The city has not yet announced exactly when the new parking restrictions will go into effect, but new signs have already been put up reducing parking times. Residents living in RVs in the area received a flier stating that “enforcement of the four-hour parking time limit will begin soon.”

“We can't pay the rent,” Leticia, who lives in a mobile home on Winston Drive with her two children, said at Tuesday's SFMTA meeting. “We need a safe place. We have nowhere else to go. My two daughters go to school and I need a safe place for both of them.”

Marlon Arostegui speaks at an SFMTA board meeting at San Francisco City Hall on April 16, 2024. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)

However, during the SFMTA board meeting on Tuesday, Director Jeffrey Tumlin said the city will not “take any action to enforce these new signs” until a street paving program nearby is completed and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing can conduct additional rounds of education with mobile home residents.

Parking and traffic safety enforcement will be increased throughout the city in the coming weeks as the city hires more parking attendants, Tumlin said.

Several speakers protested the decision on Tuesday, saying they were unable to move their vehicles because they were at work during the day. Others needed help repairing a mechanical problem in order to drive.

Many said they cannot afford the $92 fine the city imposes for cars that are not running, and they fear the tickets could exacerbate their housing problems.

SFMTA Board Chair Amanda Eaken (center right) and others listen to comments from the public during an SFMTA board meeting at San Francisco City Hall on April 16, 2024. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)

Across San Francisco, RV residents are facing similar problems. About 35 RV residents faced displacement when the city announced it would enforce parking restrictions near Bernal Heights Park.

Some neighbors complained that the vehicles were clogging the street and sidewalk around the park, but a group of neighbors who already have homes have also banded together to delay enforcement until residents find an alternative place to go.

The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing has been working with people living in mobile homes on Winston Avenue for months to find housing and other solutions for people who want to stay in their mobile homes.

The department had previously told KQED that it was looking into possible locations where Winstron residents could safely park their RVs, but no such location has yet been found.

An SFMTA street cleaning ticket sits on the windshield of a motorhome on Winston Drive in San Francisco, California, near San Francisco State University, on Oct. 17, 2023. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

“They're going to displace a lot of families. They say this is for public safety. But where are these people going to go after they're displaced? We're not thinking about that,” Yessica Hernandez, an organizer who has worked with families in Winston Drive, said during the public hearing. “We have a huge homelessness problem in San Francisco and we're not going to get rid of it by implementing four-hour parking restrictions.”

Many residents who spoke at City Hall on Tuesday said they felt helpless and had few options left.

“We need you to give us a safe place to move to,” Walter Mejia, who has lived in a mobile home on Winston Dr. for three years, said through a Spanish translator during Tuesday's board meeting. “We don't have the resources to pay these tickets.”

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The United States is currently in the throes of a skilled trades worker shortage. Across the board, the country doesn’t have enough qualified electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, and carpenters to meet the demand. One recent study found that many of the most in-demand jobs remain unfilled for at least a month. This comes as millions of Americans who were laid off during the early days of the coronavirus are looking for work.

That being said, not all job markets are the same. While it should be fairly easy to find work in all 50 states, how much that work pays is different depending on the state. To find the states where home service workers are paid the most, ServiceTitan analyzed June 2020 data from Payscale. The average salary of a home service worker was calculated by averaging the pay of entry-, intermediate-, and senior-level workers in each state. HVAC technicians, plumbers, and electricians were all included in the dataset, which can be seen nationally here.

California by the numbers

– Average yearly salary: $59,511 ($28.61 hourly)
— Plumbers: $58,400 ($28.08 hourly)
— Plumber pay increase from entry to senior level: $15,100 ($7.26 hourly)
— HVAC technician: $59,433 ($28.57 hourly)
— HVAC technician pay increase from entry to senior level: $17,800 ($8.56 hourly)
— Electrician: $60,700 ($29.18 hourly)
— Electrician pay increase from entry to senior level: $17,900 ($8.61 hourly)

There’s a gap between knowing an industry needs workers and actually getting workers into the industry. California is investing $200 million into the improvement of the delivery of vocational education—education that can add tens of thousands of dollars to an average trade worker’s salary. However, the sheer size of California means that not all metro areas are created equal for home service workers. The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area is the highest-paying in the nation for both electricians and plumbers, and fourth-highest for HVAC technicians.

