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There’s no statewide data tallying these homes — the term has become shorthand for everything from rudimentary sheds to multi-story modular housing — but cities across California, from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzVmZDBjYTctNjQ0OS00ZDE3LTg2ODAtNGM2MjkwMDgzODY1IiwidCI6IjBiYWU1NDliLTUyZDgtNGEzYi1hYTE5LWQ1MDY2MmIzMDg5NyIsImMiOjZ9&pageName=ReportSection\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angeles\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Sacramento to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, have each added scores of them in recent years. But should the state do the same?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the second time in recent weeks, the state’s Public Employment Relations Board has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988823/state-board-upholds-uc-workers-right-to-strike-over-response-to-campus-protests\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">denied a request\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the University of California, for an injunction against an ongoing strike by graduate students and other academic workers. UC maintains the strike is illegal. 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"content": "\u003cp>When 48-year-old Carlos Ruben Jacobo was living on the streets, he preferred to sleep in the park than take a bed at one of San José’s group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were just too many horror stories for me to go there — staff robbing you, people robbing you,” he said. “Bad people there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when a caseworker offered him a spot at one of the city’s newest tiny home villages, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He changed his mind when he learned he’d get his own room with a bathroom and air conditioning, and when he saw photos of the colorful shipping container-like buildings arranged around a courtyard with shaded tables, gated dog runs and a communal kitchen that offered three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I got in here, I [felt] safe,” he said. “It really feels like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo is one of more than 1,600 people who’ve lived in a tiny home in San José — a city that has embraced this type of temporary housing more aggressively than nearly any other in the state. There’s no statewide data tallying the homes — the term has become shorthand for everything from rudimentary sheds to multi-story modular housing — but cities across California, from \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzVmZDBjYTctNjQ0OS00ZDE3LTg2ODAtNGM2MjkwMDgzODY1IiwidCI6IjBiYWU1NDliLTUyZDgtNGEzYi1hYTE5LWQ1MDY2MmIzMDg5NyIsImMiOjZ9&pageName=ReportSection\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> to Sacramento to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">Oakland\u003c/a>, have each added scores of them in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled his support for the approach when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987494/newsom-promised-1200-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-californians-but-a-year-later-none-have-opened\">he promised\u003c/a> to distribute 1,200 more to select cities, including San José. Supporters have heralded the individual accommodations as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943746/newsom-will-mobilize-national-guard-to-deliver-1200-tiny-homes-to-address-homelessness-crisis\">faster, cheaper, and more humane\u003c/a> way to whisk people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when unsheltered homelessness in California has reached epidemic proportions, and the devastating mental and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">physical consequences\u003c/a> of living outdoors have never been more clear, tiny homes offer an alternative to group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now lawmakers are considering a plan to expedite their construction. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1395\">proposed state law\u003c/a>, SB 1395, would make it easier to build tiny home villages by clearing some of the red tape that slows new projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this dramatic increase in people dying on our streets,” said state Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), who introduced the bill. “We have to get people off the streets. This is an extremely cost effective way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988811\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A site with multiple grey tiny homes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San Jose on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are longstanding concerns surrounding the model. Data around outcomes is mixed, with rates of success at getting people into permanent homes varying from city to city and site to site. And skeptics are wary that tiny homes risk normalizing substandard housing, arguing they do nothing to either prevent homelessness or solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">a recent state audit\u003c/a> blasted the Newsom administration, along with local governments, for failing to track whether the $24 billion spent on reducing homelessness in recent years is actually working — calling into question whether tiny homes like the one where Jacobo lives are worth their cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If half of American renters can’t pay their rent, is a tiny home the answer?” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination Home, a Silicon Valley organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing-2024\">referring to a recent report\u003c/a> from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. “It’s better than somebody being on the streets, but it’s not an answer to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The promise\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tiny home village where Jacobo lives in San José, called the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site, employs many of the field’s best practices, gleaned from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pdx.edu/homelessness/sites/homelessness.web.wdt.pdx.edu/files/2022-04/PSU%20HRAC%20Village%20Research%20%26%20How-To%20Guide%20-%2004%204%202022%20copy%202.pdf\">studies of existing sites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DOC__ReimaginingInterimHousing_StagesActionAreas_FINAL.pdf\">focus groups\u003c/a> with people who’ve experienced homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 96-room village was designed with input from formerly unhoused people who told developers it should be colorful, dog friendly and free of curfews or limits on how long people can live there. Case managers help clients track down documents, access benefits, and find jobs and housing. Many residents are enrolled in an employment training program run by Goodwill of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the model that is going to be the most successful anywhere,” said Jocelyn Michelsen, associate vice president of LifeMoves, the nonprofit that operates the site and others across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988815 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with sunglasses and a plaid shirt poses for a photo, with a housing complex in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Ruben Jacobo at the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site in San José on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacobo has been in his tiny home for about a year, longer than what Michelsen said is the typical stay of around nine months. Here, he plans to take advantage of job training he hopes will prepare him to work as a security guard. In the meantime, Jacobo said his city-assigned case manager is helping him apply for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m nervous because it’s a new journey,” he said. “But I’m excited at the same time because I want financial independence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan credits the city’s tiny homes with \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/news-release/county-santa-clara-and-city-san-jose-release-preliminary-results-2023-point-time\">reducing unsheltered homelessness by 10%\u003c/a> from 2022 to 2023, even as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/an-update-on-homelessness-in-california/#:~:text=Among%20the%2029%20CoCs%20reporting,was%2012.8%25%20higher%20in%202023.\">increased by roughly the same amount\u003c/a> statewide and nationally over that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t keep tabs on how often people accept offers of shelter at tiny home sites, but a city spokesperson said there’s a waitlist. And other research has demonstrated that people are more likely to accept offers of shelter at tiny homes, motels, or similar accommodations when residents get an individual room and the privacy it affords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of small white houses on an semi-developed site, with a larger apartment building in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of tiny homes line Lakeview Village, a community that can house 71 people in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.abtglobal.com/prk\">One study\u003c/a> noted that it enabled some to get health care treatment for the first time since becoming unhoused. Another found that motel or hotel rooms lowered the mortality rate among residents, including from overdoses, and reduced interpersonal conflicts, police responses and \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794705\">hospital stays.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enhanced privacy comes with a higher price tag. Pallet, a leading producer of tiny homes that has sold over 1,900 units in California over the past four years, has seen increasing interest from cities in units with ensuite bathrooms, according to CEO Amy King. But, she noted, individual plumbing hikes prices significantly.[aside label=\"more housing coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]“[Cities] are not following through with purchases of those unit types, with us or other vendors, at scale,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, each new tiny home costs between $75,000 and $175,000 to build, according to Mackenzie Mossing, Mahan’s chief policy officer. The price tags vary depending on unit size and whether bathrooms are private or shared, among other factors. That’s significantly more than new congregate shelters in the Bay Area, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/2023/03/20/strengthening-interim-housing/\">average around $43,000\u003c/a> per bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while they are often more costly to build, they can be less costly to operate than traditional shelters. San José’s tiny homes range from just over $10,000 to nearly $29,000 per bed annually. By comparison, most of the local congregate shelters cost the county between around $17,000 and $35,000 per bed each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Different sites, disparate outcomes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes to how likely residents are to move out of these communities and into permanent homes, the data is inconclusive: Figures vary dramatically across cities and even across different tiny home sites within the same city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/landscape_assessment/\">state-commissioned study\u003c/a> released last year, UC Berkeley Terner Center researcher Ryan Finnigan visited tiny home sites across the state, surveyed service providers and talked to people experiencing homelessness. He found some tiny house communities offer robust services, while others are understaffed; their reputations varied accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just such variation in the model,” Finnigan said. “Sometimes people have just heard bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, John Janosko has few good things to say about the Wood Street Community Cabins, where he lived for almost a year. He said the shared bathroom facilities were frequently broken, and while he was grateful for free meals, he said the site provided paltry services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city pointed out the site was designed with input from future residents and said officials are working with the nonprofit that manages the program to address concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen everyone’s mental state, their emotional state, their spiritual state, their physical state deteriorate,” Janosko said of his fellow residents, who he lived with in an encampment before moving into the cabins. “There’s nothing here to keep them … afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tiny home being transported on a trailer by a tow truck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny home is trucked into the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second portion of the Game Changer lot located at 2601 Wood Street, in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland got a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/11/oakland-nabs-1-million-in-homelessness-funds-to-fix-poor-outcomes-at-tiny-homes/\">$1 million grant last year\u003c/a> for one of its cabin community sites to quickly transition its residents to permanent housing after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">audit\u003c/a> found that fewer than one in three residents left the sites for a permanent home. That’s an improvement over group shelters serving single adults in Oakland — though some years, only modestly. During the same time period, the proportion of people leaving group shelters for permanent housing ranged from a high of 24% in fiscal year 2018 to a low of 7% in fiscal year 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko said more support would make a difference. “These villages, they need people supporting them 24 hours a day, wraparound services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even at San José’s Guadalupe site, the outcomes are