Podcasts about project roomkey

Project Roomkey, Governor Gavin Newsom's initiative that turned hotel and motel rooms across the state into temporary shelters for the homeless during the height of the covid pandemic, is the subject of a recent independent evaluation. The goal of this report is to figure out if Project Roomkey was successful in providing the protection and services it promised. What did it get right, what did it get wrong, and is there a way to take the lessons learned and apply them to today? We're going to start our conversation by taking a closer look at the findings of this evaluation with Nichole Fiore, principal associate with the research firm Abt Global and co-author of the report. Then for another perspective, we turn to Sarah Hunter, Director at the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness and Senior Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation. You can check out the Project Roomkey evaluation at Abt Global's website, just type in Project Roomkey in the search bar.

Two new reports say the city of San Francisco and the state of California are making significant progress in the homelessness crisis, but are things really getting better, or are unhoused people just being shuffled somewhere else, with a shortage of shelter beds still a very real problem? San Francisco officials declared this week that the number of tents and tent encampments on the streets has dropped significantly, 41% since last summer. They say that's proof that the crisis is easing, partly because a federal court ruled that police can take down tents if the people in them are voluntarily refusing shelter, as opposed to having no choice because there are not enough shelter beds available. Meanwhile, another report said Governor Newsom's Project Roomkey program did help move more than 60-thousand people off the streets into hotel rooms, declaring it a success as well, but most of those people ended up moving back into homelessness eventually.  For more KCBS Radio's Doug Sovern, Bret Burkhart, and Patti Reising spoke with Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco.

Gary and Shannon being their second hour with the story of two siblings being swept away in a San Bernadino River. A study shows the results from California's homelessness program called, Project Roomkey. Homeowners are suing The City of LA for the right to demolish Marilyn Monroe Brentwood home. A new poll reveals that people feel uninspired at work.  

Today on AirTalk, everything you need to know about a recent study on Project Roomkey, the state's massive effort to house Californian's during the pandemic. Also on the show, we dive into how mRNA vaccines could lead the way to a cure for cancer; we explore new research that shows how DDT is impacting SoCal marine life; we look into a new bill that would ease Joshua Tree protections; and more. Was Project Roomkey a success? (00:17) Will mRNA vaccines lead to a cure for cancer? (18:30) What's your ride or die cookbook? (33:17) How is DDT impacting SoCal marine life? (51:33) New bill seeks to ease Joshua Tree protections (1:08:16) Dating: who should make the first move? (1:24:14)

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AKASHI MEDIA PODCAST LIVE Podcast Host Variety Chenevert Commentary about the murders that have taken place amongst the India Indian community during the COVID-19 ever since the pandemic stroke and the Project RoomKey wanted the hotel and motel owners to open up their hotels and motels to the homeless. Which in America 90% of hotels are owned by Patels and Gujarati Indians. All of a sudden India couples are popping up dead all over America and other countries. They are all dying the same way just about in the same years back to back in their homes. First we elect Kamala Harris as VP in the White House and we were happy for her. Now this. It's like none wants us on top. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/akashimediapodcastlive/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/akashimediapodcastlive/support

(Airdate 5/5/23) L.A.'s newest class of slumlords have little oversight and are raking in taxpayer money hand over fist, with even more on track to be given to them thanks to programs like Project Roomkey and the newly created Inside Safe. So who exactly are these slumlords? Award-winning  Gen X journalist Jasmyne Cannick investigates. www.IamJasmyne.com

