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Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Monday that aims to improve the survival rates of Black and Indigenous people and their babies during childbirth in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black people were six times more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than white women from 2014 to 2016 and had a higher rate of death than Black women nationally from 2014 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Black and Native American babies die at a rate \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB65\">more than double the state average\u003c/a>. Black birthing people die at more than three times the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 65, also known as the California Momnibus Act, will collect more details about pregnancy-related deaths, diversify the experts looking at that data and require them to recommend ways to reduce racial and socioeconomic gaps. It also would expand access to doulas and midwives, whose presence can drive better care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every individual deserves to have a healthy pregnancy and birth, and this bill will help make this a reality for more California families,” Newsom said in a press release. “It is unacceptable that the maternal and infant mortality rate among Black and Indigenous communities remains significantly higher than the state average.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 65, co-authored by Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, formalizes a committee that is tasked with investigating every death of a birthing person and allows for voluntary interviews of family members to better understand what happened. It also looks into pregnancy-related deaths among members of the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gov. Newsom’s signing SB 65, the California Momnibus Act, represents a significant victory for Black maternal and infant health. Despite our medical advances, more U.S. babies and mothers die during birth than in all other high-income countries, and these preventable deaths are disproportionately higher for Black families,” said Skinner, who is also vice chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus. “With the enactment of SB 65, California will help close racial disparities in maternal and infant deaths and save lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also increases Medi-Cal coverage to a full year postpartum. Previously, birthing people in lower-income families were kicked off Medi-Cal, California's version of the federal Medicaid program, two months after giving birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This bill affirms here in California these kinds of disparities in our maternal and infant outcomes will no longer be tolerated,\" said state Assemblymember Dr. Akilah Weber, D-San Diego, another co-author of SB 65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See the signing below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/mTDSMNyUNrQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Sept. 27, 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has among the lowest death rates nationally among pregnant and birthing people, but the numbers for Black people in those populations tell a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were six times more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than white women from 2014 to 2016 and had a higher rate of death than Black women nationally from 2014 to 2017, the most recent time frame for which data is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jen Flory, Western Center on Law and Poverty\"]'It is going to take a serious investment and resources, whether that means providing every Black mother a doula or really investigating what’s happening when Black mothers die.'[/pullquote]A bill before Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to change that. Nicknamed the “Momnibus” bill, it would collect more details about pregnancy-related deaths, diversify the experts looking at that data and require them to recommend ways to reduce racial gaps. It also would expand access to doulas and midwives, whose presence can drive better care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want to address the issue, it is going to take a serious investment and resources, whether that means providing every Black mother a doula or really investigating what’s happening when Black mothers die,” said Jen Flory, policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, which supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom backed past efforts to improve care for Black pregnant people by requiring implicit bias training for health care workers involved in perinatal care, and he’s made support for women and new birthing people a priority for his administration. But his Department of Finance opposes the bill because the $6.7 million price tag for expanded data collection wasn’t included in the state budget. Newsom hasn’t said whether he’ll sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among wealthy nations, the United States ranks poorly in death rates of birthing people, and California’s effort is part of a national push to improve outcomes. Back in 2020, Democratic legislators on Capitol Hill introduced the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, which received the support of then-Senator Kamala Harris. But the bill never got a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his campaign, President Joe Biden lauded California’s efforts to reduce deaths, and in April he recognized Black Maternal Health Week.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThere are two ways to track deaths: The mortality rate for birthing people, used globally, counts deaths during pregnancy and within 42 days of giving birth. The pregnancy-related mortality rate, used in California and some other states, tracks deaths within a year of giving birth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks at both, though data lags and isn’t available to compare across states for the latter measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the California Department of Public Health released a report tracking California’s outcomes from 2008 to 2016. Deaths of birthing people within a year of pregnancy hit a low in 2012, with fewer than 10 per 100,000 live births. It ticked up to about 14 deaths in 2016, slightly behind the national rate of almost 17 deaths. Using the mortality rate of birthing people, California ranked only behind Illinois for lowest death rates in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kimberly D. Gregory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\"]'There is a disparity between Black and white women and it’s not getting better.'[/pullquote]But the rate for Black birthing people was far higher. From 2014 to 2016 in California, about 56 Black birthing people died per 100,000 live births, compared to 13 Asian, 11 Latina and fewer than 10 white birthing people. Nationally, Black birthing people died at a rate of nearly 42 per 100,000 live births from 2014 to 2017. California’s Black birthing people died at six times the rate of white birthing people, up from three times the rate in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is there is a disparity between Black and white women and it’s not getting better,” said Kimberly D. Gregory, director of maternal fetal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and a former member of California’s pregnancy surveillance committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee plans to release data on pregnancy-related deaths through 2020 by next year. It relies on grant funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 65, authored by Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB65\">aims to write the committee into state law\u003c/a> and strengthen its data collection and duties. It would require the committee to have 13 members, including doctors, midwives, doulas and community advocates and would include a tribal representative. According to the bill's text, California’s Native American infant mortality rate is 11.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is far above the state’s average of 4.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the committee's current members are doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee would investigate every death of a birthing person and allow for voluntary interviews of family members to better understand what happened. The committee would have to publish its findings and recommendations every three years. It would also look into pregnancy-related deaths among members of the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can make better decisions about prevention, intervention, systems changes, not only at the hospital level but at the community level,” said Mashariki Kudumu, director of maternal and infant health initiatives for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marchofdimes.org/news/march-of-dimes-greater-los-angeles-division-board.aspx\">March of Dimes, Greater Los Angeles\u003c/a>, which is a co-sponsor of the bill. “What comes with diverse and different perspectives are better changes to systems that improve care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudumu is also trained as a doula. Newsom in his state budget made doulas a covered benefit under Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for lower-income people, following states including New York and Illinois. Doulas are trained to assist and advocate for birthing people in pregnancy and during and after birth. Research shows their presence reduces pregnancy complications and low birthweight in babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='health-equity']The benefit takes effect next year, and the bill before Newsom would establish a group to study its use. The proposal also expands training for midwives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudumu said she’s helped birthing people stick to their birthing plans in the face of pressure from doctors and provided them with nursing and lactation support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows the value from personal experience. When Kudumu delivered her son prematurely, she felt disrespected by the doctor because she’s a Black woman who was on Medi-Cal at the time while she was in graduate school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudumu had to fight to ensure her son got breastmilk instead of formula while he was in the newborn intensive care unit. She remembers the doctor’s attitude changing when another doula at the hospital came up to greet her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that this resource, that evidence shows improves health outcomes, is more accessible to people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original reporting for this post was from Kathleen Ronayne of the The Associated Press. KQED's April Dembosky contributed reporting to the updates.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"SB 65 formalizes a committee that is tasked with investigating every death of a birthing person and allows for voluntary interviews of family members to better understand what happened. 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It also looks into pregnancy-related deaths among members of the LGBTQ+ community.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New California Law Aims to Help More Black and Indigenous People Survive Childbirth","datePublished":"2021-10-04T20:40:10.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-04T23:11:05.000Z","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"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11889997 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11889997","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/04/new-momnibus-bill-wants-to-help-more-black-moms-survive-childbirth/","disqusTitle":"New California Law Aims to Help More Black and Indigenous People Survive Childbirth","path":"/news/11889997/new-momnibus-bill-wants-to-help-more-black-moms-survive-childbirth","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Oct. 4, 2021, 2:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Monday that aims to improve the survival rates of Black and Indigenous people and their babies during childbirth in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black people were six times more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than white women from 2014 to 2016 and had a higher rate of death than Black women nationally from 2014 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Black and Native American babies die at a rate \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB65\">more than double the state average\u003c/a>. Black birthing people die at more than three times the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 65, also known as the California Momnibus Act, will collect more details about pregnancy-related deaths, diversify the experts looking at that data and require them to recommend ways to reduce racial and socioeconomic gaps. It also would expand access to doulas and midwives, whose presence can drive better care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every individual deserves to have a healthy pregnancy and birth, and this bill will help make this a reality for more California families,” Newsom said in a press release. “It is unacceptable that the maternal and infant mortality rate among Black and Indigenous communities remains significantly higher than the state average.