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"content": "\u003cp>Could a few words buried within a recent court ruling make it easier for the state to raise money from Californians?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The words -- contained within a decision \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/C075930.PDF\">affirming\u003c/a> the constitutionality of California’s policy of charging polluters -- are causing a stir among some state budget experts, who wonder if the ruling could be used to pry loose constitutional constraints that have long restricted lawmakers’ ability to increase taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its 2-1 ruling, California’s 3rd District Court of Appeal declared that the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/133691850\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> climate program is neither a tax nor a fee -- the two categories into which state jurists have traditionally slotted all revenue raisers -- but falls into a mysterious \u003cem>none of the above\u003c/em> category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such semantic distinctions matter in California because the state constitution puts tight restrictions on lawmakers' ability to raise money from taxpayers. Voters in 1978 passed the most famous of these restrictions, property-tax-cutting \u003ca href=\"https://www.hjta.org/propositions/proposition-13/original-proposition-13/\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, which also lifted the legislative threshold for new state and local tax hikes from a simple majority to a two-thirds “supermajority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed by the California Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, contended that when the Legislature created the cap-and-trade program in 2006, it introduced a new tax with only a simple majority vote -- violating the two-thirds vote requirements of Proposition 13. (Since then, the auctions have generated $4.4 billion for the state.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iLj5jUbECqekfaKH9rqV3bc5RjwlKX2Q\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what is a tax? In explaining its decision, the court offered a new, narrower definition of the word: “A tax has two hallmarks: (1) it is compulsory, and (2) it does not grant any special benefit to the payor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tony Francois from the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represents one of the plaintiffs in the case, that definition leaves out many of the levies that most Californians would be surprised to learn aren’t “taxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under (the court’s) analysis, any transaction-based tax, such as the sales tax or the gasoline tax, is voluntary instead of compulsory,” he says. “Anyone can choose whether to drive their own car and buy gas for it or not. And, all of these transaction taxes provide something of value to the payer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seemingly anticipating that broad interpretation, the court’s majority opinion insisted there was an obvious distinction between a payment made for a thing of value (in this case, an allowance for emitting greenhouse gases) and a sales tax, which one pays “but receives nothing of particular value for the tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some conservatives find that distinction too blurry for comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the Legislature has to do is say, ‘We’re not taxing the purchase of the commodity, we’re just selling you the right to purchase the commodity,’ ” says Mike Genest, who directed the Department of Finance under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and is the founding partner at Capitol Matrix Consulting. “If you take that logic and apply it liberally, you could probably apply it to any tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10845734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10845734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"A customer prepares to pump gas into his truck at a Valero gas station in Mill Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas-768x497.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/PumpingGas-960x621.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A customer prepares to pump gas into his truck at a Valero gas station in Mill Valley. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court has “invalidated the Proposition 13 two-thirds requirement,” he says. Even, he argues, as it applies to the income tax: “You just purchased the right to live and work in California for only 13 percent of your income -- congratulations!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many legal analysts, policy advocates and lawmakers disagree that the ruling is quite so earth-shattering. A spokesperson for the Department of Finance says that they are still reviewing the ruling and its implications. And although the offices of both Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León declined to comment, numerous legislative staff members around the Capitol said that they do not expect to see a raft of new tax-hiking legislation emerge on the basis of this ruling, both because the ruling was narrowly focused on cap and trade, and because the case is being \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificlegal.org/releases/release-4/14/17-ab32-Morning-Star-1-1408\">appealed\u003c/a> to the California Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t take one appellate court ruling as a landslide,” says Danny Cullenward, a lawyer and energy economist at Stanford University and a research associate with the nonprofit Near Zero. “If one is convinced, as the plaintiffs are, that this fundamentally changes the line, I think there’s good reason to believe that the state Supreme Court would at least look into the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many are not convinced that this ruling fundamentally changes anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some sort of revolution,” says Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, who also filed an amicus\u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/content/amicus_brief_nature_conservancy_final.pdf\"> brief\u003c/a> in support of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not really reversing what we used to think. It’s really just figuring out for the first time what a cap-and-trade auction really is in the context of tax law,” she says. The court may have broken from \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltax.org/sinclair.htm\">precedent\u003c/a> by establishing a “neither tax nor fee” classification of revenue generator, but Horowitz says that the cap-and-trade program is so unique it’s hard to imagine how this new third category could be applied to much else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no instances that jump out at me of other California regulations that I now think of differently in light of this opinion,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, even if the ruling does undermine Proposition 13, there are other constraints on lawmakers’ ability to raise taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://www.boe.ca.gov/lawguides/property/current/ptlg/ccp/XIII-A-3.html\">Proposition 26\u003c/a>, a chamber-sponsored measure that significantly broadened the definition of tax, leaving only a few, specific exceptions. Prop. 26 didn’t enter into the court’s ruling this time around because the Legislature voted to enact the cap-and-trade program before voters approved the initiated constitutional amendment\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so little case law developing the idea of how Proposition 26 defines a tax, it’s really hard to say what the courts will conclude,” says Horowitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a question that will have to be answered before too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current law, California’s cap-and-trade program phases out in 2020. As Democratic lawmakers in both chambers introduce various extension proposals, the Brown administration has demanded a two-thirds vote to put any questions about the legal validity of the program in the rear view mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Gov. 