On the news. Imagine. Are you threatening him . Yes, he is. This is what i tell you, we live in fear, and nobody cares. Reporter they live in condominiums above willow alley. This is the shelter in place slum. Reporter what is it like living here day to day . Its unrelenting. I cant sleep at night. I cant work during the day. I wear noisecanceling headphones when i have to work from home. And i have to have the volume on full blast. Reporter they dont feel safe in their neighborhood. People have broken into their building and drug dealing and drug use is rampant. In the last ten days, i myself have witnessed from my window two overdoses right by our garage door. We are under siege. And this is blocks away from city hall. Reporter but the people who live on this street say they dont feel safe either. They say residents in the nearby buildings have acted outpouring water on them from the windows above and running over their tents with cars. And they pulled in and started yelling the fact that the tents were kind of clo to the garage so they pulled in, they pulled out and pulled in and went over it. Reporter when the iteam walked the streets of the tenderloin in may, the neighborhood looked more like a third world country than a worldclass city. Tents had taken over the sidewalks on nearly every street. An Analysis Shows the neighborhood was overwhelmed with encampment complaints. City officials told us they could not move the tents because cdc guidelines prevented it. The people who live here are vulnerable during this pandemic and are generally more vulnerable even when there isnt a pandemic. Theyre older folks. Theyre families, theyre kids. Reporter this supervisor lives and represents the tenderloin. He says the city only took action after the university of california and a group of local Business Owners sued San Francisco. It shouldnt take a lawsuit for the city to do its job. And thats what we were saying from the very beginning. But we put together a plan. We put together solutions, particularly the hotel program, legislation, support behind it, which allowed the city to have a response that they could turn to when the lawsuit did come up. Reporter he showed us the progress thats been made. This corner right here was full of people in tents. Reporter last week the Citys Homeless Outreach Team finished clearing most of the homeless encampments moving them into hotels. Back on willow alley, residents are still waiting for a resolution. We counted 23 tents and found many people frustrated that the city hasnt solved the problem all together. Has the city actually offered you a hotel room . No. Our alleys for some strange reason this alley and then the next street over has been skipped. Reporter most frustrating thing about this is that somehow this gets framed ait pre hsedu. The residents now tell us the city is saying theyre alley will be cleared in the next three weeks. But the city tells us they cant give us a clear date at this point. So it just goes on and on and on. For the iteam, dan noyes, abc7 news. Powerful report. Frustrating for everyone on all sides, dan. Thanks very much. Well, lets talk a little bit more about this. The San Francisco chronicle insider and abc7 news contributor phil matier is here to talk about this. Why not go through the entire neighborhood and get them off the street . That willow alley is a classic example. I was there this morning. I would have to say its pretty much as dan presented it. But i got to tell you a couple of weeks ago, it looked a lot worse. So, to some degree they put in portable toilets. And i dont know if thats better or not for the residents there because when you put in portable toilets youre basically saying, okay, you get to camp here for a while. Well see if they clean it up in the next three weeks. This piecemeal approach that youre talking about is partly because the tents are everywhere around the city. Its not just the tenderloin. Theyve pulled some 300 plus tents out of the tenderloin in the last couple of weeks. 500 people have been put in hotel rooms at a cost of 250 a night. Now, citywide, they have some 2,000 Homeless People in hotel rooms. That comes to a bill of about a half a Million Dollars a night. The feds are paying 75 of it. But theyve got to get the hotel rooms. Then tyve goto get the people to agree to go. And as youve seen at willow alley, some of those people are not necessarily, lets be honest about it, in their right minds enough to say, yeah, i want to get out of here. A lot of them have drug and alcohol problems and theyre going to stay there as long as they can. Yeah, good point. So, phil, what is it going to take, do you think for city leaders to actually fix this problem . Fix has only got three letters in it, but its a big word when it comes to the homeless. First theyre going to get as many of them in the hotels as they can because the federal relief money is helping to pay for that. After that theyre expecting or hoping through a passage of a bond and other tax money to get the 30 million a dollar its going to take to put 12,500 of those people in what they call permanent supportive housing. Thats a place to live and also with social workers. Is that going to solve the prosecute em . I dont know. I was talking with one supervisor who said you might get them into a house, but is the behavior going to change . Or are many of them still going to be out on the streets . The behavior you see the passing out on the streets on the sidewalk, you dont