not much better. Since the site opened a year ago, only about 30% of residents who have left the facility moved into permanent housing. Over a quarter returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since 2020, across San José’s six city-funded tiny home communities, the percentage of people who ended up in permanent homes varies widely, from a low of 18% at the Felipe Avenue site, to a high of 77% at its tiny home village for families, called Evans Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988819\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of grey tiny homes, with a child's red and yellow push car sitting in the walkway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City staff point out that the site with the worst outcomes requires people to leave after four months, unlike the others, where people can stay longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there isn’t an affordable home for residents to move to, service providers say many simply return to the streets. But it’s not just about the availability of housing, it’s also how to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/documents/2024/02/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf/\">Three out of four people\u003c/a> who leave temporary housing in Santa Clara County for permanent homes do so using federal vouchers for subsidized rent. But those vouchers are scarce: The waiting list in Santa Clara County has around 37,000 people on it. The county housing authority estimates it’s able to serve about one in six eligible residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the tiny home facility is amazing, it’s hard for [residents] to move into housing if there’s no housing to move into,” Finnigan said, adding that success “depends as much on the availability of permanent housing as it does on what the shelter does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Doubling down on tiny homes \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the varying outcomes across tiny home sites in San José, Mayor Mahan is on track to more than double the number of tiny home beds in the city. As he does, he’s coming under fire for pushing to use money earmarked for permanent affordable housing to pay for the temporary units. The city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/111495/638504154810170000\">most recent budget proposal\u003c/a> could divert the entirety of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/housing/resource-library/housing-investment-plans-and-policy/measure-e-real-property-transfer-tax\">Measure E fund\u003c/a> away from new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consuelo Hernandez, director of the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, is bracing for the impact. Without a strong investment in new affordable housing, she said, “We are just putting people in these little boxes with no plan. … People need an exit strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifting funds toward temporary solutions has also meant less money for prevention efforts. The county \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb671/files/documents/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf\">saw a spike in the number of new people\u003c/a> falling into homelessness last year, and some observers note that trend corresponded with a decision by city leaders to fund more temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing sunglasses stands outside the door of a grey tiny home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Mora stands outside of her temporary home at Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Mahan wants other cities to follow his lead. He’s co-sponsoring SB 1395, the state bill that would help clear the way for more tiny home projects. The bill would ensure such projects are eligible for streamlined zoning under the Shelter Crisis Act, which allows for expedited development, and free up state money for this type of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan argues the change is needed to accelerate the time it takes to develop the projects, which has stretched from around four months to about a year, he said, ever since emergency provisions that expedited development during the pandemic were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To remedy this, the City Council last year backed him in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6378017&GUID=E71DE1F2-BA21-4419-8CA2-8E2B84D78C48\">declaring a shelter emergency\u003c/a> that tweaked land-use rules and building codes, changes expected to shrink construction time significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the loosened rules in San José, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12367591&GUID=BB074D4B-D265-4ED4-95EF-BF2F3EDAFC6B\">sites aren’t required to have running water\u003c/a>, just mobile showers and portable toilets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That raises concerns for some observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are meant to be really short-term emergency spaces where folks quickly move into permanent housing,” Finnigan, of the Terner Center, said. But given the reality that people may spend months or even years living in them, “There’s a real need to make the spaces where people are living for much longer than a couple of months dignified and healthy and stable and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Becker points out that any tiny house is subject to state building codes, and is an improvement over the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed out of the Senate earlier this month with broad support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t wait for that to solve the problem,” Becker said. “Sometimes you get in this area where you have the perfect get in the way of the great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (June 4): The original version of this story stated that since 2020, only about 30% of residents who have left the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site have moved into permanent housing. That is incorrect, as the site only opened about a year ago. In that time 26% of residents exited to homelessness, not nearly 40%. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (June 13): The original version of this story misspelled Ryan Finnigan’s surname. It is Finnigan, not Finnegan. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When 48-year-old Carlos Ruben Jacobo was living on the streets, he preferred to sleep in the park than take a bed at one of San José’s group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were just too many horror stories for me to go there — staff robbing you, people robbing you,” he said. “Bad people there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when a caseworker offered him a spot at one of the city’s newest tiny home villages, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He changed his mind when he learned he’d get his own room with a bathroom and air conditioning, and when he saw photos of the colorful shipping container-like buildings arranged around a courtyard with shaded tables, gated dog runs and a communal kitchen that offered three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I got in here, I [felt] safe,” he said. “It really feels like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo is one of more than 1,600 people who’ve lived in a tiny home in San José — a city that has embraced this type of temporary housing more aggressively than nearly any other in the state. There’s no statewide data tallying the homes — the term has become shorthand for everything from rudimentary sheds to multi-story modular housing — but cities across California, from \u003ca href=\"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzVmZDBjYTctNjQ0OS00ZDE3LTg2ODAtNGM2MjkwMDgzODY1IiwidCI6IjBiYWU1NDliLTUyZDgtNGEzYi1hYTE5LWQ1MDY2MmIzMDg5NyIsImMiOjZ9&pageName=ReportSection\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> to Sacramento to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">Oakland\u003c/a>, have each added scores of them in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled his support for the approach when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987494/newsom-promised-1200-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-californians-but-a-year-later-none-have-opened\">he promised\u003c/a> to distribute 1,200 more to select cities, including San José. Supporters have heralded the individual accommodations as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943746/newsom-will-mobilize-national-guard-to-deliver-1200-tiny-homes-to-address-homelessness-crisis\">faster, cheaper, and more humane\u003c/a> way to whisk people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when unsheltered homelessness in California has reached epidemic proportions, and the devastating mental and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">physical consequences\u003c/a> of living outdoors have never been more clear, tiny homes offer an alternative to group shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now lawmakers are considering a plan to expedite their construction. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1395\">proposed state law\u003c/a>, SB 1395, would make it easier to build tiny home villages by clearing some of the red tape that slows new projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this dramatic increase in people dying on our streets,” said state Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), who introduced the bill. “We have to get people off the streets. This is an extremely cost effective way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988811\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A site with multiple grey tiny homes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San Jose on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are longstanding concerns surrounding the model. Data around outcomes is mixed, with rates of success at getting people into permanent homes varying from city to city and site to site. And skeptics are wary that tiny homes risk normalizing substandard housing, arguing they do nothing to either prevent homelessness or solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">a recent state audit\u003c/a> blasted the Newsom administration, along with local governments, for failing to track whether the $24 billion spent on reducing homelessness in recent years is actually working — calling into question whether tiny homes like the one where Jacobo lives are worth their cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If half of American renters can’t pay their rent, is a tiny home the answer?” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination Home, a Silicon Valley organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing-2024\">referring to a recent report\u003c/a> from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. “It’s better than somebody being on the streets, but it’s not an answer to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The promise\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tiny home village where Jacobo lives in San José, called the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site, employs many of the field’s best practices, gleaned from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pdx.edu/homelessness/sites/homelessness.web.wdt.pdx.edu/files/2022-04/PSU%20HRAC%20Village%20Research%20%26%20How-To%20Guide%20-%2004%204%202022%20copy%202.pdf\">studies of existing sites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DOC__ReimaginingInterimHousing_StagesActionAreas_FINAL.pdf\">focus groups\u003c/a> with people who’ve experienced homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 96-room village was designed with input from formerly unhoused people who told developers it should be colorful, dog friendly and free of curfews or limits on how long people can live there. Case managers help clients track down documents, access benefits, and find jobs and housing. Many residents are enrolled in an employment training program run by Goodwill of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the model that is going to be the most successful anywhere,” said Jocelyn Michelsen, associate vice president of LifeMoves, the nonprofit that operates the site and others across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988815 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with sunglasses and a plaid shirt poses for a photo, with a housing complex in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/IMG_7886_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Ruben Jacobo at the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site in San José on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacobo has been in his tiny home for about a year, longer than what Michelsen said is the typical stay of around nine months. Here, he plans to take advantage of job training he hopes will prepare him to work as a security guard. In the meantime, Jacobo said his city-assigned case manager is helping him apply for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m nervous because it’s a new journey,” he said. “But I’m excited at the same time because I want financial independence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan credits the city’s tiny homes with \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/news-release/county-santa-clara-and-city-san-jose-release-preliminary-results-2023-point-time\">reducing unsheltered homelessness by 10%\u003c/a> from 2022 to 2023, even as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/an-update-on-homelessness-in-california/#:~:text=Among%20the%2029%20CoCs%20reporting,was%2012.8%25%20higher%20in%202023.