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It really hurts to think that your existence is now against the law, so we are all here to assemble against that.’[/pullquote]Ford previously lived at the Wood Street Commons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949327/the-end-of-wood-street-inside-the-struggle-for-stability-housing-on-the-margins-of-the-bay-area\">a large encampment in West Oakland\u003c/a> that the city cleared in 2023. He said the community sustained him for years while he could not afford rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like somebody was ripping my mother away from me,” Ford said of the encampment sweep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all we have. We have to exist in some kind of way,” he added. “Sweeps kill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Court is specifically reviewing a lower court’s decision, upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that bars cities across the Western United States from criminalizing people for sleeping outside if no viable shelter options are available. 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Gavin Newsom to conservative state political leaders, joined in asking the Supreme Court to take up the case and clarify how much authority local leaders have to clear encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wrapped in a head scarf and face mask speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Gray-Garcia speaks to a crowd outside the Federal Building in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, in support of the rights of unhoused people. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After over two and a half hours of argument, the court appeared divided along ideological lines, but the majority of justices indicated they consider local officials to be better equipped than the courts to take on these matters — a sign they may be leaning toward giving Grants Pass and other cities broader authority to regulate homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the liberal justices were deeply skeptical of the constitutionality of the city’s policies, suggesting that it criminalized people for simply being unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do we put them? If every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this — where are they supposed to sleep? Are they supposed to kill themselves not sleeping?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked the attorney representing the city of Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for the unhoused found reason to be optimistic, pointing out that conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s questions indicated that he believes jailing people can’t solve homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single time a court has heard this question, they’ve agreed that punishing people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go is cruel and unusual,” said Jesse Rabinowitz, a spokesperson for the National Homelessness Law Center. “So, we remain hopeful that the Supreme Court will do the right thing and agree with all of the lower courts’ decisions and affirm that everybody, regardless of housing status, is protected by the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like the American Psychiatric Association support that position. In a brief submitted to the court, the medical group wrote, “People with mental illness experiencing homelessness already face various barriers to accessing mental health treatment; incarceration exacerbates these barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of the previous courts’ rulings argue that fines and short jail stints are a reasonable response when someone violates city laws by camping in public spaces.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]“Those punishments are neither ‘cruel’ nor ‘unusual’ in any ordinary sense of those words,” attorneys for the city of Grants Pass wrote in a brief. “For centuries, fines and imprisonment have been the default methods of punishing criminal offenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed have taken a more neutral position. They say that local governments shouldn’t criminalize people for being unhoused but also argue that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling goes too far, stymying cities’ ability to clear sidewalks, parks and other public spaces of tents and serious public health hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts have tied the hands of state & local government to confront homelessness,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1782403865322901922\">said on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday\u003c/a>. “The Supreme Court has an opportunity to strike a balance that allows officials to enforce reasonable limits on public camping while treating folks with compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city workers must first offer shelter to unhoused people before clearing encampments. If someone is not at an encampment during a sweep, the city must “bag-and-tag” that person’s items to give them a chance to pick them up later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960279/where-things-stand-in-san-franciscos-legal-battle-over-street-encampments\">sued San Francisco in 2023\u003c/a> for failing to adhere to those rules. That case is still pending, but any further legal action is paused until the Supreme Court rules on the Grant Pass case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gathered a mountain of evidence,” Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said at Monday’s march. “People are still having their property destroyed and forced to move when they don’t have a place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Nisha Kashyap of the Lawyers’ Committee of Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, who’s working on the case against San Francisco, said the litigation will go forward regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The case against the city of San Francisco is much broader than just the question before the U.S. Supreme Court today,” she said, noting that only one of the 13 claims in the suit involves the Eighth Amendment question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu took pains to differentiate the city’s approach to homelessness from that of Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873.jpeg\" alt=\"A crowd of people stand in front of a large federal building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather at the Federal Building in San Francisco on Monday in support of unhoused people. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Unlike Grants Pass, San Francisco has invested billions of dollars in our compassionate approach to addressing homelessness, and our laws have reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions,” he said. “The justices asked a number of thoughtful questions today. The complexity of their questions underscore the difficult and numerous decisions our city workers have to make on the ground every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talya Husbands-Hankin, founder of the homeless advocacy organization, Love and Justice in the Streets, called Grants Pass “the most significant case on homelessness in over 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very frightening, and it’s another level of taking away rights,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates with her organization are working with about 25 unhoused people living in an encampment at Mosswood Park in Oakland, which the city plans to clear this week. She said that while the city offers shelter options, the offerings are inadequate and not a long-term solution to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelter that the city is currently offering is not something people can always accept. You can’t take your pets, and it’s short-term,” Husbands-Hankin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in San Francisco — and across California — the number of unhoused people continues to outpace affordable housing inventory and shelter resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the most recent citywide data available, San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/PIT-Key-Findings-Briefing-Deck-web.pdf\">tallied nearly 4,400 people\u003c/a> without shelter. However, the city lacks enough affordable housing or temporary shelter options to accommodate those who need it. On Monday, 173 people were on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online shelter reservation waitlist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us feel strongly that mere shelter referrals were inadequate, but it is what the courts ruled, and now even this Eighth Amendment protection is threatened,” said Paul Boden, executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project. “We should be talking about housing — not shelter — when it comes to addressing mass contemporary homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The protest came as the High Court on Monday heard oral arguments in the City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, a decision that could impact whether cities around the country can remove and punish people for camping on public property if viable shelter options are unavailable.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713825210,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1467},"headData":{"title":"‘Sweeps Kill’: Bay Area Homeless Advocates Weigh in on Pivotal US Supreme Court Case | KQED","description":"The protest came as the High Court on Monday heard oral arguments in the City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, a decision that could impact whether cities around the country can remove and punish people for camping on public property if viable shelter options are unavailable.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"‘Sweeps Kill’: Bay Area Homeless Advocates Weigh in on Pivotal US Supreme Court Case","datePublished":"2024-04-22T21:16:18.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-22T22:33:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983701/sweeps-kill-bay-area-homeless-advocates-weigh-in-on-pivotal-u-s-supreme-court-case","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Around 100 people marched from San Francisco’s federal building to City Hall on Monday, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold lower court rulings on how cities can respond to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action came as SCOTUS heard oral arguments in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson\u003c/a>. The decision — which is expected by the end of June — is likely to impact whether cities around the country can issue fines and jail people for camping on public property if there isn’t a viable shelter alternative available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to stop the illegal pushing and shoving of the homeless,” said LaMonte Ford, who is currently unhoused. “It really hurts to think that your existence is now against the law, so we are all here to assemble against that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re here to stop the illegal pushing and shoving of the homeless. It really hurts to think that your existence is now against the law, so we are all here to assemble against that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","label":"citation=\"LaMonte Ford, an unhoused resident"},"numeric":["citation=\"LaMonte","Ford,","an","unhoused","resident"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ford previously lived at the Wood Street Commons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949327/the-end-of-wood-street-inside-the-struggle-for-stability-housing-on-the-margins-of-the-bay-area\">a large encampment in West Oakland\u003c/a> that the city cleared in 2023. He said the community sustained him for years while he could not afford rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like somebody was ripping my mother away from me,” Ford said of the encampment sweep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all we have. We have to exist in some kind of way,” he added. “Sweeps kill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Court is specifically reviewing a lower court’s decision, upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that bars cities across the Western United States from criminalizing people for sleeping outside if no viable shelter options are available. Doing so, the lower court ruled, would be considered cruel and unusual punishment, violating the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from across the political map, from Gov. Gavin Newsom to conservative state political leaders, joined in asking the Supreme Court to take up the case and clarify how much authority local leaders have to clear encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wrapped in a head scarf and face mask speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7875-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Gray-Garcia speaks to a crowd outside the Federal Building in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, in support of the rights of unhoused people. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After over two and a half hours of argument, the court appeared divided along ideological lines, but the majority of justices indicated they consider local officials to be better equipped than the courts to take on these matters — a sign they may be leaning toward giving Grants Pass and other cities broader authority to regulate homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the liberal justices were deeply skeptical of the constitutionality of the city’s policies, suggesting that it criminalized people for simply being unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do we put them? If every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this — where are they supposed to sleep? Are they supposed to kill themselves not sleeping?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked the attorney representing the city of Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for the unhoused found reason to be optimistic, pointing out that conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s questions indicated that he believes jailing people can’t solve homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single time a court has heard this question, they’ve agreed that punishing people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go is cruel and unusual,” said Jesse Rabinowitz, a spokesperson for the National Homelessness Law Center. “So, we remain hopeful that the Supreme Court will do the right thing and agree with all of the lower courts’ decisions and affirm that everybody, regardless of housing status, is protected by the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like the American Psychiatric Association support that position. In a brief submitted to the court, the medical group wrote, “People with mental illness experiencing homelessness already face various barriers to accessing mental health treatment; incarceration exacerbates these barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of the previous courts’ rulings argue that fines and short jail stints are a reasonable response when someone violates city laws by camping in public spaces.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Those punishments are neither ‘cruel’ nor ‘unusual’ in any ordinary sense of those words,” attorneys for the city of Grants Pass wrote in a brief. “For centuries, fines and imprisonment have been the default methods of punishing criminal offenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed have taken a more neutral position. They say that local governments shouldn’t criminalize people for being unhoused but also argue that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling goes too far, stymying cities’ ability to clear sidewalks, parks and other public spaces of tents and serious public health hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts have tied the hands of state & local government to confront homelessness,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1782403865322901922\">said on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday\u003c/a>. “The Supreme Court has an opportunity to strike a balance that allows officials to enforce reasonable limits on public camping while treating folks with compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city workers must first offer shelter to unhoused people before clearing encampments. If someone is not at an encampment during a sweep, the city must “bag-and-tag” that person’s items to give them a chance to pick them up later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960279/where-things-stand-in-san-franciscos-legal-battle-over-street-encampments\">sued San Francisco in 2023\u003c/a> for failing to adhere to those rules. That case is still pending, but any further legal action is paused until the Supreme Court rules on the Grant Pass case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gathered a mountain of evidence,” Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said at Monday’s march. “People are still having their property destroyed and forced to move when they don’t have a place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Nisha Kashyap of the Lawyers’ Committee of Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, who’s working on the case against San Francisco, said the litigation will go forward regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The case against the city of San Francisco is much broader than just the question before the U.S. Supreme Court today,” she said, noting that only one of the 13 claims in the suit involves the Eighth Amendment question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu took pains to differentiate the city’s approach to homelessness from that of Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873.jpeg\" alt=\"A crowd of people stand in front of a large federal building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/IMG_7873-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather at the Federal Building in San Francisco on Monday in support of unhoused people. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Unlike Grants Pass, San Francisco has invested billions of dollars in our compassionate approach to addressing homelessness, and our laws have reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions,” he said. “The justices asked a number of thoughtful questions today. The complexity of their questions underscore the difficult and numerous decisions our city workers have to make on the ground every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talya Husbands-Hankin, founder of the homeless advocacy organization, Love and Justice in the Streets, called Grants Pass “the most significant case on homelessness in over 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very frightening, and it’s another level of taking away rights,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates with her organization are working with about 25 unhoused people living in an encampment at Mosswood Park in Oakland, which the city plans to clear this week. She said that while the city offers shelter options, the offerings are inadequate and not a long-term solution to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelter that the city is currently offering is not something people can always accept. You can’t take your pets, and it’s short-term,” Husbands-Hankin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in San Francisco — and across California — the number of unhoused people continues to outpace affordable housing inventory and shelter resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the most recent citywide data available, San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/PIT-Key-Findings-Briefing-Deck-web.pdf\">tallied nearly 4,400 people\u003c/a> without shelter. However, the city lacks enough affordable housing or temporary shelter options to accommodate those who need it. On Monday, 173 people were on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online shelter reservation waitlist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us feel strongly that mere shelter referrals were inadequate, but it is what the courts ruled, and now even this Eighth Amendment protection is threatened,” said Paul Boden, executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project. “We should be talking about housing — not shelter — when it comes to addressing mass contemporary homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983701/sweeps-kill-bay-area-homeless-advocates-weigh-in-on-pivotal-u-s-supreme-court-case","authors":["11840","11276"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_22903","news_4020","news_1775","news_201"],"featImg":"news_11983691","label":"news"},"news_11983671":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983671","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983671","score":null,"sort":[1713816005000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-democratic-partys-support-of-unlimited-housing-could-pressure-mayoral-candidates","title":"SF Democratic Party’s Support of Unlimited Housing Could Pressure Mayoral Candidates","publishDate":1713816005,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Democratic Party’s Support of Unlimited Housing Could Pressure Mayoral Candidates | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party put itself on record backing the building of unrestricted market-rate housing after a Friday night vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy may push candidates running for mayor and the Board of Supervisors to modify their positions on housing if they want the backing of the Democratic County Central Committee or DCCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most elections, the DCCC sends mailers to voters with its official stamp of approval for candidates, which can sway a segment of voters. The candidates appearing on party mailers this November will likely have pro-market rate housing views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Chen, a member of the DCCC and co-author of its housing policy, told KQED he hopes candidates heed the party’s new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many candidates who are still movable, who have issue priorities that are not necessarily housing,” Chen said. “This is a chance for candidates to take feedback from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Most of the two dozen moderate Democrats who ran for the DCCC won in the March primary, flipping the board from its previous progressive majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new housing policy embraces the platform of San Francisco YIMBY, an advocacy group that said building market-rate developments as quickly as possible will help bring down rental prices. Progressive Democrats said market-rate construction is akin to luxury housing that most people can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed is a vocal supporter of YIMBY policies. The DCCC’s new approach to housing may benefit her when she seeks the party’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democrats on the Democratic County Central Committee at their first meeting since the March primary on April 19. From left to right, Michael Lai, Cedric Akbar, Mike Chen, Lily Ho, Trevor Chandler, Matt Dorsey, Nancy Tung and Marjan Philhour. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who loses out: \u003c/strong>Some DCCC members may now think twice before backing the mayoral candidacy of Mark Farrell, a former mayor and supervisor. Farrell rankled pro-housing Democrats last month when he said he doesn’t believe San Francisco “needs to upzone every neighborhood” in an \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/mark-farrells-common-sense/?utm_campaign=SF+Standard+Power+Play&utm_content=p-text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF+Standard\">interview with Joe Eskenazi\u003c/a>, Mission Local’s managing editor and columnist, on stage at Manny’s. Upzoning is the process cities use to grant taller housing to be built in an area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other mayoral candidates, like Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who talks about protecting the character of neighborhoods from the construction of tall housing, and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, are unlikely to gain the party’s backing. Safaí lacks the allies on the board to gain an endorsement. It’s unclear if Daniel Lurie, a mayoral candidate and philanthropist, has enough DCCC allies for an endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>A few progressives remain on the party board, including Peter Gallotta, who successfully got the moderate Democrats to write clauses supporting renters into the new housing policy. “I think it’s important that we reiterate and underscore that our party is also pro-tenant,” Gallotta said. “I do think we need to make sure we’re calling out our support for the protection of rent control in San Francisco, that we support preservation of our existing rent-controlled housing stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>The meeting was the party’s first since moderates flipped the board. The moderates flexed their newfound power by pushing for several new policies. Besides the housing platform, board members voted to approve a resolution backing more police officers for public safety and new bylaws that limit the amount of public comment they’ll listen to in a meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public safety and housing policies have no actual teeth in changing San Francisco’s operations.[aside postID=news_11983000 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-623874284_qut-1020x705.jpg']The moderate Democrats also voted in Nancy Tung as the new party chair. Tung is a career prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office who ran for DA in 2019 but lost to Chesa Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party also passed a resolution backing the labor community. The policy statement angered Kim Tavaglione, the executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, a powerful group that unites labor unions across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said the policy lacks basic elements in the state Democratic Party platform, like endorsing specific training language for the building trades, a living wage recommendation and anti-charter school statements that public school teachers back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t appreciate labor’s voice, we don’t have to play with them,” Tavaglione said. “We’re happy to walk away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said she would recommend labor unions withhold resources from the DCCC, which would help progressive Democrats in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The move could prompt mayoral and Board of Supervisors candidates to adjust their housing policies to align with the Democratic County Central Committee's stance for endorsement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713816155,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":810},"headData":{"title":"SF Democratic Party’s Support of Unlimited Housing Could Pressure Mayoral Candidates | KQED","description":"The move could prompt mayoral and Board of Supervisors candidates to adjust their housing policies to align with the Democratic County Central Committee's stance for endorsement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Democratic Party’s Support of Unlimited Housing Could Pressure Mayoral Candidates","datePublished":"2024-04-22T20:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-22T20:02:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983671/sf-democratic-partys-support-of-unlimited-housing-could-pressure-mayoral-candidates","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party put itself on record backing the building of unrestricted market-rate housing after a Friday night vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy may push candidates running for mayor and the Board of Supervisors to modify their positions on housing if they want the backing of the Democratic County Central Committee or DCCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most elections, the DCCC sends mailers to voters with its official stamp of approval for candidates, which can sway a segment of voters. The candidates appearing on party mailers this November will likely have pro-market rate housing views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Chen, a member of the DCCC and co-author of its housing policy, told KQED he hopes candidates heed the party’s new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many candidates who are still movable, who have issue priorities that are not necessarily housing,” Chen said. “This is a chance for candidates to take feedback from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Most of the two dozen moderate Democrats who ran for the DCCC won in the March primary, flipping the board from its previous progressive majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new housing policy embraces the platform of San Francisco YIMBY, an advocacy group that said building market-rate developments as quickly as possible will help bring down rental prices. Progressive Democrats said market-rate construction is akin to luxury housing that most people can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed is a vocal supporter of YIMBY policies. The DCCC’s new approach to housing may benefit her when she seeks the party’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/1000019369-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democrats on the Democratic County Central Committee at their first meeting since the March primary on April 19. From left to right, Michael Lai, Cedric Akbar, Mike Chen, Lily Ho, Trevor Chandler, Matt Dorsey, Nancy Tung and Marjan Philhour. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who loses out: \u003c/strong>Some DCCC members may now think twice before backing the mayoral candidacy of Mark Farrell, a former mayor and supervisor. Farrell rankled pro-housing Democrats last month when he said he doesn’t believe San Francisco “needs to upzone every neighborhood” in an \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/mark-farrells-common-sense/?utm_campaign=SF+Standard+Power+Play&utm_content=p-text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF+Standard\">interview with Joe Eskenazi\u003c/a>, Mission Local’s managing editor and columnist, on stage at Manny’s. Upzoning is the process cities use to grant taller housing to be built in an area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other mayoral candidates, like Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who talks about protecting the character of neighborhoods from the construction of tall housing, and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, are unlikely to gain the party’s backing. Safaí lacks the allies on the board to gain an endorsement. It’s unclear if Daniel Lurie, a mayoral candidate and philanthropist, has enough DCCC allies for an endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>A few progressives remain on the party board, including Peter Gallotta, who successfully got the moderate Democrats to write clauses supporting renters into the new housing policy. “I think it’s important that we reiterate and underscore that our party is also pro-tenant,” Gallotta said. “I do think we need to make sure we’re calling out our support for the protection of rent control in San Francisco, that we support preservation of our existing rent-controlled housing stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>The meeting was the party’s first since moderates flipped the board. The moderates flexed their newfound power by pushing for several new policies. Besides the housing platform, board members voted to approve a resolution backing more police officers for public safety and new bylaws that limit the amount of public comment they’ll listen to in a meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public safety and housing policies have no actual teeth in changing San Francisco’s operations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11983000","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-623874284_qut-1020x705.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The moderate Democrats also voted in Nancy Tung as the new party chair. Tung is a career prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office who ran for DA in 2019 but lost to Chesa Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party also passed a resolution backing the labor community. The policy statement angered Kim Tavaglione, the executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, a powerful group that unites labor unions across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said the policy lacks basic elements in the state Democratic Party platform, like endorsing specific training language for the building trades, a living wage recommendation and anti-charter school statements that public school teachers back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t appreciate labor’s voice, we don’t have to play with them,” Tavaglione said. “We’re happy to walk away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tavaglione said she would recommend labor unions withhold resources from the DCCC, which would help progressive Democrats in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983671/sf-democratic-partys-support-of-unlimited-housing-could-pressure-mayoral-candidates","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_195","news_18538","news_20251","news_176","news_1775","news_6931","news_22439","news_17968","news_18536","news_38","news_33960"],"featImg":"news_11983678","label":"news"},"news_11983492":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983492","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983492","score":null,"sort":[1713564963000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation","title":"How a Pivotal Case on Homelessness Could Redefine Policies in California and the Nation","publishDate":1713564963,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How a Pivotal Case on Homelessness Could Redefine Policies in California and the Nation | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Monday in a case that could have major implications for how cities across the country address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-175.html\">City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson\u003c/a>, hinges on whether a local government can issue fines and jail people for camping on public property when there isn’t enough shelter available. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this was cruel and unusual punishment. Opponents appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most important case about homelessness in at least 40 years,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the Homelessness Law Center. “This will either make it easier for cities to punish people for sleeping outside … or it will push cities to fund actual solutions to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As homelessness spikes, cities and states seek tools to help them clean up their streets. In California and around the country, officials are turning to camping bans, encampment sweeps and other policies that target unhoused people to reduce visible homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, where there’s an ongoing lawsuit over the city’s encampment sweeps, a district court magistrate relied on the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in this case for an injunction restricting camp clearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This judicial intervention has harmed both San Francisco’s housed and unhoused populations by causing obstructed and inaccessible sidewalks, unsafe encampments, and fewer unhoused people to accept services,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu told the Supreme Court in a brief encouraging the justices to take up the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the Grants Pass case:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Background\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2018, lawyers filed suit against the small city of Grants Pass, Oregon, on behalf of unhoused residents, arguing it was unconstitutional to cite and arrest people for sleeping outside in the absence of any viable alternative for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/04/with-oregon-homelessness-case-headed-to-supreme-court-spotlight-falls-on-portland-lawyer-unhoused-people-in-grants-pass.html\">ticketed, fined\u003c/a>, arrested and jailed for living outside in Grants Pass with as little as a blanket or a tarp to survive,” said Ed Johnson, litigation director at The Oregon Law Center, who filed the suit, noting that the city has a shortage of affordable housing and shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federal district court in Medford, Oregon, sided with them. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction covers nine western states, later upheld that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Grants Pass then asked the Supreme Court to review the appellate court’s decision. Officials across the political map, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/280288/20230922163648635_Amicus%20Brief%20for%20Governor%20Newsom%20-%20Grants%20Pass_Final.pdf\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco and a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/280428/20230925170042238_No%2023-175_AmicusBrief.pdf\">20 conservative-led states,\u003c/a> also asked SCOTUS to take up the case, saying lower court rulings have tied their hands when it comes to addressing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This case is closely related to another major homelessness case, Martin v. Boise, in which the Ninth Circuit ruled in 2018 that unhoused people can’t be punished for sleeping outside on public property in the absence of adequate alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grants Pass case relies on that precedent, and some see it as going even further because it applies to civil penalties, not just criminal ones. The city has asked the justices to take on the central issue at play in both cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the impacts of this ruling could depend on which particular issues the court chooses to take up and how narrowly it rules. However, many observers believe the court’s decision will encompass both the Boise and Grants Pass rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arguments in opposition: Cities should be able to clear encampments, issue citations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city of Grants Pass argues the previous rulings in this case are a roadblock to addressing the homelessness crisis and that fines and short jail stints for camping on public property don’t violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their brief, lawyers for the city defend the city’s policies, explaining that base fines for violating the camping ordinance are $295 and repeat offenders can face criminal trespass charges, punishable by 30 days in jail and $1,250 in fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11949350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a homeless encampment with trailers, tents and people's belongings scattered about underneath a freeway overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A compound seen from above after damage from a nearby fire at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those punishments are neither ‘cruel’ nor ‘unusual’ in any ordinary sense of those words,” they write. “For centuries, fines and imprisonment have been the default methods of punishing criminal offenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue the courts have overstepped, stripping local governments of “traditional police powers.” Grants Pass, along with other cities and opponents of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, agrees, arguing the ruling and related cases are unclear and have been interpreted too broadly — for instance, to essentially require cities to build enough shelter for every unhoused person — making them impractical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot, they say, is rising homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Encampments have multiplied unchecked throughout the West because generally applicable restrictions on public camping no longer play their critical deterrent role,” they write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their briefings, Chiu and lawyers representing Newsom made similar arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arguments in support: Encampment bans are ‘cruel and unusual punishment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys and advocates for the unhoused Grants Pass residents say the lower court rulings are far narrower than cities claim. They argue the rulings do give cities leeway to regulate encampments and even clear them — but not to ban camps outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs’ attorneys argue punishing people living on the streets will not solve homelessness — only make it worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man sits at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If our Bill of Rights is to mean anything, it must mean that governments cannot fine, arrest and incarcerate those who have nowhere else to go,” Johnson said. “We should and we must expect better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness also argue camping bans and similar policies are expensive and ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Relying on jails and tickets to respond to homelessness pushes our neighbors deeper into poverty and makes it harder for them to secure jobs and housing,” Rabinowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates further argue that camping bans and similar policies are bad for people’s health because they disrupt connections to health care and supportive services, erode trust in law enforcement and create additional obstacles to finding housing and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have criminal records created by these practices,” said Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. “They do not end homelessness; the person after they are arrested, fined and jailed still are living outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s weighing in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 80 amicus briefs have been filed in the case, about evenly split in their support for the two parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siding with the city of Grants Pass, the attorneys general of 24 conservative states \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2FDocketPDF%2F23%2F23-175%2F302093%2F20240301172330264_44869%2520pdf%2520Considine.pdf\">argue the decision\u003c/a> “infringes their sovereign authority over homelessness policy and criminal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11133746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11133746\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS13835_mission_camp_for_web-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless encampment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They write, “The Ninth Circuit cannot solve homelessness, and it should not try. It is states and localities that have the local knowledge needed to address the problem, and it is states and localities that ultimately bear the costs of homelessness and of homeless policy. It should be states and localities that make the decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs and police associations, along with the California State Association of Counties and the League of California Cities, and national conservative legal groups like the Cicero Institute are among those weighing in on behalf of Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups backing the city’s unhoused residents include the ACLU and other national human rights groups, along with “57 Social Scientists with Published Research on Homelessness” and several California-based nonprofits, including the Western Regional Advocacy Project and Advocates for Empowerment CA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2FDocketPDF%2F23%2F23-175%2F306693%2F20240403164735760_APA%2520et%2520al.