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"content": "\u003cp>Trinity County is one of those places that doesn’t get in the news much, unless it’s wildfire season like it is right now. It's a beautiful, remote, rural part of northern California. It's also one of the state's most food insecure places, where many people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I decided to travel to Trinity, to meet one man who helps feed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun has barely come up in the tiny town of Douglas City, and three men are almost done packing a couple of trucks with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re loaded to the gills,” says Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank. He points to produce like cabbage, white onions and sweet potatoes, along with packaged and canned foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England’s the director of the Trinity County Food Bank. 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The closest large grocery store is 100 miles away. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I make my trip, because of all the twisty, turny roads, I kinda have to take it a little bit easy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too sharp a turn can upend the pallets of food he’s carefully packed for today’s 10-and-a-half-hour drive. It's over 100 degrees, and there’s no air conditioning in the cab. Out the windshield I see vehicles that have fallen off the side of the road, and thickly forested mountains on one jagged ridge after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was just flattened out completely, with the mountains and everything else, it would be the size of Texas,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Without the food bank, you just go without'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We drop into a valley, to the former mill town of Hayfork. After a couple stops at senior centers, we come to the Solid Rock Church, where more than 50 people line up for prepared foods, produce, and special boxes for seniors. England cobbles together this food from a spider's web of local, state and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresia Kirkland’s here volunteering, but she also collects free food which she often combines in casseroles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the food bank, you just go without,” she tells me. “I’m on Social Security, and after you pay all your bills, if you have an emergency -- if you have a flat tire or anything that needs to be taken care of -- you need to wait til the next month. By the fourth or fifth of the month, I’m broke. Can’t go nowhere, can’t socialize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes for a long month. 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But you can't eat marijuana.'\u003ccite>Sue Corrigan,\u003cbr>\n farmers market manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Last month I got a $180 ticket for being homeless in the National Forest. I didn’t even know that was the law,\" he says, with a slightly bitter laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s grateful for the food he gets here each month. “You get a can of this, a can of that. It’s better than nothing, but we should get more. I mean, this is America. Come on. We should come first. If we can help other countries, why can’t we help ourselves?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 10 California counties actually have higher poverty than Trinity County, but Trinity is one of the state’s most food insecure places. To find out why, I head to what looks like the center of food abundance in Trinity County: the farmers market in Weaverville. Market manager Sue Corrigan is shopping for zucchini, tomatillos for salsa and onions her husband will make into onion rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she points to one vendor selling tomatoes, squash and cucumbers, Corrigan tells me something surprising, “We don’t have a lot of farmers in Trinity. This farmer is our only farmer in the Weaverville area\" -- the only local of about 10 farmers selling produce here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed to bring farmers in to bump our food source up,” Corrigan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-960x693.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riding with Jeff England, I’ve already seen that most of the land here is too mountainous to grow much produce. Making matters worse, Corrigan says, years ago, much of the potential farmland was taken out of commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family had farmland here dating back to the 1830s. In the 1950s, Corrigan’s dad went away to college to study agriculture, but had to change his major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government was taking our land,” she says, to build the Trinity Dam, part of the Central Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our last areas that was open enough to do farming, and they buried it with a lake,” she says, wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrigan says it’s all about priorities in Trinity County. “We’ve had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush which, is called the 'green rush.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t eat marijuana, she says. \"The focus has been on other industries and not a food sustainable industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Braving Risky Roads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One more explanation for Trinity’s food insecurity? Isolation. I see this first hand as Jeff England approaches his most remote food bank drop-off spot. He maneuvers around most of the potholes on these bumpy, poorly maintained roads. Last year’s winter storms even blocked one of his routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was only one road you couldn’t get through,” he says. “Of course it was at about 5,000 feet and the snow was horrendous and people got stuck. It took me two months to get there and I brought two months’ worth of food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s saying this like it was nothing, but England drove this old truck that doesn’t have four-wheel drive in the snow, on a closed road. State highway workers told him if he got stuck, he was on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'I have to go.' I slipped, lost traction, gained traction,” he remembers. “I just knew they needed the food so I decided to take the chance, and I made it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff England unloads boxes at his last stop, Ruth Lake. Site supervisor Sandy Rasche says 45 families come to get food. The local population hovers around 200.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617325\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-960x703.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EnglandFoodBankDelivery-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff England unloads boxes at his last stop, Ruth Lake. Site supervisor Sandy Rasche says 45 families come to get food. The local population hovers around 200. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That takes a lot of guts,” says Lauren Turner. She’s come to the food drop-off at the volunteer fire department in Zenia, a tiny town on the border of Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming up the back of the mountain, they call it Refrigerator Alley for a reason,” she says. “It gets pretty slick. So, we’re grateful. It’s not easy up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for doing some computer work, Turner and her partner live on a friend’s ranch nearby. But where do they go to get groceries?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually it’s 100 miles in any direction from here to a large town,” she says. That’s more than a two-hour drive, one-way, to Eureka or Redding. They only do that once a month. In between, they rely on the food bank delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep the canned good for times when we can’t get off the hill, and the fresh food, I get imaginative,” she says. “I like to take the veggies and cook them in fruit juice and then I like to put fish on top of them the last 15-20 minutes. Sometime we get frozen fish so I make a lot of one-pot meals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A lot of people don’t know what it is to be hungry. ... I'm so happy to be able to turn the table and be able to help people that might have been in my shoes before.'