\">increased by roughly the same amount\u003c/a> statewide and nationally over that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t keep tabs on how often people accept offers of shelter at tiny home sites, but a city spokesperson said there’s a waitlist. And other research has demonstrated that people are more likely to accept offers of shelter at tiny homes, motels, or similar accommodations when residents get an individual room and the privacy it affords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of small white houses on an semi-developed site, with a larger apartment building in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/002_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of tiny homes line Lakeview Village, a community that can house 71 people in Oakland near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.abtglobal.com/prk\">One study\u003c/a> noted that it enabled some to get health care treatment for the first time since becoming unhoused. Another found that motel or hotel rooms lowered the mortality rate among residents, including from overdoses, and reduced interpersonal conflicts, police responses and \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794705\">hospital stays.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enhanced privacy comes with a higher price tag. Pallet, a leading producer of tiny homes that has sold over 1,900 units in California over the past four years, has seen increasing interest from cities in units with ensuite bathrooms, according to CEO Amy King. But, she noted, individual plumbing hikes prices significantly.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“[Cities] are not following through with purchases of those unit types, with us or other vendors, at scale,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, each new tiny home costs between $75,000 and $175,000 to build, according to Mackenzie Mossing, Mahan’s chief policy officer. The price tags vary depending on unit size and whether bathrooms are private or shared, among other factors. That’s significantly more than new congregate shelters in the Bay Area, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/2023/03/20/strengthening-interim-housing/\">average around $43,000\u003c/a> per bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while they are often more costly to build, they can be less costly to operate than traditional shelters. San José’s tiny homes range from just over $10,000 to nearly $29,000 per bed annually. By comparison, most of the local congregate shelters cost the county between around $17,000 and $35,000 per bed each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Different sites, disparate outcomes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes to how likely residents are to move out of these communities and into permanent homes, the data is inconclusive: Figures vary dramatically across cities and even across different tiny home sites within the same city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/landscape_assessment/\">state-commissioned study\u003c/a> released last year, UC Berkeley Terner Center researcher Ryan Finnigan visited tiny home sites across the state, surveyed service providers and talked to people experiencing homelessness. He found some tiny house communities offer robust services, while others are understaffed; their reputations varied accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just such variation in the model,” Finnigan said. “Sometimes people have just heard bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, John Janosko has few good things to say about the Wood Street Community Cabins, where he lived for almost a year. He said the shared bathroom facilities were frequently broken, and while he was grateful for free meals, he said the site provided paltry services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the city pointed out the site was designed with input from future residents and said officials are working with the nonprofit that manages the program to address concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen everyone’s mental state, their emotional state, their spiritual state, their physical state deteriorate,” Janosko said of his fellow residents, who he lived with in an encampment before moving into the cabins. “There’s nothing here to keep them … afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tiny home being transported on a trailer by a tow truck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/005_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tiny home is trucked into the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second portion of the Game Changer lot located at 2601 Wood Street, in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland got a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/11/oakland-nabs-1-million-in-homelessness-funds-to-fix-poor-outcomes-at-tiny-homes/\">$1 million grant last year\u003c/a> for one of its cabin community sites to quickly transition its residents to permanent housing after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">audit\u003c/a> found that fewer than one in three residents left the sites for a permanent home. That’s an improvement over group shelters serving single adults in Oakland — though some years, only modestly. During the same time period, the proportion of people leaving group shelters for permanent housing ranged from a high of 24% in fiscal year 2018 to a low of 7% in fiscal year 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko said more support would make a difference. “These villages, they need people supporting them 24 hours a day, wraparound services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even at San José’s Guadalupe site, the outcomes are not much better. Since the site opened a year ago, only about 30% of residents who have left the facility moved into permanent housing. Over a quarter returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since 2020, across San José’s six city-funded tiny home communities, the percentage of people who ended up in permanent homes varies widely, from a low of 18% at the Felipe Avenue site, to a high of 77% at its tiny home village for families, called Evans Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988819\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of grey tiny homes, with a child's red and yellow push car sitting in the walkway.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted to homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City staff point out that the site with the worst outcomes requires people to leave after four months, unlike the others, where people can stay longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there isn’t an affordable home for residents to move to, service providers say many simply return to the streets. But it’s not just about the availability of housing, it’s also how to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/documents/2024/02/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf/\">Three out of four people\u003c/a> who leave temporary housing in Santa Clara County for permanent homes do so using federal vouchers for subsidized rent. But those vouchers are scarce: The waiting list in Santa Clara County has around 37,000 people on it. The county housing authority estimates it’s able to serve about one in six eligible residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the tiny home facility is amazing, it’s hard for [residents] to move into housing if there’s no housing to move into,” Finnigan said, adding that success “depends as much on the availability of permanent housing as it does on what the shelter does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Doubling down on tiny homes \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the varying outcomes across tiny home sites in San José, Mayor Mahan is on track to more than double the number of tiny home beds in the city. As he does, he’s coming under fire for pushing to use money earmarked for permanent affordable housing to pay for the temporary units. The city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/111495/638504154810170000\">most recent budget proposal\u003c/a> could divert the entirety of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/housing/resource-library/housing-investment-plans-and-policy/measure-e-real-property-transfer-tax\">Measure E fund\u003c/a> away from new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consuelo Hernandez, director of the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, is bracing for the impact. Without a strong investment in new affordable housing, she said, “We are just putting people in these little boxes with no plan. … People need an exit strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifting funds toward temporary solutions has also meant less money for prevention efforts. The county \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb671/files/documents/2023-year-end-progress-report.pdf\">saw a spike in the number of new people\u003c/a> falling into homelessness last year, and some observers note that trend corresponded with a decision by city leaders to fund more temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988820\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing sunglasses stands outside the door of a grey tiny home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/013_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Mora stands outside of her temporary home at Evans Lane housing, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land, in San José on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Mahan wants other cities to follow his lead. He’s co-sponsoring SB 1395, the state bill that would help clear the way for more tiny home projects. The bill would ensure such projects are eligible for streamlined zoning under the Shelter Crisis Act, which allows for expedited development, and free up state money for this type of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan argues the change is needed to accelerate the time it takes to develop the projects, which has stretched from around four months to about a year, he said, ever since emergency provisions that expedited development during the pandemic were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To remedy this, the City Council last year backed him in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6378017&GUID=E71DE1F2-BA21-4419-8CA2-8E2B84D78C48\">declaring a shelter emergency\u003c/a> that tweaked land-use rules and building codes, changes expected to shrink construction time significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the loosened rules in San José, \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12367591&GUID=BB074D4B-D265-4ED4-95EF-BF2F3EDAFC6B\">sites aren’t required to have running water\u003c/a>, just mobile showers and portable toilets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That raises concerns for some observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are meant to be really short-term emergency spaces where folks quickly move into permanent housing,” Finnigan, of the Terner Center, said. But given the reality that people may spend months or even years living in them, “There’s a real need to make the spaces where people are living for much longer than a couple of months dignified and healthy and stable and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Becker points out that any tiny house is subject to state building codes, and is an improvement over the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed out of the Senate earlier this month with broad support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t wait for that to solve the problem,” Becker said. “Sometimes you get in this area where you have the perfect get in the way of the great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (June 4): The original version of this story stated that since 2020, only about 30% of residents who have left the Guadalupe Emergency Interim Housing site have moved into permanent housing. That is incorrect, as the site only opened about a year ago. In that time 26% of residents exited to homelessness, not nearly 40%. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, May 30, 2024: \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">175 tiny homes for the unhoused are expected to be unveiled in South Sacramento this fall. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/05/23/plans-change-on-newsoms-tiny-home-promise/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s a year past Governor Gavin Newsom’s projected launch\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But it turns out, it’s the only project delivering on the original promise. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Classes will once again be held online at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday as a group of pro-Palestinian protesters say they plan to continue to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> block the main entrance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the campus. On Tuesday, both roads leading into campus were blocked, leaving many drivers stranded for hours. The university has denounced the blockade, calling it an extremely dangerous situation. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At UC Davis on Wednesday, a dozen students held a peaceful demonstration on campus in support of the 125 Israeli hostages that remain in Gaza. The student group Aggies for Israel organized the event to show a different perspective from those in the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/05/10/uc-davis-pro-palestinian-encampment-continues-demonstrators-call-for-specific-changes-from-chancellor/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on campus.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democratic legislative leaders in both the state Assembly and Senate have released their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-legislature-democrats/\">counter proposal \u003c/a>to Governor Newsom’s revised budget. It would restore some funding to a variety of social service programs, while focusing more on a reduction in prison funding.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/05/23/plans-change-on-newsoms-tiny-home-promise/\">\u003cb>Governor Newsom’s Tiny Home Plan Faces Challenges \u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom told a crowd assembled at Cal Expo in Sacramento that the state would help local governments address the homelessness crisis. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/16/governor-newsom-announces-1-billion-in-homelessness-funding-launches-states-largest-mobilization-of-small-homes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He announced that the California National Guard would deliver 1,200 tiny homes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to four jurisdictions: Sacramento would receive 350 homes, Los Angeles would get 500, San Jose would receive 200 and San Diego County would get 150.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In October, Sacramento officials announced it had identified a site for half of the tiny homes in the city, an empty lot next to a never-occupied strip mall in South Sacramento. Construction on that site started this March, and is expected to be completed in the fall of this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It turns out, that site is the only one the state will actually deliver. The state Department of General Services told jurisdictions \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975319/newsom-reneges-on-sending-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-the-unhoused\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">late last year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> it would not be providing them tiny homes — it would cut them a check, and they could buy the units at a reduced rate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">\u003cb>Protesters Block Main Entrance To UC Santa Cruz Campus \u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC Santa Cruz moved classes online through Thursday after pro-Palestinian protesters\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2024-05-29/ucsc-protesters-blocked-campus-entrances-for-hours-on-tuesday-they-say-theyre-not-going-anywhere\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> blocked the campus’ two entrances \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Tuesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protests came the same day the university resumed in-person instruction after a week of remote instruction prompted by the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987173/uc-academic-workers-strike-is-limited-to-santa-cruz-so-far-heres-why\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">academic workers’ strike\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that began May 20.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At about 1 p.m., access to the campus via its two entrances was blocked by several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters. The blockades prevented some people from coming and going until about 5 p.m., according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/05/on-blocking-access.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a statement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from Chancellor Cynthia Larive sent to the campus community on Tuesday evening. Larive called the blockades “an extremely dangerous effort to cause intentional harm.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Demonstration Held At UC Davis In Support Of Israeli Hostages\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Wednesday, students held a peaceful demonstration on campus in support of the 125 Israeli hostages that remain in Gaza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was organized by the student group Aggies for Israel. The group taped photos of Israeli hostages to a table about 50 yards from the campus’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/05/10/uc-davis-pro-palestinian-encampment-continues-demonstrators-call-for-specific-changes-from-chancellor/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this week. While the encampment has gained more attention, organizers say they don’t want people to forget the hostages, who have yet to come home.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-legislature-democrats/\">\u003cb>Lawmakers Introduce Counter Proposal To Gov. 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But it turns out, it’s the only project delivering on the original promise. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Classes will once again be held online at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday as a group of pro-Palestinian protesters say they plan to continue to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> block the main entrance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the campus. On Tuesday, both roads leading into campus were blocked, leaving many drivers stranded for hours. The university has denounced the blockade, calling it an extremely dangerous situation. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At UC Davis on Wednesday, a dozen students held a peaceful demonstration on campus in support of the 125 Israeli hostages that remain in Gaza. 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It would restore some funding to a variety of social service programs, while focusing more on a reduction in prison funding.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/05/23/plans-change-on-newsoms-tiny-home-promise/\">\u003cb>Governor Newsom’s Tiny Home Plan Faces Challenges \u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom told a crowd assembled at Cal Expo in Sacramento that the state would help local governments address the homelessness crisis. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/16/governor-newsom-announces-1-billion-in-homelessness-funding-launches-states-largest-mobilization-of-small-homes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He announced that the California National Guard would deliver 1,200 tiny homes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to four jurisdictions: Sacramento would receive 350 homes, Los Angeles would get 500, San Jose would receive 200 and San Diego County would get 150.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In October, Sacramento officials announced it had identified a site for half of the tiny homes in the city, an empty lot next to a never-occupied strip mall in South Sacramento. Construction on that site started this March, and is expected to be completed in the fall of this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It turns out, that site is the only one the state will actually deliver. The state Department of General Services told jurisdictions \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975319/newsom-reneges-on-sending-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-the-unhoused\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">late last year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> it would not be providing them tiny homes — it would cut them a check, and they could buy the units at a reduced rate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">\u003cb>Protesters Block Main Entrance To UC Santa Cruz Campus \u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC Santa Cruz moved classes online through Thursday after pro-Palestinian protesters\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2024-05-29/ucsc-protesters-blocked-campus-entrances-for-hours-on-tuesday-they-say-theyre-not-going-anywhere\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> blocked the campus’ two entrances \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Tuesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood before a crowd in Sacramento’s Cal Expo event center and promised — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943746/newsom-will-mobilize-national-guard-to-deliver-1200-tiny-homes-to-address-homelessness-crisis\">he’d send 1,200 tiny homes to shelter homeless residents\u003c/a> in the capital city and three other places throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was part of Newsom’s push to improve the homelessness crisis by quickly moving people out of encampments and into more stable environments. But more than a year later, none of those tiny homes have welcomed a single resident. Only about 150 have even been purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irontown Modular, one of six vendors the state chose to supply the tiny homes in Sacramento, San José, Los Angeles and San Diego County, is “absolutely shocked” that they’ve received no orders, said Kam Valgardson, general manager of the Utah-based company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big problem is that the homeless people aren’t getting served,” Valgardson said. “I can complain as a business, but these homeless people are getting no support, no relief. The money’s been promised, but something’s broken in the process, and nobody’s placing orders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been multiple delays and about-faces over everything from how the state funds the units to the ability of local cities and counties to find places to put them. The state has suggested the delays are the fault of local governments. However, tiny homes have failed to materialize even when local leaders moved quickly to approve a project site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, it’s difficult to know exactly what’s holding up these projects. Communications involving the governor’s office are exempt from the California Public Records Act. Multiple requests by CalMatters for emails between the governor’s office and the cities and counties slated to receive the tiny homes were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has started construction at the Sacramento tiny home site and has made funding available to the other three cities and counties to buy their own tiny homes — delivering on its promise, Monica Hassan, deputy director of the state’s Department of General Services, said in an email to CalMatters. That bolsters the state’s “already substantial efforts to help tackle the homelessness crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Focusing solely on timelines diminishes the hard work of numerous individuals dedicated to providing much-needed housing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bringing tiny homes to California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The governor set up a big to-do when he made his tiny home promise in March of last year. He had sample tiny homes set up in the Cal Expo event center to use as a backdrop as he spoke. Local officials, including Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and San José Mayor Matt Mahan, flanked him to show their support and gratitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue was also strategically chosen — Sacramento planned to set up its allotted 350 tiny homes right there at Cal Expo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was simple: The state would buy the tiny homes. The California National Guard would help prepare and deliver them “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/16/governor-newsom-announces-1-billion-in-homelessness-funding-launches-states-largest-mobilization-of-small-homes/\">free of charge and ready for occupancy\u003c/a>.” Los Angeles was promised 500 tiny homes, Sacramento 350, San José 200 and San Diego County 150.[aside postID=news_11975319,news_11972474]In October 2023, Newsom’s office gave its first concrete update, revealing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972474/newsom-administration-makes-progress-on-tiny-home-promise\">the six companies it contracted with to supply the tiny homes\u003c/a>. They ranged from \u003ca href=\"https://palletshelter.com/\">Pallet\u003c/a>, a Washington-based company that specializes in sheltering unhoused people and already has multiple sites up and running in California; to \u003ca href=\"https://amegllc.com/what-we-do/modular-home-building/\">AMEG\u003c/a>, a company based outside of Sacramento that does disaster recovery and modular home building but hasn’t built a community for homeless residents before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the project’s parameters changed. Instead of buying and delivering the units, the state decided to send several of the cities cash grants and let them order the tiny homes themselves. In San José, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975319/newsom-reneges-on-sending-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-the-unhoused\">this left the city on the hook for more money than anticipated\u003c/a>. The state awarded the city $13.3 million. Building the planned tiny homes for 200 people will cost $22.7 million, according to Mayor Mahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said San José told the state it would rather get tiny homes with en suite bathrooms, which are more expensive. But, Mahan said, San José was willing to cover the cost difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Newsom’s administration decided to provide cash grants in place of fully built tiny homes. It’s more efficient, Hassan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José plans to open its tiny home site by July 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a solution that, even under this timeframe, is significantly faster and lower cost than many alternatives,” Mahan said. “And we’re grateful for the support, and when unexpected things come up, we just roll with the punches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding space to put these tiny homes — which is the responsibility of local cities and counties — also proved challenging. Plans to place Sacramento’s tiny homes at Cal Expo, where Newsom made his splashy announcement last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article280376109.html\">fell apart\u003c/a>. Instead, the state intends to set up 175 tiny homes on Stockton Boulevard. The county plans to install the remaining 175 on Watt Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, a year after Newsom named San Diego County as one of the tiny home recipients, the County Board of Supervisors finally approved a location for the project in Spring Valley. But there’s still a lot to do. The county has to test the soil and make sure the site is safe. After that, officials plan to start getting community feedback on the planned project. The county has not yet bought the tiny homes or set an opening date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like every other homelessness policy solution, local governments are fundamentally the drivers and fundamentally the