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The council’s approval came despite objections from Mayor Matt Mahan, who blasted the pact as irresponsible and predicted it would lead to painful budget cuts.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Jun, housing development officer, San José\"]‘Workers have power, our labor has power. I’m really glad we came to an agreement and the city came back to the table and listened to our needs.’[/pullquote]Union leaders cheered the deal, which will give employees an immediate 6% raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers have power, our labor has power,” said Michael Jun, a development officer with the city’s Housing Department. “I’m really glad we came to an agreement and the city came back to the table and listened to our needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-year contract also includes a 5% wage hike in the fiscal year beginning July 2024 and a pay increase of at least 3.5% in July 2025. 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Our leaders were elected to represent the people, and the needs of the people took a back seat.’[/pullquote]Mahan supported a 5% raise in the current fiscal year and said the council must now amend \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957368/san-jose-budget-deep-dive-setting-dollars-aside\">the spending plan it passed in June\u003c/a> to account for the new raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The council will have to reopen the balanced budget that we just passed and find a few million dollars to cut,” said Mahan, who implied the raises could lead the city back into the kind of fiscal problems it experienced last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen this movie before, so I am frustrated with where we are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilmember Pam Foley said she voted for the contract along with eight other council members in order to aid workers and avert a work stoppage, even if it means cuts down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really important that we have labor peace right now,” Foley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really depend on Public Works, Department of Transportation, Parks and Rec — all of those staff to help make life easier for residents,” Foley added. “If they’re not happy, it makes it very difficult for them to do their job and my staff to do their job to take care of our residents.”[aside label='More Around San José' tag='san-jose']It was Foley and Councilmember David Cohen who pushed for the council to return from summer recess on Aug. 1, a week earlier than scheduled, in an attempt to break the gridlock in negotiations. 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The council is expected to debate how to rebalance the current fiscal year budget in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11958290/san-jose-city-council-approves-agreements-with-unions-to-avoid-strike","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_32897","news_27626","news_19904","news_31197","news_18541","news_1268","news_32925","news_32963"],"featImg":"news_11957563","label":"news"},"news_11957368":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957368","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957368","score":null,"sort":[1691578847000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-budget-deep-dive-setting-dollars-aside","title":"Budget Deep Dive: 'Setting Dollars Aside' in San José","publishDate":1691578847,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Budget Deep Dive: ‘Setting Dollars Aside’ in San José | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of turmoil in Silicon Valley and changing commuter habits. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, when San José’s City Council passed its budget for the 2023–24 fiscal year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">debate largely centered on how the city should spend\u003c/a> $87 million in earmarked funds left over from previous years to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan led a controversial push to prioritize funding temporary shelter, while other Council members urged a continued focus on paying for more permanent affordable housing. The compromise reached will shift a quarter of the unspent money toward temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the budget, the Council broadly agreed on increasing police staffing and setting aside the city’s modest budget surplus to deal with potential shortfalls in future years.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-800x210.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1020x267.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-160x42.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1536x403.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco and Oakland — which have both suffered from a steep decline in downtown commuters — San José is less reliant on a surge in daytime population, helping to land the city in a projected budget surplus of $35.2 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its proposed operating budget, the city manager’s office wrote that “key economic areas remain strong, including robust employment figures, rebounding hotel occupancy and room rates, and growing sales tax activity levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan said the city’s diversified economy also helped shield the budget from the fallout of tech layoffs that began surging at the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost one in five jobs in the city are in manufacturing, so when you see these big top-line layoff numbers, they aren’t actually impacting San José as much,” Mahan told KQED. “We’re also a very residential-heavy city, which gives you a bit more stability in terms of revenues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-800x438.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1020x559.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-160x88.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1536x841.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is not planning a spending spree with its $35 million surplus. Again, in the grand scheme of things, it’s a pretty modest windfall — just 2% of the entire general fund — and city leaders are opting to use it conservatively, putting the majority of it, $19 million, into a reserve to prepare for an anticipated $18.8 million \u003cem>deficit \u003c/em>next fiscal year (more on that below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are setting dollars aside, and have consistently, in rainy day funds,” Mahan said. “We have not overextended ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next largest surplus expenditure, $8 million, is for the BeautifySJ program. That initiative, launched in 2017, funds neighborhood clean-ups and staffing to respond to graffiti and illegal dumping complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-800x242.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1020x308.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-160x48.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1536x465.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José budget officials aren’t expecting the good times to last for long. The City Manager’s office is projecting this year’s surplus to be followed by a $18.8 million deficit next year, followed by roughly balanced books in the fiscal year beginning in July of 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current projections, according to the city’s operating budget document, are “built on the assumption of a moderate recession beginning in summer 2023, which impacts several economically sensitive categories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, things can (and have) changed. Despite a long-feared recession, the national and local economy has continued to motor along. On the flip side, the city’s ongoing labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956630/thousands-of-san-jose-city-workers-to-vote-next-week-on-strike-authorization\">tensions with its largest employee unions\u003c/a> could add some unforeseen costs in future budgets. Unlike the federal government, cities and states are not allowed to pass budgets with deficits, so if San José faces a shortfall, the books will need to be balanced with cuts or taxes — or as bureaucrats lovingly refer to them: savings and revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-800x582.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-1020x743.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-1536x1118.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address economic uncertainty during the pandemic, San José city services were bolstered by an unprecedented level of aid from the federal government — most notably, the American Rescue Plan Act, signed by President Joe Biden in March of 2021, which delivered some $213 million to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two years, those funds have allowed the city to maintain its staff, while expanding waste pickup, rental assistance, housing for people experiencing homelessness and food distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, those federal dollars are running out, with: only $38 million remaining in the pot.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11957602,news_11952913\"]In budget terms, the sunsetting of funds like these is not technically a cut. But it feels that way for organizations like Loaves and Fishes Family Kitchen, a nonprofit meal provider that relied on that money to ramp up its delivery service to residents in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That contract that we were asked to create meals for, it represents about 500,000 meals,” said David Hott, the group’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hott said that infusion of funding allowed his organization to deliver meals to a variety of service providers, including the Alum Rock School District, churches and local housing groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic activities have lessened and the funding has ceased,” Hott said. “That does not mean the need has ceased, and that’s the struggle that we face now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with no more federal relief coming in, Hott said they could be forced to scale back, and stop these expanded services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Unlike Oakland and San Francisco, San José relies less on a surge in daytime population, helping to land the city in a projected budget surplus of $35.2 million for this fiscal year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691596178,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":945},"headData":{"title":"Budget Deep Dive: 'Setting Dollars Aside' in San José | KQED","description":"Unlike Oakland and San Francisco, San José relies less on a surge in daytime population, helping to land the city in a projected budget surplus of $35.2 million for this fiscal year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Budget Deep Dive: 'Setting Dollars Aside' in San José","datePublished":"2023-08-09T11:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-09T15:49:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11957368/san-jose-budget-deep-dive-setting-dollars-aside","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of turmoil in Silicon Valley and changing commuter habits. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, when San José’s City Council passed its budget for the 2023–24 fiscal year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">debate largely centered on how the city should spend\u003c/a> $87 million in earmarked funds left over from previous years to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan led a controversial push to prioritize funding temporary shelter, while other Council members urged a continued focus on paying for more permanent affordable housing. The compromise reached will shift a quarter of the unspent money toward temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the budget, the Council broadly agreed on increasing police staffing and setting aside the city’s modest budget surplus to deal with potential shortfalls in future years.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-800x210.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1020x267.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-160x42.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1536x403.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco and Oakland — which have both suffered from a steep decline in downtown commuters — San José is less reliant on a surge in daytime population, helping to land the city in a projected budget surplus of $35.2 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its proposed operating budget, the city manager’s office wrote that “key economic areas remain strong, including robust employment figures, rebounding hotel occupancy and room rates, and growing sales tax activity levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan said the city’s diversified economy also helped shield the budget from the fallout of tech layoffs that began surging at the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost one in five jobs in the city are in manufacturing, so when you see these big top-line layoff numbers, they aren’t actually impacting San José as much,” Mahan told KQED. “We’re also a very residential-heavy city, which gives you a bit more stability in terms of revenues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-800x438.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1020x559.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-160x88.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1536x841.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is not planning a spending spree with its $35 million surplus. Again, in the grand scheme of things, it’s a pretty modest windfall — just 2% of the entire general fund — and city leaders are opting to use it conservatively, putting the majority of it, $19 million, into a reserve to prepare for an anticipated $18.8 million \u003cem>deficit \u003c/em>next fiscal year (more on that below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are setting dollars aside, and have consistently, in rainy day funds,” Mahan said. “We have not overextended ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next largest surplus expenditure, $8 million, is for the BeautifySJ program. That initiative, launched in 2017, funds neighborhood clean-ups and staffing to respond to graffiti and illegal dumping complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-800x242.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1020x308.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-160x48.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1536x465.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José budget officials aren’t expecting the good times to last for long. The City Manager’s office is projecting this year’s surplus to be followed by a $18.8 million deficit next year, followed by roughly balanced books in the fiscal year beginning in July of 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current projections, according to the city’s operating budget document, are “built on the assumption of a moderate recession beginning in summer 2023, which impacts several economically sensitive categories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, things can (and have) changed. Despite a long-feared recession, the national and local economy has continued to motor along. On the flip side, the city’s ongoing labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956630/thousands-of-san-jose-city-workers-to-vote-next-week-on-strike-authorization\">tensions with its largest employee unions\u003c/a> could add some unforeseen costs in future budgets. Unlike the federal government, cities and states are not allowed to pass budgets with deficits, so if San José faces a shortfall, the books will need to be balanced with cuts or taxes — or as bureaucrats lovingly refer to them: savings and revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-800x582.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-1020x743.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-1536x1118.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address economic uncertainty during the pandemic, San José city services were bolstered by an unprecedented level of aid from the federal government — most notably, the American Rescue Plan Act, signed by President Joe Biden in March of 2021, which delivered some $213 million to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two years, those funds have allowed the city to maintain its staff, while expanding waste pickup, rental assistance, housing for people experiencing homelessness and food distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, those federal dollars are running out, with: only $38 million remaining in the pot.