\u003ccite>Jeff England\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>England says he and his team have more than doubled the amount of food they’re bringing into Trinity County in the last year. The food bank and \u003ca href=\"https://www.trinitycountyfoodbank.com/\">Trinity County Food Assistance\u003c/a> deliver one bag or box of food to 2,500 households each month. That’s 20 percent of the county. And they could do more, but their antiquated refrigerator and freezer are so small, sometimes they have to decline donations of perishable food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we probably have the lowest operating budget in the state. Our operating budget’s about $41,000 a year.” He and his wife clean summer vacation homes to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says the community here is incredibly supportive, but some people have complained that the food bank just enables drug addicted or homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t judge people, and those druggies have kids. The kids might not get food normally,” England says, but if the food bank provides, they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, if you’re hungry, you’re hungry,\" he says. \"I don’t care who you are. You’re black, white, Indian, Mexican, fat, skinny, or from out of the county. If you’re hungry, you’re hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8nforG41Utf0dXCPVOG0DlYyxvizE9qb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of judgement, it comes from personal experience. England says he’s been out of work before, \"and I’ve struggled in the past, a long time ago, with some addiction problems. It just felt so good to be able to go to a place when you’re hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers that first meal in a soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was in a church. It was spaghetti, garlic bread and a salad,” he recalls, and they sent him and others home with cans of soup and chili for additional meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t know what it is to be hungry,” he explains, “but if you’ve ever been hungry, it’s a horrible feeling. You’re weak. You can’t do anything. You don’t have any ambitions. I’m so happy to be able to turn the table and be able to help people that might have been in my shoes before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, just look at the logo of the food bank, a person on a pedestal, reaching down helping someone else up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ariel Plotnick contributed additional reporting and research for this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This piece was produced in collaboration with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food & Environment Reporting network\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a non-profit, investigative news organization. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He'll drive 230 miles today, 650 miles by the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, delivers items in remote Zenia, California. The closest large grocery store is 100 miles away.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617287\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-960x702.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/UnloadingTruck-520x380.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, delivers items in remote Zenia, California. The closest large grocery store is 100 miles away. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I make my trip, because of all the twisty, turny roads, I kinda have to take it a little bit easy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too sharp a turn can upend the pallets of food he’s carefully packed for today’s 10-and-a-half-hour drive. It's over 100 degrees, and there’s no air conditioning in the cab. Out the windshield I see vehicles that have fallen off the side of the road, and thickly forested mountains on one jagged ridge after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was just flattened out completely, with the mountains and everything else, it would be the size of Texas,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Without the food bank, you just go without'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We drop into a valley, to the former mill town of Hayfork. After a couple stops at senior centers, we come to the Solid Rock Church, where more than 50 people line up for prepared foods, produce, and special boxes for seniors. England cobbles together this food from a spider's web of local, state and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresia Kirkland’s here volunteering, but she also collects free food which she often combines in casseroles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the food bank, you just go without,” she tells me. “I’m on Social Security, and after you pay all your bills, if you have an emergency -- if you have a flat tire or anything that needs to be taken care of -- you need to wait til the next month. By the fourth or fifth of the month, I’m broke. Can’t go nowhere, can’t socialize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes for a long month. A long, long month,” chimes in Glenda Raines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers Christen Hutchason and Teresia Kirkland hand out food to more than 50 people at Solid Rock Church in the former mill town of Hayfork.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FoodVolunteers-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers Christen Hutchason and Teresia Kirkland hand out food to more than 50 people at Solid Rock Church in the former mill town of Hayfork. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both of these women say they used to supplement their budgets by taking items to a recycling center in Hayfork, but that’s closed now. Raines says, until recently, she and her husband were homeless, camping out by the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A friend let us stay in a garage made into a little cabin. I don’t know how long that’s going to last. I’m still considered homeless.” She’s happy, at least, to be off the creek and out of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raines says she prepares the food she receives on a little propane stove. Her husband Gary approaches me to say he’s frustrated that there’s not more senior housing, and that a glut of marijuana growers coming into Hayfork are jacking up rents. He says he worked in the Hayfork sawmill for 17 years when it was still open. When he broke his back, he retired. Now he gets just over $800 a month in Social Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We've had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush. But you can't eat marijuana.'\u003ccite>Sue Corrigan,\u003cbr>\n farmers market manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Last month I got a $180 ticket for being homeless in the National Forest. I didn’t even know that was the law,\" he says, with a slightly bitter laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s grateful for the food he gets here each month. “You get a can of this, a can of that. It’s better than nothing, but we should get more. I mean, this is America. Come on. We should come first. If we can help other countries, why can’t we help ourselves?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 10 California counties actually have higher poverty than Trinity County, but Trinity is one of the state’s most food insecure places. To find out why, I head to what looks like the center of food abundance in Trinity County: the farmers market in Weaverville. Market manager Sue Corrigan is shopping for zucchini, tomatillos for salsa and onions her husband will make into onion rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she points to one vendor selling tomatoes, squash and cucumbers, Corrigan tells me something surprising, “We don’t have a lot of farmers in Trinity. This farmer is our only farmer in the Weaverville area\" -- the only local of about 10 farmers selling produce here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed to bring farmers in to bump our food source up,” Corrigan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-960x693.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/FarmersMarket-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riding with Jeff England, I’ve already seen that most of the land here is too mountainous to grow much produce. Making matters worse, Corrigan says, years ago, much of the potential farmland was taken out of commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family had farmland here dating back to the 1830s. In the 1950s, Corrigan’s dad went away to college to study agriculture, but had to change his major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government was taking our land,” she says, to build the Trinity Dam, part of the Central Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our last areas that was open enough to do farming, and they buried it with a lake,” she says, wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrigan says it’s all about priorities in Trinity County. “We’ve had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush which, is called the 'green rush.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t eat marijuana, she says. \"The focus has been on other industries and not a food sustainable industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Braving Risky Roads\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One more explanation for Trinity’s food insecurity? Isolation. I see this first hand as Jeff England approaches his most remote food bank drop-off spot. He maneuvers around most of the potholes on these bumpy, poorly maintained roads. Last year’s winter storms even blocked one of his routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was only one road you couldn’t get through,” he says. “Of course it was at about 5,000 feet and the snow was horrendous and people got stuck. It took me two months to get there and I brought two months’ worth of food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s saying this like it was nothing, but England drove this old truck that doesn’t have four-wheel drive in the snow, on a closed road. State highway workers told him if he got stuck, he was on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'I have to go.' 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And they could do more, but their antiquated refrigerator and freezer are so small, sometimes they have to decline donations of perishable food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we probably have the lowest operating budget in the state. Our operating budget’s about $41,000 a year.” He and his wife clean summer vacation homes to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says the community here is incredibly supportive, but some people have complained that the food bank just enables drug addicted or homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t judge people, and those druggies have kids. The kids might not get food normally,” England says, but if the food bank provides, they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, if you’re hungry, you’re hungry,\" he says. \"I don’t care who you are. You’re black, white, Indian, Mexican, fat, skinny, or from out of the county. 