Thousands of people are homeless in San Francisco, and even more throughout the Bay Area. Despite years of concern and millions of dollars of investment, the problem persists.
Who are the people who live on the streets and on the edge of homelessness? Why have we failed to create lasting change? And are there solutions that offer hope for the future? As part of a collaboration with dozens of Bay Area news organizations, KQED is exploring these questions, and more.
Illegal Love: A Ugandan Refugee's California Dream
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Homeless in California—What the Data Reveals
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Inside One of Oakland's 'Tuff Shed' Homeless Communities
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Just a year earlier, in 2011, David Kato, a teacher and one of Uganda’s most outspoken LGBTQ rights activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/27/ugandan-gay-rights-activist-murdered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had been hammered to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This same violent outrage met Sseguya when he was discovered by his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it was morning time, a lot of people came out of their homes. [They] were chanting, ‘Let us kill them, let us kill them!’\" he recalls. “When we locked ourselves in the house, people wanted to burn down the house. They destroyed almost everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlord begged protesters not to burn down the house, but to call the police instead. 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Additionally, he could not get his business license renewed because of his sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, life became so stressful for Sseguya that he decided to take a break and visit the U.S. It was there he learned that the Ugandan police issued a warrant for his arrest because he had failed to report to the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend… he’s the one who told me, ‘You know what? Don’t come back,’” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing for his life, Sseguya decided to seek political asylum in California. But four years after his arrival in Los Angeles, he is still wary of revealing too much to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even here in California, a state almost two times the size of Uganda, he has not escaped homophobia in the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People they always want to know: 'Why? Why? Why?’” he says. “At the end of the day, it’s none of their business. It’s your business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persecution is not the only reason Sseguya is guarded. Not only did he lose his family, his partner, and his job, but here in Los Angeles, he is homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got here, I had some money,” he describes. “Then, the person I was living with kicked me out because I had no money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explains why our interviews took place inside his friend’s battered old minivan. It took him a while to admit it, but this is where he lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To survive, Sseguya wakes up at the break of dawn every day, collects scrap, and backs up the van to the recycling bins at a swap meet in Van Nuys. He manages to scrape together around $300 each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the circumstances, he does not complain. Instead, he is grateful to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to live my life to the fullest, the way I wanted to be,” he said. “I chose what was best for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sseguya now sets his sights on becoming a defense attorney to fight for people’s rights, he has a long journey ahead. First, he has to secure his political asylum by proving what happened to him in Uganda. In the meantime, he has to survive financially and try to get off the streets, in the hopes that one day he will be able to live openly as a gay man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, I have hope,” he said. “As long as I’m still alive, I have hope that one day I can make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only then can he make his California dream a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with an advanced reporting class at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Students spent a semester examining what the California Dream means to Angelenos from different walks of life.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Eddris Sseguya can't go back home to Uganda because he is wanted by the police. His crime? Being gay.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1534005753,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":957},"headData":{"title":"Illegal Love: A Ugandan Refugee's California Dream | KQED","description":"Eddris Sseguya can't go back home to Uganda because he is wanted by the police. His crime? 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But on the inside, he knew he was not being honest. He knew he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, that secret cost him everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning, Sseguya and his male partner were kissing in bed. They forgot to close the door, and a neighbor walked in on them.\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>“He started screaming, making noise, ‘You people! Why are you like this? Sseguya recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While same-sex marriage is legal in California, 72 countries still criminalize people who are part of the LGBTQ community, according to a \u003cspan class=\"s1\">2017 report \u003c/span>by the \u003ca href=\"https://ilga.org/state-sponsored-homophobia-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Uganda, homosexuality is illegal and can lead to jail sentences, sometimes for life, for those found guilty.\u003cbr>\nSseguya knew what could happen for loving someone of the same sex. Just a year earlier, in 2011, David Kato, a teacher and one of Uganda’s most outspoken LGBTQ rights activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/27/ugandan-gay-rights-activist-murdered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had been hammered to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This same violent outrage met Sseguya when he was discovered by his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it was morning time, a lot of people came out of their homes. [They] were chanting, ‘Let us kill them, let us kill them!’\" he recalls. “When we locked ourselves in the house, people wanted to burn down the house. They destroyed almost everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlord begged protesters not to burn down the house, but to call the police instead. When the officers arrived, they arrested Sseguya and his partner and put them in a crowded jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police then told the other inmates that the two men were gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immediately after closing, chaos erupted in the cell,” Sseguya remembers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inmates beat and threatened to kill both of them. When the officers came back a few minutes later, Sseguya was bleeding. This was the last time Sseguya saw his partner before they were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sseguya’s family never visited him in jail. “Most of them, they were happy that I [was] in jail, that’s why they didn’t come to see me,” he explains. “If you know somebody who is a gay and you don’t report, you are also taken as a criminal. Maybe that’s why they didn’t show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After one month in jail, a colleague bailed him out. But Sseguya’s ordeal did not end there. He was required to report regularly to authorities. Additionally, he could not get his business license renewed because of his sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, life became so stressful for Sseguya that he decided to take a break and visit the U.S. It was there he learned that the Ugandan police issued a warrant for his arrest because he had failed to report to the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend… he’s the one who told me, ‘You know what? Don’t come back,’” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing for his life, Sseguya decided to seek political asylum in California. But four years after his arrival in Los Angeles, he is still wary of revealing too much to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even here in California, a state almost two times the size of Uganda, he has not escaped homophobia in the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People they always want to know: 'Why? Why? Why?’” he says. “At the end of the day, it’s none of their business. It’s your business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persecution is not the only reason Sseguya is guarded. Not only did he lose his family, his partner, and his job, but here in Los Angeles, he is homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got here, I had some money,” he describes. “Then, the person I was living with kicked me out because I had no money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explains why our interviews took place inside his friend’s battered old minivan. It took him a while to admit it, but this is where he lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To survive, Sseguya wakes up at the break of dawn every day, collects scrap, and backs up the van to the recycling bins at a swap meet in Van Nuys. He manages to scrape together around $300 each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the circumstances, he does not complain. Instead, he is grateful to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to live my life to the fullest, the way I wanted to be,” he said. “I chose what was best for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sseguya now sets his sights on becoming a defense attorney to fight for people’s rights, he has a long journey ahead. First, he has to secure his political asylum by proving what happened to him in Uganda. In the meantime, he has to survive financially and try to get off the streets, in the hopes that one day he will be able to live openly as a gay man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, I have hope,” he said. “As long as I’m still alive, I have hope that one day I can make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only then can he make his California dream a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with an advanced reporting class at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Students spent a semester examining what the California Dream means to Angelenos from different walks of life.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11670826/illegal-love-a-ugandan-refugees-california-dream","authors":["byline_news_11670826"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19491","news_21879"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_20305","news_22681","news_2651","news_82","news_17896","news_4","news_20463","news_6228"],"featImg":"news_11675633","label":"news_72"},"news_11678478":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11678478","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11678478","score":null,"sort":[1530439201000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-a-football-star-in-michigan-to-dead-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco","title":"From a Football Star in Michigan to Dead on the Streets of San Francisco","publishDate":1530439201,"format":"audio","headTitle":"SF Homeless Project | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED's reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q'ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a long, sad week. Here are some stories you might've missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There's always more to the story\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1200x961.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When KQED's Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first met Perry Foster\u003c/a>, Foster was living in a tent on San Francisco's Division Street. His clothes caught Brekke's eye, and his thoughtfulness and frankness about his situation impressed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that fleeting meeting, Brekke learned that Foster had died on the streets. This is also when he learned that the frank, thoughtful homeless man he talked to for 30 minutes in 2016 had once been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star football player\u003c/a> in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brekke ended up talking to friends and family who knew Foster when he led his high school football team in Grand Rapids to a state championship and starred for two seasons at Eastern Michigan. He learned that he struggled academically and ended up leaving school after two years — making stops in Atlanta, Chicago and Southern California before ending up in San Francisco in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned that Foster was gay, a fact which created distance between Foster and his father. He learned that in his 10 years in San Francisco, Foster was arrested several times, jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he heard the love and admiration that people had for Foster — people who knew him as the star football player and people who knew him as a frank and thoughtful homeless man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster's story is one of many KQED told this week as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Homeless Project\u003c/a>, a media collaboration focused on housing affordability, and I highly recommend reading and listening to the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living the queer California Dream\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-375x277.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-520x384.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756.jpg 1827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia A. Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with being an opportunity to party and celebrate our queerness, Pride Month, which just wrapped up, is also an important time to remember the people who struggled to create a more welcoming and accepting world for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia A. Elizondo, aka \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felicia Flames\u003c/a>, is one of those people. She came to San Francisco's Tenderloin in the early 1960s, when it was the center of the city's gay scene. As she puts it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We were jotos, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Moving to San Francisco allowed Felicia to find her true self as a transgender woman, and she is part of the generation who helped pave the way for today's LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'This is the real border'\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_6208-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week long, several KQED reporters have been down at the California-Mexico border, reporting on the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/family-separation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family separation and detention\u003c/a> situation that has infuriated many in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've talked to people trying to cross the border, and they've talked to officials about how they're enforcing the administration's policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for one night, they explored the border the same way so many people do: late at night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under the cover of darkness\u003c/a>, with little knowledge of where they were going or what they would find. It's truly powerful reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who's ready to vote on some statewide ballot measures?!\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians' November ballots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-960x623.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians' November ballots. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With four months to go before Election Day, California voters now know what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statewide propositions\u003c/a> they'll be voting on this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are measures to raise funds for housing and homelessness, as well as to roll back limits on rent control. Voters will also get to decide if California should be split into three different states, if the state should observe daylight saving time year-round and if a 2017 gas tax should be repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measures on lead paint cleanup, local taxes and internet privacy won't be on the ballot, following last-minute negotiations in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677380/is-rent-control-working-and-should-we-have-more-or-less-of-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is rent control working and should we have more or less of it?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Painted Ladies in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Painted Ladies in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(soomness/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those statewide measures appearing on the November ballot could remove limits on rent control that have been around for decades. But would that actually help solve the state's affordable housing crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to be honest — I did not fully understand what rent control even was until \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677380/is-rent-control-working-and-should-we-have-more-or-less-of-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this week's Bay Curious\u003c/a> broke it down for me. It's a complex issue that doesn't have a clear right or wrong answer, which makes this explainer a great place to start your research.