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11957602,news_11952913"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In budget terms, the sunsetting of funds like these is not technically a cut. But it feels that way for organizations like Loaves and Fishes Family Kitchen, a nonprofit meal provider that relied on that money to ramp up its delivery service to residents in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That contract that we were asked to create meals for, it represents about 500,000 meals,” said David Hott, the group’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hott said that infusion of funding allowed his organization to deliver meals to a variety of service providers, including the Alum Rock School District, churches and local housing groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic activities have lessened and the funding has ceased,” Hott said. “That does not mean the need has ceased, and that’s the struggle that we face now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with no more federal relief coming in, Hott said they could be forced to scale back, and stop these expanded services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11957368/san-jose-budget-deep-dive-setting-dollars-aside","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_32983","news_17968","news_18541","news_1887","news_1268"],"featImg":"news_11957180","label":"news"},"news_11956630":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11956630","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11956630","score":null,"sort":[1690462814000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"thousands-of-san-jose-city-workers-to-vote-next-week-on-strike-authorization","title":"Thousands of San José City Workers to Vote Next Week on Strike Authorization","publishDate":1690462814,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Thousands of San José City Workers to Vote Next Week on Strike Authorization | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>More than 4,000 San José city employees plan to vote next week on whether to authorize a three-day strike for as soon as mid-August, labor organizers announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike would be the largest the city has seen in decades, potentially hobbling numerous daily operations, with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/office-of-the-city-manager/employee-relations/labor-relations-information/bargaining-units-labor-contract-info/mef\">broad swath of crucial workers\u003c/a> walking off the job, including some airport operations personnel, librarians and park managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain union-represented employees, including public safety radio dispatchers and wastewater treatment workers, would likely be deemed “essential, and prohibited from striking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes some four months after the unions representing the workers began negotiating with the city over a new three-year contract, demanding significant pay hikes — including a 7% wage increase next year — along with more family leave and other expanded benefits. But negotiations reached an impasse in June, when the city’s latest offer fell short of the unions’ demands.[aside label=\"More on San José labor issues\" postID=\"news_11955897,news_11955267\"]More than 2,500 full-time employees have already signed a petition indicating they plan to vote next week in favor of the walkout, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.staffupsanjose.org/\">Staff Up San Jose\u003c/a>, a coalition of four unions involved in negotiations, told KQED. Voting concludes next Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Tucker, of the Municipal Employees’ Federation (MEF-AFSCME) Local 101, the largest union at the table, said that if workers vote to strike, they wouldn’t walk off the job until after the City Council returns from its summer recess, on Aug. 8, to give the city “every possibility to come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unions adjusted their demands significantly during mediation this month, he said, but the city has yet to make any meaningful change to its existing proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they come to the middle, I think that they’ll find that we will be pragmatic and willing to reach an agreement that’s going to achieve our goals of getting back to service delivery,” Tucker said. “But so far, the city hasn’t shown signs of meeting us in the middle. They’re dug in their position. That’s the point of the strike vote: to get them to meet us in the middle and get a deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing that, Tucker added, a three-day walkout will hopefully be enough to move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should we have to talk about a further strike afterwards, we’re willing to do so,” he said. “But we believe that that’s enough to show them that we’re serious about getting the city staffed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written request, obtained by KQED, two members of the City Council on Tuesday asked the City Attorney’s Office to schedule a “special” Council meeting for next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that the council has a lot of questions and being able to start the discussion next week will help us better prepare for the next step in negotiations and also would exhibit a level of urgency that our employees believe the process deserves,” Councilmembers David Cohen and Pam Foley wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the special meeting is called next week, the Council could begin the process of drafting an updated offer for unions organizers to consider before directing workers to walk off the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan, however, told KQED earlier this month that the 7% wage increase the unions are asking for is simply “unrealistic,” pointing to a poor economic forecast in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The context in which we’re operating is one in which large employers in Silicon Valley are laying people off,” Mahan said. “We’re not seeing signs of economic, and therefore tax base, growth when we look out over the next couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But leaders of Staff Up San Jose argue that city workers have long been undervalued, making markedly less than their counterparts in neighboring jurisdictions, and that significant wage and benefit increases are needed to address the city’s staffing and retention crisis. As of May, the city reported 860 municipal job openings, marking more than a 13% vacancy rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City employees told KQED that their departments are chronically understaffed, leading to burnout and high turnover. Many referred to the city as a “training ground” where workers acquire skills, then leave for other employers who offer better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other Council members, including Peter Ortiz and Omar Torres, are voicing their strong support for the workers, and urging the city to offer them a more generous contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a strong ally of our bargaining units, and I do hope we, as a city, end the impasse and offer them a fair contract,” Torres said in a statement. “Too many of them are leaving our city. Now is not the time to have an understaffed and underpaid workforce, as too much is at stake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Guy Marzorati contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Several council members called for a special meeting next week to avert the looming 3-day walkout, which could begin as soon as mid-August. City workers are demanding significant increases in pay, family leave and other benefits. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Thousands of San José City Workers to Vote Next Week on Strike Authorization","datePublished":"2023-07-27T13:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-27T22:26:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956630/thousands-of-san-jose-city-workers-to-vote-next-week-on-strike-authorization","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than 4,000 San José city employees plan to vote next week on whether to authorize a three-day strike for as soon as mid-August, labor organizers announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike would be the largest the city has seen in decades, potentially hobbling numerous daily operations, with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/office-of-the-city-manager/employee-relations/labor-relations-information/bargaining-units-labor-contract-info/mef\">broad swath of crucial workers\u003c/a> walking off the job, including some airport operations personnel, librarians and park managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain union-represented employees, including public safety radio dispatchers and wastewater treatment workers, would likely be deemed “essential, and prohibited from striking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes some four months after the unions representing the workers began negotiating with the city over a new three-year contract, demanding significant pay hikes — including a 7% wage increase next year — along with more family leave and other expanded benefits. But negotiations reached an impasse in June, when the city’s latest offer fell short of the unions’ demands.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on San José labor issues ","postid":"news_11955897,news_11955267"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than 2,500 full-time employees have already signed a petition indicating they plan to vote next week in favor of the walkout, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.staffupsanjose.org/\">Staff Up San Jose\u003c/a>, a coalition of four unions involved in negotiations, told KQED. Voting concludes next Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Tucker, of the Municipal Employees’ Federation (MEF-AFSCME) Local 101, the largest union at the table, said that if workers vote to strike, they wouldn’t walk off the job until after the City Council returns from its summer recess, on Aug. 8, to give the city “every possibility to come to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unions adjusted their demands significantly during mediation this month, he said, but the city has yet to make any meaningful change to its existing proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they come to the middle, I think that they’ll find that we will be pragmatic and willing to reach an agreement that’s going to achieve our goals of getting back to service delivery,” Tucker said. “But so far, the city hasn’t shown signs of meeting us in the middle. They’re dug in their position. That’s the point of the strike vote: to get them to meet us in the middle and get a deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing that, Tucker added, a three-day walkout will hopefully be enough to move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should we have to talk about a further strike afterwards, we’re willing to do so,” he said. “But we believe that that’s enough to show them that we’re serious about getting the city staffed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written request, obtained by KQED, two members of the City Council on Tuesday asked the City Attorney’s Office to schedule a “special” Council meeting for next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that the council has a lot of questions and being able to start the discussion next week will help us better prepare for the next step in negotiations and also would exhibit a level of urgency that our employees believe the process deserves,” Councilmembers David Cohen and Pam Foley wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the special meeting is called next week, the Council could begin the process of drafting an updated offer for unions organizers to consider before directing workers to walk off the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan, however, told KQED earlier this month that the 7% wage increase the unions are asking for is simply “unrealistic,” pointing to a poor economic forecast in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The context in which we’re operating is one in which large employers in Silicon Valley are laying people off,” Mahan said. “We’re not seeing signs of economic, and therefore tax base, growth when we look out over the next couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But leaders of Staff Up San Jose argue that city workers have long been undervalued, making markedly less than their counterparts in neighboring jurisdictions, and that significant wage and benefit increases are needed to address the city’s staffing and retention crisis. As of May, the city reported 860 municipal job openings, marking more than a 13% vacancy rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City employees told KQED that their departments are chronically understaffed, leading to burnout and high turnover. Many referred to the city as a “training ground” where workers acquire skills, then leave for other employers who offer better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other Council members, including Peter Ortiz and Omar Torres, are voicing their strong support for the workers, and urging the city to offer them a more generous contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a strong ally of our bargaining units, and I do hope we, as a city, end the impasse and offer them a fair contract,” Torres said in a statement. “Too many of them are leaving our city. Now is not the time to have an understaffed and underpaid workforce, as too much is at stake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Guy Marzorati contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11956630/thousands-of-san-jose-city-workers-to-vote-next-week-on-strike-authorization","authors":["11785"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19904","news_18541","news_1268","news_32925"],"featImg":"news_11956694","label":"news"},"news_11952913":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11952913","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11952913","score":null,"sort":[1686770103000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing","title":"San José Council Approves Modest Shift Toward Temporary Homeless Housing","publishDate":1686770103,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San José Council Approves Modest Shift Toward Temporary Homeless Housing | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San José’s city council approved a budget Tuesday that aims to reduce street homelessness by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">shifting millions of dollars from permanent to temporary housing\u003c/a> — though the council rejected a larger pivot toward shelter funding advocated by Mayor Matt Mahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final vote on the city’s $5.2 billion spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">came after weeks of debate over homelessness spending\u003c/a>. Mahan, who campaigned on a promise of reducing encampments, used this budget to argue that more prefabricated housing was needed to move the city’s 4,411 unsheltered residents off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of his colleagues on the council feared that pulling money away from the construction of permanent housing would lead to affordable apartment projects dying on the vine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dontae Lartigue, founder and CEO, Razing the Bar\"]‘The problem is we’re not investing in the people that call San José their home, that were born here in this city and they can’t afford to live here.’[/pullquote]At the heart of the debate was how to spend $87 million in dedicated homelessness dollars left over from the current and previous fiscal years. Those funds were created through the passage of Measure E, an initiative passed by voters in 2020 that levies a tax on home sales of $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise reached after hours of negotiation on the council dais will put one-quarter of the unspent homelessness dollars, roughly $22 million, toward developing and operating temporary housing and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have the full commitment to the low-income affordable housing that I think the voters wanted us to have,” said Councilmember David Cohen, who brokered the final deal, in an interview after the vote. “But it’s clear also that the residents in San José want swift and meaningful action for people who are unsheltered on the streets, and supporting interim housing is going to help us get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the spending approved Tuesday allocates $93.2 million to build permanent affordable housing across a variety of income levels, $29.1 million for temporary housing and $7.4 million on aid and assistance for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s plan, which would have put $33 million in unspent Measure E funds toward short-term housing, was voted down by the council. While the mayor was able to find consensus around the idea that unhoused residents need faster, cheaper exit ramps out of encampments and creek beds, he couldn’t build a coalition to support anything more than a modest redirection of funds toward temporary units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11952937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with a maroon sweater smiles as he looks past the camera. He has salt and pepper hair and is standing outdoors with trees behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan in San José on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Certainly disappointed it wasn’t more and I think we’ll be back to this conversation next year,” Mahan said. “But I think it’s certainly a move in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11949797,news_11942734\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Fierce pushback from the council and housing advocates has forced Mahan to pare back his proposals throughout the spring. Earlier this month, the mayor jettisoned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">a plan that would have eliminated future Measure E funding\u003c/a> for permanent housing. Tuesday’s agreement distributes homelessness dollars in the upcoming 2023–24 fiscal year under the existing formula, putting roughly three-quarters of the $50 million in expected revenue toward constructing affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents East San José, said the mayor’s shelter strategy was being driven by short-term politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not be considering quick wins that lack the investment necessary to impact lasting change,” Ortiz said. “It’s not the city council’s job to complete campaign promises or to help officials get reelected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11949856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A bunk bed with black frame and mattresses covered in navy sheets is inside a small shipping container that was converted into temporary housing. A yellow door and a sink are seen just behind the bunk bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a family home at Evans Lane, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land in San José, on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s vote doesn’t answer the longer-term question of how to pay for all the homeless housing San José leaders are hoping to build. The city currently operates six interim housing sites with 628 beds, and is planning for many more. An analysis from San José’s budget director found that costs for temporary housing will begin to outpace dedicated funding by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the long haul, we’re going to have to dip into the general fund, unless we have a good economy and money keeps on coming in or we find alternative sources of funding,” said Councilmember Rosemary Kamei.