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Modersbach has spearheaded Alameda County’s efforts to count the deaths of unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As more Californians have fallen into homelessness — a number greater than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">181,000 at last count (PDF)\u003c/a> — more have died while unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred in part by Alameda County’s efforts, which are considered a national model for the field, the state recently began taking steps toward collecting this data. In 2022, California added a field to death records for homelessness status, and this year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271\">a law went into effect that empowers counties to set up homeless death review committees to determine the root causes of homeless mortality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several jurisdictions across the country seeking this data. The pandemic put a spotlight on the health vulnerabilities accompanying homelessness, and that has led to growing national interest in the topic, said Barbara DiPietro, senior director of policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">A recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and NYU found the death rate of people experiencing homelessness increased 238% between 2011 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Barbara DiPietro, National Health Care for the Homeless Council\"]‘Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.’[/pullquote]“One of the things that hopefully we took away from COVID is that homelessness is a public health issue,” she said. “Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the data is critical in assessing whether the state’s public health interventions for people on the streets work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is how we work to change things,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative. “One of the problems with not reporting it is that it makes it harder to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting statewide — let alone national — data detailing the number of unhoused deaths requires meticulous reporting on the part of local agencies. In the case of Alameda County, it was a system Modersbach had to build from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How they count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For each homeless mortality report, Modersbach and his colleagues first scour thousands of county death records, searching for clues that suggest homelessness: words like “encampment,” “tent” and “shelter.” They then cross reference that list with a database of everyone in the county who has experienced homelessness in the past five years — itself a bespoke repository that draws on the agency’s healthcare data and records from the county’s shelter and homeless assistance programs. To capture anyone they might miss, they cull information from service providers, media accounts and a public online portal for submitting tips about deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11973859,news_11974385]Since they began tracking homeless mortality, the team has traced an 80% increase in the number of deaths, which rose from 195 in 2018 to 351 in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/alameda-county-homeless-mortality.html\">the most recent year for which data was reported\u003c/a>. Over the same period, homelessness in the county jumped by nearly the same amount — or 77% — from 5,496 people to 9,747.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the numbers are snapshots of how and where people are dying. A body found in a car. An overdose at an encampment. People mangled by cars or trains; others charred. Modersbach finds the tableau at once unsurprising and shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the same inequities in our mortality data that are reflected in homelessness,” he said. Black people are overrepresented, comprising \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/asr1451/viz/TableauAlamedaCounty-HDXandSurveyData/SurveyTOC\">48% of the unhoused population\u003c/a> and accounting for 44% of the deaths — though they represent only 19% of deaths in the county’s general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are unhoused die at five times the rate of those with housing and do so more than two decades sooner — at an average age of 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The data shapes decisions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the deaths could be prevented, said Amy Garlin, Medical Director for Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream,” Garlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest share, 44% of the deaths among the homeless population, were caused by acute or chronic medical conditions, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and infections. Some of those appear to have been more immediately avoidable, Garlin said. “If these people had had medical care, they may not have died this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an encampment along East 12th Street in Oakland, Angel Gonzalez, 40, remembered the friends he’d known there who had died. An asthma attack claimed one, exposure another and a third succumbed to a fever. Though Gonzalez said he didn’t know what had caused the fever, he said people are often sick, and rat bites are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health-wise here, it’s bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s frequent violence, too. Gonzalez described a drive-by shooting that killed one friend and wounded others. But what claims most people in the camp, he and others said, is overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fentanyl is killing mostly everybody,” Gonzalez said, explaining that people unwittingly use fentanyl-laced meth or other drugs. “It’s kind of scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/25/why-california-doesnt-know-how-many-people-are-dying-while-homeless/angel-gonzalez_qut/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11980551\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg\" alt=\"a man stands in front of some cars and tents and belongings in an encampment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Gonzalez, 40, at an encampment on East 12th Street in Oakland, has seen many deaths at the camp, including from fevers, exposure, asthma attacks and gunshot wounds. But the most common cause by far is drug overdoses. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mortality data compiled by Modersbach’s team reflects this, with an alarming rate of overdose deaths among unhoused residents that is 44 times the general population’s. In response, they’ve expanded their harm reduction services, focusing on naloxone distribution and installing dispensers in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the East 12th Street camp, Gonzalez pointed out a purple dispenser on the street corner. Though Modersbach’s team had not installed it, it still proved lifesaving, Gonzalez said, when a friend recently used one of the naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless received \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/od2a/local.html\">a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> in 2023 to fund overdose response, a key part of their strategy to reduce mortality, and Modersbach credits their data for helping them get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amy Garlin, Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\"]‘You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream.’[/pullquote]In Minnesota, the only state with a statewide robust system for tracking homeless mortality, public health officials took a similar approach. A report on deaths between 2017 and 2021 showed unhoused people in the state were 10 times more likely than the general population to die of an overdose. Shortly after that data was released in 2023, state lawmakers passed drug overdose prevention legislation that expanded harm reduction and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness, decriminalized drug paraphernalia — a first for the U.S. — and funded “\u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/alcohol-drugs-addictions/programs-and-services/safe-recovery-sites.jsp\">safe recovery sites\u003c/a>” that offer clean needles, fentanyl testing and will eventually offer supervised drug consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the data was really useful in making the case for some of those things, both with legislators and with the public and advocates,” said Josh Leopold, senior advisor on health, homelessness and housing at the Minnesota Department of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s latest homeless mortality report is now prompting the team to focus on how to extend palliative care services to unhoused people with terminal illnesses. Garlin estimates almost one-fifth of those who died in 2022 would likely have been eligible for hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in the ‘labor of love’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modersbach’s team is also working to automate the most tedious aspects of compiling the county’s homeless mortality report and aims to launch a public dashboard later this year that will make information available quarterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is that we do not have timely data that we can act upon more quickly because of the workarounds that we have to do to get an accurate count,” Modersbach said. “We’re almost always looking backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977614 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/021422-FRESNO-HOMELESS-LV-08-CM-1020x680.jpg']The county’s latest tally, for 2022, was released at the beginning of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz, San Diego, San Mateo, Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/chie/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820967/deaths-of-homeless-people-spike-in-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are among the counties with varying degrees of reporting on homeless deaths. In Santa Clara County, an early champion of this work, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sccgov.org/Health/Medical-Examiner-Coroner-Unhoused-Homeless-Deaths-/kemd-3zbq/data\">a public dashboard tracking homeless mortality is updated nightly\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s Office credited its partnership with a third-party vendor with allowing it to return results so quickly. So far this year, the dashboard listed 51 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, about two dozen jurisdictions have homeless mortality reports that are issued with some regularity, according to DiPietro of the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council, which tracks these efforts. But because the reporting isn’t standardized, it’s difficult to draw comparisons between them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/240315-david-modersbach-md-03-kqed-02/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg\" alt=\"a computer screen shows a tally of numbers\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statistics on homeless mortality in Alameda County on David Modersbach’s computer in his office in Oakland on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, despite the recent efforts to improve this tracking, limited resources will likely continue to hamper the reporting of homeless deaths. Since 2022, when the state added a field on death reports to indicate a person’s housing status, Modersbach has seen some evidence people are filling it out, but he worries many unhoused deaths will continue to go uncounted around the state because the funeral directors, coroners and physicians filling out the reports don’t often have the resources to determine whether someone was housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lonely, costly battle to just put all this information together, not a funded mandate,” he said. “It’s kind of a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In counties with well-established systems for tracking these deaths, Modersbach hopes AB 271, by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), will make a difference. The new law allows counties to create homeless death review committees and access sensitive information about people who died. The data, which includes medical, mental health and criminal records, goes beyond what Modersbach and his team have so far been able to collect, giving them greater insight into the circumstances surrounding a person’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County assembled its death review committee last year, bringing together officials from several county agencies, homeless service providers and formerly unhoused people with the aim of finding ways to keep more people experiencing homelessness alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just getting started,” Modersbach said, “but this is the future for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As more Californians have fallen into homelessness, more have died unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t caught up. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711473624,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":2065},"headData":{"title":"Why California Doesn't Know How Many People Are Dying While Homeless | KQED","description":"As more Californians have fallen into homelessness, more have died unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t caught up. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/52cf0ed5-5881-4dad-90bf-b13f0105624e/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980547/why-california-doesnt-know-how-many-people-are-dying-while-homeless","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">N\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>early a decade ago, David Modersbach had what he thought was a straightforward question: How many unhoused people had died that year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants manager and his team at \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/\">Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\u003c/a> knew people were dying on the streets, but they wanted more than anecdotal evidence; they wanted data that could show them the big picture and help them hone their strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They queried the coroner’s bureau and were stunned by the response: only a single death had been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized there’s a lot of work to do,” Modersbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a bootstrap campaign to fill the data gap. It took years, and the work was sometimes lonely, often tedious and consistently heartbreaking. When the team finally released its first report in 2022, detailing deaths from 2018–20, they counted 195 people in Alameda County who died while homeless in 2018, plus another 189 people with recent histories of homelessness whose housing status couldn’t be verified at their time of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/david-modersbach-works-in-his-office-in-oakland-on-march-15-2024/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a man with glasses and long hair, wearing a flannel shirt, sits behind a computer\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Modersbach works in his office in Oakland. Modersbach has spearheaded Alameda County’s efforts to count the deaths of unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As more Californians have fallen into homelessness — a number greater than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">181,000 at last count (PDF)\u003c/a> — more have died while unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred in part by Alameda County’s efforts, which are considered a national model for the field, the state recently began taking steps toward collecting this data. In 2022, California added a field to death records for homelessness status, and this year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271\">a law went into effect that empowers counties to set up homeless death review committees to determine the root causes of homeless mortality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several jurisdictions across the country seeking this data. The pandemic put a spotlight on the health vulnerabilities accompanying homelessness, and that has led to growing national interest in the topic, said Barbara DiPietro, senior director of policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">A recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and NYU found the death rate of people experiencing homelessness increased 238% between 2011 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Barbara DiPietro, National Health Care for the Homeless Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the things that hopefully we took away from COVID is that homelessness is a public health issue,” she said. “Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the data is critical in assessing whether the state’s public health interventions for people on the streets work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is how we work to change things,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative. “One of the problems with not reporting it is that it makes it harder to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting statewide — let alone national — data detailing the number of unhoused deaths requires meticulous reporting on the part of local agencies. In the case of Alameda County, it was a system Modersbach had to build from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How they count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For each homeless mortality report, Modersbach and his colleagues first scour thousands of county death records, searching for clues that suggest homelessness: words like “encampment,” “tent” and “shelter.” They then cross reference that list with a database of everyone in the county who has experienced homelessness in the past five years — itself a bespoke repository that draws on the agency’s healthcare data and records from the county’s shelter and homeless assistance programs. To capture anyone they might miss, they cull information from service providers, media accounts and a public online portal for submitting tips about deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11973859,news_11974385","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since they began tracking homeless mortality, the team has traced an 80% increase in the number of deaths, which rose from 195 in 2018 to 351 in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/alameda-county-homeless-mortality.html\">the most recent year for which data was reported\u003c/a>. Over the same period, homelessness in the county jumped by nearly the same amount — or 77% — from 5,496 people to 9,747.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the numbers are snapshots of how and where people are dying. A body found in a car. An overdose at an encampment. People mangled by cars or trains; others charred. Modersbach finds the tableau at once unsurprising and shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the same inequities in our mortality data that are reflected in homelessness,” he said. Black people are overrepresented, comprising \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/asr1451/viz/TableauAlamedaCounty-HDXandSurveyData/SurveyTOC\">48% of the unhoused population\u003c/a> and accounting for 44% of the deaths — though they represent only 19% of deaths in the county’s general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are unhoused die at five times the rate of those with housing and do so more than two decades sooner — at an average age of 52.\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\u003ch2>The data shapes decisions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the deaths could be prevented, said Amy Garlin, Medical Director for Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream,” Garlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest share, 44% of the deaths among the homeless population, were caused by acute or chronic medical conditions, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and infections. Some of those appear to have been more immediately avoidable, Garlin said. “If these people had had medical care, they may not have died this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an encampment along East 12th Street in Oakland, Angel Gonzalez, 40, remembered the friends he’d known there who had died. An asthma attack claimed one, exposure another and a third succumbed to a fever. Though Gonzalez said he didn’t know what had caused the fever, he said people are often sick, and rat bites are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health-wise here, it’s bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s frequent violence, too. Gonzalez described a drive-by shooting that killed one friend and wounded others. But what claims most people in the camp, he and others said, is overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fentanyl is killing mostly everybody,” Gonzalez said, explaining that people unwittingly use fentanyl-laced meth or other drugs. “It’s kind of scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/25/why-california-doesnt-know-how-many-people-are-dying-while-homeless/angel-gonzalez_qut/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11980551\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg\" alt=\"a man stands in front of some cars and tents and belongings in an encampment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Gonzalez, 40, at an encampment on East 12th Street in Oakland, has seen many deaths at the camp, including from fevers, exposure, asthma attacks and gunshot wounds. But the most common cause by far is drug overdoses. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mortality data compiled by Modersbach’s team reflects this, with an alarming rate of overdose deaths among unhoused residents that is 44 times the general population’s. In response, they’ve expanded their harm reduction services, focusing on naloxone distribution and installing dispensers in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the East 12th Street camp, Gonzalez pointed out a purple dispenser on the street corner. Though Modersbach’s team had not installed it, it still proved lifesaving, Gonzalez said, when a friend recently used one of the naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless received \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/od2a/local.html\">a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> in 2023 to fund overdose response, a key part of their strategy to reduce mortality, and Modersbach credits their data for helping them get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Amy Garlin, Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Minnesota, the only state with a statewide robust system for tracking homeless mortality, public health officials took a similar approach. A report on deaths between 2017 and 2021 showed unhoused people in the state were 10 times more likely than the general population to die of an overdose. Shortly after that data was released in 2023, state lawmakers passed drug overdose prevention legislation that expanded harm reduction and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness, decriminalized drug paraphernalia — a first for the U.S. — and funded “\u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/alcohol-drugs-addictions/programs-and-services/safe-recovery-sites.jsp\">safe recovery sites\u003c/a>” that offer clean needles, fentanyl testing and will eventually offer supervised drug consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the data was really useful in making the case for some of those things, both with legislators and with the public and advocates,” said Josh Leopold, senior advisor on health, homelessness and housing at the Minnesota Department of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s latest homeless mortality report is now prompting the team to focus on how to extend palliative care services to unhoused people with terminal illnesses. Garlin estimates almost one-fifth of those who died in 2022 would likely have been eligible for hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in the ‘labor of love’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modersbach’s team is also working to automate the most tedious aspects of compiling the county’s homeless mortality report and aims to launch a public dashboard later this year that will make information available quarterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is that we do not have timely data that we can act upon more quickly because of the workarounds that we have to do to get an accurate count,” Modersbach said. “We’re almost always looking backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11977614","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/021422-FRESNO-HOMELESS-LV-08-CM-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The county’s latest tally, for 2022, was released at the beginning of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz, San Diego, San Mateo, Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/chie/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820967/deaths-of-homeless-people-spike-in-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are among the counties with varying degrees of reporting on homeless deaths. In Santa Clara County, an early champion of this work, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sccgov.org/Health/Medical-Examiner-Coroner-Unhoused-Homeless-Deaths-/kemd-3zbq/data\">a public dashboard tracking homeless mortality is updated nightly\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s Office credited its partnership with a third-party vendor with allowing it to return results so quickly. So far this year, the dashboard listed 51 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, about two dozen jurisdictions have homeless mortality reports that are issued with some regularity, according to DiPietro of the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council, which tracks these efforts. But because the reporting isn’t standardized, it’s difficult to draw comparisons between them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/240315-david-modersbach-md-03-kqed-02/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg\" alt=\"a computer screen shows a tally of numbers\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statistics on homeless mortality in Alameda County on David Modersbach’s computer in his office in Oakland on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, despite the recent efforts to improve this tracking, limited resources will likely continue to hamper the reporting of homeless deaths. Since 2022, when the state added a field on death reports to indicate a person’s housing status, Modersbach has seen some evidence people are filling it out, but he worries many unhoused deaths will continue to go uncounted around the state because the funeral directors, coroners and physicians filling out the reports don’t often have the resources to determine whether someone was housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lonely, costly battle to just put all this information together, not a funded mandate,” he said. “It’s kind of a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In counties with well-established systems for tracking these deaths, Modersbach hopes AB 271, by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), will make a difference. The new law allows counties to create homeless death review committees and access sensitive information about people who died. The data, which includes medical, mental health and criminal records, goes beyond what Modersbach and his team have so far been able to collect, giving them greater insight into the circumstances surrounding a person’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County assembled its death review committee last year, bringing together officials from several county agencies, homeless service providers and formerly unhoused people with the aim of finding ways to keep more people experiencing homelessness alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just getting started,” Modersbach said, “but this is the future for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980547/why-california-doesnt-know-how-many-people-are-dying-while-homeless","authors":["11276"],"categories":["news_457","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_260","news_27626","news_25740","news_4020"],"featImg":"news_11980548","label":"news"},"news_11980415":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980415","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980415","score":null,"sort":[1711063855000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-celebrates-proposition-1-victory-after-sleepless-weeks","title":"Newsom Celebrates Proposition 1 Victory After 'Sleepless Weeks'","publishDate":1711063855,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom Celebrates Proposition 1 Victory After ‘Sleepless Weeks’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated the passage of Proposition 1 on Thursday after his ambitious proposal to reshape care for Californians grappling with behavioral health issues and homelessness won narrow approval from voters following more than two weeks of vote counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change has its enemies, change is tough, change is hard,” Newsom said at a press conference in Los Angeles. “These have been a few long weeks, sleepless weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure authorizes the state to borrow nearly $6.4 billion to build residential treatment facilities and affordable apartments while also earmarking a greater share of future mental health dollars for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘Change has its enemies, change is tough, change is hard. These have been a few long weeks, sleepless weeks.’[/pullquote]After breathing a sigh of relief that Proposition 1 was able to survive an unfriendly primary electorate, Newsom aimed much of his remarks at the county governments who will be tasked with implementing many of the measure’s provisions. The governor acknowledged his legacy would hinge in part on the rollout of the measure and related programs at the intersection of behavioral health and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got three more years here, roughly, to prove that we can make a dent in this,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> called Proposition 1’s victory late Wednesday. The measure currently leads by just under 30,000 votes — out of more than 7 million ballots cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broad bipartisan coalition backed Proposition 1, and supporters vastly outspent a mostly volunteer group of opponents. However, the low turnout in the primary resulted in an electorate that skewed conservative. These voters may have looked askance at the billions in borrowing that the measure proposed, political strategist Marva Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had an uphill climb here with — there’s a budget deficit, prices are pretty high right now for families and we’re asking them to then say yes on a bond,” said Diaz, the owner and publisher of the California Target Book. “That perfect storm just made it very, very difficult but they ended up pulling it off and it passed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz also pointed to the measure’s complexity: In addition to the bond, Proposition 1 will rework the Mental Health Services Act, in part by expanding services to Californians with substance use challenges and setting aside 30% of the act’s revenue for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11980236,news_11979822,news_11977998\"]“It’s always easier to run a ballot measure that is extremely simple and clear to voters,” she said. “The more they have to research, the more they have to unpack, the more they have to figure out themselves, the harder it is to get them to vote yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Newsom said voters may have been skeptical that the housing promised by Proposition 1 would be built quickly, citing the slow rollout of previous state bonds. But the governor pointed to language in the measure that will allow projects to skip environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to start putting out notices for funding availability in just a matter of months, the first ones come out in October,” Newsom said. “That’s unprecedented in California history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With funding secured, Newsom turned his attention to California’s county governments, who will largely be tasked with implementing the new behavioral health law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done our job, now the cities and counties need to step up,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those same counties opposed Proposition 1, fearing that the new focus on housing would reduce funding for the counseling, screening and preventative programs that counties currently bankroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association, applauded the new investments in housing but said, “Such a massive shift in our behavioral health care system will take time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Simmons, 'no' campaign leader and former executive director, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance California\"]‘We’re going to try to hold [the Newsom administration’s] feet to the fire to make sure that things aren’t cut or that they have to own up to the cuts that are made.’[/pullquote]“Adding new focus and requirements to fund housing placements and substance use disorder services from a source of funding previously dedicated to mental health services will require counties to work in partnership with the state and local communities to identify solutions for the legacy mental health programs currently funded through the MHSA,” Cabrera said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the campaign against Proposition 1 said they were now bracing for cuts to existing mental health programs, particularly support networks led by Californians with lived experience with behavioral health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that says ‘peer’ next to it is endangered,” said Paul Simmons, a leader of the no campaign and former executive director of Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to try to hold [the Newsom administration’s] feet to the fire to make sure that things aren’t cut or that they have to own up to the cuts that are made,” Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Governor challenges California counties to implement historic bond and changes to mental health funding.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711125097,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":906},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Celebrates Proposition 1 Victory After 'Sleepless Weeks' | KQED","description":"Governor challenges California counties to implement historic bond and changes to mental health funding.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980415/newsom-celebrates-proposition-1-victory-after-sleepless-weeks","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated the passage of Proposition 1 on Thursday after his ambitious proposal to reshape care for Californians grappling with behavioral health issues and homelessness won narrow approval from voters following more than two weeks of vote counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change has its enemies, change is tough, change is hard,” Newsom said at a press conference in Los Angeles. “These have been a few long weeks, sleepless weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure authorizes the state to borrow nearly $6.4 billion to build residential treatment facilities and affordable apartments while also earmarking a greater share of future mental health dollars for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Change has its enemies, change is tough, change is hard. These have been a few long weeks, sleepless weeks.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"California Gov. Gavin Newsom","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After breathing a sigh of relief that Proposition 1 was able to survive an unfriendly primary electorate, Newsom aimed much of his remarks at the county governments who will be tasked with implementing many of the measure’s provisions. The governor acknowledged his legacy would hinge in part on the rollout of the measure and related programs at the intersection of behavioral health and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got three more years here, roughly, to prove that we can make a dent in this,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> called Proposition 1’s victory late Wednesday. The measure currently leads by just under 30,000 votes — out of more than 7 million ballots cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broad bipartisan coalition backed Proposition 1, and supporters vastly outspent a mostly volunteer group of opponents. However, the low turnout in the primary resulted in an electorate that skewed conservative. These voters may have looked askance at the billions in borrowing that the measure proposed, political strategist Marva Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had an uphill climb here with — there’s a budget deficit, prices are pretty high right now for families and we’re asking them to then say yes on a bond,” said Diaz, the owner and publisher of the California Target Book. “That perfect storm just made it very, very difficult but they ended up pulling it off and it passed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz also pointed to the measure’s complexity: In addition to the bond, Proposition 1 will rework the Mental Health Services Act, in part by expanding services to Californians with substance use challenges and setting aside 30% of the act’s revenue for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11980236,news_11979822,news_11977998"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s always easier to run a ballot measure that is extremely simple and clear to voters,” she said. “The more they have to research, the more they have to unpack, the more they have to figure out themselves, the harder it is to get them to vote yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Newsom said voters may have been skeptical that the housing promised by Proposition 1 would be built quickly, citing the slow rollout of previous state bonds. But the governor pointed to language in the measure that will allow projects to skip environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to start putting out notices for funding availability in just a matter of months, the first ones come out in October,” Newsom said. “That’s unprecedented in California history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With funding secured, Newsom turned his attention to California’s county governments, who will largely be tasked with implementing the new behavioral health law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done our job, now the cities and counties need to step up,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those same counties opposed Proposition 1, fearing that the new focus on housing would reduce funding for the counseling, screening and preventative programs that counties currently bankroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association, applauded the new investments in housing but said, “Such a massive shift in our behavioral health care system will take time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re going to try to hold [the Newsom administration’s] feet to the fire to make sure that things aren’t cut or that they have to own up to the cuts that are made.