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Meet Dr. Kwane Stewart, ‘the Street Vet’ Who Treats Homeless People’s Pets Across CA for Free

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CALIFORNIA (KABC) — For the last nine years, Dr. Kwane Stewart has spent his free time as a veterinarian treating pets on California’s streets for free.

The 49-year-old drives around the state helping the animals of people experiencing homelessness, providing everything from flea treatments to vaccinations and more.

Before he eventually became known as “The Street Vet,” Stewart ran an animal hospital and went on to be the county veterinarian for Stanislaus in Modesto, California, according to CCN. But when the financial crisis hit the U.S. in 2008, he was inspired to do more.

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‘They Have No Place to Go’: Ventura County Sees Number of Homeless Students Double

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Maria Medina never thought she’d become homeless. When she lost her leg due to diabetes last summer, her husband, a farmworker, missed work to take care of her. Then he lost his job, leaving the family unable to pay their $1,300 monthly rent. The family of five, with one daughter in high school and two daughters under age 4, was homeless.

“I always thought about homelessness as something that wouldn’t happen to me. But you don’t know until it happens to you, and you can’t easily explain to the kids,” said Maria Medina, who has lived in Oxnard her entire life.

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How Can California Colleges Help Homeless and Hungry Students?

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Dr. Rashida Crutchfield, an associate professor in the School of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach, sits in the Associated Students Inc. Beach Pantry on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, in Long Beach. Over 750 leaders from the CSU, CCC and UC systems will gather for California Higher Education Basic Needs Alliance, CHEBNA, 2020 Summit: Advancing Student Success, on Thursday and Friday, February 6 and 7, in Costa Mesa.(Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Cal State Long Beach Professor Rashida Crutchfield began focusing on homelessness and food insecurity among college students more than a decade ago.

Back then, she worked at Covenant House of California, a non-profit in Hollywood that provides housing and other support to homeless young adults. Now, Crutchfield is a leading researcher on the lack of basic needs among students enrolled in higher education.

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As California’s Homeless People Camp Out on Railroad Tracks, Train-Related Deaths Are Rising

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BERKELEY  —  Just after 8 on a warm evening in September, Janae Bell was shooting the breeze with two friends at the Hearst Avenue railroad crossing, sharing some pastries and talking bikes. Over the clanging bells of a Union Pacific freight train rumbling past on the opposite track, they didn’t hear the Amtrak barreling toward them.

With seconds to spare, Bell, 41, looked up, screamed “Train!” and dove off the tracks. But when he turned to look for his friends, he said, “They were gone.”

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In California: Yes, Homeless People Are from Your Town

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It’s a claim frequently made: Homeless people in town are from somewhere else. It’s really not true. In related news, Gov. Newsom wraps up a homelessness tour in Oakland, where he promises to “own the issue.” And planning a trip to Yosemite this long weekend? One word: norovirus.

It’s news for Thursday.

But first, Carlos Santana plans to launch his own line of cannabis and CBD products in the state. Will they be smooth?

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Sprawling Homeless Camps — Modern ‘Hoovervilles’ — Vex California

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Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He’s one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It’s a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren’t always listening.

“I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need,” Gibson says. “They don’t want you hiding, but they don’t want you in their face, you know?”

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A California Housing Crisis Mystery: Rents Are Way up This Decade, but Eviction Filings Are Way Down

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Shirley Gibson isn’t quite sure how to feel about these numbers.

As directing attorney of the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County — which offers legal services to low-income tenants caught between the preposterously priced southern suburbs of San Francisco and the preposterously priced suburbs of Silicon Valley — she’s seen firsthand how California’s housing affordability crisis has overwhelmed her clientele.

Rents in San Mateo County have increased nearly 55% since the start of the decade. A two-bedroom in Redwood City, the county seat, now goes for $3,500, according to data from Apartment List. Strong demand, fueled by the influx of high-income tech workers, means vacancy rates are low.

“I don’t know what a normal housing market is anymore,” said Gibson. “There’s a tush for every seat right now. You can rent any unit you want within a week.”

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Court Rejects California Cities’ Brief

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Turlock and other cities across the nation’s hands have been effectively tied in how to deal with the homeless by the United States Supreme Court.

The high court refused to review a 9th District decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on the streets.

Twenty California cities filed “friends of the court” briefs in a bid to get the Supreme Court to consider hearing an appeal on the 9th District Appellate Court ruling regarding Boise, Idaho law that made it illegal for the homeless to sleep on the street.

The court ruled that Boise could not constitutionally make it a crime for the homeless to sleep on the streets or in public places if there is no shelter available for the homeless.

“It is disappointing that the Supreme Court will not grant a hearing on the 9th Circuits’ Boise decision,” said Turlock Police Captain Steven Williams.

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Second Phase of Affordable Housing Project Gets Underway in Turlock

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The effort to ease the shortage of affordable housing in Turlock took a small step forward recently when officials broke ground on the second phase of Avena Bella.

EAH Housing, an affordable housing nonprofit organization, has begun working on the second phase of the Avena Bella development in Turlock. Located at 500 W. Linwood Avenue, Avena Bella II is a 60-unit expansion of the 80-unit Avena Bella I, completed in 2014.

The two-story Mediterranean style apartment buildings will provide 60 new 1-,2-, and 3- bedroom rental apartments for housing for people whose income is below or at 30 percent to 60 percent of the area median income. It will share amenities with Avena Bella I, such as a resident community room with a kitchen, computer lab, pool, BBQ and recreation areas, children’s playground, among other features. It will also be environmentally friendly and will have a solar thermal water heating system and solar panels to reduce the development’s carbon footprint.

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California Inmates Escaped Through a Hole They Cut in the Ceiling, Sheriff’s Office Says

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The two inmates who escaped a Northern California jail Sunday cut a hole in the ceiling of their building, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said.

Santos Samuel Fonseca, 21, and Jonathan Salazar, 20, identified a blind spot in their housing unit of the Monterey County Adult Detention Facility and cut through the sheet rock and metal screen to make a 22-inch hole in the bathroom ceiling, Capt. John Thornburg, a sheriff’s office spokesman, told reporters Monday.
The inmates climbed through the ceiling and came down through a hatch that leads to a back door, he said. It appears they kicked the back door open and left the jail on foot, Thornburg said.
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