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 65, co-authored by Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, formalizes a committee that is tasked with investigating every death of a birthing person and allows for voluntary interviews of family members to better understand what happened. It also looks into pregnancy-related deaths among members of the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gov. Newsom’s signing SB 65, the California Momnibus Act, represents a significant victory for Black maternal and infant health. Despite our medical advances, more U.S. babies and mothers die during birth than in all other high-income countries, and these preventable deaths are disproportionately higher for Black families,” said Skinner, who is also vice chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus. “With the enactment of SB 65, California will help close racial disparities in maternal and infant deaths and save lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also increases Medi-Cal coverage to a full year postpartum. Previously, birthing people in lower-income families were kicked off Medi-Cal, California's version of the federal Medicaid program, two months after giving birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This bill affirms here in California these kinds of disparities in our maternal and infant outcomes will no longer be tolerated,\" said state Assemblymember Dr. Akilah Weber, D-San Diego, another co-author of SB 65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See the signing below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mTDSMNyUNrQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mTDSMNyUNrQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Sept. 27, 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has among the lowest death rates nationally among pregnant and birthing people, but the numbers for Black people in those populations tell a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were six times more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than white women from 2014 to 2016 and had a higher rate of death than Black women nationally from 2014 to 2017, the most recent time frame for which data is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It is going to take a serious investment and resources, whether that means providing every Black mother a doula or really investigating what’s happening when Black mothers die.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jen Flory, Western Center on Law and Poverty","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A bill before Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to change that. Nicknamed the “Momnibus” bill, it would collect more details about pregnancy-related deaths, diversify the experts looking at that data and require them to recommend ways to reduce racial gaps. It also would expand access to doulas and midwives, whose presence can drive better care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want to address the issue, it is going to take a serious investment and resources, whether that means providing every Black mother a doula or really investigating what’s happening when Black mothers die,” said Jen Flory, policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, which supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom backed past efforts to improve care for Black pregnant people by requiring implicit bias training for health care workers involved in perinatal care, and he’s made support for women and new birthing people a priority for his administration. But his Department of Finance opposes the bill because the $6.7 million price tag for expanded data collection wasn’t included in the state budget. Newsom hasn’t said whether he’ll sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among wealthy nations, the United States ranks poorly in death rates of birthing people, and California’s effort is part of a national push to improve outcomes. Back in 2020, Democratic legislators on Capitol Hill introduced the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, which received the support of then-Senator Kamala Harris. But the bill never got a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his campaign, President Joe Biden lauded California’s efforts to reduce deaths, and in April he recognized Black Maternal Health Week.\u003cbr>\n\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>\u003cbr>\nThere are two ways to track deaths: The mortality rate for birthing people, used globally, counts deaths during pregnancy and within 42 days of giving birth. The pregnancy-related mortality rate, used in California and some other states, tracks deaths within a year of giving birth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks at both, though data lags and isn’t available to compare across states for the latter measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the California Department of Public Health released a report tracking California’s outcomes from 2008 to 2016. Deaths of birthing people within a year of pregnancy hit a low in 2012, with fewer than 10 per 100,000 live births. It ticked up to about 14 deaths in 2016, slightly behind the national rate of almost 17 deaths. Using the mortality rate of birthing people, California ranked only behind Illinois for lowest death rates in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There is a disparity between Black and white women and it’s not getting better.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Kimberly D. Gregory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the rate for Black birthing people was far higher. From 2014 to 2016 in California, about 56 Black birthing people died per 100,000 live births, compared to 13 Asian, 11 Latina and fewer than 10 white birthing people. Nationally, Black birthing people died at a rate of nearly 42 per 100,000 live births from 2014 to 2017. California’s Black birthing people died at six times the rate of white birthing people, up from three times the rate in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is there is a disparity between Black and white women and it’s not getting better,” said Kimberly D. Gregory, director of maternal fetal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and a former member of California’s pregnancy surveillance committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee plans to release data on pregnancy-related deaths through 2020 by next year. It relies on grant funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 65, authored by Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB65\">aims to write the committee into state law\u003c/a> and strengthen its data collection and duties. It would require the committee to have 13 members, including doctors, midwives, doulas and community advocates and would include a tribal representative. According to the bill's text, California’s Native American infant mortality rate is 11.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is far above the state’s average of 4.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the committee's current members are doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee would investigate every death of a birthing person and allow for voluntary interviews of family members to better understand what happened. The committee would have to publish its findings and recommendations every three years. It would also look into pregnancy-related deaths among members of the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can make better decisions about prevention, intervention, systems changes, not only at the hospital level but at the community level,” said Mashariki Kudumu, director of maternal and infant health initiatives for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marchofdimes.org/news/march-of-dimes-greater-los-angeles-division-board.aspx\">March of Dimes, Greater Los Angeles\u003c/a>, which is a co-sponsor of the bill. “What comes with diverse and different perspectives are better changes to systems that improve care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudumu is also trained as a doula. Newsom in his state budget made doulas a covered benefit under Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for lower-income people, following states including New York and Illinois. Doulas are trained to assist and advocate for birthing people in pregnancy and during and after birth. Research shows their presence reduces pregnancy complications and low birthweight in babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"health-equity"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The benefit takes effect next year, and the bill before Newsom would establish a group to study its use. The proposal also expands training for midwives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudumu said she’s helped birthing people stick to their birthing plans in the face of pressure from doctors and provided them with nursing and lactation support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows the value from personal experience. When Kudumu delivered her son prematurely, she felt disrespected by the doctor because she’s a Black woman who was on Medi-Cal at the time while she was in graduate school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudumu had to fight to ensure her son got breastmilk instead of formula while he was in the newborn intensive care unit. She remembers the doctor’s attitude changing when another doula at the hospital came up to greet her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that this resource, that evidence shows improves health outcomes, is more accessible to people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original reporting for this post was from Kathleen Ronayne of the The Associated Press. KQED's April Dembosky contributed reporting to the updates.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\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":"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/11889997/new-momnibus-bill-wants-to-help-more-black-moms-survive-childbirth","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_28272","news_29948","news_26042","news_16","news_18543","news_23823","news_27960","news_2605","news_19743","news_3673","news_19960"],"featImg":"news_11890051","label":"news"},"news_11871064":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11871064","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11871064","score":null,"sort":[1619442062000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"east-bay-tenant-land-trust-buy-foreclosed-home-in-early-test-of-new-california-law","title":"East Bay Grandmother Facing Eviction Joins Forces With Land Trust to Buy Her Home — Thanks to New Law","publishDate":1619442062,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An East Bay woman who was facing eviction got a reprieve this week after a community land trust was able to purchase the home she was renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of five and grandmother of three made history as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868037/grandma-challenges-real-estate-giant-in-early-test-of-new-california-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early test case\u003c/a> of a new California law designed to get more homes out of the hands of corporations and into the hands of homeowners. Now her new home will remain permanently affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jocelyn Foreman\"]'This house was so important to me. It was my opportunity to break the cycle, for myself and for my children.'[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 1079\u003c/a> — signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year — allows tenants of foreclosed homes, nonprofits and local governments an exclusive 45-day window to match the winning bid at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jocelyn Foreman had never expected to become a homeowner. The Berkeley native and her five children had been homeless for the better part of the past 20 years, couch surfing with relatives. She said she felt stuck in a cycle of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all of that changed in the fall of 2018, when she found an affordable home to rent in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This house was so important to me,\" she said Friday. \"It was my opportunity to break the cycle, for myself and for my children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11871098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman speaks during a signing ceremony and celebration at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley on April 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that house went into foreclosure last year after her landlord had trouble paying the mortgage. The foreclosure was delayed due to the pandemic, so the house didn't go to auction until March of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winning bid was for $600,000. It had been made by Wedgewood Inc., a Southern California-based real estate flipper that specializes in flipping distressed homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company drew national scrutiny in late 2019 when a group of Black, homeless mothers occupied a vacant house in West Oakland that Wedgewood had purchased at a foreclosure auction. The occupiers, who called themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, sought to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said had led to rising rents and growing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868037/grandma-challenges-real-estate-giant-in-early-test-of-new-california-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED investigation\u003c/a> found that despite the controversy, a global pandemic and mass unemployment, Wedgewood continued to buy homes across California — scooping up at least 276 properties through a network of shell companies between the start of the pandemic in mid-March 2020 and March of this year. All but 15 of those properties were single-family homes, like the three-bedroom home Foreman was renting in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Wedgewood CEO Greg Geiser said he didn't know much about Foreman's house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All we know is we bought a house, and it is occupied,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether the company planned to evict Foreman or keep her on as a tenant, Geiser said in an interview with KQED they would do their best to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It sounds like this woman is in a special situation, and we will deal with her,\" he said. \"We will come to a resolution with this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foreman doesn't have to worry now about what that resolution would entail, or about being forced to leave the house. SB 1079 gave Foreman a fighting chance to buy the house herself — but not without help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11871099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, speaks next to Jocelyn Foreman during a signing ceremony and celebration at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley on April 23, 2021. Skinner introduced and passed SB 1079. