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Investigation Prompts Response from State, Federal Lawmakers","publishDate":1633390550,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Newsroom’s ‘Dangerous Air’ Investigation Prompts Response from State, Federal Lawmakers | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":22688,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>State and federal lawmakers plan to introduce legislation and hold at least one oversight hearing in response to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890211/dangerous-air-as-california-burns-america-breathes-toxic-smoke\">Dangerous Air\u003c/a>,” an investigation from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11132/npr-and-california-public-radio-stations-collaborate-on-a-statewide-regional-newsroom\">The California Newsroom\u003c/a> — a collaboration of NPR, KQED and 16 public radio stations across the state — which showed that smoke from western wildfires is choking vast swaths of the country, from Los Angeles to Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890211\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Leadphoto-1020x680.png\"]“This investigation confirms what we’ve known for years: As wildfires become more frequent due to climate change, the health of our communities will suffer,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara), who chairs the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Environment, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will have a hearing on wildfires, smoke pollution, and commercial logging practices that may be making the problem worse. This is a matter of public health, environmental justice, and Congress has no option but to act,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation analyzed federal satellite imagery collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Carried out in partnership with Stanford University’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanfordecholab.com/\">Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab\u003c/a>, it revealed a startling increase in the number of days residents were breathing smoke in cities across America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, which Khanna represents, residents breathed wildfire smoke an average of 45 days a year between 2016 and 2020, the investigation found, a 400% increase from the period between 2009 to 2013.\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1442965156598845440\u003cbr>\n“We are living and breathing the climate crisis,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1442965156598845440\">tweeted Rep. Jason Crow\u003c/a> (D-Colorado). He noted our investigation showed his suburban Denver district was “seeing an average of 2 additional weeks of wildfire smoke per year — 14 more days of increased risk for asthma, respiratory disease, and premature births.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara)\"]‘This investigation confirms what we’ve known for years.’[/pullquote]Lawmakers from both parties said the investigation provided further evidence for a comprehensive government response. They advocated for better forest management, including prescribed burns, which experts say are crucial to stemming serious wildfires that send dangerous smoke into the skies. And there are proposals for the immediate term — including stronger protections for workers and the creation of smoke shelters, where people with elevated health risks can escape the dangerous air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where residents are most affected, Assemblymember Luz Rivas, a Democrat from Los Angeles who chairs the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, said she plans to introduce a legislative package to address wildfire smoke impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential area of focus would be increasing protections for outdoor workers and standardizing when schoolchildren are not let out for recess to avoid being exposed to dangerous air. “A lot of my constituents are worried about their children and long-term health effects,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas’s proposal is one of many that seeks to minimize the immediate health impacts of widespread smoke, recognizing it will take many years — and colossal amounts of money — to address the root causes.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Forest management and climate change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Forests across the western U.S. are overgrown, filled with bone-dry vegetation that fuels catastrophic fires. The Golden State saw its most active wildfire season in history last year, with 4.3 million acres burned, nearly 10,500 structures damaged or destroyed and 33 deaths. Over 2 million acres have burned so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale)\"]‘The short- and long-term [solutions] come down to management of the lands where the fire starts.’[/pullquote]Both Democrats and Republicans said the investigation showed more aggressive forest management is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The short- and long-term [solutions] come down to management of the lands where the fire starts,” said Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), whose district in rural Northern California includes areas where residents breathe smoke three months a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that thinning forestlands has gotten harder due to increased regulations. Projects can take years due to lengthy environmental reviews and the bureaucratic approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest management does not mean “clear cutting” or removing all trees, LaMalfa said, adding that he and other lawmakers have been advocating for a variety of targeted management techniques, including forest thinning and prescribed burning. The California Legislature passed bills this year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/09/16/prescribed-burns-could-help-reduce-californias-wildfires-a-new-bill-could-help-make-planned-fires-more-frequent/\">change liability laws\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sd03.senate.ca.gov/news/20210910-sen-dodd-lauds-passage-controlled-burn-insurance-fund\">create a $20 million insurance liability fund\u003c/a> to encourage more prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low- and moderate-intensity fire is a natural part of the forest ecosystem. But a century of aggressive forest suppression has snuffed out these so-called “good fires,” leading to a dangerous buildup of undergrowth. Fire scientists say state and federal governments need to substantially increase their forest management efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11887158\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_7268-1020x680.jpg\"]For the government’s part, the ambition is there, but execution still lags. Last August, California entered into an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to each perform fire prevention work on 500,000 acres annually in the state by 2025. The Forest Service remains well short of that goal, treating about 120,000 acres in the last year. Cal Fire was unable to provide up-to-date numbers on its progress toward the target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats also advocate for more aggressive action on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Build Back Better Act — a $3.5 trillion, 2,000-plus page bill that captures many of President Biden’s policy priorities — includes several ambitious climate change proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, currently being negotiated in Congress, includes a $150 billion program that would pay utility companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. It’s unclear whether that provision will make it into the final legislation, however, as it has received pushback from Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat whose vote is seen as crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire scientists say climate change has set the stage for wildfires to burn out of control in recent years. LaMalfa, echoing some fellow Republicans, says prioritizing land management is “a lot better than this continued fight over what we’re going to [do about] climate change.” Fire and climate experts argue a long-term plan for addressing climate change is essential for curbing wildfires, in addition to forest management.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Protecting essential workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers in California passed legislation this year to protect agricultural workers from the increasing dangers of wildfire smoke — and they’re looking to build on it next session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886628\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50596_019_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB73\">Assembly Bill 73\u003c/a>, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed last week, ensures that the state’s stockpile of N95 masks is available to farmworkers during severe smoke events. It also requires employers to provide workers with training in the language they speak on the dangers posed by wildfire smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Robert Rivas, who represents nearly 100,000 farmworkers, authored the bill to “ensure that we’re doing all we can to protect the health and safety of such a vulnerable population of workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas says employers were already required to provide workers with masks, but struggled to acquire adequate PPE inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next session, Rivas may revive proposed requirements left out of the final bill. For example, an early version would have created “strike teams” deployed by the state to ensure employer compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Petaluma), a member of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, said it was time to start making policies for “smoke refugees” — for example, federally funded air shelters for residents who need a safe place to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost like evacuation centers [on] one of these days where the air is just too unhealthy to breathe,” said Huffman, whose sprawling Northern California district runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. “At least people that have fragile conditions, who maybe can’t afford air conditioning or don’t have things in their home to protect them, can go to these places and have quality air to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla, along with several other Democrats, introduced a bill this year that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/press-releases/padilla-feinstein-introduce-package-of-bills-to-help-communities-impacted-by-wildfire-smoke/\">allow the president to declare a “smoke emergency.”\u003c/a> The federal government could then help communities establish smoke shelters and relocate vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlexPadilla4CA/status/1443971333352824849\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Better data, public health tracking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and federal lawmakers also said they need reliable and comprehensive data in order to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Data in this area is absolutely critical [to] understanding the detrimental health impacts from wildfire smoke,” said Assemblymember Rivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='2021-wildfires']The California Newsroom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/09/28/dangerous-air-we-mapped-the-rise-in-wildfire-smoke-across-america-heres-how-we-did-it/\">investigation relied on satellite images of smoke plumes\u003c/a> rather than data on air quality itself, because air monitoring stations maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are spread inconsistently across the country, with many gaps in rural and urban areas most affected by wildfire smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, Senate Democrats introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2421?r=49&s=1\">Smoke Planning and Research Act\u003c/a>, which would set aside $20 million in research funding for the EPA to study the health impacts of smoke and create a grant program to fund research efforts at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the California Legislature passed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB619\">Assembly Bill 619\u003c/a>, which requires the state Department of Public Health to develop safety guidelines for counties to implement during dangerous air quality days. The bill is on Newsom’s desk.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Lawmakers plan to introduce legislation in response to an investigation from KQED and The California Newsroom, which showed smoke from western wildfires is choking vast swaths of the country.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1721128308,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1626},"headData":{"title":"NPR Wildfire Smoke Investigation Spurs Response From Lawmakers","description":"Lawmakers plan to introduce legislation in response to an investigation from KQED and The California Newsroom, which showed smoke from western wildfires is choking vast swaths of the country.","ogTitle":"'Confirms What We’ve Known For Years': Our Wildfire Smoke Investigation Spurs Response From Lawmakers","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"'Confirms What We’ve Known For Years': Our Wildfire Smoke Investigation Spurs Response From Lawmakers","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"NPR Wildfire Smoke Investigation Spurs Response From Lawmakers","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Newsroom's 'Dangerous Air' Investigation Prompts Response from State, Federal Lawmakers","datePublished":"2021-10-04T16:35:50-07:00","dateModified":"2024-07-16T04:11:48-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/about/bios/scott-rodd/\">Scott Rodd\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11890929/california-newsrooms-dangerous-air-investigation-prompts-response-from-state-federal-lawmakers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State and federal lawmakers plan to introduce legislation and hold at least one oversight hearing in response to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890211/dangerous-air-as-california-burns-america-breathes-toxic-smoke\">Dangerous Air\u003c/a>,” an investigation from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11132/npr-and-california-public-radio-stations-collaborate-on-a-statewide-regional-newsroom\">The California Newsroom\u003c/a> — a collaboration of NPR, KQED and 16 public radio stations across the state — which showed that smoke from western wildfires is choking vast swaths of the country, from Los Angeles to Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11890211","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Leadphoto-1020x680.png","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This investigation confirms what we’ve known for years: As wildfires become more frequent due to climate change, the health of our communities will suffer,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara), who chairs the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Environment, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will have a hearing on wildfires, smoke pollution, and commercial logging practices that may be making the problem worse. This is a matter of public health, environmental justice, and Congress has no option but to act,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation analyzed federal satellite imagery collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Carried out in partnership with Stanford University’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanfordecholab.com/\">Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab\u003c/a>, it revealed a startling increase in the number of days residents were breathing smoke in cities across America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, which Khanna represents, residents breathed wildfire smoke an average of 45 days a year between 2016 and 2020, the investigation found, a 400% increase from the period between 2009 to 2013.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1442965156598845440"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“We are living and breathing the climate crisis,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1442965156598845440\">tweeted Rep. Jason Crow\u003c/a> (D-Colorado). He noted our investigation showed his suburban Denver district was “seeing an average of 2 additional weeks of wildfire smoke per year — 14 more days of increased risk for asthma, respiratory disease, and premature births.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This investigation confirms what we’ve known for years.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lawmakers from both parties said the investigation provided further evidence for a comprehensive government response. They advocated for better forest management, including prescribed burns, which experts say are crucial to stemming serious wildfires that send dangerous smoke into the skies. And there are proposals for the immediate term — including stronger protections for workers and the creation of smoke shelters, where people with elevated health risks can escape the dangerous air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where residents are most affected, Assemblymember Luz Rivas, a Democrat from Los Angeles who chairs the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, said she plans to introduce a legislative package to address wildfire smoke impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential area of focus would be increasing protections for outdoor workers and standardizing when schoolchildren are not let out for recess to avoid being exposed to dangerous air. “A lot of my constituents are worried about their children and long-term health effects,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas’s proposal is one of many that seeks to minimize the immediate health impacts of widespread smoke, recognizing it will take many years — and colossal amounts of money — to address the root causes.\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\u003ch3>Forest management and climate change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Forests across the western U.S. are overgrown, filled with bone-dry vegetation that fuels catastrophic fires. The Golden State saw its most active wildfire season in history last year, with 4.3 million acres burned, nearly 10,500 structures damaged or destroyed and 33 deaths. Over 2 million acres have burned so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The short- and long-term [solutions] come down to management of the lands where the fire starts.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Both Democrats and Republicans said the investigation showed more aggressive forest management is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The short- and long-term [solutions] come down to management of the lands where the fire starts,” said Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), whose district in rural Northern California includes areas where residents breathe smoke three months a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that thinning forestlands has gotten harder due to increased regulations. Projects can take years due to lengthy environmental reviews and the bureaucratic approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest management does not mean “clear cutting” or removing all trees, LaMalfa said, adding that he and other lawmakers have been advocating for a variety of targeted management techniques, including forest thinning and prescribed burning. The California Legislature passed bills this year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/09/16/prescribed-burns-could-help-reduce-californias-wildfires-a-new-bill-could-help-make-planned-fires-more-frequent/\">change liability laws\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sd03.senate.ca.gov/news/20210910-sen-dodd-lauds-passage-controlled-burn-insurance-fund\">create a $20 million insurance liability fund\u003c/a> to encourage more prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low- and moderate-intensity fire is a natural part of the forest ecosystem. But a century of aggressive forest suppression has snuffed out these so-called “good fires,” leading to a dangerous buildup of undergrowth. Fire scientists say state and federal governments need to substantially increase their forest management efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11887158","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_7268-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For the government’s part, the ambition is there, but execution still lags. Last August, California entered into an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to each perform fire prevention work on 500,000 acres annually in the state by 2025. The Forest Service remains well short of that goal, treating about 120,000 acres in the last year. Cal Fire was unable to provide up-to-date numbers on its progress toward the target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats also advocate for more aggressive action on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Build Back Better Act — a $3.5 trillion, 2,000-plus page bill that captures many of President Biden’s policy priorities — includes several ambitious climate change proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, currently being negotiated in Congress, includes a $150 billion program that would pay utility companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. It’s unclear whether that provision will make it into the final legislation, however, as it has received pushback from Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat whose vote is seen as crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire scientists say climate change has set the stage for wildfires to burn out of control in recent years. LaMalfa, echoing some fellow Republicans, says prioritizing land management is “a lot better than this continued fight over what we’re going to [do about] climate change.” Fire and climate experts argue a long-term plan for addressing climate change is essential for curbing wildfires, in addition to forest management.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Protecting essential workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers in California passed legislation this year to protect agricultural workers from the increasing dangers of wildfire smoke — and they’re looking to build on it next session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886628","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50596_019_SanFrancisco_HeatWaveImpacts_08062021-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB73\">Assembly Bill 73\u003c/a>, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed last week, ensures that the state’s stockpile of N95 masks is available to farmworkers during severe smoke events. It also requires employers to provide workers with training in the language they speak on the dangers posed by wildfire smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Robert Rivas, who represents nearly 100,000 farmworkers, authored the bill to “ensure that we’re doing all we can to protect the health and safety of such a vulnerable population of workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas says employers were already required to provide workers with masks, but struggled to acquire adequate PPE inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next session, Rivas may revive proposed requirements left out of the final bill. For example, an early version would have created “strike teams” deployed by the state to ensure employer compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Petaluma), a member of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, said it was time to start making policies for “smoke refugees” — for example, federally funded air shelters for residents who need a safe place to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost like evacuation centers [on] one of these days where the air is just too unhealthy to breathe,” said Huffman, whose sprawling Northern California district runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. “At least people that have fragile conditions, who maybe can’t afford air conditioning or don’t have things in their home to protect them, can go to these places and have quality air to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla, along with several other Democrats, introduced a bill this year that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/press-releases/padilla-feinstein-introduce-package-of-bills-to-help-communities-impacted-by-wildfire-smoke/\">allow the president to declare a “smoke emergency.”