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, the slowing economy has had less impact on San José’s budget compared to the Bay Area’s other large cities. San José is entering the new fiscal year with a modest projected surplus of $35 million. Most of that windfall — $18.8 million — will be socked away for the next fiscal year, when city analysts project a deficit of that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has had no problem getting approval for his other top spending priority: hiring more officers in the San José Police Department, in hopes of lowering response times to 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His request has created 31 new positions, including 17 officers, two sergeants and one lieutenant with a projected start date of February 2025. Six new community service officers, who typically respond to lower-priority calls such as petty theft and vandalism, will be assigned to downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who turned out to Tuesday’s meeting largely focused their comments on homelessness spending. That followed more than five hours of public comment on Measure E plans on Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dontae Lartigue, who runs Razing the Bar, a nonprofit providing mentoring for transitional-age youth, told the council that he’s benefited from living in subsidized housing for the last 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is we’re not investing in the people that call San José their home, that were born here in this city and they can’t afford to live here,” Lartigue said. “If we stop investing in permanent supportive housing and try to divert funds into interim housing, we’re going to run into big problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José resident Jenice Condie urged the council to get behind Mahan’s reallocation and give him an opportunity to realize a top campaign promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it doesn’t work, we can always vote him out next time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The council rejected Mayor Matt Mahan's plan to move even more money from permanent housing to shelter funding in the city budget.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1686771811,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1124},"headData":{"title":"San José Council Approves Modest Shift Toward Temporary Homeless Housing | KQED","description":"The council rejected Mayor Matt Mahan's plan to move even more money from permanent housing to shelter funding in the city budget.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San José Council Approves Modest Shift Toward Temporary Homeless Housing","datePublished":"2023-06-14T19:15:03.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-14T19:43:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San José’s city council approved a budget Tuesday that aims to reduce street homelessness by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">shifting millions of dollars from permanent to temporary housing\u003c/a> — though the council rejected a larger pivot toward shelter funding advocated by Mayor Matt Mahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final vote on the city’s $5.2 billion spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">came after weeks of debate over homelessness spending\u003c/a>. Mahan, who campaigned on a promise of reducing encampments, used this budget to argue that more prefabricated housing was needed to move the city’s 4,411 unsheltered residents off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of his colleagues on the council feared that pulling money away from the construction of permanent housing would lead to affordable apartment projects dying on the vine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The problem is we’re not investing in the people that call San José their home, that were born here in this city and they can’t afford to live here.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dontae Lartigue, founder and CEO, Razing the Bar","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the heart of the debate was how to spend $87 million in dedicated homelessness dollars left over from the current and previous fiscal years. Those funds were created through the passage of Measure E, an initiative passed by voters in 2020 that levies a tax on home sales of $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise reached after hours of negotiation on the council dais will put one-quarter of the unspent homelessness dollars, roughly $22 million, toward developing and operating temporary housing and shelter.\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 still have the full commitment to the low-income affordable housing that I think the voters wanted us to have,” said Councilmember David Cohen, who brokered the final deal, in an interview after the vote. “But it’s clear also that the residents in San José want swift and meaningful action for people who are unsheltered on the streets, and supporting interim housing is going to help us get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the spending approved Tuesday allocates $93.2 million to build permanent affordable housing across a variety of income levels, $29.1 million for temporary housing and $7.4 million on aid and assistance for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s plan, which would have put $33 million in unspent Measure E funds toward short-term housing, was voted down by the council. While the mayor was able to find consensus around the idea that unhoused residents need faster, cheaper exit ramps out of encampments and creek beds, he couldn’t build a coalition to support anything more than a modest redirection of funds toward temporary units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11952937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with a maroon sweater smiles as he looks past the camera. He has salt and pepper hair and is standing outdoors with trees behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS59960_025_KQED_MattMahanSanJose_11082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan in San José on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Certainly disappointed it wasn’t more and I think we’ll be back to this conversation next year,” Mahan said. “But I think it’s certainly a move in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11949797,news_11942734","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fierce pushback from the council and housing advocates has forced Mahan to pare back his proposals throughout the spring. Earlier this month, the mayor jettisoned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">a plan that would have eliminated future Measure E funding\u003c/a> for permanent housing. Tuesday’s agreement distributes homelessness dollars in the upcoming 2023–24 fiscal year under the existing formula, putting roughly three-quarters of the $50 million in expected revenue toward constructing affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents East San José, said the mayor’s shelter strategy was being driven by short-term politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not be considering quick wins that lack the investment necessary to impact lasting change,” Ortiz said. “It’s not the city council’s job to complete campaign promises or to help officials get reelected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11949856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A bunk bed with black frame and mattresses covered in navy sheets is inside a small shipping container that was converted into temporary housing. A yellow door and a sink are seen just behind the bunk bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62452_022_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a family home at Evans Lane, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land in San José, on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s vote doesn’t answer the longer-term question of how to pay for all the homeless housing San José leaders are hoping to build. The city currently operates six interim housing sites with 628 beds, and is planning for many more. An analysis from San José’s budget director found that costs for temporary housing will begin to outpace dedicated funding by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the long haul, we’re going to have to dip into the general fund, unless we have a good economy and money keeps on coming in or we find alternative sources of funding,” said Councilmember Rosemary Kamei.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, the slowing economy has had less impact on San José’s budget compared to the Bay Area’s other large cities. San José is entering the new fiscal year with a modest projected surplus of $35 million. Most of that windfall — $18.8 million — will be socked away for the next fiscal year, when city analysts project a deficit of that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has had no problem getting approval for his other top spending priority: hiring more officers in the San José Police Department, in hopes of lowering response times to 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His request has created 31 new positions, including 17 officers, two sergeants and one lieutenant with a projected start date of February 2025. Six new community service officers, who typically respond to lower-priority calls such as petty theft and vandalism, will be assigned to downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who turned out to Tuesday’s meeting largely focused their comments on homelessness spending. That followed more than five hours of public comment on Measure E plans on Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dontae Lartigue, who runs Razing the Bar, a nonprofit providing mentoring for transitional-age youth, told the council that he’s benefited from living in subsidized housing for the last 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is we’re not investing in the people that call San José their home, that were born here in this city and they can’t afford to live here,” Lartigue said. “If we stop investing in permanent supportive housing and try to divert funds into interim housing, we’re going to run into big problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José resident Jenice Condie urged the council to get behind Mahan’s reallocation and give him an opportunity to realize a top campaign promise.\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>“If it doesn’t work, we can always vote him out next time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_4020","news_1775","news_31197","news_32494","news_18541","news_1268","news_32493"],"featImg":"news_11950516","label":"news"},"news_11949797":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11949797","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11949797","score":null,"sort":[1684361675000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing","title":"San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing","publishDate":1684361675,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San José’s city council is weighing a controversial plan to dramatically reshape how the city spends money to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, spearheaded by Mayor Matt Mahan, would shift dedicated homelessness dollars away from building affordable apartments to, instead, constructing temporary shelters. The budget plan is the manifestation of an argument \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937410/san-joses-new-mayor-matt-mahan-seeks-allies-to-tackle-homelessness-policing\">Mahan made repeatedly during his mayoral campaign\u003c/a>: that local governments have placed too much focus on permanent supportive housing instead of what the mayor describes as low-barrier solutions to quickly provide more shelter for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets,” Mahan said at a press conference on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate centers on a pot of money created by San José voters in 2020, when they approved Measure E to address housing affordability and homelessness by taxing home sales of $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s push to reallocate the city’s Measure E funds is the most contentious proposal in this year’s budget process. The council will take a final vote in June on the spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. On Tuesday, they heard hours of public comment on the homelessness spending plan from residents who crowded City Hall into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San José Mayor Matt Mahan\"]‘We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 75% of Measure E revenue is used to pay for the development of new affordable housing at a variety of income levels, with the rest going to shelter construction and homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2023–24 fiscal year, Mahan is proposing a dramatic revision: for 80% of Measure E revenue (estimated to be $50 million) to go toward temporary housing, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">six emergency interim housing sites already open\u003c/a> across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would set aside 20% of revenue for rental and legal assistance for San José tenants. None of the new Measure E funds would be dedicated to permanent affordable housing. At the end of the 2023–24 budget year, Measure E allocations would return to their current levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Neat rows of gray shipping containers with a singular white window in each line a sidewalk with well-manicured flower beds filled with brown bark. A mountain range is seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted into transitional homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land in San José, on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the shift say a change of approach is needed in the face of a problem that seems intractable. San José’s unhoused population grew to 6,650 people last year, and while the ratio of households exiting and entering homelessness has narrowed in Santa Clara County, 1.7 households are still becoming homeless for every one household housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see homeless that [are] sleeping right in front of our businesses,” said June Tran, owner of Crema Coffee, who spoke at Mahan’s press conference. “I can see that our current strategy right now is not working, so we really need change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to critics, the plan is a short-sighted maneuver designed to mollify concerns about visible street homelessness without providing permanent shelter for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only people that call for this kind of an approach has usually been politicians,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of the housing nonprofit Destination: Home. “But there’s no evidence, there’s no research, there’s no subject matter experts that would tell you diverting money from creating the deepest level of affordable housing in perpetuity and moving it to do shelter is a winning strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stare at a computer screen within a gray cubicle. A single green plant is seen in the corner of the foreground. This is a neat office setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados (left) and Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Loving of Destination: Home work at the organization’s San José office on Jan. 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, unspent Measure E revenue from the current and previous budget years would continue to fund affordable housing, to the tune of $52.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will largely go to projects already in the city’s pipeline. But affordable housing advocates say the falloff in funding in the next budget could lead to some projects dying on the vine — losing out on not only city money but also the matching funds from other levels of government that could accompany it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents,” said Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents District 5, which includes East San José.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Councilmember Peter Ortiz, District 5\"]‘We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents.’[/pullquote]Backers of affordable housing funding waved paper fans with pictures of houses and a broken heart during Tuesday’s meeting and used the public comment period to decry the Measure E change as a betrayal of the ballot measure’s promises around building affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This comes down to a matter of trust,” said RJ Ramsey, a resident of an affordable housing project in San José, who said he helped campaign for the passage of Measure E. “Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Gonzalez, a real estate broker, applauded the proposal, arguing that money spent on interim housing would still serve the goal of helping residents exit homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been no taking away from Measure E,” he said. “We’re talking about homeless shelters, you guys, we need this for our homeless folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg\" alt='Outside of a tan and gray government building, a large metal sign reads, \"San Jose City Hall.\" An art sculpture in the background depicts the large letters, \"XO.\" A California State flag with a brown bear is waving from a flagpole in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Hall, March 20, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Mahan is that while Santa Clara County has picked up the tab for services at permanent affordable housing sites, the city is on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948329/residents-fear-crime-and-drugs-near-temporary-housing-sites-in-san-jose-but-the-evidence-shows-otherwise\">the operation of interim housing\u003c/a> into the future.