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Paul Simmons, 'no' campaign leader and former executive director, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance California","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Adding new focus and requirements to fund housing placements and substance use disorder services from a source of funding previously dedicated to mental health services will require counties to work in partnership with the state and local communities to identify solutions for the legacy mental health programs currently funded through the MHSA,” Cabrera said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the campaign against Proposition 1 said they were now bracing for cuts to existing mental health programs, particularly support networks led by Californians with lived experience with behavioral health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that says ‘peer’ next to it is endangered,” said Paul Simmons, a leader of the no campaign and former executive director of Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to try to hold [the Newsom administration’s] feet to the fire to make sure that things aren’t cut or that they have to own up to the cuts that are made,” Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980415/newsom-celebrates-proposition-1-victory-after-sleepless-weeks","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6317","news_32839","news_16","news_4020","news_1775","news_2109","news_17968","news_17101"],"featImg":"news_11980424","label":"news"},"news_11980236":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980236","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980236","score":null,"sort":[1710985704000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness","title":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness","publishDate":1710985704,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homeless-california-study-poverty-high-rent-a2a4bfc9b386cb70fdd14d593f31b68c\">state’s homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who personally campaigned for the measure’s passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering 2–to–1 in California, and the borderline vote — coming more than two weeks after Election Day — signaled unease with the state’s homeless policies after Newsom’s administration invested billions of dollars in getting people off the street. However, no dramatic change has been seen in Los Angeles and other large cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States; roughly 181,000 Californians are in need of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who made the measure a signature proposal, spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf. He raised more than $13 million to promote it with the support of law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and mayors of major cities. Opponents raised just $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness and a victory for doing things radically different,” Newsom said in a statement after the measure’s razor-thin victory was announced. “Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. This historic reform will only succeed if we all kick into action immediately — state government and local leaders, together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will now be required to spend about two-thirds of the money from a voter-approved tax on millionaires, enacted in 2004, for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance-abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from that tax, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state’s total mental health budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on homelessness\" tag=\"homelessness\"]The state, with a current inventory of 5,500 beds, needs some 8,000 more units to treat mental health and addiction issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also allows the state to borrow $6.38 billion to build 4,350 housing units, half of which will be reserved for veterans, and add 6,800 mental health and addiction-treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including many social service providers and county officials, said the change would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homelessness-initiative-mental-health-3e6765a30343f7cc0147efd40f5a2f2f\">threaten programs\u003c/a> that are not solely focused on housing or drug treatment but keep people from losing their homes in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said the single formula could mean rural counties such as Butte, with a homeless population of fewer than 1,300 people, would be required to divert the same percentage of funds to housing as urban counties such as San Francisco, which has a homeless population of six times bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With makeshift tents lining streets and disrupting businesses in communities across the state, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to dog Newsom should he ever mount a presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom touted the proposition as the final piece in his plan to reform California’s mental health system. He has already pushed for laws that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce\">make it easier to force people\u003c/a> with behavioral health issues into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Elias, a television producer in Sacramento, said he “was on the fence” about Proposition 1 but decided to vote in favor of it because of the pervasive homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that’s all around us right now,” he said. “We got all these tents out here in front of City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only logical, you know, we have to do something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted against the measure out of concern that it would result in more people being locked up against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was appalled of the system of laws that he has been building to kind of erode the rights of people with mental disabilities,” Wolf said of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Bovee, a Republican state worker in Sacramento, also voted against the proposition and said the state has been wasting taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento really shouldn’t get another dime until they actually figure out why what they’re doing is not working,” he said of the state’s handling of the homelessness crisis. “They spent $20 billion over the past few years trying to fix that problem, and it got worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opponents also said the ballot measure would cut funding from cultural centers, peer-support programs and vocational services and would pit those programs against services for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has already spent at least $22 billion on various programs to address the crisis, including $3.5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-california-coronavirus-pandemic-835c2091c63c199d397346a497e7ae49\">convert rundown motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>. California is also giving out $2 billion in grants to build more treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years, the measure marks a big win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711061054,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":871},"headData":{"title":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness | KQED","description":"The first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years, the measure marks a big win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Trân Nguyẽn\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homeless-california-study-poverty-high-rent-a2a4bfc9b386cb70fdd14d593f31b68c\">state’s homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who personally campaigned for the measure’s passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering 2–to–1 in California, and the borderline vote — coming more than two weeks after Election Day — signaled unease with the state’s homeless policies after Newsom’s administration invested billions of dollars in getting people off the street. However, no dramatic change has been seen in Los Angeles and other large cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States; roughly 181,000 Californians are in need of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who made the measure a signature proposal, spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf. He raised more than $13 million to promote it with the support of law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and mayors of major cities. Opponents raised just $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years.\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>“This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness and a victory for doing things radically different,” Newsom said in a statement after the measure’s razor-thin victory was announced. “Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. This historic reform will only succeed if we all kick into action immediately — state government and local leaders, together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will now be required to spend about two-thirds of the money from a voter-approved tax on millionaires, enacted in 2004, for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance-abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from that tax, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state’s total mental health budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more on homelessness ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state, with a current inventory of 5,500 beds, needs some 8,000 more units to treat mental health and addiction issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also allows the state to borrow $6.38 billion to build 4,350 housing units, half of which will be reserved for veterans, and add 6,800 mental health and addiction-treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including many social service providers and county officials, said the change would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homelessness-initiative-mental-health-3e6765a30343f7cc0147efd40f5a2f2f\">threaten programs\u003c/a> that are not solely focused on housing or drug treatment but keep people from losing their homes in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said the single formula could mean rural counties such as Butte, with a homeless population of fewer than 1,300 people, would be required to divert the same percentage of funds to housing as urban counties such as San Francisco, which has a homeless population of six times bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With makeshift tents lining streets and disrupting businesses in communities across the state, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to dog Newsom should he ever mount a presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom touted the proposition as the final piece in his plan to reform California’s mental health system. He has already pushed for laws that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce\">make it easier to force people\u003c/a> with behavioral health issues into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Elias, a television producer in Sacramento, said he “was on the fence” about Proposition 1 but decided to vote in favor of it because of the pervasive homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that’s all around us right now,” he said. “We got all these tents out here in front of City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only logical, you know, we have to do something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted against the measure out of concern that it would result in more people being locked up against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was appalled of the system of laws that he has been building to kind of erode the rights of people with mental disabilities,” Wolf said of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Bovee, a Republican state worker in Sacramento, also voted against the proposition and said the state has been wasting taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento really shouldn’t get another dime until they actually figure out why what they’re doing is not working,” he said of the state’s handling of the homelessness crisis. “They spent $20 billion over the past few years trying to fix that problem, and it got worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opponents also said the ballot measure would cut funding from cultural centers, peer-support programs and vocational services and would pit those programs against services for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has already spent at least $22 billion on various programs to address the crisis, including $3.5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-california-coronavirus-pandemic-835c2091c63c199d397346a497e7ae49\">convert rundown motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>. California is also giving out $2 billion in grants to build more treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness","authors":["byline_news_11980236"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32839","news_27626","news_16","news_4020","news_18536","news_17101"],"featImg":"news_11979100","label":"news"},"news_11979919":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979919","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979919","score":null,"sort":[1710871796000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-may-offload-trailers-to-oakland-used-for-pandemic-emergency-housing","title":"San Francisco May Offload Its Pandemic Emergency Housing Trailers to Oakland","publishDate":1710871796,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco May Offload Its Pandemic Emergency Housing Trailers to Oakland | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After winding down a trailer site at Pier 94 used for emergency housing during the pandemic, San Francisco is now looking to offload a portion of its RVs to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council will consider accepting up to \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6565671&GUID=4B00A68B-8528-428A-AC7C-94BFD14FFD92\">60 of the 120 trailers\u003c/a>, which could be donated to nonprofits that provide shelter to people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential handoff comes nearly four years after Gov. Gavin Newsom sent nearly 1,300 trailers across the state to help California counties house people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947567/what-happened-to-the-1300-rvs-gov-newsom-sent-to-address-homelessness-back-in-2020\">saw mixed outcomes across the state\u003c/a> — with some cities embracing the solution and others letting the trailers gather dust. But in San Francisco, the trailer site at Pier 94 ultimately became the city’s longest-running COVID-response emergency housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A line of trailers sits inside a park with wire fencing in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Located at an industrial site in the city’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, the trailers were always intended to be a temporary measure. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness pushed to keep it open so residents could find housing placements before exiting. Altogether, the program ran from April 2020 until January 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), said city leaders had hoped to keep the program running at another location but, after months of searching, couldn’t find a suitable replacement site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Thomas Taylor, supervisor, Felton Institute\"]‘This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets. It showed them that there are people actually there for them.’[/pullquote]The Port of San Francisco owns Pier 94 and has plans to eventually use the site for offshore wind production. In the near future, it will be available for lease, according to Eric Young, director of communications for the Port of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that all RV residents have moved out, the city must figure out what to do with the trailers Oakland doesn’t claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets,” said Thomas Taylor, who left his job as a banker early in the pandemic to become a supervisor at the Felton Institute, which oversaw the trailer program. “It showed them that there are people actually there for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Life at Pier 94\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-born Christina Zeigler said the space gave her a chance to figuratively — and quite literally — get back on her feet. In 2018, her landlord sold the duplex in the city of Richmond, where she had lived for eight years. After losing the home she loved, Zeigler struggled to find a new spot she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She crashed with friends and family, but then another setback further entrenched her struggle to find housing. In October 2021, she tore her meniscus while working as a janitor in San Francisco’s Federal Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman is seen from the neck down holding a photo with four African Americans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Zeigler holds a photo of herself (top right) and her Felton Institute caseworker (top center) in her apartment in San Francisco on March 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was just devastating to me, that was really tough,” Zeigler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a trailer at Pier 94 in December 2022 and said she used her time there to rest, collect herself and move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to be somewhere to focus on my healing and nursing my injury,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Zeigler had access to three meals a day, got help with financial planning and put in applications for permanent housing. Residents could also participate in communal activities, like talent shows and holiday parties. Zeigler regularly spent time in the program’s women’s group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met some really great people there,” Zeigler said. “I interacted with the program so much that sometimes even other clients thought I was staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christina Zeigler\"]‘I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there. This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.’[/pullquote]Zeigler was one of 301 people who lived in the trailers throughout the life of the program. After stopping new intakes in April 2023, the last remaining resident moved out and into permanent housing in January 2024. Zeigler moved out in June 2023 and now lives in an apartment in the Tenderloin. She keeps the place meticulously organized — with shoes lined up at the entrance and pieces of art and 49ers memorabilia intentionally placed throughout the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there,” Zeigler said. “This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of the Pier 94 residents identify as Black or African American, including Zeigler, and the program prioritized spaces for people living within the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Most were between 45 and 64 years of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three-quarters — or 72% — of the 114 residents who were living at the site by the time it started winding down moved on to permanent housing, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Of those, about half moved into San Francisco’s permanent supportive housing, and the other half received subsidies for private-market rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979689\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979689\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A row of trailers seen from the ground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the remaining 28% moved on for various reasons. Some moved back in with family, others moved into homeless shelters, and the rest are completely unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An imperfect solution or missed opportunity?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city spent $6.4 million annually to run the shelter site at Pier 94. Of that, the bulk — $6.1 million — went to the Felton Institute and on-site services. About $300,000 was dedicated to trailer maintenance, according to HSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11970299,news_11965352,news_11947567\"]But concerns over the 3-acre site’s location — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-cement-plant-pier-94-18411201.php\">adjacent to a toxic debris-crushing site\u003c/a> — led even supporters to agree the site was not ideal for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The site was always intended to be a temporary emergency COVID intervention measure,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with issues at the site itself, Bouck said that the trailers were expensive to maintain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more cost-effective and space-efficient ways to build low-barrier non-congregate shelter programs — such as tiny cabins,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities had less success with the trailers. San José, for example, returned them after only a few months, citing costly repairs and a lack of necessary water and electricity hookups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city,” Jeff Scott, a spokesperson for San José’s housing department, previously told KQED. “We transitioned our residents into other accommodations and returned the trailers to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man with a gray blazer and white shirt and a blue beanie stands in front of a house looking away from camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Taylor at a Felton Institute office in San Francisco on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the RVs provided a significant opportunity for San Francisco, which faces a dramatic shortage of housing and shelter beds for people who need them. The city estimated in 2022 that more than 7,000 people are experiencing homelessness, but it has just over 3,000 shelter beds. On March 14, there were 107 people on the city’s online shelter reservation waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing the 120 trailers at Pier 94 will further that crunch. Taylor hopes that the program can eventually come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a difference in clients when you are actively there for them, having conversations and supporting their well-being,” he said. “We’ll hopefully rebuild this program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Without a site to reuse its state-provided trailers, which were set up at Pier 94 during the pandemic, San Francisco may donate a portion to Oakland and other cities around the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710882228,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1381},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco May Offload Its Pandemic Emergency Housing Trailers to Oakland | KQED","description":"Without a site to reuse its state-provided trailers, which were set up at Pier 94 during the pandemic, San Francisco may donate a portion to Oakland and other cities around the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]/170bcf73-a866-465f-a8b1-b1380107b8ac/audio.mp3?download=true","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979919/san-francisco-may-offload-trailers-to-oakland-used-for-pandemic-emergency-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After winding down a trailer site at Pier 94 used for emergency housing during the pandemic, San Francisco is now looking to offload a portion of its RVs to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council will consider accepting up to \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6565671&GUID=4B00A68B-8528-428A-AC7C-94BFD14FFD92\">60 of the 120 trailers\u003c/a>, which could be donated to nonprofits that provide shelter to people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential handoff comes nearly four years after Gov. Gavin Newsom sent nearly 1,300 trailers across the state to help California counties house people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947567/what-happened-to-the-1300-rvs-gov-newsom-sent-to-address-homelessness-back-in-2020\">saw mixed outcomes across the state\u003c/a> — with some cities embracing the solution and others letting the trailers gather dust. But in San Francisco, the trailer site at Pier 94 ultimately became the city’s longest-running COVID-response emergency housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A line of trailers sits inside a park with wire fencing in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Located at an industrial site in the city’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, the trailers were always intended to be a temporary measure. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness pushed to keep it open so residents could find housing placements before exiting. Altogether, the program ran from April 2020 until January 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), said city leaders had hoped to keep the program running at another location but, after months of searching, couldn’t find a suitable replacement site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets. It showed them that there are people actually there for them.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Thomas Taylor, supervisor, Felton Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Port of San Francisco owns Pier 94 and has plans to eventually use the site for offshore wind production. In the near future, it will be available for lease, according to Eric Young, director of communications for the Port of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that all RV residents have moved out, the city must figure out what to do with the trailers Oakland doesn’t claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets,” said Thomas Taylor, who left his job as a banker early in the pandemic to become a supervisor at the Felton Institute, which oversaw the trailer program. “It showed them that there are people actually there for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Life at Pier 94\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-born Christina Zeigler said the space gave her a chance to figuratively — and quite literally — get back on her feet. In 2018, her landlord sold the duplex in the city of Richmond, where she had lived for eight years. After losing the home she loved, Zeigler struggled to find a new spot she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She crashed with friends and family, but then another setback further entrenched her struggle to find housing. In October 2021, she tore her meniscus while working as a janitor in San Francisco’s Federal Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman is seen from the neck down holding a photo with four African Americans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Zeigler holds a photo of herself (top right) and her Felton Institute caseworker (top center) in her apartment in San Francisco on March 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was just devastating to me, that was really tough,” Zeigler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a trailer at Pier 94 in December 2022 and said she used her time there to rest, collect herself and move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to be somewhere to focus on my healing and nursing my injury,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Zeigler had access to three meals a day, got help with financial planning and put in applications for permanent housing. Residents could also participate in communal activities, like talent shows and holiday parties. Zeigler regularly spent time in the program’s women’s group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met some really great people there,” Zeigler said. “I interacted with the program so much that sometimes even other clients thought I was staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there. This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Christina Zeigler","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Zeigler was one of 301 people who lived in the trailers throughout the life of the program. After stopping new intakes in April 2023, the last remaining resident moved out and into permanent housing in January 2024. Zeigler moved out in June 2023 and now lives in an apartment in the Tenderloin. She keeps the place meticulously organized — with shoes lined up at the entrance and pieces of art and 49ers memorabilia intentionally placed throughout the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there,” Zeigler said. “This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of the Pier 94 residents identify as Black or African American, including Zeigler, and the program prioritized spaces for people living within the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Most were between 45 and 64 years of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three-quarters — or 72% — of the 114 residents who were living at the site by the time it started winding down moved on to permanent housing, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Of those, about half moved into San Francisco’s permanent supportive housing, and the other half received subsidies for private-market rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979689\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979689\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A row of trailers seen from the ground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the remaining 28% moved on for various reasons. Some moved back in with family, others moved into homeless shelters, and the rest are completely unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An imperfect solution or missed opportunity?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city spent $6.4 million annually to run the shelter site at Pier 94. Of that, the bulk — $6.1 million — went to the Felton Institute and on-site services. About $300,000 was dedicated to trailer maintenance, according to HSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11970299,news_11965352,news_11947567"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But concerns over the 3-acre site’s location — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-cement-plant-pier-94-18411201.php\">adjacent to a toxic debris-crushing site\u003c/a> — led even supporters to agree the site was not ideal for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The site was always intended to be a temporary emergency COVID intervention measure,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with issues at the site itself, Bouck said that the trailers were expensive to maintain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more cost-effective and space-efficient ways to build low-barrier non-congregate shelter programs — such as tiny cabins,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities had less success with the trailers. San José, for example, returned them after only a few months, citing costly repairs and a lack of necessary water and electricity hookups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city,” Jeff Scott, a spokesperson for San José’s housing department, previously told KQED. “We transitioned our residents into other accommodations and returned the trailers to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man with a gray blazer and white shirt and a blue beanie stands in front of a house looking away from camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Taylor at a Felton Institute office in San Francisco on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the RVs provided a significant opportunity for San Francisco, which faces a dramatic shortage of housing and shelter beds for people who need them. The city estimated in 2022 that more than 7,000 people are experiencing homelessness, but it has just over 3,000 shelter beds. On March 14, there were 107 people on the city’s online shelter reservation waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing the 120 trailers at Pier 94 will further that crunch. Taylor hopes that the program can eventually come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a difference in clients when you are actively there for them, having conversations and supporting their well-being,” he said. “We’ll hopefully rebuild this program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979919/san-francisco-may-offload-trailers-to-oakland-used-for-pandemic-emergency-housing","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_4020","news_18","news_24635","news_38","news_32671"],"featImg":"news_11978509","label":"news"},"news_11979508":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979508","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979508","score":null,"sort":[1710457240000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-residents-sue-for-drug-and-tent-free-streets-in-tenderloin-district","title":"San Francisco Residents Sue for Drug and Tent-Free Streets in Tenderloin District","publishDate":1710457240,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco Residents Sue for Drug and Tent-Free Streets in Tenderloin District | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Two hotels and several residents of San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin district sued the city on Thursday, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use and other vices, making residents terrified to leave their homes and businesses unable to recruit staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mayor London Breed's office, San Francisco\"]‘We have made improvements in the neighborhood, but the mayor understands the frustrations of residents and businesses in the Tenderloin and will continue her efforts to make the neighborhood safer and cleaner.’[/pullquote]Plaintiffs do not seek monetary damages, according to the complaint filed in federal court. Instead, they want officials to clear sidewalks of illegal drug dealers and fentanyl users, violent behavior and tent encampments and to treat the Tenderloin as it would any other neighborhood where crime is not tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say city officials have allowed such behavior to flourish in the area — and not spill into other neighborhoods — by refusing to keep sidewalks clear for people using walkers or wheelchairs and failing to ban sidewalk vending, among other acts of omission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They demand an end to the rampant illegal street vending and from the squalor and misery that exists throughout their neighborhood because the city has decided that people in the throes of addiction can live and die on the Tenderloin’s streets,” says Matt Davis, one of the attorneys, in a prepared statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin has long troubled city leaders, including Mayor London Breed, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crime-san-francisco-violent-crime-opioids-homelessness-9eddffa63f3e85759b520f76a6656333\">declared an emergency\u003c/a> in the district and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crime-california-san-francisco-opioids-government-and-politics-54b7b35cdca54d4640c1d5dbf28f7b9a\">twice vowed crackdowns\u003c/a> on drugs. She is in a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-election-cb54e5d3bb03bd02df94ce38bbd92c56\">tough reelection contest\u003c/a> in November when she faces three serious challengers who say her administration has failed to address homelessness, encampments or the open-air drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s office says the recently \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-crime-drugs-police-election-485b6f3a143f4441266251783d778489\">approved Proposition E\u003c/a>, which she put on the ballot, will bring more officers and resources to the neighborhood, including surveillance cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have made improvements in the neighborhood, but the mayor understands the frustrations of residents and businesses in the Tenderloin and will continue her efforts to make the neighborhood safer and cleaner,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office cited a court injunction from a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-san-francisco-homelessness-government-and-politics-e68aead31fa74c5224885c0bb9d7afeb#:~:text=Defendants%20include%20the%20city%2C%20several,tents%20and%20vehicles%20as%20shelter.\">2022 lawsuit filed by unhoused people\u003c/a> and their advocates against the city that Breed and other officials say limits their ability to dismantle encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11975156,news_11972898,news_11976518\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The judge, in that case, ordered city officials to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-homeless-tent-encampments-9th-circuit-d618db8fdbd8cefcfe4a1ff50c122987\">stop forcing unhoused people\u003c/a> from public camping sites unless they have been offered appropriate shelter indoors. The issue is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are five anonymous plaintiffs in Thursday’s lawsuit, along with entities that operate the Phoenix Hotel and the Best Western Road Coach Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Jane Roe, a married housekeeper with two young children who doesn’t make enough money to move. Drug dealers block the entrance to her building, and she often sees “users openly injecting or smoking narcotics” and people on the ground “who appear unconscious or dead,” the complaint states. Her children can never be outside without a parent, she alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Roe is elderly and uses a walker, but shopping carts and broken-down bicycles block the sidewalk, forcing her to step out into the busy street, according to the complaint. She also has to navigate around “excrement, used syringes, vomit and garbage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operators of the Phoenix Hotel say a hotel employee was struck in the head when they asked a trespasser to leave the parking lot, and its restaurant has been unable to recruit a qualified chef because of street conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same lawyers on Thursday also filed a new motion on behalf of the College of the Law, San Francisco, demanding that city officials reduce the number of tents in the Tenderloin, as they had pledged to do to settle a lawsuit over street conditions filed by the school in May 2020. The city initially showed “significant success,” the motion states, but has since lost ground.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The complaint filed in federal court on Thursday says San Francisco uses the neighborhood as a containment zone for drugs, violence and illegal vending so other neighborhoods are spared.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710460006,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":686},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Residents Sue for Drug and Tent-Free Streets in Tenderloin District | KQED","description":"The complaint filed in federal court on Thursday says San Francisco uses the neighborhood as a containment zone for drugs, violence and illegal vending so other neighborhoods are spared.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Janie Har\u003cbr>The Associated Press\u003c/br>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979508/san-francisco-residents-sue-for-drug-and-tent-free-streets-in-tenderloin-district","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two hotels and several residents of San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin district sued the city on Thursday, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use and other vices, making residents terrified to leave their homes and businesses unable to recruit staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We have made improvements in the neighborhood, but the mayor understands the frustrations of residents and businesses in the Tenderloin and will continue her efforts to make the neighborhood safer and cleaner.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mayor London Breed's office, San Francisco","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Plaintiffs do not seek monetary damages, according to the complaint filed in federal court. Instead, they want officials to clear sidewalks of illegal drug dealers and fentanyl users, violent behavior and tent encampments and to treat the Tenderloin as it would any other neighborhood where crime is not tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say city officials have allowed such behavior to flourish in the area — and not spill into other neighborhoods — by refusing to keep sidewalks clear for people using walkers or wheelchairs and failing to ban sidewalk vending, among other acts of omission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They demand an end to the rampant illegal street vending and from the squalor and misery that exists throughout their neighborhood because the city has decided that people in the throes of addiction can live and die on the Tenderloin’s streets,” says Matt Davis, one of the attorneys, in a prepared statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin has long troubled city leaders, including Mayor London Breed, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crime-san-francisco-violent-crime-opioids-homelessness-9eddffa63f3e85759b520f76a6656333\">declared an emergency\u003c/a> in the district and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crime-california-san-francisco-opioids-government-and-politics-54b7b35cdca54d4640c1d5dbf28f7b9a\">twice vowed crackdowns\u003c/a> on drugs. She is in a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-election-cb54e5d3bb03bd02df94ce38bbd92c56\">tough reelection contest\u003c/a> in November when she faces three serious challengers who say her administration has failed to address homelessness, encampments or the open-air drug market.\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>Breed’s office says the recently \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-crime-drugs-police-election-485b6f3a143f4441266251783d778489\">approved Proposition E\u003c/a>, which she put on the ballot, will bring more officers and resources to the neighborhood, including surveillance cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have made improvements in the neighborhood, but the mayor understands the frustrations of residents and businesses in the Tenderloin and will continue her efforts to make the neighborhood safer and cleaner,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office cited a court injunction from a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-san-francisco-homelessness-government-and-politics-e68aead31fa74c5224885c0bb9d7afeb#:~:text=Defendants%20include%20the%20city%2C%20several,tents%20and%20vehicles%20as%20shelter.\">2022 lawsuit filed by unhoused people\u003c/a> and their advocates against the city that Breed and other officials say limits their ability to dismantle encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11975156,news_11972898,news_11976518","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The judge, in that case, ordered city officials to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-homeless-tent-encampments-9th-circuit-d618db8fdbd8cefcfe4a1ff50c122987\">stop forcing unhoused people\u003c/a> from public camping sites unless they have been offered appropriate shelter indoors. The issue is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are five anonymous plaintiffs in Thursday’s lawsuit, along with entities that operate the Phoenix Hotel and the Best Western Road Coach Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Jane Roe, a married housekeeper with two young children who doesn’t make enough money to move. Drug dealers block the entrance to her building, and she often sees “users openly injecting or smoking narcotics” and people on the ground “who appear unconscious or dead,” the complaint states. Her children can never be outside without a parent, she alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Roe is elderly and uses a walker, but shopping carts and broken-down bicycles block the sidewalk, forcing her to step out into the busy street, according to the complaint. She also has to navigate around “excrement, used syringes, vomit and garbage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operators of the Phoenix Hotel say a hotel employee was struck in the head when they asked a trespasser to leave the parking lot, and its restaurant has been unable to recruit a qualified chef because of street conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same lawyers on Thursday also filed a new motion on behalf of the College of the Law, San Francisco, demanding that city officials reduce the number of tents in the Tenderloin, as they had pledged to do to settle a lawsuit over street conditions filed by the school in May 2020. The city initially showed “significant success,” the motion states, but has since lost ground.