need a tent to do that. You can do that on your own and still have a place to go that night. So this is a big problem. Its going to take mental health. Its going to take housing. And its going to take an ongoing effort to and continued effort to make the change. This change that dan was reporting on in the tenderloin didnt happen until people filed suit. It took pressure and it took media pressure like abc7 news when we went down there earlier and show what did it was like. Thats what it takes. Well, lets look a little down the road. The hotels in the city because of the pandemic were a stop gap solution that the city was able, as you talked about, to put Homeless People in the hotels. But what about the pandemic is over . The hotels want to reopen to tourists. Whats going to happen then . Well, thats where its going to get interesting because once theyre in the rooms, how do you get them back out . And its already been said at the board of supervisors the pandemic is a health crisis. But once it ends and who knows how long thats going to be, we still have a housing crisis and a homeless crisis. So you still have a crisis situation. Some hotels are going to say lets keep in the program because its guaranteed money. Others are going to say, as you said, its time to move out. Well see if they can get them out. Theyve got to get them into that supportive housing. They have to have it built, they have to have the money ready to go and they have to bet on the feds continuing to fund it, the Taxpayers Fund it. A lot of money and a lot of willpower. But this at least is the first step in a direction. And i will tell you when i talked to the residents of the tenderloin, they say at any price its worth it to get their streets back because they were being held hostage. Of course its difficult for the homeless as well but the residents have good reason to be so frustrated. You can read phils column in the San Francisco chronicle on sundays and wednesdays. Experts protect 700,000 Affordable Housing units are needed in the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter dan louie takes us there. Reporter housing advocates dont want to see a repeat of what happened during the 2008 recession when Affordable Housing construction slumped. Only a fourth of the needed units were built in california. In todays pandemicfueled recession, the obstacle is cost rising at 10 each year. The Affordable Housing industry left without any innovation in San Francisco was getting to 800,000 per unit. Reporter innovators believe this is the solution. Modular units being built in a factory in vallejo. Factory os incubated the idea four years ago. Its concept is starting to coin approval for this one. It will be a cost less than 4,000. It is built. Each model contains two living units. There are no weather delays. They are later transported to the building site. The new approach is winning praise by the faculty director. It can translate into less subsidy per unit to make that project work. And that means we can build more Housing Units with the same amount of money. Reporter the process of design and construction is nontraditional. The floor plans come first so they can be standardized. Then the architect designs the exterior. The inside first out later concept took time to win over cryptics and sceptics including city planners. Its a different form of what they see. Neighborhood groups are concerned because they worry that its not as good quality. Unions have issues about work rules. Reporter factoryas. Sihess15ers. Tey extre wanting toea ht works. And join 7 on your sides might be Michael Finney thursday. Check that out tomorrow. But stay here. Coming up next or on thursday i should say, youll see only on abc7 news, new allegations of Vallejo Police department misconduct. This time involving a case that made national headlines. I am spencer christian. Are you ready for a cooldown . Frpz it be brief but its coming frpz it be brief but its coming our way. 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Start here at 2020census. Gov. Crews fac ar o lengesin a m fire that burned six businesses in San Franciscos soma neighborhood. That fire is still smoldering right now. The smoke was intense throughout the bay area, leading to unhealthy air in the oakland hills. Firefighters say they did not have enough water from the hydrants. Less than an hour ago, the Fire Department gave an update. We quickly met our capacity for a municipal water source and went to our High Pressure water system, our auxiliary water system. This is something we train for and we plan on. They also had to navigate powerlines and falling transformers. People were just terrified. Oh, hell. I thought it was going to jump to this side. A firefighter was hurt but is now out of the hospital. Three people were burned out of their homes and a pet cat sadly is still missing. There are no allegations of misconduct tonight within the Vallejo Police department. This time from a former captain. The case is one that made national headlines. A kidnapping the Vallejo Police department mistakenly called a hoax. Abc7 news iteam reporter Melanie Woodrow has covered this story with new information. Reporter dan, the allegations are in this claim that was filed against vallejo by former Police Captain john whitney. Whitney says the city retaliated against him for speaking out against misconduct within the department including the 2015 Denise Huskins kidnapping that was called a hoax. Shortly aftermather mueller was arrested and charged. Because this case was so complicated, was the Vallejo Police department too quick to call it a hoax . I dont think so based on some of the evidence that we had at the time. Three months prior, the Public Information officer gave a scathing press conference in which he called hoskins a liar. The fact that we essentially wasted all of these resources for really nothing is upsetting. Reporter only it turns out hoskins and her then boyfriend aaron quinn hadnt lied. Mueller was linked to the crime after a foiled attempt in dublin and subsequent arrest by the feds in south lake tahoe. Hes currently serving a 40year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges. He now faces state charges including rape to which he pleaded not guilty. They settled with the city for 2. 