During a presentation on the county's fiscal year-end close, the Board of Supervisors learned that there may be a $2.2 million carry-forward from last year. Treasurer Tax Collector Auditor Controller Chamisse Cubbison qualified the number by saying that up to half of it may already be committed. Supervisor Ted Williams tried to get some specifics. “What is the exact amount of the carry-forward?” he asked. “That's kind of got a big asterisk next to it,” Cubbison told him. “I'm looking at roughly about $2.2 million, but there are encumbrances, which mean there are prior-period obligations, that we are still going to be paying for in this year.” She added that, “I can't give you any confidence that the Board has not already committed a million of that to something.” Known funding needs come out to a little over $6.6 million, though $1.6 million of that is questionable. Shortfalls in the cannabis department and the costs of winter storm damage are still unknown. Last year's health plan deficit stands at $3.6 million, and the growing shortfall for the jail expansion is over $1.4 million. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is expected to reimburse the county for the $1.6 million it spent on the now-concluded Project RoomKey, a program to provide temporary housing for homeless people who were especially vulnerable to covid. County staff reported that other counties have learned they will not be reimbursed for their Project RoomKey expenses, but so far, Mendocino County has not been told to stop waiting on the FEMA check. The Board agreed to send letters to higher-level representatives and state organizations about the importance of receiving the money. Supervisors previewed this year's budget struggle as they shared strong and sometimes differing opinions on parks, the employee healthcare plan, and the county's growing share in the construction of the new jail building. Supervisor Dan Gjerde, who announced at last week's meeting that he will not seek a fourth term, expressed frustration over the county paying more than what he views as its fair share of the health plan. Last year, the county switched over from the self-funded model to an insurance pool, but the deficit from months of not paying into the previous plan, followed by high claims during covid, remains. “I know we're not supposed to discuss much about what happens during closed session,” Gjerde began. “However, I think it's fair to say, there was almost no discussion by the Executive Office staff about the fiscal impacts of twice asking this Board to approve, which we did, at their request, six-month extensions where the employees would not pay 25% of the cost of the healthcare plan. Twice we were asked to do it, twice we approved it, and it had a direct fiscal impact on our budget.” Employees currently pay 16% of their healthcare costs. Premiums are not due to go up until the next round of negotiations, in June. The current contracts, with a 2% COLA, were finally hammered out at the end of last year. Supervisor Maureen Mulheren said she had her reasons for declining to insist that employees pay the full 25% of the healthcare premium. “I am not going to say that the Executive Office did not fully inform us about the costs or about the impacts,' she declared. “I am a grown person, and understood the way that I was voting, and that I didn't want to put that additional impact on our employees during an inflation, during a summer where we had gas prices well over five dollars. So I just want to be very clear that I was informed about the costs.” But Gjerde insisted that this was not the only instance where staff had let the board down. “My other example is the jail project,” he said. “Each time the costs of this project have gone up, the presentation to the Board has always been, here is the new incremental extra cost. It's just another blank. It's just another blank. And it's only been in the last six months, mostly because some of us on the Board have been articulating this, that, wait a second. Take a step back. Look at the big picture here. This is a State program to realign State prisoners into county jails. And I'm glad that we're finally getting our act together and preparing a timeline and a budget, showing the cost increase and how much of this is attributed to State inaction versus county inaction — it looks like the vast majority of it is on the State side — but I feel like county staff, who are responsible for projects like this, that balloon out of control, need to step it up, and not just throw this onto the Board's lap and say, just come up with another blank millions of dollars out of the General Fund. We do not have those millions of dollars.” Mulheren and Gjerde disagreed again, after Gjerde restated his position that the county should figure out how to unburden itself of the expense of maintaining a half-dozen neighborhood parks. Mulheren said the large inland parks are much more than that. “Mill Creek Park and Low Gap Park and the Russian River access are economic opportunities for inland Mendocino County,” she stated. “You are very fortunate to live on the coast and have beautiful recreational opportunities that our inland folks don't have.” But Gjerde insisted that, “We should have leadership in inland Mendocino County stepping up and developing their own Funding stream to develop and cultivate and perhaps expand these inland neighborhood parks. But they should not be looking to the General Fund of the County of Mendocino to maintain parks that it cannot afford to maintain.” Mulheren reminded the board that she is on a committee that is working out the details of how much the parks actually cost, what their value is, and if the City of Ukiah is willing to take over some of the inland parks. The full board will discuss the committee's findings next month.

A new initiative by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to move the homeless into hotels and motels across the city while affordable housing units are built received stiff resistance from hotel and motel owners this week. They say they will oppose the program as much as they legally can.The new initiative by Bass, known as Inside Safe, would not go after homeless encampments, but rather open up rooms for the homeless and make them available on a long-term basis. The move will cost the city around $100 million, with master leasing being used on motels around encampments. In a Meet the Press interview on Sunday, Bass says that she hopes to house around 95% of LA's roughly 40,000 homeless this way once fully implemented.“Well, you know, what we have found in the community organizations that we're bringing in to do this work is that you can get 95% of the people housed,” explained Bass, who had promised to tackle the homeless issue in the first days of her Mayorship, on Sunday. “People will go. It takes a while. You have to do outreach.”However, many motel and hotel owners in likely affected areas have sounded off against the idea. In interviews with the Globe on Tuesday, owners noted that similar previous attempts, like Project Roomkey during the pandemic, failed statewide, with more local attempts earlier this year to force owners to give vacant rooms to the homeless failed to get past the LA City Council.Support the showSign Up For Exclusive Episodes At: https://reasonabletv.com/LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day. https://www.youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the city of Los Angeles moved thousands of unhoused people into hotel rooms. The program, called Project Roomkey, was a temporary safety net during the national health emergency. But participants soon nicknamed it “Project No Key” because they felt more incarcerated than housed. Reporter Mark Betancourt chronicles their experience in part two of our series on how homelessness is criminalized. Find a resource guide and annotated transcript at our website here.