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979508/san-francisco-residents-sue-for-drug-and-tent-free-streets-in-tenderloin-district","authors":["byline_news_11979508"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_2587","news_4020","news_3181"],"featImg":"news_11979514","label":"news"},"news_11979482":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979482","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979482","score":null,"sort":[1710453652000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan","title":"San José Mayor Matt Mahan Calls For 'Urgent Action' on Homelessness in City Budget Plan","publishDate":1710453652,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San José Mayor Matt Mahan Calls For ‘Urgent Action’ on Homelessness in City Budget Plan | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#matt-mahan-sails-to-second-term-as-mayor-of-san-jose\">winning reelection to a four-year term beginning next year\u003c/a>, San José Mayor Matt Mahan doubled down on his push to spend more city dollars to move residents experiencing homelessness into temporary housing and shelter — potentially at the cost of funding permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan unveiled by Mahan on Wednesday is likely to breathe new life into the debate over the best approach to reducing homelessness in San José. That fight was central to budget discussions last year when the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">agreed to shift some funds from building apartments to standing up\u003c/a> interim housing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San José’s governance structure, the mayor has one vote on ordinances before the council but has broader powers in the budget process to shape city spending. Mahan’s budget proposal, which lays out his spending vision, will go before the council for a vote next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to other large cities around the Bay Area, San José is in good fiscal shape. City analysts projected a small $3.4 million deficit in the budget year beginning on July 1. But Mahan and the council could face some complications: the city manager said an urgent $25 million cleanup of homeless encampments is needed to avoid fines from water regulators, and many city programs that were funded on a one-time basis last year, to the tune of $23.5 million, are not included in this year’s base budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan sat down with KQED’s Politics & Government Correspondent Guy Marzorati to discuss his spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: It seemed like the budget was more or less balanced, and then the city manager said there has to be immediate action taken at a cost of potentially up to $25 million to reduce pollutants coming from encampments into waterways. What has to be done now, and what’s at stake for the city in this? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s a lot at stake, Guy. The regional board [San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board] has told us that we are not on track to being compliant with the requirements of our stormwater permit. This is serious business. This is about whether or not we’re complying with the nation’s Clean Water Act. If we are found over time to be out of compliance, the board can actually fine us up to $60,000 per day per pollutant found in the waterway. And what they pointed to in this latest rejection of our plan was the encampments along the waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our own independent analysis shows that about 90% of the trash and biowaste going into the waterways is due to unmanaged encampments. And so essentially, the water board is going to force us to do what I think is the right thing. It will not be easy. It will not be cheap. But, I frankly welcome the accountability because we have got to do a better job of providing safe, managed alternatives to encampments for the homeless residents in our community. And this, I hope, is the push that we needed, that our county, water district and other partners needed to scale up basic, dignified shelter and require that people come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In this budget proposal, you are putting forward a potential shift within a pot of money dedicated to reducing homelessness — the Measure E transfer tax — from paying for permanent housing to interim housing and shelter. This \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953006/sf-san-jose-mayors-push-to-fund-shelters-as-pressure-builds-on-encampments\">\u003cstrong>was a huge debate in the budget process last year\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. From a policy perspective, but then also maybe from a tactical or political perspective, how are you approaching this differently this year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I’m trying to do is give the council a genuine choice. There are different ways to fund the urgent action we need on homelessness. If the council prefers to reduce service levels in other departments and cut other city programs, depending on what those are, that may be something I can support and maybe the direction that we collectively go in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"San José Mayor Matt Mahan\"]‘There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action.’[/pullquote]The alternative, as I pointed out last year, is to take the dollars we already have for addressing homelessness and use them in more efficient and scalable ways. And don’t get me wrong, these trade-offs aren’t easy. We need more affordable housing. We need more money for prevention. There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action. We have to scale up basic, dignified shelter and get people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suppose the third option would be raising revenue, but frankly, for most forms of new revenue, you have to go to the voters, and the community already feels that they’re overtaxed and maybe not getting as much impact and the outcomes they want for the dollars that they’re already sending government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re also proposing a safe sleeping site in this budget, known in some forms as a managed encampment. I wonder if that’s an implicit acknowledgment that interim housing, which you and other supporters have referred to as “quick-build,” is maybe not getting built quickly enough? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s a lot quicker than what we were doing. So what we’ve been spending most of our money on is brand new apartment buildings, which unfortunately take $1 million a door of public subsidy and over five years to build. So that’s about as slow as it gets. Then we pivoted to these modular units, but they still take a year easily, sometimes longer. And when you’re all in with the site development, utility hookups, parking, common space, it can easily be $100,000 a door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man stands in a moment of silence with mural behind him outdoors under a tent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan attends a memorial at the Home First offices in San José commemorating the 201 unhoused people who died in Santa Clara County in 2023 on Dec. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And when you look at the scale of the crisis, if we’re going to truly treat this as an emergency and say, ‘We need to triage the situation, get people stabilized, give people access to services, including basic sanitation, a safe place to sleep at night,’ [then] we need solutions that are on the scale of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, we need more scalable forms of shelter. And we have to look at things like safe sleeping and safe parking. We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When it comes to safe sleeping sites or sanctioned encampments, won’t you face the same challenges in finding sites that you do for interim housing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we will. I think the reality is that we don’t have a choice if we’re going to come into compliance with the Clean Water Act and retain our stormwater permit and not face what would be crippling fines and liability; we are going to have to find places for people to go as we move folks away from the waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have two choices. As a community, we can either simply say, you can’t live along the waterways and good luck, and you’ll end up in neighborhoods and parks, commercial districts, industrial districts, wherever else. Or we can take responsibility for providing basic, dignified shelter, safe places to sleep with some very basic services like sanitation and security. And hopefully, over time, we can scale the case management and behavioral health services in partnership with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There’s an interesting proposal in this budget around city parks. You want to potentially go to the ballot in November and ask voters to let the city lease park land for retail or commercial establishments in order to bring in new revenue. What’s an example of what this could potentially look like in San José? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, well, I want to study it. I think it’s something for us to look at. Our parks, as I point out in the budget message, have a deferred maintenance backlog that runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars. We hear from people that they want parks to be cleaner, to have more amenities and that they feel they’ve been underinvested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101904386,news_11977258,forum_2010101904706\"]As we just pointed out, we’re in a budget crunch this year, particularly because of what we need to do around our stormwater permit. And so, we need to look at other ways of providing amenities, activating our parks and funding their long-term maintenance. When you go to New York, you visit Bryant Park, that has long-term commercial leases and commercial uses, but it also adds to the vibrancy of the park. It’s beloved; it’s heavily utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think, particularly for downtown urban parks near large venues in our entertainment district in the downtown — having private operators run a restaurant a cafe, adding amenities and being able to charge a reasonable rate to the public to be able to operate added amenities is a way to activate the space, make our parks more interesting for folks and then fund their operations and maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mahan discusses the budget proposal he unveiled on Wednesday, doubling down on shifting funding toward temporary housing and shelter.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710457337,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1640},"headData":{"title":"San José Mayor Matt Mahan Calls For 'Urgent Action' on Homelessness in City Budget Plan | KQED","description":"Mahan discusses the budget proposal he unveiled on Wednesday, doubling down on shifting funding toward temporary housing and shelter.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/election-2024#matt-mahan-sails-to-second-term-as-mayor-of-san-jose\">winning reelection to a four-year term beginning next year\u003c/a>, San José Mayor Matt Mahan doubled down on his push to spend more city dollars to move residents experiencing homelessness into temporary housing and shelter — potentially at the cost of funding permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan unveiled by Mahan on Wednesday is likely to breathe new life into the debate over the best approach to reducing homelessness in San José. That fight was central to budget discussions last year when the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">agreed to shift some funds from building apartments to standing up\u003c/a> interim housing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San José’s governance structure, the mayor has one vote on ordinances before the council but has broader powers in the budget process to shape city spending. Mahan’s budget proposal, which lays out his spending vision, will go before the council for a vote next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to other large cities around the Bay Area, San José is in good fiscal shape. City analysts projected a small $3.4 million deficit in the budget year beginning on July 1. But Mahan and the council could face some complications: the city manager said an urgent $25 million cleanup of homeless encampments is needed to avoid fines from water regulators, and many city programs that were funded on a one-time basis last year, to the tune of $23.5 million, are not included in this year’s base budget.\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>Mahan sat down with KQED’s Politics & Government Correspondent Guy Marzorati to discuss his spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: It seemed like the budget was more or less balanced, and then the city manager said there has to be immediate action taken at a cost of potentially up to $25 million to reduce pollutants coming from encampments into waterways. What has to be done now, and what’s at stake for the city in this? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s a lot at stake, Guy. The regional board [San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board] has told us that we are not on track to being compliant with the requirements of our stormwater permit. This is serious business. This is about whether or not we’re complying with the nation’s Clean Water Act. If we are found over time to be out of compliance, the board can actually fine us up to $60,000 per day per pollutant found in the waterway. And what they pointed to in this latest rejection of our plan was the encampments along the waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our own independent analysis shows that about 90% of the trash and biowaste going into the waterways is due to unmanaged encampments. And so essentially, the water board is going to force us to do what I think is the right thing. It will not be easy. It will not be cheap. But, I frankly welcome the accountability because we have got to do a better job of providing safe, managed alternatives to encampments for the homeless residents in our community. And this, I hope, is the push that we needed, that our county, water district and other partners needed to scale up basic, dignified shelter and require that people come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In this budget proposal, you are putting forward a potential shift within a pot of money dedicated to reducing homelessness — the Measure E transfer tax — from paying for permanent housing to interim housing and shelter. This \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953006/sf-san-jose-mayors-push-to-fund-shelters-as-pressure-builds-on-encampments\">\u003cstrong>was a huge debate in the budget process last year\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. From a policy perspective, but then also maybe from a tactical or political perspective, how are you approaching this differently this year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I’m trying to do is give the council a genuine choice. There are different ways to fund the urgent action we need on homelessness. If the council prefers to reduce service levels in other departments and cut other city programs, depending on what those are, that may be something I can support and maybe the direction that we collectively go in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"San José Mayor Matt Mahan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The alternative, as I pointed out last year, is to take the dollars we already have for addressing homelessness and use them in more efficient and scalable ways. And don’t get me wrong, these trade-offs aren’t easy. We need more affordable housing. We need more money for prevention. There are a lot of other things we need to put money into, but I think that we have to treat the homelessness crisis truly as a crisis and take emergency action. We have to scale up basic, dignified shelter and get people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suppose the third option would be raising revenue, but frankly, for most forms of new revenue, you have to go to the voters, and the community already feels that they’re overtaxed and maybe not getting as much impact and the outcomes they want for the dollars that they’re already sending government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re also proposing a safe sleeping site in this budget, known in some forms as a managed encampment. I wonder if that’s an implicit acknowledgment that interim housing, which you and other supporters have referred to as “quick-build,” is maybe not getting built quickly enough? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s a lot quicker than what we were doing. So what we’ve been spending most of our money on is brand new apartment buildings, which unfortunately take $1 million a door of public subsidy and over five years to build. So that’s about as slow as it gets. Then we pivoted to these modular units, but they still take a year easily, sometimes longer. And when you’re all in with the site development, utility hookups, parking, common space, it can easily be $100,000 a door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man stands in a moment of silence with mural behind him outdoors under a tent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/231219-Homeless-Deaths-Data-MD-11_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan attends a memorial at the Home First offices in San José commemorating the 201 unhoused people who died in Santa Clara County in 2023 on Dec. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And when you look at the scale of the crisis, if we’re going to truly treat this as an emergency and say, ‘We need to triage the situation, get people stabilized, give people access to services, including basic sanitation, a safe place to sleep at night,’ [then] we need solutions that are on the scale of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, we need more scalable forms of shelter. And we have to look at things like safe sleeping and safe parking. We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When it comes to safe sleeping sites or sanctioned encampments, won’t you face the same challenges in finding sites that you do for interim housing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we will. I think the reality is that we don’t have a choice if we’re going to come into compliance with the Clean Water Act and retain our stormwater permit and not face what would be crippling fines and liability; we are going to have to find places for people to go as we move folks away from the waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have two choices. As a community, we can either simply say, you can’t live along the waterways and good luck, and you’ll end up in neighborhoods and parks, commercial districts, industrial districts, wherever else. Or we can take responsibility for providing basic, dignified shelter, safe places to sleep with some very basic services like sanitation and security. And hopefully, over time, we can scale the case management and behavioral health services in partnership with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There’s an interesting proposal in this budget around city parks. You want to potentially go to the ballot in November and ask voters to let the city lease park land for retail or commercial establishments in order to bring in new revenue. What’s an example of what this could potentially look like in San José? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, well, I want to study it. I think it’s something for us to look at. Our parks, as I point out in the budget message, have a deferred maintenance backlog that runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars. We hear from people that they want parks to be cleaner, to have more amenities and that they feel they’ve been underinvested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"forum_2010101904386,news_11977258,forum_2010101904706"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As we just pointed out, we’re in a budget crunch this year, particularly because of what we need to do around our stormwater permit. And so, we need to look at other ways of providing amenities, activating our parks and funding their long-term maintenance. When you go to New York, you visit Bryant Park, that has long-term commercial leases and commercial uses, but it also adds to the vibrancy of the park. It’s beloved; it’s heavily utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think, particularly for downtown urban parks near large venues in our entertainment district in the downtown — having private operators run a restaurant a cafe, adding amenities and being able to charge a reasonable rate to the public to be able to operate added amenities is a way to activate the space, make our parks more interesting for folks and then fund their operations and maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_4020","news_1775","news_31197","news_18541"],"featImg":"news_11979492","label":"news"},"news_11978863":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11978863","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11978863","score":null,"sort":[1710183656000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sacramento-gave-a-homeless-camp-a-lease-as-an-experiment-heres-what-happened","title":"City-Sanctioned Homeless Camp in Sacramento Now Under Threat of Prosecution. What Went Wrong","publishDate":1710183656,"format":"standard","headTitle":"City-Sanctioned Homeless Camp in Sacramento Now Under Threat of Prosecution. What Went Wrong | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When Sacramento changed its plan to demolish a homeless encampment on a vacant lot on Colfax Street, instead offering the unhoused occupants a lease, activists and camp residents celebrated it as a win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-of-its-kind deal, which allows the camp to remain in place and govern itself without city interference, was held up as a model Sacramento could replicate at future sites. Other cities, including San Jose, have said they’re considering similar models, putting the success or failure of this encampment under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, Sacramento has not managed to reproduce the concept and has no plans to. Residents of the camp, who lack electricity or running water, complain they feel forgotten. And the county district attorney, claiming the site threatens public safety, has demanded the city clear the camp or risk prosecution.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eric Tars, senior policy director, National Homelessness Law Center\"]‘When individuals in these encampments have a sense of ownership, then it can really lead to the camp being a place that they take pride in and that they are trying to keep in as good condition as possible.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those troubles highlight the logistical and ethical dilemmas that come with setting aside outdoor spaces for unhoused residents to go when there \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/09/california-homeless-camps/\">aren’t enough beds indoors\u003c/a>. And it comes at a time when officials across the state increasingly are turning to this last-ditch solution as they face \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/04/california-homeless-city-laws/\">mounting pressure to clear encampments\u003c/a> away from sidewalks, parks, schools and other high-traffic public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that people have a place where they can legally exist and not be threatened with arrest, not be run off and have to lose their belongings, where they can go to the bathroom with dignity, where there’s trash pickup so they don’t have to live in a place where there’s trash all over, where service providers can find them regularly and they aren’t going to lose contact with people as they work their way to housing — those are all good things,” said Eric Tars, senior policy director of the National Homelessness Law Center. “But it would be even better if they were doing them indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>They got a lease, and they make their own rules\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution, as the Sacramento camp is known, was started in 2022 by Sharon and Joyce Jones — a married couple in their 50s who found themselves unhoused for the first time late in life. More than four-dozen people now live there, some in new-looking Bullet trailers provided by the city, and others in cars, tents and more dilapidated trailers and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing hats and jeans uses a water bottle to water plants in a garden outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce (l) and Sharon Jones poke holes in a water bottle to water their garden next to their trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, February 28, 2024. The camp has no running water so residents have to rely on bottled water for all of their needs. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents have taken pains to make it more homey: Two potted plants hang from the hitch of one trailer, chickens roam the lot, and Sharon and Joyce are putting in a garden, using pallets to make raised planter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to make it as comfortable as possible, but sometimes it’s impossible,” Joyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11972519,news_11977464,news_11947567\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Shortly after Joyce and her community occupied the city-owned, formerly vacant lot in 2022, city workers determined the camp was unsafe and needed to be demolished — as often happens in Sacramento and throughout California. But that’s where the story takes an unusual turn. Residents of the camp and their supporters showed up in force to a city council meeting and persuaded council members to delay the sweep. About six months later, the city signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/camp_resolution_lease.pdf\">lease allowing the camp to remain\u003c/a> in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lease, which advocacy group Safe Ground Sacramento signed on behalf of the Camp Resolution residents, was an experiment. Generally, similar programs are run by nonprofits contracted by a city. They often impose curfews, no-guest policies, sobriety requirements and other rules on residents. In exchange, they offer social services such as counseling or help finding permanent housing, and amenities such as showers and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think people experiencing homelessness are capable of governing themselves,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution is different. Safe Ground Sacramento, which leases the property from the city for free, takes a hands-off approach that lets residents run the camp and write their own rules. The city gave the residents a handful of residential trailers, set up portable toilets and a hand-washing station, and provided dumpsters and ongoing trash pickup. But that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activist groups laud that model as a best practice, saying it’s important to let the residents run or at least help run their own camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When individuals in these encampments have a sense of ownership, then it can really lead to the camp being a place that they take pride in and that they are trying to keep in as good condition as possible,” Tars said. “It gives a sense of responsibility to others in that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also means minimal overhead for the city: The trailers provided to Camp Resolution residents came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency at no cost to the city of Sacramento, and adding the camp to the city’s existing contract for trash pickup didn’t add any additional expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the case of Camp Resolution, it also means residents are left to fend for themselves. The city doesn’t provide electricity or running water. Community members donate food, some residents have generators, and a nonprofit used to bring a trailer with showers every other Sunday — but they recently stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going very well,” Joyce said. “I think that (the city) should do a little bit more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts crouches down to wash dishes outside by a row of RVs and debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis uses tubs to wash dishes next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Camp Resolution lease says the city would provide up to 33 trailers. Residents ended up receiving just 16. But 51 people live at the camp, meaning some people sleep in tents, in their cars, or in dilapidated trailers and RVs that leak in the rain and have sprouted mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city wouldn’t comment on the trailers — or anything else — citing a pending threat of prosecution from the county District Attorney’s Office. City officials recently sent 40 trailers to a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">new safe sleeping site they opened on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, which also has plumbed toilets and showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the Camp Resolution residents are elderly, and some have serious medical issues that make living without reliable power and water difficult. One woman, who recently turned 60, is on dialysis and gets around on an electric mobility scooter that she leaves parked outside her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the residents are women, some of whom wouldn’t feel safe on the streets by themselves. Jeanne Gillis, 53, was cooking ground turkey over an open flame outside her trailer on a recent Wednesday. Gillis, who used to work as a medical patients’ advocate, lost her housing two years ago when she got sick with lupus and could no longer work. She’d never been unhoused before and didn’t know what to do — so Sharon and Joyce took her under their wing. Now she’s part of their tight-knit community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts holds a utensil to cook food on a grill outside with an RV and water bottles around.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis cooks ground turkey over a wood fire next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. Residents have to rely on bottled water, generators and wood fires because no utilities are provided at the camp. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Thank God for everybody. Because it’s hard,” she said, tearing up. “I don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Camp Resolution faces legal threat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution also faces an outside threat — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-county-da-letter-threatens-criminal-charges-over-camp-resolution-site/45853185\">Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho has demanded\u003c/a> that the city close the camp. His office \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sacramento_county_district_attorney_s_office_letter.pdf\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the city and Safe Ground Sacramento in November, labeling the site a public health hazard. The site is contaminated by toxic chemicals left over from when it was used as a vehicle maintenance yard and held underground storage tanks for diesel and gasoline, he said. It’s not safe to camp on the contaminated soil, according to his letter. But only half of the site is paved, while the other half is bare dirt — and people live on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho’s office did not set a specific deadline for the city to clear the encampment, leaving it unclear exactly what, if anything, would come of his threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Ho’s next steps, Sonia Martinez Satchell, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office, indicated prosecution is still on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To date, the City has failed to move the unhoused off this toxic waste site,” she said in an emailed statement. “We will not waiver from our commitment to protect public safety for all. As outlined in our letter, all available actions and recourse remain available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But camp residents and the advocates working with them say they’ve heard nothing but silence from the District Attorney’s Office since the November letter. That means the fate of those living at Camp Resolution is still up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Swanson, spokesman for the City Manager’s Office, said the city can’t comment on any aspect of Camp Resolution because of the pending threat of prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon and Joyce aren’t concerned — they claim the camp isn’t on the portion of the site that’s contaminated. Ho’s letter is just an excuse to try to kick them off the property, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sanctioned homeless encampments in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Faced with a massive shortage of affordable homes, desperate city officials across California are considering opening places where unhoused people can legally set up tents. The move could give them more power to clear encampments from around parks, schools, downtown zones and other high-profile areas. That’s because unless cities have somewhere for displaced unhoused residents to go, the 2018 appellate case \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15-35845/15-35845-2018-09-04.html\">Martin v. Boise\u003c/a> limits the extent to which they can clear encampments. That could change soon, as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/homeless-camp-scotus/\">Supreme Court has agreed\u003c/a> to take up the case and will hear arguments next month. But for now, cities’ hands remain largely tied if they lack enough shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/07/31/san-diegos-unsafe-camping-ordinance-enforcement-begins\">San Diego recently passed an ordinance\u003c/a> banning encampments in much of the city. As the city ramped up enforcement, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/safe-sleeping-program\">opened two sanctioned campsites\u003c/a> that together can hold more than 500 tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/19/why-san-jose-leaders-say-sanctioned-tent-sites-for-unhoused-residents-wont-work-here/\">rejected the idea\u003c/a> three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/12/san-jose-considering-sanctioned-encampments-as-interim-options-face-long-wait-lines-timelines/\">San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan recently said \u003c/a>he’s considering opening similar sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe sleeping sites take many different forms — and have a range of price tags. In August, after the city stalled in its attempts to open safe sleeping sites, Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan single-handedly tried to identify locations for the projects. He initially said Camp Resolution could be a model for future sites — because it cost the city so little to run, it would allow the city to open more sites than if they used more expensive models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the city in January launched \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">its next safe sleeping site, on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, with more services, more oversight and a greater cost — $3.2 million per year. The site has 60 rudimentary tiny homes and 40 trailers and is governed by a nonprofit contracted through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, due to an anticipated budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year, the city has no plans to launch additional safe sleeping sites, Swanson said. At a committee meeting last month, city staff predicted that by next year, \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=38&clip_id=5832&meta_id=767774\">the city’s budget for homeless services would be short $11 million\u003c/a>. By the 2025-26 fiscal year, they expected to be short nearly $39 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-life-at-camp-resolution\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life at Camp Resolution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are about 800 people on the waitlist to get into Camp Resolution, according to Sharon and Joyce. Only six people from the camp have moved out and into permanent housing, they said. Just on the other side of the gate that separates Camp Resolution from the rest of the world, a group of people live in a cluster of cars parked haphazardly on the side of the road. Across the street, someone has erected a makeshift shack. RVs that serve as stand-in homes line the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the gate, Sharon and Joyce tend to have the ultimate say in what goes, though there’s also a council that meets on Thursday evenings to discuss camp issues. Things don’t always go smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of several RVs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view looking west of Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. To the left of the camp is Arden Way and at the bottom of the frame is Colfax St. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year a neighbor’s dogs attacked Sharon and sent her to the hospital with multiple bite injuries. That led to new rules at the camp about pets. But Sharon and Joyce say it’s hard to actually enforce the rules they impose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more structure,” Sharon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they showed off the different parts of their community, Sharon and Joyce expressed disapproval of a trash pile in the middle of the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can go in the trash can,” Joyce said. It didn’t take long. A few minutes later, residents could be seen picking up the garbage and carrying it to a nearby dumpster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters Capitol reporter \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jeanne-kuang/\">Jeanne Kuang\u003c/a> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Camp Resolution, a completely self-governed, city-sanctioned homeless encampment, was supposed to be a model Sacramento could copy for future sites. That didn’t happen, and now it’s under threat of prosecution.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710185468,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":2409},"headData":{"title":"City-Sanctioned Homeless Camp in Sacramento Now Under Threat of Prosecution. What Went Wrong | KQED","description":"Camp Resolution, a completely self-governed, city-sanctioned homeless encampment, was supposed to be a model Sacramento could copy for future sites. That didn’t happen, and now it’s under threat of prosecution.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Marisa Kendall","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11978863/sacramento-gave-a-homeless-camp-a-lease-as-an-experiment-heres-what-happened","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Sacramento changed its plan to demolish a homeless encampment on a vacant lot on Colfax Street, instead offering the unhoused occupants a lease, activists and camp residents celebrated it as a win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-of-its-kind deal, which allows the camp to remain in place and govern itself without city interference, was held up as a model Sacramento could replicate at future sites. Other cities, including San Jose, have said they’re considering similar models, putting the success or failure of this encampment under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, Sacramento has not managed to reproduce the concept and has no plans to. Residents of the camp, who lack electricity or running water, complain they feel forgotten. And the county district attorney, claiming the site threatens public safety, has demanded the city clear the camp or risk prosecution.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When individuals in these encampments have a sense of ownership, then it can really lead to the camp being a place that they take pride in and that they are trying to keep in as good condition as possible.