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In 1987, Perry Foster led his high school football team in Michigan to a state championship. In 2018, he died on the streets of San Francisco.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1533351514,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":907},"headData":{"title":"From a Football Star in Michigan to Dead on the Streets of San Francisco | KQED","description":"In 1987, Perry Foster led his high school football team in Michigan to a state championship. In 2018, he died on the streets of San Francisco.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11678478 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11678478","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/07/01/from-a-football-star-in-michigan-to-dead-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco/","disqusTitle":"From a Football Star in Michigan to Dead on the Streets of San Francisco","source":"Q'ed Up","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/program/qedup/","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/qed-up/2018/06/QEDUP180701FINAL.mp3","audioTrackLength":396,"path":"/news/11678478/from-a-football-star-in-michigan-to-dead-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco","audioDuration":396000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED's reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q'ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a long, sad week. Here are some stories you might've missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There's always more to the story\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1200x961.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When KQED's Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first met Perry Foster\u003c/a>, Foster was living in a tent on San Francisco's Division Street. His clothes caught Brekke's eye, and his thoughtfulness and frankness about his situation impressed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that fleeting meeting, Brekke learned that Foster had died on the streets. This is also when he learned that the frank, thoughtful homeless man he talked to for 30 minutes in 2016 had once been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star football player\u003c/a> in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brekke ended up talking to friends and family who knew Foster when he led his high school football team in Grand Rapids to a state championship and starred for two seasons at Eastern Michigan. He learned that he struggled academically and ended up leaving school after two years — making stops in Atlanta, Chicago and Southern California before ending up in San Francisco in 2008.\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>He learned that Foster was gay, a fact which created distance between Foster and his father. He learned that in his 10 years in San Francisco, Foster was arrested several times, jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he heard the love and admiration that people had for Foster — people who knew him as the star football player and people who knew him as a frank and thoughtful homeless man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster's story is one of many KQED told this week as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Homeless Project\u003c/a>, a media collaboration focused on housing affordability, and I highly recommend reading and listening to the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living the queer California Dream\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-375x277.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-520x384.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756.jpg 1827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia A. Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with being an opportunity to party and celebrate our queerness, Pride Month, which just wrapped up, is also an important time to remember the people who struggled to create a more welcoming and accepting world for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia A. Elizondo, aka \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felicia Flames\u003c/a>, is one of those people. She came to San Francisco's Tenderloin in the early 1960s, when it was the center of the city's gay scene. As she puts it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We were jotos, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Moving to San Francisco allowed Felicia to find her true self as a transgender woman, and she is part of the generation who helped pave the way for today's LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'This is the real border'\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_6208-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week long, several KQED reporters have been down at the California-Mexico border, reporting on the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/family-separation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family separation and detention\u003c/a> situation that has infuriated many in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've talked to people trying to cross the border, and they've talked to officials about how they're enforcing the administration's policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for one night, they explored the border the same way so many people do: late at night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under the cover of darkness\u003c/a>, with little knowledge of where they were going or what they would find. It's truly powerful reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who's ready to vote on some statewide ballot measures?!\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians' November ballots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-960x623.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians' November ballots. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With four months to go before Election Day, California voters now know what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statewide propositions\u003c/a> they'll be voting on this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are measures to raise funds for housing and homelessness, as well as to roll back limits on rent control. Voters will also get to decide if California should be split into three different states, if the state should observe daylight saving time year-round and if a 2017 gas tax should be repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measures on lead paint cleanup, local taxes and internet privacy won't be on the ballot, following last-minute negotiations in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677380/is-rent-control-working-and-should-we-have-more-or-less-of-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is rent control working and should we have more or less of it?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Painted Ladies in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Painted Ladies in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(soomness/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those statewide measures appearing on the November ballot could remove limits on rent control that have been around for decades. But would that actually help solve the state's affordable housing crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to be honest — I did not fully understand what rent control even was until \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677380/is-rent-control-working-and-should-we-have-more-or-less-of-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this week's Bay Curious\u003c/a> broke it down for me. It's a complex issue that doesn't have a clear right or wrong answer, which makes this explainer a great place to start your research.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11678478/from-a-football-star-in-michigan-to-dead-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco","authors":["11260"],"programs":["news_20407","news_72"],"series":["news_19491"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_22586","news_19542","news_4020","news_20564","news_20268"],"featImg":"news_11678096","label":"source_news_11678478"},"news_11678299":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11678299","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11678299","score":null,"sort":[1530314694000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cartooning-the-needle-sweepers","title":"Cartooning the 'Needle Sweepers'","publishDate":1530314694,"format":"aside","headTitle":"SF Homeless Project | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":19491,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11678302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-800x1717.jpg\" alt=\"Needle Sweepers by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1717\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-800x1717.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-160x343.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-1020x2189.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-559x1200.jpg 559w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-1180x2533.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-960x2061.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-240x515.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-375x805.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles001_FINAL-520x1116.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11678303\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-800x1760.jpg\" alt=\"Needle Sweepers by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1760\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-800x1760.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-160x352.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-1020x2244.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-545x1200.jpg 545w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-1180x2596.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-960x2112.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-240x528.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-375x825.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles002_FINAL-520x1144.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11678304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-800x2290.jpg\" alt=\"Needle Sweepers by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"2290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-800x2290.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-160x458.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-1020x2920.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-419x1200.jpg 419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-1180x3378.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-960x2748.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-240x687.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-375x1073.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/needles003_FINAL-520x1489.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://sfaf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco AIDS Foundation\u003c/a> has information about how you can volunteer to help pick up needles and details about safe injection services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As San Francisco wrestles with the problem of used syringes littering the streets, KQED's cartoonist, Mark Fiore, went along with a needle clean up crew. 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in California. The state has lured runaways looking for sunny skies and progressive values since the early '60s. A lot of kids are fleeing abusive homes or conservative pockets of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When Tyler Cook was growing up in rural Ohio, he idealized San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like my haven in my head,\" says Cook, 24. \"I just knew they had this really high population of homosexuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the youth who are homeless in San Francisco identify as LGBTQ. For most of these kids the sidewalk is a safer place to sleep at night than the homes they fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Only Gay Kid\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Cook reflects back on his childhood, his freckled cheeks flush and his palms begin to sweat. He nervously fidgets and starts talking faster. Cook is the second youngest of nine children. He says his family members slung around homophobic slurs all the time on their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I didn't imagine myself as homeless ever. Like ever in my life.'\u003ccite>Tyler Cook, San Francisco youth\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They use the word like 'fag' like a lot to describe just about everything,\" Cook recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678230\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 691px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11678230 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240.jpg 691w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cook family reunion in 2015 at Creekside Park in Gahanna, Ohio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says he didn't know what to do when he started crushing out on boys in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of my other siblings think like this,\" Cook says. \"Like why do I have these thoughts? Like why does this enter my head?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer he stuffed his feelings, the darker his depression became. Eventually the chubby teen began isolating himself and cutting his arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Broken Bones\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain he was feeling on the inside was compounded by the chaos around him. Cook’s stepdad Jeff was a drug addict who often came home in a rage, beating the youngest children until their bones broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cook was 14 years old, he moved out and dropped out of school. He crashed on his older sister’s couch and started washing dishes at a barbecue restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 951px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11678235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"951\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777.jpg 951w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">19-year-old Tyler Cook making cakes at City Barbecue in Gahanna, Ohio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He stayed in the closet for three more years, and then late one night he made a pact with himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to accept me,\" he affirmed. \"If they’re not, they’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was both surprised and disoriented by his family’s reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom said, 'Oh we knew, honey.' And I'm like, 'That's years of emotional abuse to myself that you could have helped me through with that one statement.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his mother asked him not to kiss boys in front of her, he obliged, but the comment sliced deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Never Imagined Myself as Homeless\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cook was 18, during his very first sexual experience, he contracted HIV. He toiled for a few more years in Ohio, but one morning when he was 21 he posted a message on Facebook to see if he had any friends in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook immediately received a message from an older guy he met online who offered to rent a room to him, fly him to the Bay Area and help Cook find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, he landed in San Francisco and quickly found a job at the Amoura Cafe inside the Westfield Centre downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s my house! Like my rules. It’s my place. I didn’t think I’d ever have one of those.'\u003ccite>Tyler Cook, San Francisco youth\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, living with a man he hardly knew was awkward. The relationship wasn’t explicitly sexual, but Cook sensed there could be strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm like, I've had enough of that in my life,\" Cook recalls saying to himself. \"Thank you. I’m going to do me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Cook found another temporary couch at a friend's house, but when the Westfield Centre raised rent by 25 percent, the Amoura Cafe closed its doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically no job,\" Cook says. \"No place to go. We are back to square one now right here in San Francisco. I didn't imagine myself as homeless ever. Like ever in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Brink\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678239\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2782px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11678239 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2782\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992.jpg 2782w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-160x232.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-800x1159.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-1020x1478.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-828x1200.jpg 828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-1920x2783.