It's now been a year since veteran journalists John Glidden, Scott Morris and Brian Krans launched the Vallejo Sun. The three discuss their biggest stories, from dogged city hall coverage to deaths in Project Roomkey and local law enforcement ties to extremist right-wing militias. Since the launch of the Vallejo Sun on Sept. 15, 2021, the three reporters have published approximately 300 stories, ranging from breaking news dispatches to in-depth investigations, and seven podcast episodes, each providing a detailed examination of a crucial issue in Vallejo and Solano County. The Sun exclusively covered court hearings that gave the most detailed accounting to date of the Vallejo Police Department's badge bending scandal and investigated dysfunction in Vallejo's Project RoomKey program, leading the city of Vallejo to finally acknowledge that six people died.

Here is the exciting and clip heavy 58th episode of the Funcast. In this one, Elle covers a multitude of topics ranging from local LA homelessness initiatives and how unhelpful they are to the LA heat wave in September to monkeypox (again) to Moderna sponsoring the US Open to the Metaverse and its commercial on MTV to Biden's latest incoherent ramblings. Come along and have fun hearing the weird hum of what I can only assume is my laptop fan working overtime and the sound of my fingers on the mouse throughout this special audio experience.    When you're done with this episode, if you haven't yet, please watch the latest Sunday episode of Fearlessly Authentic with Lucky Burrito, Elle Latham, etc. here: Fearlessly Authentic Rumble Stream     SOURCES:    Dr. Fauci: ‘We're not going to eradicate' COVID-19   California approves bill that could punish doctors for spreading false COVID-19 claims   MODERNA'S NEW US OPEN SPONSORSHIP EXTENDS MARKETING PUSH BEYOND COVID VACCINE   Moderna, hoping to serve an ace with its new booster, taps Billie Jean King for its US Open campaign   Here's to the Change Makers   Unvaccinated Djokovic will miss U.S. Open   Heat wave forecast to hit Southern California just in time for Labor Day weekend   More California cities enact rent control to protect tenants, upsetting apartment owners   LA Council approves more money for Project Roomkey phase out   Filming of ‘Fast & Furious' draws neighborhood protest   Latest Fast and Furious production draws protest from neighbors   Will low-dose vaccination stretch the monkeypox vaccine supply, or backfire?   White House Briefing on Monkeypox   MTV VMA 2022 - Best Metaverse Performance Nominees   Eminem and Snoop Dogg Bring Viewers into the Bored Ape Metaverse at the MTV Music Awards   President Biden speaks on gun violence and reducing gun crime (49:36-end for Biden part)     Thanks so much for listening! Please spread the word and leave comments if you want. Don't be shy.   Enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...

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Project Roomkey is coming to an end. Its goal was to temporarily house some of the state's most vulnerable homeless people in hotel rooms during the COVID-19 pandemic. This would also hopefully serve as a stepping stone to permanent housing.  So, how successful was Project Roomkey at getting people out of homelessness? Today, we look at how it worked in Alameda County. Guest: Vanessa Rancaño, KQED housing reporter This episode was produced by Alan Montecillo and Maria Esquinca, and hosted by Ericka Cruz Guevarra.

Alameda County needs more money to fund it's Project Roomkey, Los Angeles wants to ban the homeless from camping around schools and California wants to kick disruptors out of public meetings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This podcast features a new analysis of Gov. Newsom's Project Homekey – his plan to alleviate homelessness in the state. Project Homekey, which evolved from the original Project Roomkey, provides taxpayer funds to renovate old buildings or build new ones to house the homeless. PRI senior fellow Wayne Winegarden and PRI fellow Kerry Jackson join forces to evaluate Project Homekey's effectiveness in permanently helping the homeless off the streets and into safe housing.

Today on AirTalk, checking in on what Project Roomkey ending means for the unhoused. Also on the show, gambling propositions on the November ballot; retirees returning to work; and more. Project Roomkey Is Ending – What Happens To The Thousands Of Unhoused People The Program Sheltered? (0:15) Hospital Workers Say LA's New Minimum Wage Will Address Severe Staffing Shortages. So Why Do Some Healthcare Systems Want It Repealed? (22:01) How The Pandemic Changed When And Why People Retire (35:02) AirTalk Primer: Breaking Down Two California Gambling Propositions On November's Ballot (53:10) Multilingual Listeners On Blending Languages And How They Choose Their Words (1:23:14)