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"content": "\u003cp>It should come as no surprise that when the California Legislature recently began the process of divvying up proceeds from the state’s cap-and-trade auctions, a cavalcade of local officials, community activists and lobbyists rushed to Sacramento, with hands out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billions of dollars burning a hole in the state’s pocket has that effect on people, and the competition is fierce. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appeals from advocates to fund pet projects were spread over two days in late August, in windowless rooms before sometimes distracted officials. The requests are for cash for electric vehicles, to create green spaces, even for machines to cut pollution from cow manure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brevity is prized in this legislative equivalent of speed dating, which plays out in front of committees in the Senate and Assembly. There’s scant time to make the case for your cause. Talk too much, and you risk irritating the panelists. Nobody wants the stink eye from the people with the purse strings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thirty to 60 seconds is the sweet spot,” said Amy Vanderwarker, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://caleja.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Environmental Justice Alliance\u003c/a>, who sought millions in funding for programs that help people in low-income communities adapt to climate change with solar panels and weatherproofing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vanderwarker and the dozens of others who filed through, there’s a lot at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly $5 billion has flowed into the state’s unique Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund since 2013. The money is raised when the state auctions permits to pollute, part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/on-ramp-californias-climate-change-planwhat_is_the_california_global_warming_solutions_act_and_is_it_working/\" target=\"_blank\">California’s program\u003c/a> to cap planet-warming emissions. The account fluctuates with the carbon market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big chunk of the revenue each year is spoken for, set aside for the state’s high-speed rail plan, affordable housing and a host of transit projects. The discretionary portion amounts to about 40 percent of the total and must go toward projects that lower greenhouse gas emissions or assist low-income areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"865\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11616476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-160x252.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-240x377.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-375x590.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-520x818.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feeding frenzy this time was for less than $1 billion, and balancing the account won’t be easy. Lawmakers’ wish lists total $3.5 billion, the governor wants $1.5 billion, and the supplicants came in seeking more than $2 billion. There’s list overlap -- many of the projects are the same, but they cannot all be fully funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the outset of the Senate hearing, Bob Wieckowski, a Fremont Democrat who chairs the budget subcommittee, attempted to lower expectations for those who saw a bottomless well. There’s $842 million for use now, he told the audience, so work with that when making requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an art to queuing up for a shot at the pot of gold. Better to be an earlier speaker when attention spans are fresh, or at the end, to get the last word? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Hughes, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvans.org/about-us/history-of-calvans\" target=\"_blank\">California Vanpool Authority\u003c/a>, employed the early-bird strategy: “Sit toward the front” during the opening portion of the proceedings, he said -- prime placement to snag a spot at the front of the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be pressed cheek by jowl with high-priced lobbyists and speak before harried legislators “is always intimidating,” Hughes said. “I’m from a small town, Hanford. You’ve got to stand there and have your ‘elevator speech’ ready. It’s uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes’ “ask,” as the requests are known, was among the day’s most modest: $6 million to fund the statewide system of vans that ferry farm workers to and from the fields, reducing traffic and keeping heavily polluting jalopies off the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblyman Richard Bloom\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616474\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-960x652.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-520x353.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Richard Bloom \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over in the Assembly, Richard Bloom, a Democrat from Santa Monica, chaired the hearing. “Remain orderly and don’t elbow anyone out of the way,” he announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Podemski, planning director for the community group Pacoima Beautiful, was preparing an ask for the first time and wasn’t ready for the rush when the public was welcomed to the floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was sitting there, and all of a sudden there was a stampede” to the microphone, Podemski said. His group wants $20 million for greening and beautification of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacoimabeautiful.org/what-we-do/community-planning\" target=\"_blank\">Pacoima Wash\u003c/a>, a 10-mile flood-control channel in the San Fernando Valley. The funds would provide park space, a bike path and connections to public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jockeying can get testy. There was much harrumphing when a delegation of uniformed fire chiefs, resplendent in brass-buttoned and beribboned uniforms, broke from protocol and cut to the front of the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two and a half hours, the last speaker in line, Terry McHale, a lobbyist for a state firefighters union, drew appreciative chuckles as he acknowledged the ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not since my large Irish Catholic family would line up for allowance have I been in such a long line of people with their hand out,” McHale said. “Being the smallest in my family, I was the last in that line, too.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the Senate, the knot in Wieckowski’s tie was slipping south and the line of those still waiting to speak had no end in sight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, everyone had their say, if not their money. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will vote on the entreaties—they typically favor transportation, forestry, agriculture and urban “greening” projects—before adjourning for the year on Sep. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The discretionary portion amounts to about 40 percent of the total and must go toward projects that lower greenhouse gas emissions or assist low-income areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"865\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11616476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-160x252.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-240x377.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-375x590.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/BrownCapTrade-520x818.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feeding frenzy this time was for less than $1 billion, and balancing the account won’t be easy. 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Better to be an earlier speaker when attention spans are fresh, or at the end, to get the last word? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Hughes, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calvans.org/about-us/history-of-calvans\" target=\"_blank\">California Vanpool Authority\u003c/a>, employed the early-bird strategy: “Sit toward the front” during the opening portion of the proceedings, he said -- prime placement to snag a spot at the front of the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be pressed cheek by jowl with high-priced lobbyists and speak before harried legislators “is always intimidating,” Hughes said. “I’m from a small town, Hanford. You’ve got to stand there and have your ‘elevator speech’ ready. It’s uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes’ “ask,” as the requests are known, was among the day’s most modest: $6 million to fund the statewide system of vans that ferry farm workers to and from the fields, reducing traffic and keeping heavily polluting jalopies off the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblyman Richard Bloom\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616474\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-960x652.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RichardBloom-520x353.