The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and Merced areas, meanwhile, are also in the top 10 metros in the nation for electricians, while San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ranks high for plumbers, and HVAC techs fare well in the Napa, Santa Cruz-Watsonville, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, and Santa Maria-Santa Barbara metros. Plus, the overall state employment for plumbers is expected to grow 12.4% by 2028. But it’s not all rosy: The premium placed on home service workers’ pay is partially explained by the fact that California has the nation’s third-highest cost of living.

Check the statistics below to discover where your talents are valued the most and least, and to get a better handle on whether or not making a move for your career would be worth it.

States that pay home service workers the most

#1. Alaska: $61,156 average yearly salary ($29.40 hourly)
#2. Massachusetts: $59,700 average yearly salary ($28.70 hourly)
#3. California: $59,511 average yearly salary ($28.61 hourly)

States that pay home service workers the least

#1. Arkansas: $47,944 average yearly salary ($23.05 hourly)
#2. West Virginia: $48,178 average yearly salary ($23.16 hourly)
#3. Idaho: $49,433 average yearly salary ($23.77 hourly)

This story originally appeared on ServiceTitan and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.

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• According to the 2020 Census, Black Americans comprise 5.7% of San Francisco’s population.
• Decades of targeted policies have affected the community’s population and the conditions of historic neighborhoods.
• The city’s reparations task force has advocated for financial incentives that would repair history and bring Black Americans back to San Francisco. 

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As the city of San Francisco battles to lure residents back into the city post-pandemic, many of its Black residents are considering leaving the state altogether.

Today, only 5.7% of the city’s population identifies as Black, compared to 13% in 1970. Of that community, predominantly located in neighborhoods including the Fillmore District and Bayview-Hunter Point, 58% say they are considering moving out of state, citing the high cost of housing and high taxes as major grievances. This figure is up to 14% greater than Asian and Latino respondents, according to a 2019 University of California-Berkeley poll. 

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Once lauded as the “Harlem of the West,” the Fillmore District was home to thousands of Black workers who arrived in the 1940s. It became home to some of the region’s hottest jazz clubs, hosting the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane. The political landscape served as a hotbed for the Black Panther Party and other notably progressive politics. 

Under the guise of “urban renewal” in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Black homeowners were pushed out when their property was seized for developing high-rises and office buildings. By 1990, the Black population decreased to 10.9% of the city’s population. By the 2010s, the growth of Silicon Valley and subsequent increase in cost of living left many Black residents, facing high taxes and the lowest household income, with fewer options in San Francisco. 

The recently developed San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee’s task force is advocating for $5 million cash payments for Black residents who were wrongfully impacted by policies and displacement. While the source and feasibility of this form of reparations payment is still under debate, the future and potential return of Black San Francisco still remains in the balance. 

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San Francisco criticized for slow and costly permitting process in new state report on housing

San Francisco criticized for slow and costly permitting process in new state report on housing

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SAN FRANCISCO — A scathing new report from the state reveals the bureaucratic and costly permitting process builders face when it comes to constructing new housing in San Francisco.

The first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday by the California Department of Housing and Community Development is calling out San Francisco for making things extremely difficult for people trying to create more housing.

“According to self-reported Annual Progress Report (APR) data and prior research from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), San Francisco has the longest timelines in the state for advancing a housing project from submittal to construction,” the report said.

So far this year, San Francisco has permitted less than one home per day, leaving the city falling far short of its Regional Housing Needs Allocation goals for building new houses.

The report revealed it takes about 523 days for a developer to get a housing project approved compared to 385 days for the next slowest jurisdiction in the state.

After the approval process, its even worse. It takes San Francisco an average of 605 days to issue a building permit.
It takes 418 days for the next slowest jurisdiction.