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After finding out about the foreclosure, she reached out to the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a nonprofit legal aid organization that helped put her in touch with the Northern California Land Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]When Foreman came to the trust for help purchasing the home, it seemed like a long shot, said Francis McIlveen, director of real estate for the land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're a nonprofit. We don't have cash,\" he said. \"We had three weeks to get $600,000.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foreman's community of supporters — including many parents and teachers from the Berkeley Unified School District, where Foreman works — came through. More than 900 donors contributed \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly $176,000\u003c/a> to her campaign, which helped enable the land trust to secure the financing it needed to purchase the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the deal, the land trust will maintain ownership of the property until Foreman can qualify for a traditional mortgage. At that time, she'll have the opportunity to purchase the home. The land underneath the house will remain with the trust, so that if Foreman ever moves out or decides to sell, it will be sold at an affordable price to the next buyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McIlveen said a deal like this would not normally have been possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11871100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman hugs her sister Janice Adam during a signing ceremony and celebration at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley on April 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"This was a unicorn of a case,\" McIlveen said, \"because of who she is, because of the network of people around her, because of how much support she has in this community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To ensure SB 1079 is truly effective, McIlveen said it needs to come with funding so more would-be homeowners could benefit from the law. The trust, along with other land trusts across the state, is lobbying for $103.5 million in this year's budget to help finance purchases like Foreman's house in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Foreman, her days of couch surfing with relatives are over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're here now,\" she said. \"I have a home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jocelyn Foreman made history as an early test case of a new state law designed to get more homes out of the hands of corporations and into the hands of homeowners.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1619479650,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":957},"headData":{"title":"East Bay Grandmother Facing Eviction Joins Forces With Land Trust to Buy Her Home — Thanks to New Law | KQED","description":"Jocelyn Foreman made history as an early test case of a new state law designed to get more homes out of the hands of corporations and into the hands of homeowners.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"East Bay Grandmother Facing Eviction Joins Forces With Land Trust to Buy Her Home — Thanks to New Law","datePublished":"2021-04-26T13:01:02.000Z","dateModified":"2021-04-26T23:27:30.000Z","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"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11871064 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11871064","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/04/26/east-bay-tenant-land-trust-buy-foreclosed-home-in-early-test-of-new-california-law/","disqusTitle":"East Bay Grandmother Facing Eviction Joins Forces With Land Trust to Buy Her Home — Thanks to New Law","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2021/04/BaldassariJocelynsHouse.mp3","path":"/news/11871064/east-bay-tenant-land-trust-buy-foreclosed-home-in-early-test-of-new-california-law","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An East Bay woman who was facing eviction got a reprieve this week after a community land trust was able to purchase the home she was renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of five and grandmother of three made history as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868037/grandma-challenges-real-estate-giant-in-early-test-of-new-california-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early test case\u003c/a> of a new California law designed to get more homes out of the hands of corporations and into the hands of homeowners. Now her new home will remain permanently affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This house was so important to me. It was my opportunity to break the cycle, for myself and for my children.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jocelyn Foreman","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 1079\u003c/a> — signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year — allows tenants of foreclosed homes, nonprofits and local governments an exclusive 45-day window to match the winning bid at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jocelyn Foreman had never expected to become a homeowner. The Berkeley native and her five children had been homeless for the better part of the past 20 years, couch surfing with relatives. She said she felt stuck in a cycle of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all of that changed in the fall of 2018, when she found an affordable home to rent in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This house was so important to me,\" she said Friday. \"It was my opportunity to break the cycle, for myself and for my children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11871098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48796_035_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman speaks during a signing ceremony and celebration at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley on April 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that house went into foreclosure last year after her landlord had trouble paying the mortgage. The foreclosure was delayed due to the pandemic, so the house didn't go to auction until March of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winning bid was for $600,000. It had been made by Wedgewood Inc., a Southern California-based real estate flipper that specializes in flipping distressed homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company drew national scrutiny in late 2019 when a group of Black, homeless mothers occupied a vacant house in West Oakland that Wedgewood had purchased at a foreclosure auction. The occupiers, who called themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, sought to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said had led to rising rents and growing 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>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868037/grandma-challenges-real-estate-giant-in-early-test-of-new-california-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED investigation\u003c/a> found that despite the controversy, a global pandemic and mass unemployment, Wedgewood continued to buy homes across California — scooping up at least 276 properties through a network of shell companies between the start of the pandemic in mid-March 2020 and March of this year. All but 15 of those properties were single-family homes, like the three-bedroom home Foreman was renting in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Wedgewood CEO Greg Geiser said he didn't know much about Foreman's house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All we know is we bought a house, and it is occupied,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether the company planned to evict Foreman or keep her on as a tenant, Geiser said in an interview with KQED they would do their best to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It sounds like this woman is in a special situation, and we will deal with her,\" he said. \"We will come to a resolution with this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foreman doesn't have to worry now about what that resolution would entail, or about being forced to leave the house. SB 1079 gave Foreman a fighting chance to buy the house herself — but not without help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11871099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48780_018_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, speaks next to Jocelyn Foreman during a signing ceremony and celebration at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley on April 23, 2021. Skinner introduced and passed SB 1079. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After finding out about the foreclosure, she reached out to the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a nonprofit legal aid organization that helped put her in touch with the Northern California Land Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"affordable-housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Foreman came to the trust for help purchasing the home, it seemed like a long shot, said Francis McIlveen, director of real estate for the land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're a nonprofit. We don't have cash,\" he said. \"We had three weeks to get $600,000.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foreman's community of supporters — including many parents and teachers from the Berkeley Unified School District, where Foreman works — came through. More than 900 donors contributed \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly $176,000\u003c/a> to her campaign, which helped enable the land trust to secure the financing it needed to purchase the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the deal, the land trust will maintain ownership of the property until Foreman can qualify for a traditional mortgage. At that time, she'll have the opportunity to purchase the home. The land underneath the house will remain with the trust, so that if Foreman ever moves out or decides to sell, it will be sold at an affordable price to the next buyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McIlveen said a deal like this would not normally have been possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11871100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48783_021_Berkeley_JocelynForemanSigningCeremony_04232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman hugs her sister Janice Adam during a signing ceremony and celebration at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley on April 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"This was a unicorn of a case,\" McIlveen said, \"because of who she is, because of the network of people around her, because of how much support she has in this community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To ensure SB 1079 is truly effective, McIlveen said it needs to come with funding so more would-be homeowners could benefit from the law. The trust, along with other land trusts across the state, is lobbying for $103.5 million in this year's budget to help finance purchases like Foreman's house in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Foreman, her days of couch surfing with relatives are over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're here now,\" she said. \"I have a home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11871064/east-bay-tenant-land-trust-buy-foreclosed-home-in-early-test-of-new-california-law","authors":["11652"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_24805","news_18538","news_27626","news_1775","news_29389","news_3673","news_26225","news_29083"],"featImg":"news_11871096","label":"news"},"news_11832742":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11832742","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11832742","score":null,"sort":[1597090471000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-lafayette-approve-controversial-yimby-housing-a-decade-in-the-making","title":"Lafayette Again Delays Decision to Approve Controversial 'YIMBY' Housing, After a Decade-Long Process","publishDate":1597090471,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:35 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> It’s been voted down, legally challenged, backed by voter referendum, and stalled for years, like a car spinning its wheels in mud. Now, a 315-unit apartment development in Lafayette that became a statewide rallying cry for the Yes In My Back Yard movement will spin its wheels a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to approve The Terraces development was delayed by the Lafayette City Council after a seven-hour marathon