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Eric Tars, senior policy director, National Homelessness Law Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those troubles highlight the logistical and ethical dilemmas that come with setting aside outdoor spaces for unhoused residents to go when there \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/09/california-homeless-camps/\">aren’t enough beds indoors\u003c/a>. And it comes at a time when officials across the state increasingly are turning to this last-ditch solution as they face \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/04/california-homeless-city-laws/\">mounting pressure to clear encampments\u003c/a> away from sidewalks, parks, schools and other high-traffic public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that people have a place where they can legally exist and not be threatened with arrest, not be run off and have to lose their belongings, where they can go to the bathroom with dignity, where there’s trash pickup so they don’t have to live in a place where there’s trash all over, where service providers can find them regularly and they aren’t going to lose contact with people as they work their way to housing — those are all good things,” said Eric Tars, senior policy director of the National Homelessness Law Center. “But it would be even better if they were doing them indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>They got a lease, and they make their own rules\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution, as the Sacramento camp is known, was started in 2022 by Sharon and Joyce Jones — a married couple in their 50s who found themselves unhoused for the first time late in life. More than four-dozen people now live there, some in new-looking Bullet trailers provided by the city, and others in cars, tents and more dilapidated trailers and RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing hats and jeans uses a water bottle to water plants in a garden outside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce (l) and Sharon Jones poke holes in a water bottle to water their garden next to their trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, February 28, 2024. The camp has no running water so residents have to rely on bottled water for all of their needs. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents have taken pains to make it more homey: Two potted plants hang from the hitch of one trailer, chickens roam the lot, and Sharon and Joyce are putting in a garden, using pallets to make raised planter beds.\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>“We try to make it as comfortable as possible, but sometimes it’s impossible,” Joyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11972519,news_11977464,news_11947567","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Shortly after Joyce and her community occupied the city-owned, formerly vacant lot in 2022, city workers determined the camp was unsafe and needed to be demolished — as often happens in Sacramento and throughout California. But that’s where the story takes an unusual turn. Residents of the camp and their supporters showed up in force to a city council meeting and persuaded council members to delay the sweep. About six months later, the city signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/camp_resolution_lease.pdf\">lease allowing the camp to remain\u003c/a> in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lease, which advocacy group Safe Ground Sacramento signed on behalf of the Camp Resolution residents, was an experiment. Generally, similar programs are run by nonprofits contracted by a city. They often impose curfews, no-guest policies, sobriety requirements and other rules on residents. In exchange, they offer social services such as counseling or help finding permanent housing, and amenities such as showers and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think people experiencing homelessness are capable of governing themselves,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution is different. Safe Ground Sacramento, which leases the property from the city for free, takes a hands-off approach that lets residents run the camp and write their own rules. The city gave the residents a handful of residential trailers, set up portable toilets and a hand-washing station, and provided dumpsters and ongoing trash pickup. But that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many activist groups laud that model as a best practice, saying it’s important to let the residents run or at least help run their own camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When individuals in these encampments have a sense of ownership, then it can really lead to the camp being a place that they take pride in and that they are trying to keep in as good condition as possible,” Tars said. “It gives a sense of responsibility to others in that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also means minimal overhead for the city: The trailers provided to Camp Resolution residents came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency at no cost to the city of Sacramento, and adding the camp to the city’s existing contract for trash pickup didn’t add any additional expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the case of Camp Resolution, it also means residents are left to fend for themselves. The city doesn’t provide electricity or running water. Community members donate food, some residents have generators, and a nonprofit used to bring a trailer with showers every other Sunday — but they recently stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going very well,” Joyce said. “I think that (the city) should do a little bit more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts crouches down to wash dishes outside by a row of RVs and debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis uses tubs to wash dishes next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Camp Resolution lease says the city would provide up to 33 trailers. Residents ended up receiving just 16. But 51 people live at the camp, meaning some people sleep in tents, in their cars, or in dilapidated trailers and RVs that leak in the rain and have sprouted mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city wouldn’t comment on the trailers — or anything else — citing a pending threat of prosecution from the county District Attorney’s Office. City officials recently sent 40 trailers to a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">new safe sleeping site they opened on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, which also has plumbed toilets and showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the Camp Resolution residents are elderly, and some have serious medical issues that make living without reliable power and water difficult. One woman, who recently turned 60, is on dialysis and gets around on an electric mobility scooter that she leaves parked outside her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the residents are women, some of whom wouldn’t feel safe on the streets by themselves. Jeanne Gillis, 53, was cooking ground turkey over an open flame outside her trailer on a recent Wednesday. Gillis, who used to work as a medical patients’ advocate, lost her housing two years ago when she got sick with lupus and could no longer work. She’d never been unhoused before and didn’t know what to do — so Sharon and Joyce took her under their wing. Now she’s part of their tight-knit community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a visor, a light sleeveless top, and jean shorts holds a utensil to cook food on a grill outside with an RV and water bottles around.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Gillis cooks ground turkey over a wood fire next to her trailer at Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. Residents have to rely on bottled water, generators and wood fires because no utilities are provided at the camp. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Thank God for everybody. Because it’s hard,” she said, tearing up. “I don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Camp Resolution faces legal threat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Camp Resolution also faces an outside threat — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-county-da-letter-threatens-criminal-charges-over-camp-resolution-site/45853185\">Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho has demanded\u003c/a> that the city close the camp. His office \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sacramento_county_district_attorney_s_office_letter.pdf\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the city and Safe Ground Sacramento in November, labeling the site a public health hazard. The site is contaminated by toxic chemicals left over from when it was used as a vehicle maintenance yard and held underground storage tanks for diesel and gasoline, he said. It’s not safe to camp on the contaminated soil, according to his letter. But only half of the site is paved, while the other half is bare dirt — and people live on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho’s office did not set a specific deadline for the city to clear the encampment, leaving it unclear exactly what, if anything, would come of his threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Ho’s next steps, Sonia Martinez Satchell, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office, indicated prosecution is still on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To date, the City has failed to move the unhoused off this toxic waste site,” she said in an emailed statement. “We will not waiver from our commitment to protect public safety for all. As outlined in our letter, all available actions and recourse remain available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But camp residents and the advocates working with them say they’ve heard nothing but silence from the District Attorney’s Office since the November letter. That means the fate of those living at Camp Resolution is still up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Swanson, spokesman for the City Manager’s Office, said the city can’t comment on any aspect of Camp Resolution because of the pending threat of prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon and Joyce aren’t concerned — they claim the camp isn’t on the portion of the site that’s contaminated. Ho’s letter is just an excuse to try to kick them off the property, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sanctioned homeless encampments in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Faced with a massive shortage of affordable homes, desperate city officials across California are considering opening places where unhoused people can legally set up tents. The move could give them more power to clear encampments from around parks, schools, downtown zones and other high-profile areas. That’s because unless cities have somewhere for displaced unhoused residents to go, the 2018 appellate case \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15-35845/15-35845-2018-09-04.html\">Martin v. Boise\u003c/a> limits the extent to which they can clear encampments. That could change soon, as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/homeless-camp-scotus/\">Supreme Court has agreed\u003c/a> to take up the case and will hear arguments next month. But for now, cities’ hands remain largely tied if they lack enough shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/07/31/san-diegos-unsafe-camping-ordinance-enforcement-begins\">San Diego recently passed an ordinance\u003c/a> banning encampments in much of the city. As the city ramped up enforcement, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions/services/safe-sleeping-program\">opened two sanctioned campsites\u003c/a> that together can hold more than 500 tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/19/why-san-jose-leaders-say-sanctioned-tent-sites-for-unhoused-residents-wont-work-here/\">rejected the idea\u003c/a> three years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/12/san-jose-considering-sanctioned-encampments-as-interim-options-face-long-wait-lines-timelines/\">San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan recently said \u003c/a>he’s considering opening similar sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe sleeping sites take many different forms — and have a range of price tags. In August, after the city stalled in its attempts to open safe sleeping sites, Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan single-handedly tried to identify locations for the projects. He initially said Camp Resolution could be a model for future sites — because it cost the city so little to run, it would allow the city to open more sites than if they used more expensive models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the city in January launched \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/01/05/city-to-open-new-shelter-and-service-campus-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/\">its next safe sleeping site, on Roseville Road\u003c/a>, with more services, more oversight and a greater cost — $3.2 million per year. The site has 60 rudimentary tiny homes and 40 trailers and is governed by a nonprofit contracted through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, due to an anticipated budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year, the city has no plans to launch additional safe sleeping sites, Swanson said. At a committee meeting last month, city staff predicted that by next year, \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=38&clip_id=5832&meta_id=767774\">the city’s budget for homeless services would be short $11 million\u003c/a>. By the 2025-26 fiscal year, they expected to be short nearly $39 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-life-at-camp-resolution\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life at Camp Resolution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are about 800 people on the waitlist to get into Camp Resolution, according to Sharon and Joyce. Only six people from the camp have moved out and into permanent housing, they said. Just on the other side of the gate that separates Camp Resolution from the rest of the world, a group of people live in a cluster of cars parked haphazardly on the side of the road. Across the street, someone has erected a makeshift shack. RVs that serve as stand-in homes line the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the gate, Sharon and Joyce tend to have the ultimate say in what goes, though there’s also a council that meets on Thursday evenings to discuss camp issues. Things don’t always go smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of several RVs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022824_Self-Governed-City_FG_27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view looking west of Camp Resolution, a “self-governed” homeless camp on city-owned land in Sacramento, on Feb. 28, 2024. To the left of the camp is Arden Way and at the bottom of the frame is Colfax St. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year a neighbor’s dogs attacked Sharon and sent her to the hospital with multiple bite injuries. That led to new rules at the camp about pets. But Sharon and Joyce say it’s hard to actually enforce the rules they impose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more structure,” Sharon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they showed off the different parts of their community, Sharon and Joyce expressed disapproval of a trash pile in the middle of the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can go in the trash can,” Joyce said. It didn’t take long. A few minutes later, residents could be seen picking up the garbage and carrying it to a nearby dumpster.\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>CalMatters Capitol reporter \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jeanne-kuang/\">Jeanne Kuang\u003c/a> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11978863/sacramento-gave-a-homeless-camp-a-lease-as-an-experiment-heres-what-happened","authors":["byline_news_11978863"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_4020","news_24635","news_30602"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11978872","label":"news_18481"},"news_11978448":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11978448","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11978448","score":null,"sort":[1709825423000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"los-angeles-county-uses-ai-to-prevent-homelessness-and-offers-assistance","title":"Los Angeles County Uses AI to Prevent Homelessness and Offers Assistance","publishDate":1709825423,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Los Angeles County Uses AI to Prevent Homelessness and Offers Assistance | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>You’ve likely heard about AI powering driverless cars, writing term papers and creating unsettling deep fakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can that same technology also prevent people from becoming homeless?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Los Angeles County is trying to find out. Officials there are using \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/ai-elections-bill-package/\">AI technology\u003c/a> to predict who in the county is most likely to lose their housing — and then stepping in to help those people with their rent, utility bills, car payments and more.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention, LA County’s Department of Health Services\"]‘If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience … it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening.’[/pullquote]It’s still an experimental strategy. But the program has served more than 700 clients since 2021, and 86% have retained their housing. It comes at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/\">more than 180,000 Californians have no place to call home\u003c/a>, and people are ending up on the streets faster than government agencies and nonprofits can get them into housing. Officials all over the state are turning to methods aimed at preventing homelessness before it happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s algorithm analyzes data from residents’ emergency room visits, jail stays, use of food assistance and more, and has sparked interest from Silicon Valley to San Diego. Final data on the program — which has roughly $26 million in federal COVID funds and is expected to end in 2026 — aren’t yet out. If it’s successful, it could have major implications for helping cities and counties spend their limited resources more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience, and they’re already county clients, it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening,” said Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention for LA County’s Department of Health Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Vanderford, Associate Director of Homelessness Prevention at Housing for Health at Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does artificial intelligence predict homelessness?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea started in 2019, when UCLA’s California Policy Lab began experimenting to see if it could use machine learning, combined with LA County data, to predict homelessness. Then, the county paired that with money to intervene before people ended up on the street — the program is predominantly funded with $26 million in COVID-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/\">funds from the federal American Rescue Plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UCLA researchers start with a list of 90,000 people who recently used services from the county’s Health Services or Mental Health departments. Using 580 factors, the computer ranks those people from 1 to 90,000 based on their risk of becoming homeless. The people deemed to be highest-risk tend to show up in emergency rooms and jails at high rates and have high usage of services such as CalFresh food benefits. However, the model considers many more data points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if people receive services in many different geographic areas, it could mean they’re couch surfing — bouncing from one precarious living situation to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time,” said Janey Rountree, executive director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To train the algorithm, the researchers showed it a list of people who became homeless along with the services they used before losing their housing. Then, they had the algorithm practice “predicting” homelessness using old data and checked to see if it was accurate. When they were satisfied, they started using it for real predictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How well does it work? Among the 90,000 people the researchers started with, 7% became homeless in 18 months. Among the 10,000 people the algorithm deemed to be the highest risk, 24% became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they were targeting fewer people (say 1,000 instead of 10,000), it would be even more accurate, Rountree said. But social workers aren’t able to get in touch with many of the people on the list, and others don’t agree to participate in the aid program, so they have to cast a broader net.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Janey Rountree, executive director, UCLA’s California Policy Lab\"]‘You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time.’