree frogs like living in cool, wet environments. In creekbeds … but even underneath a drip from a garden hose, or in a fountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we’re keeping our ears — as well as our eyes — peeled. Because even though these frogs are small, their sound is mighty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> In fact, it’s the frog that Hollywood records right in the hills. And so they call it sometimes the Hollywood frog because when you hear frogs in the background of a movie or a TV show, is oftentimes that Pacific tree frog. That’s the one chorusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We walk along the creek, which winds through campus. We pass by classrooms, walk through a mini golf course, all the while looking for frog habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Gallardo spots a utility box, makes a beeline for it, and turns it over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> They sometimes hang out in the nice little cozy, moist utility box. They like those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>But not today. So, we keep walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> Do you hear that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We think we hear one. So we start to follow the sound back down to the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> I was trying to find a spot that doesn’t have as much poison oak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>But someone — ahem, me — wasn’t willing to brave the poison oak. So we keep walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Gallardo has one more spot in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>The next spot where there’s water, we might get lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> Sure, let’s do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of running water\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We start walking back downstream, and get to a part of the creek where there’s a slow, steady drip – IDEAL frog habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>I thought I heard one. Were you recording?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> I was, I didn’t hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> You didn’t hear it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> No. Now we’re imagining frogs. (laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We wait in silence, hoping for just one croak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene): \u003c/strong>Well dang, it might be a strikeout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>No frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>I’m bummed. But Professor Gallardo is more than bummed; she seems disturbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> It just seems that there should be something in here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>After all, this little creek is perfect habitat for tree frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, where are they all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Dave’s right. What was once a booming tree frog population at West Valley College seems to have been nearly erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what happened to this particular population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, I tried by asking Emily Taylor, a biology professor at Cal Poly, who specializes in amphibians and reptiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor: \u003c/strong>So my guess would be that they could be declining in some areas due to a combination of increased pesticide use, possibly. Which could be directly harming them, or it could be killing the insects that they rely on for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Indeed, there was a noticeable lack of bugs along the creekbed at West Valley College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sure enough, when I asked, a West Valley spokesperson said the college quote “uses limited pesticides in specific locations on campus when necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Taylor said the decline could also be due to habitat changes in the creek bed where these frogs used to live. Like, maybe the college has paved over certain parts of it or has disturbed it in some other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> If you bulldoze or cover in concrete a creek bed to manage the watersheds, then a lot of times you’ll wipe out the water-loving species, including amphibians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Frogs in general are especially vulnerable to changes in their environment because they have permeable skin, which makes them susceptible to certain types of toxins and also disease. Some scientists even refer to them as canaries in the coal mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why both locally here in California and globally, amphibians are on the decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because think about how much things have changed here for frogs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> We used to, up until literally just a couple hundred years ago, like pre-Gold Rush era, have just this vast untouched landscape full of pristine wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We’ve destroyed a lot of that habitat over time to make room for interstate freeways, housing developments and farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in that time, our climate has also changed a lot, leading to more drought, which — as we’ve learned — is not good for frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New diseases have cropped up over time as well, including one caused by the chytrid fungus, which affects frogs’ skin and prevents them from regulating their water intake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chytrid fungus is a major factor in amphibian declines around the world and here in California, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> If you look at California frogs in general, more than half of them are threatened or endangered. It’s really dire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>But interestingly, Pacific tree frogs — the ones that Dave asked about — are not threatened or endangered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, their population is thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> They are known for being very resilient. So, whereas other species of frogs have become locally extinct in certain areas, Pacific chorus frogs are doing very well still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Professor Taylor says their propensity for living in urban areas … including under garden hose drips, in backyard water features, and small creeks has made them resilient to all the changes the Bay Area has seen over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the fact that Dave’s not hearing his neighborhood frogs anymore means there’s something going on more locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor: \u003c/strong>I think that’s actually something that’s really concerning, because this is probably one of the most resilient amphibian species that we have. And so if it is being impacted, then that does imply that there’s probably something amiss in that particular neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>The good news is that the solution is also pretty hyperlocal. Dave doesn’t need to solve climate change or cure any diseases to bring his neighborhood frogs back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution is actually quite simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> The best thing people can do, really, is to plant native plants in your yard, have a water feature, and really avoid pesticide use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of flowing water\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Which is exactly what Leticia Gallardo has done at West Valley College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> This little plant right in here, this big-leafed, low-growing plant, is called yerba mansa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Professor Gallardo and her students have been working on installing native gardens for the past few years. They want to create habitat for all kinds of native critters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’re starting to see results! Just this year, a monarch butterfly caterpillar affixed its chrysalis to a big metal pole right outside their classroom. It’s the first time they’ve seen a monarch on campus, and they’re very protective of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Melanie Zarza reads me a sign that students pinned up next to the chrysalis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melanie Zarza:\u003c/strong> “This is a monarch butterfly chrysalis. He is cooking. Don’t bug him If you hurt this little creature the entire biology department will have beef with you and you and will release the curse of Ra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>As Melanie and I are admiring the chrysalis, Professor Gallardo is examining the native milkweed they have planted in the garden nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>There’s more caterpillars!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melanie Zarza: \u003c/strong>Really?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>There are more of them, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>There’s an itty bitty tiny one right here. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melanie Zarza: \u003c/strong>There’s one right there, under you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>You see another one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melanie Zarza:\u003c/strong> Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>Oh my God, oh my God! There’s more!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We fan out and start peeking under leaves and closely examining stalks — and we keep seeing more and more caterpillars, with vibrant yellow, black and white stripes lining their chunky bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melanie Zarza: \u003c/strong>So, how many do we have now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>I think we should count them. Oh, look, there’s another one. Oh my god, that’s so exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>It’s amazing when you like, spend so much time planting and like waiting for the critters to come and then they come. It makes it all worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene): \u003c/strong>Do you think this could be? I mean, not that it has to be all about the frogs, but do you think that this could be an indication that the frog species here on campus could start to really come back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>Well, I think if you restore the habitat, you make a home for them, you make space for them. Yeah. If we can have less contaminants going into that creek, it’s totally hospitable. They are really adaptable, generalized little critters, And so I think they totally could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene): \u003c/strong>Fingers crossed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Sure enough, a couple months after my visit to West Valley College, I got an email from Professor Gallardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that winter rains brought out some frogs and that they’re now consistently hearing a few frogs in the gardens and the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a huge chorus yet, she said, not like the one that Dave remembers. But it’s a step in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: That was KQED’s Dana Cronin. Thanks to Dave Ellis for asking this week’s question, which won a public voting round on Bay Curious dot org. There’s still time left to vote in February’s contest, so head on over and cast your vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave grew up a quarter mile from a creek, which runs through West Valley College. He said he used to be able to hear the loud chorus of frogs all the way from his house, and would sometimes venture to the creek in search of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, even though he still lives nearby, he never hears them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074229\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leticia Gallardo, a biology professor at West Valley College, points out fungi growing on bark to student Galen Ventresca during a frog hunt on Feb. 19, 2026, at West Valley College in Saratoga. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s so weird, it used to be so loud this time of year, and it’s just dead silent,” he said. “All of a sudden, the silence was just deafening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, now Dave’s wondering, what happened to the tree frogs?