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-1180x1710.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-960x1391.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-240x348.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-375x543.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-520x754.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2782px) 100vw, 2782px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Cook outside Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Cook first came to San Francisco, a friend told him about a place that could help him called \u003ca href=\"https://larkinstreetyouth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larkin Street Youth Services\u003c/a>, which offers people under 24 a hot meal, a recreational space, medical care and temporary housing. Cook regularly stopped by the facility's clinic to help him manage his HIV. When he suddenly found himself without a home, he turned to Larkin for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization gave him a voucher for a sketchy hotel for a few nights. Then they found him a bed in a facility for people with HIV. And now they're subsidizing his rent in a residential hotel room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Cook's case manager suggested he go back to school. Cook mentioned that he had a green thumb and used to spend hours in the garden as a kid, but he cringed at the idea of returning to a farm. His case manager suggested genetic engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It never really occurred to me that like, I could go do that!\" Cook exclaims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He enrolled in college prep courses at Larkin, which walked him through the steps to apply for financial aid. Eventually, he was accepted at City College of San Francisco. He recently finished his spring semester with a 3.8 GPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few years, he hopes to transfer to UC Berkeley, where he plans to complete a Ph.D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11678229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Cook is a 24-year-old living in a single occupancy room in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Guzman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Danger Still Lurks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's hard to imagine how his lofty goals could unfold from where he currently lives in the Tenderloin. As he walks to his front door, he has to step around two people injecting heroin and another man huddled over a crack pipe. But when he arrives at his building he proudly looks up at his barred window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my house!\" Cook exclaims. \"Like my rules. It’s my place. I didn’t think I’d ever have one of those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He looks forward to the day when he's paying the rent on his own again. For now, he’s managing his HIV successfully, he's on a career track and he's proud to be gay. All of which impresses his family. He says both his siblings and his mom are proud of him for moving West and dreaming bigger.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tyler Cook, 24, lives on the brink in the Tenderloin neighborhood, but he envisions a big future. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530559225,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1159},"headData":{"title":"Young, Gay ... and Homeless, But Planning a Future in Genetic Engineering | KQED","description":"Tyler Cook, 24, lives on the brink in the Tenderloin neighborhood, but he envisions a big future. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11677973 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11677973","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/29/young-gay-and-homeless-but-planning-a-future-in-genetic-engineering/","disqusTitle":"Young, Gay ... and Homeless, But Planning a Future in Genetic Engineering","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/06/TCRMag20180629bb.mp3","path":"/news/11677973/young-gay-and-homeless-but-planning-a-future-in-genetic-engineering","audioDuration":454000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>About a third of the nation's homeless youth live in California. The state has lured runaways looking for sunny skies and progressive values since the early '60s. A lot of kids are fleeing abusive homes or conservative pockets of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When Tyler Cook was growing up in rural Ohio, he idealized San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like my haven in my head,\" says Cook, 24. \"I just knew they had this really high population of homosexuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the youth who are homeless in San Francisco identify as LGBTQ. For most of these kids the sidewalk is a safer place to sleep at night than the homes they fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Only Gay Kid\u003c/strong>\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>As Cook reflects back on his childhood, his freckled cheeks flush and his palms begin to sweat. He nervously fidgets and starts talking faster. Cook is the second youngest of nine children. He says his family members slung around homophobic slurs all the time on their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I didn't imagine myself as homeless ever. Like ever in my life.'\u003ccite>Tyler Cook, San Francisco youth\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They use the word like 'fag' like a lot to describe just about everything,\" Cook recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678230\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 691px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11678230 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240.jpg 691w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/unnamed-e1530302314240-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cook family reunion in 2015 at Creekside Park in Gahanna, Ohio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says he didn't know what to do when he started crushing out on boys in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of my other siblings think like this,\" Cook says. \"Like why do I have these thoughts? Like why does this enter my head?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer he stuffed his feelings, the darker his depression became. Eventually the chubby teen began isolating himself and cutting his arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Broken Bones\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain he was feeling on the inside was compounded by the chaos around him. Cook’s stepdad Jeff was a drug addict who often came home in a rage, beating the youngest children until their bones broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cook was 14 years old, he moved out and dropped out of school. He crashed on his older sister’s couch and started washing dishes at a barbecue restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 951px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11678235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"951\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777.jpg 951w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tyler-at-City-BBQ-e1530303315777-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">19-year-old Tyler Cook making cakes at City Barbecue in Gahanna, Ohio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He stayed in the closet for three more years, and then late one night he made a pact with himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to accept me,\" he affirmed. \"If they’re not, they’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was both surprised and disoriented by his family’s reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom said, 'Oh we knew, honey.' And I'm like, 'That's years of emotional abuse to myself that you could have helped me through with that one statement.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his mother asked him not to kiss boys in front of her, he obliged, but the comment sliced deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Never Imagined Myself as Homeless\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cook was 18, during his very first sexual experience, he contracted HIV. He toiled for a few more years in Ohio, but one morning when he was 21 he posted a message on Facebook to see if he had any friends in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook immediately received a message from an older guy he met online who offered to rent a room to him, fly him to the Bay Area and help Cook find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, he landed in San Francisco and quickly found a job at the Amoura Cafe inside the Westfield Centre downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s my house! Like my rules. It’s my place. I didn’t think I’d ever have one of those.'\u003ccite>Tyler Cook, San Francisco youth\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, living with a man he hardly knew was awkward. The relationship wasn’t explicitly sexual, but Cook sensed there could be strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm like, I've had enough of that in my life,\" Cook recalls saying to himself. \"Thank you. I’m going to do me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Cook found another temporary couch at a friend's house, but when the Westfield Centre raised rent by 25 percent, the Amoura Cafe closed its doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically no job,\" Cook says. \"No place to go. We are back to square one now right here in San Francisco. I didn't imagine myself as homeless ever. Like ever in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Brink\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678239\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2782px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11678239 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2782\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992.jpg 2782w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-160x232.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-800x1159.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-1020x1478.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-828x1200.jpg 828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-1920x2783.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-1180x1710.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-960x1391.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-240x348.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-375x543.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_5656-e1530303785992-520x754.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2782px) 100vw, 2782px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Cook outside Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Cook first came to San Francisco, a friend told him about a place that could help him called \u003ca href=\"https://larkinstreetyouth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larkin Street Youth Services\u003c/a>, which offers people under 24 a hot meal, a recreational space, medical care and temporary housing. Cook regularly stopped by the facility's clinic to help him manage his HIV. When he suddenly found himself without a home, he turned to Larkin for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization gave him a voucher for a sketchy hotel for a few nights. Then they found him a bed in a facility for people with HIV. And now they're subsidizing his rent in a residential hotel room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Cook's case manager suggested he go back to school. Cook mentioned that he had a green thumb and used to spend hours in the garden as a kid, but he cringed at the idea of returning to a farm. His case manager suggested genetic engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It never really occurred to me that like, I could go do that!\" Cook exclaims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He enrolled in college prep courses at Larkin, which walked him through the steps to apply for financial aid. Eventually, he was accepted at City College of San Francisco. He recently finished his spring semester with a 3.8 GPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few years, he hopes to transfer to UC Berkeley, where he plans to complete a Ph.D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11678229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FB_IMG_1530299482938-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Cook is a 24-year-old living in a single occupancy room in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Guzman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Danger Still Lurks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's hard to imagine how his lofty goals could unfold from where he currently lives in the Tenderloin. As he walks to his front door, he has to step around two people injecting heroin and another man huddled over a crack pipe. But when he arrives at his building he proudly looks up at his barred window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my house!\" Cook exclaims. \"Like my rules. It’s my place. I didn’t think I’d ever have one of those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He looks forward to the day when he's paying the rent on his own again. For now, he’s managing his HIV successfully, he's on a career track and he's proud to be gay. All of which impresses his family. He says both his siblings and his mom are proud of him for moving West and dreaming bigger.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11677973/young-gay-and-homeless-but-planning-a-future-in-genetic-engineering","authors":["11229"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19491"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1511","news_20305","news_38","news_21210","news_3181"],"featImg":"news_11678246","label":"news_72"},"news_11676640":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11676640","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11676640","score":null,"sort":[1530311728000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"on-her-own-at-17-an-oakland-student-blossoms-with-love-and-support-at-school","title":"On Her Own at 17, an Oakland Student Blossoms With Love and Support at School","publishDate":1530311728,"format":"audio","headTitle":"SF Homeless Project | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Destiny Shabazz grins as she opens the door to the West Oakland home where she rents a room. But she can’t show me -- a reporter -- inside. Her housemates like their privacy. She’s barely ever here anyway, Destiny explains, mostly just to sleep on an airbed inside a small converted office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s early spring and Destiny’s walking to school. She’s got braces on her teeth and she’s sporting a pair of red sweats. She’s a senior and she’s got a lot on her mind. She’s determined to graduate and attend a four-year college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I’m excited to graduate!” she says. But her feelings are complicated. She searches for an Instagram post that resonates and reads it aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re graduating but you’re scared to enter the real world 'cuz you cheated your way through all four years,\" she reads, and then laughs. “That’s, like, the story of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School hasn’t been easy for her. Neither has life. Destiny is 17. She’s on her own, and that’s not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, at the West Oakland home where she rents a small room for $300 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KALW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unaccompanied youth are the \u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhouseconnection.org/more-homeless-students-2015/\">fastest-growing group of homeless students\u003c/a> in our nation’s schools. Among them are kids who run away from challenges at home, or cross the border into the United States on their own to escape hardship in their native countries. Others, like Destiny, fall through the cracks when their families are displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s not an adult. She’s not in foster care. And she’s not emancipated. But she is getting by — in some ways, thriving — thanks in part to some grownups at her school, McClymonds High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a handful of adults on this West Oakland campus are pretty much raising Destiny now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the block Destiny points out the house she grew up in with her grandmother, who was her legal guardian. She sighs heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we lost the house really because my grandmother passed away. But before she passed away we were struggling to pay the rent because it kept going up,” Destiny explains. The rent hikes, she says, kicked in when their elderly African-American landlord died and a series of corporate landlords took over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s grandmother received a rental subsidy through the federal program known as Section 8. That could have been passed down to Destiny’s brother when their grandma died in 2016, but “he was only 18 or 19. He couldn’t afford it,” Destiny says. “He’d just got outta high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That brother bounces around now, couch-surfing with friends, essentially homeless. After he and Destiny were evicted, she moved to Pittsburg in the Bay Area for a while to stay with another brother and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work out. She says it wasn’t healthy for her there. Finding a place on her own was impossible. So Destiny reached out to a former neighbor, who converted her office into a small room. Now Destiny pays $300 a month to stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandma always taught me you can’t live somewhere for free, that’s not real,” she says. “People don’t just let you stay places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being back in West Oakland feels right, though. Destiny grew up with a ton of kids here. They all call each other \"cousin\" now. She has strong memories of her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That Boys and Girls Club, there,” she notes. “I been going there since I was like 6 or 7.” She smiles, recalling all the field trips and good times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, works on scholarship applications at McClymonds High School’s College & Career Center. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Destiny’s been on her own, she’s been working really hard to boost her grades. She’s closing in on a 3.0 GPA. She has no first period this morning, but she’s headed to school early to work on scholarship applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we get to McClymonds High, Destiny bumps into Devan McFadden, a staffer from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayconsortium.org/about/staff\">East Bay Consortium\u003c/a> who runs the school’s college and career center with help from a district counselor. She’s excited to see him. She tells him she has just submitted her scholarship application to the East Bay College Fund, a couple of days before the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes!! That’s what I like to hear,” McFadden answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny follows McFadden into the center. It’s one of her main hangouts. One of Destiny’s best friends is here, too, bragging about her. She points out that Destiny just won a Rotary Club speech competition. And that she’s McClymonds' “No. 1 debater.” She even won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.baudl.org/\">Bay Urban Debate League\u003c/a> championship recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before the bell rings, Destiny finally settles down, and asks McFadden for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OK, so Devan, I still don’t know what college I should be going to,” she says in a low voice, suddenly deflated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s fine,” he assures her. “You have to wait until you get your financial aid packages from them, to make your decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s recent spurt of hard work is paying off. By March, she’d already gotten into 20 schools. Most are historically black colleges, with a couple of backup state schools mixed in. Her financial aid is obviously really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her AP English class today, the college and career staff take over to help. Oakland Unified School District college career readiness specialist Jamia Morton asks Destiny if she’s seen her financial aid offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s worried. She hasn’t received them yet, she explains to Morton, because “they want to know, like, how am I a ward of the state, how am I independent?” The principal and vice principal are working on letters on Destiny’s behalf, as are several district staffers. Morton agrees to meet Destiny the following week to help her call each school and figure out exactly what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, gets a hug from a front office administrator at West Oakland’s McClymonds High School. Destiny has no parent or legal guardian. She’s not in foster care, and she’s not emancipated. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students have to deal with parents breathing down their necks about college applications. Destiny has to motivate herself, but she has an army of adults helping to guide her through. Still, it’s complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My situation is, like, sticky, because I’m not emancipated,” Destiny explains after class. “I’m not in foster care, nothing,” she says. “So technically I’m like lost in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her grandmother died, Destiny looked into the process of becoming emancipated through the courts. But it takes so long, she realized, she’d almost be 18 by the time she got through it. So she just lives in the gray zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes,” she says, “if I have field trips, just so they won’t say nothing, I just sign my granny’s name. I just be like, ‘Whatever, they not even gonna notice.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing her dead grandmother’s name was tough on her emotionally, Destiny says. But it turns out plenty of people at school did notice that she was struggling. Destiny talks a lot about her Oakland Unified case manager, Miss Stacy. She’s more like a very involved aunt than a school bureaucrat. It was Miss Stacy — OUSD case manager Stacy Daniels — who helped her start collecting a modest government check. Destiny feels lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think, there’s people out there with way worse situations,” she tells me. “What if if you didn’t know what to do? What if Miss Stacy wouldn’t have helped me get my money? What would I have done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time after her grandmother’s death, Destiny says she felt really low. Shut down. She was isolating herself. She realized she needed her community. And she embraced her school life. Here at McClymonds, she’s social and ambitious. She runs track. She’s taking three college-level classes this semester. And she gets a stipend for her leadership roles with the debate team and the school’s Youth and Family Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’s also really resilient, considering 18 young people she knew have been killed. Last year, she says, just a week after a friend was shot to death, “two of my friends got murdered the same day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Slain-Oakland-teen-falls-to-gun-violence-he-had-10645875.php\">Travon and Peek a Boo\u003c/a>. That shook me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best friends had graduated from McClymonds, and Destiny said they were like big brothers to her. “That was all within a week,” she said of the three deaths. Their funerals were within a week, too. “Three funerals, three friends. All to gun violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here at McClymonds, the staff and administrators root for her. In the hall between classes, Brian McGhee, McClymonds High School program manager, says Destiny “speaks her truth” and is “an advocate for youth and students of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees her achieving great things in the political realm, so much so, he says, “when you say [East Bay Congresswoman] Barbara Lee, we say Destiny Shabazz, when we say Rosa Parks, we will say Destiny Shabazz. That’s the level I see her rising to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not quite there yet though. McGhee calls her “a diamond in the rough ... I mean she got some things, we all got some things we want to work on. And we’re gonna support her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the support,” Destiny says with a grin. “It never stops. Well, maybe in Algebra 2 class but then you know, it comes back right after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algebra 2. That’s one of those things she has to work on. There was no permanent teacher for a chunk of the fall semester. Now it’s Mr. Tivol. And Destiny, well, she finds him condescending. He gets under her skin. The day before I come to school with her, she cussed him out. She was worried about today’s quiz. She apologized in an email. He wrote her back. He encouraged her. Told her not to “sweat it too hard.” But in class, it’s like Destiny can’t stop herself from messing with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finishes her quiz early and takes out her iPad, even though that’s against the rules. When Mr. Tivol asks her to put it away, she refuses. So he calls in Will Blackwell, the school’s restorative practices facilitator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Destiny leaves with him, she throws her quiz in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hallway, Mr. Blackwell talks to her straight. She knows perfectly well that she can’t use the iPad in class, he says. He tells her she doesn’t need to sabotage herself by being so combative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell knows the students really well. That’s his job. When there’s trouble, he tries to bring the feuding sides together, to help them work it out. After they talk for a bit, he suggests a restorative justice advocate sit down with Mr. Tivol. For a group meeting like this, a student would usually bring a parent or some other adult advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right now,” Blackwell tells her, “who do we call?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s yet one more reminder of Destiny’s unusual situation. Destiny tells Blackwell that she’s “grown,” that she can be at the table by herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She can, Blackwell agrees. But he persuades her to seek adult backup. Her uncle can come, she says, him,and “Miss Stacy, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He promises to schedule the sit-down in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that afternoon, Destiny heads to the McClymonds \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/mcclymonds/\">Youth and Family Center\u003c/a>. She spends a huge chunk of her life at this center. It’s staffed by a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/\">Alternatives in Action\u003c/a>. And they show her a different kind of love. Destiny is honest about what happened in math class. It doesn’t go over well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You block your own blessings, you sabotage yourself, right?” Kharyshi Wiginton, then the community programs manager, tells Destiny. “At 17, I need that not to continue to be the story. This is bigger than this moment. In a second you’re not gonna have us. The world is not nice to adults like that. You’re not allowed to just mess up and mess up and mess up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clock is ticking for Destiny, and the staff here is worried for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the students at McClymonds call Wiginton “Miss K.” She buys Destiny dinner just about every evening. Destiny knows Miss K loves her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody know[s] that I have two sides; like, I'm still a teenager,” Destiny says after the chaos dies down. She knows she has been through “things that make me act certain ways, you know, argumentative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining debate last fall has given her a way to channel her sharp tongue in a more productive way, she says, but, “I'm still growing.” It wouldn’t be real if the staff at the center didn’t rail on her for her mistakes, she says, “but they love me, too, you know — hard love, tough love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thanks in part to them, Destiny has big dreams. She plans to return to Oakland and run for mayor in 2022. She has a vision for what her city needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plans are to change Oakland financially, socially and in equitability,” she explains. “I want Oakland to be like a black Wall Street. I want it to be black schools, black businesses, black courts, black teachers. I don’t want to stop the diversity,” she adds. “That’s not possible, but I know that Oakland is changing from Old Oakland to New Oakland, and the plan for New Oakland has nothing to do with black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I check back in with Destiny at the end of the school year. She has chosen Cal State Sacramento, and she’s gotten four scholarships that’ll help with her first year. But she has a ton of catching up to do in Mr. Tivol’s class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Destiny pulls it off. On graduation day, I find her outside the auditorium, wolfing down a hamburger that Miss Stacy just brought her. She’s wearing stylish little shorts under her gown and high-heeled boots made of clear plastic. It’s a big day for her. But she’s had a major setback with her housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel a little overwhelmed right now. I been real struggling,” she says. “I got kicked out of the house that I was at and now I’m moving around house to house for the last two weeks. It’s been hard.” Then she brightens. “But I’m good, because I’m graduating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditorium is packed. When the music starts and the grads take their seats, Destiny is hamming it up with her friends. And once the ceremony gets started, there’s a surprise for her — from the McClymonds High alumni association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only have to hear her name to understand that there are bigger and better things for her,” the association president says in announcing a scholarship winner. “She will attend Sacramento State. ... She also played basketball, ran track, debated and was very active in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he even finishes, the crowd starts screaming Destiny’s name. And she’s up and out of her seat, doing a funky little dance on her way to the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone knows who he’s talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I might have been calling somebody else,” he tells her with a laugh. Destiny shrugs and responds: “I know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny got a job at McDonald's. She turns 18 in August. It’s kind of scary. But Miss Stacy plans to stick by her, and a few other mentors have promised to make sure she gets through all four years of college with plenty of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/her-own-17-west-oakland-student-blossoms-love-and-support-school#stream/0\">earlier version of this story\u003c/a> aired on KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"I’m not emancipated. I’m not in foster care, nothing. 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She’s barely ever here anyway, Destiny explains, mostly just to sleep on an airbed inside a small converted office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s early spring and Destiny’s walking to school. She’s got braces on her teeth and she’s sporting a pair of red sweats. She’s a senior and she’s got a lot on her mind. She’s determined to graduate and attend a four-year college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I’m excited to graduate!” she says. But her feelings are complicated. She searches for an Instagram post that resonates and reads it aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re graduating but you’re scared to enter the real world 'cuz you cheated your way through all four years,\" she reads, and then laughs. “That’s, like, the story of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School hasn’t been easy for her. Neither has life. Destiny is 17. She’s on her own, and that’s not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, at the West Oakland home where she rents a small room for $300 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KALW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unaccompanied youth are the \u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhouseconnection.org/more-homeless-students-2015/\">fastest-growing group of homeless students\u003c/a> in our nation’s schools. Among them are kids who run away from challenges at home, or cross the border into the United States on their own to escape hardship in their native countries. Others, like Destiny, fall through the cracks when their families are displaced.\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>Destiny’s not an adult. She’s not in foster care. And she’s not emancipated. But she is getting by — in some ways, thriving — thanks in part to some grownups at her school, McClymonds High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a handful of adults on this West Oakland campus are pretty much raising Destiny now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the block Destiny points out the house she grew up in with her grandmother, who was her legal guardian. She sighs heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we lost the house really because my grandmother passed away. But before she passed away we were struggling to pay the rent because it kept going up,” Destiny explains. The rent hikes, she says, kicked in when their elderly African-American landlord died and a series of corporate landlords took over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s grandmother received a rental subsidy through the federal program known as Section 8. That could have been passed down to Destiny’s brother when their grandma died in 2016, but “he was only 18 or 19. He couldn’t afford it,” Destiny says. “He’d just got outta high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That brother bounces around now, couch-surfing with friends, essentially homeless. After he and Destiny were evicted, she moved to Pittsburg in the Bay Area for a while to stay with another brother and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work out. She says it wasn’t healthy for her there. Finding a place on her own was impossible. So Destiny reached out to a former neighbor, who converted her office into a small room. Now Destiny pays $300 a month to stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandma always taught me you can’t live somewhere for free, that’s not real,” she says. “People don’t just let you stay places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being back in West Oakland feels right, though. Destiny grew up with a ton of kids here. They all call each other \"cousin\" now. She has strong memories of her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That Boys and Girls Club, there,” she notes. “I been going there since I was like 6 or 7.” She smiles, recalling all the field trips and good times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, works on scholarship applications at McClymonds High School’s College & Career Center. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Destiny’s been on her own, she’s been working really hard to boost her grades. She’s closing in on a 3.0 GPA. She has no first period this morning, but she’s headed to school early to work on scholarship applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we get to McClymonds High, Destiny bumps into Devan McFadden, a staffer from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayconsortium.org/about/staff\">East Bay Consortium\u003c/a> who runs the school’s college and career center with help from a district counselor. She’s excited to see him. She tells him she has just submitted her scholarship application to the East Bay College Fund, a couple of days before the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes!! That’s what I like to hear,” McFadden answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny follows McFadden into the center. It’s one of her main hangouts. One of Destiny’s best friends is here, too, bragging about her. She points out that Destiny just won a Rotary Club speech competition. And that she’s McClymonds' “No. 1 debater.” She even won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.baudl.org/\">Bay Urban Debate League\u003c/a> championship recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before the bell rings, Destiny finally settles down, and asks McFadden for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OK, so Devan, I still don’t know what college I should be going to,” she says in a low voice, suddenly deflated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s fine,” he assures her. “You have to wait until you get your financial aid packages from them, to make your decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s recent spurt of hard work is paying off. By March, she’d already gotten into 20 schools. Most are historically black colleges, with a couple of backup state schools mixed in. Her financial aid is obviously really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her AP English class today, the college and career staff take over to help. Oakland Unified School District college career readiness specialist Jamia Morton asks Destiny if she’s seen her financial aid offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s worried. She hasn’t received them yet, she explains to Morton, because “they want to know, like, how am I a ward of the state, how am I independent?” The principal and vice principal are working on letters on Destiny’s behalf, as are several district staffers. Morton agrees to meet Destiny the following week to help her call each school and figure out exactly what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, gets a hug from a front office administrator at West Oakland’s McClymonds High School. Destiny has no parent or legal guardian. She’s not in foster care, and she’s not emancipated. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students have to deal with parents breathing down their necks about college applications. Destiny has to motivate herself, but she has an army of adults helping to guide her through. Still, it’s complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My situation is, like, sticky, because I’m not emancipated,” Destiny explains after class. “I’m not in foster care, nothing,” she says. “So technically I’m like lost in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her grandmother died, Destiny looked into the process of becoming emancipated through the courts. But it takes so long, she realized, she’d almost be 18 by the time she got through it. So she just lives in the gray zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes,” she says, “if I have field trips, just so they won’t say nothing, I just sign my granny’s name. I just be like, ‘Whatever, they not even gonna notice.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing her dead grandmother’s name was tough on her emotionally, Destiny says. But it turns out plenty of people at school did notice that she was struggling. Destiny talks a lot about her Oakland Unified case manager, Miss Stacy. She’s more like a very involved aunt than a school bureaucrat. It was Miss Stacy — OUSD case manager Stacy Daniels — who helped her start collecting a modest government check. Destiny feels lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think, there’s people out there with way worse situations,” she tells me. “What if if you didn’t know what to do? What if Miss Stacy wouldn’t have helped me get my money? What would I have done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time after her grandmother’s death, Destiny says she felt really low. Shut down. She was isolating herself. She realized she needed her community. And she embraced her school life. Here at McClymonds, she’s social and ambitious. She runs track. She’s taking three college-level classes this semester. And she gets a stipend for her leadership roles with the debate team and the school’s Youth and Family Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’s also really resilient, considering 18 young people she knew have been killed. Last year, she says, just a week after a friend was shot to death, “two of my friends got murdered the same day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Slain-Oakland-teen-falls-to-gun-violence-he-had-10645875.php\">Travon and Peek a Boo\u003c/a>. That shook me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best friends had graduated from McClymonds, and Destiny said they were like big brothers to her. “That was all within a week,” she said of the three deaths. Their funerals were within a week, too. “Three funerals, three friends. All to gun violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here at McClymonds, the staff and administrators root for her. In the hall between classes, Brian McGhee, McClymonds High School program manager, says Destiny “speaks her truth” and is “an advocate for youth and students of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees her achieving great things in the political realm, so much so, he says, “when you say [East Bay Congresswoman] Barbara Lee, we say Destiny Shabazz, when we say Rosa Parks, we will say Destiny Shabazz. That’s the level I see her rising to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not quite there yet though. McGhee calls her “a diamond in the rough ... I mean she got some things, we all got some things we want to work on. And we’re gonna support her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the support,” Destiny says with a grin. “It never stops. Well, maybe in Algebra 2 class but then you know, it comes back right after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algebra 2. That’s one of those things she has to work on. There was no permanent teacher for a chunk of the fall semester. Now it’s Mr. Tivol. And Destiny, well, she finds him condescending. He gets under her skin. The day before I come to school with her, she cussed him out. She was worried about today’s quiz. She apologized in an email. He wrote her back. He encouraged her. Told her not to “sweat it too hard.” But in class, it’s like Destiny can’t stop herself from messing with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finishes her quiz early and takes out her iPad, even though that’s against the rules. When Mr. Tivol asks her to put it away, she refuses. So he calls in Will Blackwell, the school’s restorative practices facilitator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Destiny leaves with him, she throws her quiz in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hallway, Mr. Blackwell talks to her straight. She knows perfectly well that she can’t use the iPad in class, he says. He tells her she doesn’t need to sabotage herself by being so combative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell knows the students really well. That’s his job. When there’s trouble, he tries to bring the feuding sides together, to help them work it out. After they talk for a bit, he suggests a restorative justice advocate sit down with Mr. Tivol. For a group meeting like this, a student would usually bring a parent or some other adult advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right now,” Blackwell tells her, “who do we call?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s yet one more reminder of Destiny’s unusual situation. Destiny tells Blackwell that she’s “grown,” that she can be at the table by herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She can, Blackwell agrees. But he persuades her to seek adult backup. Her uncle can come, she says, him,and “Miss Stacy, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He promises to schedule the sit-down in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that afternoon, Destiny heads to the McClymonds \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/mcclymonds/\">Youth and Family Center\u003c/a>. She spends a huge chunk of her life at this center. It’s staffed by a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/\">Alternatives in Action\u003c/a>. And they show her a different kind of love. Destiny is honest about what happened in math class. It doesn’t go over well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You block your own blessings, you sabotage yourself, right?” Kharyshi Wiginton, then the community programs manager, tells Destiny. “At 17, I need that not to continue to be the story. This is bigger than this moment. In a second you’re not gonna have us. The world is not nice to adults like that. You’re not allowed to just mess up and mess up and mess up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clock is ticking for Destiny, and the staff here is worried for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the students at McClymonds call Wiginton “Miss K.” She buys Destiny dinner just about every evening. Destiny knows Miss K loves her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody know[s] that I have two sides; like, I'm still a teenager,” Destiny says after the chaos dies down. She knows she has been through “things that make me act certain ways, you know, argumentative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining debate last fall has given her a way to channel her sharp tongue in a more productive way, she says, but, “I'm still growing.” It wouldn’t be real if the staff at the center didn’t rail on her for her mistakes, she says, “but they love me, too, you know — hard love, tough love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thanks in part to them, Destiny has big dreams. She plans to return to Oakland and run for mayor in 2022. She has a vision for what her city needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plans are to change Oakland financially, socially and in equitability,” she explains. “I want Oakland to be like a black Wall Street. I want it to be black schools, black businesses, black courts, black teachers. I don’t want to stop the diversity,” she adds. “That’s not possible, but I know that Oakland is changing from Old Oakland to New Oakland, and the plan for New Oakland has nothing to do with black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I check back in with Destiny at the end of the school year. She has chosen Cal State Sacramento, and she’s gotten four scholarships that’ll help with her first year. But she has a ton of catching up to do in Mr. Tivol’s class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Destiny pulls it off. On graduation day, I find her outside the auditorium, wolfing down a hamburger that Miss Stacy just brought her. She’s wearing stylish little shorts under her gown and high-heeled boots made of clear plastic. It’s a big day for her. But she’s had a major setback with her housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel a little overwhelmed right now. I been real struggling,” she says. “I got kicked out of the house that I was at and now I’m moving around house to house for the last two weeks. It’s been hard.” Then she brightens. “But I’m good, because I’m graduating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditorium is packed. When the music starts and the grads take their seats, Destiny is hamming it up with her friends. And once the ceremony gets started, there’s a surprise for her — from the McClymonds High alumni association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only have to hear her name to understand that there are bigger and better things for her,” the association president says in announcing a scholarship winner. “She will attend Sacramento State. ... She also played basketball, ran track, debated and was very active in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he even finishes, the crowd starts screaming Destiny’s name. And she’s up and out of her seat, doing a funky little dance on her way to the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone knows who he’s talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I might have been calling somebody else,” he tells her with a laugh. Destiny shrugs and responds: “I know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny got a job at McDonald's. She turns 18 in August. It’s kind of scary. But Miss Stacy plans to stick by her, and a few other mentors have promised to make sure she gets through all four years of college with plenty of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/her-own-17-west-oakland-student-blossoms-love-and-support-school#stream/0\">earlier version of this story\u003c/a> aired on KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11676640/on-her-own-at-17-an-oakland-student-blossoms-with-love-and-support-at-school","authors":["byline_news_11676640"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19491"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_19542","news_18"],"featImg":"news_11677085","label":"news_72"},"news_11678178":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11678178","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11678178","score":null,"sort":[1530300205000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"homeless-in-california-what-the-data-reveals","title":"Homeless in California—What the Data Reveals","publishDate":1530300205,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Homeless Project | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California is struggling to confront its homelessness crisis: After big-city mayors up and down the state lobbied hard for more funding, state leaders agreed to spend \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an additional $600 million\u003c/a> to help fight the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Here are some basic numbers to help understand one of the state’s most vexing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>How many Californians are homeless now, and how has that changed over time?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>While it’s tough to say precisely how many Californians are experiencing homelessness, the federal Housing and Urban Development Department estimates the number statewide at 130,000 on a given night. That’s 25 percent of the entire nation’s homeless population. Since 2016, California experienced a larger increase in homelessness than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11678211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"1245\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca.jpg 858w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-160x232.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-800x1161.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-827x1200.jpg 827w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-240x348.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-375x544.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-520x755.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our state has more than 1.7 million low-income households spending more than half their income in housing costs,” said Ben Metcalf, the director of the state Department of Housing and Community Development. “When you’re paying that much for housing, with so little left over, even a minor shock can start a cycle of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the highest percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals in the country, at slightly under 70 percent. This means that the vast majority of the state’s homeless population does not utilize temporary living arrangements provided by either charitable organizations or government programs. Rather, they have been found living on the streets, parks or other places not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of shelters is due to a lack of resources, and we don’t really have a plan to end homelessness,” said Christopher Martin, legislative advocate at Housing California. “We don’t have strong programs to end homelessness on the state level. We know the shelters are a part of the solution, but at the end of the day, we know that we need exits for the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11678213\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-800x1105.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-868x1200.jpg 868w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1920x2653.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1180x1631.