meeting that stretched from Monday night into early Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lafayette City Council said they needed more time to fully discuss concerns aired by neighbors, many of whom claimed the proposed apartments would bring crippling traffic congestion, increase the risk of wildfire, and imperil the movement of emergency vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jeremy Levine, a Lafayette resident and co-founder of the group Inclusive Lafayette, said those concerns have been proven untrue by Lafayette city staff, and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Lafayette City Council pushed their decision down the road, public commenters and city staff warned Lafayette would be open to lawsuit under the Housing Accountability Act – and $15 million in possible fines – should they fail to approve the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Fierce of housing advocacy group California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, or CaRLA said, “Lafayette may no longer choose between housing or no housing. You may decide between housing and consequences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lafayette City Council will continue its discussion of The Terraces development August 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 1:00 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore a single brick has even been laid, \u003ca href=\"https://www.terracesoflafayette.com\">The Terraces\u003c/a>, a proposed 315-unit apartment development in Lafayette, became a flash point for discussion around the housing crisis in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2015 legal battle over the project helped define the \"Yes In My Backyard,\" or YIMBY, movement. The movement, and the activists behind it, have made a name for themselves by \"suing the suburbs\" like Lafayette, in a bid to push California to \"build, build, build\" its way out of the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly a decade after the project first entered the public sphere, The Terraces finally faces approval Monday night from the Lafayette City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Cameron Burks appealed the project after it was approved July 1 by the Lafayette Planning Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lafayette City Councilmember Cameron Burks\"]\"I felt that this particular project was such profound importance to the city that really the community deserved to have their elected officials make the final decision.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks, who recently announced his reelection campaign, said he brought it to the City Council so the body could put itself on record about The Terraces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt that this particular project was such profound importance to the city that really the community deserved to have their elected officials make the final decision,\" Burks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Terraces has drawn rebuke from some neighbors, particularly a group called \u003ca href=\"http://savelafayette.org\">Save Lafayette\u003c/a>, who publicly say the dense housing project will clog local roads with traffic congestion, ruin the city's \"semi-rural\" character and is out of touch with Lafayette writ-large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is home to roughly 26,000 people, according to the Census Bureau, and is often touted as an idyllic refuge for people who don't wish to live the urban life of nearby Oakland or San Francisco, which are only a BART ride away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the project has its detractors, neighbors have come to its defense in recent years, as well. Inclusive Lafayette's co-founder, Jeremy Levine, said his group's more than 450 members believe The Terraces project won't add to the city's traffic congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, because the project is less than a mile from BART, Levine says that many living in The Terraces won't need a car at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-800x498.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A project rendering of The Terraces, a proposed 315-unit apartment development project in Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terraces of Lafayette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Compared to almost anywhere else in Lafayette, it's almost as close as you can get for walkability purposes,\" Levine said. \"The rest of the community is built on winding roads, squeezed into the hills. And you kind of have to drive if you plan to get anywhere. The Terraces are not that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project has had a tumultuous ride. After developer O'Brien Land Company sought to change a sloping open space into apartments, and it drew community resistance, Lafayette officials sought to turn the project into 44 single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a group called called SF BARF, which was a precursor to the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, sued the city for abandoning the apartment development in 2015. Save Lafayette then sued the city, which led to a June 2018 ballot measure. That was defeated by Lafayette voters, leading to the return of The Terraces and the proposal for over 300 apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the turmoil over the project also led to the high-profile resignation of former Lafayette City Manager Steven Falk. In a public letter to the City Council in 2018, he drew attention to the connection between the need for all communities to build denser housing and preventing climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Fierce is director of operations at the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, or CaRLA, which brought suit to compel The Terraces project to move forward. That legal challenge depended on the state's Housing Accountability Act of 1982 — which in theory, protects certain types of housing developments from being challenged by local governments across California, but in reality, was rarely enforced previous to CaRLA's challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Lafayette legal wrangling began, various efforts at the state level led by state Sens. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and others have strengthened the Housing Accountability Act and other related laws to compel cities to build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of that lawsuit, the original lawsuit, it brought about a bunch of changes to the Housing Accountability Act,\" Fierce said, including increasing the burden on jurisdictions that reject housing, changing standards projects must comply with to favor developers and making attorney fees more available. \"Not only did it change the law, but it really drove it home that now people are starting to fight it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11825550,news_11801176,news_11731580\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's harder for cities to fight these things,\" Fierce added, because now \"pretty much anybody can file a lawsuit against the city for unlawful denial of the housing project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that strengthened California cities' incentive to build more housing statewide, it also means that for its final go-round in city planning processes, Lafayette officials may face potential legal challenges should they say \u003cem>no \u003c/em>to The Terraces project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While councilmember Burks said he is neutral on The Terraces project, he said the state's ability to roll back local control over land-use decisions rankles him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not believe that Sacramento should manage a city's planning process or planning function using what I've called the '70-mile-screwdriver,' \" Burks told KQED. He noted Lafayette is roughly 70 miles from Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener noted that California's \"debilitating housing crisis\" will \"only be solved if communities pitch in and all housing to be built.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lafayette may not like being told what to do, but without state rules, our housing crisis will only get worse,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The vote to approve The Terraces development was delayed by the Lafayette City Council after a seven-hour marathon meeting that stretched into early Tuesday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1597163355,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1235},"headData":{"title":"Lafayette Again Delays Decision to Approve Controversial 'YIMBY' Housing, After a Decade-Long Process | KQED","description":"The vote to approve The Terraces development was delayed by the Lafayette City Council after a seven-hour marathon meeting that stretched into early Tuesday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Lafayette Again Delays Decision to Approve Controversial 'YIMBY' Housing, After a Decade-Long Process","datePublished":"2020-08-10T20:14:31.000Z","dateModified":"2020-08-11T16:29:15.000Z","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"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11832742 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11832742","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/08/10/will-lafayette-approve-controversial-yimby-housing-a-decade-in-the-making/","disqusTitle":"Lafayette Again Delays Decision to Approve Controversial 'YIMBY' Housing, After a Decade-Long Process","path":"/news/11832742/will-lafayette-approve-controversial-yimby-housing-a-decade-in-the-making","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:35 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> It’s been voted down, legally challenged, backed by voter referendum, and stalled for years, like a car spinning its wheels in mud. Now, a 315-unit apartment development in Lafayette that became a statewide rallying cry for the Yes In My Back Yard movement will spin its wheels a little longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to approve The Terraces development was delayed by the Lafayette City Council after a seven-hour marathon meeting that stretched from Monday night into early Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lafayette City Council said they needed more time to fully discuss concerns aired by neighbors, many of whom claimed the proposed apartments would bring crippling traffic congestion, increase the risk of wildfire, and imperil the movement of emergency vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jeremy Levine, a Lafayette resident and co-founder of the group Inclusive Lafayette, said those concerns have been proven untrue by Lafayette city staff, and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Lafayette City Council pushed their decision down the road, public commenters and city staff warned Lafayette would be open to lawsuit under the Housing Accountability Act – and $15 million in possible fines – should they fail to approve the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Fierce of housing advocacy group California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, or CaRLA said, “Lafayette may no longer choose between housing or no housing. You may decide between housing and consequences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lafayette City Council will continue its discussion of The Terraces development August 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 1:00 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore a single brick has even been laid, \u003ca href=\"https://www.terracesoflafayette.com\">The Terraces\u003c/a>, a proposed 315-unit apartment development in Lafayette, became a flash point for discussion around the housing crisis in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2015 legal battle over the project helped define the \"Yes In My Backyard,\" or YIMBY, movement. The movement, and the activists behind it, have made a name for themselves by \"suing the suburbs\" like Lafayette, in a bid to push California to \"build, build, build\" its way out of the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly a decade after the project first entered the public sphere, The Terraces finally faces approval Monday night from the Lafayette City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Cameron Burks appealed the project after it was approved July 1 by the Lafayette Planning Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"I felt that this particular project was such profound importance to the city that really the community deserved to have their elected officials make the final decision.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lafayette City Councilmember Cameron Burks","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks, who recently announced his reelection campaign, said he brought it to the City Council so the body could put itself on record about The Terraces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt that this particular project was such profound importance to the city that really the community deserved to have their elected officials make the final decision,\" Burks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Terraces has drawn rebuke from some neighbors, particularly a group called \u003ca href=\"http://savelafayette.org\">Save Lafayette\u003c/a>, who publicly say the dense housing project will clog local roads with traffic congestion, ruin the city's \"semi-rural\" character and is out of touch with Lafayette writ-large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is home to roughly 26,000 people, according to the Census Bureau, and is often touted as an idyllic refuge for people who don't wish to live the urban life of nearby Oakland or San Francisco, which are only a BART ride away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the project has its detractors, neighbors have come to its defense in recent years, as well. Inclusive Lafayette's co-founder, Jeremy Levine, said his group's more than 450 members believe The Terraces project won't add to the city's traffic congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, because the project is less than a mile from BART, Levine says that many living in The Terraces won't need a car at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-800x498.