%2520amicus%2520brief%2520-%2520Grants%2520Pass%2520v.%2520Johnson%2520-%2520No.%252023-175.pdf\">their brief\u003c/a>, the American Psychiatric Association and several other mental health groups argue criminalizing homelessness can worsen physical and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People with mental illness experiencing homelessness already face various barriers to accessing mental health treatment; incarceration exacerbates these barriers,” the brief reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parties, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/302264/20240304183726571_23-175npUnitedStates.pdf\">Biden administration\u003c/a>, Newsom and Chiu, don’t back either party. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2024/03/01/san-francisco-files-amicus-brief-with-u-s-supreme-court-in-grants-pass/\">In a statement,\u003c/a> Chiu said it doesn’t make sense to “punish status or criminally prosecute homeless individuals for being homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, the Ninth Circuit in Grants Pass went well beyond that central idea and misapplied the law,” Chiu continued. “It has left cities like San Francisco without the necessary tools to compassionately address homelessness and ensure our streets and public spaces are safe and accessible to all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Possible outcomes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One option is for the justices to uphold the lower courts’ rulings that criminalizing behaviors like sleeping, lying down and sitting in public, when no alternative shelter is provided, violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, the court could overturn that precedent, giving cities the green light to cite, arrest and jail people for sleeping in public, regardless of whether or not there’s shelter available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983526\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused individual sorts through his belongings to decide what he would take to a storage space and what would be disposed of by CalTrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Aug. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 1962 case, Robinson v. California, the Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to punish someone for being a drug addict — a “status” rather than an “act.” Sunita Patel, faculty director of the UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic, said the court could decide to upend even this precedent. Patel represented the National Coalition on Homeless Veterans and other veterans service providers in their amicus brief before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst case scenario for the plaintiffs and for unhoused folks is that the court takes this as broadly as they can, and they try to get rid of older precedent,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other observers are wary the court will take on such “status offenses,” which would allow cities to criminalize people just for being homeless, she said, and have sweeping implications for civil liberties in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third option is for the court to take a middle road that limits the scope of the lower court rulings, said Ron Hochbaum, head of the University of the Pacific McGeorge Law School’s Homeless Advocacy Clinic and filed a brief in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the justices could require law enforcement or the courts to determine whether the unhoused person cited had access to shelter whenever a camping ban was enforced. Or, they could allow cities to ban public camping so long as those restrictions are limited to certain places. The U.S. Justice Department endorsed that approach in its amicus brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s very little telling how the court will ultimately rule, Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This Supreme Court, in particular, is unpredictable,” she said. “We don’t know what they’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What could it mean for California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the court sides with the city of Grants Pass, lawmakers could more aggressively enforce anti-camping laws already on the books or pass new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While advocates point out that cities have continued to clear encampments despite the rulings, Devon Kurtz of the Cicero Institute argues that the Ninth Circuit’s rulings in both Grants Pass and Martin v. Boise have had a chilling effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CalTrans workers move in to clear garbage from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s concern that if they were to enforce their camping ordinances, then they could be subject to litigation, and that’s true,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks the most dramatic change could happen in small cities “that have been really, really reticent to enforce their camping ordinances of any variety out of fear that their insurance premiums are going to go through the roof if they start getting sued,” he said. “They might feel a little bit more confident in taking these steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1011\">bipartisan bill\u003c/a> that would have made it easier to clear encampments and issue civil citations for sleeping on the streets died in the Legislature this year but is emblematic of the larger debate around how to respond to encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles have said they’re not interested in aggressively jailing people, but they’re looking for clarity from the court about what constitutes “involuntary” homelessness and adequate shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Newsom said he was looking forward to arguments in the case, expressing hope that its resolution will allow for greater progress toward reducing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is, to me, just about common sense — not about ideology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" 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KQED","description":"The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday on if it's lawful for local governments to criminalize sleeping outside when shelter space is insufficient, potentially impacting urban policies on homeless encampments.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How a Pivotal Case on Homelessness Could Redefine Policies in California and the 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Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson\u003c/a>, hinges on whether a local government can issue fines and jail people for camping on public property when there isn’t enough shelter available. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this was cruel and unusual punishment. Opponents appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most important case about homelessness in at least 40 years,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the Homelessness Law Center. “This will either make it easier for cities to punish people for sleeping outside … or it will push cities to fund actual solutions to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As homelessness spikes, cities and states seek tools to help them clean up their streets. In California and around the country, officials are turning to camping bans, encampment sweeps and other policies that target unhoused people to reduce visible homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, where there’s an ongoing lawsuit over the city’s encampment sweeps, a district court magistrate relied on the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in this case for an injunction restricting camp clearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This judicial intervention has harmed both San Francisco’s housed and unhoused populations by causing obstructed and inaccessible sidewalks, unsafe encampments, and fewer unhoused people to accept services,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu told the Supreme Court in a brief encouraging the justices to take up the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the Grants Pass case:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Background\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2018, lawyers filed suit against the small city of Grants Pass, Oregon, on behalf of unhoused residents, arguing it was unconstitutional to cite and arrest people for sleeping outside in the absence of any viable alternative for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/04/with-oregon-homelessness-case-headed-to-supreme-court-spotlight-falls-on-portland-lawyer-unhoused-people-in-grants-pass.html\">ticketed, fined\u003c/a>, arrested and jailed for living outside in Grants Pass with as little as a blanket or a tarp to survive,” said Ed Johnson, litigation director at The Oregon Law Center, who filed the suit, noting that the city has a shortage of affordable housing and shelter space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federal district court in Medford, Oregon, sided with them. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction covers nine western states, later upheld that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Grants Pass then asked the Supreme Court to review the appellate court’s decision. Officials across the political map, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/280288/20230922163648635_Amicus%20Brief%20for%20Governor%20Newsom%20-%20Grants%20Pass_Final.pdf\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco and a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/280428/20230925170042238_No%2023-175_AmicusBrief.pdf\">20 conservative-led states,\u003c/a> also asked SCOTUS to take up the case, saying lower court rulings have tied their hands when it comes to addressing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This case is closely related to another major homelessness case, Martin v. Boise, in which the Ninth Circuit ruled in 2018 that unhoused people can’t be punished for sleeping outside on public property in the absence of adequate alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grants Pass case relies on that precedent, and some see it as going even further because it applies to civil penalties, not just criminal ones. The city has asked the justices to take on the central issue at play in both cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the impacts of this ruling could depend on which particular issues the court chooses to take up and how narrowly it rules. However, many observers believe the court’s decision will encompass both the Boise and Grants Pass rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arguments in opposition: Cities should be able to clear encampments, issue citations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city of Grants Pass argues the previous rulings in this case are a roadblock to addressing the homelessness crisis and that fines and short jail stints for camping on public property don’t violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their brief, lawyers for the city defend the city’s policies, explaining that base fines for violating the camping ordinance are $295 and repeat offenders can face criminal trespass charges, punishable by 30 days in jail and $1,250 in fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11949350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a homeless encampment with trailers, tents and people's belongings scattered about underneath a freeway overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A compound seen from above after damage from a nearby fire at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those punishments are neither ‘cruel’ nor ‘unusual’ in any ordinary sense of those words,” they write. “For centuries, fines and imprisonment have been the default methods of punishing criminal offenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue the courts have overstepped, stripping local governments of “traditional police powers.” Grants Pass, along with other cities and opponents of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, agrees, arguing the ruling and related cases are unclear and have been interpreted too broadly — for instance, to essentially require cities to build enough shelter for every unhoused person — making them impractical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot, they say, is rising homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Encampments have multiplied unchecked throughout the West because generally applicable restrictions on public camping no longer play their critical deterrent role,” they write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their briefings, Chiu and lawyers representing Newsom made similar arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arguments in support: Encampment bans are ‘cruel and unusual punishment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys and advocates for the unhoused Grants Pass residents say the lower court rulings are far narrower than cities claim. They argue the rulings do give cities leeway to regulate encampments and even clear them — but not to ban camps outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs’ attorneys argue punishing people living on the streets will not solve homelessness — only make it worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man sits at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If our Bill of Rights is to mean anything, it must mean that governments cannot fine, arrest and incarcerate those who have nowhere else to go,” Johnson said. “We should and we must expect better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness also argue camping bans and similar policies are expensive and ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Relying on jails and tickets to respond to homelessness pushes our neighbors deeper into poverty and makes it harder for them to secure jobs and housing,” Rabinowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates further argue that camping bans and similar policies are bad for people’s health because they disrupt connections to health care and supportive services, erode trust in law enforcement and create additional obstacles to finding housing and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have criminal records created by these practices,” said Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. “They do not end homelessness; the person after they are arrested, fined and jailed still are living outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s weighing in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 80 amicus briefs have been filed in the case, about evenly split in their support for the two parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siding with the city of Grants Pass, the attorneys general of 24 conservative states \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2FDocketPDF%2F23%2F23-175%2F302093%2F20240301172330264_44869%2520pdf%2520Considine.pdf\">argue the decision\u003c/a> “infringes their sovereign authority over homelessness policy and criminal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11133746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11133746\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS13835_mission_camp_for_web-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless encampment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They write, “The Ninth Circuit cannot solve homelessness, and it should not try. It is states and localities that have the local knowledge needed to address the problem, and it is states and localities that ultimately bear the costs of homelessness and of homeless policy. It should be states and localities that make the decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs and police associations, along with the California State Association of Counties and the League of California Cities, and national conservative legal groups like the Cicero Institute are among those weighing in on behalf of Grants Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups backing the city’s unhoused residents include the ACLU and other national human rights groups, along with “57 Social Scientists with Published Research on Homelessness” and several California-based nonprofits, including the Western Regional Advocacy Project and Advocates for Empowerment CA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2FDocketPDF%2F23%2F23-175%2F306693%2F20240403164735760_APA%2520et%2520al.%2520amicus%2520brief%2520-%2520Grants%2520Pass%2520v.%2520Johnson%2520-%2520No.%252023-175.pdf\">their brief\u003c/a>, the American Psychiatric Association and several other mental health groups argue criminalizing homelessness can worsen physical and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People with mental illness experiencing homelessness already face various barriers to accessing mental health treatment; incarceration exacerbates these barriers,” the brief reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parties, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/302264/20240304183726571_23-175npUnitedStates.pdf\">Biden administration\u003c/a>, Newsom and Chiu, don’t back either party. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2024/03/01/san-francisco-files-amicus-brief-with-u-s-supreme-court-in-grants-pass/\">In a statement,\u003c/a> Chiu said it doesn’t make sense to “punish status or criminally prosecute homeless individuals for being homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, the Ninth Circuit in Grants Pass went well beyond that central idea and misapplied the law,” Chiu continued. “It has left cities like San Francisco without the necessary tools to compassionately address homelessness and ensure our streets and public spaces are safe and accessible to all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Possible outcomes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One option is for the justices to uphold the lower courts’ rulings that criminalizing behaviors like sleeping, lying down and sitting in public, when no alternative shelter is provided, violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, the court could overturn that precedent, giving cities the green light to cite, arrest and jail people for sleeping in public, regardless of whether or not there’s shelter available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983526\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/003_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_08182022_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused individual sorts through his belongings to decide what he would take to a storage space and what would be disposed of by CalTrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Aug. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 1962 case, Robinson v. California, the Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to punish someone for being a drug addict — a “status” rather than an “act.” Sunita Patel, faculty director of the UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic, said the court could decide to upend even this precedent. Patel represented the National Coalition on Homeless Veterans and other veterans service providers in their amicus brief before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst case scenario for the plaintiffs and for unhoused folks is that the court takes this as broadly as they can, and they try to get rid of older precedent,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other observers are wary the court will take on such “status offenses,” which would allow cities to criminalize people just for being homeless, she said, and have sweeping implications for civil liberties in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third option is for the court to take a middle road that limits the scope of the lower court rulings, said Ron Hochbaum, head of the University of the Pacific McGeorge Law School’s Homeless Advocacy Clinic and filed a brief in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the justices could require law enforcement or the courts to determine whether the unhoused person cited had access to shelter whenever a camping ban was enforced. Or, they could allow cities to ban public camping so long as those restrictions are limited to certain places. The U.S. Justice Department endorsed that approach in its amicus brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s very little telling how the court will ultimately rule, Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This Supreme Court, in particular, is unpredictable,” she said. “We don’t know what they’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What could it mean for California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the court sides with the city of Grants Pass, lawmakers could more aggressively enforce anti-camping laws already on the books or pass new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While advocates point out that cities have continued to clear encampments despite the rulings, Devon Kurtz of the Cicero Institute argues that the Ninth Circuit’s rulings in both Grants Pass and Martin v. Boise have had a chilling effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11983527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/092_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CalTrans workers move in to clear garbage from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s concern that if they were to enforce their camping ordinances, then they could be subject to litigation, and that’s true,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks the most dramatic change could happen in small cities “that have been really, really reticent to enforce their camping ordinances of any variety out of fear that their insurance premiums are going to go through the roof if they start getting sued,” he said. “They might feel a little bit more confident in taking these steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1011\">bipartisan bill\u003c/a> that would have made it easier to clear encampments and issue civil citations for sleeping on the streets died in the Legislature this year but is emblematic of the larger debate around how to respond to encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles have said they’re not interested in aggressively jailing people, but they’re looking for clarity from the court about what constitutes “involuntary” homelessness and adequate shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Newsom said he was looking forward to arguments in the case, expressing hope that its resolution will allow for greater progress toward reducing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is, to me, just about common sense — not about ideology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1bHIqjIDhaGQPCtqalJxOPzYP-LHwzeCo9sFCIJl8RcE&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation","authors":["11276"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_4020","news_1775","news_1172"],"featImg":"news_11983495","label":"news_72"},"news_11983497":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983497","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983497","score":null,"sort":[1713560452000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-legislation-could-make-it-easier-for-california-pet-owners-to-rent-an-apartment","title":"California Pet Owners Could Rent Apartments More Easily Under New Bill","publishDate":1713560452,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Pet Owners Could Rent Apartments More Easily Under New Bill | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California pet owners struggling to find a rental that accepts their furry, four-legged family members could have an easier time leasing new housing under proposed state legislation that would ban blanket no-pets policies and prohibit landlords from charging additional fees for common companions like cats and dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the bill, which recently cleared a key committee, say the lack of pet-friendly units is pushing renters to forgo housing or relinquish beloved pets to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/animal-shelter-pets-dogs-cats-housing-cf03d25dbda4ccccb402c4d4804d6bc2\">overcrowded shelters\u003c/a>. They say the legislation also would allow more tenants with unapproved pets to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento renter Andrea Amavisca said she and her partner searched for more than a month for a place that would accept their 2-year-old cattle dog mix. Options were few and prospective landlords would not return her calls after learning the couple had a dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They finally found a two-bedroom apartment after meeting with the landlord and putting down an extra $500 for the security deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really awful that there are these restrictions you have to take into consideration when making a personal life choice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But landlords are pushing back, saying they’re worried over the cost of repairs, liability over potential dog bites and nuisance issues that might drive away other tenants. They also want state lawmakers to allow higher security deposits — which legislators limited to one month’s rent last year — to scrub out possible urine and feces stains in carpets or repair damage to wood floors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are bad people, and there are bad dogs, and our job is to screen that and make sure that we’re providing a safe environment for everyone,” said Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal authored by Assemblymember Matt Haney, a San Francisco Democrat and chair of the renters’ caucus, would not require all landlords to accept common household pets, such as cats and dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, landlords would have to provide reasonable justifications, such as public health, for denying a pet. A landlord could not inquire about pets until after approving an applicant, and applicants would have to notify the landlord that they have a pet or plan to get one at least three days prior to signing a lease. Should the landlord deny the pet, the applicant would then decide whether to seek housing elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlord could also not require additional rent or security deposit for a pet. If approved, the bill would apply to new leases starting on or after Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivan Blackshear already rents to tenants with cats at his triplex in Chico, a small city north of Sacramento. But he said the question of pets and deposits should be left to the property owner and any agreement they reach with their tenants. It should not, he said, be mandated by politicians trying to curry favor with voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chasing mom-and-pop landlords like myself — small investors like myself — out of California is not going to solve the high price of rent; it actually is going to make it worse,” said Blackshear, who once had to replace the wood flooring in a rental due to a tenant with a cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, a Democrat representing parts of Los Angeles, said he and his fiancée, an attorney, were shut out of renting several places just because of Darius, their well-behaved Great Dane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11976208,forum_2010101895171,forum_2010101894032\"]“Darius is the sweetest dog,” said Bryan, who is vice chair of the legislative renters’ caucus. “And so it was shocking, and it showed that this simple barrier of having a companion animal could lead directly to housing insecurity and homelessness, if not addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal welfare groups are among those supporting the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dunn, director of Oakland Animal Services, said the number of people giving up their pets has soared since the city of Oakland’s eviction moratorium ended last summer. In 2022, the shelter averaged nearly 240 dogs relinquished each month; now, it is 350 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a huge spike in people who are saying they are newly homeless,” she said. “Or they’re choosing between being housed or being able to keep their pets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is headed to the Assembly for a floor vote. If it passes, it would then go to the Senate for consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"AB 2216 would ban blanket no-pets policies and prohibit landlords from charging extra for security deposit and rent for tenants with cats, dogs or other common household animals. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713561336,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":759},"headData":{"title":"California Pet Owners Could Rent Apartments More Easily Under New Bill | KQED","description":"AB 2216 would ban blanket no-pets policies and prohibit landlords from charging extra for security deposit and rent for tenants with cats, dogs or other common household animals. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Pet Owners Could Rent Apartments More Easily Under New Bill","datePublished":"2024-04-19T21:00:52.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-19T21:15:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Terry Chea, Janie Har\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983497/new-legislation-could-make-it-easier-for-california-pet-owners-to-rent-an-apartment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California pet owners struggling to find a rental that accepts their furry, four-legged family members could have an easier time leasing new housing under proposed state legislation that would ban blanket no-pets policies and prohibit landlords from charging additional fees for common companions like cats and dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the bill, which recently cleared a key committee, say the lack of pet-friendly units is pushing renters to forgo housing or relinquish beloved pets to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/animal-shelter-pets-dogs-cats-housing-cf03d25dbda4ccccb402c4d4804d6bc2\">overcrowded shelters\u003c/a>. They say the legislation also would allow more tenants with unapproved pets to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento renter Andrea Amavisca said she and her partner searched for more than a month for a place that would accept their 2-year-old cattle dog mix. Options were few and prospective landlords would not return her calls after learning the couple had a dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They finally found a two-bedroom apartment after meeting with the landlord and putting down an extra $500 for the security deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really awful that there are these restrictions you have to take into consideration when making a personal life choice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But landlords are pushing back, saying they’re worried over the cost of repairs, liability over potential dog bites and nuisance issues that might drive away other tenants. They also want state lawmakers to allow higher security deposits — which legislators limited to one month’s rent last year — to scrub out possible urine and feces stains in carpets or repair damage to wood floors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are bad people, and there are bad dogs, and our job is to screen that and make sure that we’re providing a safe environment for everyone,” said Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal authored by Assemblymember Matt Haney, a San Francisco Democrat and chair of the renters’ caucus, would not require all landlords to accept common household pets, such as cats and dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, landlords would have to provide reasonable justifications, such as public health, for denying a pet. 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State and local leaders promised to do something about it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, the city is close to breaking ground on housing for the survivors and other low-wage farmworkers in the area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6040012084&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Erica Cruz Guevara, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Half Moon Bay is preparing to break ground on a really important housing project, one that took a mass shooting to start because after a shooting at two local farms about a year ago, officials learned that workers had been living in shipping containers, and now they’re doing something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>With, the tragedy of a shooting that expedited, you know, for emergency housing, because we have the, the farm workers and everybody, everybody got to see how they live. So that expedited, you know, finding of, faster way to not double housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, how Half moon Bay is building new housing for farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>I mean, you know, there’s an affordability crisis in the state and farmworkers are low wage workers. Suffice it to say, it’s an affordability crisis that hits farmworkers hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tyche Hendricks is senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>San Mateo County, I think, is really an extreme situation. The median home price in San Mateo County is $1.9 million. It makes it the most expensive county in the state. Farming is a $100 million industry here. And of course, farming depends on farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>There mostly minimum wage workers and mostly immigrants. They’re doing, you know, core essential work. But how to find a place to live that’s decent and affordable is tough. There was a study back in 2016 that estimated over a thousand units of farmworker housing are needed in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know this problem was really highlighted by the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay more than a year ago. Now at two mushroom farms, and the living conditions of farmworkers there really came to light. You met one of the farmworkers affected by this shooting. Can you tell me about Vincente? Who is he and what was life like for him before the shooting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Vicente still works on the Mushroom Farm, California Terra Garden, where he was the day of the shooting. He’s been there for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He’s a 52 year old man originally from Guatemala. He asked not to use his last name because his immigration status isn’t secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He says he lived in a small trailer on the mushroom farm with four people. There was no heat, no hot water, no place to cook. He says it was really crummy situation, but they suffered through it because they really didn’t have other housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But the trauma was still really close to the surface for him. And that’s even though a local nonprofit did set up group therapy sessions for the people who survived the shootings on the two farms. But Vicente: said he still feels really deeply insecure. And it’s just this sort of this sense of anxiety that that’s very close to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He also said that just the instability of his housing situation really just adds to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Did Vicente have to move after the shooting happened? And the living conditions of the farmworkers at this particular farm sort of came to light?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Yeah, everybody had to move out of that farm. Public officials came through, including Governor Gavin Newsom, and, you know, drew attention, tweeted the photos out. Newsom did a big press conference and called out people living in shipping containers that drew scrutiny from county officials, and the two farms were red tagged. There were 38 people displaced from the two farms, and Vicente: is one of eight men who are living in a kind of a funky hotel room situation downtown in a guest house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>[speaking spanish]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But there’s not room here for his wife and his little boy, his seven year old son. And so they moved to another town, a couple towns north on the coast. And we sent a ruling. Is that I mean, real priority for him is finding a stable home where the three of them can all live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What have the city of Half Moon Bay and San Mateo County been doing in order to address this urgent need for more housing for farm workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>There was a robust response, I would say, from local officials. The county Board of supervisors voted unanimously to spend $1 million to cover a year’s worth of rent for all of the displaced mushroom farm workers. That runs out this month, but the city of Half Moon Bay is stepping up, and they’ve also gotten commitments from a handful of community foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And together, they’ve cobbled together another million dollars to cover a year or two of rent in temporary housing for the displaced farm workers. And they’re hoping that that’s going to carry them through until permanent housing is completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. Let’s talk about that permanent housing, because of course, these rooms that these folks are in have got to be a temporary situation. Folks like Vincent want to be with their families. What have these more permanent solutions looked like so far?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, Half Moon Bay officials are really excited and proud. I would say when I went down there that they’re going to be breaking ground next month on a project with 47 new homes that are geared specifically for low income farm workers, and with priority to the 19 families that were displaced from the mushroom farms, including Vincent De and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And this stone pine cove is right on the edge of town. It’s just a 5 or 10 minute walk into downtown, and the land was donated by the city, and they have pulled together the $16 million budget they need, including money from the federal government, from the state government, from the county, and from some foundation money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we take you to the site of a new housing project for farmworkers. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know you actually went there and met Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquin Jimenez. Tell me a little bit about him and where you went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>I met Mayor Jimenez at the city council meeting, actually, where affordable housing was a topic. It’s a big priority for the mayor, who grew up in a farmworker family himself, and he knows about crowded housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>I don’t think we can walk. I can show her what the some of them are. You know, like a house with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>So he walked me across town over to the site. There’s a little creek running past it. Ironically, the California Tara Garden mushroom Farm, one of the farms where the shooting took place, is just across a creek from from this site, which is 4 or 5 acres here. They’re purchasing manufactured homes that will be built in a factory and brought here on trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>The fastest way to provide it housing right now is to use, you know, the, modular homes that prefabricated homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>They’ll be little houses. They’re going to be, you know, sort of what we used to call mobile homes, but they’re not on wheels, you know, they’re they’re permanent homes, but they’re built in a factory not built at the construction site. So they’re going to be, I think, two and three bedroom houses that are meant for families. And the city will put in the water lines and sewer lines, electrical lines, and I guess, you know, foundations. And the mayor and his housing director were showing me there’s going to be a wildlife buffer along the creek. Trails are planned and a playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>So, you know, so that’s what that’s one of the things that we want to do, thinking about developing a site where, a community can walk everywhere, go shopping, go to the clinic. Go to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The city also got emergency building permits approved. And so this is a project that is going to move a lot more quickly than other things that they have in the pipeline. So they expect that the doors could open in less than a year like early 2025. They’re hoping that farmworkers can move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Wow. That’s pretty fast. It sounds like. And I mean, I have to imagine one project won’t be enough to fill the needs that you laid out earlier. Are there longer term projects in the works?