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Even, he argues, as it applies to the income tax: “You just purchased the right to live and work in California for only 13 percent of your income -- congratulations!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many legal analysts, policy advocates and lawmakers disagree that the ruling is quite so earth-shattering. A spokesperson for the Department of Finance says that they are still reviewing the ruling and its implications. And although the offices of both Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León declined to comment, numerous legislative staff members around the Capitol said that they do not expect to see a raft of new tax-hiking legislation emerge on the basis of this ruling, both because the ruling was narrowly focused on cap and trade, and because the case is being \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificlegal.org/releases/release-4/14/17-ab32-Morning-Star-1-1408\">appealed\u003c/a> to the California Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t take one appellate court ruling as a landslide,” says Danny Cullenward, a lawyer and energy economist at Stanford University and a research associate with the nonprofit Near Zero. “If one is convinced, as the plaintiffs are, that this fundamentally changes the line, I think there’s good reason to believe that the state Supreme Court would at least look into the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many are not convinced that this ruling fundamentally changes anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some sort of revolution,” says Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, who also filed an amicus\u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/content/amicus_brief_nature_conservancy_final.pdf\"> brief\u003c/a> in support of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not really reversing what we used to think. It’s really just figuring out for the first time what a cap-and-trade auction really is in the context of tax law,” she says. The court may have broken from \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltax.org/sinclair.htm\">precedent\u003c/a> by establishing a “neither tax nor fee” classification of revenue generator, but Horowitz says that the cap-and-trade program is so unique it’s hard to imagine how this new third category could be applied to much else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no instances that jump out at me of other California regulations that I now think of differently in light of this opinion,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, even if the ruling does undermine Proposition 13, there are other constraints on lawmakers’ ability to raise taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://www.boe.ca.gov/lawguides/property/current/ptlg/ccp/XIII-A-3.html\">Proposition 26\u003c/a>, a chamber-sponsored measure that significantly broadened the definition of tax, leaving only a few, specific exceptions. 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Members overall will net $130 million more over the contract's life than they were expected to accept, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to know what the figure means; The Guild said on Friday it was seeking $156 million annually in enhancements from the studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of messaging here,\" said Jonathan Handel, an entertainment lawyer and editor at the Hollywood Reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handel said the deal includes important gains for Guild members, most notably increased contributions for health insurance and raises for TV writers. 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Despite the fact that there are more series than ever -- 455 this season, more than double the number six years ago -- shows run for fewer episodes than the traditional 22-24 episode broadcast series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short seasons of eight, 10 or 12 episodes means less pay for writers whose payment is structured on a per-episode basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address that, the guild said it won additional compensation for writers who spend more than 2.4 weeks working on a script.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sheilacalla/status/859307942176210944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/travishelwig/status/859302117055512576\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/saraschaefer1/status/859311332021030912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guild also touted first-time job protection for writers on parental leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That shows that there is a cultural shift that’s happening in the industry in terms of who writers are -- there are women working in the industry,\" said Miranda Banks, author of \"The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement avoided a repeat of the 2007-08 strike, which played out in true Hollywood style. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Buy a Home, 1% Down, Free Recorded Message,” reads a sign at the edge of a vacant lot in the scrappy working-class town of Bloomington near Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tempting pitch. But it sounds a little suspicious to those who remember subprime lenders and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/subprime_mortgage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mortgage meltdown.