The report also found that at least 18 city policies and practices are out of compliance with state law. The result is that many of the people who work in the city — including teachers, police officers and firefighters — can’t afford to live in San Francisco.  

State Senator Scott Weiner has been a huge proponent for affordable housing. He released a statement in response to the report. It said, in part, “This audit puts cities across California on notice: there will be no more leniency for illegally obstructing housing construction. San Francisco has added layer upon layer of unnecessary discretion and bureaucracy for decades.”

The mayor’s office says she agrees with the criticism. Mayor Breed claimed that proposed reforms at San Francisco City Hall have been met with “pushback and resistance.”

She is calling on the Board of Supervisors to work with her on changing legislation.  

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SAN FRANCISCO — A scathing new report from the state reveals the bureaucratic and costly permitting process builders face when it comes to constructing new housing in San Francisco.

The first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday by the California Department of Housing and Community Development is calling out San Francisco for making things extremely difficult for people trying to create more housing.

“According to self-reported Annual Progress Report (APR) data and prior research from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), San Francisco has the longest timelines in the state for advancing a housing project from submittal to construction,” the report said.

So far this year, San Francisco has permitted less than one home per day, leaving the city falling far short of its Regional Housing Needs Allocation goals for building new houses.

The report revealed it takes about 523 days for a developer to get a housing project approved compared to 385 days for the next slowest jurisdiction in the state.

After the approval process, its even worse. It takes San Francisco an average of 605 days to issue a building permit.
It takes 418 days for the next slowest jurisdiction.

The report also found that at least 18 city policies and practices are out of compliance with state law. The result is that many of the people who work in the city — including teachers, police officers and firefighters — can’t afford to live in San Francisco.  

State Senator Scott Weiner has been a huge proponent for affordable housing. He released a statement in response to the report. It said, in part, “This audit puts cities across California on notice: there will be no more leniency for illegally obstructing housing construction. San Francisco has added layer upon layer of unnecessary discretion and bureaucracy for decades.”

The mayor’s office says she agrees with the criticism. Mayor Breed claimed that proposed reforms at San Francisco City Hall have been met with “pushback and resistance.”

She is calling on the Board of Supervisors to work with her on changing legislation.  

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America’s census bureau looked at how many people relocated into each state from another state, compared to the total number of people making a move in that state. The state with the lowest “inmigration” ratio? California.

From 2021 through 2022, “California’s inmigration rate was 11.1% last year…” reports SFGate. “For comparison, nearby Oregon had a inmigration rate of 21%.”

But the census bureau cautions that California — America’s most populous state — “also had a relatively large base of movers overall” — over 4 million — which could help explain its low ratio in several statistics. SFGate reports:
California’s outmigration rate — defined as the “number of people moving out of a state as a share of that state’s total number of movers” — was also below the national migration average. Texas had the country’s lowest outmigration rate, at 11.7%, according to the Census Bureau’s analysis.
California and Texas are America’s two most populous states. (The total population of California is 39 million — roughly 11.7% of America’s population — while Texas has another 30 million. Oregon’s population is just 4,240,137.) Interestingly, most people moving to California arrived from… Texas. (44,279). At the same time, 102,422 people moved from California to Texas, with another 74,157 moving from California to Arizona.

New York state also lost 91,201 people to Florida, and another 75,103 people to New Jersey.

The second-highest number of people (31,225) who moved from a different state to California came from New York…

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, California saw a net loss of 340,000 residents between 2021 and 2022, with most of the people who left heading to Florida or Arizona.

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The Golden State Warriors will host the 2025 NBA All-Star Game at the Chase Center, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced Monday.

“We are thrilled to host our NBA All-Star festivities in the San Francisco Bay Area, where there is a long and storied history of basketball,” Silver said in a statement.

The Chase Center, located in downtown San Francisco, opened in 2019. The Warriors started playing in the facility after moving from Oakland four years ago. The Chase Center will host the event for the first time and the event will be played in the Bay Area for the first time since 2000. The All-Star Game was also held in the Bay Area in 1967.