Akashi Media Podcast Live with Variety Chenevert. Homeless People have been taken advantage of by local agencies in California and they have agencies such as St Joseph, People Concern, Path, LAHSA that have said that some agencies who supposedly work remotely on foot have walked up to people and asked them for last four if the their social security number and I'd info, and claim they can get I'd at their agencies. Some homeless people said they never got it and had to apply twice for it. They never received their EDD Pandemic checks, or stimulus checks. There were Project RoomKey hotels that didn't have regular hotel and motel staff or phones in rooms or could receive mail or have visitors. Beware of people that claim they have housing or theirs a waiting list or they don't know where the housing is. This can become a form of human trafficking. Always get a USPS box office box or private mail box at a ups store etc, If you start getting tax liens letters when you are supposed to get a refund. Go to the IRS and ask if that tax agency reported the lien, the IRS wants to see the letter. Always call to find out what address is in file. Go to your local USPS of the zip code your mail goes to and talk to the supervisor about the address or carrier on route if they are making deliveries or if a change of address was put in. Project RoomKey has dissolved and now it's supposed to be Homekey. Verify HUD programs. Homeless People and others in need are supposed to get $1,000 a month and over $20,000 in relocation assistance. Check with your local City Hall and their websites. Beware of human traffickers, identity theft. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/akashimediapodcastlive/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/akashimediapodcastlive/support

AKASHI MEDIA PODCAST LIVE with VARIETY CHENEVERT Podcast host investigates the emergency assistance that's supposed to be given to homeless individuals throughout the USA. Particularly the state of California where agencies such as LAHSA has it on their website that FEMA is financing the disaster. A City official confirmed that the agency St. Joseph that is supposed to receive their financing from St. Joseph and that they had been approved through LAHSA to find the homeless a place to live and put them in hotel and motel rooms but their are many homeless people that ended back out on the streets and never received a place to live or relocation assistance for a place to live. Relocation assistance was supposed to be given if you lived in a car, park, beach, place to place whether you were single or have a family. The supposedly St. Joseph staff came to the Albott Kinney Park in Venice, CA and asked Variety Chenevert while in her tent for her personal information such as her name and last four digits of her social security number and they took of picture and scanned her photo to personnel at St. Joseph staff and Mental Health employees at the Cadillac Hotel in Venice, CA where her uncle Sri owns and gifted to her as a child. She went to the Cadillac Hotel with the posed St. Joseph staff employees by SUV a few blocks to her hotel and when she got there is no hotel employees at the front desk like they are at ALL her other PATEL relatives who owns over 90% of hotels in USA. In the lobby there are just so-called medical people from Los Angeles County Mental Health with no bade or name tags that take your temperature, other employees from two other agencies from Downtown Los Angeles Chrysalis and St. Joseph who was supposed to be local in Venice, CA on Rose and Lincoln. But they said they didn't have their own office. But COVID-19 mandate is over and these people are still in her hotel as if they squatted out the place. No inspections have been done or any updates to the hotel to restore it to it's normal state of cleanings such as carpets and exterior etc. The phones are missing in the rooms that were left there by Sri for the hotel guest to use to call the front desk and relatives and friends. Variety Chenevert reached out to City officials regarding COVID 19 and asked if St. Joseph was approved to be placed in their hotel for Project RoomKey which dissolved last year 2021 or extended to Spring of 2022 and then dissolved in May and the city official said no they were not approved. Nor were they on LAHSA list of approved organizations for funding. Last year Sri was arrested for supposedly shooting a homeless African-American but he was jailed, post bail and case dropped. A security guard who supposedly worked at the Cadillac Hotel shot the homeless male because Sri the hotel owner told him to. Variety Chenevert finds that hard to believe because their family are the Patels who owns 90% of motels and hotels in USA and many in California and the Cadillac hotel has been helping homeless and less fortunate people for many years since the 1940's and her the first SRO single room occupancy. Her grandfather Kanijibha Desai started the hospitality industry in America who was a India Gujarati immigrant who left India and lived in Kenya Africa and her family are Kenyans and Moors from India are mixed Kenyan, India Indian, Nigerians and Ghanian who came to USA and resided in San Francisco and San Diego, Ohio and Detroit. Variety Chenevert is currently searching for the whereabouts of her Uncle Sri because he has not been seen nor is his staff at the hotel like All the other PATEL original staff still at other motels and hotels that participated in the COVID 19 Project RoomKey. Variety Chenevert is the only family member of Sri at Cadillac Hotel on the 4th floor in room 403. She is also a Real Estate agent for Rodeo Realty. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/akashimediapodcastlive/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/akashimediapodcastlive/support

When vulnerable people fall through the cracks, who is to blame? Today, we take a look at dysfunction inside Vallejo's Project Roomkey. Then, we hear the sounds of dawn in the Sugarloaf State Park. And, we talk with Alice Walker about her journey to become a celebrated author. Then, a reading from Bay poet Donte Clark.