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland Southern California became something of a poster child for the housing crisis that sunk scores of homeowners, wiped out a booming construction sector, shredded city and county budgets, and contributed to a spectacular \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/case-of-interest/city-san-bernardino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">municipal bankruptcy\u003c/a> in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the phone number on the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message. “Buying a home has never been easier. Here’s how it works. You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t leave a message. But somehow I get a call back anyway from a broker based in L.A. who says he’s authorized to sell these new 1 percent down home loans through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/mortgage-products/conventional-loans/1-percent-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a licensed private lender in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I tell him I’m just fishing for information and not looking for a new mortgage, he’s reluctant to say much more. So I pay a visit to the storefront mortgage company of veteran broker \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tims.teresa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theresa Tims\u003c/a> in the leafy business district of Upland, about 30 minutes outside L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media-savvy Tims has produced video explainers about 1 percent down and other loan programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fXzz9yozD3LK2Secfa9Zg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBGpZeqnpoY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I specialize in these low down loan type of programs and they fit our area perfectly,” Tims tells me during an interview her assistant simultaneously webcasts on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tims does a lot of business in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, the Inland Empire, where median home prices are still comparatively cheap: about $300,000 for a basic three- or even four-bedroom home. That’s less than half the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/orange-county-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price\u003c/a> in neighboring Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now one of the only feasible programs is the 1 percent down with equity boost,” says Tims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been offering 1 percent down conventional loans since late last year, when they first became available through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Wholesale Mortgage\u003c/a> and its Detroit-based rival \u003ca href=\"https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/quicken-loans-offers-1-down-payment-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken Loans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-960x721.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The basic arithmetic is pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you’re buying a $400,000 house in Riverside. You put down $4,000 — that’s the 1 percent. The lender kicks in $8,000 — that’s the 2 percent “grant.’ And that gets you to the 3 percent threshold required to qualify for federally backed mortgage insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans are typically marketed to mid-income borrowers without a lot of cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very common for somebody to be able to come up with $4,000 or $5,000 [for a down payment]… $8,000 to $10,000 is a little bit of a push,” says Tims. “Unless they get some kind of inheritance or they’ve been saving since like age 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air.’\u003ccite>Abraham Bustillos, new homeowner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Right around Christmas, Abraham Bustillos moved his wife and three kids into a 1,300-square-foot home in Riverside with one of these 1 percent down conventional loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were thinking we were going to need at least $15,000 to $20,000,” Bustillos tells me. “So to go from that to just $6,000 [down payment], we were able to move into the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balance on Bustillos’ loan is around $350,000 stretched over a 30-year fixed mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it is a little bit more than we were paying as renters,” says Bustillos, a FedEx delivery driver. “But at the same time, now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air or paying the owner’s mortgage for him. You know, money is going into us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage to these 1 percent down loans is that traditional bank lenders may require heftier minimum down payments, higher minimum incomes and flawless credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big non-bank lenders like United Wholesale and Quicken are filling the vacuum and scooping up customers who may not have cash for the more traditional 20 percent down payment — or maybe just have good but not golden credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Wholesale Mortgage declined to comment for this story over concerns it might make 1 percent down loans look risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing finance expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/scholar/edward-j-pinto/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Pinto\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/policy/economics/housing-finance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Enterprise Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., says they can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you have reliable house price increases, you’re going to be in trouble for many years,” says Pinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trouble as in your monthly payments will be pretty steep and it’ll take awhile to build up equity in your property. If real estate doesn’t work for you, you may consider investing in gold assets from \u003ca href=\"https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\">https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\u003c/a> instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.’\u003ccite>Edward Pinto, housing finance expert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Within California, the most volatile metropolitan area for housing is Riverside-San Bernardino,” Pinto explains. “And so if you’re buying a home in one of these areas with a very low down payment and then other risk factors are present, if anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinto says a bigger appetite for risk has led to problems for some non-bank lenders dealing in low down payment loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-lawsuit-alleging-quicken-loans-improperly-originated-and-underwrote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued both Quicken Loans \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-settlement-20170410-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Shore Financial Services\u003c/a>, the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say between 2006 and 2012, the companies wrongly certified hundreds of low down payment loan applications insured through a Federal Housing Administration program (different from the 1 percent down conventional loans Quicken and United began offering last year). The government alleges that when the loans went bad, taxpayers were on the hook for millions of dollars in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-shore-financial-services-llc-agrees-pay-48-million-resolve-alleged-false-claims-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> its case last year after paying a $48 million penalty. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mortgageorb.com/quicken-loans-small-victory-might-not-small\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken is fighting\u003c/a> the charges in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, then-\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QbXrCWf4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken CEO Bill Emerson told Fox Business\u003c/a> the government actions would stifle affordable loan programs targeting mid- and low-income borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For-sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely driven a lot of financial institutions away from the FHA program for sure,” said Emerson. “And you know who suffers from that. It’s the American consumer, the middle class who depend on the FHA program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing risk expert Ed Pinto says these days, the majority of people buying a home for the first time in the U.S. are using FHA, 1 percent down and other types of low down payment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this group of low down payment loans is growing very rapidly,” says Pinto. “Seventy percent of all first-time homebuyers today have down payments of \u003ca href=\"https://themortgagereports.com/22592/ellie-mae-report-home-buyers-making-smaller-mortgage-down-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less than 5 percent\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the potential drawbacks, these loans remain the last best option in places like San Bernardino, a city still clawing its way back from a crushing foreclosure crisis and that municipal bankruptcy. 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So I pay a visit to the storefront mortgage company of veteran broker \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tims.teresa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theresa Tims\u003c/a> in the leafy business district of Upland, about 30 minutes outside L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media-savvy Tims has produced video explainers about 1 percent down and other loan programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fXzz9yozD3LK2Secfa9Zg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBGpZeqnpoY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBGpZeqnpoY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I specialize in these low down loan type of programs and they fit our area perfectly,” Tims tells me during an interview her assistant simultaneously webcasts on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tims does a lot of business in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, the Inland Empire, where median home prices are still comparatively cheap: about $300,000 for a basic three- or even four-bedroom home. That’s less than half the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/orange-county-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price\u003c/a> in neighboring Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now one of the only feasible programs is the 1 percent down with equity boost,” says Tims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been offering 1 percent down conventional loans since late last year, when they first became available through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Wholesale Mortgage\u003c/a> and its Detroit-based rival \u003ca href=\"https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/quicken-loans-offers-1-down-payment-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken Loans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-960x721.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The basic arithmetic is pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you’re buying a $400,000 house in Riverside. You put down $4,000 — that’s the 1 percent. The lender kicks in $8,000 — that’s the 2 percent “grant.’ And that gets you to the 3 percent threshold required to qualify for federally backed mortgage insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans are typically marketed to mid-income borrowers without a lot of cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very common for somebody to be able to come up with $4,000 or $5,000 [for a down payment]… $8,000 to $10,000 is a little bit of a push,” says Tims. “Unless they get some kind of inheritance or they’ve been saving since like age 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air.’\u003ccite>Abraham Bustillos, new homeowner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Right around Christmas, Abraham Bustillos moved his wife and three kids into a 1,300-square-foot home in Riverside with one of these 1 percent down conventional loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were thinking we were going to need at least $15,000 to $20,000,” Bustillos tells me. “So to go from that to just $6,000 [down payment], we were able to move into the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balance on Bustillos’ loan is around $350,000 stretched over a 30-year fixed mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it is a little bit more than we were paying as renters,” says Bustillos, a FedEx delivery driver. “But at the same time, now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air or paying the owner’s mortgage for him. You know, money is going into us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage to these 1 percent down loans is that traditional bank lenders may require heftier minimum down payments, higher minimum incomes and flawless credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big non-bank lenders like United Wholesale and Quicken are filling the vacuum and scooping up customers who may not have cash for the more traditional 20 percent down payment — or maybe just have good but not golden credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Wholesale Mortgage declined to comment for this story over concerns it might make 1 percent down loans look risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing finance expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/scholar/edward-j-pinto/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Pinto\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/policy/economics/housing-finance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Enterprise Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., says they can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you have reliable house price increases, you’re going to be in trouble for many years,” says Pinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trouble as in your monthly payments will be pretty steep and it’ll take awhile to build up equity in your property. If real estate doesn’t work for you, you may consider investing in gold assets from \u003ca href=\"https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\">https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\u003c/a> instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.’