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Absolutely. Yeah. The city is also donating land for an apartment building right in Half Moon Bay. That will be, they predict, a plan of 40 units geared towards older farm workers. There’s funding streams that will be for folks who are, I think like 50 plus. These were probably more smaller apartments, studios, one and two bedrooms. But this could take a good four years or maybe even more to get to completion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know that even beyond housing, there are efforts to help farmworkers build wealth. And I know you spoke with Mayor Jimenez: about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>You said building wealth, and it really is about building stability and a kind of a basis for upward mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>Farmworkers are going to get to own, their mojo home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>So one piece of that is that some of the homes at this new development in Half Moon Bay called Stone Pine Cove, some of these houses will be available for home ownership for for farm workers to purchase with very affordable mortgages over 20 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>I think that would have been one of the my, my actually my parents, you know, dreams, you know, to be able to own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And merge Jimenez himself with farmworker parents. They all immigrated from Mexico, and he and his siblings were able to get education and to build a future for themselves and their children. And he is very committed to making a path for other people, other farmworker families to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>And I, my father, you know, who’s a very proud person, he talks about it and I in, he, he’s been asked questions throughout the years, you know, by friends or the families. How come he never invested, you know, in a house? And he said at the time it was difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How is it possible that they’re making these homes affordable to buy for farmworkers, considering San Mateo County is so expensive, as you mentioned earlier?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, I mean, I think it comes down to public investment, public subsidy. And I think there’s a recognition that on the open market, you know, housing is just totally out of reach for for somebody who earns a farmworker wage, and especially in a place like San Mateo, and that the the government is leaning into that and stepping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And there is actually a state grant program, the Joe Serna Farmworker Housing Grant program, that is really geared towards making rental housing and homeownership affordable for farmworkers. So, you know, there is state money going into this, and there’s federal money and there’s local money and private philanthropy from foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming back to Vincent Tanguy, the farm worker who is still living in a guest house, separated from his family. How does he feel about everything that’s happening? Is he excited?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think it feels more like a knot, like a bird in the hand, but still more like a bird in the bush. For him, I think he has this hope and this yearning and desire. And he’s heard that the county, the city are working on building some permanent housing for farm workers and that he might be eligible for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But there’s been so much insecurity and so much disruption and upheaval in his life over the last, you know, year and a half that, you know, I’ll sort of believe it when he sees it. He is, you know, just really hoping to have a place that he and his wife and his son can call home, and that it can be a safe home and a permanent place that can feel stable and where his child can grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Feeling safe and secure and, you know, decent living conditions. And he said, you know, we don’t need a fancy house. We don’t need a castelo for a luxurious home. We just need the basics. Just a simple, humble home. And one thing I would love, he said, is a playground, a park where my little boy could play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well Tyche, thank you so much as always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>It’s my pleasure, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Tyche Hendricks, senior immigration editor for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Tyche was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the Audio Network and Audio Socket. The rest of our podcast team here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern, and Ellie Prickett-Morgan, our production intern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. You can be part of the engine that runs shows like the Bay by becoming a KQED member. Just go to kqed.org/donate. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks so much for listening. 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State and local leaders promised to do something about it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, the city is close to breaking ground on housing for the survivors and other low-wage farmworkers in the area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6040012084&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Erica Cruz Guevara, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Half Moon Bay is preparing to break ground on a really important housing project, one that took a mass shooting to start because after a shooting at two local farms about a year ago, officials learned that workers had been living in shipping containers, and now they’re doing something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>With, the tragedy of a shooting that expedited, you know, for emergency housing, because we have the, the farm workers and everybody, everybody got to see how they live. So that expedited, you know, finding of, faster way to not double housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, how Half moon Bay is building new housing for farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>I mean, you know, there’s an affordability crisis in the state and farmworkers are low wage workers. Suffice it to say, it’s an affordability crisis that hits farmworkers hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tyche Hendricks is senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>San Mateo County, I think, is really an extreme situation. The median home price in San Mateo County is $1.9 million. It makes it the most expensive county in the state. Farming is a $100 million industry here. And of course, farming depends on farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>There mostly minimum wage workers and mostly immigrants. They’re doing, you know, core essential work. But how to find a place to live that’s decent and affordable is tough. There was a study back in 2016 that estimated over a thousand units of farmworker housing are needed in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know this problem was really highlighted by the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay more than a year ago. Now at two mushroom farms, and the living conditions of farmworkers there really came to light. You met one of the farmworkers affected by this shooting. Can you tell me about Vincente? Who is he and what was life like for him before the shooting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Vicente still works on the Mushroom Farm, California Terra Garden, where he was the day of the shooting. He’s been there for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He’s a 52 year old man originally from Guatemala. He asked not to use his last name because his immigration status isn’t secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He says he lived in a small trailer on the mushroom farm with four people. There was no heat, no hot water, no place to cook. He says it was really crummy situation, but they suffered through it because they really didn’t have other housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But the trauma was still really close to the surface for him. And that’s even though a local nonprofit did set up group therapy sessions for the people who survived the shootings on the two farms. But Vicente: said he still feels really deeply insecure. And it’s just this sort of this sense of anxiety that that’s very close to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He also said that just the instability of his housing situation really just adds to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Did Vicente have to move after the shooting happened? And the living conditions of the farmworkers at this particular farm sort of came to light?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Yeah, everybody had to move out of that farm. Public officials came through, including Governor Gavin Newsom, and, you know, drew attention, tweeted the photos out. Newsom did a big press conference and called out people living in shipping containers that drew scrutiny from county officials, and the two farms were red tagged. There were 38 people displaced from the two farms, and Vicente: is one of eight men who are living in a kind of a funky hotel room situation downtown in a guest house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>[speaking spanish]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But there’s not room here for his wife and his little boy, his seven year old son. And so they moved to another town, a couple towns north on the coast. And we sent a ruling. Is that I mean, real priority for him is finding a stable home where the three of them can all live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What have the city of Half Moon Bay and San Mateo County been doing in order to address this urgent need for more housing for farm workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>There was a robust response, I would say, from local officials. The county Board of supervisors voted unanimously to spend $1 million to cover a year’s worth of rent for all of the displaced mushroom farm workers. That runs out this month, but the city of Half Moon Bay is stepping up, and they’ve also gotten commitments from a handful of community foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And together, they’ve cobbled together another million dollars to cover a year or two of rent in temporary housing for the displaced farm workers. And they’re hoping that that’s going to carry them through until permanent housing is completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. Let’s talk about that permanent housing, because of course, these rooms that these folks are in have got to be a temporary situation. Folks like Vincent want to be with their families. What have these more permanent solutions looked like so far?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, Half Moon Bay officials are really excited and proud. I would say when I went down there that they’re going to be breaking ground next month on a project with 47 new homes that are geared specifically for low income farm workers, and with priority to the 19 families that were displaced from the mushroom farms, including Vincent De and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And this stone pine cove is right on the edge of town. It’s just a 5 or 10 minute walk into downtown, and the land was donated by the city, and they have pulled together the $16 million budget they need, including money from the federal government, from the state government, from the county, and from some foundation money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we take you to the site of a new housing project for farmworkers. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know you actually went there and met Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquin Jimenez. Tell me a little bit about him and where you went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>I met Mayor Jimenez at the city council meeting, actually, where affordable housing was a topic. It’s a big priority for the mayor, who grew up in a farmworker family himself, and he knows about crowded housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>I don’t think we can walk. I can show her what the some of them are. You know, like a house with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>So he walked me across town over to the site. There’s a little creek running past it. Ironically, the California Tara Garden mushroom Farm, one of the farms where the shooting took place, is just across a creek from from this site, which is 4 or 5 acres here. They’re purchasing manufactured homes that will be built in a factory and brought here on trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>The fastest way to provide it housing right now is to use, you know, the, modular homes that prefabricated homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>They’ll be little houses. They’re going to be, you know, sort of what we used to call mobile homes, but they’re not on wheels, you know, they’re they’re permanent homes, but they’re built in a factory not built at the construction site. So they’re going to be, I think, two and three bedroom houses that are meant for families. And the city will put in the water lines and sewer lines, electrical lines, and I guess, you know, foundations. And the mayor and his housing director were showing me there’s going to be a wildlife buffer along the creek. Trails are planned and a playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>So, you know, so that’s what that’s one of the things that we want to do, thinking about developing a site where, a community can walk everywhere, go shopping, go to the clinic. Go to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The city also got emergency building permits approved. And so this is a project that is going to move a lot more quickly than other things that they have in the pipeline. So they expect that the doors could open in less than a year like early 2025. They’re hoping that farmworkers can move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Wow. That’s pretty fast. It sounds like. And I mean, I have to imagine one project won’t be enough to fill the needs that you laid out earlier. Are there longer term projects in the works?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Absolutely. Yeah. The city is also donating land for an apartment building right in Half Moon Bay. That will be, they predict, a plan of 40 units geared towards older farm workers. There’s funding streams that will be for folks who are, I think like 50 plus. These were probably more smaller apartments, studios, one and two bedrooms. But this could take a good four years or maybe even more to get to completion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know that even beyond housing, there are efforts to help farmworkers build wealth. And I know you spoke with Mayor Jimenez: about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>You said building wealth, and it really is about building stability and a kind of a basis for upward mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>Farmworkers are going to get to own, their mojo home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>So one piece of that is that some of the homes at this new development in Half Moon Bay called Stone Pine Cove, some of these houses will be available for home ownership for for farm workers to purchase with very affordable mortgages over 20 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>I think that would have been one of the my, my actually my parents, you know, dreams, you know, to be able to own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And merge Jimenez himself with farmworker parents. They all immigrated from Mexico, and he and his siblings were able to get education and to build a future for themselves and their children. And he is very committed to making a path for other people, other farmworker families to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joaquin Jimenez: \u003c/strong>And I, my father, you know, who’s a very proud person, he talks about it and I in, he, he’s been asked questions throughout the years, you know, by friends or the families. How come he never invested, you know, in a house? And he said at the time it was difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How is it possible that they’re making these homes affordable to buy for farmworkers, considering San Mateo County is so expensive, as you mentioned earlier?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, I mean, I think it comes down to public investment, public subsidy. And I think there’s a recognition that on the open market, you know, housing is just totally out of reach for for somebody who earns a farmworker wage, and especially in a place like San Mateo, and that the the government is leaning into that and stepping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And there is actually a state grant program, the Joe Serna Farmworker Housing Grant program, that is really geared towards making rental housing and homeownership affordable for farmworkers. So, you know, there is state money going into this, and there’s federal money and there’s local money and private philanthropy from foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming back to Vincent Tanguy, the farm worker who is still living in a guest house, separated from his family. How does he feel about everything that’s happening? Is he excited?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think it feels more like a knot, like a bird in the hand, but still more like a bird in the bush. For him, I think he has this hope and this yearning and desire. And he’s heard that the county, the city are working on building some permanent housing for farm workers and that he might be eligible for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But there’s been so much insecurity and so much disruption and upheaval in his life over the last, you know, year and a half that, you know, I’ll sort of believe it when he sees it. He is, you know, just really hoping to have a place that he and his wife and his son can call home, and that it can be a safe home and a permanent place that can feel stable and where his child can grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Feeling safe and secure and, you know, decent living conditions. And he said, you know, we don’t need a fancy house. We don’t need a castelo for a luxurious home. We just need the basics. Just a simple, humble home. And one thing I would love, he said, is a playground, a park where my little boy could play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicente: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well Tyche, thank you so much as always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>It’s my pleasure, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Tyche Hendricks, senior immigration editor for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Tyche was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the Audio Network and Audio Socket. The rest of our podcast team here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern, and Ellie Prickett-Morgan, our production intern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. You can be part of the engine that runs shows like the Bay by becoming a KQED member. Just go to kqed.org/donate. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks so much for listening. 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And this bill does that,” said Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/aisha-wahab-165437\">Aisha Wahab\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Fremont and chairperson of the Senate Public Safety Committee. “The penalties will just be added to their already difficult situation of paying for things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1011?slug=CA_202320240SB1011&_gl=1*12wezuh*_ga*Nzc5MjE5NDU2LjE2ODQ1MTA1NDg.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcxMzI5MTE2MC4zNTAuMS4xNzEzMjk2OTk3LjYwLjAuMA..*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcxMzI5MTE2MC4yOTYuMS4xNzEzMjk1NjgwLjAuMC4w\">Senate Bill 1011\u003c/a> stumbled in its first committee hearing, stalling in the Public Safety Committee on a 1–3 vote. The measure by Senate GOP leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/brian-jones-1968/?utm_source=CalMatters%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=5df65efca8-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-5df65efca8-151973523&mc_cid=5df65efca8&mc_eid=df84c5373c\">Brian Jones\u003c/a> and Democratic Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/catherine-blakespear-21275\">Catherine Blakespear\u003c/a>, both of the San Diego area, would have made camping within 500 feet of a school, open space or major transit stop a misdemeanor or infraction. It also would have banned camping on public sidewalks if beds were available in local homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m disappointed in the closed-minded opposition from the majority party members of the Senate Public Safety Committee to new approaches and their knee-jerk support of just throwing more money at the problem with no real plan,” Jones said in a statement. “Today’s continued rejection of real solutions during this health and safety crisis is immoral and irresponsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After today’s defeat, Jones will continue speaking with committee members to see if there is any way to negotiate a path forward for his bill, spokesperson Nina Krishel said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/nancy-skinner-34364\">Nancy Skinner\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Oakland, said while she appreciates that Californians don’t want to see encampments, she couldn’t support the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like trying to make a problem invisible versus addressing the core of the problem,” said Skinner, who joined Wahab and Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, a Democrat from San Francisco, in voting “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three dozen people voiced their opposition to the bill during today’s hearing, speaking on behalf of organizations such as the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union California Action.