In April 2020, Vallejo became one of the first cities to opt into the state's Project Roomkey, a program designed to provide hotel rooms for medically vulnerable people without homes during the pandemic.  The program was touted as a success by city leaders. But reporting from The Vallejo Sun found at least 5 people who participated in the program died in their hotel rooms, including 3 who weren't found for days. So how did this happen?  Guest: Scott Morris, investigative journalist for The Vallejo Sun Scott's article: Left Alone in Their Rooms: Death and dysfunction in Vallejo's COVID housing for the homeless

Pedro Kos  Co-DirectorHis latest documentary feature film, REBEL HEARTS, which he directed, wrote and edited premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released worldwide by Discovery+ in summer of 2021. Prior to that he wrote and produced a Netflix Original Documentary THE GREAT HACK by Jehane Noujaim  and Karim Amer which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA award. His feature directorial debut BENDING THE ARC (co-directed with Kief Davidson) premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, Pedro has edited several award winning and award nominated films, including THE SQUARE, which earned him an Emmy Award for Best Editing for a Non-Fiction program, among others. Pedro is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he received his B.A. in Theater Directing from Yale University.      Lead Me Home is a co-production of Netflix and Actual Films, and produced by Bonni Cohen, Serin Marshall and Richard Berge. And I'm happy to announce that it will screen at the Warner Grand Theatre, in San Pedro, on March 20th.In Lead Me Home, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk filmed the daily lives of more than two dozen subjects over three years. This method allows the viewer to almost be with the subject, to understand their perspective. That is largely what makes the film so vital - shedding a much needed light on these individuals' circumstances.Lead Me Home trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moekzAxXe0o

At least four people died in hotels in Vallejo, Calif., under Project RoomKey, a statewide initiative that put people experiencing homelessness up in hotel rooms to keep them safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to the Vallejo Sun's ongoing investigation into the program and the death of 63-year-old Cherie Nicoletta. You can view photos and documents obtained in our investigation at VallejoSun.com. 

Today we're joined by Sacramento Bee opinion writer Robin Epley, who discusses a recent piece she wrote on the importance of Sacramento County keeping the Project Roomkey motel program for people experiencing homelessness, which is sure to keep hundreds of people under a roof.   While it is a good thing that Project Roomkey will continue to serve Sacramentans, it should never have been in danger of closing in the first place.   Homelessness is getting to be a bigger issue in the region, as Robin and Yousef Baig noted last week, and it's past time for the county and city to work in tandem on the issue. If they don't, folks in the community will start to take their own initiative. And it won't always be pretty.   For instance, some awful folks in McKinley Village are trying to muster up a recall campaign against Councilmember Katie Valenzuela, using their own brand of vile anti-homeless rhetoric.    We're also taking some time to discuss the new participatory budgeting initiative that the city of Sacramento is getting behind, which is a massive win for the People's Budget.   Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity   Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. If you require a transcript of our episodes, please reach out to info@voicesrivercity.com and we'll make it happen. And thank you to Be Brave Bold Robot for the tunes.

Sacramento County Supervisor Sue Frost was caught on Telegram planning anti-vaccine protests with far-right groups such as the Freedom Angels, the Mamalitia, and the violent Proud Boys. After a local activist outed Frost, she claimed to know nothing about the kind of people she was cavorting with on the messaging app that commonly attracts reactionary fringe groups. But folks who pay attention to the supervisor know she has a history of peddling conspiracy theories and standing alongside these kinds of people. Speaking of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, a grand jury recently called the governing body out for playing shell games with federal CARES Act funding meant to be used for public health purposes at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.   This is the same county that, today, is planning to close three Project Roomkey locations currently sheltering hundreds of unhoused Sacramentans. Can anything be done?   Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you, @aolbites Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity   Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. If you require a transcript of our episodes, please reach out to info@voicesrivercity.com and we'll make it happen. And thank you to Be Brave Bold Robot for the tunes.

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Ukrainian combat boots | Image credited to the Office of the President of Ukraine and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 On today's show: 0:08 – Nicolai N. Petro, professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island joins us to discuss the Ukraine border crisis. 0:33 – Emily Hoeven (@emily_hoeven), Newsletter Editor for CalMatters joins us to discuss Gov. Newsom's proposed state budget. 0:45 – California State Assemblymember Ash Kalra (@Ash_Kalra), representing the 27th Assembly District in San Jose joins us to discuss the single payer CalCare Bill headed to the Assembly Health Committee today. 1:08 – Jennifer Friedenbach (@fbach4), Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness joins us to discuss the COVID surge in San Francisco's homeless shelters caused by the Omicron variant. 1:20 – Scott Morris (@OakMorr), a journalist with the Vallejo Sun who covers policing, protest, civil rights, and far-right extremism joins us to discuss the three deaths confirmed so far at Project RoomKey sites in Vallejo. 1:33 – Rebecca Solnit, the the prolific writer, historian and essayist discusses her latest book, Orwell's Roses. The post The Ukraine border crisis; Newsom's budget proposal; Asm. Ash Kalra on the single payer CalCare Bill; Omicron ravaging San Francisco's homeless in congregate shelters; Plus Rebecca Solnit on Orwell's Roses appeared first on KPFA.