implementers,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s deputy chief of staff. “What the state has done is provide billions of dollars in new investment, dozens and dozens of bills to cut red tape and a policy framework that pushes for faster action to resolve unsheltered encampments. But as we have seen time and time again in California, local commitment and partnership is the other side of that coin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José, in contrast to San Diego County, approved plans to set up tiny homes at the Cerone bus yard back in October. Even so, the state didn’t send San José a grant agreement until March, Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four communities promised tiny homes, the state has made the most progress in Sacramento. In late January and early February, the state bought 155 units from BOSS, a tiny home company based in Montebello in Southern California. Those units, most of which are 70 square feet, have been built and are ready to ship to Stockton Avenue, said Kris Van Giesen, senior vice president of community development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief delay due to rain, a contractor hired by the state has started building out the infrastructure at the Stockton Avenue site, Hassan said. It’s slated to open this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, city officials still haven’t finalized locations for their tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has been working diligently to evaluate potential sites, coordinate relevant departments and prepare plans that will be submitted to the state by the end of May,” Gabby Maarse, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No one is ordering tiny homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another big selling point of Newsom’s plan: His administration opened up the contracts so that other cities and counties (in addition to the chosen four) could use their own money to buy tiny homes from the six approved vendors without going through a time-consuming and bureaucratic request for proposal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move was supposed to help deploy more tiny homes quickly and, therefore, move more people out of encampments. But CalMatters spoke with all six approved vendors, and none have received any orders through that process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several companies said a handful of cities have reached out and expressed interest. But without cash from the state, many are finding it hard to pull the trigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these cities are struggling to find the funding they need,” said Amy King, founder and CEO of Pallet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cheapest Pallet tiny home approved by the state contract sells for $18,900. Add an en suite bathroom, and the price jumps to $55,350. That’s still considerably cheaper than other housing options.[aside postID=news_11964985 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-08-1020x680.jpg']Other companies said the state hasn’t done as much as it could to promote the effort. There’s no website that lists the vendors covered by the state contracts, the available models and price comparisons, said Anmol Mehra, cofounder of Plugin House, an Austin-based modular home company and one of the six approved vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the state insists on approving any promotional materials the vendors put out on their own, Valgardson said. After his company, Irontown Modular accidentally posted marketing materials online prematurely, the state made them take the materials down and get approval. It took almost two months to get the green light, Valgardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny home companies said they had to jump through myriad hoops to secure the state contracts. Several said they had to design new products specifically to meet the state’s strict requirements for everything from vapor-resistant light fixtures to emergency exit lighting. It took months and cost tens of thousands of dollars, Valgardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Baldwin, owner of AMEG, expected orders to start rolling in by December of last year. It’s “a little bit frustrating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ready to go,” he said. “We have people chomping at the bit that want to go help.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In San José, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975319/newsom-reneges-on-sending-san-jose-tiny-homes-for-the-unhoused\">this left the city on the hook for more money than anticipated\u003c/a>. The state awarded the city $13.3 million. Building the planned tiny homes for 200 people will cost $22.7 million, according to Mayor Mahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said San José told the state it would rather get tiny homes with en suite bathrooms, which are more expensive. But, Mahan said, San José was willing to cover the cost difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Newsom’s administration decided to provide cash grants in place of fully built tiny homes. It’s more efficient, Hassan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José plans to open its tiny home site by July 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a solution that, even under this timeframe, is significantly faster and lower cost than many alternatives,” Mahan said. “And we’re grateful for the support, and when unexpected things come up, we just roll with the punches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding space to put these tiny homes — which is the responsibility of local cities and counties — also proved challenging. Plans to place Sacramento’s tiny homes at Cal Expo, where Newsom made his splashy announcement last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article280376109.html\">fell apart\u003c/a>. Instead, the state intends to set up 175 tiny homes on Stockton Boulevard. The county plans to install the remaining 175 on Watt Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, a year after Newsom named San Diego County as one of the tiny home recipients, the County Board of Supervisors finally approved a location for the project in Spring Valley. But there’s still a lot to do. The county has to test the soil and make sure the site is safe. After that, officials plan to start getting community feedback on the planned project. The county has not yet bought the tiny homes or set an opening date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like every other homelessness policy solution, local governments are fundamentally the drivers and fundamentally the implementers,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s deputy chief of staff. “What the state has done is provide billions of dollars in new investment, dozens and dozens of bills to cut red tape and a policy framework that pushes for faster action to resolve unsheltered encampments. But as we have seen time and time again in California, local commitment and partnership is the other side of that coin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José, in contrast to San Diego County, approved plans to set up tiny homes at the Cerone bus yard back in October. Even so, the state didn’t send San José a grant agreement until March, Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four communities promised tiny homes, the state has made the most progress in Sacramento. In late January and early February, the state bought 155 units from BOSS, a tiny home company based in Montebello in Southern California. Those units, most of which are 70 square feet, have been built and are ready to ship to Stockton Avenue, said Kris Van Giesen, senior vice president of community development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief delay due to rain, a contractor hired by the state has started building out the infrastructure at the Stockton Avenue site, Hassan said. It’s slated to open this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, city officials still haven’t finalized locations for their tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has been working diligently to evaluate potential sites, coordinate relevant departments and prepare plans that will be submitted to the state by the end of May,” Gabby Maarse, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No one is ordering tiny homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another big selling point of Newsom’s plan: His administration opened up the contracts so that other cities and counties (in addition to the chosen four) could use their own money to buy tiny homes from the six approved vendors without going through a time-consuming and bureaucratic request for proposal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move was supposed to help deploy more tiny homes quickly and, therefore, move more people out of encampments. But CalMatters spoke with all six approved vendors, and none have received any orders through that process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several companies said a handful of cities have reached out and expressed interest. But without cash from the state, many are finding it hard to pull the trigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these cities are struggling to find the funding they need,” said Amy King, founder and CEO of Pallet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cheapest Pallet tiny home approved by the state contract sells for $18,900. Add an en suite bathroom, and the price jumps to $55,350. That’s still considerably cheaper than other housing options.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Instead, the administration will send the city a fixed payment of $12.7 million that city officials estimate won’t cover the full cost of constructing the interim housing. The change in plans leaves the city on the hook for new costs and could further stretch the timeline of opening a long-delayed homeless housing site in north San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11964985 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-08-1020x680.jpg']“We’re going to roll with the punches,” San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in an interview. “We need the interim units, and I’m grateful to the state for kicking in most of the cost, and we’re going to fill that gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city planned to put the units at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s Cerone Yard, near Highway 237 and Zanker Road. 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Now, the city will need to source the units for the Cerone site as it works to build a handful of other short-term housing sites approved by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The $12.7 million from the state will not be sufficient to construct units for 200 people at Cerone,” said the memo from city staff. “While staff continues to evaluate building and design options, additional financial contributions likely ranging from $5 to $10 million from the city or other funding sources will be necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for new funds to build short-term housing at the Cerone site comes as the city is confronting the rising costs of providing temporary housing and shelter to people experiencing homelessness. Recent city estimates put the cost of San Jose’s Emergency Interim Housing program at $38 million in the upcoming budget year, rising to $70 million by 2028–29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In north San José, efforts to build interim housing have hit repeated speed bumps. After an earlier proposal was squashed due to neighborhood opposition, the city council signed off on the Cerone site in November 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months of negotiations with the VTA ensued as transit employee unions voiced concerns about hosting formerly unhoused individuals at their work site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in October, \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-f0f0921e-c32d-4b74-a5a8-254f0339113e?t=47s\">the VTA board of directors signed off on the housing plan\u003c/a>, and on Tuesday, the San José council voted to move ahead with a lease agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Cerone site is really important in our long-term plans to address street homelessness,” District 4 City Councilmember David Cohen said. “We need a site in north San José in order to offer places to people that are living in our part of the city to move away from creeks and neighborhoods and off of our roads and into something better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said it’s unclear whether the Newsom administration’s pivot away from direct delivery of the housing could lengthen the timeline to opening the Cerone site — or whether the city will save time by handling the design and construction of the site without state involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just slightly concerned that given that the city public works department is engineering three different [interim housing] sites all at the same time, that if the state wasn’t there to help with the engineering at the site, then there may be a slippage in timeline,” Cohen added. “But that remains to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the Newsom administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-gavin-newsom-tiny-homes-4ff201e339631cfb6190c78a5014774e\">announced late last year that 175 tiny homes will be placed in an abandoned office park\u003c/a> — the first batch of units to be delivered through the Small Homes Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The state has selected six companies to manufacture the dwellings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Pallet: a Washington-based company that makes small, fiberglass cabins specifically designed as temporary shelters for unhoused residents. Their dwellings have been used in several California cities, including Oakland, San José and Fresno.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Factory OS: A Vallejo-based company that makes modular units that can be stacked and turned into apartment buildings or used alone as tiny homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Boss: A Montebello-based tiny home company.