[aside postID=news_11982817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The bill’s supporters, who numbered far fewer, included the mayor of Vista and a representative from the city of Carlsbad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lone “yes” vote came from the committee’s only Republican, Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kelly-seyarto-165446\">Kelly Seyarto\u003c/a> of Murrieta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a slew of people that came forward to tell us about what we shouldn’t be doing,” he said. “But what the hell should we be doing? Because right now, we’re not doing anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/steven-bradford-100945\">Steven Bradford\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Inglewood, abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab granted reconsideration, which means the committee could hear the bill again later this session. But last year, a nearly identical bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/03/california-homeless-encampments/\">met the same fate\u003c/a>. SB 31, also introduced by Jones, died in the Senate Public Safety Committee with one “yes” vote, one “no” vote and three abstentions. It also received reconsideration but was never revived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s version of the encampment ban had more going for it. Jones found a Democratic co-author and narrowed the bill’s scope. Instead of banning people from camping within 1,000 feet of schools and other locations, the new bill would have banned people from camping within 500 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also was leaning heavily on a new camping ban in San Diego, upon which he said he modeled his bill. The San Diego ordinance, which took effect at the end of July 2023, bans camps near schools, shelters and transit hubs, in parks, and — if shelter beds are available — on public sidewalks. Jones called the ordinance a “success,” a sentiment echoed by San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-encampment-ban/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> paints a more complicated picture. While encampments have drastically decreased in some areas, such as downtown and around certain schools, they are still just as prevalent — in some cases much more so — along the city’s freeways and the banks of its river. Opponents of the ordinance say it displaces people instead of housing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Jones’ bill failed to copy a key piece of San Diego’s approach. When the city started enforcing its encampment ban, it also opened two massive “safe sleeping” sites where about 500 people camp on vacant lots in tents purchased by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’ bill would not have forced cities to set up accommodations for people displaced from encampments because, he said, there’s no state funding for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A bill to ban unhoused encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713314219,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":871},"headData":{"title":"Democrats Again Vote Down California Ban on Unhoused Encampments | KQED","description":"A bill to ban unhoused encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Democrats Again Vote Down California Ban on Unhoused Encampments","datePublished":"2024-04-17T11:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-17T00:36:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Marisa Kendall, CalMatters","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983180/democrats-kill-california-homeless-camp-ban-again","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the second year in a row, Democrats voted down a bill on Tuesday that sought to ban homeless encampments near schools, transit stops and other areas throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though cities up and down the state are grappling with a proliferation of homeless camps, legislators said they oppose penalizing down-and-out residents who sleep on public property.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11983000","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-623874284_qut-1020x705.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Just because individuals that are unhoused make people uncomfortable does not mean that it should be criminalized. And this bill does that,” said Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/aisha-wahab-165437\">Aisha Wahab\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Fremont and chairperson of the Senate Public Safety Committee. “The penalties will just be added to their already difficult situation of paying for things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1011?slug=CA_202320240SB1011&_gl=1*12wezuh*_ga*Nzc5MjE5NDU2LjE2ODQ1MTA1NDg.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcxMzI5MTE2MC4zNTAuMS4xNzEzMjk2OTk3LjYwLjAuMA..*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcxMzI5MTE2MC4yOTYuMS4xNzEzMjk1NjgwLjAuMC4w\">Senate Bill 1011\u003c/a> stumbled in its first committee hearing, stalling in the Public Safety Committee on a 1–3 vote. The measure by Senate GOP leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/brian-jones-1968/?utm_source=CalMatters%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=5df65efca8-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-5df65efca8-151973523&mc_cid=5df65efca8&mc_eid=df84c5373c\">Brian Jones\u003c/a> and Democratic Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/catherine-blakespear-21275\">Catherine Blakespear\u003c/a>, both of the San Diego area, would have made camping within 500 feet of a school, open space or major transit stop a misdemeanor or infraction. It also would have banned camping on public sidewalks if beds were available in local homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m disappointed in the closed-minded opposition from the majority party members of the Senate Public Safety Committee to new approaches and their knee-jerk support of just throwing more money at the problem with no real plan,” Jones said in a statement. “Today’s continued rejection of real solutions during this health and safety crisis is immoral and irresponsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After today’s defeat, Jones will continue speaking with committee members to see if there is any way to negotiate a path forward for his bill, spokesperson Nina Krishel said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/nancy-skinner-34364\">Nancy Skinner\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Oakland, said while she appreciates that Californians don’t want to see encampments, she couldn’t support the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like trying to make a problem invisible versus addressing the core of the problem,” said Skinner, who joined Wahab and Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, a Democrat from San Francisco, in voting “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three dozen people voiced their opposition to the bill during today’s hearing, speaking on behalf of organizations such as the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union California Action.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11982817","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bill’s supporters, who numbered far fewer, included the mayor of Vista and a representative from the city of Carlsbad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lone “yes” vote came from the committee’s only Republican, Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kelly-seyarto-165446\">Kelly Seyarto\u003c/a> of Murrieta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a slew of people that came forward to tell us about what we shouldn’t be doing,” he said. “But what the hell should we be doing? Because right now, we’re not doing anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/steven-bradford-100945\">Steven Bradford\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Inglewood, abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab granted reconsideration, which means the committee could hear the bill again later this session. But last year, a nearly identical bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/03/california-homeless-encampments/\">met the same fate\u003c/a>. SB 31, also introduced by Jones, died in the Senate Public Safety Committee with one “yes” vote, one “no” vote and three abstentions. It also received reconsideration but was never revived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s version of the encampment ban had more going for it. Jones found a Democratic co-author and narrowed the bill’s scope. Instead of banning people from camping within 1,000 feet of schools and other locations, the new bill would have banned people from camping within 500 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also was leaning heavily on a new camping ban in San Diego, upon which he said he modeled his bill. The San Diego ordinance, which took effect at the end of July 2023, bans camps near schools, shelters and transit hubs, in parks, and — if shelter beds are available — on public sidewalks. Jones called the ordinance a “success,” a sentiment echoed by San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/homeless-encampment-ban/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> paints a more complicated picture. While encampments have drastically decreased in some areas, such as downtown and around certain schools, they are still just as prevalent — in some cases much more so — along the city’s freeways and the banks of its river. Opponents of the ordinance say it displaces people instead of housing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Jones’ bill failed to copy a key piece of San Diego’s approach. When the city started enforcing its encampment ban, it also opened two massive “safe sleeping” sites where about 500 people camp on vacant lots in tents purchased by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’ bill would not have forced cities to set up accommodations for people displaced from encampments because, he said, there’s no state funding for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983180/democrats-kill-california-homeless-camp-ban-again","authors":["byline_news_11983180"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_22307","news_33966","news_27626","news_21214","news_4020","news_1775"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11983184","label":"news_18481"},"news_11983000":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983000","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983000","score":null,"sort":[1713277810000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-legislators-take-aim-at-construction-fees-to-boost-housing","title":"California Legislators Take Aim at Construction Fees to Boost Housing","publishDate":1713277810,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Legislators Take Aim at Construction Fees to Boost Housing | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After nearly a decade of trying to peel away the red tape holding back housing construction in California, legislators this year are nibbling away at the last of the low-hanging fruit: impact fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities impose impact fees to fund construction for new schools, road maintenance, public art installations, and other amenities. The fees vary widely based on the type of project and city — ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/development-fees\">as low as $12,000 per unit to as high as $157,000 per unit\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erik Schoennauer, land use consultant\"]‘The city should create a master list of all potential fees, anything conceivable.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These can be really, really high costs that can make or break the math on a development,” said Sean Roberts, a developer and CEO of Villa Homes. “These fees create a barrier to actually getting homes built, and that’s not good for anybody right now in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constitutionality of these fees was recently challenged in the Supreme Court. Last week, the court unanimously ruled that cities should have to demonstrate the fees they are charging are reasonable. But, they left it to lower courts to decide what counts as a reasonable fee. Meaning, there won’t be any immediate changes to how much cities are charging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a slate of bills is making its way through the legislature. None of the bills would actually reduce these fees. That’s because doing so would require tackling a much thornier question of how to make up for cities’ lost revenue. Instead, these bills aim to address other issues that developers have with the fees: that they don’t often know going into a project how much the fees will cost and that they are often due before projects even break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11981595,news_11945744,news_11980019\" label=\"Related Stories\"]SB 937 would make payment due only once people are actually living in the new housing. AB 2144, authored by Assemblymember Timothy Grayson (D-Concord), and AB 1820, authored by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-Santa Clarita), would both require cities to post easily accessible information about the fees they charge. And a fifth bill, AB 1210, would cap the fees developers have to pay to connect new homes and apartment buildings to utility services, limiting the fees to 1% of the project’s estimated value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the cost of materials, labor and interest rates continue to soar, legislators see these changes as one of the last remaining levers they can pull to reduce the cost of construction and spur development across the state. And while developers generally welcome these efforts to make housing easier to build, they say there are much bigger, meatier fish to fry in the complicated politics of California housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Schoennauer, a land use consultant who works with developers in San Jose, said he’s been advocating for the changes the bills propose for years. As it stands, he said, “there is no one-stop location” to understand what fees are due and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city should create a master list of all potential fees, anything conceivable,” Schoennauer said. “It’s much harder to determine what [fees] apply when you don’t even know what the maximum list is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 2144 would require cities to post information on impact fee schedules, along with a “nexus study,” which would break down the total cost of construction on a city’s website. AB 1820 mandates cities provide an estimate of the fees developers would have to pay within 10 days of a developer filing an application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the problems surrounding fees are much deeper than a lack of transparency, Roberts said. His company specializes in constructing prefabricated granny flats and in-law units homeowners can put in their backyards. For the past few months, he’s also been working on building clusters of small homes called cottage courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a green house with a solar panel on the roof and a yard.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Villa Homes specializes in constructing prefabricated granny flats and in-law units, the company has started to branch out into building small and affordable single-family homes. According to Roberts, impact fees raise costs and can make these homes unaffordable. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Villa Homes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By design, these homes are smaller and, therefore, meant to be more affordable to purchase than a standard single-family home. But as he’s put together budget sheets for these projects, the impact fees have started to add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact fees that we often run into in many jurisdictions don’t scale down, even though we’re building a smaller home at a lower price point,” he said. “At the end of the day, we want to get people into homes they can afford to buy and to do that on a private market without a bunch of government subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 937 would push impact fees to be due once the homes are sold, but Roberts said that would only be “moving money through time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost is still there,” he said. “It’s just going to be borne later in the project and ultimately by the [occupant].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener (D- San Francisco) said he authored this bill to help developers with the upfront costs of construction but acknowledged that there is a much larger conversation still to be had about how cities rationalize exorbitant fees that can kill projects while claiming to want more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are cities where the impact fees are way too high,” he said. “They’re out of whack, and they’re harming the ability of housing to be built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of these fees was at the heart of the case that went to the Supreme Court. In 2016, contractor George Sheetz was preparing to build a small home on a vacant lot in El Dorado County, but the county charged $23,000 for a “traffic impact fee,” even though, Sheetz alleged, there was no evidence the development would lead to more traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Sheetz, saying developers have a right to challenge the constitutionality of these fees. Though the case’s fate ultimately rests in a lower court, the high court’s ruling could mean more developers will take cities to court over what Sheetz argued was “extortionate fees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way impact fees have thus far been imposed has been arbitrary and varies widely from town to town,” Jim Wunderman, President and CEO of the Bay Area Council said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/press-releases/bay-area-council-hails-supreme-court-decision-on-costly-impact-fees/\">statement\u003c/a>. The regional business advocacy organization was one of many to submit amicus briefs in favor of Sheetz’s case. “This ruling is hopefully the first step on the path to returning some fairness in how housing and other local impact fees are charged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities, however, rely on these fees to fund government services and city maintenance. Jason Rhine, director of legislative affairs for the League of California Cities, argues impact fees simply account for more people living in a city once the new housing is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most cities do not have a lot of excess dollars lying around in their general fund to help subsidize these [new] projects,” he said. “Developers have to pay their fair share when it comes to the impact that project is going to have on their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When voters in 1978 passed Proposition 13, which limits the amount cities can increase property taxes each year, this revenue accounted for 90% of a city’s total income. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3497#How_Did_Proposition.A013_Change_Local_Governments_Mix_of_Tax_Revenues.3F\">study from the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>, that share in 2016 was less than two-thirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest reason why impact fees are so pricey is due to municipal governments not having many ways to levy taxes,” said Muhammad Alameldin, a policy associate at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Proposition 13 has artificially suppressed property tax revenue for decades, cities can no longer rely on property owners to foot the bill for maintaining their neighborhoods. Cities with fewer commercial centers, like San Jose or other suburban municipalities, are, therefore, in a tighter bind to find revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he was sympathetic to cities’ plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made it really hard for them to fund basic municipal services,” he said. “So, that’s why they have become overly reliant on impact fees on new housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he acknowledged that he and other lawmakers are kicking the can down the road on a much larger — and more meaningful — conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The much broader issue is how cities are funded in California,” Wiener said. “[My] bill is not a substitute for the broader conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Cities rely on impact fees to maintain parks, schools and other amenities. But developers say the fees can prevent housing from being built. A series of new bills try to find a middle ground.