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-960x1327.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-240x332.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-375x518.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-520x719.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Where are California’s homeless?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Los Angeles County had the highest population of homeless individuals in all of California at roughly 55,000, and was second only to New York for holding the largest population of homeless people in the nation. And while 95 percent of New York’s homeless population was sheltered, only 25 percent of those in Los Angeles were sheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mlevin.carto.com/viz/5de66644-2d9d-4526-b6ac-c97c87416da0/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the positive side, 2018 marked the first time in four years the homelessness count in Los Angeles actually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that this decrease was driven by \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/learning/history-and-takeaways-from-los-angeles-county-s-flexible-house-subsidy-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles’s $40 million Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool\u003c/a>, which provides rental subsidies to local residents experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who are the state’s homeless?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The majority of California’s unsheltered homeless population is chronically homeless, meaning that they have been homeless for a year or more or have experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years. Chronically homeless individuals are marked by serious mental or physical illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California comprises 12 percent of the nation’s population of homeless families with children. From 2016 to 2017, the state experienced one of the largest increases of homeless families in the nation, leaving 1,000 more families on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of homeless families, California also reported the largest number of unaccompanied homeless youth, which includes any individual under the age of 25 who does not live with a family member. Overall, 58 percent of the nation’s unsheltered homeless youth reside in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also home to 29 percent of the nation’s homeless veterans, and two-thirds of them are unsheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here are some basic numbers to help understand one of the state’s most vexing issues: homelessness.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530559067,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":629},"headData":{"title":"Homeless in California—What the Data Reveals | KQED","description":"Here are some basic numbers to help understand one of the state’s most vexing issues: homelessness.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11678178 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11678178","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/29/homeless-in-california-what-the-data-reveals/","disqusTitle":"Homeless in California—What the Data Reveals","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Victoria Cabales\u003c/strong>\u003cbr/>CALmatters\u003c/br>","path":"/news/11678178/homeless-in-california-what-the-data-reveals","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California is struggling to confront its homelessness crisis: After big-city mayors up and down the state lobbied hard for more funding, state leaders agreed to spend \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an additional $600 million\u003c/a> to help fight the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Here are some basic numbers to help understand one of the state’s most vexing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>How many Californians are homeless now, and how has that changed over time?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>While it’s tough to say precisely how many Californians are experiencing homelessness, the federal Housing and Urban Development Department estimates the number statewide at 130,000 on a given night. That’s 25 percent of the entire nation’s homeless population. Since 2016, California experienced a larger increase in homelessness than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11678211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"1245\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca.jpg 858w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-160x232.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-800x1161.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-827x1200.jpg 827w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-240x348.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-375x544.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-520x755.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our state has more than 1.7 million low-income households spending more than half their income in housing costs,” said Ben Metcalf, the director of the state Department of Housing and Community Development. “When you’re paying that much for housing, with so little left over, even a minor shock can start a cycle of 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>California has the highest percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals in the country, at slightly under 70 percent. This means that the vast majority of the state’s homeless population does not utilize temporary living arrangements provided by either charitable organizations or government programs. Rather, they have been found living on the streets, parks or other places not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of shelters is due to a lack of resources, and we don’t really have a plan to end homelessness,” said Christopher Martin, legislative advocate at Housing California. “We don’t have strong programs to end homelessness on the state level. We know the shelters are a part of the solution, but at the end of the day, we know that we need exits for the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11678213\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-800x1105.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-868x1200.jpg 868w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1920x2653.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1180x1631.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-960x1327.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-240x332.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-375x518.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-520x719.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Where are California’s homeless?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Los Angeles County had the highest population of homeless individuals in all of California at roughly 55,000, and was second only to New York for holding the largest population of homeless people in the nation. And while 95 percent of New York’s homeless population was sheltered, only 25 percent of those in Los Angeles were sheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mlevin.carto.com/viz/5de66644-2d9d-4526-b6ac-c97c87416da0/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the positive side, 2018 marked the first time in four years the homelessness count in Los Angeles actually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that this decrease was driven by \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/learning/history-and-takeaways-from-los-angeles-county-s-flexible-house-subsidy-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles’s $40 million Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool\u003c/a>, which provides rental subsidies to local residents experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who are the state’s homeless?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The majority of California’s unsheltered homeless population is chronically homeless, meaning that they have been homeless for a year or more or have experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years. Chronically homeless individuals are marked by serious mental or physical illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California comprises 12 percent of the nation’s population of homeless families with children. From 2016 to 2017, the state experienced one of the largest increases of homeless families in the nation, leaving 1,000 more families on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of homeless families, California also reported the largest number of unaccompanied homeless youth, which includes any individual under the age of 25 who does not live with a family member. Overall, 58 percent of the nation’s unsheltered homeless youth reside in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also home to 29 percent of the nation’s homeless veterans, and two-thirds of them are unsheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11678178/homeless-in-california-what-the-data-reveals","authors":["byline_news_11678178"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19491"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_4020","news_21210"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11678220","label":"news_72"},"news_11677958":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11677958","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11677958","score":null,"sort":[1530290674000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"big-city-mayors-welcome-state-money-for-homeless-services","title":"Big City Mayors Welcome State Money For Homeless Services","publishDate":1530290674,"format":"audio","headTitle":"SF Homeless Project | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The recently signed California state budget includes \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-state-budget-deal-20180608-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$500 million\u003c/a> in one-time money to help cities address homelessness. The money will be split between local organizations that help the homeless as well as cities with more than 330,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sacramento \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/mayor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Darrell Steinberg\u003c/a> serves as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CABig11/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chairman of the Big 11 Mayors,\u003c/a> a coalition representing the state's largest cities. He said the money will be crucial for programs to fight homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every major California city has seen these dramatic increases [in homelessness],\" he said. \"And while at the local level we are all putting together resources, either through ballot measures, our cities' general fund, [or] our work with our respective counties, the fact of the matter is we need more capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678085/sacramento-mayor-darrell-steinberg-on-his-reforms-to-californias-initiative-system-and-addressing-homelessness-locally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg on His Reforms to California's Initiative System and Addressing Homelessness Locally\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said there's an especially acute need for \u003ca href=\"https://www.shra.org/emergency-housing-and-other-homeless-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency housing\u003c/a>, the place people stay between leaving the streets and settling into a permanent home. The money can also be used for early intervention and other steps to prevent homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know in Sacramento we are going to put as much focus on those who are not yet homeless but will be if we don't have a robust rental assistance program,\" he said, \"and if we don't intervene at the right time to help them avoid the shelter and ultimately the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg's goal is to get 2,000 people off the streets in Sacramento. The other cities receiving money include San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Fresno, Bakersfield, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim and San Jose. It's estimated there are about 135,000 homeless people living in California.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California cities received half a billion dollars to combat homelessness in the recently signed state budget.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530558657,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":298},"headData":{"title":"Big City Mayors Welcome State Money For Homeless Services | KQED","description":"California cities received half a billion dollars to combat homelessness in the recently signed state budget.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11677958 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11677958","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/29/big-city-mayors-welcome-state-money-for-homeless-services/","disqusTitle":"Big City Mayors Welcome State Money For Homeless Services","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/06/TCRAM20180628KatieOrrHomelessness.mp3","path":"/news/11677958/big-city-mayors-welcome-state-money-for-homeless-services","audioDuration":199000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The recently signed California state budget includes \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-state-budget-deal-20180608-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$500 million\u003c/a> in one-time money to help cities address homelessness. The money will be split between local organizations that help the homeless as well as cities with more than 330,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sacramento \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/mayor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Darrell Steinberg\u003c/a> serves as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CABig11/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chairman of the Big 11 Mayors,\u003c/a> a coalition representing the state's largest cities. He said the money will be crucial for programs to fight homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every major California city has seen these dramatic increases [in homelessness],\" he said. \"And while at the local level we are all putting together resources, either through ballot measures, our cities' general fund, [or] our work with our respective counties, the fact of the matter is we need more capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678085/sacramento-mayor-darrell-steinberg-on-his-reforms-to-californias-initiative-system-and-addressing-homelessness-locally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg on His Reforms to California's Initiative System and Addressing Homelessness Locally\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said there's an especially acute need for \u003ca href=\"https://www.shra.org/emergency-housing-and-other-homeless-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency housing\u003c/a>, the place people stay between leaving the streets and settling into a permanent home. The money can also be used for early intervention and other steps to prevent homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know in Sacramento we are going to put as much focus on those who are not yet homeless but will be if we don't have a robust rental assistance program,\" he said, \"and if we don't intervene at the right time to help them avoid the shelter and ultimately the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg's goal is to get 2,000 people off the streets in Sacramento. The other cities receiving money include San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Fresno, Bakersfield, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim and San Jose. It's estimated there are about 135,000 homeless people living in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11677958/big-city-mayors-welcome-state-money-for-homeless-services","authors":["11200"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19491"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22178","news_4020","news_95"],"featImg":"news_11668649","label":"news_72"},"news_11667236":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11667236","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11667236","score":null,"sort":[1530261015000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco","title":"After His Death on the Street, a San Francisco Tent Resident's Story Comes Into Focus","publishDate":1530261015,"format":"aside","headTitle":"After His Death on the Street, a San Francisco Tent Resident’s Story Comes Into Focus | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-e1530171703254.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10883194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died of a heroin overdose on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] couple months back, I got a heads-up: A man I’d interviewed in early 2016 about his experiences living in a tent on San Francisco’s Division Street had died, possibly of a drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man was Perry Foster, a Michigan native who’d lived on the streets or in other extreme circumstances in the city since 2008. His forthrightness and willingness to share his thoughts with a complete stranger made an impression. A few days after we talked, I edited the audio, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a short piece\u003c/a> describing our meeting, and posted it. Perry and I didn’t cross paths again.