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Irontown Modular: A Utah-based modular construction company.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AMEG: An El Dorado Hills-based modular home builder.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Plugin House Company: An Austin, Texas-based modular home company.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11964985,news_11960819,news_11958939\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The contracts, awarded at the end of October, do not specify how many tiny homes or which tiny home models the state will buy from each vendor, nor how much the state will spend. Even the vendors themselves don’t know many specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not clear to us today which product is going to which city or when,” Pallet CEO Amy King said. “We are on standby and at the ready to serve if we get called upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 181,000 unhoused residents living in California, according to the state’s most recent estimates. Of those, more than 123,000 people live in encampments, vehicles, abandoned buildings or other places not meant for habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, leaders in cities throughout California have leaned heavily on tiny homes as a way to move people out of the state’s many homeless encampments. The small dwellings, which are less expensive and easier to build than traditional housing, are intended to be a temporary respite where unhoused people can live while waiting for a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pallet’s standard 70-square-foot tiny home — a basic cabin with no plumbing — costs $18,900. 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The company recently won a contract by the state to address homelessness by providing temporary housing with the cabins. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state requires each tiny home to be at least 70 square feet for a single person and 120 square feet for two people. They are not required to have en suite bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the contracts have been awarded, other cities not included in this state program can use their own funds to purchase the tiny homes without going through a lengthy process of seeking bids from multiple vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the governor’s office nor the state Department of General Services responded to questions about when the state-funded tiny homes will be installed or why the process has taken so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, it would be great if it could go faster, but we understand the complexity,” King said. “I’m hopeful that now that we’re in 2024 and the contracts have been awarded, that things will move a little faster.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Despite moving into her new digs just a month ago, Darlene Pizarro and her white dog, Angel, are already regulars at the local dog run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pizarro’s new place is not quite a city neighborhood and where she lives isn’t quite a home, but a tiny home, one of 94 city-funded units for the homeless at that lot. But Pizarro, who last lived as a squatter in an abandoned house, was relieved to be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tiny home” describes a specific type of housing more permanent than a tent or disaster shelter but less than a single-family home, townhouse, apartment or something else thought of as permanent housing. The structures — smaller than 400 square feet, often lacking either a kitchen or private bathroom — have become increasingly common in California’s response to homelessness over the past five years, though opinions are split on how much to rely on them in years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site of Pizarro’s tiny home, on Guadalupe Parkway in the city’s downtown, opened in May as the newest of San Jose’s six sites that aim to fill the steps between traditional, congregate homeless shelters — think “room full of bunk beds and cubicles” — and an apartment of one’s own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It boasts all the fixings of what homeless advocates say are best practices for temporary housing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Individualized case management allowing residents to stay as long as they need to get permanent housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Laundry and kitchen facilities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The privacy of individual rooms that lock, with personal bathrooms\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Other elements that emphasize residents’ dignity, like the dog run and weekly community events.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Tiny homes are sometimes called modular homes or, in the case of San Jose, “emergency interim housing.” The city is all in, operating more than 600 such beds across six sites and building more. Mayor Matt Mahan attributes to them \u003ca href=\"https://news.santaclaracounty.gov/news-release/county-santa-clara-and-city-san-jose-release-preliminary-results-2023-point-time\">a recent 10% decline\u003c/a> in the city’s unsheltered population, and notes that of the 1,500 people the city has sheltered in its tiny home sites, 48% moved to permanent housing. That’s compared to an average rate of 34% \u003ca href=\"https://osh.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb671/files/documents/SH%20Dashboard%20and%20TemporaryHousing_PSH_Report_June_2023_Final.pdf\">across Santa Clara County’s shelters\u003c/a> over the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jennifer Loving, CEO, Destination: HOME\"]‘People are tired of seeing homelessness and they’re saying, ‘Do something, now.’ These non-congregate shelters are being positioned as the, ‘We’re doing something now.’’[/pullquote]Tiny homes are increasingly California cities’ shelter option of choice for new sites to house the homeless. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration earlier this year said it is sending out 1,200 units statewide. San Jose and Sacramento, each set to receive hundreds, recently said they had selected their sites; as of October the state is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article280140969.html\">still selecting vendors\u003c/a> to build the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are our single best solution to the crisis on our streets,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The rise of the tiny home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s zeal to open more tiny home sites got him in hot water this year in an age-old debate over which end of the housing shortage to focus on: temporary or permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates of tiny homes say they’re fast, cheap ways to get people sheltered immediately. Other longtime homeless advocates applaud tiny homes as improved shelter options but are wary about over-relying on them in the long-term solution to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Non-congregate tiny homes are better than congregate shelter, but people are still homeless when they live there,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of the nonprofit Destination: HOME, one of the primary agencies coordinating Santa Clara County’s response to homelessness. “You may be getting some more homeless folks into temporary shelter, but what about the hordes of people dying for an affordable place to live?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, San Jose officials diverted $8 million of the city’s $137 million in homelessness and housing funding from developing affordable housing to running and building more tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11960819,news_11943746,news_11959120\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/97404/638188872211600000\">initially proposed\u003c/a> putting 36% of the housing funds, which come from a 2020 property sales tax, toward temporary housing and 53% toward permanent housing for low- and middle-income households (the remainder would go toward rental assistance and administrative costs). He called it a one-time diversion to address the homelessness crisis on the streets while waiting on affordable housing that can cost more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-06-20/california-affordable-housing-cost-1-million-apartment\">$1 million a unit\u003c/a> in the Bay Area and take years to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and several city council members pushed back on what would have been a dramatic shift from past spending plans, which put three-quarters of the funds toward developing affordable housing and 15% on shelter. The city passed a compromise budget that put 68% of the funds toward permanent housing and 21% toward temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loving said the only way to keep temporary sites successful is to keep developing permanent housing for residents to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are tired of seeing homelessness and they’re saying, ‘Do something, now,’” Loving said. “I think these non-congregate shelters are being positioned as the, ‘We’re doing something now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California cities have been installing tiny homes for at least the past five years, it was the pandemic that thrust the potential solution into the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has for the past decade been shifting its focus from temporary shelter towards building permanent supportive housing: affordable, long-term living options that come with social services. Permanent supportive housing units have been on the rise since 2008 in California as the number of temporary spots fell, according to an analysis of federal data by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/jrFR3/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8TIQx/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a global pandemic and a record number of Californians falling into homelessness faster than the state could house them, officials turned toward non-congregate but temporary options like hotel rooms and tiny homes to keep people sheltered. In 2021, interim housing spots in California again exceeded permanent supportive housing units for the first time since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A sense of privacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Also making the sites attractive are a host of modular housing companies springing up to offer tiny homes that are more livable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to flimsier and less fireproof prior models that evoked disaster zones, many tiny homes now include double-pane windows that can open, individual thermostats and doorbells. In San Jose, one site where the city broke ground this year will include some tiny homes that have private kitchenettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not all cities use them, many companies build modular units with en suite bathrooms, which residents say provide significantly more privacy and dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A row of small homes. The home on the left is orange and the far right is red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new tiny home community in San Jose on Oct. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the bathrooms that convinced Pizarro to accept an offer of shelter at the San Jose site last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 67-year-old has been homeless for five years and did not trust traditional shelters, where she said, “You have to sleep with one eye open” to evade theft. With a stable place to sleep, Pizarro says she plans to look for retail work and apply for a housing voucher to get her own permanent place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very hyper and active, and I like to work because I know if I sit around, I’m going to fade away and I’m not ready for that yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a purple sweater outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Rojo is a resident of the new tiny home community built in San Jose on Oct. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t ready to plan their next steps yet. Monica Rojo, 50, moved into her room in May after having lived at a creekside encampment with about 70 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a woman camping alone, she feared violence constantly. She now feels safer, and since getting her own shower, she no longer feels the disdain of others when she walks into stores. She’s personalized her room with photos of her three adult children in Mexico — two engineers and a nurse, she beams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojo, a former janitor, said she’s recovering from leukemia and depression and working on getting her IDs after most of her documents were stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program opens the doors, for work, for everything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Advocates split on tiny homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The more each tiny home feels like a real one, the more it costs — and the closer it inches to the “real housing” that advocates say is what actually solves homelessness. In San Jose, plumbing and utilities for the Guadalupe Parkway site drove the cost of each unit from $30,000 for the structure itself to more than $175,000. (Some of the cost was covered by philanthropy, city officials said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s aware of the tradeoffs. But he said he’s striking the right balance by pushing for temporary shelter that is dignified, while folks wait for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know the two extremes,” he said of the spectrum of housing options, from camps to permanent supportive housing. “One is kind of the perfect solution, or as close to it as you can get. The other is abject human misery and totally unacceptable. I am of the opinion that we have to spend more, we have to put more of our emphasis on the lower rungs of the ladder, the side of the spectrum that is improving on sanctioned encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the tiny homes movement would take it even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A person walks past small homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Johnny Nielson walks through the DignityMoves tiny home village in downtown San Francisco, on Oct. 3, 2023. The program provides interim supportive housing to individuals experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Funk is CEO of DignityMoves, a nonprofit advocating for tiny home shelter sites. More than two years ago the nonprofit got San Francisco’s only tiny homes village so far set up in mere months, with donated structures on a sliver of a city parking lot. Residents can stay as long as they need, with regular access to social and health care workers at the 90 structures. Funk said the site takes advantage of a lot that’s in the yearslong wait of being developed into housing; the structures can be easily relocated when the project breaks ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DignityMoves pushed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB634\">a bill\u003c/a> in the state Senate this year to allow non-congregate, relocatable tiny home projects to bypass certain permitting procedures, and direct cities and counties to make available empty land for those uses. The bill initially defined such projects under the state building code as a type of housing, rather than as temporary shelter. Funk even suggested using housing vouchers to pay for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she didn’t expect the controversy she sparked. A group of advocates pushed back on the bill, arguing that, as Alex Visotzky of the National Alliance to End Homelessness put it, “it blurred the line between housing and shelter.” Sharon Rapport of the Corporation for Supportive Housing pointed out that certain shelters already can bypass permitting restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should be that that kind of expedited process is reserved for housing projects or any other kind of projects that are really promoting good policy,” Rapport said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite some amendments requiring the projects to include plans for residents to get permanent housing when the land is needed for other uses, the bill died in the Senate appropriations committee in May. Its author, San Mateo Democratic Sen. Josh Becker, said he intends to bring it back next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Pallet Shelter, an early tiny homes builder that has supplied units for 36 sites across 32 California cities, was opposed to Becker’s bill. Amy King, CEO of the Washington-based company, said she asked for the bill to be amended to prohibit such sites from charging rents to tenants. No such change was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not a supporter of this type of housing becoming a substitute for permanent housing,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funk said she wasn’t trying to divert resources from one end of the housing spectrum to the other, but said the lines between the two may be too rigid when permanent housing is so scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone needs or wants to stay in a tiny home for multiple years until they’re “ready” to move into a permanent apartment, she says, why shouldn’t it count as their housing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site DignityMoves opened in San Francisco illustrates both her point and her skeptics’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with blue hair a jacket and lots of clothing behind her sits down while a woman wearing purple is in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jezzeille Murdock speaks with a clinical case manager at the DignityMoves tiny home village in downtown San Francisco, on Oct. 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mia Salvaggio moved in two and a half years ago. She became homeless in 2020, after couch surfing and battling a drug addiction. After bouncing around different campsites in the Bay Area, Salvaggio chose the offer of shelter space at DignityMoves because it afforded her some privacy, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being there has allowed her to meet a caseworker who helped her get her Social Security card. In an interview, she rattled off a long list of goals to focus on next: drug treatment, getting evaluated by a mental health provider and landing a part-time job. She was waiting for news about a permanent housing placement in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was grateful for the stay at the site, but some aspects still make it a far cry from a home: There’s no kitchen, the communal restrooms are porta-potties and the showers are on a trailer, which staff only keep open until 2:30 p.m. each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvaggio was also tired of living in close quarters with other residents, whom she accused of stealing her things and dirtying common areas. The rooms at that site are only 64 square feet, smaller than San Jose’s structures, and guests aren’t allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I can prepare my own food and have my own bathroom,” she’ll be satisfied, Salvaggio said. “I haven’t literally sat on a toilet seat for probably two and a half years.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/97404/638188872211600000\">initially proposed\u003c/a> putting 36% of the housing funds, which come from a 2020 property sales tax, toward temporary housing and 53% toward permanent housing for low- and middle-income households (the remainder would go toward rental assistance and administrative costs). He called it a one-time diversion to address the homelessness crisis on the streets while waiting on affordable housing that can cost more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-06-20/california-affordable-housing-cost-1-million-apartment\">$1 million a unit\u003c/a> in the Bay Area and take years to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and several city council members pushed back on what would have been a dramatic shift from past spending plans, which put three-quarters of the funds toward developing affordable housing and 15% on shelter. The city passed a compromise budget that put 68% of the funds toward permanent housing and 21% toward temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loving said the only way to keep temporary sites successful is to keep developing permanent housing for residents to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are tired of seeing homelessness and they’re saying, ‘Do something, now,’” Loving said. “I think these non-congregate shelters are being positioned as the, ‘We’re doing something now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California cities have been installing tiny homes for at least the past five years, it was the pandemic that thrust the potential solution into the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has for the past decade been shifting its focus from temporary shelter towards building permanent supportive housing: affordable, long-term living options that come with social services. Permanent supportive housing units have been on the rise since 2008 in California as the number of temporary spots fell, according to an analysis of federal data by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/jrFR3/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8TIQx/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a global pandemic and a record number of Californians falling into homelessness faster than the state could house them, officials turned toward non-congregate but temporary options like hotel rooms and tiny homes to keep people sheltered. In 2021, interim housing spots in California again exceeded permanent supportive housing units for the first time since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A sense of privacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Also making the sites attractive are a host of modular housing companies springing up to offer tiny homes that are more livable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to flimsier and less fireproof prior models that evoked disaster zones, many tiny homes now include double-pane windows that can open, individual thermostats and doorbells. In San Jose, one site where the city broke ground this year will include some tiny homes that have private kitchenettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not all cities use them, many companies build modular units with en suite bathrooms, which residents say provide significantly more privacy and dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A row of small homes. The home on the left is orange and the far right is red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-14.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new tiny home community in San Jose on Oct. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the bathrooms that convinced Pizarro to accept an offer of shelter at the San Jose site last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 67-year-old has been homeless for five years and did not trust traditional shelters, where she said, “You have to sleep with one eye open” to evade theft. With a stable place to sleep, Pizarro says she plans to look for retail work and apply for a housing voucher to get her own permanent place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very hyper and active, and I like to work because I know if I sit around, I’m going to fade away and I’m not ready for that yet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a purple sweater outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/101023-San-Jose-Tiny-Homes-TH-CM-27.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Rojo is a resident of the new tiny home community built in San Jose on Oct. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t ready to plan their next steps yet. Monica Rojo, 50, moved into her room in May after having lived at a creekside encampment with about 70 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a woman camping alone, she feared violence constantly. She now feels safer, and since getting her own shower, she no longer feels the disdain of others when she walks into stores. She’s personalized her room with photos of her three adult children in Mexico — two engineers and a nurse, she beams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojo, a former janitor, said she’s recovering from leukemia and depression and working on getting her IDs after most of her documents were stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program opens the doors, for work, for everything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Advocates split on tiny homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The more each tiny home feels like a real one, the more it costs — and the closer it inches to the “real housing” that advocates say is what actually solves homelessness. In San Jose, plumbing and utilities for the Guadalupe Parkway site drove the cost of each unit from $30,000 for the structure itself to more than $175,000. (Some of the cost was covered by philanthropy, city officials said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s aware of the tradeoffs. But he said he’s striking the right balance by pushing for temporary shelter that is dignified, while folks wait for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know the two extremes,” he said of the spectrum of housing options, from camps to permanent supportive housing. “One is kind of the perfect solution, or as close to it as you can get. The other is abject human misery and totally unacceptable. I am of the opinion that we have to spend more, we have to put more of our emphasis on the lower rungs of the ladder, the side of the spectrum that is improving on sanctioned encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the tiny homes movement would take it even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A person walks past small homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-06.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Johnny Nielson walks through the DignityMoves tiny home village in downtown San Francisco, on Oct. 3, 2023. The program provides interim supportive housing to individuals experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Funk is CEO of DignityMoves, a nonprofit advocating for tiny home shelter sites. More than two years ago the nonprofit got San Francisco’s only tiny homes village so far set up in mere months, with donated structures on a sliver of a city parking lot. Residents can stay as long as they need, with regular access to social and health care workers at the 90 structures. Funk said the site takes advantage of a lot that’s in the yearslong wait of being developed into housing; the structures can be easily relocated when the project breaks ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DignityMoves pushed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB634\">a bill\u003c/a> in the state Senate this year to allow non-congregate, relocatable tiny home projects to bypass certain permitting procedures, and direct cities and counties to make available empty land for those uses. The bill initially defined such projects under the state building code as a type of housing, rather than as temporary shelter. Funk even suggested using housing vouchers to pay for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she didn’t expect the controversy she sparked. A group of advocates pushed back on the bill, arguing that, as Alex Visotzky of the National Alliance to End Homelessness put it, “it blurred the line between housing and shelter.” Sharon Rapport of the Corporation for Supportive Housing pointed out that certain shelters already can bypass permitting restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should be that that kind of expedited process is reserved for housing projects or any other kind of projects that are really promoting good policy,” Rapport said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite some amendments requiring the projects to include plans for residents to get permanent housing when the land is needed for other uses, the bill died in the Senate appropriations committee in May. Its author, San Mateo Democratic Sen. Josh Becker, said he intends to bring it back next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Pallet Shelter, an early tiny homes builder that has supplied units for 36 sites across 32 California cities, was opposed to Becker’s bill. Amy King, CEO of the Washington-based company, said she asked for the bill to be amended to prohibit such sites from charging rents to tenants. No such change was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not a supporter of this type of housing becoming a substitute for permanent housing,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funk said she wasn’t trying to divert resources from one end of the housing spectrum to the other, but said the lines between the two may be too rigid when permanent housing is so scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone needs or wants to stay in a tiny home for multiple years until they’re “ready” to move into a permanent apartment, she says, why shouldn’t it count as their housing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site DignityMoves opened in San Francisco illustrates both her point and her skeptics’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with blue hair a jacket and lots of clothing behind her sits down while a woman wearing purple is in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/100323-DignityMoves-Tiny-Homes-LE-CM-14.