\u003c/a> The federal government could then help communities establish smoke shelters and relocate vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1443971333352824849"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch3>Better data, public health tracking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and federal lawmakers also said they need reliable and comprehensive data in order to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Data in this area is absolutely critical [to] understanding the detrimental health impacts from wildfire smoke,” said Assemblymember Rivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"2021-wildfires"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The California Newsroom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/09/28/dangerous-air-we-mapped-the-rise-in-wildfire-smoke-across-america-heres-how-we-did-it/\">investigation relied on satellite images of smoke plumes\u003c/a> rather than data on air quality itself, because air monitoring stations maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are spread inconsistently across the country, with many gaps in rural and urban areas most affected by wildfire smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, Senate Democrats introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2421?r=49&s=1\">Smoke Planning and Research Act\u003c/a>, which would set aside $20 million in research funding for the EPA to study the health impacts of smoke and create a grant program to fund research efforts at the local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the California Legislature passed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB619\">Assembly Bill 619\u003c/a>, which requires the state Department of Public Health to develop safety guidelines for counties to implement during dangerous air quality days. The bill is on Newsom’s desk.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11890929/california-newsrooms-dangerous-air-investigation-prompts-response-from-state-federal-lawmakers","authors":["byline_news_11890929"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_29668","news_20341","news_27626","news_16","news_2563","news_17968","news_6238","news_2936","news_29634","news_29851"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11890936","label":"news_22688"},"news_11783825":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11783825","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11783825","score":null,"sort":[1572461666000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":72},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1572461666,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Gig Companies Go It Alone as They Launch ‘Dynamex’ Measure for California’s November Ballot","title":"Gig Companies Go It Alone as They Launch ‘Dynamex’ Measure for California’s November Ballot","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Ever since the California Supreme Court’s “Dynamex” ruling last year set a new test for when a worker is considered an employee, gig companies have tried to exempt their drivers and keep them classified as independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/09/10/california-senate-moves-dynamex-worker-classification-bill-forward-without-deal-for-gig-companies/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failing to win that exemption in the Legislature\u003c/a>, they’re turning to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, DoorDash and other “gig economy” companies took the first formal step toward what they’ve pledged will be at least a $90 million campaign fight Tuesday by submitting a potential November 2020 ballot measure to the state Attorney General’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to pair independent contractor status, and the flexibility that’s inherent with it, with what we believe — and the drivers behind us believe — is a fair package of economics,” campaign spokesman Brandon Castillo said at a news conference that included Sacramento area gig economy workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of labor unions opposed to the measure accused the gig companies of trying to “buy democracy away from drivers” and “cling” to an “exploitative business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative promises new benefits, such as a wage floor and health care subsidies, but doesn’t include Social Security benefits or the right to unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would appear to leave wiggle room for a potential compromise with organized labor in the coming months — something the gig companies say they’re open to. Under state law, initiative proponents have until late June to withdraw their ballot measure if an agreement is reached in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11783846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Akamine Kiarie, who drives for Lyft in the Sacramento region while attending college, speaks in favor of a potential November 2020 California ballot measure backed by gig companies at a news conference on Oct. 29, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11783846\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akamine Kiarie, who drives for Lyft in the Sacramento region while attending college, speaks in favor of\u003cbr>a potential November 2020 California ballot measure backed by gig companies at a news conference on Oct. 29, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ben Adler/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The narrowly tailored — and retroactive — ballot proposal would only apply to app-based ride hail and delivery drivers. In addition to Uber, Lyft and DoorDash, Instacart is on board and Postmates likely will be, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drivers for those companies are split, and each side is putting forth its own examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn Reagan says she needs the flexibility as an independent contractor to care for her four grandchildren, because their mother is on bed rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was taken away, it would devastate me because there’s no job out here that I can get — especially at my age — that’s gonna allow me to come and go as I need to do,” she said at Tuesday’s news conference in favor of the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another Sacramento-area driver, Jeff Perry, says he checked the math — and the ballot measure would cut his pay. He argues the only path to fairness is to make workers like him full employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='dynamex' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drivers are saying, ‘This is poverty, we’re struggling,’ right? And then they come and they cut the pay, and then they put a nice name on it, really pretty name, fancy, right? Commit the $90 million, but they don’t tell the real story behind it,” he said. “And the real story behind it is, this is a pay cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure responds to the law signed last month codifying the California Supreme Court ruling. The law, Assembly Bill 5 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2019/09/whos-in-whos-out-of-ab-5/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exempts some industries\u003c/a>, including doctors and hairstylists. But it left out drivers for gig companies and workers in more established industries such as trucking and janitorial work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spurred criticism during the legislative debate that the bill ought not to pick winners and losers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the ballot proposal would only apply to app-based ride-hailing and delivery drivers, the gig companies are doing the same thing, leaving other industries on their own once again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrow scope of this initiative does not address the 70,000-plus independent owner-operator truckers, nor the hundreds of thousands of other independent contractors, who were not exempted from the ABC test in AB 5,” California Trucking Association CEO Shawn Yadon said in a statement, which referred to the three-pronged legal standard that determines whether a worker is an employee or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a major question after the gig companies vowed to take their effort to voters was whether they would form a broader coalition or go it alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disadvantage for the gig companies of going their own way is they will need to foot the entire campaign bill themselves. But the advantages are many: They could write the ballot measure however they want, they can control the message during the campaign and they’ll only have to defend their own baggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, they have no shortage of money. In addition to Uber, Lyft and Doordash, which each pledged $30 million to the campaign last month, Instacart is now on board — and Postmates is expected to join soon as well.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThe California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"11783825 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11783825","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/30/gig-companies-go-it-alone-as-they-launch-dynamex-measure-for-californias-november-ballot/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":884,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":23},"modified":1572461666,"excerpt":"'Gig economy' companies including Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are proposing a November 2020 California ballot measure that gives their drivers new benefits but keeps them classified as independent contractors.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"'Gig economy' companies including Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are proposing a November 2020 California ballot measure that gives their drivers new benefits but keeps them classified as independent contractors.","title":"Gig Companies Go It Alone as They Launch ‘Dynamex’ Measure for California’s November Ballot | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Gig Companies Go It Alone as They Launch ‘Dynamex’ Measure for California’s November Ballot","datePublished":"2019-10-30T11:54:26-07:00","dateModified":"2019-10-30T11:54:26-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","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"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gig-companies-go-it-alone-as-they-launch-dynamex-measure-for-californias-november-ballot","status":"publish","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Ben Adler\u003cbr />Capital Public Radio\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11783825/gig-companies-go-it-alone-as-they-launch-dynamex-measure-for-californias-november-ballot","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ever since the California Supreme Court’s “Dynamex” ruling last year set a new test for when a worker is considered an employee, gig companies have tried to exempt their drivers and keep them classified as independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/09/10/california-senate-moves-dynamex-worker-classification-bill-forward-without-deal-for-gig-companies/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failing to win that exemption in the Legislature\u003c/a>, they’re turning to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, DoorDash and other “gig economy” companies took the first formal step toward what they’ve pledged will be at least a $90 million campaign fight Tuesday by submitting a potential November 2020 ballot measure to the state Attorney General’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to pair independent contractor status, and the flexibility that’s inherent with it, with what we believe — and the drivers behind us believe — is a fair package of economics,” campaign spokesman Brandon Castillo said at a news conference that included Sacramento area gig economy workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of labor unions opposed to the measure accused the gig companies of trying to “buy democracy away from drivers” and “cling” to an “exploitative business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative promises new benefits, such as a wage floor and health care subsidies, but doesn’t include Social Security benefits or the right to unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would appear to leave wiggle room for a potential compromise with organized labor in the coming months — something the gig companies say they’re open to. Under state law, initiative proponents have until late June to withdraw their ballot measure if an agreement is reached in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11783846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Akamine Kiarie, who drives for Lyft in the Sacramento region while attending college, speaks in favor of a potential November 2020 California ballot measure backed by gig companies at a news conference on Oct. 29, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11783846\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/gig-economoy-november-ballot.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akamine Kiarie, who drives for Lyft in the Sacramento region while attending college, speaks in favor of\u003cbr>a potential November 2020 California ballot measure backed by gig companies at a news conference on Oct. 29, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ben Adler/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The narrowly tailored — and retroactive — ballot proposal would only apply to app-based ride hail and delivery drivers. In addition to Uber, Lyft and DoorDash, Instacart is on board and Postmates likely will be, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drivers for those companies are split, and each side is putting forth its own examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn Reagan says she needs the flexibility as an independent contractor to care for her four grandchildren, because their mother is on bed rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this was taken away, it would devastate me because there’s no job out here that I can get — especially at my age — that’s gonna allow me to come and go as I need to do,” she said at Tuesday’s news conference in favor of the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another Sacramento-area driver, Jeff Perry, says he checked the math — and the ballot measure would cut his pay. He argues the only path to fairness is to make workers like him full employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"dynamex","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drivers are saying, ‘This is poverty, we’re struggling,’ right? And then they come and they cut the pay, and then they put a nice name on it, really pretty name, fancy, right? Commit the $90 million, but they don’t tell the real story behind it,” he said. “And the real story behind it is, this is a pay cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure responds to the law signed last month codifying the California Supreme Court ruling. The law, Assembly Bill 5 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2019/09/whos-in-whos-out-of-ab-5/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exempts some industries\u003c/a>, including doctors and hairstylists. But it left out drivers for gig companies and workers in more established industries such as trucking and janitorial work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spurred criticism during the legislative debate that the bill ought not to pick winners and losers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the ballot proposal would only apply to app-based ride-hailing and delivery drivers, the gig companies are doing the same thing, leaving other industries on their own once again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrow scope of this initiative does not address the 70,000-plus independent owner-operator truckers, nor the hundreds of thousands of other independent contractors, who were not exempted from the ABC test in AB 5,” California Trucking Association CEO Shawn Yadon said in a statement, which referred to the three-pronged legal standard that determines whether a worker is an employee or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a major question after the gig companies vowed to take their effort to voters was whether they would form a broader coalition or go it alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disadvantage for the gig companies of going their own way is they will need to foot the entire campaign bill themselves. But the advantages are many: They could write the ballot measure however they want, they can control the message during the campaign and they’ll only have to defend their own baggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, they have no shortage of money. In addition to Uber, Lyft and Doordash, which each pledged $30 million to the campaign last month, Instacart is now on board — and Postmates is expected to join soon as well.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThe California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\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/11783825/gig-companies-go-it-alone-as-they-launch-dynamex-measure-for-californias-november-ballot","authors":["byline_news_11783825"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_26117","news_26641","news_21840","news_26532","news_24822","news_17994","news_4524","news_26543","news_4523"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11783835","label":"news_72"},"news_11730621":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11730621","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11730621","score":null,"sort":[1551801012000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1551801012,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Police Arrest 84 After Stephon Clark Protest in East Sacramento","title":"Police Arrest 84 After Stephon Clark Protest in East Sacramento","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Sacramento police arrested 84 people Monday night, after demonstrators marched through the city's affluent East Sacramento neighborhood to protest the district attorney's decision not to bring criminal charges against the officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark last March. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those arrested include Pastor Les Simmons, a prominent figure in actions around the Clark cause. Other clergy members were also arrested, as were college students who were part of a group that recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/03/03/stephon-clark-sit-in-at-arden-fair-prompts-mall-to-close-on-sunday\">held a \"sit-in\" protest\u003c/a> that shut down the Arden Fair Mall. At least three local reporters were also detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Stephon Clark Coverage\" tag=\"stephon-clark\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The march comes two days after Sacramento County District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert announced she \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/03/02/no-criminal-charges-for-sacramento-police-officers-who-fatally-shot-stephon-clark/\">would not file criminal charges\u003c/a> against the two police officers who killed Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/22/596051907/video-shows-sacramento-police-shoot-unarmed-black-man-in-grandparents-backyard\">fatally shot \u003c/a>after police chased him into his grandmother's back yard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police response to Monday's march was a stark contrast to last year, when officers made only a handful of arrests despite protesters shutting down Interstate 5 and blocking NBA fans from entering a Sacramento Kings game. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While previous demonstrations over Clark's death focused on downtown Sacramento, this was the first to take place in a wealthier, predominantly white part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had protests in other neighborhoods and this kind of response has not happened,\" said Tanya Faison, the founder of the Sacramento Black Lives Matter chapter who participated in the march. \"It proves that everything our DA has said, everything our chief has said, and everything our mayor has said was all words.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The march began around 6:30 p.m. at a Trader Joe's grocery store on Folsom Boulevard, winding through the \"Fab 40s\" section of East Sacramento before making its way back to Trader Joe's around 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many East Sacramento residents said they disapproved of demonstrators targeting the neighborhood, but would not go on the record with member station Capital Public Radio. Others were supportive, even joining the march in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Dunkleburger, who lives blocks away from the grocery where the march began, said she joined the demonstration after learning about it on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like everyone in this neighborhood is in fear driving off,\" she said. \"I saw this on Twitter and was like, I'm going to come support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police spokesperson Sgt. Vance Chandler said the arrests took place after a property owner reported that cars in the area had been keyed. He says officers gave 10 orders to disperse due to unlawful assembly over a two-hour period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shortly after we started monitoring the group at [approximately] 7:30 p.m., we established the group was unlawfully assembling by standing in the street,\" Chandler said. \"We also received information that multiple vehicles in the area were vandalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After police ordered demonstrators to disperse, protest organizers began to encourage people to leave. Some did, while others stayed near the grocery store parking lot and eventually moved down 51st Street to a bridge over Highway 50. Chandler said six people were arrested near the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other demonstrators kept moving onto the bridge, where they were blocked by a line of police officers. Police began detaining and arresting people in small groups, eventually arresting nearly 80 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was following the marchers as they crossed the freeway overpass on 51st Street,\" said Dale Kalser, a \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/dtrFVwPNIKhttps://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article227109924.html\">reporter for The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> who was detained and released without being arrested. \"It became apparent as we got to the other side that there was nowhere to go and that the police had basically sealed everything off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were 50, 60, 70 people all just sort of cordoned off into this small area at the south end of the overpass,\" Kalser said. \"They just came and started detaining everyone, one by one. And I got caught up in that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also detained or arrested were Scott Rodd of the Sacramento Business Journal and William Coburn of the Sacramento State Hornet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NickMiller510/status/1102822679873114112\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk was lined with dozens of people who sat with their hands twist-tied behind their backs, waiting to be loaded into vans. Chandler said they were to be transported to an offsite location — later identified as Cal Expo, the site of the California State Fair — and processed. From there, they they would be either cited or arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CPR_Andrew/status/1102836196542046209\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the large number of arrests compared to previous demonstrations, Chandler said Monday's response did not reflect any change in how the department handles public protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, he said, is for police \"to make sure we keep our community safe and allow people to express themselves the opportunity to express themselves in a peaceful manner without causing any harm to people or causing any property damage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg tweeted he was disappointed in how the protest ended, but had questions about what led to the arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Mayor_Steinberg/status/1102831149716451328\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter the reason an order to disperse was given, no member of the press should be detained for doing their job,\" Steinberg wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dozens of arrests surprised many of the activists who left after the initial dispersal orders from police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pissed, I'm angry. I'm frustrated,\" said Berry Accius, an organizer with Voices of Youth. \"I thought everything was cool, we were about to end the protest ... we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish and to get a phone call 30 or 40 minutes later and hearing my comrades, some of my friends, [Pastor] Les Simmons, some of my young people that I was with protesting shutting down the mall have been arrested today, and all for what?