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Listen to this story on KQED’s The Bay podcast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677840/man-on-the-street-a-story-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man on the Street: A Story of Homelessness in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The alert I got in April didn’t come with a lot of details. But the city’s medical examiner confirmed that a Perry Foster — also known as Parree Foster — was among the recently deceased the office had processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first impulse was to write something quick: Here’s a man we told you about some time back, a man who spoke with some eloquence about homelessness in San Francisco, a man who has now lost his life on the street. He was 48 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was more to Perry’s story than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a previous life, he had been regarded as a football prodigy in his native Michigan. After his death, I heard from several people who, though they hadn’t seen Perry in decades, still spoke in awestruck terms about his talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, as a senior running back and defensive back at Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School, he led his team to a state championship. He played for two years at Eastern Michigan University. He starred there, too, stirring talk of a possible professional career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Foster failed academically. He vanished from football and his old teammates’ lives after that second year in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 672px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster’s entry in the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame directory.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ootball skill was just part of what made Perry stand out, though. Those who knew him as a young man also remember him as a leader, charismatic and generous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave an aura of special talent that people were drawn to,” said Jim Galvin, who coached Foster at Catholic Central. “… For all the accolades he received, and all the honors — two-time All-State, All Area, et cetera — he was the type of guy who would come back after a run and compliment an offensive lineman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault quarterbacked the 1987 Catholic Central team and said Perry “had very, very special gifts both physically and to connect with other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Galvin nor Passinault — or anyone else on the 1987 team — knew before Perry’s death what had become of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passinault, now a physician in Grand Rapids, wrote a eulogy for Perry’s memorial in late April:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Perry Foster\u003c/strong> was everything that we were, embodied in Scuba gloves, form-fitting No. 22 jersey, tightly kept fade, one lone towel giving defenders a hope of grabbing something, anything, that made them feel like they could tackle him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He was fast,\u003c/strong> he was proud, he was confident, he was tough, he was Perry. He never apologized for any of it. He was what we were, but he was just better at it than the rest of us were. He knew it and we knew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nobody has ever\u003c/strong> uttered the words: “Perry was OK.” The phrases were: “Perry is amazing.” “Perry is the best I have ever seen.” “We have to stop Perry.” “Perry is killing us.” …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… These words\u003c/strong> would be worthless tripe if not matched with the recognition of the glaring pain and struggle that Perry Foster lived in his life. I cannot for a moment, understand the pain and fear that came with his life on Earth, especially in his last years. I do not know how to reconcile the Perry in my memory, with the Perry in the interview as a homeless man in San Francisco. That is our struggle today. May each of us never forget what true excellence feels like, remember who singularly embodied that excellence, and lead compassionate and purpose-driven lives that embrace what we knew and what we know about our brother, Perry Foster.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat happened? Here’s what I can piece together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry was born in 1970. His mother died when he was 3 or 4 years old. His father, Robert Foster, raised him, an older sister and an older brother on his own. He coached Perry and his brother, Bobby, for years in a youth football league. He said he watched Perry grow from a smart, determined but slow player into the defensive and offensive star he became in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d have tackles, he’d have fumble recoveries, he’d have kickoff and punt returns — he’d do it all,” Robert Foster said in an interview. “… He just got better, faster, stronger. And his will to win was always there, but it just took over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foster said he felt something was amiss with Perry as he finished high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I think he was doing drugs or something by that time — he was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing because he wasn’t acting right anymore,” Foster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result was that his son lost a scholarship to play football at the University of Michigan. The offer was withdrawn, Robert Foster said, because Perry had gotten into a serious fight at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan said it might reconsider, Foster said, if his son attended the university for a semester on a non-scholarship basis to show he could handle what was required of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, I got to get Perry off the streets. He can’t last a semester,’ ” Foster said. So instead, Perry went to Eastern Michigan, where his older brother, Bobby, was a starting running back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within two years — 1990 — both sons were out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Foster said in answer to questions on Facebook that while he can’t account for what happened to his brother, “Peer pressure led me into a way of life that was fueled by women, drugs, alcohol and partying. I lost myself, didn’t know who I was anymore and I ran out of gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster said he had found it increasingly difficult to reach Perry by this time, recounting an exchange with his son:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Perry, God gave you a talent. You got to use that in the right way to get to where you want to go.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘I made these legs! I did this!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Whoa! Whoa! Let me step back from you because lightning going to strike in a minute.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne other development widened the breach between Robert Foster and his son: Perry came out as gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster, a former tool-and-die maker who went back to school to earn degrees in biblical studies and counseling, said, “I could accept Perry as Perry but not as Perry gay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that he and his son “butted heads” over the issue and that it became something that kept them apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry Foster’s timeline becomes a little hazy at this point. He spent time in Atlanta, where his older sister went to college. He spent time in Chicago and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault, the Grand Rapids Catholic Central quarterback, said he ran into Perry once, maybe 10 years ago, waiting tables in Saugatuck, a town on Lake Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I gave him a big, long hug and asked him, ‘How’s it going? What are you up to?’ ” Passinault said. “He just always had a story about why he was where he was and what was waiting for him next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome time in 2008, Perry arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that over the next decade, he was arrested several times (typically on charges related to theft or drugs), jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly. Eventually he started living in a tent on the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to listen to those who encountered him during this journey, the charisma his high school teammates remember was intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maraea Master, who runs a program for homeless at-risk students at City College, got to know Perry during the two years she worked on San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perry had this manner about himself where it was like, ‘Yes, I live in this tent,’ but he really kept some sort of elegance to himself. He didn’t allow things to get dictated to him and how he should be looking and how he should be treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said that like many, many others living on the streets, Perry suffered from a wide range of physical ailments, mental illness and substance abuse. Sometimes it was not easy to help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would take a long time to put his meds in medi-sets (pill organizers) to make sure he would take them,” Master said. “And then like a week later I would be in someone else’s tent and I’ll see his medicine and I’ll be like, ‘God damn it, this is Perry’s medication! Why is it in here?’ And I’m just like, ‘Agghhh!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said Perry challenged police officers and Public Works employees sent to get him to move about their authority to do so — what some homeless outreach workers would term “a hard case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was vulnerable to the dangers of the streets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678109\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-240x203.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-375x317.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-520x440.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster in pictures posted to Facebook after being dragged from his tent and beaten in September 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last September, he was dragged from his tent and beaten and landed back in the hospital with facial fractures. He posted pictures to Facebook. One of those who responded was his brother, Bobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come home man and stop risking your life out there,” he wrote. “How many times have you been attacked? What’s it going to take before you realize you are so much better than that? You think you’re scared? It’s time for you to honestly assess your situation and make a sound judgment. Do you want to live or die? You are a cat that is running out of lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry dismissed his brother’s concern as “talkshow bullshit. … Shitte (sic) and life happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Perry’s friends, a man named Memphis whom I met outside his tent on South Van Ness Avenue, said Perry was afraid of conditions on the street and had been thinking about returning to Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was actually making plans to go home,” Memphis said. “And I told him he should go home months ago. But he said he needed to do something here first, let go of some things first, and then go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was that thing he needed to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry had talked about wanting to help people on the street, to give them a voice. His father, Robert Foster, said he told his son he needed to attend to his own needs first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, ‘Perry, the best way you can help anybody is to show them how to get out, show ‘em how to do better, by you getting out and doing better and then going back and helping people,'” Foster said. “‘You can’t help ’em where you at, because you in the same condition they in.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said Perry talked about coming home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But he wanted a round-trip ticket,” Foster said. “What you going to do with a round-trip ticket? You want to go back to hell? If you get out of hell, you want to go back?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 11, about a week after he’d been kicked out of an apartment where he’d been crashing with a friend, Perry died. The San Francisco medical examiner’s office has not issued a final cause of death, but Robert Foster said hospital officials told him Perry had died of a heroin overdose. City emergency response reports suggest that he died near Bryant and Division streets, just feet from where I met him two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard the news, Maraea Master, the former Homeless Outreach Team member, agonized over the circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Was Perry alone?” she asked herself. “Where was his help? Did he have anyone that was there visiting him regularly? Did anybody keep any of the things he wrote? Does he have any family anywhere? All of these things came up for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong — there’s a couple of Perrys to me out there. But I feel like his story is really important. … The world is really kind of missing something without him here — that guy who lived in that tent.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the 1980s, Perry Foster was a sports prodigy, a football star teammates still speak of with awe. All of that was hidden during his years on San Francisco's streets. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689088723,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":62,"wordCount":2381},"headData":{"title":"After His Death on the Street, a San Francisco Tent Resident's Story Comes Into Focus | KQED","description":"In the 1980s, Perry Foster was a sports prodigy, a football star teammates still speak of with awe. All of that was hidden during his years on San Francisco's streets. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2018/06/BrekkeFoster.mp3","audioTrackLength":295,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco","audioDuration":295000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-e1530171703254.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10883194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died of a heroin overdose on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> couple months back, I got a heads-up: A man I’d interviewed in early 2016 about his experiences living in a tent on San Francisco’s Division Street had died, possibly of a drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man was Perry Foster, a Michigan native who’d lived on the streets or in other extreme circumstances in the city since 2008. His forthrightness and willingness to share his thoughts with a complete stranger made an impression. A few days after we talked, I edited the audio, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a short piece\u003c/a> describing our meeting, and posted it. Perry and I didn’t cross paths again.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Listen to this story on KQED’s The Bay podcast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677840/man-on-the-street-a-story-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man on the Street: A Story of Homelessness in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The alert I got in April didn’t come with a lot of details. But the city’s medical examiner confirmed that a Perry Foster — also known as Parree Foster — was among the recently deceased the office had processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first impulse was to write something quick: Here’s a man we told you about some time back, a man who spoke with some eloquence about homelessness in San Francisco, a man who has now lost his life on the street. He was 48 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was more to Perry’s story than that.\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>In a previous life, he had been regarded as a football prodigy in his native Michigan. After his death, I heard from several people who, though they hadn’t seen Perry in decades, still spoke in awestruck terms about his talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, as a senior running back and defensive back at Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School, he led his team to a state championship. He played for two years at Eastern Michigan University. He starred there, too, stirring talk of a possible professional career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Foster failed academically. He vanished from football and his old teammates’ lives after that second year in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 672px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster’s entry in the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame directory.