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The decline of amphibians\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are many possible explanations for the disappearance of the tree frogs in Dave’s neighborhood, making it hard to pinpoint an exact cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is the use of pesticides on the West Valley College campus, through which the creek runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“West Valley College uses limited pesticides in specific locations on campus when necessary,” a spokesperson for the college wrote in an email. “All applications are performed by licensed professionals and in accordance with California state regulations and safety guidelines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pesticides could inflict direct harm on frogs, or they could kill the insects the frogs rely on for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible contributor could be changes in habitat over time. For example, perhaps West Valley College has paved over certain parts of the creekbed, or disturbed it in some other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you bulldoze or cover in concrete a creek bed, then a lot of times you’ll wipe out the water-loving species, including amphibians,” said Emily Taylor, a biology professor at Cal Poly who specializes in reptiles and amphibians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frogs are particularly vulnerable to changes in their environment because they have permeable skin, which makes them susceptible to many toxins and diseases. Some scientists even refer to them as canaries in the coal mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why both locally here in California, as well as globally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06578-4\">amphibians are on the decline\u003c/a>, in large part due to habitat destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to, up until literally just a couple hundred years ago, have this vast untouched landscape full of pristine wetlands,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/021926_TREEFROG-_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Pacific tree frog sits inside a sprinkler box on campus after West Valley College student Galen Ventresca discovered it during a frog hunt on Feb. 19, 2026, at West Valley College in Saratoga. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, much of that habitat has been paved over for interstate freeways and housing developments, or cultivated for farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time, the climate has also changed a lot, which has led to more drought. Frogs need wet environments to survive, and drought poses real danger to them over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New diseases have cropped up as well, including one caused by the \u003ca href=\"https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/chytrid-fungus\">chytrid fungus\u003c/a>, which affects frogs’ skin and prevents them from regulating their water intake. The chytrid fungus is a major factor in amphibian declines around the world, as well as here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at California frogs in general, more than half of them are threatened or endangered,” Taylor said. “It’s really dire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A resilient species\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, though, that global trend doesn’t apply to the Pacific tree frog species, the one that Dave grew up hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, statewide, the population is thriving.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: If you grew up here in the Bay Area … or if you’ve lived here a long time … I bet this sound is familiar to you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Pacific tree frogs chorusing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Tree frogs. A quintessential soundtrack to the Bay Area. These aren’t your stereotypical big, bloated bullfrogs. They’re little green frogs just a couple inches long, with bulging eyes and giant toe pads that allow them to climb trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re especially noisy during the springtime, which is their mating season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis: \u003c/strong>I used to wonder how people that lived next to them could sleep in the springtime because the frogs were so loud. It was really cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Dave Ellis grew up in the South Bay city of Saratoga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis: \u003c/strong>We live about a quarter mile from the creek, and you could hear the tree frogs that far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: When he was a kid, he used to go to the creek, which ran through a community college campus, to try to see the frogs for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis:\u003c/strong> We used to go to West Valley College and we used to catch them in the creek there um because they had like a little bridge you could climb down it was really easy to get into the creek um and you could hear lots of them there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Dave still lives in Saratoga, not too far from that creek. But now, come springtime, it’s silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis:\u003c/strong> It’s so weird, it used to be so loud this time of year, and it’s just dead silent. All of a sudden, the silence was just deafening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: He says he has hardly heard a single frog sound for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Ellis:\u003c/strong> So I was wondering what happened. I mean, it could be pesticides. It could be climate change. It could mean, who knows, but it’s such a dramatic change because for years and years and probably before we moved here when I was a kid, even there was tree frogs and now there’s like literally none. There’s not a single one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Dave’s question won a public voting round at BayCurious.org. Which reminds me, head over to Bay Curious dot org to cast your vote in this month’s contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme music\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: I’m Olivia Allen-Price, and today on Bay Curious, we look into the mystery of the disappearing tree frogs. We’ll visit that creek on the West Valley College campus … and enlist the help of some students … all to find out what happened to the tree frogs. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: This week, we’re looking into the odd lack of tree frog choruses that one Bay Curious listener has noticed. We sent Bay Curious reporter Dana Cronin on a hunt to find out what’s going on with the tree frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I can totally relate to Dave’s nostalgia for the sound of frogs in the springtime. I, too, grew up across the street from some frogs. I’m not sure how many of them there were, but boy, were they loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I figured the best way to find out what happened to Dave’s frogs was to go straight to the source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I headed to the West Valley College campus — the one in the neighborhood where Dave grew up, with the creek running through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> So this is the creek?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>This is the Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>I met up with West Valley College biology professor Leticia Gallardo … who has agreed to go on this frog hunt with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>I thought we’d walk up a little bit farther up … We have a little, bit of a wetland. I’m hoping we might have some luck looking for some frogs up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene): \u003c/strong>That sounds great!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>So, we set off. It’s early fall, which isn’t the best time of year to be looking for them since it’s so dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nonetheless, Professor Gallardo tells me we’re looking for the Pacific tree frog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> Their characteristic look is this black stripe over their eye. So if you see a little frog, maybe about two inches or so, with a black almost mask. Over their face, you’re probably looking at a tree frog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Pacific tree frogs like living in cool, wet environments. In creekbeds … but even underneath a drip from a garden hose, or in a fountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we’re keeping our ears — as well as our eyes — peeled. Because even though these frogs are small, their sound is mighty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> In fact, it’s the frog that Hollywood records right in the hills. And so they call it sometimes the Hollywood frog because when you hear frogs in the background of a movie or a TV show, is oftentimes that Pacific tree frog. That’s the one chorusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We walk along the creek, which winds through campus. We pass by classrooms, walk through a mini golf course, all the while looking for frog habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Gallardo spots a utility box, makes a beeline for it, and turns it over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> They sometimes hang out in the nice little cozy, moist utility box. They like those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>But not today. So, we keep walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> Do you hear that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We think we hear one. So we start to follow the sound back down to the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> I was trying to find a spot that doesn’t have as much poison oak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>But someone — ahem, me — wasn’t willing to brave the poison oak. So we keep walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Gallardo has one more spot in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>The next spot where there’s water, we might get lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> Sure, let’s do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of running water\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We start walking back downstream, and get to a part of the creek where there’s a slow, steady drip – IDEAL frog habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>I thought I heard one. Were you recording?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> I was, I didn’t hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> You didn’t hear it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene):\u003c/strong> No. Now we’re imagining frogs. (laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We wait in silence, hoping for just one croak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin (in scene): \u003c/strong>Well dang, it might be a strikeout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo: \u003c/strong>No frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>I’m bummed. But Professor Gallardo is more than bummed; she seems disturbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leticia Gallardo:\u003c/strong> It just seems that there should be something in here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>After all, this little creek is perfect habitat for tree frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, where are they all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Dave’s right. What was once a booming tree frog population at West Valley College seems to have been nearly erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what happened to this particular population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, I tried by asking Emily Taylor, a biology professor at Cal Poly, who specializes in amphibians and reptiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor: \u003c/strong>So my guess would be that they could be declining in some areas due to a combination of increased pesticide use, possibly. Which could be directly harming them, or it could be killing the insects that they rely on for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Indeed, there was a noticeable lack of bugs along the creekbed at West Valley College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sure enough, when I asked, a West Valley spokesperson said the college quote “uses limited pesticides in specific locations on campus when necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Taylor said the decline could also be due to habitat changes in the creek bed where these frogs used to live. Like, maybe the college has paved over certain parts of it or has disturbed it in some other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> If you bulldoze or cover in concrete a creek bed to manage the watersheds, then a lot of times you’ll wipe out the water-loving species, including amphibians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>Frogs in general are especially vulnerable to changes in their environment because they have permeable skin, which makes them susceptible to certain types of toxins and also disease. Some scientists even refer to them as canaries in the coal mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why both locally here in California and globally, amphibians are on the decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because think about how much things have changed here for frogs over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> We used to, up until literally just a couple hundred years ago, like pre-Gold Rush era, have just this vast untouched landscape full of pristine wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>We’ve destroyed a lot of that habitat over time to make room for interstate freeways, housing developments and farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in that time, our climate has also changed a lot, leading to more drought, which — as we’ve learned — is not good for frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New diseases have cropped up over time as well, including one caused by the chytrid fungus, which affects frogs’ skin and prevents them from regulating their water intake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chytrid fungus is a major factor in amphibian declines around the world and here in California, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> If you look at California frogs in general, more than half of them are threatened or endangered. It’s really dire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin: \u003c/strong>But interestingly, Pacific tree frogs — the ones that Dave asked about — are not threatened or endangered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, their population is thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Taylor:\u003c/strong> They are known for being very resilient. 