Project Roomkey in Sacramento will provide motels for homeless residents open through March 2022. FOX40 reporter Lonnie Wong and KCRA3 Assistant News Director Jim Stimson discuss their retirements after being in local news for 50 years. Finally, major religious holidays that are celebrated this time of year. Today's Guests CapRadio Reporter Chris Nichols updates the status of Project Roomkey in Sacramento, which will provide motels for homeless residents open through March 2022.  FOX40 reporter Lonnie Wong and KCRA3 Assistant News Director Jim Stimson discuss their retirements after being at each station for more than 40 years, and in local news overall, for 50 years.  Jeffrey Brodd, Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at Sacramento State, discusses the major religious holidays celebrated this time of year as well as their most prominent rituals and traditions. 

Since last spring, the city has moved thousands of unhoused residents into hotel rooms as emergency shelter during the pandemic. The program, Project RoomKey, is federally funded and the Biden Administration has extended that funding through April 1. But San Francisco has been closing the shelter-in-place hotels for months, despite protests from homeless advocates. Producer Caron Creighton reports on the city's tactics and the objections activists have to them.  Get unlimited Chronicle access for 26 weeks for 99 cents: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” - Margaret FullerWe all have physical voices, but the freedom of speech and the right to self-expression are rare privileges that aren't necessarily available to other nations. That is why we must use our voice for good even more.To be able to use your voice and share your story is a chance to make someone feel that he or she is not alone. Although your life may seem ordinary to you, it may be extraordinary to someone else and sharing the story of your life may be a step in lifting others' lives.Learning the stories about poverty and social injustice will remind ordinary people that they are capable of lifting someone's lives even through their smallest actions. Serving the poor and the differently-abled are some of the greatest humanitarian acts someone can provide for others in his or her lifetime.In this episode, we've invited the CEO of Share Our Selves, Dr. Jay Lee, to share with us what the organization is doing especially in this pandemic. Share Our Selves is a nationally recognized health center providing high-quality, comprehensive safety net services to the Orange County community designated to provide healthcare for the homeless provider. Good-hearted people like Dr. Lee are very special in this world because of their service to the people, especially the unprivileged. Listen to this episode to know more about Share Our Selves and to open your mind and be enlightened about how we can serve people living in poverty. Other Resources Mentioned:Project RoomkeyImportant Points:There are donors and grants who pay for the organization and the volunteers are usually people at risk.Project Roomkey has been the temporary housing of the people with high medical riskContact Care, Continuity, Comprehensive, and Coordinate are the 4C's that make a huge difference in terms of quality and its impact on morbidity and mortality. Poor people are at higher risk of contracting COVID because of overcrowding and poor living conditions, poor diet and lack of nutrition, which results in lower immunity to sicknesses.  Community safety, food insecurity, and secure housing can contribute to health.About the Guest:Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP is the Chief Executive Officer of Share Our Selves, Director of Primary Care at CareMore Health, awarded as 2021 Family Physician of the Year by California Academy of Family Physicians, and a media ambassador of AAFP. About the Host:Dung Trinh, MD is the Chief Medical Officer of Irvine Clinical Research, medical missionary with TongueOut Medical Missions, and holds leadership positions with multiple health care organizations in Orange County. He is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, and Host of “Health Talks with Dr Trinh” which can be heard weekly on OC Talk Radio.Connect with Dr. TrinhHealthTalks OC WebsiteFacebookLinkedIn

To Project Roomkey's architects, the program was a no-brainer. Thousands of hotel rooms were empty because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And there were thousands of people who lacked homes and seemed especially vulnerable to the coronavirus. The plan to put the people in the empty rooms and pay the hotel owners seemed to solve two problems at once.Sounds easy, right? But in practice, not so much. The program helped some people but certainly not everyone.Today we examine Project Roomkey — its promises, achievements, shortcomings and future. We talk to L.A. Times reporters Benjamin Oreskes and Doug Smith, who have covered the program from the start. We also talk to Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, the head of a nonprofit that helps people transition out of homelessness.More reading:L.A. had a golden opportunity to house homeless people in hotels — but fell short of its goalL.A. County won't expand program to shelter homeless people in hotelsFederal aid allows L.A. to extend hotel-room rentals for homeless people

Reporter Clara Harter speaks with Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the CEO and President of St. Joseph's Center, who oversaw the massive effort to provide 211 people living on the Venice Boardwalk with a pathway to permanent housing in just six weeks. They discuss how the program was planned, what led to its success, and what is next for both the Boardwalk and the hundreds of people who are no longer living on it.