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ootball skill was just part of what made Perry stand out, though. Those who knew him as a young man also remember him as a leader, charismatic and generous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave an aura of special talent that people were drawn to,” said Jim Galvin, who coached Foster at Catholic Central. “… For all the accolades he received, and all the honors — two-time All-State, All Area, et cetera — he was the type of guy who would come back after a run and compliment an offensive lineman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault quarterbacked the 1987 Catholic Central team and said Perry “had very, very special gifts both physically and to connect with other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Galvin nor Passinault — or anyone else on the 1987 team — knew before Perry’s death what had become of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passinault, now a physician in Grand Rapids, wrote a eulogy for Perry’s memorial in late April:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Perry Foster\u003c/strong> was everything that we were, embodied in Scuba gloves, form-fitting No. 22 jersey, tightly kept fade, one lone towel giving defenders a hope of grabbing something, anything, that made them feel like they could tackle him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He was fast,\u003c/strong> he was proud, he was confident, he was tough, he was Perry. He never apologized for any of it. He was what we were, but he was just better at it than the rest of us were. He knew it and we knew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nobody has ever\u003c/strong> uttered the words: “Perry was OK.” The phrases were: “Perry is amazing.” “Perry is the best I have ever seen.” “We have to stop Perry.” “Perry is killing us.” …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… These words\u003c/strong> would be worthless tripe if not matched with the recognition of the glaring pain and struggle that Perry Foster lived in his life. I cannot for a moment, understand the pain and fear that came with his life on Earth, especially in his last years. I do not know how to reconcile the Perry in my memory, with the Perry in the interview as a homeless man in San Francisco. That is our struggle today. May each of us never forget what true excellence feels like, remember who singularly embodied that excellence, and lead compassionate and purpose-driven lives that embrace what we knew and what we know about our brother, Perry Foster.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hat happened? Here’s what I can piece together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry was born in 1970. His mother died when he was 3 or 4 years old. His father, Robert Foster, raised him, an older sister and an older brother on his own. He coached Perry and his brother, Bobby, for years in a youth football league. He said he watched Perry grow from a smart, determined but slow player into the defensive and offensive star he became in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d have tackles, he’d have fumble recoveries, he’d have kickoff and punt returns — he’d do it all,” Robert Foster said in an interview. “… He just got better, faster, stronger. And his will to win was always there, but it just took over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foster said he felt something was amiss with Perry as he finished high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I think he was doing drugs or something by that time — he was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing because he wasn’t acting right anymore,” Foster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result was that his son lost a scholarship to play football at the University of Michigan. The offer was withdrawn, Robert Foster said, because Perry had gotten into a serious fight at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan said it might reconsider, Foster said, if his son attended the university for a semester on a non-scholarship basis to show he could handle what was required of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, I got to get Perry off the streets. He can’t last a semester,’ ” Foster said. So instead, Perry went to Eastern Michigan, where his older brother, Bobby, was a starting running back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within two years — 1990 — both sons were out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Foster said in answer to questions on Facebook that while he can’t account for what happened to his brother, “Peer pressure led me into a way of life that was fueled by women, drugs, alcohol and partying. I lost myself, didn’t know who I was anymore and I ran out of gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster said he had found it increasingly difficult to reach Perry by this time, recounting an exchange with his son:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Perry, God gave you a talent. You got to use that in the right way to get to where you want to go.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘I made these legs! I did this!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Whoa! Whoa! Let me step back from you because lightning going to strike in a minute.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ne other development widened the breach between Robert Foster and his son: Perry came out as gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster, a former tool-and-die maker who went back to school to earn degrees in biblical studies and counseling, said, “I could accept Perry as Perry but not as Perry gay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that he and his son “butted heads” over the issue and that it became something that kept them apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry Foster’s timeline becomes a little hazy at this point. He spent time in Atlanta, where his older sister went to college. He spent time in Chicago and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault, the Grand Rapids Catholic Central quarterback, said he ran into Perry once, maybe 10 years ago, waiting tables in Saugatuck, a town on Lake Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I gave him a big, long hug and asked him, ‘How’s it going? What are you up to?’ ” Passinault said. “He just always had a story about why he was where he was and what was waiting for him next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ome time in 2008, Perry arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that over the next decade, he was arrested several times (typically on charges related to theft or drugs), jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly. Eventually he started living in a tent on the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to listen to those who encountered him during this journey, the charisma his high school teammates remember was intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maraea Master, who runs a program for homeless at-risk students at City College, got to know Perry during the two years she worked on San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perry had this manner about himself where it was like, ‘Yes, I live in this tent,’ but he really kept some sort of elegance to himself. He didn’t allow things to get dictated to him and how he should be looking and how he should be treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said that like many, many others living on the streets, Perry suffered from a wide range of physical ailments, mental illness and substance abuse. Sometimes it was not easy to help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would take a long time to put his meds in medi-sets (pill organizers) to make sure he would take them,” Master said. “And then like a week later I would be in someone else’s tent and I’ll see his medicine and I’ll be like, ‘God damn it, this is Perry’s medication! Why is it in here?’ And I’m just like, ‘Agghhh!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said Perry challenged police officers and Public Works employees sent to get him to move about their authority to do so — what some homeless outreach workers would term “a hard case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was vulnerable to the dangers of the streets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678109\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-240x203.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-375x317.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-520x440.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster in pictures posted to Facebook after being dragged from his tent and beaten in September 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last September, he was dragged from his tent and beaten and landed back in the hospital with facial fractures. He posted pictures to Facebook. One of those who responded was his brother, Bobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come home man and stop risking your life out there,” he wrote. “How many times have you been attacked? What’s it going to take before you realize you are so much better than that? You think you’re scared? It’s time for you to honestly assess your situation and make a sound judgment. Do you want to live or die? You are a cat that is running out of lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry dismissed his brother’s concern as “talkshow bullshit. … Shitte (sic) and life happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Perry’s friends, a man named Memphis whom I met outside his tent on South Van Ness Avenue, said Perry was afraid of conditions on the street and had been thinking about returning to Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was actually making plans to go home,” Memphis said. “And I told him he should go home months ago. But he said he needed to do something here first, let go of some things first, and then go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was that thing he needed to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry had talked about wanting to help people on the street, to give them a voice. His father, Robert Foster, said he told his son he needed to attend to his own needs first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, ‘Perry, the best way you can help anybody is to show them how to get out, show ‘em how to do better, by you getting out and doing better and then going back and helping people,'” Foster said. “‘You can’t help ’em where you at, because you in the same condition they in.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said Perry talked about coming home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But he wanted a round-trip ticket,” Foster said. “What you going to do with a round-trip ticket? You want to go back to hell? If you get out of hell, you want to go back?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 11, about a week after he’d been kicked out of an apartment where he’d been crashing with a friend, Perry died. The San Francisco medical examiner’s office has not issued a final cause of death, but Robert Foster said hospital officials told him Perry had died of a heroin overdose. City emergency response reports suggest that he died near Bryant and Division streets, just feet from where I met him two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard the news, Maraea Master, the former Homeless Outreach Team member, agonized over the circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Was Perry alone?” she asked herself. “Where was his help? Did he have anyone that was there visiting him regularly? Did anybody keep any of the things he wrote? Does he have any family anywhere? All of these things came up for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong — there’s a couple of Perrys to me out there. But I feel like his story is really important. … The world is really kind of missing something without him here — that guy who lived in that tent.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19491"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_24284","news_19542","news_4020","news_38","news_20268"],"featImg":"news_11678096","label":"news_72"},"news_11677912":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11677912","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11677912","score":null,"sort":[1530227208000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inside-one-of-oaklands-tuff-shed-homeless-communities","title":"Inside One of Oakland's 'Tuff Shed' Homeless Communities","publishDate":1530227208,"format":"audio","headTitle":"SF Homeless Project | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>They look like tool sheds, but in two spots in Oakland, they're serving as temporary homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has been experimenting with using Tuff Sheds as transitional housing for people who've been living in tents on the streets. Joe DeVries, assistant to Oakland's city administrator, prefers to call the sheds \"cabins.\" People began moving into the first cabin community in Oakland, between Castro and Brush streets, in the first days of 2018, after what DeVries says was some pretty heated discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It was not as readily accepted at first because no one knew what we were doing,\" DeVries says. But since then, he says the place has served at least 57 homeless people and gotten more than 20 into more stable housing. DeVries says one participant recently moved into a transitional housing center and told him, \"I'm ready for walls. I don't want to go back to living in a tent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second cabin community is now about a month old. Twenty cabins were built under Interstate 980, where one of Oakland's largest and most dangerous homeless encampments had grown. The cabins are insulated, with double-pane windows, to keep out cold, heat and noise from nearby BART tracks. Priority was given to people who had been camping out in the area the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident, who would identify himself only as \"Jermaine,\" lived on the streets in the area for four years. During that time, he says he was never ready to enter a program, never ready for walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wasn't ready for the drug programs. I just wasn't ready,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677932\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland's Tuff Shed homeless community, at 27th Street and Northgate Avenue, beneath Interstate 980 and BART tracks. \u003ccite>(Erika Kelly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But he says three weeks of living in the community changed his outlook. When he recently became very ill, his fellow residents urged him to seek medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was sick, very sick. I didn't realize how many people still loved me,\" Jermaine says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, is he finally \"ready for walls\"?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still arguing with my god about it, so to speak,\" Jermaine says. \"But he'll let me know something when he's finished playing with me. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The city of Oakland has been experimenting with using Tuff Sheds as transitional housing for people who've been living in tents on the streets.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530665756,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":398},"headData":{"title":"Inside One of Oakland's 'Tuff Shed' Homeless Communities | KQED","description":"The city of Oakland has been experimenting with using Tuff Sheds as transitional housing for people who've been living in tents on the streets.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11677912 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11677912","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/28/inside-one-of-oaklands-tuff-shed-homeless-communities/","disqusTitle":"Inside One of Oakland's 'Tuff Shed' Homeless Communities","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/06/WattOaklandSheds.mp3","path":"/news/11677912/inside-one-of-oaklands-tuff-shed-homeless-communities","audioDuration":457000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>They look like tool sheds, but in two spots in Oakland, they're serving as temporary homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has been experimenting with using Tuff Sheds as transitional housing for people who've been living in tents on the streets. Joe DeVries, assistant to Oakland's city administrator, prefers to call the sheds \"cabins.\" People began moving into the first cabin community in Oakland, between Castro and Brush streets, in the first days of 2018, after what DeVries says was some pretty heated discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It was not as readily accepted at first because no one knew what we were doing,\" DeVries says. But since then, he says the place has served at least 57 homeless people and gotten more than 20 into more stable housing. DeVries says one participant recently moved into a transitional housing center and told him, \"I'm ready for walls. I don't want to go back to living in a tent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second cabin community is now about a month old. Twenty cabins were built under Interstate 980, where one of Oakland's largest and most dangerous homeless encampments had grown. The cabins are insulated, with double-pane windows, to keep out cold, heat and noise from nearby BART tracks. Priority was given to people who had been camping out in the area the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident, who would identify himself only as \"Jermaine,\" lived on the streets in the area for four years. During that time, he says he was never ready to enter a program, never ready for walls.\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>\"I wasn't ready for the drug programs. I just wasn't ready,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677932\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland's Tuff Shed homeless community, at 27th Street and Northgate Avenue, beneath Interstate 980 and BART tracks. \u003ccite>(Erika Kelly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But he says three weeks of living in the community changed his outlook. 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