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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County leaders are distancing themselves from automated license plate reader company Flock Safety due to growing concerns about the use of its data for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A split decision on Tuesday afternoon by the Board of Supervisors to effectively cut ties with Flock brings the county in league with dozens of other local governments that have canceled or paused contracts with, or otherwise separated from, the prolific license plate reader vendor in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The severings follow media reports that federal agencies like Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement were able to access data from vast local Flock camera networks across the country, at times even while local police departments and city officials said they were unaware the data sharing was happening. In some cases, the data sharing went directly against local or state policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not believe the County of Santa Clara should be doing business with Flock,” District 2 Supervisor Betty Duong said at a press conference on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flock is a problematic company, and their reported conduct and sharing of private data is incompatible with our county’s values, my personal values and the values that I promised the voters of District 2 that I would uphold, and with multiple policies that we as a board have unanimously approved in recent years,” Duong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-2000x1426.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-2048x1461.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are seen at the intersection of Washington and La Cienega boulevards on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Culver City, California. \u003ccite>(Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there are many license plate reader vendors, Flock has become one of the largest suppliers, with tens of thousands of cameras in more than 5,000 cities and counties around the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted 3-2 in favor of amending its own policies to effectively render Flock cameras useless in Cupertino and Saratoga, two South Bay cities that currently contract with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office for public safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s decision also applies to Los Altos Hills, though that small town’s leadership decided to terminate its contract with Flock last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the sheriff’s office runs law enforcement for those three places, it also oversees the license plate cameras that those cities and towns use. All three have relied on Atlanta-based Flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the newly updated county “Surveillance Use Policy” adopted by the board, the sheriff’s office will no longer access or use any data sourced from a Flock camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effective immediately, the sheriff’s office and the staff cannot operate, manage or touch the cameras, the data, transmission, anything from ALPRs that are operated by Flock, vended by Flock,” Duong told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county doesn’t have the authority to force those cities to end their Flock contracts, the change in policy appears to make the images and data being logged by those cameras moot, as there isn’t another law enforcement agency to pursue leads it generates.[aside postID=news_12072077 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Cupertino City Manager Tina Kapoor confirmed Tuesday that the city’s Flock contract is active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be evaluating the agreement based on the county’s decision and other considerations at the moment, such as our upcoming law enforcement contract with the county and the budget,” Kapoor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duong noted that if Cupertino or Saratoga were to find new vendors for license plate readers, the sheriff’s office would likely be able to quickly resume oversight and operation of that technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some county leaders raised broader concerns about the technology of ALPRs, which, in Flock’s case, record not only a car’s license plate, but also its make and model, color and defining features like roof racks and bumper stickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Susan Ellenberg voted against the change in policy on Tuesday because she feels license plate readers in general represent an “excessive invasion of privacy,” and that those concerns outweigh any public safety benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flock is particularly problematic. But I differ from my colleagues in that I don’t believe they are an outlying bad actor and alternatives are not necessarily any safer,” Ellenberg said during the county board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really existentially troubled by the expansion of the surveillance state and its contribution to the erosion of democracy, civil liberties and other protections that actually create safe communities,” Ellenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alleviating poverty and ensuring stable housing, sufficient nutrition, access to health care and education, clean and well-lit streets, of course, create more safety than surveillance cameras, even when used under the strictest use policies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1279px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066777\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1279\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED.jpg 1279w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement agencies are deploying vehicle-tracking networks with settings that some advocates say can make local data nationally searchable. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Flock Safety)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick Hidalgo, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, said the county’s move was encouraging but that it does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no guarantee that rival ALPR vendors will do better,” he said. “These companies market their systems as easy to share with other law enforcement agencies — sharing is by design, and vendors are incentivized to facilitate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Flock Safety, Paris Lewbel, said in an emailed statement that the company “is proud of the impact our technology has had in helping solve crimes and locate missing people in Santa Clara County and across the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, other cities have also taken steps to back away from Flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View’s City Council voted unanimously to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072077/as-california-cities-grow-wary-of-flock-safety-cameras-mountain-views-shuts-its-off\"> end a contract and terminate\u003c/a> automatic license plate readers on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Ellen Kamei said the city learned a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Acknowledging a situation, acting quickly and communicating openly reflects integrity and public service,” she said. “We’ve talked about how our city is known as a community for all, and being a community for all means telling the truth, even when it’s difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz became the first city in California to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety\">sever ties with Flock \u003c/a>in January, following similar data-sharing problems, which violate longstanding state laws against sharing ALPR data with federal agencies and other agencies out of state.[aside postID=news_12069705 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty.jpg']In the wake of those cases, where local officials blamed Flock’s software platform for the unwanted searches of their databases, the company has pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each Flock customer fully owns and controls 100% of its data. Only our customers have sole authority over if, when, and with whom information is shared,” Lewbel, the Flock spokesperson, said. “By default, vehicle data is automatically deleted after 30 days unless local law or policy requires otherwise. 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I would be too scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t risk having an arrest, and then having to dig myself out of that while I’m trying to provide housing and food for myself and my children,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071720\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Super Bowl Banner decorates the exterior of Levi’s Stadium in San José on Jan. 28, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dhanoa acknowledged that an unintended consequence of these operations has sometimes been arresting “individuals who don’t identify as survivors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. 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"content": "\u003cp>Budget shortfalls could force the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a>’s top prosecutor to abandon misdemeanor prosecutions, domestic violence cases and youth programs — leading to “tragic” consequences for public safety, according to Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his annual State of the Office address on Tuesday, Rosen said a potential 12% cut to his office’s general fund — estimated at $19 million — would likely result in the loss of 75 to 80 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED, Rosen called his office’s work “both exceptional and extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re very proud of those achievements, I have to let the residents know I’m very concerned about the budget cuts that are looming,” Rosen said. “And how it will affect everyone’s public safety in a very negative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen’s concern comes as Santa Clara County faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaracounty.gov/federalfunding\">$1 billion\u003c/a> hole. H.R. 1, or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910533/what-the-big-beautiful-bill-means-for-california\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u003c/a>, has triggered what County Executive James R. Williams described as an “unprecedented fiscal crisis,” with the county projecting an enormous loss of federal and state revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved $183 million in midyear \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/board-supervisors-takes-mid-year-budget-action-offset-federal-funding-cuts-impacting-critical\">reductions\u003c/a> to the county’s public hospital system, eliminating 365 full-time positions countywide — many of which were vacant beforehand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250924-Election-SJ-Measure-A_00671_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250924-Election-SJ-Measure-A_00671_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250924-Election-SJ-Measure-A_00671_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250924-Election-SJ-Measure-A_00671_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Rosen’s office was spared from those cuts, 10 of those positions, including five attorney openings, came from the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Damon Silver said the strain is reaching a breaking point across the legal system. He noted his office has already eliminated non-mandated work, and warned that further cuts will harm legal defense services provided to residents who cannot afford an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Balance between the two offices is critical to ensure fairness,” Silver said. “Both offices need appropriate funding to ensure a healthy criminal legal process.”[aside postID=news_12073534 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-2_qed.jpg']The County Executive’s Office, however, said that no formal budget recommendations for fiscal year 2026-2027 have been finalized. Per the county’s annual process, official proposals will be released by the County Executive on May 1, with the Board of Supervisors set to adopt a final budget by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/measure-a\">voter-approved sales tax Measure A\u003c/a>, which is expected to generate $330 million annually starting in April, the county is still projecting a $470 million deficit for the upcoming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital system and every General Fund department is being asked to make difficult reductions,” Williams said in a statement. “The fact remains that the largest share of our General Fund resources goes to public safety functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said his office would be among those hit hard. Without the $19 million, he said prosecutors could no longer pursue misdemeanor cases — including drunk driving, domestic violence and sexual assault cases in which victims are uncooperative. Those victim cases make up more than 70% of the office’s prosecutions, Rosen said, meaning thousands could go unprosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen also said that prevention programs targeting youth, including anti-truancy efforts, gang intervention and drug treatment, would end up on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seriously underfunding public safety,” he said. “These proposed budget cuts would be dire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Some mayors have airports as legacy projects. Others have downtown arenas. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/matt-mahan\">Matt Mahan\u003c/a> has tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Mahan, the mayor of San José and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071306/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-announces-run-for-california-governor\">Democratic candidate\u003c/a> for California governor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072666/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-wants-to-be-governor-heres-a-look-into-his-signature-homelessness-program\">celebrated the opening\u003c/a> of a tiny home project in North San José. A six-acre patch of dirt next to the Valley Transportation Authority’s Cerone Yard was transformed into a hub of 162 private rooms for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cerone ribbon-cutting marked the end of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064380/new-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-open-next-to-former-encampment\">ambitious expansion\u003c/a> of shelter in the state’s third-largest city — the last project the city had budgeted in a construction sprint. In the last year, 11 temporary housing sites opened their doors and an existing site more than doubled in size, adding a total of 1,319 beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This phase of shelter expansion may be over for now,” Mahan said at the site’s opening. “But our fight to end unsheltered homelessness continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter building boom is sunsetting just as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071841/can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race\">new chapter\u003c/a> in Mahan’s political career begins. At the Cerone opening, the mayor’s usual cadre of city staff were joined by new faces: members of a campaign team guiding Mahan’s run for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that campaign, Mahan will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070167/governors-race-takes-shape-as-bonta-opts-out-mahan-weighs-run\">likely tout his ability\u003c/a> to take on the state’s most vexing problems by pointing to his experience as mayor. The tiny homes, converted motels and RV parking lots that together make up San José’s Emergency Interim Housing system stand as the visual embodiment of Mahan’s tenure — the fruit of multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">budget fights\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">political clashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mahan and his supporters, the interim housing network is pragmatism in practice — an example of the type of “bias for action” prized in Silicon Valley that has delivered quick results on voters’ top issue. For critics, the tiny homes are monuments to political expediency, with a growing price tag that could weigh on the city’s books long after Mahan leaves office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan addresses reporters and city leaders at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San José set a goal to create a lot more shelter units, and they’ve done it,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, a housing nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s new shelter focus has only solved “part of the problem,” Loving said. “Because obviously people can’t live in those places forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim housing sites have filled up just as quickly as they have opened, offering residents a more comfortable alternative to traditional congregate shelters. And on Mahan’s most prized metric, reducing unsheltered homelessness, the tiny homes appear to be delivering: last year’s point-in-time count found the number of people sleeping outdoors had \u003ca href=\"https://osh.santaclaracounty.gov/data-and-reports/point-time-count\">dropped by 10%\u003c/a> since January 2023, when Mahan took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as this phase of the tiny home buildout winds down, nearly 4,000 people are still without shelter in San José — and the system’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HomeFirst CEO Rene Ramirez speaks during a news conference at the grand opening of the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan and the council have committed to operate the shelter system in perpetuity, with no guarantee of ongoing funding help from the county, state or federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim housing costs are outstripping the city’s dedicated homeless fund, and by 2029, the shelters could require an infusion of nearly $60 million from the city’s general fund, which pays for basic services like police and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have leaned out in a big way in — some would say — taking a risk on going it alone and building out a system that is very expensive,” Mahan said. “The fact that we did that, though, and have shown that it’s working, I think has shown that we are committed to ending this crisis and has actually built the social and political capital to get others to the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A funding reversal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the South Bay ranked last among large California Continuums of Care (HUD-designated regional homeless planning bodies) in shelter capacity, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/taking-stock-of-californias-capacity-to-house-its-homeless-population/\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José, Santa Clara City and County Continuum of Care had 29 shelter beds per 100 people experiencing homelessness — well behind San Diego (61.1 beds per 100 homeless individuals), San Francisco (50.9), Riverside (40) and Los Angeles (34.9).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan won \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932432/cindy-chavez-concedes-race-for-san-jose-mayor-to-matt-mahan\">an upset victory\u003c/a> in the 2022 mayoral election on a vow to reduce unsheltered homelessness. But city funding was largely dedicated to building affordable apartments that offer a permanent path off the streets — though they typically take longer to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor common areas and walkways are shown at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The site will include shared seating, shaded areas and support facilities for future residents. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To engineer San José’s shift toward a shelter-focused strategy, Mahan eyed a pot of money created by voters in a 2020 ballot initiative, Measure E. The tax on high-value real estate sales raises around $50 million to $60 million a year — roughly 75% of which is dedicated to building permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first year as mayor, a council majority \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">rejected Mahan’s proposal\u003c/a> to redirect a larger share of the Measure E revenue toward interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">next two years\u003c/a>, Mahan evinced a political savvy in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">spearheading the reversal\u003c/a> in city homeless funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking the executive power of other big-city mayors, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">trumpeted warnings\u003c/a> that the city could face fines for its lack of shelter; urged his colleagues to continue approving new shelter construction (adding pressure to find revenue to support the costs); and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">built a roster of allies\u003c/a> on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">voted to permanently dedicate\u003c/a> 90% of the homeless fund toward shelter, with the remaining 10% earmarked for homeless prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding reversal was complete, and construction of tiny home villages continued apace — in Downtown, Berryessa and South San José. Neighborhood opposition, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">once threatened to derail\u003c/a> the program, began to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of Mahan’s tenure, the city was operating seven interim housing facilities. Now there are 23 — a mix of individual room projects such as Cerone, modular studio apartments, converted motel rooms and parking lots for lived-in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investments ‘started to bear fruit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of 2025, the South Bay had already caught up to the shelter capacity of other large California jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD has not yet released point-in-time counts of people experiencing homelessness in 2025 or the annual Housing Inventory Count of shelter. But seven of the state’s largest Continuums of Care provided the data they reported to HUD, either publicly or in response to a request from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the South Bay’s ratio of beds per 100 people experiencing homelessness had jumped from 29.0 to 40.6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Local Shelter Capacity in California\" aria-label=\"Dot Plot\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-dmxrZ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/dmxrZ/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"333\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout 2025, San José opened a dozen more interim projects, adding more than 1,000 additional beds that were not reflected in the count, which typically takes place at the beginning of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacancy rates for the new tiny homes have remained low — in part because San José’s shelter expansion looks very different from the large congregate shelters that offer a cot or bunk-bed in a large room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congregate shelters can leave residents without privacy and dignity — and open to crime and abuse, said Benjamin Henwood, director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People sort of voted with their feet, meaning they opted out of these shelters,” Henwood said. “They preferred living unsheltered without all of those risks that came with a congregate shelter.”[aside postID=news_11988728 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7876_qut-1020x765.jpg']While the designs of San José’s tiny home shelters vary from site to site, nearly all offer a private room with a locked door — and access to case managers who can help coordinate medical needs and search for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny homes have consistently been more than 95% full. The utilization rate across 13 locations tracked on an ongoing basis \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiMjUxM2ZiMjAtNmE5Zi00ZTJlLWI4YjQtYTU3NjdiY2Q5OTBkIiwidCI6IjBmZTMzYmUwLTYxNDItNGY5Ni05YjhkLTc4MTdkNWMyNjEzOSJ9&pageName=fc2a0a27f1654d314199%22\">stands at 96%\u003c/a> over the last seven months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Torres moved into the Rue Ferrari interim housing community in South San José last year. He had been living in his car for a year, by a train station on Monterey Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work was slow, and it was hard for me to find jobs and all that,” he said. “I didn’t have no resources in the car, and it’s hard to drive here and there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Torres saw outreach workers knocking on nearby tents. They were offering spots at Rue Ferrari, which expanded this year from 124 to 268 beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He jumped at the opportunity but had concerns about what life would be like in short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard a lot of stuff [about] shelters because, you know, you live with a lot of people in bunk beds,” Torres said. “But here it’s peaceful, you get your own room, they kind of show you how to be independent more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for me, because I get a little anxiety, it’s perfect for me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months later, Torres has settled into his one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit. His bed is covered with a San Francisco 49ers blanket, and a TV and speakers sit at the foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier today I was shaving, cutting my hair, and I had the music bumping — not too loud, respect the neighbors — but, ah man, you can’t complain, dude,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing price tag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of new shelter beds, with high rates of usage, have contributed to a decline in the number of people sleeping outdoors in San José — from 4,411 in January 2023 to 3,959 in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A countywide financial assistance program also helped — \u003ca href=\"https://news.nd.edu/news/targeted-prevention-helps-stop-homelessness-before-it-starts/\">Notre Dame researchers\u003c/a> credited it with dramatically reducing the number of people becoming homeless in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investments that the city has been making have really started to bear fruit,” said Anthony Tordillos, a city council member representing downtown. “By bringing that additional capacity online, the city’s been successful in actually being able to move people from the streets and get them into more secure housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of newly installed tiny homes line a pedestrian walkway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The city secured $12.7 million in state funding to purchase the homes. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San José is still thousands of beds short of the 5,477 shelter beds the city estimated last year would be needed to achieve “functional zero” homelessness — meaning anyone who lost their housing would be able to access a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring any influx of state or federal funding, the city’s shelter system won’t be greatly expanding anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just maintaining a system the size of San José’s could be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In permanent supportive housing projects, tenants typically pay a small share of rent or are subsidized by a federal housing voucher. In interim housing, there is typically no rent to offset the mounting operating costs, which include staffing and utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t appear that these are sustainable strategies because…you’re paying the operation cost on an ongoing basis,” said Henwood, the USC professor. “Those are sort of never-ending costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the shift of Measure E funds from affordable housing to shelter will not be enough to completely pay for San José’s interim housing system in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15167200&GUID=86C22EAB-3F43-40BC-8A68-3C74BE78A74D\">budget forecast\u003c/a>, presented to the council last week, found the interim housing system would need an infusion of $17 million in the upcoming fiscal year from the general fund — increasing to $58 million in 2029-30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Required General Fund Contribution to Interim Housing ($ Millions)\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-t1P8M\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/t1P8M/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"450\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071569/matt-mahan-is-running-for-governor-what-does-that-mean-for-san-jose\">facing a budget shortfall\u003c/a> of roughly $55 million to $65 million in the coming year, so maintaining the interim housing system could force difficult spending trade-offs with other city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city obviously took kind of a big bet making these investments to so dramatically expand our shelter capacity, and knowing that those do come with longer-term operational costs,” Tordillos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Tordillos said, the city will need to pivot into “optimization mode,” by finding ways to drive down the costs of on-site services — and finding financial help from other levels of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Not respecting the taxpayers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal funding for the interim housing program has dried up, and support from the state (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975319/newsom-reneges-on-sending-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-the-unhoused\">chipped in millions\u003c/a> for projects including Cerone) has declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state budget approved last year by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom appropriated no new flexible homeless dollars (known as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/01/homelessness-funding-2026/\">Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention\u003c/a> — HHAP — program) for cities and counties in 2025-26 — a drop from the $1 billion approved in the previous budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up those costs, Mahan has turned to Santa Clara County, arguing in part that the city’s reduction in unsheltered homelessness is saving the county money by reducing the number of visits unhoused people make to the emergency room and jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a finished tiny home is seen through an open doorway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. Each unit includes a bed, storage space and basic furnishings for residents transitioning out of homelessness. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But county leaders have been among the sharpest critics of Mahan’s shelter-focused approach. They already fund more than 2,000 shelter placements of their own and have long prioritized funding permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that as a policymaker, I’ve ever proposed a program, a service, that I expected another entity to support,” Supervisor Sylvia Arenas said. “Collaboration does actually make sense, but that means that you meet…and you talk about what you’re building together and have the same objective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that we have the same objective,” Arenas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former San José council member, Arenas said she had longstanding concerns about continuing to expand the interim housing system without a stable funding source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think to build tiny homes, and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate all of these tiny homes, is not respecting the taxpayers,” she said. “And also not being true to what you’re actually providing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Accountability without resources\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">harsh rhetoric between\u003c/a> members of the council and board of supervisors last year — which nearly resulted in a rare joint meeting to hash out their differences in public — the city-county relationship over interim housing appears to be thawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Mahan endorsed a county-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058418/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-a-pitched-to-offset-deep-medicaid-cuts-measure-a\">ballot measure\u003c/a> to raise the sales tax, and county leaders committed to sending health workers to bring medical services directly to residents at tiny home sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan insists that city general fund spending on temporary housing should be on the table, given the priority residents have placed on reducing street homelessness.[aside postID=news_12071306 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250312-MATT-MAHAN-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg']“That’s the nightmare scenario, but we have to plan for that,” he said. “So [if] federal, state and county all pull back and choose not to invest in things that are working, we can sustain the system we have, though that is far from ideal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Mahan faces the same challenge as many big-city leaders across the state, said Darrell Steinberg, the former mayor of Sacramento and president pro tem of the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the number one thing for a big-city mayor in California is that, aside from the HHAP funding, you have all the accountability but not the bulk of the resources,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Mahan, the mayor, can’t secure money for the tiny homes now, he may be betting that Mahan, the governor, will be the program’s chief benefactor in the future, able to direct state resources toward the system he helped build in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Torres has dreams of something more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a picnic table outside of his unit at Rue Ferrari, Torres said he feels like a weight has been lifted off his shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since I got a spot, a roof over my head, I ain’t got to worry about being in the street or anything,” he said. “So I’m focusing on a career, on a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s hoping his tiny home will be a launching pad for the future he is already starting to envision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a regular little house, you know,” he said. “I got kids, so hopefully I could bring them in with me too — that’s pretty much my goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter building boom is sunsetting just as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071841/can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race\">new chapter\u003c/a> in Mahan’s political career begins. At the Cerone opening, the mayor’s usual cadre of city staff were joined by new faces: members of a campaign team guiding Mahan’s run for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that campaign, Mahan will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070167/governors-race-takes-shape-as-bonta-opts-out-mahan-weighs-run\">likely tout his ability\u003c/a> to take on the state’s most vexing problems by pointing to his experience as mayor. The tiny homes, converted motels and RV parking lots that together make up San José’s Emergency Interim Housing system stand as the visual embodiment of Mahan’s tenure — the fruit of multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">budget fights\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">political clashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mahan and his supporters, the interim housing network is pragmatism in practice — an example of the type of “bias for action” prized in Silicon Valley that has delivered quick results on voters’ top issue. For critics, the tiny homes are monuments to political expediency, with a growing price tag that could weigh on the city’s books long after Mahan leaves office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_024-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan addresses reporters and city leaders at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San José set a goal to create a lot more shelter units, and they’ve done it,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, a housing nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s new shelter focus has only solved “part of the problem,” Loving said. “Because obviously people can’t live in those places forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim housing sites have filled up just as quickly as they have opened, offering residents a more comfortable alternative to traditional congregate shelters. And on Mahan’s most prized metric, reducing unsheltered homelessness, the tiny homes appear to be delivering: last year’s point-in-time count found the number of people sleeping outdoors had \u003ca href=\"https://osh.santaclaracounty.gov/data-and-reports/point-time-count\">dropped by 10%\u003c/a> since January 2023, when Mahan took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as this phase of the tiny home buildout winds down, nearly 4,000 people are still without shelter in San José — and the system’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_022-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HomeFirst CEO Rene Ramirez speaks during a news conference at the grand opening of the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan and the council have committed to operate the shelter system in perpetuity, with no guarantee of ongoing funding help from the county, state or federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim housing costs are outstripping the city’s dedicated homeless fund, and by 2029, the shelters could require an infusion of nearly $60 million from the city’s general fund, which pays for basic services like police and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have leaned out in a big way in — some would say — taking a risk on going it alone and building out a system that is very expensive,” Mahan said. “The fact that we did that, though, and have shown that it’s working, I think has shown that we are committed to ending this crisis and has actually built the social and political capital to get others to the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A funding reversal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the South Bay ranked last among large California Continuums of Care (HUD-designated regional homeless planning bodies) in shelter capacity, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/taking-stock-of-californias-capacity-to-house-its-homeless-population/\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José, Santa Clara City and County Continuum of Care had 29 shelter beds per 100 people experiencing homelessness — well behind San Diego (61.1 beds per 100 homeless individuals), San Francisco (50.9), Riverside (40) and Los Angeles (34.9).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan won \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932432/cindy-chavez-concedes-race-for-san-jose-mayor-to-matt-mahan\">an upset victory\u003c/a> in the 2022 mayoral election on a vow to reduce unsheltered homelessness. But city funding was largely dedicated to building affordable apartments that offer a permanent path off the streets — though they typically take longer to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor common areas and walkways are shown at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The site will include shared seating, shaded areas and support facilities for future residents. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To engineer San José’s shift toward a shelter-focused strategy, Mahan eyed a pot of money created by voters in a 2020 ballot initiative, Measure E. The tax on high-value real estate sales raises around $50 million to $60 million a year — roughly 75% of which is dedicated to building permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first year as mayor, a council majority \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">rejected Mahan’s proposal\u003c/a> to redirect a larger share of the Measure E revenue toward interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">next two years\u003c/a>, Mahan evinced a political savvy in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">spearheading the reversal\u003c/a> in city homeless funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking the executive power of other big-city mayors, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">trumpeted warnings\u003c/a> that the city could face fines for its lack of shelter; urged his colleagues to continue approving new shelter construction (adding pressure to find revenue to support the costs); and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">built a roster of allies\u003c/a> on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">voted to permanently dedicate\u003c/a> 90% of the homeless fund toward shelter, with the remaining 10% earmarked for homeless prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding reversal was complete, and construction of tiny home villages continued apace — in Downtown, Berryessa and South San José. Neighborhood opposition, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">once threatened to derail\u003c/a> the program, began to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of Mahan’s tenure, the city was operating seven interim housing facilities. Now there are 23 — a mix of individual room projects such as Cerone, modular studio apartments, converted motel rooms and parking lots for lived-in vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investments ‘started to bear fruit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the beginning of 2025, the South Bay had already caught up to the shelter capacity of other large California jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD has not yet released point-in-time counts of people experiencing homelessness in 2025 or the annual Housing Inventory Count of shelter. But seven of the state’s largest Continuums of Care provided the data they reported to HUD, either publicly or in response to a request from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the South Bay’s ratio of beds per 100 people experiencing homelessness had jumped from 29.0 to 40.6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Local Shelter Capacity in California\" aria-label=\"Dot Plot\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-dmxrZ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/dmxrZ/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"333\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout 2025, San José opened a dozen more interim projects, adding more than 1,000 additional beds that were not reflected in the count, which typically takes place at the beginning of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacancy rates for the new tiny homes have remained low — in part because San José’s shelter expansion looks very different from the large congregate shelters that offer a cot or bunk-bed in a large room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congregate shelters can leave residents without privacy and dignity — and open to crime and abuse, said Benjamin Henwood, director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute at USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People sort of voted with their feet, meaning they opted out of these shelters,” Henwood said. “They preferred living unsheltered without all of those risks that came with a congregate shelter.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While the designs of San José’s tiny home shelters vary from site to site, nearly all offer a private room with a locked door — and access to case managers who can help coordinate medical needs and search for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny homes have consistently been more than 95% full. The utilization rate across 13 locations tracked on an ongoing basis \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiMjUxM2ZiMjAtNmE5Zi00ZTJlLWI4YjQtYTU3NjdiY2Q5OTBkIiwidCI6IjBmZTMzYmUwLTYxNDItNGY5Ni05YjhkLTc4MTdkNWMyNjEzOSJ9&pageName=fc2a0a27f1654d314199%22\">stands at 96%\u003c/a> over the last seven months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Torres moved into the Rue Ferrari interim housing community in South San José last year. He had been living in his car for a year, by a train station on Monterey Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work was slow, and it was hard for me to find jobs and all that,” he said. “I didn’t have no resources in the car, and it’s hard to drive here and there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Torres saw outreach workers knocking on nearby tents. They were offering spots at Rue Ferrari, which expanded this year from 124 to 268 beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He jumped at the opportunity but had concerns about what life would be like in short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard a lot of stuff [about] shelters because, you know, you live with a lot of people in bunk beds,” Torres said. “But here it’s peaceful, you get your own room, they kind of show you how to be independent more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for me, because I get a little anxiety, it’s perfect for me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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His bed is covered with a San Francisco 49ers blanket, and a TV and speakers sit at the foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier today I was shaving, cutting my hair, and I had the music bumping — not too loud, respect the neighbors — but, ah man, you can’t complain, dude,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing price tag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of new shelter beds, with high rates of usage, have contributed to a decline in the number of people sleeping outdoors in San José — from 4,411 in January 2023 to 3,959 in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A countywide financial assistance program also helped — \u003ca href=\"https://news.nd.edu/news/targeted-prevention-helps-stop-homelessness-before-it-starts/\">Notre Dame researchers\u003c/a> credited it with dramatically reducing the number of people becoming homeless in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investments that the city has been making have really started to bear fruit,” said Anthony Tordillos, a city council member representing downtown. “By bringing that additional capacity online, the city’s been successful in actually being able to move people from the streets and get them into more secure housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of newly installed tiny homes line a pedestrian walkway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. The city secured $12.7 million in state funding to purchase the homes. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But San José is still thousands of beds short of the 5,477 shelter beds the city estimated last year would be needed to achieve “functional zero” homelessness — meaning anyone who lost their housing would be able to access a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring any influx of state or federal funding, the city’s shelter system won’t be greatly expanding anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just maintaining a system the size of San José’s could be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In permanent supportive housing projects, tenants typically pay a small share of rent or are subsidized by a federal housing voucher. In interim housing, there is typically no rent to offset the mounting operating costs, which include staffing and utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t appear that these are sustainable strategies because…you’re paying the operation cost on an ongoing basis,” said Henwood, the USC professor. “Those are sort of never-ending costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the shift of Measure E funds from affordable housing to shelter will not be enough to completely pay for San José’s interim housing system in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15167200&GUID=86C22EAB-3F43-40BC-8A68-3C74BE78A74D\">budget forecast\u003c/a>, presented to the council last week, found the interim housing system would need an infusion of $17 million in the upcoming fiscal year from the general fund — increasing to $58 million in 2029-30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Required General Fund Contribution to Interim Housing ($ Millions)\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-t1P8M\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/t1P8M/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"450\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071569/matt-mahan-is-running-for-governor-what-does-that-mean-for-san-jose\">facing a budget shortfall\u003c/a> of roughly $55 million to $65 million in the coming year, so maintaining the interim housing system could force difficult spending trade-offs with other city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city obviously took kind of a big bet making these investments to so dramatically expand our shelter capacity, and knowing that those do come with longer-term operational costs,” Tordillos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Tordillos said, the city will need to pivot into “optimization mode,” by finding ways to drive down the costs of on-site services — and finding financial help from other levels of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Not respecting the taxpayers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal funding for the interim housing program has dried up, and support from the state (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975319/newsom-reneges-on-sending-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-the-unhoused\">chipped in millions\u003c/a> for projects including Cerone) has declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state budget approved last year by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom appropriated no new flexible homeless dollars (known as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/01/homelessness-funding-2026/\">Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention\u003c/a> — HHAP — program) for cities and counties in 2025-26 — a drop from the $1 billion approved in the previous budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up those costs, Mahan has turned to Santa Clara County, arguing in part that the city’s reduction in unsheltered homelessness is saving the county money by reducing the number of visits unhoused people make to the emergency room and jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020526SJ-TINY-HOMES_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a finished tiny home is seen through an open doorway at the Cerone Interim Housing Community on Feb. 5, 2026, in San José. Each unit includes a bed, storage space and basic furnishings for residents transitioning out of homelessness. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But county leaders have been among the sharpest critics of Mahan’s shelter-focused approach. They already fund more than 2,000 shelter placements of their own and have long prioritized funding permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that as a policymaker, I’ve ever proposed a program, a service, that I expected another entity to support,” Supervisor Sylvia Arenas said. “Collaboration does actually make sense, but that means that you meet…and you talk about what you’re building together and have the same objective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that we have the same objective,” Arenas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former San José council member, Arenas said she had longstanding concerns about continuing to expand the interim housing system without a stable funding source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think to build tiny homes, and then you forget, oh, we needed to also put in some money to operate all of these tiny homes, is not respecting the taxpayers,” she said. “And also not being true to what you’re actually providing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Accountability without resources\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">harsh rhetoric between\u003c/a> members of the council and board of supervisors last year — which nearly resulted in a rare joint meeting to hash out their differences in public — the city-county relationship over interim housing appears to be thawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Mahan endorsed a county-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058418/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-a-pitched-to-offset-deep-medicaid-cuts-measure-a\">ballot measure\u003c/a> to raise the sales tax, and county leaders committed to sending health workers to bring medical services directly to residents at tiny home sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan insists that city general fund spending on temporary housing should be on the table, given the priority residents have placed on reducing street homelessness.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s quite a feat for an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cepa.scc/\">account\u003c/a> started last fall that had fewer than 100 followers at the time of this writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never really know what’s going to take off and what people are going to be excited about,” said Ericka Mora, the county’s acting deputy agricultural commissioner. “But I’m really excited that hopefully this drives more people to start following the CEPA accounts that we have so that they can learn a lot more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency oversees a host of \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.santaclaracounty.gov/home\">functions\u003c/a>, including animal services, hazardous waste and mosquito control, among others. 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It can wreak havoc on grapevines by spreading a bacterium that causes Pierce’s disease, which the USDA said affects grape quality and production, and eventually kills the vines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Super Bowl planners decided there needed to be about four semi-truckloads worth of hedges, trees and other live plant decor shipped into Santa Clara to spruce up the surroundings of Levi’s Stadium, staff from CEPA’s Division of Agriculture were called in for inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely the scale of this event was larger than something that we normally deal with, but we were able to pool our resources together and finish the inspection over the course of about two afternoons,” said Carly Miranda Lopez, an associate biologist with the Division of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small teams of inspectors worked to comb through the branches and leaves, checking their undersides for any trace of the sharpshooter or its egg casings. 