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblyman Richard Bloom \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over in the Assembly, Richard Bloom, a Democrat from Santa Monica, chaired the hearing. “Remain orderly and don’t elbow anyone out of the way,” he announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Podemski, planning director for the community group Pacoima Beautiful, was preparing an ask for the first time and wasn’t ready for the rush when the public was welcomed to the floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was sitting there, and all of a sudden there was a stampede” to the microphone, Podemski said. His group wants $20 million for greening and beautification of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacoimabeautiful.org/what-we-do/community-planning\" target=\"_blank\">Pacoima Wash\u003c/a>, a 10-mile flood-control channel in the San Fernando Valley. The funds would provide park space, a bike path and connections to public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jockeying can get testy. There was much harrumphing when a delegation of uniformed fire chiefs, resplendent in brass-buttoned and beribboned uniforms, broke from protocol and cut to the front of the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two and a half hours, the last speaker in line, Terry McHale, a lobbyist for a state firefighters union, drew appreciative chuckles as he acknowledged the ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not since my large Irish Catholic family would line up for allowance have I been in such a long line of people with their hand out,” McHale said. “Being the smallest in my family, I was the last in that line, too.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the Senate, the knot in Wieckowski’s tie was slipping south and the line of those still waiting to speak had no end in sight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, everyone had their say, if not their money. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will vote on the entreaties—they typically favor transportation, forestry, agriculture and urban “greening” projects—before adjourning for the year on Sep. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Che Al-Barri remembers feeling like he was drowning in debt last year. He had taken out a $70,000 loan for his small cleaning company, but was struggling to repay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lender, a financial technology — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/02/10/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-fintech-in-2017/#52992e173340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fintech\u003c/a> — company, automatically collected $331 from his bank account daily, Monday through Friday. The frequent hits depleted his income and took a toll on his business, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get hit every single day you have no time to breathe,” said Al-Barri, 45, who grew up in Richmond. “It put me up against the wall. There was many times I pulled the covers over my head and just laid there like, ‘Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri’s predicament points to an intensifying debate about the booming online lending industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/FaridaOnlineLending.mp3\" title=\"Part 1: Online 'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26158_IMG_0814-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/OnlineLoanTrouble.mp3\" title=\"Part 2: Online 'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\nMany observers see glittering potential for fintech companies to solve an age-old problem: connecting entrepreneurs — especially in minority and low-income communities struggling to get financing from banks — with capital to grow their businesses. Critics counter the fast-changing sector is operating in a regulatory void and that some online lenders are sinking vulnerable business owners with exorbitant costs and grueling repayment terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Al-Barri, taking a big loan seemed like a great opportunity at first. Large clients were taking months to pay him, he said, and he wanted to buy equipment and hire employees to expand. But he underestimated how much he would earn, making it very difficult to repay the loan plus the $30,000 in interest he owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to get out of a bad situation and jumped into a worse one,” said Al-Barri, who declined to name the online lender. His company, J.C. Professional Services, cleans high-rise windows, solar panels and office buildings throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech companies use electronic data and computer algorithms to screen borrowers quickly, in a matter of hours or days, usually through online applications. Applicants typically apply for loans under $250,000, the amount most small business owners in the U.S. are looking for, researchers say. The cash for the loans comes from banks, hedge funds and other investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rapidly Expanding Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Great Recession, as big banks cut down on their small business lending, fintech stepped in to fill the unmet demand for credit. The industry has boomed, putting it on track to lend as much as $90 billion a year by 2020. That’s according to analysts cited in \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Documents/Opportunities_and_Challenges_in_Online_Marketplace_Lending_white_paper.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the U.S. Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech lenders are expanding access to capital while slashing the time and cost of underwriting small-dollar loans. That’s a game changer for entrepreneurs trying to grow and create jobs, said Karen Mills, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is a really positive thing for the small business owner,” said Mills, who headed the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The innovations in financial technology, Mills added, could particularly help women- and minority-owned businesses, as well as other markets underserved by traditional financial institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as more small business owners have run into trouble after taking expensive online loans, there’s been a growing call for greater oversight, said Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If fintech is going to be a solution for small-dollar loans, it is extremely important that we make it transparent and make sure the bad actors don’t take advantage of some of these small business owners,” said Mills, who is working with federal regulators on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Online Loans Are Fast and Easy To Use, Say Borrowers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convenience was a major reason Tina Paclebar and Jane Nacelli, the owners of a Hayward delivery company, began using online loans from a San Francisco-based fintech company called Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they applied over a year ago, Fundbox connected to their accounting software. Fundbox’s algorithms then crunched through their income, expenses and how much they were owed by clients, to calculate whether to give them a revolving line of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the click of a button, Nacelli and Paclebar can borrow up to $22,500, and the money will be deposited in their bank account within two days, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s convenient and integrated and it gives you that peace of mind that you have a backup plan when you need plan B,” said 46-year-old Paclebar. The couple has used those loans to buy vehicles to expand their business and cover drivers’ salaries when clients take longer than expected to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11610847 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4919\" height=\"3433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg 4919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1920x1340.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-960x670.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-375x262.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4919px) 100vw, 4919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Nacelli (left) and Tina Paclebar stand with their daughter Kameron, 8, and dog Waffle at their company’s offices in Hayward. “They were willing to give us money and we needed it at the time,” said Paclebar of online lender Fundbox. “Sometimes you just have to take a chance.” \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paclebar and Nacelli had applied to their longtime bank, Citibank, for a $75,000 loan to upgrade their vehicle fleet this year. But after turning in their paperwork, going through interviews and waiting for weeks, the bank rejected them, the women said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big banks have not worked for us,” said Nacelli, 41, adding that the bank cited minor past late credit card payments for declining the loan. Citibank declined to comment on their application, citing customer privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Fundbox doesn’t consider personal credit scores when deciding whether to approve a loan. That opens the online lender to work with entrepreneurs who may have lower personal credit scores but growing businesses, said Greg Powell, who directs marketing at Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why what we’re doing is, I think, so important. We are really looking at the health of the business and not the individual,” Powell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the quick access to cash comes at a cost. Fundbox’s clients face an average annual interest rate between 40 and 50 percent, something savvy customers like Paclebar and Nacelli are keenly aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do look at the fees and you are like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot,'” said Nacelli, pointing to the fees of up to $1,000 for a $6,500 loan. “But if you take only what you need and you pay it back early, it’s a great tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fundbox and other online lenders allow borrowers to save on weekly or monthly fees if they pay back a loan’s original amount early, a key feature that Nacelli uses to reduce the expense of their online financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powell argues that using \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> interest rates to measure his company’s fees inflates the cost of its loans, because their clients have a shorter repayment term, just 3 or 6 months. In addition, his company discloses the dollar amount of their fees up front, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is ever surprised with the amount that they need to repay,” said Powell. “We are able to serve small business with the number one thing they need, access to capital, in a fair, transparent and user-friendly way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11610848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Paclebar closes one of her delivery company’s 26-foot trucks in Hayward. “This is a male dominated industry. We have to work 10 times as hard to show we can do the work,” she said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Nothing Short of Online Payday Lending’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some online lenders are working responsibly, others are less transparent about their costs and underwriting, said Eric Weaver, CEO and founder of Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit lender that has helped dozens of small business owners refinance \u003ca href=\"https://www.opportunityfund.org/media/blog/unaffordable-and-unsustainable-new-opportunity-fund-report/\">expensive online loans\u003c/a>. In other cases, Opportunity Fund has been unable to help business owners too deep in debt, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these lenders are just lending people way more money than they could afford and they’re not disclosing the terms transparently. They never quote an APR,” or annual percentage rate, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state \u003ca href=\"http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Press/press_releases/2016/Survey%20Response%20Release%2004-08-16.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of more than a dozen fintech companies operating in California found the median APR for small business loans ranged from 15 to 51 percent. But some online lenders reported loans with APRs of more than 100 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high costs can force mom and pop shop owners to close, said Jose Corona, director of equity for Oakland’s mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you peel down the layers and see the products they are offering, it’s nothing short of online payday lending,” said Corona, adding that surveys by the city have revealed that many fintech borrowers are Latino, African-American or Asian residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll go to the minority business to say, ‘Look we have a solution for you.’ But their terms are so predatory that it can actually put people out of business,” said Corona, who for years directed a local organization that trains and invests in small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Online Lenders Say They Offer Opportunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other lending industries, riskier customers pay higher costs because they are less likely to repay a loan, said Kathryn Petralia, president and co-founder at Kabbage, one of the largest fintech business lenders in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those risky businesses do pay more, but they need a chance,” said Petralia, whose company offers short-term loans with APRs from 18 to 99 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have an opportunity to do something they really wanted to do with resources that were previously unavailable to them because nobody thought they were worth it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s true that some customers facing the highest interest rates default on their loans, said Petralia, others are able to use that money to turn profits and become more stable borrowers over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company benefits from clients fully understanding the total cost of their loan so that they are able to calculate if that financing will work for their business, said Petralia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason Kabbage, On Deck and other fintech business lenders created an easy-to-read price tag last year — they call it a Smart Box — that shows the annual interest rate, fees and total cost of a loan before customers click yes on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This effort by online lenders to increase their transparency is a sign that the industry is maturing, said Harvard’s Karen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phase one was the Wild West. Phase two is partnerships with more banks,” said Mills, referring to deals such as JPMorgan Chase turning to online lender On Deck to make more small business loans to the bank’s customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regulators Try to Catch Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, fintech companies deal with a mix of regulators that oversee different aspects of their business at the state and federal levels. That’s why representatives at Fundbox and Kabbage said they are interested in a new proposal by the federal agency that regulates large national banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is considering a license that would allow online to operate as “special purpose” banks nationwide. The companies that apply for such a license would not take deposits from customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need the federal banking system to be more inclusive, to accommodate new banks, and to adapt to the changing needs of the marketplace, customers and communities,” said Keith Noreika, acting comptroller of the currency, in a July \u003ca href=\"https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2017/nr-occ-2017-82.html\">speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulators are against such a federal license because it would result in losing authority to protect consumers, said Jan Lynn Owen, the commissioner of the state’s Department of Business Oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are on the ground, we see issues faster,” said Owen. “We also believe that the state laws do a much better job of addressing anti-discrimination and fair lending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York State and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.csbs.org/news/press-releases/pr2017/Pages/042617.aspx\">sued\u003c/a> to stop creation of a national fintech license, arguing that federal authorities are overstepping their authority. Owen agrees with that assessment. California has historically overseen alternative lenders that do not take deposits and she said most online lenders fit that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her agency is gathering data from fintech lenders and looking into requiring companies operating in California to be licensed with the state even if these online lenders are working with out-of-state banks to originate loans, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The laws that we currently have on the books aren’t always in the 21st century,” said Owen, who has been meeting with heads of fintech companies to better understand their business. “We look to these companies to help us change the laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Che Al-Barri, the cleaning company owner, is wary of too much regulation. He said it could put financing out of reach for people like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everything gets so regulated that it’s just like banks again, I would have never gotten in a position where I would have gotten any kind of funding,” said Al-Barri. He added that before he opted for his online loan, he was rejected by several banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri’s online loan documents did not disclose an annual interest rate, but what really hurt him, he said, was believing the loan would be a good bet for his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know how they say ignorance is bliss? Ignorance is deadly. It can kill you financially,” said Al-Barri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since struggling with his loan, he decided to educate himself on how the financial system works and how to use it to his advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has read his copy of “Personal Finance for Dummies” several times, and during his long drives across the Bay Area for work, he listens to audio books on finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Financial literacy is the key,” said Al-Barri. “If you don’t know how to manage your finances and business, you’re going to lose it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri was able keep his business. He used his income and borrowed from close friends and family to repay most of his loan. He was then able to refinance the remainder of his debt through Opportunity Fund, the nonprofit lender, at a lower interest rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he gets offers for more financing “all the time,” he said. But he ignores them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nMany observers see glittering potential for fintech companies to solve an age-old problem: connecting entrepreneurs — especially in minority and low-income communities struggling to get financing from banks — with capital to grow their businesses. Critics counter the fast-changing sector is operating in a regulatory void and that some online lenders are sinking vulnerable business owners with exorbitant costs and grueling repayment terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Al-Barri, taking a big loan seemed like a great opportunity at first. Large clients were taking months to pay him, he said, and he wanted to buy equipment and hire employees to expand. But he underestimated how much he would earn, making it very difficult to repay the loan plus the $30,000 in interest he owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to get out of a bad situation and jumped into a worse one,” said Al-Barri, who declined to name the online lender. His company, J.C. Professional Services, cleans high-rise windows, solar panels and office buildings throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech companies use electronic data and computer algorithms to screen borrowers quickly, in a matter of hours or days, usually through online applications. Applicants typically apply for loans under $250,000, the amount most small business owners in the U.S. are looking for, researchers say. The cash for the loans comes from banks, hedge funds and other investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rapidly Expanding Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Great Recession, as big banks cut down on their small business lending, fintech stepped in to fill the unmet demand for credit. The industry has boomed, putting it on track to lend as much as $90 billion a year by 2020. That’s according to analysts cited in \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Documents/Opportunities_and_Challenges_in_Online_Marketplace_Lending_white_paper.