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark's death made national headlines and added another layer to an ongoing conversation about the police use of deadly force, particularly against black men. The police shot Clark seven times, including three times in the back, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607685905/official-autopsy-of-stephon-clark-killed-by-police-contradicts-family-autopsy\">the official autopsy found\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, were responding to a 911 call of a man breaking car windows in the South Sacramento neighborhood of Meadowview. The two officers pursued Clark into a backyard — which they later learned was his grandmother's home — where they shot him. The officers said they believed Clark had a gun, but police only discovered a cellphone next to his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week after Clark's death, the police department released body-camera and helicopter videos from the shooting, prompting large protests. In one gathering, demonstrators spilled into the streets of downtown Sacramento, brought traffic on Interstate 5 to a stop and blocked thousands of fans from entering the Kings' game with the Atlanta Hawks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a year after Clark's death, the district attorney's decision not to charge the officers renewed outrage over the case. Critics, including Clark's family, also said it was inappropriate for Schubert to publicize the young man's text messages, internet searches and drafts of emails that were pulled his cellphone. She presented those records as signs that Clark was troubled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She used that as a smear campaign or a fake way to justify and condone,\" Clark's mother, Se'Quette Clark, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/03/699892036/stephon-clark-s-mother-reacts-to-sacramento-da-s-no-criminal-charges-decision\">told NPR this weekend\u003c/a>. \"Her officers weren't doing — she never once addressed their actions. She presented and painted a picture of my son that was her opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Kings announced increased security around the Golden 1 Center before that night's game, including closing the arena plaza and some Downtown Commons stores. The Downtown Sacramento Partnership also sent a notice to businesses warning of \"possible traffic delays and protests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 Capital Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"11730621 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11730621","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/05/police-arrest-84-after-stephon-clark-protest-in-east-sacramento/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1304,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":34},"modified":1551807236,"excerpt":"A prominent pastor and other clergy members were arrested and several reporters were detained after protesters entered an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"A prominent pastor and other clergy members were arrested and several reporters were detained after protesters entered an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.","title":"Police Arrest 84 After Stephon Clark Protest in East Sacramento | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Police Arrest 84 After Stephon Clark Protest in East Sacramento","datePublished":"2019-03-05T07:50:12-08:00","dateModified":"2019-03-05T09:33:56-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","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"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"police-arrest-84-after-stephon-clark-protest-in-east-sacramento","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=700317892&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero, Andrew Nixon, Chris Hagan and Nick Miller\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:03:45 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:04:02 -0500","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700317892/police-arrest-84-after-stephon-clark-protest-in-east-sacramento?ft=nprml&f=700317892","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprImageCredit":"Justin Sullivan","source":"NPR","nprStoryId":"700317892","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:03:00 -0500","path":"/news/11730621/police-arrest-84-after-stephon-clark-protest-in-east-sacramento","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sacramento police arrested 84 people Monday night, after demonstrators marched through the city's affluent East Sacramento neighborhood to protest the district attorney's decision not to bring criminal charges against the officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark last March. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those arrested include Pastor Les Simmons, a prominent figure in actions around the Clark cause. Other clergy members were also arrested, as were college students who were part of a group that recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/03/03/stephon-clark-sit-in-at-arden-fair-prompts-mall-to-close-on-sunday\">held a \"sit-in\" protest\u003c/a> that shut down the Arden Fair Mall. At least three local reporters were also detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Stephon Clark Coverage ","tag":"stephon-clark"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The march comes two days after Sacramento County District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert announced she \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/03/02/no-criminal-charges-for-sacramento-police-officers-who-fatally-shot-stephon-clark/\">would not file criminal charges\u003c/a> against the two police officers who killed Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/22/596051907/video-shows-sacramento-police-shoot-unarmed-black-man-in-grandparents-backyard\">fatally shot \u003c/a>after police chased him into his grandmother's back yard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police response to Monday's march was a stark contrast to last year, when officers made only a handful of arrests despite protesters shutting down Interstate 5 and blocking NBA fans from entering a Sacramento Kings game. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While previous demonstrations over Clark's death focused on downtown Sacramento, this was the first to take place in a wealthier, predominantly white part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had protests in other neighborhoods and this kind of response has not happened,\" said Tanya Faison, the founder of the Sacramento Black Lives Matter chapter who participated in the march. \"It proves that everything our DA has said, everything our chief has said, and everything our mayor has said was all words.\"\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 march began around 6:30 p.m. at a Trader Joe's grocery store on Folsom Boulevard, winding through the \"Fab 40s\" section of East Sacramento before making its way back to Trader Joe's around 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many East Sacramento residents said they disapproved of demonstrators targeting the neighborhood, but would not go on the record with member station Capital Public Radio. Others were supportive, even joining the march in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Dunkleburger, who lives blocks away from the grocery where the march began, said she joined the demonstration after learning about it on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like everyone in this neighborhood is in fear driving off,\" she said. \"I saw this on Twitter and was like, I'm going to come support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police spokesperson Sgt. Vance Chandler said the arrests took place after a property owner reported that cars in the area had been keyed. He says officers gave 10 orders to disperse due to unlawful assembly over a two-hour period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shortly after we started monitoring the group at [approximately] 7:30 p.m., we established the group was unlawfully assembling by standing in the street,\" Chandler said. \"We also received information that multiple vehicles in the area were vandalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After police ordered demonstrators to disperse, protest organizers began to encourage people to leave. Some did, while others stayed near the grocery store parking lot and eventually moved down 51st Street to a bridge over Highway 50. Chandler said six people were arrested near the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other demonstrators kept moving onto the bridge, where they were blocked by a line of police officers. Police began detaining and arresting people in small groups, eventually arresting nearly 80 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was following the marchers as they crossed the freeway overpass on 51st Street,\" said Dale Kalser, a \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/dtrFVwPNIKhttps://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article227109924.html\">reporter for The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> who was detained and released without being arrested. \"It became apparent as we got to the other side that there was nowhere to go and that the police had basically sealed everything off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were 50, 60, 70 people all just sort of cordoned off into this small area at the south end of the overpass,\" Kalser said. \"They just came and started detaining everyone, one by one. And I got caught up in that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also detained or arrested were Scott Rodd of the Sacramento Business Journal and William Coburn of the Sacramento State Hornet.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1102822679873114112"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk was lined with dozens of people who sat with their hands twist-tied behind their backs, waiting to be loaded into vans. Chandler said they were to be transported to an offsite location — later identified as Cal Expo, the site of the California State Fair — and processed. From there, they they would be either cited or arrested.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1102836196542046209"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Despite the large number of arrests compared to previous demonstrations, Chandler said Monday's response did not reflect any change in how the department handles public protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, he said, is for police \"to make sure we keep our community safe and allow people to express themselves the opportunity to express themselves in a peaceful manner without causing any harm to people or causing any property damage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg tweeted he was disappointed in how the protest ended, but had questions about what led to the arrests.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1102831149716451328"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"No matter the reason an order to disperse was given, no member of the press should be detained for doing their job,\" Steinberg wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dozens of arrests surprised many of the activists who left after the initial dispersal orders from police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pissed, I'm angry. I'm frustrated,\" said Berry Accius, an organizer with Voices of Youth. \"I thought everything was cool, we were about to end the protest ... we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish and to get a phone call 30 or 40 minutes later and hearing my comrades, some of my friends, [Pastor] Les Simmons, some of my young people that I was with protesting shutting down the mall have been arrested today, and all for what?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark's death made national headlines and added another layer to an ongoing conversation about the police use of deadly force, particularly against black men. The police shot Clark seven times, including three times in the back, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607685905/official-autopsy-of-stephon-clark-killed-by-police-contradicts-family-autopsy\">the official autopsy found\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, were responding to a 911 call of a man breaking car windows in the South Sacramento neighborhood of Meadowview. The two officers pursued Clark into a backyard — which they later learned was his grandmother's home — where they shot him. The officers said they believed Clark had a gun, but police only discovered a cellphone next to his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week after Clark's death, the police department released body-camera and helicopter videos from the shooting, prompting large protests. In one gathering, demonstrators spilled into the streets of downtown Sacramento, brought traffic on Interstate 5 to a stop and blocked thousands of fans from entering the Kings' game with the Atlanta Hawks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a year after Clark's death, the district attorney's decision not to charge the officers renewed outrage over the case. Critics, including Clark's family, also said it was inappropriate for Schubert to publicize the young man's text messages, internet searches and drafts of emails that were pulled his cellphone. She presented those records as signs that Clark was troubled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She used that as a smear campaign or a fake way to justify and condone,\" Clark's mother, Se'Quette Clark, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/03/699892036/stephon-clark-s-mother-reacts-to-sacramento-da-s-no-criminal-charges-decision\">told NPR this weekend\u003c/a>. \"Her officers weren't doing — she never once addressed their actions. She presented and painted a picture of my son that was her opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Kings announced increased security around the Golden 1 Center before that night's game, including closing the arena plaza and some Downtown Commons stores. The Downtown Sacramento Partnership also sent a notice to businesses warning of \"possible traffic delays and protests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 Capital Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>.\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/11730621/police-arrest-84-after-stephon-clark-protest-in-east-sacramento","authors":["byline_news_11730621"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19542","news_4379","news_95","news_22814","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_22688","news_253"],"featImg":"news_11730622","label":"source_news_11730621"},"news_11724318":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11724318","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11724318","score":null,"sort":[1549584398000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1549584398,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"In Style and Substance, Gavin Newsom Goes His Own Way","title":"In Style and Substance, Gavin Newsom Goes His Own Way","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>One month ago today, Gavin Newsom succeeded Jerry Brown as California governor. And anyone doubting the start of a new era in the California governor’s office need only watch Newsom’s January state budget presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I, unlike the previous administration, may spend a little bit more time on this than you want,” Newsom said, sporting his trademark grin. “So just warning you, full disclosure: This is something I really enjoy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom then talked about \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/01/10/newsom-proposes-144-billion-california-budget-with-focus-on-education-building-reserves/\">his budget\u003c/a> for the next two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right — two hours. An hour-long presentation followed by an hour of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Brown would propose his budgets in the state Capitol’s media room, with giant blue poster board charts, Newsom invited a couple hundred people to a much larger auditorium, with Powerpoint slides that he said “will punctuate some of the fundamental points we want to advance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men are Bay Area Democrats. And both come from politically connected families. But in style — and in substance — Gavin Newsom is proving to be a very different California governor than Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, the second Governor Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'That’s not management. That’s helter-skelter.'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just how the two governors presented their spending plans. It was how they wanted to spend money as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jerry Brown proposed a budget and he only wanted a few things,” Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) noted at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/event/a-conversation-with-californias-legislative-leadership-2019/\">a recent Public Policy Institute of California event\u003c/a>. “Gavin’s thrown everything out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Newman, a senior campaign aide to both governors, said that’s a fundamental difference between the two men.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Jerry Brown proposed a budget and he only wanted a few things. Gavin's thrown everything out there'\u003ccite>Toni Atkins, Senate president pro tem\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown “was more willing to let certain subjects wait for another day or another governor,” Newman said, while Newsom “tends to swing at every pitch. He is genetically unable to say, something is too hard or too politically fraught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Newsom packed ideas from his campaign’s 30 policy teams into his very first budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s rote and cliché to say it’s a reflection of our values,” he said near the start of his two-hour budget presentation, “but it is a reflection of our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Brown bristled at a question in our \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/12/11/jerry-browns-exit-interview-dont-say-he-didnt-warn-you/\">Capital Public Radio exit interview\u003c/a> last December when I asked him about issues he chose to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The basis of your questioning is that I should be on every topic all the time,” Brown said. “And that's not management. That's helter-skelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'As different as their respective hair styles'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“They’re about as different as their respective hair styles,” said Bill Whalen, a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution who used to write speeches for former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is 80 and bald. Newsom is 51 and has a full head of slicked-back hair. And, Whalen said, Newsom is more “visibly energetic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not suggesting in the least that Jerry Brown sat in his office and did nothing but play Fortnite,” Whalen said. “He was a very busy governor — but doing a lot of things behind the scenes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as Brown quipped to the Sacramento Press Club last December: “One of the things I’ve worked hard to avoid is overexposure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Gavin Newsom fits more the profile of the modern politician. He’s out there. He’s aggressive. He’s reaching out to the ‘people,’ if you will.'\u003ccite>Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, USC political analyst\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Newsom, Whalen pointed out, has already held public events throughout the state. The governor met with unpaid TSA workers at the Sacramento airport, held a housing roundtable in San Jose, took his cabinet on a road trip to the Central Valley to discuss clean drinking water, and flew down to San Diego last week to discuss the border crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He enjoys being in front of the cameras,” Whalen said. “He enjoys being visible. And that’s going to be his style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a moment at his San Diego news conference last week exemplified Newsom’s comfort in front of a crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of his remarks, the room suddenly went dark. Instead of ending the event, he turned the moment to his advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the lights go out in other parts of the country,” Newsom said, pausing to savor the moment as the crowd chuckled, “here in California, we turn them back on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC political analyst Sherry Bebitch Jeffe agreed that Brown’s governing style was more “under the radar” than Newsom’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He does his thing, he’s thoughtful about it, but you don’t get a press release from him every two seconds,” Bebitch Jeffe said. “Gavin Newsom fits more the profile of the modern politician. He’s out there. He’s aggressive. He’s reaching out to the ‘people,’ if you will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Latin proverbs vs. 'Bay Area cool-speak'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another difference between California’s 39th and 40th governors: They speak very differently — although neither of them sound particularly like “normal people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717355/gavin-newsom-looks-to-spend-and-save-in-first-budget-proposal\">Gavin Newsom Looks to Spend and Save in First Budget Proposal\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717355/gavin-newsom-looks-to-spend-and-save-in-first-budget-proposal\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/NewsomBudget-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown had his \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/01/04/from-latin-to-literature-here-are-our-favorite-jerry-brownisms/\">Latin proverbs\u003c/a> and his obscure literary and historical references.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has his own verbal tics. To Whalan, they’re “sort of Bay Area cool-speak” and “the kind of thing that most Californians don’t necessarily understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broad strokes of land use fiscalization,” Newsom said amid a \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2018/10/11/californias-next-governor-interview-democratic-candidate-gavin-newsom-dives-into-childhood-challenges-defends-his-business-career-and-campaign-promises/\">campaign interview with Capital Public Radio\u003c/a> last fall. “Quite LIT-rally, not figuratively,” he said at another point — punctuating, as he often does, the first syllable of “literally.” And later: “I'm basically giving a sense of the sincerity to which we have laid out detailed prescriptive ideas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some voters are noticing the differences. At last month’s presidential campaign kickoff rally for California Sen. Kamala Harris, Shay Rogers of Alameda saw another distinction between two men she voted for and believes share the same core values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think that Gavin is just a little bit younger, a little bit not as ‘old boys club,’” she said. “Jerry Brown still had a little bit of that in him. I don’t really see it much in Gavin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'They tend to do what they want to do'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"2192\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11724334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic-160x501.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic-383x1200.