Aug. 26 Flash Briefing for The Sacramento Bee, California. Our top news stories of the day on Project Roomkey and homelessness, coronavirus in Placer County and a Capital Christian Center lawsuit.

Project Roomkey, a statewide effort to place medically vulnerable unhoused people in hotel rooms during the pandemic, is scheduled to close at the end of September. In Los Angeles, more than 9,000 people have gone through the program. Was it a success or a failure?

San Francisco rented hotel rooms during the pandemic to house thousands of people experiencing homelessness. Today, we hear how they're starting to close them. Then, how Filipinx artist Rachel Lastimosa is celebrating her past amidst the Anti-Asian violence of the present. And, for throwback Thursday we have a StoryCorps about a transpacific Filipino romance.

By Sasha HupkaA TV ad supporting Gov. Gavin Newsom in the recall election claims the governor is “getting 65,000 homeless Californians into housing.” CapRadio's PolitiFact California reporter Chris Nichols fact-checked that claim in this week's Can You Handle The Truth segment. Meanwhile, PolitiFact California contributor Sasha Hupka fact-checked a claim about Newsom's power to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency. Nichols and Hupka joined CapRadio's afternoon anchor Randol White to discuss both claims. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Interview Highlights On the ad supporting Newsom and if the numbers check out Chris Nichols: The ad was produced by Stop The Republican Recall of Governor Newsom Committee. This is a group formed by Democrats supporting Newsom. They've produced several TV ads that talk about how the governor is helping Californians. The ad focused on things like the state stimulus checks he approved, but then they also make a claim about homelessness that caught our attention. “Gov. Gavin Newsom has California roaring back,” the ad said. “What does that mean for you? Newsom is delivering money to your pocket, cleaning up our streets, and getting 65,000 homeless Californians into housing.” This claim really needs some context. Newsom has proposed spending a record $12 billion on homelessness. The big focus is on housing people — but that's a plan that stretches over the next three fiscal years, according to his proposed budget. On getting more context on the state's homelessness crisis and the state's Project Roomkey initiative Nichols: It's not easy to house the unhoused, and it's mainly the job of the cities, counties and nonprofits to do this challenging, time-consuming work. Though state funding and technical assistance do help. Project Roomkey has helped more than 40,000 homeless Californians. It provided them with temporary shelter in motels during the worst of the pandemic. CapRadio recently reported that only about 30% of those who left the program have gone on to find permanent or temporary housing. So, Newsom and local governments have a big challenge ahead to house that 65,000 number talked about in the campaign ad. On Gov. Newsom's ability to keep a state of emergency declaration active Sasha Hupka: We saw claims on Facebook that Newsom can't extend the state of emergency and that it expired last year, but that's simply not true. In fact, he's already extended it several times. The laws which govern such things say very clearly [that] a declaration is ended either by him or by concurrent resolution in the legislature. A concurrent resolution is used to resolve issues that pertain to both the Assembly and Senate. Legal experts say it's a check on Newsom's power because it means both he and a majority of the legislature have to agree … the declaration should continue. Experts say there is also a check in the form of public opinion. This is especially true for Newsom, who is facing a recall election. On what the ongoing state of emergency does, and why to keep it Hupka: It allows officials to address the crisis, which could be important if cases spike again. It also unlocks funding California usually wouldn't have access to. PolitiFact rated the claim that Newsom has “no power or authority” to extend the state of emergency as False.

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It's been a challenging time for small businesses since the pandemic began a little more than a year ago. Nationwide polling shows many have cut employee hours, significantly changed their business model, or have closed permanently; we hear from small business owners in Sacramento about how they're surviving COVID-19. Plus, a closer look at Project Roomkey happenings and new 'safe ground' sites opening for unhoused residents and the anxieties about going out into society as pandemic restrictions continue to loosen. Today's Guests CapRadio PolitiFact California Reporter Chris Nichols on the first pair of city-sponsored 'safe ground' sites opening for unhoused residents, and updates on Sacramento County's plans with Project Roomkey motel rooms  Small business owners in Sacramento explain their challenges and triumphs during the pandemic and how they’re surviving the COVID-19 economy Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce CEO Amanda Blackwood on the challenges still facing small businesses and the best ways to support them during this time Michigan State University Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director of Wellness, Resilience and Vulnerable Populations Dr. Claudia Finkelstein on the anxieties and stressors about going out into society as pandemic restrictions continue to loosen

The City of LA fenced off Echo Park Lake more than a week ago, forcing roughly 200 unhoused people living there to leave. For several days, activists protested the city’s move to clear out the park, and even faced off against police. City and county officials offered to move the lake’s residents to shelters or hotel rooms through Project Roomkey, a program meant to house people during the pandemic. But some people chose to stay elsewhere on the streets instead. KCRW talks to three people who were displaced from the lake.