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713292384,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1505},"headData":{"title":"California Legislators Take Aim at Construction Fees to Boost Housing | KQED","description":"Cities rely on impact fees to maintain parks, schools and other amenities. But developers say the fees can prevent housing from being built. 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The fees vary widely based on the type of project and city — ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/development-fees\">as low as $12,000 per unit to as high as $157,000 per unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The city should create a master list of all potential fees, anything conceivable.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Erik Schoennauer, land use consultant","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These can be really, really high costs that can make or break the math on a development,” said Sean Roberts, a developer and CEO of Villa Homes. “These fees create a barrier to actually getting homes built, and that’s not good for anybody right now in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constitutionality of these fees was recently challenged in the Supreme Court. Last week, the court unanimously ruled that cities should have to demonstrate the fees they are charging are reasonable. But, they left it to lower courts to decide what counts as a reasonable fee. Meaning, there won’t be any immediate changes to how much cities are charging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a slate of bills is making its way through the legislature. None of the bills would actually reduce these fees. That’s because doing so would require tackling a much thornier question of how to make up for cities’ lost revenue. Instead, these bills aim to address other issues that developers have with the fees: that they don’t often know going into a project how much the fees will cost and that they are often due before projects even break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11981595,news_11945744,news_11980019","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>SB 937 would make payment due only once people are actually living in the new housing. AB 2144, authored by Assemblymember Timothy Grayson (D-Concord), and AB 1820, authored by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-Santa Clarita), would both require cities to post easily accessible information about the fees they charge. And a fifth bill, AB 1210, would cap the fees developers have to pay to connect new homes and apartment buildings to utility services, limiting the fees to 1% of the project’s estimated value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the cost of materials, labor and interest rates continue to soar, legislators see these changes as one of the last remaining levers they can pull to reduce the cost of construction and spur development across the state. And while developers generally welcome these efforts to make housing easier to build, they say there are much bigger, meatier fish to fry in the complicated politics of California housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Schoennauer, a land use consultant who works with developers in San Jose, said he’s been advocating for the changes the bills propose for years. As it stands, he said, “there is no one-stop location” to understand what fees are due and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city should create a master list of all potential fees, anything conceivable,” Schoennauer said. “It’s much harder to determine what [fees] apply when you don’t even know what the maximum list is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 2144 would require cities to post information on impact fee schedules, along with a “nexus study,” which would break down the total cost of construction on a city’s website. AB 1820 mandates cities provide an estimate of the fees developers would have to pay within 10 days of a developer filing an application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the problems surrounding fees are much deeper than a lack of transparency, Roberts said. His company specializes in constructing prefabricated granny flats and in-law units homeowners can put in their backyards. For the past few months, he’s also been working on building clusters of small homes called cottage courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a green house with a solar panel on the roof and a yard.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Overlook-151_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Villa Homes specializes in constructing prefabricated granny flats and in-law units, the company has started to branch out into building small and affordable single-family homes. According to Roberts, impact fees raise costs and can make these homes unaffordable. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Villa Homes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By design, these homes are smaller and, therefore, meant to be more affordable to purchase than a standard single-family home. But as he’s put together budget sheets for these projects, the impact fees have started to add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact fees that we often run into in many jurisdictions don’t scale down, even though we’re building a smaller home at a lower price point,” he said. “At the end of the day, we want to get people into homes they can afford to buy and to do that on a private market without a bunch of government subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 937 would push impact fees to be due once the homes are sold, but Roberts said that would only be “moving money through time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost is still there,” he said. “It’s just going to be borne later in the project and ultimately by the [occupant].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener (D- San Francisco) said he authored this bill to help developers with the upfront costs of construction but acknowledged that there is a much larger conversation still to be had about how cities rationalize exorbitant fees that can kill projects while claiming to want more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are cities where the impact fees are way too high,” he said. “They’re out of whack, and they’re harming the ability of housing to be built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of these fees was at the heart of the case that went to the Supreme Court. In 2016, contractor George Sheetz was preparing to build a small home on a vacant lot in El Dorado County, but the county charged $23,000 for a “traffic impact fee,” even though, Sheetz alleged, there was no evidence the development would lead to more traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Sheetz, saying developers have a right to challenge the constitutionality of these fees. Though the case’s fate ultimately rests in a lower court, the high court’s ruling could mean more developers will take cities to court over what Sheetz argued was “extortionate fees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way impact fees have thus far been imposed has been arbitrary and varies widely from town to town,” Jim Wunderman, President and CEO of the Bay Area Council said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/press-releases/bay-area-council-hails-supreme-court-decision-on-costly-impact-fees/\">statement\u003c/a>. The regional business advocacy organization was one of many to submit amicus briefs in favor of Sheetz’s case. “This ruling is hopefully the first step on the path to returning some fairness in how housing and other local impact fees are charged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities, however, rely on these fees to fund government services and city maintenance. Jason Rhine, director of legislative affairs for the League of California Cities, argues impact fees simply account for more people living in a city once the new housing is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most cities do not have a lot of excess dollars lying around in their general fund to help subsidize these [new] projects,” he said. “Developers have to pay their fair share when it comes to the impact that project is going to have on their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When voters in 1978 passed Proposition 13, which limits the amount cities can increase property taxes each year, this revenue accounted for 90% of a city’s total income. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3497#How_Did_Proposition.A013_Change_Local_Governments_Mix_of_Tax_Revenues.3F\">study from the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>, that share in 2016 was less than two-thirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest reason why impact fees are so pricey is due to municipal governments not having many ways to levy taxes,” said Muhammad Alameldin, a policy associate at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Proposition 13 has artificially suppressed property tax revenue for decades, cities can no longer rely on property owners to foot the bill for maintaining their neighborhoods. Cities with fewer commercial centers, like San Jose or other suburban municipalities, are, therefore, in a tighter bind to find revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he was sympathetic to cities’ plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made it really hard for them to fund basic municipal services,” he said. “So, that’s why they have become overly reliant on impact fees on new housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he acknowledged that he and other lawmakers are kicking the can down the road on a much larger — and more meaningful — conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The much broader issue is how cities are funded in California,” Wiener said. “[My] bill is not a substitute for the broader conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983000/california-legislators-take-aim-at-construction-fees-to-boost-housing","authors":["11672"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_32695","news_17620","news_1775","news_423"],"featImg":"news_11983025","label":"news"},"news_11982817":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11982817","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11982817","score":null,"sort":[1713191457000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"half-moon-bay-prepares-to-break-ground-on-farmworker-housing","title":"Half Moon Bay Prepares to Break Ground on Farmworker Housing","publishDate":1713191457,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Half Moon Bay Prepares to Break Ground on Farmworker Housing | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After their shift at a local mushroom farm one recent afternoon, two farmworkers, smudged with dirt and sawdust, trudged back to their rented rooms in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motel rooms are clean and safe and have been home for Vicente and Cornelio since shortly after a coworker opened fire at this farm and another nearby in January 2023. The men asked that we use only their first names for immigration concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the mass shooting claimed seven lives, it also shone a light on the terrible living conditions at the mushroom farms, which local officials decried as deplorable and heartbreaking and vowed to improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were four of us in the trailer,” says Vicente, 52, who has worked at the farm for three years. “We had nowhere to cook and no hot water. You endure it out of necessity. But it was not good, suffering in the cold like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these rooms, paid for by the county, have heat and access to a kitchen, Vicente says knowing he’ll have to move has added to his sense of vulnerability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquin Jimenez (in vest) and housing coordinator Mike Noce visit a site on March 14, 2023, where the city plans to build 47 affordable homes for farmworkers with very low incomes. The project is due to break ground next month and will include units for rent and for purchase, Noce says. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ever since the tragedy, we feel insecure. It affected us so much,” he says, adding that he wants a home where he can reunite with his wife and 7-year-old son. The family has been separated since the shooting because they couldn’t afford a place big enough to live together, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire for a permanent place could be a reality by early next year. Half Moon Bay officials plan to break ground next month to erect nearly four dozen manufactured homes. The new development, known as Stone Pine Cove, will be built on a parcel of city land, less than a 10-minute walk from downtown Half Moon Bay. It’s geared toward low-income farmworkers, like Vicente and Cornelio, and the other families displaced from the mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joaquín Jiménez, mayor, Half Moon Bay\"]‘We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.’[/pullquote]Two other farmworker housing projects are also in the works in the area, though they’ll take longer. Together, they could create some 200 units, and make a modest dent in the acute shortage of affordable housing in coastal San Mateo County. The most recent survey available, from 2016, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/housing/agricultural-workforce-housing-needs-assessment\">the county needs at least 1,000 units of farmworker housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be so happy to have a house like that,” says Cornelio, who still struggles with the trauma of the mass shooting, even after group therapy provided by a local community organization. “I’m so grateful to everyone who has extended a hand to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are in an emergency’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the shooting, officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Anna Eshoo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">pledged to transform the tragedy\u003c/a> into critically needed investments in decent farmworker housing. That’s a much more costly proposition here in the expensive Bay Area than in more rural parts of the state, and the sense of urgency continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11939603,forum_2010101892120,news_11939470\"]“We are in an emergency,” Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquín Jiménez says. “Families are still living crowded. They’re getting ready to move out of Half Moon Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials cobbled together the $16 million budget for Stone Pine Cove from a combination of federal, state and local sources, plus some philanthropic dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Ray Mueller says ensuring good quality, affordable housing for farmworkers is not only the right thing to do, it’s important for the health of the county’s economy — where \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/san-mateo-county-agriculture-production-near-100-million\">agriculture is a $100-million industry\u003c/a>, with products ranging from flowers to Brussels sprouts to Half Moon Bay’s famous pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agriculture is incredibly important,” Mueller says. “It provides food resilience to the region. … and then obviously there’s the economics of being able to go ahead and have that thriving industry there which provides good jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials estimate San Mateo County has as many as 2,000 farmworkers overall, mostly in the area locals refer to as the “Coastside.” Mueller says he’s working to make it easier for farmers to build quality housing on their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Joaquin Jimenez stops on a bridge in downtown Half Moon Bay on March 14, 2024. Jimenez, the son of a farmworker, has made farmworker housing a priority. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Affordable housing in the works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The $1 million the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors committed to housing the 38 displaced mushroom farm workers for a year ran out this month, but Half Moon Bay and local foundations will cover a second year while Stone Pine Cove is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other affordable housing projects are in the works, too, but they won’t be ready for several years. Half Moon Bay plans a 40-unit apartment building for farmworkers 55 and older. Meanwhile, the county is in the process of buying a former flower nursery where Mueller says 100 homes could be built and is eyeing two other locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are light years from where we were a year ago,” Mueller says. “But we haven’t crossed the finish line in terms of opening any of those housing sites. … So we can’t lose that momentum. The good news is, there’s no indication that we will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting also prompted the county to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/planning/farm-labor-housing-compliance\">a new task force to inspect all on-farm housing\u003c/a> in unincorporated areas to ensure it meets health and safety standards. County officials say of the roughly 50 farms they’ve visited that provide housing, they haven’t found egregious violations, but more than a quarter have been ordered to make fixes such as repairing unsafe wiring and ensuring a clean water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982571\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a Half Moon Bay City Council meeting on March 14, 2024, Mayor Joaquín Jiménez speaks about the urgency of building affordable housing for farmworkers and other essential workers with low incomes. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘That much more severe for farmworkers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The agricultural region of coastside San Mateo County is just over a ridge from the heart of Silicon Valley, where high salaries and stock options have fueled ever-increasing housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent survey by the California Association of Realtors showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2024-News-Releases/4qtr2023hai#:~:text=Lassen%20(49%20percent)%20remained%20the,the%20fourth%20quarter%20of%202023.\">the median home price in San Mateo County is over $1.9 million\u003c/a>, making it the most expensive county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Flores, the faculty director at UC Merced’s Center for Community and Labor Center, says the acute housing crisis for farmworkers in San Mateo is simply a more extreme example of a statewide affordable housing problem confronting millions of workers who fill essential jobs but are paid little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agricultural workers are among the lowest-earning occupations,” he says. “So as severe as the state’s housing crisis is for low-wage workers, it’s even that much more severe for farm workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most farmworkers in the Coastside earn little more than the minimum wage of $17.35/hour, Jiménez says, the Half Moon Bay mayor. But in San Mateo County, \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu/\">a living wage that covers the basics\u003c/a> can be well over twice that, depending on how many children a worker supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, we need help from the county,” says Vicente, the mushroom farm worker. “Because here in Half Moon Bay the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sharing a home with 21 people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the child of farmworkers himself, Jiménez knows what it’s like when low-wage workers have to crowd into housing. During his teenage years, he says, his family shared a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house with 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vicente, farmworker\"]‘The fact is, we need help from the county. Because here in Half Moon Bay, the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.’