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for similarities? Start with their intelligence, said Dan Newman, the campaign strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a room, they are both absurdly, clearly well-read and just obnoxiously prepared,” he said. “They’re almost always the most informed proverbial smartest person in virtually any room on any policy subject, but also on politics — which is great, but can also be frustrating for those of us who like to pretend to be important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both listen and ask questions, Newman added, “but then they tend to do what they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most intriguing similarity might be to compare Newsom to Brown during his first governorship, in the 1970s and 80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s grasping, as Jerry Brown 1.0 did — and Jerry Brown 2.0 did not do — he’s grasping big issues,” Bebitch Jeffe said of Newsom. “He has a very heavy, broad agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown governed differently his second time around, saying he’d learned to be more focused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is well aware of that — yet appears unafraid to go his own way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jerry Brown was the right person at the right time,” Newsom said on the campaign trail last fall. “We’re at a different time in our state’s history, different time in our nation’s history. And I think we’re very well equipped to take the baton and build on that legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which points to another character trait that both governors share: confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg%0Ahttps://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"11724318 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11724318","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/07/in-style-and-substance-gavin-newsom-goes-his-own-way/","stats":{"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1463,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":46},"modified":1549660639,"excerpt":"Gavin Newsom is proving to be a very different California governor than Jerry Brown. At least, the second Governor Jerry Brown.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Gavin Newsom is proving to be a very different California governor than Jerry Brown. 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And anyone doubting the start of a new era in the California governor’s office need only watch Newsom’s January state budget presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I, unlike the previous administration, may spend a little bit more time on this than you want,” Newsom said, sporting his trademark grin. “So just warning you, full disclosure: This is something I really enjoy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom then talked about \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/01/10/newsom-proposes-144-billion-california-budget-with-focus-on-education-building-reserves/\">his budget\u003c/a> for the next two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right — two hours. An hour-long presentation followed by an hour of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Brown would propose his budgets in the state Capitol’s media room, with giant blue poster board charts, Newsom invited a couple hundred people to a much larger auditorium, with Powerpoint slides that he said “will punctuate some of the fundamental points we want to advance.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SrWC9XnKPKI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Both men are Bay Area Democrats. And both come from politically connected families. But in style — and in substance — Gavin Newsom is proving to be a very different California governor than Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, the second Governor Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'That’s not management. That’s helter-skelter.'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just how the two governors presented their spending plans. It was how they wanted to spend money as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jerry Brown proposed a budget and he only wanted a few things,” Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) noted at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/event/a-conversation-with-californias-legislative-leadership-2019/\">a recent Public Policy Institute of California event\u003c/a>. “Gavin’s thrown everything out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Newman, a senior campaign aide to both governors, said that’s a fundamental difference between the two men.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Jerry Brown proposed a budget and he only wanted a few things. Gavin's thrown everything out there'\u003ccite>Toni Atkins, Senate president pro tem\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown “was more willing to let certain subjects wait for another day or another governor,” Newman said, while Newsom “tends to swing at every pitch. He is genetically unable to say, something is too hard or too politically fraught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Newsom packed ideas from his campaign’s 30 policy teams into his very first budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s rote and cliché to say it’s a reflection of our values,” he said near the start of his two-hour budget presentation, “but it is a reflection of our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Brown bristled at a question in our \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/12/11/jerry-browns-exit-interview-dont-say-he-didnt-warn-you/\">Capital Public Radio exit interview\u003c/a> last December when I asked him about issues he chose to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The basis of your questioning is that I should be on every topic all the time,” Brown said. “And that's not management. That's helter-skelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'As different as their respective hair styles'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“They’re about as different as their respective hair styles,” said Bill Whalen, a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution who used to write speeches for former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is 80 and bald. Newsom is 51 and has a full head of slicked-back hair. And, Whalen said, Newsom is more “visibly energetic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not suggesting in the least that Jerry Brown sat in his office and did nothing but play Fortnite,” Whalen said. “He was a very busy governor — but doing a lot of things behind the scenes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as Brown quipped to the Sacramento Press Club last December: “One of the things I’ve worked hard to avoid is overexposure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Gavin Newsom fits more the profile of the modern politician. He’s out there. He’s aggressive. He’s reaching out to the ‘people,’ if you will.'\u003ccite>Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, USC political analyst\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Newsom, Whalen pointed out, has already held public events throughout the state. The governor met with unpaid TSA workers at the Sacramento airport, held a housing roundtable in San Jose, took his cabinet on a road trip to the Central Valley to discuss clean drinking water, and flew down to San Diego last week to discuss the border crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He enjoys being in front of the cameras,” Whalen said. “He enjoys being visible. And that’s going to be his style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a moment at his San Diego news conference last week exemplified Newsom’s comfort in front of a crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of his remarks, the room suddenly went dark. Instead of ending the event, he turned the moment to his advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the lights go out in other parts of the country,” Newsom said, pausing to savor the moment as the crowd chuckled, “here in California, we turn them back on.”\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>USC political analyst Sherry Bebitch Jeffe agreed that Brown’s governing style was more “under the radar” than Newsom’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He does his thing, he’s thoughtful about it, but you don’t get a press release from him every two seconds,” Bebitch Jeffe said. “Gavin Newsom fits more the profile of the modern politician. He’s out there. He’s aggressive. He’s reaching out to the ‘people,’ if you will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Latin proverbs vs. 'Bay Area cool-speak'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another difference between California’s 39th and 40th governors: They speak very differently — although neither of them sound particularly like “normal people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717355/gavin-newsom-looks-to-spend-and-save-in-first-budget-proposal\">Gavin Newsom Looks to Spend and Save in First Budget Proposal\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717355/gavin-newsom-looks-to-spend-and-save-in-first-budget-proposal\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/NewsomBudget-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown had his \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/01/04/from-latin-to-literature-here-are-our-favorite-jerry-brownisms/\">Latin proverbs\u003c/a> and his obscure literary and historical references.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has his own verbal tics. To Whalan, they’re “sort of Bay Area cool-speak” and “the kind of thing that most Californians don’t necessarily understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broad strokes of land use fiscalization,” Newsom said amid a \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2018/10/11/californias-next-governor-interview-democratic-candidate-gavin-newsom-dives-into-childhood-challenges-defends-his-business-career-and-campaign-promises/\">campaign interview with Capital Public Radio\u003c/a> last fall. “Quite LIT-rally, not figuratively,” he said at another point — punctuating, as he often does, the first syllable of “literally.” And later: “I'm basically giving a sense of the sincerity to which we have laid out detailed prescriptive ideas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some voters are noticing the differences. At last month’s presidential campaign kickoff rally for California Sen. Kamala Harris, Shay Rogers of Alameda saw another distinction between two men she voted for and believes share the same core values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think that Gavin is just a little bit younger, a little bit not as ‘old boys club,’” she said. “Jerry Brown still had a little bit of that in him. I don’t really see it much in Gavin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'They tend to do what they want to do'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"2192\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11724334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic-160x501.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/jerry-brown-v-gavin-newsom-graphic-383x1200.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for similarities? Start with their intelligence, said Dan Newman, the campaign strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a room, they are both absurdly, clearly well-read and just obnoxiously prepared,” he said. “They’re almost always the most informed proverbial smartest person in virtually any room on any policy subject, but also on politics — which is great, but can also be frustrating for those of us who like to pretend to be important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both listen and ask questions, Newman added, “but then they tend to do what they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most intriguing similarity might be to compare Newsom to Brown during his first governorship, in the 1970s and 80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s grasping, as Jerry Brown 1.0 did — and Jerry Brown 2.0 did not do — he’s grasping big issues,” Bebitch Jeffe said of Newsom. “He has a very heavy, broad agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown governed differently his second time around, saying he’d learned to be more focused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is well aware of that — yet appears unafraid to go his own way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jerry Brown was the right person at the right time,” Newsom said on the campaign trail last fall. “We’re at a different time in our state’s history, different time in our nation’s history. And I think we’re very well equipped to take the baton and build on that legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which points to another character trait that both governors share: confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg%0Ahttps://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\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/11724318/in-style-and-substance-gavin-newsom-goes-his-own-way","authors":["byline_news_11724318"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22178","news_16","news_30","news_70"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11724331","label":"source_news_11724318"},"news_11713330":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11713330","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11713330","score":null,"sort":[1545325245000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1545325245,"format":"audio","title":"Want to Become a Farmer in California? Get a Business Mentor","headTitle":"Want to Become a Farmer in California? Get a Business Mentor | KQED","content":"\u003cp>Kristyn Leach drives a tractor up and down the length of her field, towing a disc that breaks up remnants of last season’s crops and mixes them back into the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2016/01/21/planting-vegetables-in-california-a-woman-finds-her-korean-roots/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leach\u003c/a> and her farm dog Bibi look right at home on this plot of land, flanked by olive groves, in the Central Valley community of Winters, 30 miles west of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is part of an emergent generation of small farmers in California with horticulture skills, but little or no business background, who are turning to a growing number of nonprofit programs for financial guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started my farm, it wasn’t because I felt like a competent business person or had any even basic financial literacy as an individual,” Leach explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, it was her curiosity about traditional Korean farming that launched her on the path to growing vegetables. She even traveled to Korea to learn from an older generation of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she started farming 15 years ago, Leach says it was just a “side hustle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since 2012, she has made her living selling heirloom Korean and East Asian beans, herbs and melon to \u003ca href=\"https://www.namusf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Namu Gaji\u003c/a>, an upscale restaurant in San Francisco. Farming, she notes, turned her into an “accidental business owner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of business acumen is an issue for many fledgling farmers, according to Evan Wiig, a spokesman for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caff.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Alliance with Family Farmers\u003c/a>, an advocacy group that offers business training to new farmers and ranchers interested in small-scale sustainable agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2014/Beginning_Farmers/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third\u003c/a> of farmers in California are new to the profession — compared to about a quarter nationwide — and many lack formal business training. The USDA defines a “beginner” as someone who has farmed for 10 years or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiig credits the local food movement with attracting an influx of new farmers in California. “People are seeking to get out from behind desks and have a better connection to the land and be more entrepreneurial,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pick strawberries on Bertha Magaña’s Prunedale farm. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiig says the young farmers he meets through CAFF want to be outdoors, getting dirt under their fingernails and working with plants and animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They] are not exactly drawn by the prospect of sitting behind a computer filling out spreadsheets, crop planning, [doing] profit and loss analysis and developing markets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when small farms go under, it’s often due to the lack of “some element of business planning,” Wiig notes. “That could be securing a solid lease on a property that’s financially viable, or it might be cash flow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to close that skills gap, several nonprofit organizations in California have recently launched business training programs specifically designed for new farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitchentableadvisors.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kitchen Table Advisors\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization funded largely by foundation grants, which provides two years of free business advice to farmers on small, organic farms in Northern California and the Central Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since launching in 2013, KTA has helped about 50 farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access to land and capital are among the most common barriers new farmers face, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitchentableadvisors.org/news/celebrating-david\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Mancera\u003c/a>, who worked in real estate and finance before becoming a Kitchen Table adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera coaches farmers in Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Madera counties where, he says, it’s particularly difficult to find five-to-10-acre parcels of land for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of his clients are former farmworkers making the transition to running their own operation. They can’t afford to buy or lease larger parcels, and aren’t ready to farm at that scale, he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713892\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magaña Organic Farms owner Bertha Magaña (right), and her employees plant kale on her land in Prunedale. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As rain clouds cluster in the skies above Monterey County, Mancera makes his way to visit farmer \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafarmlink.org/bertha-magana/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bertha Magaña\u003c/a>. When he arrives, she’s watching her small crew move swiftly between rows of strawberry plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be the last harvest of the season because of the rain,” Magaña tells Mancera in Spanish. She says this year’s strawberry harvest has been much better than the previous one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera has been advising Magaña for about two years. She was a sharecropper and nursery worker before enrolling at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.albafarmers.org/about-alba/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association\u003c/a>, or ALBA, in Salinas, to study organic farming practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera came into the picture just as Magaña was in the process of purchasing 9 acres of land near Prundale, where she now grows strawberries, artichokes, chard and beets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera says cash flow management is one of the key skills he’s helped Magaña learn, including showing her how to use a spreadsheet tool to track expenditures and sales. Before that, Mancera says, Magaña was keeping track of everything in her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She worked off a piece of paper and notes she made as she went through the season,” Mancera said. “But there was no formal way to look at her business and try to understand what was making money and what wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713893\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713893\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magaña grows strawberries, among a host of other crops. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year was a difficult period for Magaña. Her husband and farming partner had open heart surgery. She says his illness made it difficult for her to work on the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get through the crisis, Magaña needed a bank loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera says lenders want to see evidence that farmers are closely tracking their businesses and have longer term financial strategies. He says he also works with new farmers on crop planning to maintain a profitable mix of crops that align with market demand and labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KTA also refers its clients to \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafarmlink.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California FarmLink\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that helps beginning farmers secure loans to buy or lease new land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t tell them what to do,” he explained. “We guide them, we help them ask questions. Ultimately, they’re the business owners. We’re trying to help them develop this business mindset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1110,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":34},"modified":1701974965,"excerpt":"A growing number of new, small-scale farmers in California are looking to nonprofit financial advisers to help them develop business strategies.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"A growing number of new, small-scale farmers in California are looking to nonprofit financial advisers to help them develop business strategies.","title":"Want to Become a Farmer in California? 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She even traveled to Korea to learn from an older generation of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she started farming 15 years ago, Leach says it was just a “side hustle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since 2012, she has made her living selling heirloom Korean and East Asian beans, herbs and melon to \u003ca href=\"https://www.namusf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Namu Gaji\u003c/a>, an upscale restaurant in San Francisco. Farming, she notes, turned her into an “accidental business owner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of business acumen is an issue for many fledgling farmers, according to Evan Wiig, a spokesman for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caff.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Alliance with Family Farmers\u003c/a>, an advocacy group that offers business training to new farmers and ranchers interested in small-scale sustainable agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2014/Beginning_Farmers/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third\u003c/a> of farmers in California are new to the profession — compared to about a quarter nationwide — and many lack formal business training. The USDA defines a “beginner” as someone who has farmed for 10 years or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiig credits the local food movement with attracting an influx of new farmers in California. “People are seeking to get out from behind desks and have a better connection to the land and be more entrepreneurial,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8352-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pick strawberries on Bertha Magaña’s Prunedale farm. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiig says the young farmers he meets through CAFF want to be outdoors, getting dirt under their fingernails and working with plants and animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They] are not exactly drawn by the prospect of sitting behind a computer filling out spreadsheets, crop planning, [doing] profit and loss analysis and developing markets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when small farms go under, it’s often due to the lack of “some element of business planning,” Wiig notes. “That could be securing a solid lease on a property that’s financially viable, or it might be cash flow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to close that skills gap, several nonprofit organizations in California have recently launched business training programs specifically designed for new farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitchentableadvisors.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kitchen Table Advisors\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization funded largely by foundation grants, which provides two years of free business advice to farmers on small, organic farms in Northern California and the Central Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since launching in 2013, KTA has helped about 50 farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access to land and capital are among the most common barriers new farmers face, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitchentableadvisors.org/news/celebrating-david\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Mancera\u003c/a>, who worked in real estate and finance before becoming a Kitchen Table adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera coaches farmers in Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Madera counties where, he says, it’s particularly difficult to find five-to-10-acre parcels of land for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of his clients are former farmworkers making the transition to running their own operation. They can’t afford to buy or lease larger parcels, and aren’t ready to farm at that scale, he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713892\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8568-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magaña Organic Farms owner Bertha Magaña (right), and her employees plant kale on her land in Prunedale. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As rain clouds cluster in the skies above Monterey County, Mancera makes his way to visit farmer \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafarmlink.org/bertha-magana/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bertha Magaña\u003c/a>. When he arrives, she’s watching her small crew move swiftly between rows of strawberry plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be the last harvest of the season because of the rain,” Magaña tells Mancera in Spanish. She says this year’s strawberry harvest has been much better than the previous one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera has been advising Magaña for about two years. She was a sharecropper and nursery worker before enrolling at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.albafarmers.org/about-alba/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association\u003c/a>, or ALBA, in Salinas, to study organic farming practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera came into the picture just as Magaña was in the process of purchasing 9 acres of land near Prundale, where she now grows strawberries, artichokes, chard and beets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera says cash flow management is one of the key skills he’s helped Magaña learn, including showing her how to use a spreadsheet tool to track expenditures and sales. Before that, Mancera says, Magaña was keeping track of everything in her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She worked off a piece of paper and notes she made as she went through the season,” Mancera said. “But there was no formal way to look at her business and try to understand what was making money and what wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713893\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11713893\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/DSCF8452-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magaña grows strawberries, among a host of other crops. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year was a difficult period for Magaña. Her husband and farming partner had open heart surgery. She says his illness made it difficult for her to work on the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get through the crisis, Magaña needed a bank loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancera says lenders want to see evidence that farmers are closely tracking their businesses and have longer term financial strategies. He says he also works with new farmers on crop planning to maintain a profitable mix of crops that align with market demand and labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KTA also refers its clients to \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafarmlink.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California FarmLink\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that helps beginning farmers secure loans to buy or lease new land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t tell them what to do,” he explained. “We guide them, we help them ask questions. Ultimately, they’re the business owners. We’re trying to help them develop this business mindset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11713330/want-to-become-a-farmer-in-california-get-a-mentor","authors":["byline_news_11713330"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_24114","news_8"],"tags":["news_4092","news_21840"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11713882","label":"source_news_11713330"},"news_11703001":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11703001","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11703001","score":null,"sort":[1541184393000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1541184393,"format":"standard","title":"The New Normal in California’s Direct Democracy Process: Ballot Measures as Leverage","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>California voters will face 11 propositions this November, but the ballot could have been longer. Backers of three other voter initiatives pulled their measures, using a relatively new state law meant to encourage deal-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1253\">2014 state law\u003c/a> allows an initiative proponent to withdraw a measure after it qualifies for the ballot. It has created a powerful new tool to leverage state lawmakers — as demonstrated by the events of a single day in late June of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/28/soda-tax-ban-becomes-law-industry-groups-yank-california-ballot-measure-threatening-government-services/\">The fury on the floor\u003c/a> of the California Senate that morning was something to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"Under the old law, once an initiative proponent submitted their signatures, it was all or nothing.\"\u003ccite>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“This industry,” said Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), referring to the soda industry, “is aiming basically a nuclear weapon at government in California and saying, if you don’t do what we want, we’re gonna pull the trigger, and you are not going to be able to fund basic government services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener spoke as lawmakers were debating a bill that banned California cities and counties from adding new taxes on soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for its passage, business groups \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/26/business-labor-deal-would-ban-california-cities-counties-from-enacting-new-soda-taxes/\">offered a deal\u003c/a>: They’d withdraw a November ballot measure that scared Democrats, labor unions and local governments even more. The initiative would have raised the voter threshold for local sales tax increases from a majority to two-thirds, among other provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Senate leader Toni Atkins said lawmakers found themselves between a rock and a hard place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly will not forget the position we were put in,” she warned initiative backers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure’s proponent says the criticisms are disingenuous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers “should be glad they had that choice. Because, I believe firmly, that initiative would have passed,” said California Business Roundtable President Rob Lapsley. “That initiative was going to have an impact on their ability to raise taxes in this state, and they feared that far worse than any tax on groceries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg was among the local government leaders who considered the soda tax ban the lesser of two evils, because he’s championing a majority-vote local sales tax measure this fall. Ironically, back when he led the state Senate, he wrote the law that made this tactic possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it,” he said of the industry’s political move as he looked back months later, “but I also wasn’t offended, in principle, because they used the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg says the goal of his measure was to encourage negotiations between initiative backers and elected officials. Opponents of an initiative, he points out, can always turn down a deal and take their chances with voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the old law, once an initiative proponent submitted their signatures, it was all or nothing,” he said. “There was really no opportunity for that proponent to say, I’m serious about this, and I want to engage the Legislature and the governor to see if you’re now willing — with a prod — to solve the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lapsley, who worked with good government groups and union leaders to suggest the law to Steinberg, pointed out that initiatives have always been used as leverage, if not as explicitly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ability to withdraw only provides a longer or later window in the legislative process to have those kinds of negotiations,” he said, “as opposed to withdrawing it before you actually turn in the signatures, which is the way it worked previously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Leader Toni Atkins’ office says she’s open to revisiting the law to improve on its intended purpose, but discussions on that issue have yet to begin in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just Big Business\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t just big business that has used the new law. On the same day the soda tax ban passed the Legislature, a Bay Area real estate developer named Alastair Mactaggart \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/29/how-one-california-voter-conquered-the-trillion-dollar-tech-industry/\">brought the tech industry to its knees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"To some extent, there is a gun pointed at the Legislature that they have to do something bad before something worse goes into effect. That's not a situation that anybody wants to be in.\" \u003ccite>Christin McMeley, a Washington DC-based attorney who represents cable industry clients\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mactaggart wanted to give consumers the right to make companies like Facebook and Google stop sharing or selling their data. So he spent a few million dollars gathering signatures, and qualified his measure for the November ballot. Although he says this wasn’t his original plan, he used that leverage to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375\">strike a deal\u003c/a> — and withdrew his initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This might be the famous last words and I might be an idiot to say them,” he said, acknowledging that the industry will in all likelihood seek to scale back the new rules, perhaps as soon as next year. “But I do think that in a complicated area, I didn’t mind this time around giving the Legislature the chance to pass a good law and see if good public policy could be made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, the tech industry wasn’t pleased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To some extent, there is a gun pointed at the Legislature that they have to do something bad before something worse goes into effect,” Christin McMeley, a Washington, DC-based attorney who represents cable industry clients, said at the time. “That’s not a situation that anybody wants to be in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mactaggart knows the industry will try to weaken the law next year. That’s the calculated risk he took in exchange for not having to roll the dice with voters, or spend more of his money on a campaign. And, he points out, a law with such strong industry opposition never would’ve passed without the initiative as leverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that tech didn’t want to take a risk at the ballot box,” he said. “So they were willing to make substantial concessions to get the thing done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also this year, the paint industry withdrew a controversial effort to shift liability for hundreds of millions of dollars of lead paint cleanup in homes from the industry to the state. As part of the deal to withdraw the initiative, lawmakers agreed not to move forward with several bills targeting the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at one point, there was a chance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2018-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/17-0041-expands-local-governments-authority-enact-rent-control-residential-property-initiative-statute/\">the $100 million rent control battle\u003c/a> that’s clogging your commercial breaks and mailboxes might never have become \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11695998/should-californians-allow-rent-control-to-expand-prop-10-explained\">Proposition 10\u003c/a>. But negotiations between the measure’s supporters and opponents \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/22/california-rent-control-initiative-supporters-opponents-sought-deal-to-avoid-ballot-fight-but-failed/\">broke down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The New Normal\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first election cycle that the law served as leverage. In 2016, two different minimum wage measures backed by two different labor unions were both withdrawn after the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown passed the law that’s gradually phasing the state up to $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And already, an epic battle is shaping up for 2020: Labor unions and progressive groups have qualified a ballot measure known as “split roll” that would shatter the cornerstone of the state’s tax system, \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, by taxing commercial property differently than residential property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lapsley expects it’ll be part of broader negotiations to overhaul the state’s tax system. “That’s a piece that helps stimulate — and everybody knows it — that discussion,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because if business groups don’t join talks on tax reform, the split roll measure will spark a campaign that Lapsley believes will reach $150 million. “We’re preparing for that,” he said, “but we’ll also see where the discussions go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a new state law passed earlier this year extends this same negotiation window to local ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So welcome to the new normal — the next iteration of California’s direct democracy process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\">The California Dream\u003c/a> series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11702931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-1200x329.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1394,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":38},"modified":1677710325,"excerpt":"A 2014 state law opened up California’s direct democracy process to negotiations with the governor and Legislature. In doing so, it created a powerful new tool for interest groups.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"A 2014 state law opened up California’s direct democracy process to negotiations with the governor and Legislature. 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Backers of three other voter initiatives pulled their measures, using a relatively new state law meant to encourage deal-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1253\">2014 state law\u003c/a> allows an initiative proponent to withdraw a measure after it qualifies for the ballot. It has created a powerful new tool to leverage state lawmakers — as demonstrated by the events of a single day in late June of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/28/soda-tax-ban-becomes-law-industry-groups-yank-california-ballot-measure-threatening-government-services/\">The fury on the floor\u003c/a> of the California Senate that morning was something to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"Under the old law, once an initiative proponent submitted their signatures, it was all or nothing.\"\u003ccite>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“This industry,” said Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), referring to the soda industry, “is aiming basically a nuclear weapon at government in California and saying, if you don’t do what we want, we’re gonna pull the trigger, and you are not going to be able to fund basic government services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener spoke as lawmakers were debating a bill that banned California cities and counties from adding new taxes on soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for its passage, business groups \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/26/business-labor-deal-would-ban-california-cities-counties-from-enacting-new-soda-taxes/\">offered a deal\u003c/a>: They’d withdraw a November ballot measure that scared Democrats, labor unions and local governments even more. The initiative would have raised the voter threshold for local sales tax increases from a majority to two-thirds, among other provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Senate leader Toni Atkins said lawmakers found themselves between a rock and a hard place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly will not forget the position we were put in,” she warned initiative backers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure’s proponent says the criticisms are disingenuous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers “should be glad they had that choice. Because, I believe firmly, that initiative would have passed,” said California Business Roundtable President Rob Lapsley. “That initiative was going to have an impact on their ability to raise taxes in this state, and they feared that far worse than any tax on groceries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg was among the local government leaders who considered the soda tax ban the lesser of two evils, because he’s championing a majority-vote local sales tax measure this fall. Ironically, back when he led the state Senate, he wrote the law that made this tactic possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it,” he said of the industry’s political move as he looked back months later, “but I also wasn’t offended, in principle, because they used the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg says the goal of his measure was to encourage negotiations between initiative backers and elected officials. Opponents of an initiative, he points out, can always turn down a deal and take their chances with voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the old law, once an initiative proponent submitted their signatures, it was all or nothing,” he said. “There was really no opportunity for that proponent to say, I’m serious about this, and I want to engage the Legislature and the governor to see if you’re now willing — with a prod — to solve the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lapsley, who worked with good government groups and union leaders to suggest the law to Steinberg, pointed out that initiatives have always been used as leverage, if not as explicitly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ability to withdraw only provides a longer or later window in the legislative process to have those kinds of negotiations,” he said, “as opposed to withdrawing it before you actually turn in the signatures, which is the way it worked previously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Leader Toni Atkins’ office says she’s open to revisiting the law to improve on its intended purpose, but discussions on that issue have yet to begin in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just Big Business\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t just big business that has used the new law. On the same day the soda tax ban passed the Legislature, a Bay Area real estate developer named Alastair Mactaggart \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/29/how-one-california-voter-conquered-the-trillion-dollar-tech-industry/\">brought the tech industry to its knees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"To some extent, there is a gun pointed at the Legislature that they have to do something bad before something worse goes into effect. That's not a situation that anybody wants to be in.\" \u003ccite>Christin McMeley, a Washington DC-based attorney who represents cable industry clients\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mactaggart wanted to give consumers the right to make companies like Facebook and Google stop sharing or selling their data. So he spent a few million dollars gathering signatures, and qualified his measure for the November ballot. Although he says this wasn’t his original plan, he used that leverage to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375\">strike a deal\u003c/a> — and withdrew his initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This might be the famous last words and I might be an idiot to say them,” he said, acknowledging that the industry will in all likelihood seek to scale back the new rules, perhaps as soon as next year. “But I do think that in a complicated area, I didn’t mind this time around giving the Legislature the chance to pass a good law and see if good public policy could be made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, the tech industry wasn’t pleased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To some extent, there is a gun pointed at the Legislature that they have to do something bad before something worse goes into effect,” Christin McMeley, a Washington, DC-based attorney who represents cable industry clients, said at the time. “That’s not a situation that anybody wants to be in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mactaggart knows the industry will try to weaken the law next year. That’s the calculated risk he took in exchange for not having to roll the dice with voters, or spend more of his money on a campaign. And, he points out, a law with such strong industry opposition never would’ve passed without the initiative as leverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that tech didn’t want to take a risk at the ballot box,” he said. “So they were willing to make substantial concessions to get the thing done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also this year, the paint industry withdrew a controversial effort to shift liability for hundreds of millions of dollars of lead paint cleanup in homes from the industry to the state. As part of the deal to withdraw the initiative, lawmakers agreed not to move forward with several bills targeting the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at one point, there was a chance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2018-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/17-0041-expands-local-governments-authority-enact-rent-control-residential-property-initiative-statute/\">the $100 million rent control battle\u003c/a> that’s clogging your commercial breaks and mailboxes might never have become \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11695998/should-californians-allow-rent-control-to-expand-prop-10-explained\">Proposition 10\u003c/a>. But negotiations between the measure’s supporters and opponents \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/06/22/california-rent-control-initiative-supporters-opponents-sought-deal-to-avoid-ballot-fight-but-failed/\">broke down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The New Normal\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first election cycle that the law served as leverage. In 2016, two different minimum wage measures backed by two different labor unions were both withdrawn after the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown passed the law that’s gradually phasing the state up to $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And already, an epic battle is shaping up for 2020: Labor unions and progressive groups have qualified a ballot measure known as “split roll” that would shatter the cornerstone of the state’s tax system, \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, by taxing commercial property differently than residential property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lapsley expects it’ll be part of broader negotiations to overhaul the state’s tax system. “That’s a piece that helps stimulate — and everybody knows it — that discussion,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because if business groups don’t join talks on tax reform, the split roll measure will spark a campaign that Lapsley believes will reach $150 million. “We’re preparing for that,” he said, “but we’ll also see where the discussions go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a new state law passed earlier this year extends this same negotiation window to local ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So welcome to the new normal — the next iteration of California’s direct democracy process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\">The California Dream\u003c/a> series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\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>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11702931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-1200x329.