A wide receiver and track star at Arroyo Grande High School in the 1980s, Will Henry broke records for most receiving yards (1,136) and touchdowns (9) during the team's 1987 state championship season. Named to the prestigious all-America team, Henry went on to play football and run track at Fresno State University. Working with the homeless for more than 15 years, Henry previously served as the director for Homeless Vets in Las Vegas. He is currently the program manager for Project RoomKey, providing hotel rooms for individuals and couples in San Francisco during the time of Sheltering in Place to slow the spread of COVID-19.

James and Lauren return to discuss states of social disarray, the '92 riots, and belonging to an LA clique.

Sarah Dusseault is Chair of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) Commission. Appointed by Supervisor Solis, she served as Co-Chair of LAHSA's Ad Hoc Committee on Women & Homelessness. Sarah is committed to including women's unique experiences in policy-making and investing in systems change to bring a crisis response to homelessness. Sarah began her career in public service with Mayor Jim Hahn, as his campaign Policy Director. She served in senior roles in the Office of the Mayor as Deputy Mayor for Housing and Homelessness where she led efforts to revitalize Downtown Los Angeles and oversaw the creation of L.A.'s affordable housing trust fund. Sarah served as Senior Policy Advisor to Mayor Eric Garcetti during his 2013 mayoral campaign, and during his tenure as President of the City Council. Throughout her career, Sarah has gained a reputation as a passionate advocate, policy expert, and an innovative problem solver. Sarah serves in various leadership roles in her community, including as a mentor to many young women and girls, an Advisory Board Member for the Los Angeles Business Council and Board member of the Los Angeles LGBT Center assisting in their work to open an intergenerational campus addressing the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Sarah's passion for ending homelessness and advocating for mental health derives from her lived experience of a family member who is experiencing both. Her experiences trying to house her brother were printed in the LA Times - https://lat.ms/2TlZzj4 ♥ ---- Thank you for watching this video—Please SHARE IT and click a quick 'LIKE' or better yet, leave a comment! ---- ♥ ►► Christine and her team are the creators of Kndrd.io: The comprehensive software solution that uses technology to put the LIVING into CoLIVING. ◄ ◄ *Learn more at http://Kndrd.io ----►► Be sure to check out The Coliving Code, is the first comprehensive book published in the COLIVING industry…. NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON or a digital version here: https://thecolivingcode.com/#book-launch

0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: what's happening with the coronavirus relief bill, the ongoing tug-of-war between Congress and the Department of the Treasury – Congressional Republicans obstructing relief efforts – and when the next COVID-19 bill is coming. 0:34 – Q&A: Ask a public health expert Jay Levy, MD is a professor of medicine and infectious disease expert at UCSF. 1:08 – Public officials on coronavirus and relief efforts Congressmember John Garamendi (@RepGaramendi) represents California's 3rd district, encompassing most of the Sacramento Valley north and west of Sacramento. 1:20 – Inside the ER at UC Davis Asantewaa Boykin is an ER Nurse at UC Davis Medical Center.  1:34 – KPFA News: Millions of people will likely be ineligible for the one-time federal stimulus payments from the coronavirus relief package Congress passed in March, because of a provision that excludes families with mixed immigration status. KPFA's Ariel Boone (@arielboone) reports. For more information about the Oakland Undocumented Relief Fund, at centrolegal.org. 1:40 – What's happening in Oakland to move unhoused residents into hotels In mid-March, Governor Gavin Newsom announced funding to help counties and cities to secure hotel rooms for unhoused people during the Covid-19 pandemic, warning that up to 60,000 of them may contract the virus. Here in the East Bay, that project is being overseen by Alameda County, and called Project Roomkey. Early on, news reports surfaced of a sluggish start to the program. Our reporter Lucy Kang (@ThisIsLucyKang) went to find out why – and to get an update on how things are going now. Check here for more information on the 77th Ave Rangers and Love and Justice in the Streets.  1:50 – Mailbag: We've been collecting your stories and questions through a voicemail box. They've helped us choose what to cover. A lot of times we get to put you questions when we have experts on. But some messages come across more as short stories–little looks into how a history-changing event is impacting someone else's life. Here are a few from our mailbag. 1:53 – Poetry spotlight: ‘Curtain #1' by Ayodele Nzinga Ayodele Nzinga is a playwright, poet, educator and founder of the Lower Bottom Playaz, in Oakland. You can follow her work on her blog, A. Nzinga's Blog.    The post COVID Q&A: what would lifting shelter in place safely look like? Plus: Inside Alameda County's ‘Project Roomkey,' to move unhoused residents into hotels appeared first on KPFA.