“It has been 25 years since the NBA All-Star Game was played in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we are delighted to bring the NBA’s marquee event to Chase Center in 2025,” Warriors owner Joe Lacob said in a statement. “In addition to the significant economic impact and tourism business that NBA All-Star will drive, we look forward to hosting various events in San Francisco and Oakland to bring together basketball fans from all over the world.”

The NBA’s All-Star Weekend will be held Feb. 14-16, 2025. The weekend events begin Friday, Feb. 14 and conclude with the All-Star Game on Sunday, Feb. 16.

Some of the events will be held at the Oakland Arena – formerly known as Oracle Arena – where the Warriors played their home games before moving to the Chase Center. Events such as the All-Star Celebrity Game, All-Star practices, NBA HBCU Classic and the G League Next Up Game will be held in Oakland.

The Chase Center will host the Rising Stars Game on All-Star Friday. The Chase Center will also be the venue for All-Star Saturday Night which consists of the Skills Challenge, 3-point shooting contest and the Dunk Contest.

The 2024 All-Star Game will be played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Flowers placed at the overlook trail down to Esplanade Beach in Pacifica, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. A San Francisco State University student was swept out to sea Thursday morning while swimming at a beach in Pacifica, according to authorities. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

PACIFICA — A San Francisco State University student was swept out to sea Thursday morning while swimming at a beach in Pacifica, according to authorities.

SF State student Hamzah Alsaudi, 22, was reported missing after he went swimming with two friends Jan. 19 at Esplanade Beach in Pacifica. (Courtesy of Pacifica Police) Courtesy of Pacifica Police

Hamzah Alsaudi, 22, a senior who wrestled at the school, had not been found as of Friday afternoon.

The incident was reported around 10:30 a.m. at Esplanade Beach. Alsaudi was swimming with two other people when he was struck by a “large wave and pulled farther away from the shore,” the Pacifica Police Department said in a news release.

Alsaudi’s companions made it back to shore and called 911 for help, police said.

Pacifica police officers and North County Fire Authority firefighters searched the area without success, police said. The U.S. Coast Guard also helped look for the student.

While residents at the nearby Oceanaire Apartment Homes complex said emergency crews were present through the night, there were no search-and-rescue operations visible off the beach around midday Friday and it was not clear if the search would resume. The Coast Guard did not respond to calls for comment.

Pacifica police described Alsaudi, a Santa Monica native, as 6’1” tall, 215 lbs. with brown hair. He was last seen wearing black shorts.

The university issued a statement Friday afternoon:

“Our hearts go out to the family, friends and classmates of beloved student and athlete Hamzah Alsaudi who remains missing following yesterday’s tragic accident. We are grateful to the Coast Guard and the Pacifica Police Department for all they have done. Campus resources are available for the members of our community who need assistance during this difficult time.”

At Manor Beach Friday, a single bouquet of flowers hung from a fence post. Neighbors described an extensive rescue scene the night before, with water, air and ground crews searching the area throughout the night.

Several signs in the vicinity of Manor and Esplanade beaches warned of dangerous rip-current conditions. Surf was high Friday morning, with waves nearly reaching the Manor Beach cliffside.

An ocean-safety page from the California Department of Parks and Recreation warned about swimming in such conditions, saying “large surf, cold water temperatures, backwash, sudden drop-offs, pounding shorebreak, and dangerous rip currents can turn what seem like safe activities such as playing near the surf line, wading, or climbing on rock outcroppings, deadly.”

Swimmers caught in a rip currrent are advised not to fight the current, but to swim out of the current in a direction parallel to the coastline; if they are unable to swim out of the current, they should remain calm and attempt to signal for help.

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Millions of Californians say their state is switching to renewable energy sources too quickly, and experts say that its strict and costly new rules on electric cars will price more people out of the Golden State.

Polling from the University of California, Berkeley, has revealed that, while Californians broadly support more wind and solar farms, nearly a third of residents say the switch to green power is taking place ‘too fast.’

Meanwhile, Stanford University experts warn that looming new rules requiring Californians to spend tens of thousands of extra dollars on costly electric vehicles will drive ever more from the state.