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"RJ Ramsey, resident of an affordable housing project\"]‘This comes down to a matter of trust. Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.’[/pullquote]Mahan said he is hopeful for an infusion of funds from the state government or a regional housing bond but that, for now, rerouting Measure E dollars is the most realistic avenue to bankroll his vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To change Measure E funding, San José’s council is required to hold a second hearing, which is set for June 12. A final vote on the plan, which requires a two-thirds majority, is expected to take place the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Led by San José Mayor Matt Mahan, the proposal would shift dedicated homelessness funds away from building affordable apartments to prioritizing construction of temporary shelters.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684872332,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1172},"headData":{"title":"San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing | KQED","description":"Led by San José Mayor Matt Mahan, the proposal would shift dedicated homelessness funds away from building affordable apartments to prioritizing construction of temporary shelters.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing","datePublished":"2023-05-17T22:14:35.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-23T20:05:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San José’s city council is weighing a controversial plan to dramatically reshape how the city spends money to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, spearheaded by Mayor Matt Mahan, would shift dedicated homelessness dollars away from building affordable apartments to, instead, constructing temporary shelters. The budget plan is the manifestation of an argument \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937410/san-joses-new-mayor-matt-mahan-seeks-allies-to-tackle-homelessness-policing\">Mahan made repeatedly during his mayoral campaign\u003c/a>: that local governments have placed too much focus on permanent supportive housing instead of what the mayor describes as low-barrier solutions to quickly provide more shelter for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets,” Mahan said at a press conference on Monday.\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>The debate centers on a pot of money created by San José voters in 2020, when they approved Measure E to address housing affordability and homelessness by taxing home sales of $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s push to reallocate the city’s Measure E funds is the most contentious proposal in this year’s budget process. The council will take a final vote in June on the spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. On Tuesday, they heard hours of public comment on the homelessness spending plan from residents who crowded City Hall into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San José Mayor Matt Mahan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 75% of Measure E revenue is used to pay for the development of new affordable housing at a variety of income levels, with the rest going to shelter construction and homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2023–24 fiscal year, Mahan is proposing a dramatic revision: for 80% of Measure E revenue (estimated to be $50 million) to go toward temporary housing, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">six emergency interim housing sites already open\u003c/a> across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would set aside 20% of revenue for rental and legal assistance for San José tenants. None of the new Measure E funds would be dedicated to permanent affordable housing. At the end of the 2023–24 budget year, Measure E allocations would return to their current levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Neat rows of gray shipping containers with a singular white window in each line a sidewalk with well-manicured flower beds filled with brown bark. A mountain range is seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted into transitional homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land in San José, on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the shift say a change of approach is needed in the face of a problem that seems intractable. San José’s unhoused population grew to 6,650 people last year, and while the ratio of households exiting and entering homelessness has narrowed in Santa Clara County, 1.7 households are still becoming homeless for every one household housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see homeless that [are] sleeping right in front of our businesses,” said June Tran, owner of Crema Coffee, who spoke at Mahan’s press conference. “I can see that our current strategy right now is not working, so we really need change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to critics, the plan is a short-sighted maneuver designed to mollify concerns about visible street homelessness without providing permanent shelter for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only people that call for this kind of an approach has usually been politicians,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of the housing nonprofit Destination: Home. “But there’s no evidence, there’s no research, there’s no subject matter experts that would tell you diverting money from creating the deepest level of affordable housing in perpetuity and moving it to do shelter is a winning strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stare at a computer screen within a gray cubicle. A single green plant is seen in the corner of the foreground. This is a neat office setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados (left) and Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Loving of Destination: Home work at the organization’s San José office on Jan. 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, unspent Measure E revenue from the current and previous budget years would continue to fund affordable housing, to the tune of $52.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will largely go to projects already in the city’s pipeline. But affordable housing advocates say the falloff in funding in the next budget could lead to some projects dying on the vine — losing out on not only city money but also the matching funds from other levels of government that could accompany it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents,” said Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents District 5, which includes East San José.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Councilmember Peter Ortiz, District 5","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Backers of affordable housing funding waved paper fans with pictures of houses and a broken heart during Tuesday’s meeting and used the public comment period to decry the Measure E change as a betrayal of the ballot measure’s promises around building affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This comes down to a matter of trust,” said RJ Ramsey, a resident of an affordable housing project in San José, who said he helped campaign for the passage of Measure E. “Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Gonzalez, a real estate broker, applauded the proposal, arguing that money spent on interim housing would still serve the goal of helping residents exit homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been no taking away from Measure E,” he said. “We’re talking about homeless shelters, you guys, we need this for our homeless folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg\" alt='Outside of a tan and gray government building, a large metal sign reads, \"San Jose City Hall.\" An art sculpture in the background depicts the large letters, \"XO.\" A California State flag with a brown bear is waving from a flagpole in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Hall, March 20, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Mahan is that while Santa Clara County has picked up the tab for services at permanent affordable housing sites, the city is on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948329/residents-fear-crime-and-drugs-near-temporary-housing-sites-in-san-jose-but-the-evidence-shows-otherwise\">the operation of interim housing\u003c/a> into the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This comes down to a matter of trust. Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"RJ Ramsey, resident of an affordable housing project","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mahan said he is hopeful for an infusion of funds from the state government or a regional housing bond but that, for now, rerouting Measure E dollars is the most realistic avenue to bankroll his vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To change Measure E funding, San José’s council is required to hold a second hearing, which is set for June 12. A final vote on the plan, which requires a two-thirds majority, is expected to take place the following day.\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/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_26011","news_4020","news_1775","news_31197","news_18541","news_1268","news_18188"],"featImg":"news_11949856","label":"news"},"news_11901435":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11901435","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11901435","score":null,"sort":[1642034491000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote","title":"'Give Us a Chance': Noncitizens in San José Could Potentially Be Allowed to Vote","publishDate":1642034491,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San José has moved one step closer to giving noncitizens a voice in local elections. The city council voted Tuesday night to direct city officials to \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10392078&GUID=03186749-1D75-44A8-B323-9BC603E838D6\">study the potential impacts of changing the city charter to allow noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once staff has completed the review, council members will decide whether to put the question to voters with a ballot measure for either this year's June primary or November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's decision invigorated organizers who have been working for years to enfranchise immigrants in San José, regardless of their citizenship status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a place where we live, where we grew up, where our children grew up,\" said Esther Meléndez, a 30-year San José resident. She was one of about 200 people who called into the meeting in support of expanding voting rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is frustrating to not be able to vote for something that is important,\" said Meléndez, who is a legal permanent resident in the process of obtaining citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Esther Meléndez, San José resident and organizer\"]'This is a place where we live, where we grew up, where our children grew up.'[/pullquote]The council's decision comes at the conclusion of a year-long review of the city charter, led by an independent commission. Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10354189&GUID=F27DF619-F273-4C05-9292-E375FFA42E45\">the commission released its recommendations\u003c/a> — including allowing noncitizens to serve on city boards and holding mayoral elections in the same year as presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission did not address the question of noncitizen voting. However, last week, two members of the council, Magdalena Carrasco and Sylvia Arenas, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10392078&GUID=03186749-1D75-44A8-B323-9BC603E838D6\">issued a memo recommending that city officials study expanding voting rights to noncitizen immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who lack legal authorization to be in the country. In a matter of days, a coalition of South Bay immigrant advocacy groups mobilized a large campaign to voice support at Tuesday's meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This would be a step forward in acknowledging the contributions of our immigrant communities, who provide this country with labor and financial benefits through the taxes they contribute,\" said José Servín, director of advocacy and communication with the nonprofit Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, which has pushed for years for the city to expand voter eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 40% of San José residents were born outside the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanjosecitycalifornia\">according to recent U.S. Census figures\u003c/a>. While many have become naturalized citizens, many others have not. The share of foreign-born residents in San José is higher than in San Francisco and on par with New York City. San Francisco has allowed noncitizens to vote in school board elections since 2016. And in December, New York City granted legal immigrants the right to vote in all local elections. In addition, 11 municipalities in Maryland and two in Vermont permit noncitizen voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major tech companies with headquarters in the city, such as Zoom and Adobe, depend heavily on foreign-born workers in both technology and service jobs. Immigrants also propel many essential services and thousands of small businesses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\">power the city's unique cultural and culinary landmarks\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"arts_13904835\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/san-jose-illo_thien-pham-1920x1439.jpg\"]\"Thanking our essential workers who are risking their lives … is meaningless if we don't give them the rights, that I believe they deserve, to enact change in their own lives,\" said Councilmember Carrasco during Tuesday's meeting. She added that there are roughly 157,000 undocumented immigrants living and working in Santa Clara County who currently do not have a viable path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lone dissenting vote Tuesday was cast by Councilmember Dev Davis, who is also a candidate for mayor. She argued that voting should be considered a right and responsibility exclusive to citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Noncitizens] have allegiance to another country,\" said Davis. \"They, hopefully, wherever they come from, have the right to vote in that country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics expressed concern that the measure only requires a person to have lived in San José for 30 consecutive days by election time to be eligible to vote — similar to the model adopted by New York City in their voter expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How does someone who's been there for 30 days even know what's going on politically?\" Shane Patrick Connolly, chair of the Santa Clara County Republican Party, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More Stories from the South Bay' tag='san-jose']\"We have people who have lived in the community a long time who maybe haven't gone through the citizenship process but here's an incentive for them to do so, if you get to have a say through a vote,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meléndez, the San José resident who spoke at Tuesday's meeting, will become a naturalized citizen later this month. She says that she's very excited about becoming an American citizen but shared her frustration that the process has taken years and that, in that time, she has lacked a voice in local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us a chance,\" she said, appealing to those reluctant to support voter expansion. \"Give us a chance to share ideas, share what is needed to make sure that San José can be an even greater city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The San José City Council voted Tuesday night to direct city officials to study the potential impacts of changing the city charter to allow noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1642114210,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":907},"headData":{"title":"'Give Us a Chance': Noncitizens in San José Could Potentially Be Allowed to Vote | KQED","description":"The San José City Council voted Tuesday night to direct city officials to study the potential impacts of changing the city charter to allow noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Give Us a Chance': Noncitizens in San José Could Potentially Be Allowed to Vote","datePublished":"2022-01-13T00:41:31.000Z","dateModified":"2022-01-13T22:50:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11901435 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11901435","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/01/12/give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote/","disqusTitle":"'Give Us a Chance': Noncitizens in San José Could Potentially Be Allowed to Vote","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11901435/give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San José has moved one step closer to giving noncitizens a voice in local elections. The city council voted Tuesday night to direct city officials to \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10392078&GUID=03186749-1D75-44A8-B323-9BC603E838D6\">study the potential impacts of changing the city charter to allow noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once staff has completed the review, council members will decide whether to put the question to voters with a ballot measure for either this year's June primary or November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's decision invigorated organizers who have been working for years to enfranchise immigrants in San José, regardless of their citizenship status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a place where we live, where we grew up, where our children grew up,\" said Esther Meléndez, a 30-year San José resident. She was one of about 200 people who called into the meeting in support of expanding voting rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is frustrating to not be able to vote for something that is important,\" said Meléndez, who is a legal permanent resident in the process of obtaining citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This is a place where we live, where we grew up, where our children grew up.