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/20190327091526171_Page_1-e1597087659178.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A project rendering of The Terraces, a proposed 315-unit apartment development project in Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terraces of Lafayette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Compared to almost anywhere else in Lafayette, it's almost as close as you can get for walkability purposes,\" Levine said. \"The rest of the community is built on winding roads, squeezed into the hills. And you kind of have to drive if you plan to get anywhere. The Terraces are not that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project has had a tumultuous ride. After developer O'Brien Land Company sought to change a sloping open space into apartments, and it drew community resistance, Lafayette officials sought to turn the project into 44 single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a group called called SF BARF, which was a precursor to the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, sued the city for abandoning the apartment development in 2015. Save Lafayette then sued the city, which led to a June 2018 ballot measure. That was defeated by Lafayette voters, leading to the return of The Terraces and the proposal for over 300 apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the turmoil over the project also led to the high-profile resignation of former Lafayette City Manager Steven Falk. In a public letter to the City Council in 2018, he drew attention to the connection between the need for all communities to build denser housing and preventing climate change.\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>Victoria Fierce is director of operations at the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, or CaRLA, which brought suit to compel The Terraces project to move forward. That legal challenge depended on the state's Housing Accountability Act of 1982 — which in theory, protects certain types of housing developments from being challenged by local governments across California, but in reality, was rarely enforced previous to CaRLA's challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Lafayette legal wrangling began, various efforts at the state level led by state Sens. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and others have strengthened the Housing Accountability Act and other related laws to compel cities to build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of that lawsuit, the original lawsuit, it brought about a bunch of changes to the Housing Accountability Act,\" Fierce said, including increasing the burden on jurisdictions that reject housing, changing standards projects must comply with to favor developers and making attorney fees more available. \"Not only did it change the law, but it really drove it home that now people are starting to fight it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11825550,news_11801176,news_11731580","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's harder for cities to fight these things,\" Fierce added, because now \"pretty much anybody can file a lawsuit against the city for unlawful denial of the housing project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that strengthened California cities' incentive to build more housing statewide, it also means that for its final go-round in city planning processes, Lafayette officials may face potential legal challenges should they say \u003cem>no \u003c/em>to The Terraces project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While councilmember Burks said he is neutral on The Terraces project, he said the state's ability to roll back local control over land-use decisions rankles him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not believe that Sacramento should manage a city's planning process or planning function using what I've called the '70-mile-screwdriver,' \" Burks told KQED. He noted Lafayette is roughly 70 miles from Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener noted that California's \"debilitating housing crisis\" will \"only be solved if communities pitch in and all housing to be built.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lafayette may not like being told what to do, but without state rules, our housing crisis will only get worse,\" he said.\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/11832742/will-lafayette-approve-controversial-yimby-housing-a-decade-in-the-making","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_255","news_1775","news_21487","news_3673","news_25160","news_1217","news_25161"],"featImg":"news_11832821","label":"news"},"news_11829235":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11829235","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11829235","score":null,"sort":[1594874631000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-aiming-to-diversify-jury-pools","title":"State Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Aiming to Diversify Jury Pools","publishDate":1594874631,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced the Fair Juries Act on Wednesday, which aims to make jury pools in court trials more racially and socioeconomically diverse by including all state tax filers in those summoned for service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, prospective jurors are currently reached by using Department of Motor Vehicle data and voter registration lists. According to the authors of the bill, these sources skew whiter, wealthier and overall less diverse than California’s overall demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our juries now in California are wealthier and whiter than California residents as a whole, and certainly wealthier and whiter than most of the people who they are sitting there to judge,” said State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who co-authored the bill, in a press conference Wednesday.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley\"]'Our juries now in California are wealthier and whiter than California residents as a whole, and certainly wealthier and whiter than most of the people who they are sitting there to judge.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's current jury summoning process leaves out segments of the state’s population that don't vote or have DMV-issued identification. This could exclude people for a number of reasons — from people who have moved since last updating their information, to those in urban areas without a car. Tax filings, on the other hand, are updated yearly and would broaden the pool to include anyone who filed for a refund or state earned income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don't have a jury of your peers, a jury that is truly a cross-section of our diverse communities, then it is very hard for someone accused of a crime to get a fair trial,” Wiener said during a press conference. Wiener said the bill, SB 592, would create a fairer process by diversifying the jury pool, and acknowledged that jury selection is just one piece of the “dysfunctional puzzle” of the state’s criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/racial_and_ethnic_disparities_in_alameda_county_jury_pools.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies\u003c/a> have long shown that the state’s jury pools fail to reflect its demographics. The system is overdue for a change, according to Oscar Bobrow, the Chief Deputy Public Defender in Solano County. Thirty-three states use additional lists outside of voter and DMV data, and 17 of which already use tax filer data to summon jurors, Bobrow added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The failure to use additional lists is an intentional act, in my opinion, by jury commissioners not to want to expand the jury pool,\" Bobrow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"jury, law\" label=\"More Related Stories\"] In California, \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/159/323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 1984 court case\u003c/a> looking at the underrepresentation of African Americans in Martinez’ juries resulted in a ruling that acknowledged this disparity. However, the court ruled it constitutional since the two lists themselves aren't intentionally exclusive. This ruling went on to be the standard in similar challenges in California courts going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The legislation attempts to address this historic position of the California Supreme Court,\" Bobrow said, and acknowledge that the two lists, \"based on social science data and empirical data\" provide an underrepresentation of minority populations serving on juries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which is sponsored by The California Public Defenders Association, will be considered when the state Legislature reconvenes in late July.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The proposed legislation aims to make jury pools in court trials more racially and socioeconomically diverse by including state tax filers in those summoned for service.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1594874631,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":547},"headData":{"title":"State Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Aiming to Diversify Jury Pools | KQED","description":"The proposed legislation aims to make jury pools in court trials more racially and socioeconomically diverse by including state tax filers in those summoned for service.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"State Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Aiming to Diversify Jury Pools","datePublished":"2020-07-16T04:43:51.000Z","dateModified":"2020-07-16T04:43:51.000Z","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"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11829235 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11829235","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/07/15/state-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-aiming-to-diversify-jury-pools/","disqusTitle":"State Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Aiming to Diversify Jury Pools","source":"News","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/","path":"/news/11829235/state-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-aiming-to-diversify-jury-pools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced the Fair Juries Act on Wednesday, which aims to make jury pools in court trials more racially and socioeconomically diverse by including all state tax filers in those summoned for service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, prospective jurors are currently reached by using Department of Motor Vehicle data and voter registration lists. According to the authors of the bill, these sources skew whiter, wealthier and overall less diverse than California’s overall demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our juries now in California are wealthier and whiter than California residents as a whole, and certainly wealthier and whiter than most of the people who they are sitting there to judge,” said State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who co-authored the bill, in a press conference Wednesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Our juries now in California are wealthier and whiter than California residents as a whole, and certainly wealthier and whiter than most of the people who they are sitting there to judge.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's current jury summoning process leaves out segments of the state’s population that don't vote or have DMV-issued identification. This could exclude people for a number of reasons — from people who have moved since last updating their information, to those in urban areas without a car. Tax filings, on the other hand, are updated yearly and would broaden the pool to include anyone who filed for a refund or state earned income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don't have a jury of your peers, a jury that is truly a cross-section of our diverse communities, then it is very hard for someone accused of a crime to get a fair trial,” Wiener said during a press conference. Wiener said the bill, SB 592, would create a fairer process by diversifying the jury pool, and acknowledged that jury selection is just one piece of the “dysfunctional puzzle” of the state’s criminal justice system.\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>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/racial_and_ethnic_disparities_in_alameda_county_jury_pools.