[/pullquote]Is a computer really better at guessing who will become homeless than human social workers trained in this work? Rountree says yes — 3.5 times better, to be exact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with humans, she said, is that they’re biased toward the people they know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just human nature to want to help the people that you’re in contact with,” she said. “They all seem housing-unstable and at high risk. You want to help those individuals or those families in front of you. But not all of them are going to become homeless and be on the street or use shelter if they don’t get assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers also often prioritize people with lower needs, Rountree said. Someone who recently lost their job but otherwise is stable gets preference over someone facing ongoing struggles with their mental health or addiction because the stable person is easier to help. However, the stable person may not be the one who needs the help the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rountree said there’s also a belief that people with higher needs will not spend the money they’re given wisely. But AI doesn’t have that bias, so it ensures the money goes to those who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are apparent. People the algorithm targets are much more likely to have been incarcerated, sought substance use treatment, had mental health issues or been hospitalized than the people who seek aid through LA County’s other homelessness prevention programs, Rountree said. In that way, this program fills a hole in LA County’s net of services, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s other, more traditional programs geared to prevent homelessness rely on people reaching out to request help or on caseworkers referring clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, they aren’t duplicating efforts. There’s almost no overlap between the people targeted by the AI algorithm and those served by traditional prevention programs, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s a significant population of folks, who if somebody doesn’t reach out to them to offer assistance, they might lose their housing right out from under them without reaching out for assistance themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Then, a human steps in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four times a year, the Policy Lab researchers send LA County a list of residents the AI program has deemed most likely to become homeless. The county then mails those people letters, telling them they’ve been selected to participate in the program. After that, a social worker cold-calls them to tell them the good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person at the other end of the line is often convinced it’s a scam. After all, how often does someone legitimate call out of the blue to offer free money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that happens, case worker Genice Brown usually asks if she can email them—a move she hopes lends a bit more credence to her pitch. Once she convinces them the program is real, nine out of 10 people agree to sign up, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genice Brown, a medical case worker with the Housing Stabilization and Homelessness Prevention Unit, in Los Angeles on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Individuals enrolled in the program receive a base sum of either $4,000 or $6,000 (the amount is randomly assigned so researchers can assess the impacts of different amounts of money). Families start at $6,000 or $8,000, with larger families receiving more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown can use that money for whatever her clients need most. Usually, rent comes first, but it also can cover other bills. In addition, she helps connect her clients to doctors, dentists and mental health services. If they’re looking for work, Brown gets them gift cards for interview outfits, helps them with their resumes and role-plays interview questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works with each client for three or four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I just really needed the help’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For 38-year-old Sandricka Henderson, help came just in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diagnosed with lupus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Henderson could no longer work her physically demanding warehouse job. Disability benefits gave her barely more than $1,000 a month — just a quarter of what she made while she was working. With an 8-year-old son to support, Henderson found she was at least $400 behind on her bills every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before Christmas last year, Henderson received a call from a woman offering free money. Henderson was sure it was a scam and braced for the woman to ask for her Social Security number.[aside label='More Stories on Artificial Intelligence' tag='artificial-intelligence']But the social worker (who turned out to be Genice Brown) didn’t, and Henderson eventually realized the program was real. The first thing Brown gave her was a $100 gift card to a local grocery store — a blessing, Henderson said because she had nothing in her refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, Henderson’s landlord sent her a letter warning she had 10 days to pay her rent or be evicted. About a week later, Brown sent the rent money and helped Henderson avoid catastrophe. She also helped Henderson catch up on her car payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Henderson no longer feels like she’s teetering on the edge of homelessness. She has some money in her savings account, and her rent is prepaid for several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really needed the help,” Henderson said. Because she’s used to working hard and taking care of herself, she added, she never would have reached out and asked for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really did change my whole circumstances,” she said. “My son had a Christmas that I didn’t think I was going to be able to give him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of AI in homelessness services\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, new people are becoming homeless faster than aid workers can find existing homeless residents housing. \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/community-plan/\">In Santa Clara County, for example, for every one homeless household that moved into housing last year, another 1.7 became newly homeless\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/who-we-are/\">Destination: Home, a Santa Clara County-based organization focused on ending homelessness\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Consuelo Hernandez, director, LA County’s Office of Supportive Housing\"]‘Without having additional resources, what is the true benefit of knowing there are more people out there who are in need?’[/pullquote]The LA County team has met with government agencies from all over the country who are interested in its AI model, including Santa Clara and San Diego counties, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is working on a plan for homelessness prevention, Tim McClain, spokesman for the county’s Health and Human Services Agency, said in an email to CalMatters. He wouldn’t provide any additional updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County met with the California Policy Lab earlier this year and hopes to schedule another informational meeting soon, said Consuelo Hernandez, director of the county’s Office of Supportive Housing. The county’s homelessness prevention program relies on humans triaging clients. If artificial intelligence can do that work more efficiently, it’s worth exploring, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, what they want is more money to help the people who already fill their queues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without having additional resources,” Hernandez said, “what is the true benefit of knowing there are more people out there who are in need?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It’s an experiment still in progress: machine learning predicts who will end up on the street — and then social workers step in to offer help. So far, nearly 90% of participants kept their housing. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709834289,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":2049},"headData":{"title":"Los Angeles County Uses AI to Prevent Homelessness and Offers Assistance | KQED","description":"It’s an experiment still in progress: machine learning predicts who will end up on the street — and then social workers step in to offer help. So far, nearly 90% of participants kept their housing. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/marisa-kendall/\">Marisa Kendall\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11978448/los-angeles-county-uses-ai-to-prevent-homelessness-and-offers-assistance","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You’ve likely heard about AI powering driverless cars, writing term papers and creating unsettling deep fakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can that same technology also prevent people from becoming homeless?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Los Angeles County is trying to find out. Officials there are using \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/02/ai-elections-bill-package/\">AI technology\u003c/a> to predict who in the county is most likely to lose their housing — and then stepping in to help those people with their rent, utility bills, car payments and more.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience … it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention, LA County’s Department of Health Services","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s still an experimental strategy. But the program has served more than 700 clients since 2021, and 86% have retained their housing. It comes at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/01/california-homeless-point-in-time-count-2024/\">more than 180,000 Californians have no place to call home\u003c/a>, and people are ending up on the streets faster than government agencies and nonprofits can get them into housing. Officials all over the state are turning to methods aimed at preventing homelessness before it happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s algorithm analyzes data from residents’ emergency room visits, jail stays, use of food assistance and more, and has sparked interest from Silicon Valley to San Diego. Final data on the program — which has roughly $26 million in federal COVID funds and is expected to end in 2026 — aren’t yet out. If it’s successful, it could have major implications for helping cities and counties spend their limited resources more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we know who people are who unfortunately are going to have that experience, and they’re already county clients, it’s a real opportunity to do something early on in their lives to prevent that from happening,” said Dana Vanderford, associate director of homelessness prevention for LA County’s Department of Health Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Vanderford, Associate Director of Homelessness Prevention at Housing for Health at Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does artificial intelligence predict homelessness?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea started in 2019, when UCLA’s California Policy Lab began experimenting to see if it could use machine learning, combined with LA County data, to predict homelessness. Then, the county paired that with money to intervene before people ended up on the street — the program is predominantly funded with $26 million in COVID-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/\">funds from the federal American Rescue Plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UCLA researchers start with a list of 90,000 people who recently used services from the county’s Health Services or Mental Health departments. Using 580 factors, the computer ranks those people from 1 to 90,000 based on their risk of becoming homeless. The people deemed to be highest-risk tend to show up in emergency rooms and jails at high rates and have high usage of services such as CalFresh food benefits. However, the model considers many more data points.\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>For example, if people receive services in many different geographic areas, it could mean they’re couch surfing — bouncing from one precarious living situation to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time,” said Janey Rountree, executive director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To train the algorithm, the researchers showed it a list of people who became homeless along with the services they used before losing their housing. Then, they had the algorithm practice “predicting” homelessness using old data and checked to see if it was accurate. When they were satisfied, they started using it for real predictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How well does it work? Among the 90,000 people the researchers started with, 7% became homeless in 18 months. Among the 10,000 people the algorithm deemed to be the highest risk, 24% became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they were targeting fewer people (say 1,000 instead of 10,000), it would be even more accurate, Rountree said. But social workers aren’t able to get in touch with many of the people on the list, and others don’t agree to participate in the aid program, so they have to cast a broader net.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘You sort of let the computer learn what it finds to be predictive over time.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Janey Rountree, executive director, UCLA’s California Policy Lab","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Is a computer really better at guessing who will become homeless than human social workers trained in this work? Rountree says yes — 3.5 times better, to be exact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with humans, she said, is that they’re biased toward the people they know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just human nature to want to help the people that you’re in contact with,” she said. “They all seem housing-unstable and at high risk. You want to help those individuals or those families in front of you. But not all of them are going to become homeless and be on the street or use shelter if they don’t get assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers also often prioritize people with lower needs, Rountree said. Someone who recently lost their job but otherwise is stable gets preference over someone facing ongoing struggles with their mental health or addiction because the stable person is easier to help. However, the stable person may not be the one who needs the help the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rountree said there’s also a belief that people with higher needs will not spend the money they’re given wisely. But AI doesn’t have that bias, so it ensures the money goes to those who need it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are apparent. People the algorithm targets are much more likely to have been incarcerated, sought substance use treatment, had mental health issues or been hospitalized than the people who seek aid through LA County’s other homelessness prevention programs, Rountree said. In that way, this program fills a hole in LA County’s net of services, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County’s other, more traditional programs geared to prevent homelessness rely on people reaching out to request help or on caseworkers referring clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, they aren’t duplicating efforts. There’s almost no overlap between the people targeted by the AI algorithm and those served by traditional prevention programs, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s a significant population of folks, who if somebody doesn’t reach out to them to offer assistance, they might lose their housing right out from under them without reaching out for assistance themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Then, a human steps in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four times a year, the Policy Lab researchers send LA County a list of residents the AI program has deemed most likely to become homeless. The county then mails those people letters, telling them they’ve been selected to participate in the program. After that, a social worker cold-calls them to tell them the good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person at the other end of the line is often convinced it’s a scam. After all, how often does someone legitimate call out of the blue to offer free money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that happens, case worker Genice Brown usually asks if she can email them—a move she hopes lends a bit more credence to her pitch. Once she convinces them the program is real, nine out of 10 people agree to sign up, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMHousingAI03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genice Brown, a medical case worker with the Housing Stabilization and Homelessness Prevention Unit, in Los Angeles on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Individuals enrolled in the program receive a base sum of either $4,000 or $6,000 (the amount is randomly assigned so researchers can assess the impacts of different amounts of money). Families start at $6,000 or $8,000, with larger families receiving more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown can use that money for whatever her clients need most. Usually, rent comes first, but it also can cover other bills. In addition, she helps connect her clients to doctors, dentists and mental health services. If they’re looking for work, Brown gets them gift cards for interview outfits, helps them with their resumes and role-plays interview questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works with each client for three or four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I just really needed the help’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For 38-year-old Sandricka Henderson, help came just in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diagnosed with lupus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Henderson could no longer work her physically demanding warehouse job. Disability benefits gave her barely more than $1,000 a month — just a quarter of what she made while she was working. With an 8-year-old son to support, Henderson found she was at least $400 behind on her bills every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before Christmas last year, Henderson received a call from a woman offering free money. Henderson was sure it was a scam and braced for the woman to ask for her Social Security number.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Artificial Intelligence ","tag":"artificial-intelligence"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the social worker (who turned out to be Genice Brown) didn’t, and Henderson eventually realized the program was real. The first thing Brown gave her was a $100 gift card to a local grocery store — a blessing, Henderson said because she had nothing in her refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, Henderson’s landlord sent her a letter warning she had 10 days to pay her rent or be evicted. About a week later, Brown sent the rent money and helped Henderson avoid catastrophe. She also helped Henderson catch up on her car payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Henderson no longer feels like she’s teetering on the edge of homelessness. She has some money in her savings account, and her rent is prepaid for several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really needed the help,” Henderson said. Because she’s used to working hard and taking care of herself, she added, she never would have reached out and asked for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really did change my whole circumstances,” she said. “My son had a Christmas that I didn’t think I was going to be able to give him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of AI in homelessness services\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, new people are becoming homeless faster than aid workers can find existing homeless residents housing. \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/community-plan/\">In Santa Clara County, for example, for every one homeless household that moved into housing last year, another 1.7 became newly homeless\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/who-we-are/\">Destination: Home, a Santa Clara County-based organization focused on ending homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Without having additional resources, what is the true benefit of knowing there are more people out there who are in need?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Consuelo Hernandez, director, LA County’s Office of Supportive Housing","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The LA County team has met with government agencies from all over the country who are interested in its AI model, including Santa Clara and San Diego counties, Vanderford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is working on a plan for homelessness prevention, Tim McClain, spokesman for the county’s Health and Human Services Agency, said in an email to CalMatters. 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