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Esther Meléndez, San José resident and organizer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The council's decision comes at the conclusion of a year-long review of the city charter, led by an independent commission. Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10354189&GUID=F27DF619-F273-4C05-9292-E375FFA42E45\">the commission released its recommendations\u003c/a> — including allowing noncitizens to serve on city boards and holding mayoral elections in the same year as presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission did not address the question of noncitizen voting. However, last week, two members of the council, Magdalena Carrasco and Sylvia Arenas, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10392078&GUID=03186749-1D75-44A8-B323-9BC603E838D6\">issued a memo recommending that city officials study expanding voting rights to noncitizen immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who lack legal authorization to be in the country. In a matter of days, a coalition of South Bay immigrant advocacy groups mobilized a large campaign to voice support at Tuesday's meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This would be a step forward in acknowledging the contributions of our immigrant communities, who provide this country with labor and financial benefits through the taxes they contribute,\" said José Servín, director of advocacy and communication with the nonprofit Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, which has pushed for years for the city to expand voter eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 40% of San José residents were born outside the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanjosecitycalifornia\">according to recent U.S. Census figures\u003c/a>. While many have become naturalized citizens, many others have not. The share of foreign-born residents in San José is higher than in San Francisco and on par with New York City. San Francisco has allowed noncitizens to vote in school board elections since 2016. And in December, New York City granted legal immigrants the right to vote in all local elections. In addition, 11 municipalities in Maryland and two in Vermont permit noncitizen voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major tech companies with headquarters in the city, such as Zoom and Adobe, depend heavily on foreign-born workers in both technology and service jobs. Immigrants also propel many essential services and thousands of small businesses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\">power the city's unique cultural and culinary landmarks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13904835","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/san-jose-illo_thien-pham-1920x1439.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"Thanking our essential workers who are risking their lives … is meaningless if we don't give them the rights, that I believe they deserve, to enact change in their own lives,\" said Councilmember Carrasco during Tuesday's meeting. She added that there are roughly 157,000 undocumented immigrants living and working in Santa Clara County who currently do not have a viable path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lone dissenting vote Tuesday was cast by Councilmember Dev Davis, who is also a candidate for mayor. She argued that voting should be considered a right and responsibility exclusive to citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Noncitizens] have allegiance to another country,\" said Davis. \"They, hopefully, wherever they come from, have the right to vote in that country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics expressed concern that the measure only requires a person to have lived in San José for 30 consecutive days by election time to be eligible to vote — similar to the model adopted by New York City in their voter expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How does someone who's been there for 30 days even know what's going on politically?\" Shane Patrick Connolly, chair of the Santa Clara County Republican Party, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories from the South Bay ","tag":"san-jose"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We have people who have lived in the community a long time who maybe haven't gone through the citizenship process but here's an incentive for them to do so, if you get to have a say through a vote,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meléndez, the San José resident who spoke at Tuesday's meeting, will become a naturalized citizen later this month. She says that she's very excited about becoming an American citizen but shared her frustration that the process has taken years and that, in that time, she has lacked a voice in local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us a chance,\" she said, appealing to those reluctant to support voter expansion. \"Give us a chance to share ideas, share what is needed to make sure that San José can be an even greater city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11901435/give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_23394","news_27626","news_20611","news_30509","news_30505","news_6413","news_18541","news_1268","news_30506","news_20572","news_28405"],"featImg":"news_11901592","label":"news"},"news_11881070":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11881070","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11881070","score":null,"sort":[1626354038000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-has-big-ambitions-for-gun-control-but-how-would-the-measures-actually-work","title":"San Jose Has Big Ambitions for Gun Control, But How Would the Measures Actually Work?","publishDate":1626354038,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>This week, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo was among six local government leaders sitting at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/23/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-comprehensive-strategy-to-prevent-and-respond-to-gun-crime-and-ensure-public-safety/\">roundtable discussion\u003c/a> with President Biden and other White House officials to discuss their plans to reduce gun violence in their cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Sam Liccardo has pushed for gun control laws that would curb gun violence and crimes in San Jose since before the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting in 2019. Following another one this year that left 10 dead at a VTA rail yard near downtown San Jose, Liccardo's multi-point platform that would further regulate gun ownership has gained political traction. The question now is whether local municipal ordinances can survive inevitable challenges in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ted Miller, researcher at Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation\"]'Many taxpayers don't even realize that most emergency medical response is paid for by their local government, not by insurance.'[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n\"The President demonstrated a genuine commitment to partnering with cities to stem the tide of gun violence, and to scaling innovative solutions that are emerging in our cities,\" Liccardo said. \"I look forward to rolling up our sleeves with our federal partners. We have much work to do, and lives hang in the balance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is looking to spend $20 million from Biden's American Rescue Plan and Federal Emergency Management Agency dollars to fund the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/mayor-and-city-council/mayor-s-office/our-work/resilience-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Resilience Corps Program\u003c/a>, which would provide employment for at-risk youth in the city. The U.S. Department of Justice is also launching a gun trafficking strike force with Liccardo's support centered on the Bay Area in San Jose to stem the flow of guns used in crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Ambitious Vision for Gun Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The gun control ordinances \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880041/san-jose-to-require-gun-owners-to-carry-liability-insurance\">City Council passed\u003c/a> last month include various strategies to combat gun violence and crime, including requiring licensed gun dealers to videotape their sales. City officials believe this could mitigate straw purchases, which is when someone legally buys a firearm on behalf of someone who cannot legally make that purchase themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other proposals, in particular, have gained national attention because they've never been tried before:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mandating gun liability insurance for gun owners to incentivize owners to take safety classes, store their firearms safely and to practice safe behavior with their guns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Requiring gun owners to pay an annual fee to offset what taxpayers spend in the aftermath of gun violence.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Ted Miller, a researcher with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pire.org/\">Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation\u003c/a> (PIRE), has been working with the city to draft the measures. His \u003ca href=\"https://everytownresearch.org/report/the-economic-cost-of-gun-violence/#executive-summary\">preliminary research\u003c/a> found San Jose taxpayers spent $442 million between 2013 and 2019 on costs associated with gun violence, including emergency response, victim support and tax revenue lost when a victim can't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taxpayers don't think about it that way,\" Miller said. \"Many taxpayers don't even realize that most emergency medical response is paid for by their local government, not by insurance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because these proposals have never been tried before, there are real questions about how they'll be enforced. For example, California\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=28205.\"> law\u003c/a> requires most gun sales to go through licensed firearms dealers who are required to electronically report information about sales and transactions to the California DOJ. But that information doesn't include private sales or guns that might have been stolen. Moreover, there isn't a gun registry where officials can look up who has what gun in their home, which means enforcing that annual fee gun owners would have to pay or making sure every gun owner has insurance for their firearms could become nearly impossible to enforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1414766114228383746\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Tweet above, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (third from left) meets with President Joe Biden to discuss gun crimes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are practical questions about whether this system can operate in the absence of that type of gun registry,\" said John Donohue, an economist and professor of law at Stanford Law School. \"If you've got a system that is only enforceable through police contact, then you might be shifting the burden of the particular regulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose police have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/south-bay/city-of-san-jose-approves-gun-control-plan-imposing-gun-owner-fee-liability-insurance/2582624/\">said\u003c/a> they won't be knocking on people's doors and asking to see registration for firearms. Instead, if police come across a firearm in a search, they will ask to see insurance papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Gun Owners of Color Could Be Affected\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Enforcing these laws purely through a police contact concerns P.B. Gomez, the founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://latinorifleassociation.org/\">Latino Rifle Association (LRA)\u003c/a>. He worries that because people of color and low-income people disproportionately encounter police more than other groups, they could be pinched for these laws more than affluent or white gun owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez, a Mexican American, is keenly aware of how people of color are perceived in some circles in gun ownership communities. He created the group in April of 2020, during the height of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"gun-control\"]\"You were seeing, across the country, rising rates of gun ownership,\" Gomez said. \"Most interestingly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/06/910194857/black-gun-ownership-rises-amid-pandemic-protests-for-racial-justice\">rising rates of gun ownership\u003c/a> for demographics who didn't traditionally embrace gun ownership: Black people, Latino people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez wanted to create a space for people new to the world of firearms to ask questions freely and educate themselves. Gomez said he's skeptical about San Jose's proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're trying to shrink, by any means, the [number] of gun owners and to make gun ownership more of an inconvenience. That will dissuade people from pursuing it,\" Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is concerned that this kind of enforcement strategy will impact the poorest residents and people of color by providing police with one more excuse to search people, charge them with minor offenses and then confiscate their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's proposal does include a waiver for that annual fee and the insurance plan if some gun owners can't afford it. And in the event a gun owner doesn't have their insurance or hasn't paid their annual fee, they would receive a fine and a misdemeanor. City officials argue that, while it hasn't been tried before, a gun liability insurance mandate is a common-sense measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MestizoLeftist/status/1412243582065405963\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Tweet above, P.B. Gomez takes issue with the rising cost of gun laws.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.deltadefense.com/offers/60da23d5cdfc4/join-the-uscca-today?tID=5f6e270aea094&expid=GAX1.2.2JdFxlUjS6Sl4XRGOCN1Vw.18882.0%21ybJlqX6JROmyZBrXY8uuZQ.18908.2&_gl=1%2Ac7vuh8%2A_ga%2AMjgzMTc2NzA1LjE2MjU4NzA3MzI.%2A_ga_MFZ3H4HBX9%2AMTYyNjI5NzU5MC4yLjAuMTYyNjI5NzU5MC42MA..&_ga=2.162948287.224880330.1626297590-283176705.1625870732\">Myriad\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ccwsafe.com/\">companies\u003c/a> have offered this kind of insurance to gun owners, particularly those with concealed carry permits, for many years. For a few hundred dollars a year, gun owners can purchase liability insurance for their firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Gomez doesn't think it makes sense for people on the lower end of the economic spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Working-class people in America cannot afford it. It's just a de facto ban on people owning guns below a certain income level,\" Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Inevitable Legal Challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But some experts wonder whether the nuances of how these laws will be enforced matter if these laws can't survive the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/up-in-arms-over-san-jose-gun-rules-activists-promise-lawsuits/\">Gun rights activists\u003c/a> have already threatened legal challenges to these ordinances if they pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"P.B. Gomez, founder of the Latino Rifle Association\"]'It's just a de facto ban on people owning guns below a certain income level.'[/pullquote]\"We recognize that we're going to face litigation,\" Mayor Liccardo said. \"We know that in the world of reasonable gun regulation, no good deed goes unlitigated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the legal challenges reach the U.S. Supreme Court, John Donohue isn't counting on the proposals holding up, especially against the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The justices that Donald Trump put on the court were carefully vetted by the NRA and sometimes very strongly proposed to Trump by the NRA,\" Donohue said. \"Can [the proposals] be adopted into law and will [they] survive the inevitable challenges?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's city attorney is working on making the proposals as legally air-tight as possible before they go before the City Council in September for a final vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Jose has gotten a lot of national attention lately for its ambitious gun control ordinances, not yet signed into law. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626380374,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1332},"headData":{"title":"San Jose Has Big Ambitions for Gun Control, But How Would the Measures Actually Work? | KQED","description":"San Jose has gotten a lot of national attention lately for its ambitious gun control ordinances, not yet signed into law. 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Following another one this year that left 10 dead at a VTA rail yard near downtown San Jose, Liccardo's multi-point platform that would further regulate gun ownership has gained political traction. The question now is whether local municipal ordinances can survive inevitable challenges in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Many taxpayers don't even realize that most emergency medical response is paid for by their local government, not by insurance.