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies\u003c/a> have long shown that the state’s jury pools fail to reflect its demographics. The system is overdue for a change, according to Oscar Bobrow, the Chief Deputy Public Defender in Solano County. Thirty-three states use additional lists outside of voter and DMV data, and 17 of which already use tax filer data to summon jurors, Bobrow added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The failure to use additional lists is an intentional act, in my opinion, by jury commissioners not to want to expand the jury pool,\" Bobrow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"jury, law","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> In California, \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/159/323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 1984 court case\u003c/a> looking at the underrepresentation of African Americans in Martinez’ juries resulted in a ruling that acknowledged this disparity. However, the court ruled it constitutional since the two lists themselves aren't intentionally exclusive. This ruling went on to be the standard in similar challenges in California courts going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The legislation attempts to address this historic position of the California Supreme Court,\" Bobrow said, and acknowledge that the two lists, \"based on social science data and empirical data\" provide an underrepresentation of minority populations serving on juries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which is sponsored by The California Public Defenders Association, will be considered when the state Legislature reconvenes in late July.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11829235/state-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-aiming-to-diversify-jury-pools","authors":["11367","11523"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17725","news_4306","news_4742","news_3673","news_1217"],"featImg":"news_11829243","label":"source_news_11829235"},"arts_13874382":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13874382","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13874382","score":null,"sort":[1580867056000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-senator-introduces-legislation-to-protect-live-work-and-warehouse-residences","title":"State Senator Introduces Legislation to Protect Live-Work and Warehouse Residences","publishDate":1580867056,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State Senator Introduces Legislation to Protect Live-Work and Warehouse Residences | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>State Sen. Nancy Skinner on Monday introduced legislation designed to promote safety in California live-work and warehouse residences while protecting tenants from displacement. [aside postID=news_11764921]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 906\u003c/a>, co-sponsored by the City of Oakland, would give property owners more time to correct non-life-threatening violations that could otherwise motivate them to evict tenants, and also update state live-work code that effectively outlaws many communal residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation aims to support live-work and warehouse residences popular among artists and musicians. The Dec. 2016 Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 at an unpermitted warehouse venue and residence in East Oakland brought intense scrutiny to such alternative cohousing spaces, prompting many property owners to displace tenants instead of addressing substandard conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, who represents the 9th Senate District in the East Bay, said in a statement that current law gives California cities little flexibility to work with property owners and tenants in such situations. Officials often have a difficult choice between red-tagging buildings, forcing eviction; mandating upgrades that render the housing unaffordable for current tenants; or ignoring potentially hazardous conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s housing crisis demands that we give cities the tools they need to protect existing housing while making it safer, especially live-work and warehouse spaces,” Skinner said. “SB 906 is a necessary tool to protect and retain live-work and warehouse residences.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan also offered statements supporting the legislation for fostering collaboration between city officials and property owners. This legislation, if passed, could help continue Oakland’s legacy of communal artist housing and workspace. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed bill amends one section of California’s health and safety code and adds another. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment removes what Skinner and live-work advocates call a woefully outdated restriction on the number of residents allowed to share “joint living and working quarters” (currently, four unrelated persons). The addition allows owners of buildings deemed code-deficient to request an enforcement delay of as many as seven years if the violations don’t threaten building occupants’ health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland live-work architect Thomas Dolan, who co-founded the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://saferdiyspaces.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Safer DIY Spaces\u003c/a> after the Ghost Ship fire, said in an interview that removing the state limit on live-work residents would help clear a path to legalization for many spaces he’s visited as a consultant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Dolan also urged Oakland city officials to reinstate a more comprehensive municipal live-work code they removed after the Ghost Ship fire; Dolan helped author the code. “That’s putting a dead stop on DIY’s ability to do its job,” he said of its removal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1='https://www.kqed.org/ourturbulentdecade/2016-evictions-and-the-ghost-ship-fire-pushed-oakland-artists-into-the-margins,Evictions, Ghost Ship Fire Pushed Oakland Artists to Margins']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently any live-work space with more than four residents must pursue a conditional-use permit to exceed the state limit, an expensive and costly process with no guarantee of success. Safer DIY Spaces director David Keenan said such a permit should be unnecessary: “It should be by-right, if we believe housing is a human right.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolan also supports SB 906’s efforts to ease the way for property owners to correct non-life-threatening building violations for the sake of retaining affordable housing for current tenants. Oakland already has a similarly aimed “compliance plan” program, he pointed out, that would be strengthened in tenants’ favor by increasing the amount of time property owners have to address violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolan points out that the legislation doesn’t draw a clear distinction between habitability issues, for example, a window slightly narrower than modern building standards require, and immediate life-safety risks. “Life safety no one should compromise on—that needs immediate addressing,” Dolan said. “But the nuance between that and a habitability shortcoming is being overlooked here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is recognized as a hub of commercial and warehouse property adapted by artists for residential, performance and fabrication purposes. But climbing rent and competition for commercial space have in recent years threatened the often unspoken agreements between landlords and residential tenants of buildings not technically approved or suitable for residential habitation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dec. 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire, which broke out during an electronic music event, intensified pressure on unpermitted live-work and warehouse residences. Oakland officials identified unpermitted residences and instructed many owners to “discontinue residential use,” even in the absence of life-threatening conditions. Other property owners moved to evict warehouse tenants proactively amid the possibility of civil liability for Ghost Ship’s landlord, Chor Ng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a long and proud history of fostering affordable joint living and work spaces, especially for our vibrant arts and maker communities,” Schaaf, the mayor of Oakland, said in a statement. “But as a city, we must also ensure that people have safe, affordable housing, and are not forced onto the streets and into homelessness.” \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Senate Bill 906, co-sponsored by the City of Oakland, promotes safety in live-work and warehouse residences while protecting tenants from displacement. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021358,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":861},"headData":{"title":"State Senator Introduces Legislation to Protect Live-Work and Warehouse Residences | KQED","description":"Senate Bill 906, co-sponsored by the City of Oakland, promotes safety in live-work and warehouse residences while protecting tenants from displacement. 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The Dec. 2016 Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 at an unpermitted warehouse venue and residence in East Oakland brought intense scrutiny to such alternative cohousing spaces, prompting many property owners to displace tenants instead of addressing substandard conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, who represents the 9th Senate District in the East Bay, said in a statement that current law gives California cities little flexibility to work with property owners and tenants in such situations. Officials often have a difficult choice between red-tagging buildings, forcing eviction; mandating upgrades that render the housing unaffordable for current tenants; or ignoring potentially hazardous conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s housing crisis demands that we give cities the tools they need to protect existing housing while making it safer, especially live-work and warehouse spaces,” Skinner said. “SB 906 is a necessary tool to protect and retain live-work and warehouse residences.” \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>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan also offered statements supporting the legislation for fostering collaboration between city officials and property owners. This legislation, if passed, could help continue Oakland’s legacy of communal artist housing and workspace. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed bill amends one section of California’s health and safety code and adds another. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment removes what Skinner and live-work advocates call a woefully outdated restriction on the number of residents allowed to share “joint living and working quarters” (currently, four unrelated persons). The addition allows owners of buildings deemed code-deficient to request an enforcement delay of as many as seven years if the violations don’t threaten building occupants’ health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland live-work architect Thomas Dolan, who co-founded the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://saferdiyspaces.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Safer DIY Spaces\u003c/a> after the Ghost Ship fire, said in an interview that removing the state limit on live-work residents would help clear a path to legalization for many spaces he’s visited as a consultant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Dolan also urged Oakland city officials to reinstate a more comprehensive municipal live-work code they removed after the Ghost Ship fire; Dolan helped author the code. “That’s putting a dead stop on DIY’s ability to do its job,” he said of its removal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"link1":"https://www.kqed.org/ourturbulentdecade/2016-evictions-and-the-ghost-ship-fire-pushed-oakland-artists-into-the-margins,Evictions, Ghost Ship Fire Pushed Oakland Artists to Margins","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently any live-work space with more than four residents must pursue a conditional-use permit to exceed the state limit, an expensive and costly process with no guarantee of success. 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Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. Skinner also shares stories of her college activism, working on criminal justice reform with former Gov. 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The rest of the money — $950 per month in Lam's case at the time — goes to the government to repay the public for those safety net programs that his children's mother received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt like, what's the point of working?\" Lam, 36, said recently as he waited for his daughters, ages 5 and 10, to arrive at his Vallejo home. \"They're taking all the money. I still had to pay for my kids' food, clothes and all this other stuff, but it just seemed impossible to do all of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='State Sen. Nancy Skinner, who is trying to change state child support laws']'It's like we're trying to get blood from a turnip, blood from a stone.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, Lam owed much more more than his monthly $1,000 child support payment. Because he’d fallen behind on payments, the state was charging him 10% interest. All told, he owed around $6,000; if he didn’t pay, he could lose his driver’s license, or even go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://tippingpoint.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Payback-Problem.pdf\">Studies\u003c/a> show that 70% of child support debt in California is owed to the government, and much of it is owed by very low-income parents. The median annual income of parents paying child support in California is about $14,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, those parents paid nearly $370 million in child support to the government. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/relief-government-owed-child-support-debt-and-its-effects-parents-and-children\">new study released Monday\u003c/a> by the Urban Institute found that the debt isn't only hurting the parents: It's impacting their relationship with their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's so absurd,\" said State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Oakland, who wants to change state child support laws. \"It's like we're trying to get blood from a turnip, blood from a stone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jamie Austin, Tipping Point Community']'This is really tearing families apart psychologically.