5 million. But their story has a new twist. This claim filed march 24th of this year against vallejo details captain john whitneys august 26th, 2019, discharge from the Vallejo Police department. Whitney alleges he was retaliated against for speaking out on a variety of misconduct issues including hoskins kidnapping. I thought i was walking to my death. Reporter according to the claim, the former vp chief directed whitney to delete Text Messages on his cell phone so that they would not be downloadable during the investigation. And to concea the fact that the chief told lieutenant kenny park to, quote, burn that [ bleep ]. In an exclusive recording for abc7 news, hoskins shared the following statement. Sadly, it was just another moment with Vallejo Police of being shocked, yet not surprised. I certainly didnt have to hear those words spoken out loud to feel that sentiment every second i was at the police station. And it was just one example of too many where i was dehumanized and vilified by Vallejo Police. Its truly terrifying to come face to face with such blind hatred. I guess in your eyes if youre a woman youre just another [ bleep ] to burn. Its horrific and the community of vallejo deserves better. Reporter this new information comes as scrutiny grows. The Attorney Generals Office is currently investigating the destruction of evidence in sean monta rosas fatal shooting, specifically the destruction of the windshield an officer fired the fatal shot threw. I reached out to the former police chief and lieutenant kenny park. The Vallejo Police department did respond but to a request that i had previously sent them saying that they could not confirm whether the officer who fired the fatal shot killing sean monta rosa is back on duty. There is no response from the Vallejo Policedepartment or anybody else that i contacted about this new misconduct allegation. For the iteam, Melanie Woodrow, abc7 news. All right, melanie, thank you. The victims of the mass shooting at the gilroy garlic festival are being remembered at an event right now. Some of the survivors are in attendance. They were asked to stand up to be recognized for their courage. The Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorney reflected on what happened a year ago today. When we think of it, we will not think of the evil of a single weakminded shooter. We will think of the survivors who showed us how to be strong. We will think of the families who have lost a loved one and whose strength is an inspiration for all of us. We will think of the tens of thousands in this community who continue to show the world what makes gilroy strong. A tribute video was also played to remember the three people who died in the attack. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes tells us gilroy remains a community in healing. But when gilroy was in crisis, everybody showed up. This gathering here at Christmas Hill park, home to the gilroy garlic festival, may be limited because of the pandemic but the spirit is strong, the community united. This flag represents our collective spirit and desire to rise above senseless acts of violence. One year ago just before 6 00 p. M. On the last day of the 41st year of the beloved festival, chaos broke out when 19yearold Santino William opened fire. In a shooting spree, 13yearol killed. Dozens more injured. The gunman was shot by police before killing himself. We continue to pray for the romero and salazar and irby families. And we will not forget the loss. But we will let their memory actually become a resolve for us to be better than we ever were. Thats how Hannah Johnson feels, grateful to be alive. One year ago she was a vendor at the festival and ended up hiding for nearly two hours in a trailer waiting for safety. O cfo this is the one that was with me last year and so she was just under a year, and i remember thinking, like, oh, my goodness, will she make it to her first birthday . Reporter johnson heard the shots loud and clear, shots that would haunt her for many months after. Even her daughters had nightmares. Smells would trigger memories and just different things. So i went to one of the centers and actually talked to someone two or three times. Reporter also being announced at this event, a scholarship named after the three Gilroy Police officers who were quick to act that day and saved so many lives on top of that, nearly 2 million has been raised to help victims of the shooting, truly a Community Rising together. And the garlic festival was supposed to return this year. It wouldve taken place last weekend. But of course due to the covid19 pandemic, it was postponed and it will be held in july of 2021. Stay here with us. S