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ted Miller, researcher at Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"The President demonstrated a genuine commitment to partnering with cities to stem the tide of gun violence, and to scaling innovative solutions that are emerging in our cities,\" Liccardo said. \"I look forward to rolling up our sleeves with our federal partners. We have much work to do, and lives hang in the balance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is looking to spend $20 million from Biden's American Rescue Plan and Federal Emergency Management Agency dollars to fund the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/mayor-and-city-council/mayor-s-office/our-work/resilience-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Resilience Corps Program\u003c/a>, which would provide employment for at-risk youth in the city. The U.S. Department of Justice is also launching a gun trafficking strike force with Liccardo's support centered on the Bay Area in San Jose to stem the flow of guns used in crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Ambitious Vision for Gun Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The gun control ordinances \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880041/san-jose-to-require-gun-owners-to-carry-liability-insurance\">City Council passed\u003c/a> last month include various strategies to combat gun violence and crime, including requiring licensed gun dealers to videotape their sales. City officials believe this could mitigate straw purchases, which is when someone legally buys a firearm on behalf of someone who cannot legally make that purchase themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other proposals, in particular, have gained national attention because they've never been tried before:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mandating gun liability insurance for gun owners to incentivize owners to take safety classes, store their firearms safely and to practice safe behavior with their guns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Requiring gun owners to pay an annual fee to offset what taxpayers spend in the aftermath of gun violence.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Ted Miller, a researcher with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pire.org/\">Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation\u003c/a> (PIRE), has been working with the city to draft the measures. His \u003ca href=\"https://everytownresearch.org/report/the-economic-cost-of-gun-violence/#executive-summary\">preliminary research\u003c/a> found San Jose taxpayers spent $442 million between 2013 and 2019 on costs associated with gun violence, including emergency response, victim support and tax revenue lost when a victim can't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taxpayers don't think about it that way,\" Miller said. \"Many taxpayers don't even realize that most emergency medical response is paid for by their local government, not by insurance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because these proposals have never been tried before, there are real questions about how they'll be enforced. For example, California\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=28205.\"> law\u003c/a> requires most gun sales to go through licensed firearms dealers who are required to electronically report information about sales and transactions to the California DOJ. But that information doesn't include private sales or guns that might have been stolen. Moreover, there isn't a gun registry where officials can look up who has what gun in their home, which means enforcing that annual fee gun owners would have to pay or making sure every gun owner has insurance for their firearms could become nearly impossible to enforce.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1414766114228383746"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Tweet above, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (third from left) meets with President Joe Biden to discuss gun crimes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are practical questions about whether this system can operate in the absence of that type of gun registry,\" said John Donohue, an economist and professor of law at Stanford Law School. \"If you've got a system that is only enforceable through police contact, then you might be shifting the burden of the particular regulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose police have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/south-bay/city-of-san-jose-approves-gun-control-plan-imposing-gun-owner-fee-liability-insurance/2582624/\">said\u003c/a> they won't be knocking on people's doors and asking to see registration for firearms. Instead, if police come across a firearm in a search, they will ask to see insurance papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Gun Owners of Color Could Be Affected\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Enforcing these laws purely through a police contact concerns P.B. Gomez, the founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://latinorifleassociation.org/\">Latino Rifle Association (LRA)\u003c/a>. He worries that because people of color and low-income people disproportionately encounter police more than other groups, they could be pinched for these laws more than affluent or white gun owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez, a Mexican American, is keenly aware of how people of color are perceived in some circles in gun ownership communities. He created the group in April of 2020, during the height of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"gun-control"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"You were seeing, across the country, rising rates of gun ownership,\" Gomez said. \"Most interestingly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/06/910194857/black-gun-ownership-rises-amid-pandemic-protests-for-racial-justice\">rising rates of gun ownership\u003c/a> for demographics who didn't traditionally embrace gun ownership: Black people, Latino people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez wanted to create a space for people new to the world of firearms to ask questions freely and educate themselves. Gomez said he's skeptical about San Jose's proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're trying to shrink, by any means, the [number] of gun owners and to make gun ownership more of an inconvenience. That will dissuade people from pursuing it,\" Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is concerned that this kind of enforcement strategy will impact the poorest residents and people of color by providing police with one more excuse to search people, charge them with minor offenses and then confiscate their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's proposal does include a waiver for that annual fee and the insurance plan if some gun owners can't afford it. And in the event a gun owner doesn't have their insurance or hasn't paid their annual fee, they would receive a fine and a misdemeanor. City officials argue that, while it hasn't been tried before, a gun liability insurance mandate is a common-sense measure.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1412243582065405963"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Tweet above, P.B. Gomez takes issue with the rising cost of gun laws.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.deltadefense.com/offers/60da23d5cdfc4/join-the-uscca-today?tID=5f6e270aea094&expid=GAX1.2.2JdFxlUjS6Sl4XRGOCN1Vw.18882.0%21ybJlqX6JROmyZBrXY8uuZQ.18908.2&_gl=1%2Ac7vuh8%2A_ga%2AMjgzMTc2NzA1LjE2MjU4NzA3MzI.%2A_ga_MFZ3H4HBX9%2AMTYyNjI5NzU5MC4yLjAuMTYyNjI5NzU5MC42MA..&_ga=2.162948287.224880330.1626297590-283176705.1625870732\">Myriad\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ccwsafe.com/\">companies\u003c/a> have offered this kind of insurance to gun owners, particularly those with concealed carry permits, for many years. For a few hundred dollars a year, gun owners can purchase liability insurance for their firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Gomez doesn't think it makes sense for people on the lower end of the economic spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Working-class people in America cannot afford it. It's just a de facto ban on people owning guns below a certain income level,\" Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Inevitable Legal Challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But some experts wonder whether the nuances of how these laws will be enforced matter if these laws can't survive the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/up-in-arms-over-san-jose-gun-rules-activists-promise-lawsuits/\">Gun rights activists\u003c/a> have already threatened legal challenges to these ordinances if they pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's just a de facto ban on people owning guns below a certain income level.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"P.B. Gomez, founder of the Latino Rifle Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We recognize that we're going to face litigation,\" Mayor Liccardo said. \"We know that in the world of reasonable gun regulation, no good deed goes unlitigated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the legal challenges reach the U.S. Supreme Court, John Donohue isn't counting on the proposals holding up, especially against the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The justices that Donald Trump put on the court were carefully vetted by the NRA and sometimes very strongly proposed to Trump by the NRA,\" Donohue said. \"Can [the proposals] be adopted into law and will [they] survive the inevitable challenges?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's city attorney is working on making the proposals as legally air-tight as possible before they go before the City Council in September for a final vote.\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/11881070/san-jose-has-big-ambitions-for-gun-control-but-how-would-the-measures-actually-work","authors":["11672"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27510","news_27626","news_23604","news_2795","news_22711","news_25450","news_22610","news_6413","news_18541","news_1268","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11875603","label":"news"},"news_11879717":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11879717","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11879717","score":null,"sort":[1625020193000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-approves-plan-to-radically-transform-flea-market-site","title":"San Jose Approves Plan to Radically Transform Flea Market Site","publishDate":1625020193,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a unanimous vote, the San Jose City Council on Tuesday approved a plan to rezone the 60 acres where the city's decades-old flea market, one of the biggest in the state, now stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after six days of tense negotiations between the owners of the property, who want to develop the area into a living and commercial complex, and leaders of La Pulga — as the San Jose Flea Market is known in Spanish — who for months have fought to prevent the displacement of hundreds of small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn’t get the whole cake that we wanted, but we got a slice and we’re at the table now. That’s what we’ve been fighting for,\" Roberto González, president of the Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association, said Tuesday after the council's vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Roberto González, BFVA president\"]'Whenever there is an issue, we have to band together, fight together and make sure that our input is sought after.'[/pullquote] A main concern, he said, was the lack of input from vendors in the process of deciding what the new development would look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got a whole lot farther than where we were six months ago, when we were going to get a kick in the butt and a ‘see you later,’ González said. \"Whenever there is an issue, we have to band together, fight together and make sure that our input is sought after.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's approval of the rezoning plan comes after a surprise last-minute offer from the Bumb family, the long-time owners of the property, of a $5 million vendor-support fund. The market has been operating on the family's property since 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant who represents the family, noted in a statement that the new offer is twice as much as what was originally put on the table earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the previous offer, the new deal sets aside 5 acres of the development for an \"urban market\" that would house some but not all of the businesses in the current marketplace, which sprawls across 18 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"la-pulga\"]\"We have also agreed to offer six-month rent agreements to any existing vendor who wants to opt in,\" Schoennauer said in his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These guarantees strike a different tone from what Schoennauer said last week, when he warned wavering city officials that any delay in the vote would force property owners to revert to an earlier development plan that did not include any space for vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the threat, councilmembers approved a continuance, delaying the vote by a week to allow for further negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were extremely afraid that being the 98% of the way there, we would potentially lose that agreement with those extra six days,\" said Lam Nguyen, a spokesperson for Councilmember David Cohen, who represents District 4, where La Pulga is located. \"We at least didn't feel at the moment that the 2% was worth it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With little time left to spare, the owners agreed to restart negotiations with the BFVA and several city officials, including Cohen, who by the end of the week had ironed out the details of a new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the $5 million allowance, the agreement guarantees that vendors can stay where they are for three years, before construction begins. The deal also establishes an advisory committee made up of vendors, city officials and the property owners, to manage the $5 million transition fund and provide guidance on the design of the new 5-acre market site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the agreement still requires that the flea market make way for the proposed development, dubbed the Berryessa BART Urban Village, which includes 3 million square feet of office and retail space, and some 3,400 housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody has memories in La Pulga,\" said Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco, who worked with the vendors during the negotiations and ultimately voted in favor of Tuesday's plan, even while acknowledging it would irrevocably change the iconic South Bay space. \"No matter how we change it, it's going to be painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional concessions from the owners give Carrasco hope that vendors will have significant input in the future design and governance of the new market site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were able to get some these things across the finish line, not exactly everything that we wanted, but it at least is a beginning,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11878757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A stand at the San Jose Flea Market full of nuts, candies and sweets of many textures and colors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stall at the San Jose Flea Market that sells dry fruit, nuts, sweets and other snacks. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many vendors, some of whom worked at the flea market for decades, this is a bittersweet moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cayetano Araújo, La Pulga vendor\"]'The prosperity and progress of La Pulga must go hand in hand with that of its vendors.'[/pullquote]Cayetano Araújo, 65, has sold dry fruits, peanuts and other snacks at his stall for 30 years, and feels frustrated that La Pulga's winding rows of stalls and wide spaces will disappear in several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The prosperity and progress of La Pulga must go hand in hand with that of its vendors,\" Araújo said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes vendors in the new market will be able to successfully run their own businesses without the fear of being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our fight is to save our businesses and to have a space where we have dignity,\" he said, adding that he and other vendors will continue to organize until they have \"freedom to lead the market and independence to keep working.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These were our requests yesterday,\" Araújo said. \"Today they are our demands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated to include that Councilmember David Cohen represents District 4 of San Jose, not District 3 as the previous version stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Leaders of La Pulga, as the market is known in Spanish, have fought for months against the redevelopment plan, which they fear could displace hundreds of small 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That’s what we’ve been fighting for,\" Roberto González, president of the Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association, said Tuesday after the council's vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Whenever there is an issue, we have to band together, fight together and make sure that our input is sought after.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Roberto González, BFVA president","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> A main concern, he said, was the lack of input from vendors in the process of deciding what the new development would look like.\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 got a whole lot farther than where we were six months ago, when we were going to get a kick in the butt and a ‘see you later,’ González said. \"Whenever there is an issue, we have to band together, fight together and make sure that our input is sought after.