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jezzeille Murdock speaks with a clinical case manager at the DignityMoves tiny home village in downtown San Francisco, on Oct. 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mia Salvaggio moved in two and a half years ago. She became homeless in 2020, after couch surfing and battling a drug addiction. After bouncing around different campsites in the Bay Area, Salvaggio chose the offer of shelter space at DignityMoves because it afforded her some privacy, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being there has allowed her to meet a caseworker who helped her get her Social Security card. In an interview, she rattled off a long list of goals to focus on next: drug treatment, getting evaluated by a mental health provider and landing a part-time job. She was waiting for news about a permanent housing placement in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was grateful for the stay at the site, but some aspects still make it a far cry from a home: There’s no kitchen, the communal restrooms are porta-potties and the showers are on a trailer, which staff only keep open until 2:30 p.m. each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvaggio was also tired of living in close quarters with other residents, whom she accused of stealing her things and dirtying common areas. The rooms at that site are only 64 square feet, smaller than San Jose’s structures, and guests aren’t allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom made a splashy announcement: The state had procured around 1,300 trailers to house people experiencing homelessness who were especially vulnerable to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the more than three years since the trailers were delivered throughout the state, the results have been mixed. In some areas, the trailers continue to fill a crucial need, like in Napa County, where they are used to quarantine sick farmworkers, and in San Francisco, where they’ve become part of the city’s network of non-congregate homeless shelters. But in some other counties that requested them, like Monterey, the trailers are now gathering dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Farrah McDaid Ting, director of public affairs, California State Association of Counties\"]‘The tiny home plan is welcome, and it’s going to be amazing, but it’s a drop in the ocean.’[/pullquote]State housing advocates and fiscal watchdogs say the patchwork success of the trailer program raises questions about whether Newsom’s most recently announced homelessness plan — to erect 1,200 tiny homes across the state — could have a similarly uneven, largely inadequate impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tiny home plan is welcome, and it’s going to be amazing, but it’s a drop in the ocean,” said Farrah McDaid Ting, director of public affairs for the California State Association of Counties. “And like the COVID trailers, they may get lost because there is no accountability or expectation of outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An emergency response to COVID\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 2020, the Newsom administration began delivering temporary housing trailers to California cities, including more than a dozen to a parking lot in East Oakland. When the COVID emergency orders went into effect in March, that effort ramped up so both counties and cities could request the trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the program, the state purchased a total of 1,305 trailers — of which about 105 were used and 1,200 were new — and started leasing hotels in California’s largest population centers to provide isolated lodging to unhoused people. The trailers slept anywhere from two to 10 people. Some had microwaves, bunk beds, sofas, TV mounts and full bathrooms, while others were smaller with fewer amenities.[aside postID=\"news_11945422,news_11927278,news_11796428\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Each trailer cost anywhere from roughly $12,000 to $30,000, totaling nearly $29 million including delivery fees, according to data from the California Department of General Services, which procured them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once the trailers arrived, it was up to each city or county to figure out how to fund and manage them. Some did; others didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco set up its 116 trailers — 91 gifted by the state and 21 paid for by the city — at Pier 94 near the Bayview neighborhood. The city paid for electricity, bathrooms and showers for residents, daily meals, transportation services and on-site health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were able to get power and resources out to the site relatively quickly and open it up to people who were the most vulnerable to COVID living on the streets of the Bayview,” said Emily Cohen, spokesperson for the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “It’s not just a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 303 people have so far participated in San Francisco’s program. Of those, 37 have moved to permanent housing, according to Cohen. All but two of the trailers are still in use, and 118 people are still living at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a site just across the bay, near Oakland International Airport, the trailer program had a much rockier start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were in pretty sad shape and rehabbing them was extremely expensive,” said Derek Soo, an advocate for people experiencing homelessness, who in spring 2020 helped move some residents from nearby encampments into the trailers at the site on Hegenberger Road, which became known as Operation HomeBase. “They were falling apart after the first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soo, who was unhoused himself, reported some of the dangerous conditions at the trailer site in its early days, including a lack of stable electricity. The city of Oakland eventually installed a transformer, which cost about $250,000, according to Soo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Site infrastructure improvements, like physical accessibility and trailer maintenance, and ongoing services, like meals and sanitation, are expensive but necessary to effectively operate temporary housing, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kym Wilson lived in a trailer at HomeBase from May 2020 to November 2021 with her husband and their two cats and a dog, until the couple was finally approved for an emergency housing voucher. The voucher allowed them to move from the trailer into an apartment in San Leandro, where they continue to live today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The trailer was smaller than our tent and we didn’t like that, but we knew we had an opportunity for housing, so we stayed,” said Wilson, who grew up in the East Bay, but was forced into homelessness after being evicted from her apartment in 2017. “Overall, the [trailer] experience was good. It was like a big trailer park right next to the Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Scott, spokesperson, San José Housing Department\"]‘We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city.’[/pullquote]But some other cities that received trailers in 2020 couldn’t follow through on providing the services necessary to make the temporary alternative housing programs successful. And some cities that requested the trailers didn’t receive any at all, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19HomelessImpactDashboard/HomelessImpact?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no\">state data dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, for instance, only 90 of the 104 trailers sent were deemed habitable upon arrival, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/san-jose-spent-1-3-million-on-trailers-for-homeless-a-month-later-the-site-was-shut-down/\">Mercury News reported\u003c/a> at the start of the program, as some were missing sinks and had damaged vents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city spent nearly $1.3 million to repair damaged trailers and set up services and infrastructure, like water and electricity. But several months later, San José officials decided to return all 105 of its trailers and ditch the idea altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city,” said Jeff Scott, spokesperson for the city’s housing department. “We transitioned our residents into other accommodations and returned the trailers to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, 15 trailers were set up at a county-owned park with RV hookups for water and electricity already available. But in the fall of 2022, as the COVID emergency became less dire, the trailers were decommissioned, according to Karen Smith, spokesperson with the Monterey County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though the county continues to grapple with an acute housing shortage, the trailers are now sitting unused, in storage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Empty trailers in a housing crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11947622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"A lineup of trailers outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trailers that were brought to Oakland to be used by unhoused people remain empty on Day 30 of the coronavirus shelter-in-place order in Oakland on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Some of the trailers had been there since a joint press conference was held with Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Mayor Libby Schaaf on Jan. 16, 2020. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To avoid that same fate with tiny homes and other emergency housing initiatives, housing advocates say local municipalities need to receive more guidance and sustained funding from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco, said Newsom’s tiny home plan feels very similar to the trailer program. “Newsom is doing these one-time investments, then asking municipalities to take it on,” she said. “The local government still has to pay for all the infrastructure costs, like pouring cement, staffing, food costs and other services. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Each trailer cost anywhere from roughly $12,000 to $30,000, totaling nearly $29 million including delivery fees, according to data from the California Department of General Services, which procured them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once the trailers arrived, it was up to each city or county to figure out how to fund and manage them. Some did; others didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco set up its 116 trailers — 91 gifted by the state and 21 paid for by the city — at Pier 94 near the Bayview neighborhood. The city paid for electricity, bathrooms and showers for residents, daily meals, transportation services and on-site health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were able to get power and resources out to the site relatively quickly and open it up to people who were the most vulnerable to COVID living on the streets of the Bayview,” said Emily Cohen, spokesperson for the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “It’s not just a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 303 people have so far participated in San Francisco’s program. Of those, 37 have moved to permanent housing, according to Cohen. All but two of the trailers are still in use, and 118 people are still living at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a site just across the bay, near Oakland International Airport, the trailer program had a much rockier start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were in pretty sad shape and rehabbing them was extremely expensive,” said Derek Soo, an advocate for people experiencing homelessness, who in spring 2020 helped move some residents from nearby encampments into the trailers at the site on Hegenberger Road, which became known as Operation HomeBase. “They were falling apart after the first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soo, who was unhoused himself, reported some of the dangerous conditions at the trailer site in its early days, including a lack of stable electricity. The city of Oakland eventually installed a transformer, which cost about $250,000, according to Soo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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