California recorded a net loss of 341,866 residents last year, many moving across state lines to Arizona and Texas, which have lower taxes, cheaper homes and looser environmental rules.

Californians are split on the state’s speedy moves against reliance on fossil fuels  

‘As the Golden State’s exorbitant cost of living and strict environmental mandates grow, Californians are hitting the road,’ researchers from the school’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, posted online.

Stanford’s Bruce Cain says California is moving too fast

California is at the vanguard of cutting out fossil fuels, which release planet-heating gasses when burned, producing more than a third of its power from renewables, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

In recent weeks, officials have greenlighted a study into wave and tidal energy potential off the state’s 840-mile coastline, and required more than 5,300 companies to report more details about their carbon dioxide emissions.

Gov Gavin Newsom, a Democrat understood to have ambitions to become US president, also signed a bill to study and plan for solar farms running in the vacant lots alongside the more than 15,000 miles of state highways.

The state has also asked the Biden administration to approve a plan to require all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to be either electric or plug-in electric hybrids, speeding the end of gasoline-powered vehicles. 

California’s Democratic Gov Gavin Newsom has long championed renewable energy and electric cars

A poll by Berkley’s Institute of Governmental Studies shows that voters broadly support this switch to the growing number of wind turbines and solar arrays that can be seen across the state.

But that still leaves 29 percent of voters saying the switch from hydrocarbons is happening ‘too fast.’

This is especially true among Republican voters. More than two thirds — 67 percent — say they want the administration of Democratic Gov Gavin Newsom to slow down the move away from fossil fuels.

‘The state’s voters largely back its climate change initiatives, although the partisan differences evident in many other policy areas are also present.’ said the institute’s co-director Eric Schickler.

Older Californians, as well as those living in the Central Valley, the North Coast and the Sierra Nevada mountain range, are more likely than others to use oil, coal, and other carbon fuels for longer, the poll showed.

A Tesla Supercharger station in San Francisco, California. Nice, if you can afford it

A common site in California nowadays: A solar farm, near Lancaster

Stanford scholars Bruce Cain and Preeti Hehmeyer in their new research warn that California’s speedy switch to renewables could be denting the appeal of a state that has in recent years been waving goodbye to residents.

The state’s population grew massively throughout the 20th Century, but peaked in about 2019-2020 and has been slowly declining since, thanks to fewer births and more residents moving out, often for cheaper living in Texas and Arizona.

In their paper, California’s population drain, Cain and Hehmeyer argue that tight environmental rules and the additional costs they place on consumers make one more reason for residents to leave.

Californians already pay over the odds for housing, they say. Making them shell out an average of $640,000 on an EV truck, when the diesel-powered equivalent is just $160,000, could be the last straw for a cash-strapped resident.

‘There is reason to be hopeful that these prices will ultimately come down and that charging infrastructure will eventually catch up, but the intervening years could be rough, and with more population and commercial outflows,’ the eight-page report. 

California voters were keener on EV subsidies than those in Texas or Arizona 

In their survey of more than 3,000 people across Arizona, California and Texas, they found that nearly of voters supported state subsidies for electric cars, another third was opposed.

Californians were significantly keener on EVs than residents of the other states.

The research was released at the same time as new US Census Bureau data revealed that California and New York combined lost nearly 1.4 million residents last year.

Overall, California recorded a net loss of 341,866 people, compared to 244,137 for New York.

Population experts have long studied America’s people flows.

Some explanations for interstate migration patterns are widely accepted.

Americans mostly relocate for better jobs, affordable housing, cheaper living costs, and to lower their tax bills.

America on the move: Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona all counted more arrivals than departures 

Some move away from high crimes areas, homelessness, and the sight of drug addicts stumbling on the sidewalk.

Social problems have been a headache for officials in such cities as San Francisco and Portland.

Still, William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution, a think tank, said Americans mostly hit the road for money.

‘Interstate movers are motivated by employment, housing, and family reasons,’ Frey told DailyMail.com.

The top relocation trends of recent years have seen New Yorkers flock to Florida and Californians choose Texas, he noted.

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