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At that hearing, Tillman made multiple outbursts, questioned the ability of his own county public defender, and said he would prove his competence “whenever you like.”[aside postID=news_12053558 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanJosePostOfficeFireTwitter.jpg']Later, after a federal indictment for the same incident was filed against Tillman, local prosecutors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053558/santa-clara-county-da-drops-arson-case-against-richard-tillman-as-federal-case-continues\">dismissed\u003c/a> their case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillman’s brother, former NFL player Pat Tillman Jr., was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 when members of his U.S. platoon fired on him and an Afghan militia member, mistaking them for enemy fighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government subsequently attempted to cover up the truth about the killing, including by instructing an officer to lie to the soldier’s family about the circumstances of his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Richard Tillman told ESPN he didn’t believe the story that the military told of his older brother’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Richard Tillman often \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049042/pat-tillmans-brother-arrested-in-san-jose-post-office-fire-had-alarming-posts-online\">livestreamed\u003c/a> on his YouTube account from behind the wheel of a parked car. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Seattle Seahawks exacted revenge on the New England Patriots with a 29-13 victory in Super Bowl LX on Sunday night at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seahawks fans said hoisting the NFL’s Lombardi Trophy was the perfect balm for those still stung by the team’s narrow loss to New England in Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of football fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072657/san-joses-downtown-has-had-a-strong-recovery-is-it-ready-for-the-super-bowl-surge\">swarmed into Santa Clara\u003c/a> on a sunny and breezy day, bringing waves of excitement and energy to a generally sleepy part of the South Bay city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Super Bowl LX transformed portions of Santa Clara, San José and San Francisco for a week leading up to the matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots with parties and concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the takeover continued Sunday on the blocks around Levi’s Stadium, which were buzzing with activity and filled with color and sound. Light rail trains were packed with fans and throngs of people filled streets, sidewalks and intersections, while hundreds of black luxury SUVs and vans loaded with swaths of VIPs, players’ families and high-rollers weaved through the crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Miran dances at a Super Bowl LX tailgate at the Hilton near Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026, as fans celebrated ahead of the Patriots-Seahawks game. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area hip hop music and reggaeton poured out of hotel tailgate parties, New England fans donned classic jerseys, oversized Patriots foam hats and thickly embroidered leather jackets. Hawks fans showed off giant shiny chrome and green chains, with Seahawks emblems dangling from their necks, as well as team-emblazoned leggings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most fans interviewed for this story had tickets in hand for the Super Bowl, though some were still looking for them at the last minute, while others tried to resell tickets on corners near hotels and the stadium. Some came with no plans to go to the game, but just wanted to be close to the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many attending the game are from out of state, including Christopher Ruiz, a Hawks fan from Seattle, who was wearing a colorful outfit including a hat that read “born and raised” with the team’s logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072774\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Ruiz (left), a Seattle Seahawks fan born and raised in Seattle, and Wayne Kimball (right), a New England Patriots fan, ride VTA to Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz and his brother Jonathan took the VTA light rail to the stadium in the early afternoon, and were riding high seeing their team back in the big game, confident they would come away victorious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been supporting this team since I was a young, young little boy,” Ruiz said. “It’s the culmination of life in general being able to witness this, not just myself, but with my brother. To be in a position in life to make this happen, it’s a dream of mine to be able to watch my team hoist that Lombardi Trophy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac Guindy (right) orders a hotdog outside the Hilton near Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz was sporting a Richard Sherman Seahawks jersey and was covered in bright green and dark blue, including the official Nike Seattle Seahawks Air Max 90 shoes. “I bleed this, I breathe this. This is our opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seated right next to Ruiz were lifelong Patriots fans Wayne Kimball and his wife Kim, who are in town from Menden, Mass. They felt the outcome would be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have a real good shot at this. No one’s picking us, so that means we’re gonna win,” Kimball said. “We came in Thursday and we’re getting ready to hand Seattle another loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Bowl attendees exit VTA on their way to Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fans on the train were ribbing each other the whole ride to the stadium. “Everyone’s been very friendly, even the Seahawks fans,” Kimball said. “We all bust each other’s chops. We’re all having a good time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as thousands of people crowded the area, volunteers with the group Contra-ICE handed out “rally towels” that read “ICE OUT” on one side, with a drawing of a bunny rabbit dressed in football gear kicking a football frozen in a cube of ice out of the frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is trying to call attention to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement and the violent tactics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, and demanding an end to their presence in American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonny Deborst, a protester against ICE, poses for a portrait outside Levi’s Stadium for the Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on February 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Will Hanson, a Stanford University student from Washington state, was handing out the towels Sunday, and said the First Amendment protected free speech and the Super Bowl are two very American things that fit together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not have people dying in the streets,” Hanson said. Federal immigration agents have shot and killed two protesters in Minneapolis. “I think having un-ordered militia in our streets is just dangerous and something we should be protesting at any opportunity. I think the Super Bowl is a great point to show people this message and spread it to as many people as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaiah Slovani, a protester against ICE, poses for a portrait outside Levi’s Stadium for the Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on February 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just ahead of kickoff, about a couple hundred protesters opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s administration marched from Our Lady of Peace Church & Shrine to streets south of the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group included members of local and national organizations such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Refuse Fascism and SIREN Immigrant Rights. Protesters chanted slogans, held signs and carried a large yellow banner reading, “Trump Must Go Now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While fans poured into Levi’s, others around the Bay Area got settled in at their favorite spots to watch the game in good company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 miles north of Levi’s Stadium, crowds of Seahawks fans gathered at San Francisco’s only bar for the 12s in San Francisco, Danny Coyle’s. For Megan Page, Jenni Sandsmark and Erika Spencer, the Super Bowl is both a shot at redemption for their favorite team and a reunion for old friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seahawks fans (from left) Megan Page, Erika Spencer and Jenni Sandsmark hang out at Danny Coyle’s in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2026, as festivities surrounding Super Bowl LX draw fans from across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three used to live in San Francisco, and made a pact to come back to their beloved sports bar in the Lower Haight neighborhood if the Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl. This week, they flew out from their respective homes in Seattle, Minnesota and North Carolina, and on Sunday, had their old table reserved for them at the front of the Irish sports bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such an important place for us. We built so much community here, we knew this was the place to watch,” Sandsmark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seahawks fans fill Danny Coyle’s in the Lower Haight neighborhood before kickoff of Super Bowl LX. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brian Coyle, owner of Danny Coyle’s, was hanging out with the Seahawks fans who flocked to his bar just before kickoff. He’s more of a 49ers fan than a Seahawks fan, but he started playing Seahawks games after a regular patron from Seattle asked if he could dedicate one of the TVs inside to the team. He has since amassed a crew of regulars from the Seattle region, including a group of guys who bought him a new TV for the bar after an old one went kaput.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people from the Northwest are great people,” said Coyle, who is originally from Ireland and opened his bar in 2006. “It’s been hectic today but so good, controlled chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Pickens, a San Francisco resident who goes to Danny Coyle’s for just about every Seahawks game, arrived early, decked out in a custom Seahawks jersey with “Coyles” on the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Danny Coyle’s. This is Disneyland! This is the best bar in San Francisco, primarily because it’s the Seahawks bar. I hope like heck we win. I’m really excited for this opportunity to etch our names in history once again as a second-time Super Bowl champion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A marching band dressed as Guy Fieri performs during Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Tailgate, a free Big Game Sunday food festival featuring live music and culinary pop-ups, on Feb. 8, 2026, at the Cow Palace in Daly City. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the bar, Seattle native Adam Frazier said he flew down from Washington to watch the game with his best friend from high school, who now lives in San Francisco and brought him out to the Seahawks bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a blast so far, and we were lucky enough to get a table here,” said Frazier, who played college football. “This is my second Seahawks away game in my life. It’s a lot of fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New England Patriots fans watch Super Bowl LX at the Connecticut Yankee bar in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across town, Patriots fans filled the Connecticut Yankee bar and spilled onto the surrounding sidewalks, watching the game through the windows and on outdoor TVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly O’Conner drove up Saturday from Santa Ynez on the Central Coast to watch the game with her cousin who lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think we’re all very hard and rude on the surface, but we’re all really kind-hearted and loving people,” she said of the Patriots fandom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the patio, Duncan Wong watched the game with his daughter, Chloe. The pair drove out from Sacramento after Wong heard on a Patriots podcast that the bar was a watering hole for fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just here to spend time with my daughter. That’s the most important thing,” Wong said. “And I hope the Pats win, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly O’Connor cheers with fellow New England Patriots fans while watching Super Bowl LX outside the Connecticut Yankee bar in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside, Amogh Patanker sat with a crew of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hyped to be here,” Patanker said. “If we win, we’ll celebrate, and if we lose, we’ll think about the game and move on. Go Patriots!