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's approval of the rezoning plan comes after a surprise last-minute offer from the Bumb family, the long-time owners of the property, of a $5 million vendor-support fund. The market has been operating on the family's property since 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant who represents the family, noted in a statement that the new offer is twice as much as what was originally put on the table earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the previous offer, the new deal sets aside 5 acres of the development for an \"urban market\" that would house some but not all of the businesses in the current marketplace, which sprawls across 18 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"la-pulga"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We have also agreed to offer six-month rent agreements to any existing vendor who wants to opt in,\" Schoennauer said in his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These guarantees strike a different tone from what Schoennauer said last week, when he warned wavering city officials that any delay in the vote would force property owners to revert to an earlier development plan that did not include any space for vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the threat, councilmembers approved a continuance, delaying the vote by a week to allow for further negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were extremely afraid that being the 98% of the way there, we would potentially lose that agreement with those extra six days,\" said Lam Nguyen, a spokesperson for Councilmember David Cohen, who represents District 4, where La Pulga is located. \"We at least didn't feel at the moment that the 2% was worth it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With little time left to spare, the owners agreed to restart negotiations with the BFVA and several city officials, including Cohen, who by the end of the week had ironed out the details of a new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the $5 million allowance, the agreement guarantees that vendors can stay where they are for three years, before construction begins. The deal also establishes an advisory committee made up of vendors, city officials and the property owners, to manage the $5 million transition fund and provide guidance on the design of the new 5-acre market site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the agreement still requires that the flea market make way for the proposed development, dubbed the Berryessa BART Urban Village, which includes 3 million square feet of office and retail space, and some 3,400 housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody has memories in La Pulga,\" said Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco, who worked with the vendors during the negotiations and ultimately voted in favor of Tuesday's plan, even while acknowledging it would irrevocably change the iconic South Bay space. \"No matter how we change it, it's going to be painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The additional concessions from the owners give Carrasco hope that vendors will have significant input in the future design and governance of the new market site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were able to get some these things across the finish line, not exactly everything that we wanted, but it at least is a beginning,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11878757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A stand at the San Jose Flea Market full of nuts, candies and sweets of many textures and colors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stall at the San Jose Flea Market that sells dry fruit, nuts, sweets and other snacks. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many vendors, some of whom worked at the flea market for decades, this is a bittersweet moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The prosperity and progress of La Pulga must go hand in hand with that of its vendors.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Cayetano Araújo, La Pulga vendor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cayetano Araújo, 65, has sold dry fruits, peanuts and other snacks at his stall for 30 years, and feels frustrated that La Pulga's winding rows of stalls and wide spaces will disappear in several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The prosperity and progress of La Pulga must go hand in hand with that of its vendors,\" Araújo said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes vendors in the new market will be able to successfully run their own businesses without the fear of being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our fight is to save our businesses and to have a space where we have dignity,\" he said, adding that he and other vendors will continue to organize until they have \"freedom to lead the market and independence to keep working.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These were our requests yesterday,\" Araújo said. \"Today they are our demands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated to include that Councilmember David Cohen represents District 4 of San Jose, not District 3 as the previous version stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11879717/san-jose-approves-plan-to-radically-transform-flea-market-site","authors":["11708","11672"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_26598","news_269","news_29597","news_4613","news_29596","news_29603","news_18541","news_1268","news_29632","news_25372"],"featImg":"news_11879731","label":"news"},"news_11878548":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11878548","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11878548","score":null,"sort":[1624536008000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance","title":"San Jose Flea Market Leaders End Hunger Strike, But Future of La Pulga Still Hangs in the Balance","publishDate":1624536008,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With a piece of bread, Roberto González, Mariana Mejía and Kaled Escobedo Vega broke their hunger strike on Wednesday afternoon, standing victoriously in front of San Jose City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They hadn’t eaten since early Monday morning.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ana Vázquez, a La Pulga vendor\"]'At our age, it’s not easy finding a new job. It will be really difficult to get through this, for me and for so many others that depend on the flea market.'[/pullquote]“¡Sí se pudo! ¡Sí se puede!” they cheered as they chewed their first bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebratory breaking of bread came after the San Jose City Council on Wednesday agreed to a weeklong postponement of a vote on whether to allow the rezoning of a 60-acre site in the northern part of the city where a storied, sprawling outdoor flea market has operated for more than 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of small businesses run stalls at the San Jose Flea Market, or La Pulga, as it’s known in Spanish. But the proposed development, dubbed the Berryessa BART Urban Village, which would be built next to the city’s new and only BART station, would radically alter the property — and the market — to make way for more than 3 million square feet of office and retail space, and some 3,400 housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The hunger strike was organized by the Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association (BFVA), a group created late last year in opposition to the proposed development. While its leaders initially demanded the vote be delayed by 90 days, González, the group’s president and a vendor at the market, said the extra week is enough time to reach a new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a great victory for us today,” he said. “The struggle is not over. We will continue on till we find those securities and those assurances for every single vendor and for all of our small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowners’ proposal includes a concession of five acres for a new “urban market” set aside for La Pulga vendors. But that would shrink the flea market to less than a third of its current size, falling far short of accommodating the majority of its vendors. And the construction process alone could displace vendors for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878773 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg\" alt=\"The concept map created by the both the developers and owners of the Flea Market site that shows what the property could look like with an urban village if San Jose approves its rezoning request. The Berryessa/North San Jose BART station is visible on the upper part of the map.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concept map of the proposed new development, which would abut the Berryessa/North San Jose BART station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the Bumb family, which has owned the land for generations, offered $2 million earlier this month toward a fund to support vendors if the rezoning plan is approved, vendors point out that once this amount is divided among hundreds of business owners and their employees, each person would receive about $4,000 — not nearly enough to make it through multiple months without any additional income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let the city know that these plans were insufficient for the most part,” González explained. “We need direct involvement with the community and with the vendors to find a good solution to this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BFVA later responded with its own set of demands, including five-year leases for all vendors and $2 million for an extensive third-party analysis to determine how the market could sustainably operate in the future and where it could potentially relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Wednesday’s council meeting, Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant who represents the Bumb family, warned council members that if they delayed the vote, his clients would take everything they’re currently offering off the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either approve the urban village plan and the new project that is before you or we move forward and develop the project that’s already approved,” Schoennauer told councilmembers, referring to a previous rezoning plan authorized in 2007 that includes no vendor space or affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any delay, any denial, and we simply build [that] project,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some city leaders, including Mayor Sam Liccardo, have signaled the city has too much to lose if the Bumb family pulls out on its current proposal, others aren’t buying the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s absolutely posturing,” said Councilmember Raul Peralez after voting Wednesday in favor of the continuance. “I don’t think they’re going to walk away at all. There’s a lot at stake for them as well and I think we will come to an agreement next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Something I'm Proud of’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day at La Pulga, rows of piñatas hang over the entrance to Ana Vázquez’s stall, gently greeting visitors with a tap on their heads. She carefully sets down a clay pot, painted and glazed with leaves, flowers and geometric designs, next to a jar full of almond-powder candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 30 years, Vázquez has taken care of her stall, one of the roughly 750 that make up the the flea market, among the biggest swap meets in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from all over come to find goods here, like clay jugs or candy,” Vázquez said in Spanish, noting that many of the items in her stall can only be found in Mexico and Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have clients who send dulce de leche all the way to their children who now live in New York,” she said, referring to the popular Latin American dessert made of sweetened condensed milk. “This is something I’m proud of. It makes me proud when I hear folks say, ‘Let’s go to the tiendita.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall on May 28, 2021, where she and her family have sold sweets, craftwork and other artisan goods from Mexico and Central America for more than 30 years. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Pulga first opened up in 1960, when farms crisscrossed the northern part of the city. La Pulga, as the market is also known in Spanish, had plenty of space to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But northern San Jose is no longer the agricultural area it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban villages and condominium developments have popped up where orchards once stood. Almost every 15 minutes, BART trains roll into the Berryessa/North San Jose station, which opened up in June 2020. The arrival of BART into the city seemed to mark a new chapter in San Jose’s transformation into a major metropolitan hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while now, Vázquez has feared that the flea market would be surrounded, and eventually replaced, by luxury condominium developments, pushing out hundreds of businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only income comes from here,” said Vazquez, pointing to her stall. “At our age, it’s not easy finding a new job. It will be really difficult to get through this, for me and for so many others that depend on the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Chau Nguyen stands next to her stall covered in the luggage bags and backpacks she sells.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chau Nguyen stands in front of her luggage and backpack stall at La Pulga on May 28, 2021. She has worked here for 28 years, starting her stall just a few months after she arrived in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chau Nguyen, 70, has sold luggage and handbags at her stall at La Pulga since 1993, starting the business just a few months after arriving in the U.S. from Vietnam. If the flea market closes during construction of the new development, or if her stall isn't included in the proposed smaller market, she doesn’t know what she’ll do to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my job,” she said. “Even though I'm over 70 years old ... I still like to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen doesn’t receive Social Security benefits, so whatever she earns from her business is what keeps her and husband afloat. She also has family still in Vietnam that she tries to send money to when she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pulga vendors have formed networks across the Bay Area of suppliers and other small businesses who depend on the flea market, even if they don’t work there themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Davila stands in front of his stall that is covered in jerseys of different soccer teams in all different sizes. They hang next to him, on top of him, all around him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With family in Peru that depend on him financially, Mario Davila — seen here on May 28, 2021 — has a lot at stake in the future of La Pulga. He's owned his sporting goods business for over a decade and has recently joined other merchants to demand the city delay its vote on whether to rezone the property. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mario Davila, 50, loves soccer, perhaps as much as he loves being at La Pulga. He’s worked there for 21 years, and for him, it’s irreplaceable. “We want people to come and spend their Sunday here, for them to find food, have fun,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cayetano Araújo, a La Pulga vendor\"]'We are not opposed to [the developers’] plans but we’re against not being included in the plans.'[/pullquote]Davila supports his family in Peru with his earnings, and for him, like other vendors at the market, the stakes of the pending land-use decision are high. “It’s not easy finding a job outside,” he said. “We’re not a burden to anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"la-pulga\"]Cayetano Araújo, 65, who sells dry fruits, peanuts and other snacks at La Pulga, says that if his business doesn’t survive the market’s transformation, it will be more than just his family who are impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behind me there are my suppliers. Those are three different families,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not opposed to [the developers’] plans but we’re against not being included in the plans,” he added, contending that the perspective of vendors has never really been taken into consideration during the years-long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if all the vendors can squeeze inside the proposed smaller market space, Araújo says it would change the essence of La Pulga, a place where visitors are encouraged to move around freely through the massive market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many families come to stroll around with their kids. This is a flea market for relaxing and moving around, amusement, strolling around, enjoying a snack, a beverage, all of that,” he said. “This tradition of 80 or so years would be lost in one moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878767 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer that is wearing a cowboy hat at his stall on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer at his dried fruit and snack stall on May 26, 2021 at La Pulga. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Two Possible Futures for San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the sprawl exemplified by La Pulga and the surrounding area has increasingly fallen out of favor with San Jose officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the city adopted its master plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/22359/637394795874170000\">Envision San Jose 2040\u003c/a>, that encourages the development of higher-density, mixed-use urban villages built near transportation sites, with the goal of reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions and increasing housing supply near the city center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan prioritizes development in northern San Jose, specifically the Berryessa area, where the new BART station was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a transit hub at the end-of-the-line BART station ... getting a dense urban village there is important,” said David Cohen, a San Jose city councilmember for District 4, which includes the area in question. He voted against Wednesday's continuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building transit-oriented development is the only way that we can sustain our Bay Area environment for the future,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vignesh Swaminathan, a South Bay native and civil engineer who heads Crossroad Labs, a consulting firm, says San Jose has to choose between fully embracing transit-oriented development or seeing the city continue to sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already in San Jose, people are driving two to four hours just to get to work because of financial displacement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t build densely and decide that we’re going to build a development a few blocks away [from the BART station], then that extra 10-15 minutes to walk from the BART station to that development will be the decision factor for someone not to take BART,” Swaminathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledges that while these strategies are meant to reduce congestion and sprawl, they may also inadvertently end up hurting some residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the flea market is such a complex issue,” he said. “It’s following all the best practices that the city and agencies have been trying to do to try and plan properly. But for the folks who are trying to fight gentrification, fight displacement and accommodate culture, it’s not enough for what we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The San Jose City Council on Wednesday moved to postpone its vote, for a week, on whether to approve a proposed major development, dubbed the Berryessa BART Urban Village, on a large site where the city's huge famed flea market has long operated.\r\n\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626760955,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":2207},"headData":{"title":"San Jose Flea Market Leaders End Hunger Strike, But Future of La Pulga Still Hangs in the Balance | KQED","description":"The San Jose City Council on Wednesday moved to postpone its vote, for a week, on whether to approve a proposed major development, dubbed the Berryessa BART Urban Village, on a large site where the city's huge famed flea market has long operated.\r\n\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Jose Flea Market Leaders End Hunger Strike, But Future of La Pulga Still Hangs in the Balance","datePublished":"2021-06-24T12:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2021-07-20T06:02:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11878548 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11878548","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/24/san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance/","disqusTitle":"San Jose Flea Market Leaders End Hunger Strike, But Future of La Pulga Still Hangs in the Balance","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/dff9a416-2299-455d-b823-ad49011f25eb/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11878548/san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With a piece of bread, Roberto González, Mariana Mejía and Kaled Escobedo Vega broke their hunger strike on Wednesday afternoon, standing victoriously in front of San Jose City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They hadn’t eaten since early Monday morning.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'At our age, it’s not easy finding a new job. It will be really difficult to get through this, for me and for so many others that depend on the flea market.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Ana Vázquez, a La Pulga vendor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“¡Sí se pudo! ¡Sí se puede!” they cheered as they chewed their first bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebratory breaking of bread came after the San Jose City Council on Wednesday agreed to a weeklong postponement of a vote on whether to allow the rezoning of a 60-acre site in the northern part of the city where a storied, sprawling outdoor flea market has operated for more than 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of small businesses run stalls at the San Jose Flea Market, or La Pulga, as it’s known in Spanish. But the proposed development, dubbed the Berryessa BART Urban Village, which would be built next to the city’s new and only BART station, would radically alter the property — and the market — to make way for more than 3 million square feet of office and retail space, and some 3,400 housing units.\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>The hunger strike was organized by the Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association (BFVA), a group created late last year in opposition to the proposed development. While its leaders initially demanded the vote be delayed by 90 days, González, the group’s president and a vendor at the market, said the extra week is enough time to reach a new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a great victory for us today,” he said. “The struggle is not over. We will continue on till we find those securities and those assurances for every single vendor and for all of our small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowners’ proposal includes a concession of five acres for a new “urban market” set aside for La Pulga vendors. But that would shrink the flea market to less than a third of its current size, falling far short of accommodating the majority of its vendors. And the construction process alone could displace vendors for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878773 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg\" alt=\"The concept map created by the both the developers and owners of the Flea Market site that shows what the property could look like with an urban village if San Jose approves its rezoning request. The Berryessa/North San Jose BART station is visible on the upper part of the map.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concept map of the proposed new development, which would abut the Berryessa/North San Jose BART station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the Bumb family, which has owned the land for generations, offered $2 million earlier this month toward a fund to support vendors if the rezoning plan is approved, vendors point out that once this amount is divided among hundreds of business owners and their employees, each person would receive about $4,000 — not nearly enough to make it through multiple months without any additional income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let the city know that these plans were insufficient for the most part,” González explained. “We need direct involvement with the community and with the vendors to find a good solution to this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BFVA later responded with its own set of demands, including five-year leases for all vendors and $2 million for an extensive third-party analysis to determine how the market could sustainably operate in the future and where it could potentially relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Wednesday’s council meeting, Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant who represents the Bumb family, warned council members that if they delayed the vote, his clients would take everything they’re currently offering off the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either approve the urban village plan and the new project that is before you or we move forward and develop the project that’s already approved,” Schoennauer told councilmembers, referring to a previous rezoning plan authorized in 2007 that includes no vendor space or affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any delay, any denial, and we simply build [that] project,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some city leaders, including Mayor Sam Liccardo, have signaled the city has too much to lose if the Bumb family pulls out on its current proposal, others aren’t buying the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s absolutely posturing,” said Councilmember Raul Peralez after voting Wednesday in favor of the continuance. “I don’t think they’re going to walk away at all. There’s a lot at stake for them as well and I think we will come to an agreement next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Something I'm Proud of’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day at La Pulga, rows of piñatas hang over the entrance to Ana Vázquez’s stall, gently greeting visitors with a tap on their heads. She carefully sets down a clay pot, painted and glazed with leaves, flowers and geometric designs, next to a jar full of almond-powder candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 30 years, Vázquez has taken care of her stall, one of the roughly 750 that make up the the flea market, among the biggest swap meets in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from all over come to find goods here, like clay jugs or candy,” Vázquez said in Spanish, noting that many of the items in her stall can only be found in Mexico and Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have clients who send dulce de leche all the way to their children who now live in New York,” she said, referring to the popular Latin American dessert made of sweetened condensed milk. “This is something I’m proud of. It makes me proud when I hear folks say, ‘Let’s go to the tiendita.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall on May 28, 2021, where she and her family have sold sweets, craftwork and other artisan goods from Mexico and Central America for more than 30 years. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Pulga first opened up in 1960, when farms crisscrossed the northern part of the city. La Pulga, as the market is also known in Spanish, had plenty of space to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But northern San Jose is no longer the agricultural area it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban villages and condominium developments have popped up where orchards once stood. Almost every 15 minutes, BART trains roll into the Berryessa/North San Jose station, which opened up in June 2020. The arrival of BART into the city seemed to mark a new chapter in San Jose’s transformation into a major metropolitan hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while now, Vázquez has feared that the flea market would be surrounded, and eventually replaced, by luxury condominium developments, pushing out hundreds of businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only income comes from here,” said Vazquez, pointing to her stall. “At our age, it’s not easy finding a new job. It will be really difficult to get through this, for me and for so many others that depend on the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Chau Nguyen stands next to her stall covered in the luggage bags and backpacks she sells.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chau Nguyen stands in front of her luggage and backpack stall at La Pulga on May 28, 2021. She has worked here for 28 years, starting her stall just a few months after she arrived in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chau Nguyen, 70, has sold luggage and handbags at her stall at La Pulga since 1993, starting the business just a few months after arriving in the U.S. from Vietnam. If the flea market closes during construction of the new development, or if her stall isn't included in the proposed smaller market, she doesn’t know what she’ll do to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my job,” she said. “Even though I'm over 70 years old ... I still like to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen doesn’t receive Social Security benefits, so whatever she earns from her business is what keeps her and husband afloat. She also has family still in Vietnam that she tries to send money to when she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pulga vendors have formed networks across the Bay Area of suppliers and other small businesses who depend on the flea market, even if they don’t work there themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Davila stands in front of his stall that is covered in jerseys of different soccer teams in all different sizes. They hang next to him, on top of him, all around him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With family in Peru that depend on him financially, Mario Davila — seen here on May 28, 2021 — has a lot at stake in the future of La Pulga. He's owned his sporting goods business for over a decade and has recently joined other merchants to demand the city delay its vote on whether to rezone the property. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mario Davila, 50, loves soccer, perhaps as much as he loves being at La Pulga. He’s worked there for 21 years, and for him, it’s irreplaceable. “We want people to come and spend their Sunday here, for them to find food, have fun,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We are not opposed to [the developers’] plans but we’re against not being included in the plans.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Cayetano Araújo, a La Pulga vendor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Davila supports his family in Peru with his earnings, and for him, like other vendors at the market, the stakes of the pending land-use decision are high. “It’s not easy finding a job outside,” he said. “We’re not a burden to anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"la-pulga"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cayetano Araújo, 65, who sells dry fruits, peanuts and other snacks at La Pulga, says that if his business doesn’t survive the market’s transformation, it will be more than just his family who are impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behind me there are my suppliers. Those are three different families,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not opposed to [the developers’] plans but we’re against not being included in the plans,” he added, contending that the perspective of vendors has never really been taken into consideration during the years-long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if all the vendors can squeeze inside the proposed smaller market space, Araújo says it would change the essence of La Pulga, a place where visitors are encouraged to move around freely through the massive market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many families come to stroll around with their kids. This is a flea market for relaxing and moving around, amusement, strolling around, enjoying a snack, a beverage, all of that,” he said. “This tradition of 80 or so years would be lost in one moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11878767 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer that is wearing a cowboy hat at his stall on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer at his dried fruit and snack stall on May 26, 2021 at La Pulga. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Two Possible Futures for San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the sprawl exemplified by La Pulga and the surrounding area has increasingly fallen out of favor with San Jose officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the city adopted its master plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/22359/637394795874170000\">Envision San Jose 2040\u003c/a>, that encourages the development of higher-density, mixed-use urban villages built near transportation sites, with the goal of reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions and increasing housing supply near the city center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan prioritizes development in northern San Jose, specifically the Berryessa area, where the new BART station was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a transit hub at the end-of-the-line BART station ... getting a dense urban village there is important,” said David Cohen, a San Jose city councilmember for District 4, which includes the area in question. He voted against Wednesday's continuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building transit-oriented development is the only way that we can sustain our Bay Area environment for the future,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vignesh Swaminathan, a South Bay native and civil engineer who heads Crossroad Labs, a consulting firm, says San Jose has to choose between fully embracing transit-oriented development or seeing the city continue to sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already in San Jose, people are driving two to four hours just to get to work because of financial displacement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t build densely and decide that we’re going to build a development a few blocks away [from the BART station], then that extra 10-15 minutes to walk from the BART station to that development will be the decision factor for someone not to take BART,” Swaminathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledges that while these strategies are meant to reduce congestion and sprawl, they may also inadvertently end up hurting some residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the flea market is such a complex issue,” he said. “It’s following all the best practices that the city and agencies have been trying to do to try and plan properly. But for the folks who are trying to fight gentrification, fight displacement and accommodate culture, it’s not enough for what we need.”\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/11878548/san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance","authors":["11672","11708"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_26598","news_269","news_27626","news_29597","news_4613","news_29596","news_29603","news_18541","news_1268","news_25372"],"featImg":"news_11878778","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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