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11703001/the-new-normal-in-californias-direct-democracy-process-ballot-measures-as-leverage","authors":["byline_news_11703001"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20053","news_20397","news_20191","news_23724","news_725"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11703007","label":"source_news_11703001"},"news_11679835":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11679835","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11679835","score":null,"sort":[1531260170000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1531260170,"format":"audio","disqusTitle":"Is California's Legacy Environmental Law Protecting the State's Beauty or Blocking Affordable Housing?","title":"Is California's Legacy Environmental Law Protecting the State's Beauty or Blocking Affordable Housing?","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ore than a year ago, Redwood City approved the kind of affordable housing project California desperately needs: a 20-unit building, downtown, near transit lines, in the heart of Silicon Valley, where the state’s housing crisis is most severe. The developer was a nonprofit, Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today the lot remains vacant, except for a row of portable toilets, a trailer and a dumpster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney who works out of a two-story home behind the lot filed a lawsuit against the project last year, and it has since been stalled. He contends the city’s approval of the apartments violated a sweeping, decades-old environmental law, because the building could increase traffic. The Habitat building could also block the view from his home’s rear windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is he using the law to preserve California’s natural beauty, or is he merely denying someone else’s affordable home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For critics of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), this case is a poster child for the need for reform. Signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970 and often referred to as “see-kwuh,” the law calls for “preventing environmental damage, while providing a decent home and satisfying living environment for every Californian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say CEQA does just that, supplying some of the strongest protection and transparency in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is the fundamental law in California for environmental protection that also protects the right of the public to be informed about projects that are going into our neighborhood,” said David Pettit, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics, particularly developers, say court decisions and opportunists have broadened and weaponized the law so it actively impedes housing, particularly in urban areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not about the environment,\" said Jennifer Hernandez, an attorney at Holland & Knight and one of the state’s most vocal advocates for change to the law. \"This signature environmental law is being hijacked to advance economic interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Conscience of the Community'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CEQA requires that new public and private projects undergo rigorous reviews to prove they will not cause significant harm to the existing environment. If they will cause harm, developers can be forced to pay to mitigate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government agencies and planning departments certify projects have complied with the law when approved. But CEQA relies on another, atypical enforcement mechanism that critics call unbalanced: the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can file a lawsuit saying that a project has violated the approval process, even without disclosing their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-800x1046.jpg\" alt=\"This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-240x314.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-375x490.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-520x680.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Resources Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“CEQA lawsuits can be filed anonymously. And they can be filed by people who have only economic competition at stake,” said Hernandez, whose firm is defending Habitat pro bono. “They can be filed by competitors, unions — frankly, racist neighbors. Anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez \u003ca href=\"https://www.hklaw.com/publications/in-the-name-of-the-environment-litigation-abuse-under-ceqa-august-2015/\">analyzed CEQA lawsuits \u003c/a>in the Bay Area over a three-year period and found prominent environmental groups brought only 13 percent of the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The delay in this process has cost several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it.'\u003ccite>Maureen Sedonaen, Habitat for Humanity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit against Habitat for Humanity is Geoff Carr’s second, and the fourth he’s threatened. He’s an attorney who specializes in criminal defense, not environmental law. But he’s becoming something of an expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside his law office, he points to a high-rise building across the street. “We got in late to fight that one,” he said of his CEQA threat against the apartments, “and we only got a floor off it and a little bit of change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street from Habitat’s vacant lot, a developer canceled a 91-unit condo project outright. Carr said he threatened a CEQA suit and that once the developer \"found out we were going to the mat with him,\" he pulled the plug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carr is most proud of a building down the block from his office, across the street from Redwood City’s historic courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developer in that case, Steve Dostart, wanted to build a large office building. But Carr, who called the original plan \"another plastic piece of crap,\" said they negotiated a smaller, eight-story building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the conscience of the community,” Carr said. \"We gave and they gave, and I think they got an award for that building.\" Dostart has said that the negotiated building is an improvement on the original proposal, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/11/17/after-redesign-dostart-developments-601-marshall.html\">a local media outlet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1200x869.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1180x855.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-960x696.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-375x272.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Carr, CEQA is the best tool to defend against what he sees as greedy developers and complacent city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be too pejorative about the City Council of Redwood City, but I hate them,” he said. “They’re small-minded peeves, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen Sedonaen, CEO of the Habitat for Humanity chapter, said Carr’s actions are not simply impeding encroaching development: They hurt needy residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always easy to think about ‘It’s a lot and it’s a project and we’re stopping it,’ but we’re talking about 20 families being able to permanently stay in the Bay Area,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has sought to streamline housing approvals downtown in recent years by preemptively performing the in-depth environmental analysis CEQA requires, as part of a larger development plan. The city can declare that projects conform to the plan and are exempt from performing their own analysis -- a common tactic by local governments to encourage development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But citizens can still sue those exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that works is you have to find some way where they’re violating their own plan, and it’s not that hard to do,” Carr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1200x863.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-960x690.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said it’s so easy for plaintiffs to win that a project’s funding will immediately freeze once a suit is filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partially because of the law’s sweeping definition of “environment,” which she sums up this way: “The view from a parking lot is a scenic vista protected under CEQA. ... My environment is where I get to park, and what I get to look at through my front window, and if you change that, I’m going to object and I’m going to use CEQA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habitat for Humanity fronts its own money, and Sedonaen said she may greenlight construction on the Redwood City building even before the lawsuit is resolved. That’s a gamble. Losing a CEQA case can force a project to restart the approval process from scratch, sucking up time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think [CEQA] probably gets more attention than it deserves. I like to think of it as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.'\u003ccite>Eric Biber, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she said the price continues to rise anyway. The nonprofit originally estimated the project would cost $13 million. That has now risen to $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The delay in this process has cost us several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Challenge Every Step of the Way’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics contend that CEQA is the most significant factor in California's housing-affordability crisis -- but the data do not show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley environmental law professor Eric Biber is part of a team researching the barriers to new housing in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Getting_It_Right.pdf\">initial leg\u003c/a> of the study looked at projects with five units or more approved in five Bay Area cities, how long it took for their approval, and what steps the cities required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Oakland, Redwood City, Palo Alto and San Jose, Biber said CEQA was not an overriding obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it probably gets more attention than it deserves,” he said. “I like to think of CEQA as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of 254 projects approved over a three-year period, only seven faced CEQA lawsuits, according to the study’s most recent data, which is still preliminary. Most of those suits also allege other non-CEQA violations of state zoning and planning law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the environmental law that has drawn so much ire from developers is used to litigate only a small portion of projects and, without it, those projects would likely end up in court anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber thinks the barriers to development are more philosophical: Landowners are often resistant to new development near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that CEQA is both triggered and used as a lawsuit is to respond to underlying political fights at the local level about development,” Biber said. “And those political fights would occur anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stalled Habitat for Humanity project in downtown Redwood City conforms to Biber’s findings almost perfectly. The lawsuit alleges violations of CEQA, but also other state zoning and planning law. And the project’s developer, despite building throughout the Bay Area for almost three decades, has rarely faced a CEQA lawsuit. In fact, Sedonaen said this is Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so unique,” Sedonaen said. “We’ve never had a project stopped for this reason, and we’ve never had a CEQA lawsuit used against us in our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project faced other obstacles prior to the lawsuit. To win approval from the city, it has shrunk significantly from what Sedonaen envisioned in 2014. The six-story building is less than half the size of the original proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a challenge every step of the way,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber said paring back CEQA would do little to change the political dynamics that drive up the cost of projects in cities, but could remove a check on development in less densely populated areas of the state. Put another way: It could promote sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think you’d see a major moving of the lever on [urban] development,” Biber said. “But you might open up for a lot more sprawling development that would significantly undermine the state’s climate goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sedonaen and Hernandez think his findings do not capture how heavily the threat of litigation weighs on urban developers, starting when they propose projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pick projects where we don’t think this is going to happen,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have tracked the number of approved projects and filed lawsuits, for instance, but not threats of lawsuits used to win concessions or canceled projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez suggests the threats outnumber the actual lawsuits, comparing CEQA abuse to an iceberg. “The filed lawsuits are the tip,” she said. “Underneath the surface is the 90 percent of the iceberg, and it’s why we’ll spend three years trying to get a project approved. And every one of those days adds to the cost of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ben Bradford is state government reporter for Capital Public Radio. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"11679835 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11679835","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/07/10/is-californias-legacy-environmental-law-protecting-the-states-beauty-or-blocking-affordable-housing/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":2081,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":55},"modified":1531261989,"excerpt":"Habitat for Humanity wants to build affordable housing in Redwood City, but a nearby resident is using the California Environmental Quality Act to stop the apartments.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Habitat for Humanity wants to build affordable housing in Redwood City, but a nearby resident is using the California Environmental Quality Act to stop the apartments.","title":"Is California's Legacy Environmental Law Protecting the State's Beauty or Blocking Affordable Housing? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Is California's Legacy Environmental Law Protecting the State's Beauty or Blocking Affordable Housing?","datePublished":"2018-07-10T15:02:50-07:00","dateModified":"2018-07-10T15:33:09-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","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"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-californias-legacy-environmental-law-protecting-the-states-beauty-or-blocking-affordable-housing","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"http://www.capradio.org/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/about/bios/ben-bradford/\">Ben Bradford\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","source":"Capital Public Radio","path":"/news/11679835/is-californias-legacy-environmental-law-protecting-the-states-beauty-or-blocking-affordable-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ore than a year ago, Redwood City approved the kind of affordable housing project California desperately needs: a 20-unit building, downtown, near transit lines, in the heart of Silicon Valley, where the state’s housing crisis is most severe. The developer was a nonprofit, Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today the lot remains vacant, except for a row of portable toilets, a trailer and a dumpster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney who works out of a two-story home behind the lot filed a lawsuit against the project last year, and it has since been stalled. He contends the city’s approval of the apartments violated a sweeping, decades-old environmental law, because the building could increase traffic. The Habitat building could also block the view from his home’s rear windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is he using the law to preserve California’s natural beauty, or is he merely denying someone else’s affordable home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For critics of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), this case is a poster child for the need for reform. Signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970 and often referred to as “see-kwuh,” the law calls for “preventing environmental damage, while providing a decent home and satisfying living environment for every Californian.”\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>Environmentalists say CEQA does just that, supplying some of the strongest protection and transparency in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is the fundamental law in California for environmental protection that also protects the right of the public to be informed about projects that are going into our neighborhood,” said David Pettit, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics, particularly developers, say court decisions and opportunists have broadened and weaponized the law so it actively impedes housing, particularly in urban areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not about the environment,\" said Jennifer Hernandez, an attorney at Holland & Knight and one of the state’s most vocal advocates for change to the law. \"This signature environmental law is being hijacked to advance economic interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Conscience of the Community'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CEQA requires that new public and private projects undergo rigorous reviews to prove they will not cause significant harm to the existing environment. If they will cause harm, developers can be forced to pay to mitigate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government agencies and planning departments certify projects have complied with the law when approved. But CEQA relies on another, atypical enforcement mechanism that critics call unbalanced: the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can file a lawsuit saying that a project has violated the approval process, even without disclosing their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-800x1046.jpg\" alt=\"This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-240x314.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-375x490.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/CEQAFlowChart800-520x680.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This state chart shows the processes projects must go through to obtain approval, as well as exemptions, under CEQA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Resources Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“CEQA lawsuits can be filed anonymously. And they can be filed by people who have only economic competition at stake,” said Hernandez, whose firm is defending Habitat pro bono. “They can be filed by competitors, unions — frankly, racist neighbors. Anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez \u003ca href=\"https://www.hklaw.com/publications/in-the-name-of-the-environment-litigation-abuse-under-ceqa-august-2015/\">analyzed CEQA lawsuits \u003c/a>in the Bay Area over a three-year period and found prominent environmental groups brought only 13 percent of the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The delay in this process has cost several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it.'\u003ccite>Maureen Sedonaen, Habitat for Humanity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit against Habitat for Humanity is Geoff Carr’s second, and the fourth he’s threatened. He’s an attorney who specializes in criminal defense, not environmental law. But he’s becoming something of an expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside his law office, he points to a high-rise building across the street. “We got in late to fight that one,” he said of his CEQA threat against the apartments, “and we only got a floor off it and a little bit of change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street from Habitat’s vacant lot, a developer canceled a 91-unit condo project outright. Carr said he threatened a CEQA suit and that once the developer \"found out we were going to the mat with him,\" he pulled the plug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carr is most proud of a building down the block from his office, across the street from Redwood City’s historic courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developer in that case, Steve Dostart, wanted to build a large office building. But Carr, who called the original plan \"another plastic piece of crap,\" said they negotiated a smaller, eight-story building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the conscience of the community,” Carr said. \"We gave and they gave, and I think they got an award for that building.\" Dostart has said that the negotiated building is an improvement on the original proposal, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/11/17/after-redesign-dostart-developments-601-marshall.html\">a local media outlet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1200x869.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-1180x855.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-960x696.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-375x272.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GeoffCarr-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geoff Carr, a criminal defense attorney in Redwood City, has challenged or threatened to challenge several developments in his neighborhood, using CEQA. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Carr, CEQA is the best tool to defend against what he sees as greedy developers and complacent city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be too pejorative about the City Council of Redwood City, but I hate them,” he said. “They’re small-minded peeves, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen Sedonaen, CEO of the Habitat for Humanity chapter, said Carr’s actions are not simply impeding encroaching development: They hurt needy residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always easy to think about ‘It’s a lot and it’s a project and we’re stopping it,’ but we’re talking about 20 families being able to permanently stay in the Bay Area,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has sought to streamline housing approvals downtown in recent years by preemptively performing the in-depth environmental analysis CEQA requires, as part of a larger development plan. The city can declare that projects conform to the plan and are exempt from performing their own analysis -- a common tactic by local governments to encourage development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But citizens can still sue those exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that works is you have to find some way where they’re violating their own plan, and it’s not that hard to do,” Carr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1200x863.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-960x690.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/VacantLot-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habitat for Humanity received city approval to build a six-story affordable housing project on this vacant lot more than a year ago. The project is stalled due to a CEQA lawsuit. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said it’s so easy for plaintiffs to win that a project’s funding will immediately freeze once a suit is filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partially because of the law’s sweeping definition of “environment,” which she sums up this way: “The view from a parking lot is a scenic vista protected under CEQA. ... My environment is where I get to park, and what I get to look at through my front window, and if you change that, I’m going to object and I’m going to use CEQA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habitat for Humanity fronts its own money, and Sedonaen said she may greenlight construction on the Redwood City building even before the lawsuit is resolved. That’s a gamble. Losing a CEQA case can force a project to restart the approval process from scratch, sucking up time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think [CEQA] probably gets more attention than it deserves. I like to think of it as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.'\u003ccite>Eric Biber, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she said the price continues to rise anyway. The nonprofit originally estimated the project would cost $13 million. That has now risen to $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The delay in this process has cost us several million dollars out of a nonprofit's pocket that we could be putting toward another housing development, and shame on the people that are doing it,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Challenge Every Step of the Way’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics contend that CEQA is the most significant factor in California's housing-affordability crisis -- but the data do not show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley environmental law professor Eric Biber is part of a team researching the barriers to new housing in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Getting_It_Right.pdf\">initial leg\u003c/a> of the study looked at projects with five units or more approved in five Bay Area cities, how long it took for their approval, and what steps the cities required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Oakland, Redwood City, Palo Alto and San Jose, Biber said CEQA was not an overriding obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Biber-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Biber is an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who is researching barriers to housing in California. \u003ccite>(Ben Bradford/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it probably gets more attention than it deserves,” he said. “I like to think of CEQA as a symptom, not a cause of the underlying challenges we face in producing more housing in urban areas in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of 254 projects approved over a three-year period, only seven faced CEQA lawsuits, according to the study’s most recent data, which is still preliminary. Most of those suits also allege other non-CEQA violations of state zoning and planning law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the environmental law that has drawn so much ire from developers is used to litigate only a small portion of projects and, without it, those projects would likely end up in court anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber thinks the barriers to development are more philosophical: Landowners are often resistant to new development near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that CEQA is both triggered and used as a lawsuit is to respond to underlying political fights at the local level about development,” Biber said. “And those political fights would occur anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stalled Habitat for Humanity project in downtown Redwood City conforms to Biber’s findings almost perfectly. The lawsuit alleges violations of CEQA, but also other state zoning and planning law. And the project’s developer, despite building throughout the Bay Area for almost three decades, has rarely faced a CEQA lawsuit. In fact, Sedonaen said this is Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so unique,” Sedonaen said. “We’ve never had a project stopped for this reason, and we’ve never had a CEQA lawsuit used against us in our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project faced other obstacles prior to the lawsuit. To win approval from the city, it has shrunk significantly from what Sedonaen envisioned in 2014. The six-story building is less than half the size of the original proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a challenge every step of the way,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biber said paring back CEQA would do little to change the political dynamics that drive up the cost of projects in cities, but could remove a check on development in less densely populated areas of the state. Put another way: It could promote sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think you’d see a major moving of the lever on [urban] development,” Biber said. “But you might open up for a lot more sprawling development that would significantly undermine the state’s climate goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sedonaen and Hernandez think his findings do not capture how heavily the threat of litigation weighs on urban developers, starting when they propose projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pick projects where we don’t think this is going to happen,” Sedonaen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have tracked the number of approved projects and filed lawsuits, for instance, but not threats of lawsuits used to win concessions or canceled projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez suggests the threats outnumber the actual lawsuits, comparing CEQA abuse to an iceberg. “The filed lawsuits are the tip,” she said. “Underneath the surface is the 90 percent of the iceberg, and it’s why we’ll spend three years trying to get a project approved. And every one of those days adds to the cost of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ben Bradford is state government reporter for Capital Public Radio. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\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>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11679835/is-californias-legacy-environmental-law-protecting-the-states-beauty-or-blocking-affordable-housing","authors":["byline_news_11679835"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_6266","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_3921","news_4248","news_17867"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11679872","label":"source_news_11679835"},"news_11676163":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11676163","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11676163","score":null,"sort":[1529768534000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1529768534,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Exploring the Promise — and Unintended Consequences — of Rent Control","title":"Exploring the Promise — and Unintended Consequences — of Rent Control","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Toy cars are scattered across the floor in Marie Camacho’s small one-bedroom apartment in Sacramento. Photos of her 4-year-old boy, Julian, line the walls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 32-year-old single mom juggles two part-time jobs, but she can’t stand to be away from her son. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He likes being around his mom,” said Camacho. “And I’m the only one. ... I’m mom and dad. So, it makes it even worse.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho’s California dream — of raising Julian in a safe, affordable home with family, school and her church nearby — is getting tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her rent is going up — way up — from about $600 a month to more than $1,000 a month. She can’t afford that jump. And her landlord is not giving her the chance. Instead, she received a 60-day eviction notice, filling her with fear about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploding rents like Camacho’s affect millions in California, where renters make up nearly half of all households. They make it tougher to sock away money to someday realize the dream of homeownership. And they displace those without the income to keep up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rents have increased, so have calls to strengthen rent control laws across the state. Voters this fall will have the chance to weigh in on a potential first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rent control measure backed by tenant advocates qualified last week for the statewide November ballot. If approved, it would repeal the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which blocks rent controls on units built after 1995. The law also stops cities from placing rent caps on condominiums and single family homes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repealing the law would allow cities to craft their own, potentially stronger rent control rules. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://capradio.carto.com/builder/6ea83fc1-9b29-4be9-8e5b-c5e865e919a3/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unintended consequences\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while expanding rent control might be good for people like Camacho, it’s not necessarily good for the majority of renters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or for future renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the argument made by landlords and most economists. They argue that rent control creates the perverse, unintended consequence of making rental housing scarcer and increasing rents for all but a select few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a boon to the people that get it,” said Christopher Palmer, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has studied rent control. “That comes at the cost of landlords and potentially at the cost of other tenants in the city that are paying higher rents or that are having scarcer housing. Or even future tenants that are going to get into a unit someday at some very high rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened in San Francisco, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://conference.nber.org/confer/2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 2017 study\u003c/a> by economists at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The report found landlords in that city converted rent-controlled apartments to condominiums and even knocked down and rebuilt entire buildings to escape restrictions after San Francisco expanded its rent control in 1994. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions taken in San Francisco are “particularly worrisome from an affordability point of view,” said Rebecca Diamond, one of the study’s authors. “Because not only does this decrease the supply of rentals as a whole in the city, which we find it does; but it replaces it with high-end condos and high-end new construction, which really caters to high-income households’ tastes and likely fueled gentrification in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Diamond’s research, tenants with a rent-controlled apartment saved anywhere from about $2,300 to $6,600 every year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/capradio.dailygraphics.production/dailygraphics/graphics/rent-control-20180615/child.html\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That savings can make a huge difference in a state where rent has climbed steadily as a share of income. From 1960 to 2013, the percentage of family income needed for rent in California nearly doubled from about 20 percent to 37 percent, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The cost was even higher for young renters, age 18 to 30, who paid 44 percent of their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the savings experienced by some also comes at a cost. In San Francisco, the city lost 5 percent of its rental housing after rent control expanded. Overall rents ticked up 5 percent, according to the Stanford study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent control is government regulation,” said Jim Lofgren, a senior vice president with the California Apartment Association, which represents thousands of apartment owners statewide and is a leading opponent of the November ballot measure. “It interferes with the market, and it results in shortages of housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A political choice’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean Preston is executive director of Tenants Together, a statewide advocacy organization, which supports the ballot measure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the Stanford study is wrong to place the blame on rent control, particularly when city leaders could have outlawed condo conversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a political choice, not an intellectual or academic one,” said Preston. “And that’s one of the biggest flaws of that study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts have a more nuanced view. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miriam Zuk, a housing researcher at UC Berkeley, said moderate forms of rent control — such as the existing law in California, which does not apply to new apartments — do not slow down new construction, contrary to claims by some landlords and developers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RENT4.jpg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"New condos are a common sight in Sacramento, where rents grew faster than anywhere in the country in 2017, according to the real estate site Apartment List. Rents also went up rapidly in cities across the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676604\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New condos are a common sight in Sacramento, where rents grew faster than anywhere in the country in 2017, according to the real estate site Apartment List. Rents also went up rapidly in cities across the state. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking at overall housing production from 2007 to 2013, Zuk wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> that the six cities with rent controls in the San Francisco Bay Area actually produced \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more housing units\u003c/a> per capita than cities in the region without rent control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Zuk said those findings are not the result of a rigorous study and did not control for other factors that influence housing production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More comprehensive studies, however, found no evidence that moderate forms of rent control slow new construction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Galante, a UC Berkeley professor of affordable housing, said it’s difficult to assess whether rent control slows growth because there aren’t many cities where the policy applies to new housing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if that were to change,” Galante added, “and rent control were to apply to new construction, I certainly could see that without any limitations, that would cause a serious concern for investors and developers. Investors can invest anywhere. It’s a global pool of money. And so they’re not going to invest in places where they don’t feel they can get an adequate return on their investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘What am I going to do?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Sacramento, Marie Camacho received an extension this spring to stay at her apartment with her son until she addresses several medical ailments. After that period, she’ll receive another 60-day notice asking her to leave, fueling more uncertainty, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always in the back of my mind: What am I going to do?” Marie added. “I don’t want to be homeless.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t think she can afford another apartment, and instead plans to search for a room to rent in a house. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Marie said she’s participated in protests at the state Capitol calling for more renter protections. She hopes her city passes rent control in time to help her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now,” she said, “if you’re poor, you’re stuck in a horrible situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Nichols is the PolitiFact California reporter for Capital Public Radio in Sacramento. The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Join the conversation on our \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/cadream/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CA Dream Facebook group\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"11676163 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11676163","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/23/exploring-the-promise-and-unintended-consequences-of-rent-control/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1344,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":43},"modified":1529703754,"excerpt":"As California rents have increased, so have calls to strengthen rent control laws across the state. 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Photos of her 4-year-old boy, Julian, line the walls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 32-year-old single mom juggles two part-time jobs, but she can’t stand to be away from her son. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He likes being around his mom,” said Camacho. “And I’m the only one. ... I’m mom and dad. So, it makes it even worse.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho’s California dream — of raising Julian in a safe, affordable home with family, school and her church nearby — is getting tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her rent is going up — way up — from about $600 a month to more than $1,000 a month. She can’t afford that jump. And her landlord is not giving her the chance. Instead, she received a 60-day eviction notice, filling her with fear about the future.\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>Exploding rents like Camacho’s affect millions in California, where renters make up nearly half of all households. They make it tougher to sock away money to someday realize the dream of homeownership. And they displace those without the income to keep up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rents have increased, so have calls to strengthen rent control laws across the state. Voters this fall will have the chance to weigh in on a potential first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rent control measure backed by tenant advocates qualified last week for the statewide November ballot. If approved, it would repeal the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which blocks rent controls on units built after 1995. The law also stops cities from placing rent caps on condominiums and single family homes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repealing the law would allow cities to craft their own, potentially stronger rent control rules. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://capradio.carto.com/builder/6ea83fc1-9b29-4be9-8e5b-c5e865e919a3/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unintended consequences\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while expanding rent control might be good for people like Camacho, it’s not necessarily good for the majority of renters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or for future renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the argument made by landlords and most economists. They argue that rent control creates the perverse, unintended consequence of making rental housing scarcer and increasing rents for all but a select few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a boon to the people that get it,” said Christopher Palmer, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has studied rent control. “That comes at the cost of landlords and potentially at the cost of other tenants in the city that are paying higher rents or that are having scarcer housing. Or even future tenants that are going to get into a unit someday at some very high rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened in San Francisco, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://conference.nber.org/confer/2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 2017 study\u003c/a> by economists at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The report found landlords in that city converted rent-controlled apartments to condominiums and even knocked down and rebuilt entire buildings to escape restrictions after San Francisco expanded its rent control in 1994. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions taken in San Francisco are “particularly worrisome from an affordability point of view,” said Rebecca Diamond, one of the study’s authors. “Because not only does this decrease the supply of rentals as a whole in the city, which we find it does; but it replaces it with high-end condos and high-end new construction, which really caters to high-income households’ tastes and likely fueled gentrification in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Diamond’s research, tenants with a rent-controlled apartment saved anywhere from about $2,300 to $6,600 every year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/capradio.dailygraphics.production/dailygraphics/graphics/rent-control-20180615/child.html\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That savings can make a huge difference in a state where rent has climbed steadily as a share of income. From 1960 to 2013, the percentage of family income needed for rent in California nearly doubled from about 20 percent to 37 percent, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The cost was even higher for young renters, age 18 to 30, who paid 44 percent of their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the savings experienced by some also comes at a cost. In San Francisco, the city lost 5 percent of its rental housing after rent control expanded. Overall rents ticked up 5 percent, according to the Stanford study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent control is government regulation,” said Jim Lofgren, a senior vice president with the California Apartment Association, which represents thousands of apartment owners statewide and is a leading opponent of the November ballot measure. “It interferes with the market, and it results in shortages of housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A political choice’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean Preston is executive director of Tenants Together, a statewide advocacy organization, which supports the ballot measure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the Stanford study is wrong to place the blame on rent control, particularly when city leaders could have outlawed condo conversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a political choice, not an intellectual or academic one,” said Preston. “And that’s one of the biggest flaws of that study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts have a more nuanced view. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miriam Zuk, a housing researcher at UC Berkeley, said moderate forms of rent control — such as the existing law in California, which does not apply to new apartments — do not slow down new construction, contrary to claims by some landlords and developers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RENT4.jpg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"New condos are a common sight in Sacramento, where rents grew faster than anywhere in the country in 2017, according to the real estate site Apartment List. Rents also went up rapidly in cities across the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676604\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New condos are a common sight in Sacramento, where rents grew faster than anywhere in the country in 2017, according to the real estate site Apartment List. Rents also went up rapidly in cities across the state. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking at overall housing production from 2007 to 2013, Zuk wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> that the six cities with rent controls in the San Francisco Bay Area actually produced \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more housing units\u003c/a> per capita than cities in the region without rent control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Zuk said those findings are not the result of a rigorous study and did not control for other factors that influence housing production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More comprehensive studies, however, found no evidence that moderate forms of rent control slow new construction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Galante, a UC Berkeley professor of affordable housing, said it’s difficult to assess whether rent control slows growth because there aren’t many cities where the policy applies to new housing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if that were to change,” Galante added, “and rent control were to apply to new construction, I certainly could see that without any limitations, that would cause a serious concern for investors and developers. Investors can invest anywhere. It’s a global pool of money. And so they’re not going to invest in places where they don’t feel they can get an adequate return on their investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘What am I going to do?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Sacramento, Marie Camacho received an extension this spring to stay at her apartment with her son until she addresses several medical ailments. After that period, she’ll receive another 60-day notice asking her to leave, fueling more uncertainty, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always in the back of my mind: What am I going to do?” Marie added. “I don’t want to be homeless.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t think she can afford another apartment, and instead plans to search for a room to rent in a house. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Marie said she’s participated in protests at the state Capitol calling for more renter protections. She hopes her city passes rent control in time to help her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now,” she said, “if you’re poor, you’re stuck in a horrible situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Nichols is the PolitiFact California reporter for Capital Public Radio in Sacramento. The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Join the conversation on our \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/cadream/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CA Dream Facebook group\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11676163/exploring-the-promise-and-unintended-consequences-of-rent-control","authors":["byline_news_11676163"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_23547","news_3924"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11676602","label":"source_news_11676163"},"news_11658702":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11658702","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11658702","score":null,"sort":[1524844236000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":72},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1524844236,"format":"audio","disqusTitle":"For Many Mexican Immigrants, Farm Work Is Still the Only Way to the California Dream","title":"For Many Mexican Immigrants, Farm Work Is Still the Only Way to the California Dream","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Patricia Carabez stands by a row of black plastic crates piled high with cauliflower, apples and pears in the parking lot of a mobile home park in rural Dunnigan, 40 miles north of Sacramento. As children wander past the parking lot on their way home from school, Carabez calls out to them by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking Spanish, she tells them to remind their parents to come pick up fresh produce. Carabez knows everybody here because she lived in one of these mobile homes until last year. Carabez says many of her former neighbors are farmworkers, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like generations of immigrants before her, Patricia Carabez saw farm work as a steppingstone to a better life for her children. “My husband and I came here because we had a vision for a better life,” she says. “We originally planned to be in California for two years,” she says with a rueful smile. That was 21 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carabez works as a vegetable packer, 10-12 hours a day, six days a week. In her off-time, she volunteers at this mobile produce stand run by Yolo Food Bank twice a month. While Carabez instructs parents and children to fill a bag with fruits, veggies and bags of rice, she uses her cellphone to call other folks who haven’t shown up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carabez, 39, emigrated to California with her husband from the Mexican state of Michoacan when she was 18. She started pruning and harvesting in the vineyards. She describes long days, full of physically demanding labor, with more to do on the family front, raising her two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carabez gave up a job as a hospital lab tech when she left Michoacan. And, even after two decades in California, she admits her heart still feels “split in two.” Despite the demands of farm labor, Carabez has few regrets about leaving Mexico. And it’s not about her own advancement — it’s for the sake of her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be very difficult for them in Mexico, because there you can only go to school if you have money,” says Carabez. “Here, my children have a great education and more opportunities than they would back home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655838/how-california-went-from-anti-illegal-immigration-to-sanctuary-state\">How California Went From Anti-Illegal Immigration to ‘Sanctuary State’\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655838/how-california-went-from-anti-illegal-immigration-to-sanctuary-state\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/94Marchers-1180x744.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always seen the ‘California Dream’ as coming to the state and finding more opportunity than you had where you came from,” says professor Philip Martin, who studies farm labor at UC Davis. He argues that California still offers lots of opportunities to move up the socioeconomic ladder. “But in the case of farmworkers it may be the upward mobility is going to be more through the children of farmworkers rather than through the farmworkers themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of California’s farmworkers hail from Mexico and \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2ubQ3YC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half that population\u003c/a> lacks documents for legal residence, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin explains that the flow of migrants across the border has \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2IP5wB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slowed dramatically in recent years\u003c/a> due to changes in U.S. immigration policy, border security and an improving economy in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-in-four farm laborers\u003c/a> in the U.S. were recent arrivals from Mexico, meaning they had been in the U.S. less than one year, according to a Pew Research Center report. By 2013-14, the number of recently arrived crop workers had \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2IP5wB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fallen to 1-2 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still migrants coming from Mexico, says Martin, but those who come can afford to pay between $5,000 and $7,000 to a \"coyote\" (or guide) to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These migrants tend to be more educated, more skilled and they’re not going to work in agriculture,” says Martin. The average crop worker in California earns $15,000 a year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2ubQ3YC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a> collected in 2013-14 by the National Agricultural Workers Survey. Martin says recently arrived immigrants are in search of higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Alma in the kitchen of the Fresno mobile home she shares with her husband and four children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Alma in the kitchen of the Fresno mobile home she shares with her husband and four children. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a mobile home park in Fresno, Alma, a seasonal crop worker, explains her simple pursuit of the California Dream. Speaking Spanish through an interpreter, Alma says she does not feel safe being identified by her full name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma was raised by her grandparents in a rural town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Her grandparents grew corn, beans and squash as subsistence farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma’s mother left Oaxaca for Mexico City when Alma was a baby so she could find a job to support the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Alma was 19, she followed her mother’s example. She and her husband came to Fresno to find seasonal crop work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work in the Central Valley was harder than she imagined. Other immigrants told her, “You’ll make money. But they didn’t tell us about getting up at 4 o’clock in the morning to go to the fields,” Alma says. “They didn’t tell us about the heat or the cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-four years after Alma and her husband arrived in Fresno, they are still crop workers, finding jobs season by season. Alma has harvested tree fruit and picked berries and harvested garlic. She often works by piece rate, getting paid for each box of produce she fills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma says she and her husband work together in the fields so they can keep an eye out for one another. One of her biggest challenges is working for growers who don’t pay wages on time. She says they’ve never asked for help because they don’t know who to turn to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma, her husband and four children, ages 16 to 23, cram into a run-down mobile home off Highway 99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s safe to say the options for getting ahead in rural California may be low,\" says Martin. “But they’re higher than they would’ve been if they had stayed in rural Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alma demonstrates how she trims grape vines in a Fresno vineyard where she recently worked.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alma demonstrates how she trims grapevines in a Fresno vineyard where she recently worked. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alma’s children see the rough conditions of farm work. She says they know how early their parents have to leave in the morning, and how exhausted they are at day’s end. “But field labor is simply a necessity,” explains Alma. “We can’t say we don’t feel like getting up in the morning for work.” And, Alma adds, it’s the only job she knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma’s eldest son graduated from high school in Fresno. Despite having more access to education than his parents did back in Oaxaca, he still works in the fields alongside them. He tells her he’s fine with it. But she says it’s not the life she wants for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people arriving have relatively low levels of education, then the \"California Dream\" is more typically achieved by the children of the immigrant generation that entered the farm workforce, explains Martin, the UC Davis professor. “And that would’ve been true of the Chinese, the Japanese and many other groups that passed through the revolving door of California agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650094/digging-into-the-data-how-attainable-is-the-california-dream-today\">Digging Into the Data: How Attainable Is the California Dream Today?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650094/digging-into-the-data-how-attainable-is-the-california-dream-today\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/CADreamBear-672x372.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back in Yolo County, you can see the potential for gradual upward mobility in Carabez’s life. She and her husband have managed to move out of the fields into work that’s less grueling. She works in a vegetable packing house. Instead of picking crops, her husband drives a tractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carabez says they are mainly able to make ends meet, although things get tight when her shifts drop off in the winter. She’s hopeful that her 17-year-old son’s good grades will earn him a spot at a state university to study engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma and Patricia are part of a generation of settled, aging Mexican immigrant farmworkers in California who are no longer migrating around the state to fill farm jobs. They stay in farm work because their language skills and lack of education are a barrier to landing non-farm jobs with higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with earlier waves of immigrants who toiled in California’s fields because it was the only option open to them, these women want their American-born children to have a shot at education and a better livelihood then they would have had back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the path toward upward mobility can be slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you live in Mexico, you live in poverty,” Alma says. “Here, the work is hard. But you have a little bit more money for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"11658702 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11658702","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/27/for-many-mexican-immigrants-farm-work-is-still-the-only-way-to-the-california-dream/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1548,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":35},"modified":1524870577,"excerpt":"California still offers opportunities to move up the socioeconomic ladder. But for migrant farmworkers, that upward mobility tends to come through their children.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"California still offers opportunities to move up the socioeconomic ladder. 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As children wander past the parking lot on their way home from school, Carabez calls out to them by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking Spanish, she tells them to remind their parents to come pick up fresh produce. Carabez knows everybody here because she lived in one of these mobile homes until last year. Carabez says many of her former neighbors are farmworkers, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like generations of immigrants before her, Patricia Carabez saw farm work as a steppingstone to a better life for her children. “My husband and I came here because we had a vision for a better life,” she says. “We originally planned to be in California for two years,” she says with a rueful smile. That was 21 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carabez works as a vegetable packer, 10-12 hours a day, six days a week. In her off-time, she volunteers at this mobile produce stand run by Yolo Food Bank twice a month. While Carabez instructs parents and children to fill a bag with fruits, veggies and bags of rice, she uses her cellphone to call other folks who haven’t shown up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carabez, 39, emigrated to California with her husband from the Mexican state of Michoacan when she was 18. She started pruning and harvesting in the vineyards. She describes long days, full of physically demanding labor, with more to do on the family front, raising her two children.\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>Carabez gave up a job as a hospital lab tech when she left Michoacan. And, even after two decades in California, she admits her heart still feels “split in two.” Despite the demands of farm labor, Carabez has few regrets about leaving Mexico. And it’s not about her own advancement — it’s for the sake of her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be very difficult for them in Mexico, because there you can only go to school if you have money,” says Carabez. “Here, my children have a great education and more opportunities than they would back home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655838/how-california-went-from-anti-illegal-immigration-to-sanctuary-state\">How California Went From Anti-Illegal Immigration to ‘Sanctuary State’\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655838/how-california-went-from-anti-illegal-immigration-to-sanctuary-state\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/94Marchers-1180x744.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always seen the ‘California Dream’ as coming to the state and finding more opportunity than you had where you came from,” says professor Philip Martin, who studies farm labor at UC Davis. He argues that California still offers lots of opportunities to move up the socioeconomic ladder. “But in the case of farmworkers it may be the upward mobility is going to be more through the children of farmworkers rather than through the farmworkers themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 percent\u003c/a> of California’s farmworkers hail from Mexico and \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2ubQ3YC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half that population\u003c/a> lacks documents for legal residence, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin explains that the flow of migrants across the border has \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2IP5wB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slowed dramatically in recent years\u003c/a> due to changes in U.S. immigration policy, border security and an improving economy in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-in-four farm laborers\u003c/a> in the U.S. were recent arrivals from Mexico, meaning they had been in the U.S. less than one year, according to a Pew Research Center report. By 2013-14, the number of recently arrived crop workers had \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2IP5wB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fallen to 1-2 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still migrants coming from Mexico, says Martin, but those who come can afford to pay between $5,000 and $7,000 to a \"coyote\" (or guide) to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These migrants tend to be more educated, more skilled and they’re not going to work in agriculture,” says Martin. The average crop worker in California earns $15,000 a year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2ubQ3YC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a> collected in 2013-14 by the National Agricultural Workers Survey. Martin says recently arrived immigrants are in search of higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Alma in the kitchen of the Fresno mobile home she shares with her husband and four children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaCooking-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Alma in the kitchen of the Fresno mobile home she shares with her husband and four children. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a mobile home park in Fresno, Alma, a seasonal crop worker, explains her simple pursuit of the California Dream. Speaking Spanish through an interpreter, Alma says she does not feel safe being identified by her full name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma was raised by her grandparents in a rural town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Her grandparents grew corn, beans and squash as subsistence farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma’s mother left Oaxaca for Mexico City when Alma was a baby so she could find a job to support the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Alma was 19, she followed her mother’s example. She and her husband came to Fresno to find seasonal crop work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work in the Central Valley was harder than she imagined. Other immigrants told her, “You’ll make money. But they didn’t tell us about getting up at 4 o’clock in the morning to go to the fields,” Alma says. “They didn’t tell us about the heat or the cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-four years after Alma and her husband arrived in Fresno, they are still crop workers, finding jobs season by season. Alma has harvested tree fruit and picked berries and harvested garlic. She often works by piece rate, getting paid for each box of produce she fills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma says she and her husband work together in the fields so they can keep an eye out for one another. One of her biggest challenges is working for growers who don’t pay wages on time. She says they’ve never asked for help because they don’t know who to turn to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma, her husband and four children, ages 16 to 23, cram into a run-down mobile home off Highway 99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s safe to say the options for getting ahead in rural California may be low,\" says Martin. “But they’re higher than they would’ve been if they had stayed in rural Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alma demonstrates how she trims grape vines in a Fresno vineyard where she recently worked.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/AlmaTrimming-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alma demonstrates how she trims grapevines in a Fresno vineyard where she recently worked. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alma’s children see the rough conditions of farm work. She says they know how early their parents have to leave in the morning, and how exhausted they are at day’s end. “But field labor is simply a necessity,” explains Alma. “We can’t say we don’t feel like getting up in the morning for work.” And, Alma adds, it’s the only job she knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma’s eldest son graduated from high school in Fresno. Despite having more access to education than his parents did back in Oaxaca, he still works in the fields alongside them. He tells her he’s fine with it. But she says it’s not the life she wants for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people arriving have relatively low levels of education, then the \"California Dream\" is more typically achieved by the children of the immigrant generation that entered the farm workforce, explains Martin, the UC Davis professor. “And that would’ve been true of the Chinese, the Japanese and many other groups that passed through the revolving door of California agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650094/digging-into-the-data-how-attainable-is-the-california-dream-today\">Digging Into the Data: How Attainable Is the California Dream Today?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650094/digging-into-the-data-how-attainable-is-the-california-dream-today\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/CADreamBear-672x372.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back in Yolo County, you can see the potential for gradual upward mobility in Carabez’s life. She and her husband have managed to move out of the fields into work that’s less grueling. She works in a vegetable packing house. Instead of picking crops, her husband drives a tractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carabez says they are mainly able to make ends meet, although things get tight when her shifts drop off in the winter. She’s hopeful that her 17-year-old son’s good grades will earn him a spot at a state university to study engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alma and Patricia are part of a generation of settled, aging Mexican immigrant farmworkers in California who are no longer migrating around the state to fill farm jobs. They stay in farm work because their language skills and lack of education are a barrier to landing non-farm jobs with higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with earlier waves of immigrants who toiled in California’s fields because it was the only option open to them, these women want their American-born children to have a shot at education and a better livelihood then they would have had back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the path toward upward mobility can be slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you live in Mexico, you live in poverty,” Alma says. “Here, the work is hard. But you have a little bit more money for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\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>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11658702/for-many-mexican-immigrants-farm-work-is-still-the-only-way-to-the-california-dream","authors":["byline_news_11658702"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18269","news_19904"],"affiliates":["news_22688"],"featImg":"news_11658706","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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