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>Skinner is pushing a bill this year that would increase the amount of child support that goes to families. Under \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB337\">SB337\u003c/a>, families with one kid would get $100 a month instead of $50, and families with two ore more children would receive $200. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1092\">Another bill\u003c/a> would eliminate the interest charged on child support debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner's bill was initially more ambitious, calling for 100% of child support payments to flow to families. But lawmakers in the Senate watered it down, concerned it would cost the state too much money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Skinner said, even the more modest amounts could make a huge difference. She noted that for a parent working for minimum wage, a few hundred dollars every month is a lot of money, and for families living in poverty, every extra cent can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='childhood-poverty' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If most of the child support payment goes to the government, \"what's the motivation to pay?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The studies show that if we can assure the parent who has to pay that the money is actually going to his children, the more likely he is to be willing to pay,\" said Skinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the Urban Institute study, a group of anti-poverty organizations helped to pay down the child care debt of 32 mothers and fathers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/relief-government-owed-child-support-debt-and-its-effects-parents-and-children\">The study\u003c/a> found that the debt relief made significant impacts on the lives of the parents who owed the money as well as their children, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The parents consistently paid their monthly child support payments on time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The parents' credit scores, housing status and overall financial situations improved, and they were more likely to be able to get a job.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The parents' relationships with their children and their co-parents improved.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>That last benefit is as important as the financial gains, said Jamie Austin at Tipping Point Community, a non-profit that helped fund Urban Institute's study. Austin said the research showed that many parents, both the ones paying and the ones who are supposed to receive child support, were unaware of how the system works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is really tearing families apart psychologically,\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong> Austin said. \"We heard stories of mothers and fathers avoiding each other, always arguing about money ... because of these financial troubles that really had nothing to do with the family and everything to do with the government policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam was one of the participants in the debt relief study, and he said the change was dramatic. He was able to lower his monthly payments to a more affordable amount — $560 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of debt and lower payments freed Lam up to spend money on his daughters when they are with him, which he said is nearly half of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love my kids. They changed my life. They made me a better man ... The hard earned money I do make, I want that to go toward my kids. I have no problem paying child support,\" he said. \"But it should be fair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Correction Aug. 20: The original version of this story said child support payments reimburse welfare and food stamp programs. In fact, parents' payments do not pay back food stamps, but they do pay back Medi-Cal.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some 250,000 families in California receive only $50 per month in child support because they're on government assistance. 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The rest of the money — $950 per month in Lam's case at the time — goes to the government to repay the public for those safety net programs that his children's mother received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt like, what's the point of working?\" Lam, 36, said recently as he waited for his daughters, ages 5 and 10, to arrive at his Vallejo home. \"They're taking all the money. I still had to pay for my kids' food, clothes and all this other stuff, but it just seemed impossible to do all of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's like we're trying to get blood from a turnip, blood from a stone.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"State Sen. 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The median annual income of parents paying child support in California is about $14,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, those parents paid nearly $370 million in child support to the government. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/relief-government-owed-child-support-debt-and-its-effects-parents-and-children\">new study released Monday\u003c/a> by the Urban Institute found that the debt isn't only hurting the parents: It's impacting their relationship with their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's so absurd,\" said State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Oakland, who wants to change state child support laws. \"It's like we're trying to get blood from a turnip, blood from a stone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This is really tearing families apart psychologically.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jamie Austin, Tipping Point Community","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>Skinner is pushing a bill this year that would increase the amount of child support that goes to families. Under \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB337\">SB337\u003c/a>, families with one kid would get $100 a month instead of $50, and families with two ore more children would receive $200. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1092\">Another bill\u003c/a> would eliminate the interest charged on child support debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner's bill was initially more ambitious, calling for 100% of child support payments to flow to families. But lawmakers in the Senate watered it down, concerned it would cost the state too much money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Skinner said, even the more modest amounts could make a huge difference. She noted that for a parent working for minimum wage, a few hundred dollars every month is a lot of money, and for families living in poverty, every extra cent can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"childhood-poverty","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If most of the child support payment goes to the government, \"what's the motivation to pay?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The studies show that if we can assure the parent who has to pay that the money is actually going to his children, the more likely he is to be willing to pay,\" said Skinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the Urban Institute study, a group of anti-poverty organizations helped to pay down the child care debt of 32 mothers and fathers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/relief-government-owed-child-support-debt-and-its-effects-parents-and-children\">The study\u003c/a> found that the debt relief made significant impacts on the lives of the parents who owed the money as well as their children, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The parents consistently paid their monthly child support payments on time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The parents' credit scores, housing status and overall financial situations improved, and they were more likely to be able to get a job.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The parents' relationships with their children and their co-parents improved.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>That last benefit is as important as the financial gains, said Jamie Austin at Tipping Point Community, a non-profit that helped fund Urban Institute's study. Austin said the research showed that many parents, both the ones paying and the ones who are supposed to receive child support, were unaware of how the system works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is really tearing families apart psychologically,\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong> Austin said. \"We heard stories of mothers and fathers avoiding each other, always arguing about money ... because of these financial troubles that really had nothing to do with the family and everything to do with the government policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam was one of the participants in the debt relief study, and he said the change was dramatic. He was able to lower his monthly payments to a more affordable amount — $560 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of debt and lower payments freed Lam up to spend money on his daughters when they are with him, which he said is nearly half of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love my kids. They changed my life. They made me a better man ... The hard earned money I do make, I want that to go toward my kids. I have no problem paying child support,\" he said. \"But it should be fair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Correction Aug. 20: The original version of this story said child support payments reimburse welfare and food stamp programs. In fact, parents' payments do not pay back food stamps, but they do pay back Medi-Cal.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11768419/for-low-income-parents-most-child-support-goes-to-the-state-not-the-kids","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_26253","news_22569","news_2043","news_23333","news_19542","news_2960","news_3673","news_23596","news_17041","news_18176"],"featImg":"news_11768542","label":"news_72"},"news_11759223":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11759223","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11759223","score":null,"sort":[1562357287000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"should-college-athletes-profit-from-their-prowess-california-may-say-yes-ncaa-says-no","title":"Should College Athletes Profit From Their Prowess? California May Say Yes, NCAA Says No","publishDate":1562357287,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Hayley Hodson’s volleyball career took off when she was still in high school, with an invitation to compete on the U.S. Women’s National Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Hayley Hodson, former member of Stanford volleyball team']'My dreams of playing in the Olympics are over. It has been a devastating and difficult, not to mention expensive, journey.'[/pullquote]As she traveled the world winning medals, the Newport Beach student took care not to run afoul of NCAA eligibility rules barring prospective college athletes from accepting financial compensation, her sights still set on playing for a top school. She turned down an endorsement deal with a sunglasses brand and the stipend offered to her teammates, she says, telling herself there would be time later to play professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later never came for Hodson, who suffered a career-ending head injury on the court during her freshman year at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dreams of playing in the Olympics are over,” Hodson, 22, said in an email. “It has been a devastating and difficult, not to mention expensive, journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how Hodson found herself testifying this spring in the California Senate in support of the “Fair Pay to Play Act,” which would allow student athletes to profit from the use of their name, image or likeness. Authored by Sen. Nancy Skinner, the bill would directly contradict NCAA policies enforcing amateurism in college sports, and is the latest front in an ongoing battle over student athlete compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past controversies have focused on whether men’s football and basketball stars should share in the revenue they generate for what has become a multi-billion-dollar college sports industry. Skinner, however, is making the novel argument that the students most likely to benefit from her bill are those on the lower rungs of the athletic-industrial complex — female athletes, those in low-profile sports, and even community college players. Those students, she says, often don’t receive athletic scholarships and might never go pro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While they’re in college is the time when their reputation is the largest, their athletic prowess is the greatest, and they haven’t been injured yet,” Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11756875']The NCAA set up a working group in May to study whether to change its policies on paid endorsements, and the University of California, California State University, and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities — the trade group representing the state’s private colleges — have all come out against Skinner’s proposal. The schools cite concerns that their athletes could be barred from competition if California takes action before the NCAA finishes its review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also raised another fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allowing student-athletes to receive compensation from outside sponsors would jeopardize the University’s existing sponsorship agreements, leading to budget cuts ... ,” the university’s legislative director wrote in a letter to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A lawsuit by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon over the use of his likeness without compensation led to a 2015 court ruling that the NCAA must allow schools to cover athletes’ full cost of attendance. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lawsuit by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon over the use of his likeness without compensation led to a 2015 court ruling that the NCAA must allow schools to cover athletes’ full cost of attendance. \u003ccite>(Jack Rosenfeld via Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sports are big business at the University of California and other colleges with Division 1 teams. The two highest-earning employees at UC in 2017 were athletic coaches, each making more than $2.5 million that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some athletes “don’t have enough money to go home and see their family, yet they see their coaches driving away in $100,000 cars,” said Eddie Comeaux, a professor of higher education at UC Riverside who studies college athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon over the use of his likeness in a video game without compensation led to a 2015 court ruling that the NCAA must allow schools to cover athletes’ full cost of attendance. Scholarships now can include books, transportation and unlimited meal plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every athlete benefits, though. Just over half of Division 1 players receive athletic scholarships, according to the NCAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Nancy Lough, University of Nevada Las Vegas professor']'I don’t see that these athletes are going to get wealthy because this bill is passed.'[/pullquote]At California’s community colleges, football players from around the country flock to a separate league, hoping to be noticed by a Division 1 recruiter while they work on their academic or athletic qualifications. Out-of-state students pay higher tuition at community colleges, as much as $7,000 per year depending on the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first it was real tough, you know, not being on a scholarship, having to pay for everything out here already,” said BJ Williams, a defensive back who relocated from Florida to play at Mt. San Antonio College. “That’s a lot of money out of pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he shared a three-bedroom apartment with six other students to save on rent. His football schedule, he said, didn’t allow time for a part-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner argues that Williams and other less-high-profile athletes could earn sponsorships from their hometown businesses if her bill passes. If they’re lucky enough to star in a video that goes viral — like UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi did earlier this year — they could monetize that. The bill would prevent colleges or the NCAA from taking action against athletes who pursue such opportunities, or who contract with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how many of those opportunities would actually pan out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got the rare cases, like [former Duke basketball player] Zion Williamson, where companies would be lined up,” said Nancy Lough, a University of Nevada Las Vegas professor and former collegiate coach who studies gender and marketing in college sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beyond that, I think we’re talking small potatoes here. There may be a local car dealership where the community really resonates with the athlete and they decide to sponsor them. I don’t see that these athletes are going to get wealthy because this bill is passed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='BJ Williams, a defensive back who relocated from Florida to play at Mt. San Antonio College']'At first it was real tough, you know, not being on a scholarship, having to pay for everything out here already.'[/pullquote]Probably the biggest impact if the legislation passes, said Lough, is that “NCAA committees would get busier and more intentional on deciding how they’re actually going to deal with this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’d have time: The measure wouldn’t take effect until 2023. It is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly’s higher education committee July 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing comes after NCAA President Mark Emmert wrote to another Assembly committee, urging it to delay the bill. The legislation “threatens to alter materially the principles of intercollegiate athletics and create local differences that would make it impossible to host fair national championships,” Emmert wrote in what some saw as a veiled threat to exclude California teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee passed SB 206 anyway, but staffers added an unusually vivid warning to the typically — dry legislative analysis that accompanies each bill. “Beyond this,” they wrote, “there be dragons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Student journalist Andres Soto of CALmatters’ Cost of College project contributed reporting. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The bill would directly contradict NCAA policies enforcing amateurism in college sports, and is the latest front in an ongoing battle over student athlete compensation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1562359008,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1282},"headData":{"title":"Should College Athletes Profit From Their Prowess? 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California May Say Yes, NCAA Says No","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org","nprByline":"\u003cstrong> Felicia Mello\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11759223/should-college-athletes-profit-from-their-prowess-california-may-say-yes-ncaa-says-no","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hayley Hodson’s volleyball career took off when she was still in high school, with an invitation to compete on the U.S. Women’s National Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'My dreams of playing in the Olympics are over. It has been a devastating and difficult, not to mention expensive, journey.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Hayley Hodson, former member of Stanford volleyball team","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As she traveled the world winning medals, the Newport Beach student took care not to run afoul of NCAA eligibility rules barring prospective college athletes from accepting financial compensation, her sights still set on playing for a top school. She turned down an endorsement deal with a sunglasses brand and the stipend offered to her teammates, she says, telling herself there would be time later to play professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later never came for Hodson, who suffered a career-ending head injury on the court during her freshman year at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dreams of playing in the Olympics are over,” Hodson, 22, said in an email. “It has been a devastating and difficult, not to mention expensive, journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how Hodson found herself testifying this spring in the California Senate in support of the “Fair Pay to Play Act,” which would allow student athletes to profit from the use of their name, image or likeness. Authored by Sen. Nancy Skinner, the bill would directly contradict NCAA policies enforcing amateurism in college sports, and is the latest front in an ongoing battle over student athlete compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past controversies have focused on whether men’s football and basketball stars should share in the revenue they generate for what has become a multi-billion-dollar college sports industry. Skinner, however, is making the novel argument that the students most likely to benefit from her bill are those on the lower rungs of the athletic-industrial complex — female athletes, those in low-profile sports, and even community college players. Those students, she says, often don’t receive athletic scholarships and might never go pro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While they’re in college is the time when their reputation is the largest, their athletic prowess is the greatest, and they haven’t been injured yet,” Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11756875","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The NCAA set up a working group in May to study whether to change its policies on paid endorsements, and the University of California, California State University, and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities — the trade group representing the state’s private colleges — have all come out against Skinner’s proposal. The schools cite concerns that their athletes could be barred from competition if California takes action before the NCAA finishes its review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC also raised another fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allowing student-athletes to receive compensation from outside sponsors would jeopardize the University’s existing sponsorship agreements, leading to budget cuts ... ,” the university’s legislative director wrote in a letter to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A lawsuit by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon over the use of his likeness without compensation led to a 2015 court ruling that the NCAA must allow schools to cover athletes’ full cost of attendance. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07052019_Ed-OBannon_NCAA_Fair-Pay-to-Play-Act_college-athletes_university-athletes_Nancy-Skinner-qut.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lawsuit by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon over the use of his likeness without compensation led to a 2015 court ruling that the NCAA must allow schools to cover athletes’ full cost of attendance. \u003ccite>(Jack Rosenfeld via Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sports are big business at the University of California and other colleges with Division 1 teams. The two highest-earning employees at UC in 2017 were athletic coaches, each making more than $2.5 million that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some athletes “don’t have enough money to go home and see their family, yet they see their coaches driving away in $100,000 cars,” said Eddie Comeaux, a professor of higher education at UC Riverside who studies college athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon over the use of his likeness in a video game without compensation led to a 2015 court ruling that the NCAA must allow schools to cover athletes’ full cost of attendance. Scholarships now can include books, transportation and unlimited meal plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every athlete benefits, though. Just over half of Division 1 players receive athletic scholarships, according to the NCAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I don’t see that these athletes are going to get wealthy because this bill is passed.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nancy Lough, University of Nevada Las Vegas professor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At California’s community colleges, football players from around the country flock to a separate league, hoping to be noticed by a Division 1 recruiter while they work on their academic or athletic qualifications. Out-of-state students pay higher tuition at community colleges, as much as $7,000 per year depending on the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first it was real tough, you know, not being on a scholarship, having to pay for everything out here already,” said BJ Williams, a defensive back who relocated from Florida to play at Mt. San Antonio College. “That’s a lot of money out of pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he shared a three-bedroom apartment with six other students to save on rent. His football schedule, he said, didn’t allow time for a part-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner argues that Williams and other less-high-profile athletes could earn sponsorships from their hometown businesses if her bill passes. If they’re lucky enough to star in a video that goes viral — like UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi did earlier this year — they could monetize that. The bill would prevent colleges or the NCAA from taking action against athletes who pursue such opportunities, or who contract with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how many of those opportunities would actually pan out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got the rare cases, like [former Duke basketball player] Zion Williamson, where companies would be lined up,” said Nancy Lough, a University of Nevada Las Vegas professor and former collegiate coach who studies gender and marketing in college sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beyond that, I think we’re talking small potatoes here. There may be a local car dealership where the community really resonates with the athlete and they decide to sponsor them. 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