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jon Broyer, the New Hampshire native who runs the Connecticut Yankee, having the New England team playing in a Super Bowl in his current backyard was a dream come true. His management team bought the bar about a decade ago and “made it proper Boston,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been incredible. The last couple days have been nonstop,” Broyer said. “Having us in the Super Bowl is a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072814\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks light up the sky during the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in Santa Clara, about an hour before kickoff, comedian and actor JB Smoove headed into the stadium, and said he’s looking forward to a great game, and Bad Bunny’s much anticipated halftime show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want everybody to have a great time today, and enjoy the game, the competition, enjoy the halftime show, and get home safe. These are all the things that really matter, right?,” Smoove said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He offered some advice for how to best enjoy the halftime show, even if you’re not fluent in Spanish or Bad Bunny-isms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just move your damn hips! It’s all about the hip movement today,” Smoove said. “Don’t concentrate on nothing else but the hip movement. Don’t worry about it if you can’t understand what he’s saying, just move your damn hips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Seattle Seahawks exacted revenge on the New England Patriots with a 29-13 victory in Super Bowl LX on Sunday night at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seahawks fans said hoisting the NFL’s Lombardi Trophy was the perfect balm for those still stung by the team’s narrow loss to New England in Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of football fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072657/san-joses-downtown-has-had-a-strong-recovery-is-it-ready-for-the-super-bowl-surge\">swarmed into Santa Clara\u003c/a> on a sunny and breezy day, bringing waves of excitement and energy to a generally sleepy part of the South Bay city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Super Bowl LX transformed portions of Santa Clara, San José and San Francisco for a week leading up to the matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots with parties and concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the takeover continued Sunday on the blocks around Levi’s Stadium, which were buzzing with activity and filled with color and sound. Light rail trains were packed with fans and throngs of people filled streets, sidewalks and intersections, while hundreds of black luxury SUVs and vans loaded with swaths of VIPs, players’ families and high-rollers weaved through the crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00496_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Miran dances at a Super Bowl LX tailgate at the Hilton near Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026, as fans celebrated ahead of the Patriots-Seahawks game. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area hip hop music and reggaeton poured out of hotel tailgate parties, New England fans donned classic jerseys, oversized Patriots foam hats and thickly embroidered leather jackets. Hawks fans showed off giant shiny chrome and green chains, with Seahawks emblems dangling from their necks, as well as team-emblazoned leggings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most fans interviewed for this story had tickets in hand for the Super Bowl, though some were still looking for them at the last minute, while others tried to resell tickets on corners near hotels and the stadium. Some came with no plans to go to the game, but just wanted to be close to the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many attending the game are from out of state, including Christopher Ruiz, a Hawks fan from Seattle, who was wearing a colorful outfit including a hat that read “born and raised” with the team’s logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072774\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00064_TV_QED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Ruiz (left), a Seattle Seahawks fan born and raised in Seattle, and Wayne Kimball (right), a New England Patriots fan, ride VTA to Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz and his brother Jonathan took the VTA light rail to the stadium in the early afternoon, and were riding high seeing their team back in the big game, confident they would come away victorious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been supporting this team since I was a young, young little boy,” Ruiz said. “It’s the culmination of life in general being able to witness this, not just myself, but with my brother. To be in a position in life to make this happen, it’s a dream of mine to be able to watch my team hoist that Lombardi Trophy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00615_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac Guindy (right) orders a hotdog outside the Hilton near Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz was sporting a Richard Sherman Seahawks jersey and was covered in bright green and dark blue, including the official Nike Seattle Seahawks Air Max 90 shoes. “I bleed this, I breathe this. This is our opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seated right next to Ruiz were lifelong Patriots fans Wayne Kimball and his wife Kim, who are in town from Menden, Mass. They felt the outcome would be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have a real good shot at this. No one’s picking us, so that means we’re gonna win,” Kimball said. “We came in Thursday and we’re getting ready to hand Seattle another loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00252_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Bowl attendees exit VTA on their way to Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fans on the train were ribbing each other the whole ride to the stadium. “Everyone’s been very friendly, even the Seahawks fans,” Kimball said. “We all bust each other’s chops. We’re all having a good time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as thousands of people crowded the area, volunteers with the group Contra-ICE handed out “rally towels” that read “ICE OUT” on one side, with a drawing of a bunny rabbit dressed in football gear kicking a football frozen in a cube of ice out of the frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is trying to call attention to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement and the violent tactics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, and demanding an end to their presence in American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01008_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonny Deborst, a protester against ICE, poses for a portrait outside Levi’s Stadium for the Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on February 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Will Hanson, a Stanford University student from Washington state, was handing out the towels Sunday, and said the First Amendment protected free speech and the Super Bowl are two very American things that fit together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not have people dying in the streets,” Hanson said. Federal immigration agents have shot and killed two protesters in Minneapolis. “I think having un-ordered militia in our streets is just dangerous and something we should be protesting at any opportunity. I think the Super Bowl is a great point to show people this message and spread it to as many people as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY00993_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaiah Slovani, a protester against ICE, poses for a portrait outside Levi’s Stadium for the Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on February 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just ahead of kickoff, about a couple hundred protesters opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s administration marched from Our Lady of Peace Church & Shrine to streets south of the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group included members of local and national organizations such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Refuse Fascism and SIREN Immigrant Rights. Protesters chanted slogans, held signs and carried a large yellow banner reading, “Trump Must Go Now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While fans poured into Levi’s, others around the Bay Area got settled in at their favorite spots to watch the game in good company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 miles north of Levi’s Stadium, crowds of Seahawks fans gathered at San Francisco’s only bar for the 12s in San Francisco, Danny Coyle’s. For Megan Page, Jenni Sandsmark and Erika Spencer, the Super Bowl is both a shot at redemption for their favorite team and a reunion for old friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seahawks fans (from left) Megan Page, Erika Spencer and Jenni Sandsmark hang out at Danny Coyle’s in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2026, as festivities surrounding Super Bowl LX draw fans from across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three used to live in San Francisco, and made a pact to come back to their beloved sports bar in the Lower Haight neighborhood if the Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl. This week, they flew out from their respective homes in Seattle, Minnesota and North Carolina, and on Sunday, had their old table reserved for them at the front of the Irish sports bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such an important place for us. We built so much community here, we knew this was the place to watch,” Sandsmark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seahawks fans fill Danny Coyle’s in the Lower Haight neighborhood before kickoff of Super Bowl LX. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brian Coyle, owner of Danny Coyle’s, was hanging out with the Seahawks fans who flocked to his bar just before kickoff. He’s more of a 49ers fan than a Seahawks fan, but he started playing Seahawks games after a regular patron from Seattle asked if he could dedicate one of the TVs inside to the team. He has since amassed a crew of regulars from the Seattle region, including a group of guys who bought him a new TV for the bar after an old one went kaput.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people from the Northwest are great people,” said Coyle, who is originally from Ireland and opened his bar in 2006. “It’s been hectic today but so good, controlled chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Pickens, a San Francisco resident who goes to Danny Coyle’s for just about every Seahawks game, arrived early, decked out in a custom Seahawks jersey with “Coyles” on the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Danny Coyle’s. This is Disneyland! This is the best bar in San Francisco, primarily because it’s the Seahawks bar. I hope like heck we win. I’m really excited for this opportunity to etch our names in history once again as a second-time Super Bowl champion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020826GUY-FIERIS-TAILGATE_GH_001-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A marching band dressed as Guy Fieri performs during Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Tailgate, a free Big Game Sunday food festival featuring live music and culinary pop-ups, on Feb. 8, 2026, at the Cow Palace in Daly City. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the bar, Seattle native Adam Frazier said he flew down from Washington to watch the game with his best friend from high school, who now lives in San Francisco and brought him out to the Seahawks bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a blast so far, and we were lucky enough to get a table here,” said Frazier, who played college football. “This is my second Seahawks away game in my life. It’s a lot of fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-11-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New England Patriots fans watch Super Bowl LX at the Connecticut Yankee bar in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across town, Patriots fans filled the Connecticut Yankee bar and spilled onto the surrounding sidewalks, watching the game through the windows and on outdoor TVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly O’Conner drove up Saturday from Santa Ynez on the Central Coast to watch the game with her cousin who lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think we’re all very hard and rude on the surface, but we’re all really kind-hearted and loving people,” she said of the Patriots fandom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the patio, Duncan Wong watched the game with his daughter, Chloe. The pair drove out from Sacramento after Wong heard on a Patriots podcast that the bar was a watering hole for fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just here to spend time with my daughter. That’s the most important thing,” Wong said. “And I hope the Pats win, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSF-09-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly O’Connor cheers with fellow New England Patriots fans while watching Super Bowl LX outside the Connecticut Yankee bar in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside, Amogh Patanker sat with a crew of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hyped to be here,” Patanker said. “If we win, we’ll celebrate, and if we lose, we’ll think about the game and move on. Go Patriots!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jon Broyer, the New Hampshire native who runs the Connecticut Yankee, having the New England team playing in a Super Bowl in his current backyard was a dream come true. His management team bought the bar about a decade ago and “made it proper Boston,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been incredible. The last couple days have been nonstop,” Broyer said. “Having us in the Super Bowl is a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072814\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-SUPERBOWLSUNDAY01064_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks light up the sky during the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Feb. 8, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in Santa Clara, about an hour before kickoff, comedian and actor JB Smoove headed into the stadium, and said he’s looking forward to a great game, and Bad Bunny’s much anticipated halftime show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want everybody to have a great time today, and enjoy the game, the competition, enjoy the halftime show, and get home safe. 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