[/pullquote]After running \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">a local\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">farmworker outreach program\u003c/a> for years, Jiménez is now spearheading a project to build \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbreview.com/news/co-op-plants-opportunities-for-farmworkers/article_229f9136-7946-11ec-b1d0-1f79501ec0a3.html\">a farmworker co-op\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay where farmworkers can profit from the produce they grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to help them build wealth for their family,” he says. “We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit to the future site of Stone Pine Cove, Jiménez extolled the fact that 28 of the homes will be available for purchase, using \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/joe-serna-jr-farmworker-housing-grant\">a state program of forgivable 20-year home loans\u003c/a> geared toward agricultural workers with very low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmworkers are going to get to own their modular home,” says Jiménez, who says home ownership is one more step toward stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parcel sits just across a small creek from the California Terra Garden mushroom farm. When it’s developed, it will have a wildlife buffer along the creek, a walking trail and a playground for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on the porch of the guesthouse, Vicente says he can picture his son playing in a little park like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a fancy house,” he says. “Just a simple house with the basics, where we can be together as a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Last year’s mass shooting spurred local leaders to act. Dozens of homes for farmworker families should be ready in early 2024, but other projects could take years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713195420,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1675},"headData":{"title":"Half Moon Bay Prepares to Break Ground on Farmworker Housing | KQED","description":"Last year’s mass shooting spurred local leaders to act. 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The men asked that we use only their first names for immigration concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the mass shooting claimed seven lives, it also shone a light on the terrible living conditions at the mushroom farms, which local officials decried as deplorable and heartbreaking and vowed to improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were four of us in the trailer,” says Vicente, 52, who has worked at the farm for three years. “We had nowhere to cook and no hot water. You endure it out of necessity. But it was not good, suffering in the cold like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these rooms, paid for by the county, have heat and access to a kitchen, Vicente says knowing he’ll have to move has added to his sense of vulnerability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquin Jimenez (in vest) and housing coordinator Mike Noce visit a site on March 14, 2023, where the city plans to build 47 affordable homes for farmworkers with very low incomes. The project is due to break ground next month and will include units for rent and for purchase, Noce says. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ever since the tragedy, we feel insecure. It affected us so much,” he says, adding that he wants a home where he can reunite with his wife and 7-year-old son. The family has been separated since the shooting because they couldn’t afford a place big enough to live together, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire for a permanent place could be a reality by early next year. Half Moon Bay officials plan to break ground next month to erect nearly four dozen manufactured homes. The new development, known as Stone Pine Cove, will be built on a parcel of city land, less than a 10-minute walk from downtown Half Moon Bay. It’s geared toward low-income farmworkers, like Vicente and Cornelio, and the other families displaced from the mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Joaquín Jiménez, mayor, Half Moon Bay","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two other farmworker housing projects are also in the works in the area, though they’ll take longer. Together, they could create some 200 units, and make a modest dent in the acute shortage of affordable housing in coastal San Mateo County. The most recent survey available, from 2016, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/housing/agricultural-workforce-housing-needs-assessment\">the county needs at least 1,000 units of farmworker housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be so happy to have a house like that,” says Cornelio, who still struggles with the trauma of the mass shooting, even after group therapy provided by a local community organization. “I’m so grateful to everyone who has extended a hand to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are in an emergency’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the shooting, officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Anna Eshoo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">pledged to transform the tragedy\u003c/a> into critically needed investments in decent farmworker housing. That’s a much more costly proposition here in the expensive Bay Area than in more rural parts of the state, and the sense of urgency continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11939603,forum_2010101892120,news_11939470"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We are in an emergency,” Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquín Jiménez says. “Families are still living crowded. They’re getting ready to move out of Half Moon Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials cobbled together the $16 million budget for Stone Pine Cove from a combination of federal, state and local sources, plus some philanthropic dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Ray Mueller says ensuring good quality, affordable housing for farmworkers is not only the right thing to do, it’s important for the health of the county’s economy — where \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/san-mateo-county-agriculture-production-near-100-million\">agriculture is a $100-million industry\u003c/a>, with products ranging from flowers to Brussels sprouts to Half Moon Bay’s famous pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agriculture is incredibly important,” Mueller says. “It provides food resilience to the region. … and then obviously there’s the economics of being able to go ahead and have that thriving industry there which provides good jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials estimate San Mateo County has as many as 2,000 farmworkers overall, mostly in the area locals refer to as the “Coastside.” Mueller says he’s working to make it easier for farmers to build quality housing on their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Joaquin Jimenez stops on a bridge in downtown Half Moon Bay on March 14, 2024. Jimenez, the son of a farmworker, has made farmworker housing a priority. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Affordable housing in the works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The $1 million the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors committed to housing the 38 displaced mushroom farm workers for a year ran out this month, but Half Moon Bay and local foundations will cover a second year while Stone Pine Cove is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other affordable housing projects are in the works, too, but they won’t be ready for several years. Half Moon Bay plans a 40-unit apartment building for farmworkers 55 and older. Meanwhile, the county is in the process of buying a former flower nursery where Mueller says 100 homes could be built and is eyeing two other locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are light years from where we were a year ago,” Mueller says. “But we haven’t crossed the finish line in terms of opening any of those housing sites. … So we can’t lose that momentum. The good news is, there’s no indication that we will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting also prompted the county to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/planning/farm-labor-housing-compliance\">a new task force to inspect all on-farm housing\u003c/a> in unincorporated areas to ensure it meets health and safety standards. County officials say of the roughly 50 farms they’ve visited that provide housing, they haven’t found egregious violations, but more than a quarter have been ordered to make fixes such as repairing unsafe wiring and ensuring a clean water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982571\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a Half Moon Bay City Council meeting on March 14, 2024, Mayor Joaquín Jiménez speaks about the urgency of building affordable housing for farmworkers and other essential workers with low incomes. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘That much more severe for farmworkers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The agricultural region of coastside San Mateo County is just over a ridge from the heart of Silicon Valley, where high salaries and stock options have fueled ever-increasing housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent survey by the California Association of Realtors showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2024-News-Releases/4qtr2023hai#:~:text=Lassen%20(49%20percent)%20remained%20the,the%20fourth%20quarter%20of%202023.\">the median home price in San Mateo County is over $1.9 million\u003c/a>, making it the most expensive county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Flores, the faculty director at UC Merced’s Center for Community and Labor Center, says the acute housing crisis for farmworkers in San Mateo is simply a more extreme example of a statewide affordable housing problem confronting millions of workers who fill essential jobs but are paid little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agricultural workers are among the lowest-earning occupations,” he says. “So as severe as the state’s housing crisis is for low-wage workers, it’s even that much more severe for farm workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most farmworkers in the Coastside earn little more than the minimum wage of $17.35/hour, Jiménez says, the Half Moon Bay mayor. But in San Mateo County, \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu/\">a living wage that covers the basics\u003c/a> can be well over twice that, depending on how many children a worker supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, we need help from the county,” says Vicente, the mushroom farm worker. “Because here in Half Moon Bay the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sharing a home with 21 people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the child of farmworkers himself, Jiménez knows what it’s like when low-wage workers have to crowd into housing. During his teenage years, he says, his family shared a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house with 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The fact is, we need help from the county. Because here in Half Moon Bay, the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Vicente, farmworker","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After running \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">a local\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">farmworker outreach program\u003c/a> for years, Jiménez is now spearheading a project to build \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbreview.com/news/co-op-plants-opportunities-for-farmworkers/article_229f9136-7946-11ec-b1d0-1f79501ec0a3.html\">a farmworker co-op\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay where farmworkers can profit from the produce they grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to help them build wealth for their family,” he says. “We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit to the future site of Stone Pine Cove, Jiménez extolled the fact that 28 of the homes will be available for purchase, using \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/joe-serna-jr-farmworker-housing-grant\">a state program of forgivable 20-year home loans\u003c/a> geared toward agricultural workers with very low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmworkers are going to get to own their modular home,” says Jiménez, who says home ownership is one more step toward stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parcel sits just across a small creek from the California Terra Garden mushroom farm. When it’s developed, it will have a wildlife buffer along the creek, a walking trail and a playground for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on the porch of the guesthouse, Vicente says he can picture his son playing in a little park like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a fancy house,” he says. “Just a simple house with the basics, where we can be together as a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982817/half-moon-bay-prepares-to-break-ground-on-farmworker-housing","authors":["259"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_18269","news_27626","news_1164","news_1775","news_20202"],"featImg":"news_11982570","label":"news_72"},"news_11982884":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11982884","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11982884","score":null,"sort":[1713034843000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-requires-solar-panels-on-new-homes-should-wildfire-victims-get-a-break","title":"California Requires Solar Panels on New Homes. Should Wildfire Victims Get a Break?","publishDate":1713034843,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Requires Solar Panels on New Homes. Should Wildfire Victims Get a Break? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Hundreds of homes in Joe Patterson’s Northern California Assembly district burned to the ground in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/08/california-wildfires-caldor-fire-lake-tahoe/\">Caldor Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the three years since that devastating summer, many of those rebuilding homeowners have ended up on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars, thanks to state laws that require solar panels on new homes — even on those that didn’t have them before they burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trust me when I say this: $25,000 to build solar onto a house where people do not have solar is 100% an impediment to rebuilding,” \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/joe-patterson-133512\">Patterson, a Republican from Rocklin\u003c/a>, told the Assembly Natural Resources Committee earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson’s \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2787?slug=CA_202320240AB2787\">Assembly Bill 2787\u003c/a>, which passed the committee unanimously, would give some of those poorly-insured, low- and middle-income homeowners rebuilding after a natural disaster a break from the state’s solar-panel building requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would exempt homeowners at or below the median income for their county from the state’s building codes that require new solar on homes if they’re damaged or destroyed in a natural disaster. The legislation, which would expire in 2028, also would limit the benefit to those who don’t have an insurance plan that would cover the costs of the upgrade to new solar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where it faces an uncertain future. Last year, that committee killed a similar bill by Republican Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/jim-patterson-119\">Jim Patterson\u003c/a> of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Patterson, no relation, told CalMatters he expects his bill, which is coauthored by the Fresno Republican, to make it through the committee this time since it doesn’t contain funding for a study like last year’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin)\"]‘$25,000 to build solar onto a house where people do not have solar is 100% an impediment to rebuilding.’[/pullquote]It’s another matter whether Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign it if the bill is also approved in the Senate and reaches his desk. In 2022, Newsom vetoed a similar bill, citing the need for solar power to reduce greenhouse gases that are a contributing factor for wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/01/california-solar-demand-plummets/\">Solar power\u003c/a> is a critical part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2021-03/california-releases-report-charting-path-100-percent-clean-electricity\">state’s ambitious goal\u003c/a> to achieve 90% carbon-free electricity by 2035 and 100% by 2045. Large-scale and rooftop solar is projected to prove more than half of the grid’s power by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extending this exemption would nullify these positive outcomes and instead would increase homeowner energy costs at a time when many homeowners are facing rising electric rates and bills,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-1078-VETO.pdf?emrc=bded57\">Newsom wrote in his veto message (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about this latest bill, Newsom’s press office responded that the governor doesn’t typically comment on pending legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Patterson said he hopes Newsom would support this bill, given that it’s more narrow than the one he vetoed in 2022, and because some Caldor Fire victims with poor insurance say they never received \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-01/wildfire-survivors-decry-lack-of-fema-aid\">federal disaster relief cash to help them rebuild\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982889\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982889\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/102523-Paradise-Rebuild-AP-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/102523-Paradise-Rebuild-AP-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/102523-Paradise-Rebuild-AP-CM-02-copy-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/102523-Paradise-Rebuild-AP-CM-02-copy-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/102523-Paradise-Rebuild-AP-CM-02-copy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/102523-Paradise-Rebuild-AP-CM-02-copy-1536x863.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets over Valley Ridge Drive in Paradise, Butte County, on Oct. 26, 2023. Empty lots, homes under construction and residences built after the Camp Fire line the street. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the insurance crisis in California’s wildfire country has only gotten worse since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the devastating wildfire seasons of 2017 and 2018, private insurance companies have been dropping policies for hundreds of thousands of Californians, forcing many to join the state’s home insurer of last resort known as FAIR plan or risk going uninsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, State Farm announced it wasn’t renewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/state-filing-shows-california-zip-codes-where-state-farm-plans-to-drop-policy-holders\">72,000 California home and apartment policies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257724?t=1381&f=e9a00eed954ce559cf08ecd40c56158e\">testimony before the Natural Resources Committee\u003c/a>, Patterson said his district has seen skyrocketing numbers of constituents on the FAIR Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1991404,science_1985611\"]“In 2019, we had roughly 8,100 households covered by the FAIR Plan in my district,” Joe Patterson told the committee. “Now, in 2023, we have 41,000 people covered by the FAIR Plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the FAIR plan, at most, will only pay 10% of the costs to upgrade a destroyed home to the most current building codes including mandatory solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that 10% coverage really won’t go very far, especially to cover a solar system that costs about $25,000,” Patterson told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"cm-leg-card cm-leg-card-padding\">\n\u003cp>As Patterson testified, sitting beside him was El Dorado County Supervisor George Turnboo. His district includes Grizzly Flats, which was torched in the Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The costly burden on the Caldor Fire survivors trying to rebuild their lives is not worth the minimal benefit solar technology provides them in a very high snow and forest region,” Turnboo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their arguments resonated with the 11 members of the Natural Resources Committee, including eight Democrats, who voted to pass the bill over objections from the solar industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the very sympathetic plight that some of these folks are in,” said Kim Stone, a lobbyist for \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/people/926\">the California Solar and Storage Association\u003c/a>. “But we don’t exempt them from other building code upgrade requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A California Republican’s bill would exempt low- and middle-income wildfire victims from solar panels requirements on rebuilt homes that didn’t have them when they burned down.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713036969,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":904},"headData":{"title":"California Requires Solar Panels on New Homes. 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