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the U.S. Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech lenders are expanding access to capital while slashing the time and cost of underwriting small-dollar loans. That’s a game changer for entrepreneurs trying to grow and create jobs, said Karen Mills, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is a really positive thing for the small business owner,” said Mills, who headed the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The innovations in financial technology, Mills added, could particularly help women- and minority-owned businesses, as well as other markets underserved by traditional financial institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as more small business owners have run into trouble after taking expensive online loans, there’s been a growing call for greater oversight, said Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If fintech is going to be a solution for small-dollar loans, it is extremely important that we make it transparent and make sure the bad actors don’t take advantage of some of these small business owners,” said Mills, who is working with federal regulators on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Online Loans Are Fast and Easy To Use, Say Borrowers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convenience was a major reason Tina Paclebar and Jane Nacelli, the owners of a Hayward delivery company, began using online loans from a San Francisco-based fintech company called Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they applied over a year ago, Fundbox connected to their accounting software. Fundbox’s algorithms then crunched through their income, expenses and how much they were owed by clients, to calculate whether to give them a revolving line of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the click of a button, Nacelli and Paclebar can borrow up to $22,500, and the money will be deposited in their bank account within two days, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s convenient and integrated and it gives you that peace of mind that you have a backup plan when you need plan B,” said 46-year-old Paclebar. The couple has used those loans to buy vehicles to expand their business and cover drivers’ salaries when clients take longer than expected to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11610847 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4919\" height=\"3433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg 4919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1920x1340.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-960x670.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-375x262.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4919px) 100vw, 4919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Nacelli (left) and Tina Paclebar stand with their daughter Kameron, 8, and dog Waffle at their company’s offices in Hayward. “They were willing to give us money and we needed it at the time,” said Paclebar of online lender Fundbox. “Sometimes you just have to take a chance.” \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paclebar and Nacelli had applied to their longtime bank, Citibank, for a $75,000 loan to upgrade their vehicle fleet this year. But after turning in their paperwork, going through interviews and waiting for weeks, the bank rejected them, the women said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big banks have not worked for us,” said Nacelli, 41, adding that the bank cited minor past late credit card payments for declining the loan. Citibank declined to comment on their application, citing customer privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Fundbox doesn’t consider personal credit scores when deciding whether to approve a loan. That opens the online lender to work with entrepreneurs who may have lower personal credit scores but growing businesses, said Greg Powell, who directs marketing at Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why what we’re doing is, I think, so important. We are really looking at the health of the business and not the individual,” Powell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the quick access to cash comes at a cost. Fundbox’s clients face an average annual interest rate between 40 and 50 percent, something savvy customers like Paclebar and Nacelli are keenly aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do look at the fees and you are like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot,'” said Nacelli, pointing to the fees of up to $1,000 for a $6,500 loan. “But if you take only what you need and you pay it back early, it’s a great tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fundbox and other online lenders allow borrowers to save on weekly or monthly fees if they pay back a loan’s original amount early, a key feature that Nacelli uses to reduce the expense of their online financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powell argues that using \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> interest rates to measure his company’s fees inflates the cost of its loans, because their clients have a shorter repayment term, just 3 or 6 months. In addition, his company discloses the dollar amount of their fees up front, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is ever surprised with the amount that they need to repay,” said Powell. “We are able to serve small business with the number one thing they need, access to capital, in a fair, transparent and user-friendly way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11610848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Paclebar closes one of her delivery company’s 26-foot trucks in Hayward. “This is a male dominated industry. We have to work 10 times as hard to show we can do the work,” she said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Nothing Short of Online Payday Lending’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some online lenders are working responsibly, others are less transparent about their costs and underwriting, said Eric Weaver, CEO and founder of Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit lender that has helped dozens of small business owners refinance \u003ca href=\"https://www.opportunityfund.org/media/blog/unaffordable-and-unsustainable-new-opportunity-fund-report/\">expensive online loans\u003c/a>. In other cases, Opportunity Fund has been unable to help business owners too deep in debt, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these lenders are just lending people way more money than they could afford and they’re not disclosing the terms transparently. They never quote an APR,” or annual percentage rate, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state \u003ca href=\"http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Press/press_releases/2016/Survey%20Response%20Release%2004-08-16.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of more than a dozen fintech companies operating in California found the median APR for small business loans ranged from 15 to 51 percent. 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"content": "\u003cp>A backlash against high rents and home prices in Los Angeles has produced a movement that is so open to new development that many call themselves YIMBYs — as in “Yes in My Backyard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their mantra is \"build everything\" — be it subsidized affordable units or pricey condos. Local YIMBY leader Brent Gaisford, 27, of the group Abundant Housing L.A., is on a mission to show how adding homes for people of all incomes is good for the entire market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It helps me, because those who can afford luxury units stop competing with me on apartments,\" Gaisford said. \"The housing market is like a game of musical chairs, but like a sinister one where if you have more money you can always take my chair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pro-development stance clashes with other housing activists who want to focus on building below-market rate housing, and also with — not surprisingly — the \"Not in My Backyard\" contingent, a mix of homeowners fearing more crowding and traffic and tenants worried about gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"10dPkS1mnDaoUxoT8YwvJRYIQEq4GIm3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide gulf between those who support construction above all else and those that oppose development at every turn shows why solving the housing crisis is so intractable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature is taking up a\u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/28/75118/housing-deal-reached-by-gov-brown-legislative-demo/\"> package of bills\u003c/a> that if approved would provide funding for affordable housing and streamlining the development process. But it's not clear how far the legislation would go in solving a decades-long problem in a deep and significant way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The YIMBY group Abundant Housing L.A. hosted a well-attended event with state legislators speaking about their housing bills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The YIMBY group Abundant Housing L.A. hosted a well-attended event with state legislators speaking about their housing bills. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since its formation two years ago, Abundant Housing has lobbied for denser, taller projects by mass transit and state legislation that removes obstacles to development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, they worked on a successful campaign to defeat \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/08/69706/why-did-measure-s-lose-so-badly/\">Measure S\u003c/a>, a ballot measure that would have put a two-year freeze on major construction in L.A. Members spent hundreds of hours knocking on doors and working the phones in what Gaisford calls the group's \"big coming-out party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The housing market is like a game of musical chairs, but like a sinister one where if you have more money you can always take my chair.'\u003ccite>Brent Gaisford, Abundant Housing L.A.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gaisford counts more than 900 members in his group, including students, urbanists, progressives and developers. Gaisford himself left a job as a management consultant last year to try his hand at building apartments, and perhaps, he said, help solve the housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love it here. I would love to stay,\" Gaisford said of L.A. \"But the number one thing that makes it hard for me to envision is the cost of living.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the featured speakers at a recent Abundant Housing event held at USC earlier this month was state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, a hotbed of YIMBY organizing. Wiener, a self-proclaimed YIMBY, credited the movement with providing support for pro-housing legislation like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to thank the YIMBY movement in general for activating so many people — and so many young people — into housing activism,\" Wiener told the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11615348 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) speaks to an attendee at an Abundant Housing LA event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-1180x776.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) speaks to an attendee at an Abundant Housing L.A. event. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener's bill, SB 35, is a key component of the state's package of housing legislation being considered in Sacramento. The bill would speed up the approval process for multifamily developments in cities that fall short of their goals for building new housing. In some cases, that could include housing units that sell at market-rate prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YIMBY groups around the state, such as Abundant Housing, have registered their support for the legislation, arguing that increased housing will help go long way toward easing the housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"OQi4kL4IbeQ2elKy7GehHIwLSoLPkPP6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a theory accepted by many housing economists, including Richard Green, director of USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s like anything else, the more you produce of something, the less expensive it’s going to be,\" Green said. \"That part of economics really does work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other housing activists are wary of allowing for an influx of even more expensive housing, which already makes up the vast majority of what developers are building in L.A. as they seek to cover their high land and construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people are just leaving the city because there’s nowhere you can afford to move to,\" said Laura Raymond of ACT-LA, a pro-housing and transit group. Data \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/15/74539/many-renters-in-los-angeles-don-t-plan-to-settle-d/\">bear that out\u003c/a>. Raymond said solutions to the crisis should prioritize creating affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615352\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"Councilmember José Huizar advocates for a linkage fee before the planning panel meeting he helmed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-800x610.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-1020x777.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-1180x899.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-960x732.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-375x286.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Huizar-520x396.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilman José Huizar advocates for a linkage fee before the planning panel meeting he helmed. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recent months have underscored the differences between YIMBYs and their fellow housing activists. A proposal by L.A. city officials to charge developers a so-called linkage fee to pay for affordable units has the widespread support of housing advocates who turned out by the dozens for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/23/74894/fee-on-new-construction-in-la-up-for-council-vote/\">recent hearing\u003c/a> to show their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same advocates are pressing the city to adopt \"inclusionary zoning,\" which would force developers who build market-rate housing to designate a certain percentage of their units for subsidized housing. Santa Monica \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/07/31/74251/developers-in-santa-monica-face-experiment-in-prov/\">recently adopted\u003c/a> a version of inclusionary zoning and plans to monitor its impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocate Neil McGuffin of the Little Tokyo Service Center said that state and local leaders need to encourage affordable housing to prevent the displacement of longtime residents that's taken place in neighborhoods like Little Tokyo in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RPg3Lh19ATLPyViRl8lJBGmqdWPgXtHQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s been about a thousand units of housing developed and that housing is not affordable for people who are living or have lived in the community,\" McGuffin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abundant Housing agrees that funding affordable housing is critical but warns both a linkage fee and inclusionary zoning will only add to construction costs, and stop projects from getting built. The group would rather raise the money for affordable housing by increasing the city's real estate transfer fees or coax developers into constructing more below-market units in exchange for more building height through what’s called density bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want to provide a carrot to incentivize people to build as much affordable housing as possible and at the same time build as much market–rate housing as we can,\" Gaisford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaisford acknowledged that density bonus programs could be improved. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/01/24/68410/los-angeles-affordable-housing-incentive-program-i/\">audit released\u003c/a> by City Controller Ron Galperin in January showed density bonuses have produced an underwhelming number of affordable units and not living up to their potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Housing activists joined forces with labor unions to defeat the anti-development Measure S this spring.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-800x557.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-1020x710.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-1180x821.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-960x668.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing activists joined forces with labor unions to defeat the anti-development Measure S this spring. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For all their differences over how L.A. should be building, housing activists share a common goal of reducing rents and protecting tenant rights, and there are some affordable housing developers who also consider themselves YIMBYs. The theme of the upcoming annual conference for the Southern California Association of Non Profit Housing, in fact, is \"YIMBY.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing activists forcefully came together earlier this year, partnering with labor unions to defeat a common foe at the ballot box. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/08/69706/why-did-measure-s-lose-so-badly/\">Measure S\u003c/a> would have put a two-year freeze on major construction in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For YIMBYs, it was a victory over self-proclaimed NIMBYs like Richard Close, president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association. He acknowledged that the city has to fix its housing shortage, and that developers should focus on areas that want the new construction, such as the northeast part of the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is developers like to build in Sherman Oaks and other nice areas of the city where they can get the highest profit,\" Close said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his work is to protect his community from the extra traffic and change in neighborhood character that often comes with new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see is people on the other side that have no regard for the current conditions in the community,\" Close said. \"They’re focused simply on a single issue, like more housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their loss on Measure S, NIMBYs like Close remain a powerful political force in L.A. that can kill or stall a project. Abundant Housing leader Gaisford knows that to match their strength, YIMBYs need more allies pushing for denser buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there is a large majority who’s just not informed about the issues,\" Gaisford said. \"We're trying to talk about this as much as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature is taking up a\u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/28/75118/housing-deal-reached-by-gov-brown-legislative-demo/\"> package of bills\u003c/a> that if approved would provide funding for affordable housing and streamlining the development process. But it's not clear how far the legislation would go in solving a decades-long problem in a deep and significant way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The YIMBY group Abundant Housing L.A. hosted a well-attended event with state legislators speaking about their housing bills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/YIMBYGroup-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The YIMBY group Abundant Housing L.A. hosted a well-attended event with state legislators speaking about their housing bills. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since its formation two years ago, Abundant Housing has lobbied for denser, taller projects by mass transit and state legislation that removes obstacles to development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, they worked on a successful campaign to defeat \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/08/69706/why-did-measure-s-lose-so-badly/\">Measure S\u003c/a>, a ballot measure that would have put a two-year freeze on major construction in L.A. Members spent hundreds of hours knocking on doors and working the phones in what Gaisford calls the group's \"big coming-out party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The housing market is like a game of musical chairs, but like a sinister one where if you have more money you can always take my chair.'\u003ccite>Brent Gaisford, Abundant Housing L.A.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gaisford counts more than 900 members in his group, including students, urbanists, progressives and developers. Gaisford himself left a job as a management consultant last year to try his hand at building apartments, and perhaps, he said, help solve the housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love it here. I would love to stay,\" Gaisford said of L.A. \"But the number one thing that makes it hard for me to envision is the cost of living.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the featured speakers at a recent Abundant Housing event held at USC earlier this month was state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, a hotbed of YIMBY organizing. Wiener, a self-proclaimed YIMBY, credited the movement with providing support for pro-housing legislation like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to thank the YIMBY movement in general for activating so many people — and so many young people — into housing activism,\" Wiener told the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11615348 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/Weiner-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. 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In some cases, that could include housing units that sell at market-rate prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YIMBY groups around the state, such as Abundant Housing, have registered their support for the legislation, arguing that increased housing will help go long way toward easing the housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a theory accepted by many housing economists, including Richard Green, director of USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s like anything else, the more you produce of something, the less expensive it’s going to be,\" Green said. \"That part of economics really does work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other housing activists are wary of allowing for an influx of even more expensive housing, which already makes up the vast majority of what developers are building in L.A. as they seek to cover their high land and construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people are just leaving the city because there’s nowhere you can afford to move to,\" said Laura Raymond of ACT-LA, a pro-housing and transit group. 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A proposal by L.A. city officials to charge developers a so-called linkage fee to pay for affordable units has the widespread support of housing advocates who turned out by the dozens for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/23/74894/fee-on-new-construction-in-la-up-for-council-vote/\">recent hearing\u003c/a> to show their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same advocates are pressing the city to adopt \"inclusionary zoning,\" which would force developers who build market-rate housing to designate a certain percentage of their units for subsidized housing. Santa Monica \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/07/31/74251/developers-in-santa-monica-face-experiment-in-prov/\">recently adopted\u003c/a> a version of inclusionary zoning and plans to monitor its impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocate Neil McGuffin of the Little Tokyo Service Center said that state and local leaders need to encourage affordable housing to prevent the displacement of longtime residents that's taken place in neighborhoods like Little Tokyo in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s been about a thousand units of housing developed and that housing is not affordable for people who are living or have lived in the community,\" McGuffin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abundant Housing agrees that funding affordable housing is critical but warns both a linkage fee and inclusionary zoning will only add to construction costs, and stop projects from getting built. The group would rather raise the money for affordable housing by increasing the city's real estate transfer fees or coax developers into constructing more below-market units in exchange for more building height through what’s called density bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want to provide a carrot to incentivize people to build as much affordable housing as possible and at the same time build as much market–rate housing as we can,\" Gaisford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaisford acknowledged that density bonus programs could be improved. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/01/24/68410/los-angeles-affordable-housing-incentive-program-i/\">audit released\u003c/a> by City Controller Ron Galperin in January showed density bonuses have produced an underwhelming number of affordable units and not living up to their potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11615358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11615358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Housing activists joined forces with labor unions to defeat the anti-development Measure S this spring.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-800x557.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-1020x710.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-1180x821.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-960x668.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/MeasureS-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing activists joined forces with labor unions to defeat the anti-development Measure S this spring. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For all their differences over how L.A. should be building, housing activists share a common goal of reducing rents and protecting tenant rights, and there are some affordable housing developers who also consider themselves YIMBYs. The theme of the upcoming annual conference for the Southern California Association of Non Profit Housing, in fact, is \"YIMBY.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing activists forcefully came together earlier this year, partnering with labor unions to defeat a common foe at the ballot box. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/08/69706/why-did-measure-s-lose-so-badly/\">Measure S\u003c/a> would have put a two-year freeze on major construction in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For YIMBYs, it was a victory over self-proclaimed NIMBYs like Richard Close, president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association. He acknowledged that the city has to fix its housing shortage, and that developers should focus on areas that want the new construction, such as the northeast part of the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is developers like to build in Sherman Oaks and other nice areas of the city where they can get the highest profit,\" Close said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his work is to protect his community from the extra traffic and change in neighborhood character that often comes with new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we see is people on the other side that have no regard for the current conditions in the community,\" Close said. \"They’re focused simply on a single issue, like more housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their loss on Measure S, NIMBYs like Close remain a powerful political force in L.A. that can kill or stall a project. 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