\u003ccite>Edward Pinto, housing finance expert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Within California, the most volatile metropolitan area for housing is Riverside-San Bernardino,” Pinto explains. “And so if you’re buying a home in one of these areas with a very low down payment and then other risk factors are present, if anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinto says a bigger appetite for risk has led to problems for some non-bank lenders dealing in low down payment loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-lawsuit-alleging-quicken-loans-improperly-originated-and-underwrote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued both Quicken Loans \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-settlement-20170410-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Shore Financial Services\u003c/a>, the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say between 2006 and 2012, the companies wrongly certified hundreds of low down payment loan applications insured through a Federal Housing Administration program (different from the 1 percent down conventional loans Quicken and United began offering last year). The government alleges that when the loans went bad, taxpayers were on the hook for millions of dollars in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-shore-financial-services-llc-agrees-pay-48-million-resolve-alleged-false-claims-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> its case last year after paying a $48 million penalty. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mortgageorb.com/quicken-loans-small-victory-might-not-small\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken is fighting\u003c/a> the charges in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, then-\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QbXrCWf4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken CEO Bill Emerson told Fox Business\u003c/a> the government actions would stifle affordable loan programs targeting mid- and low-income borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For-sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. 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The eight residents, who failed to successfully appeal their eviction notice, had until Wednesday morning to load their belongings into boxes before deputies arrived to escort them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Landlord Ron Erickson has owned and rented out the building for 17 years. Erickson says he called for the tenants’ eviction after visiting the space last December and finding out it had been converted into an eight-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They violated the lease,” Erickson says. “My job is property management. I live by the rules and I live by the laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erickson says he plans to gut the building and turn it back into a warehouse, though he says he might eventually turn it into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choreographer Nathan Cottam has been living in the building since October 2014. He says that the landlord has known people were living in the space for at least 15 years. Erickson denies this claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole lot has been used for residential purposes since 2001,” Cottam says. “The landlord had been operating under ‘I don’t care what you do there, just keep me out of it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the Ghost Ship fire, Cottam says he and his fellow tenants hoped to ensure their safety by being upfront with the personnel from city agencies who came to inspect the property. Cottom says the building underwent multiple fire department inspections and hearings, and that it was cleared of safety breaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Housing-and-Buildings/Fire-Inspections/wb4c-6hwj/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was able to confirm\u003c/a> the fire department did conduct three violation inspections at the property and one hearing re-inspection between December of last year and this past February. The inspection status for all four is listed “pending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4frp1ZnjO0Q&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cottam says he and the other residents applied to get rent control on the building when they were first served their eviction notice. The city handles these types of issues on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/#Commercial_Units_Used_as_Residential_with_the_Landlord8217s_Knowledge_Are_Not_Exempt_from_Rent_Control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case-by-case basis\u003c/a>. “This is an unusual case,” says San Francisco Rent Board executive director Robert Collins. Cottam had expected a response from the rent control board in the next two weeks — a decision that may now be moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant and artist Tony Burgess, who has lived in the space for more than a year and a half, was loading his boxed belongings onto a U-Haul truck as deputies arrived. Burgess is well aware of the dangers that can befall converted spaces, and says he lost 10 friends to the Ghost Ship fire. But the eviction caught him off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will probably get a storage unit for my stuff,” Burgess says. “I have no idea where I’ll go or where I’ll sleep tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cottam plans on moving in with a friend in the Sunset for a few nights. He says he’s heartbroken about leaving the home he’s worked hard to make safe, but he’s trying to stay positive. “I’m gonna keep going,” Cottam says. I’m gonna find a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by Claudia Escobar and Tiffany Camhi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Deputies from the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department evicted tenants from an arts warehouse in Bernal Heights early Wednesday afternoon, marking what might be the first court-sanctioned San Francisco arts warehouse eviction since last December’s deadly \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/12/ghost-ship-fire-prompts-sffd-to-consider-random-warehouse-inspections/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that the occupants of 968 Peralta Avenue were living unlawfully in a commercially leased building. The eight residents, who failed to successfully appeal their eviction notice, had until Wednesday morning to load their belongings into boxes before deputies arrived to escort them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Landlord Ron Erickson has owned and rented out the building for 17 years. Erickson says he called for the tenants’ eviction after visiting the space last December and finding out it had been converted into an eight-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They violated the lease,” Erickson says. “My job is property management. I live by the rules and I live by the laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erickson says he plans to gut the building and turn it back into a warehouse, though he says he might eventually turn it into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choreographer Nathan Cottam has been living in the building since October 2014. He says that the landlord has known people were living in the space for at least 15 years. Erickson denies this claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole lot has been used for residential purposes since 2001,” Cottam says. “The landlord had been operating under ‘I don’t care what you do there, just keep me out of it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the Ghost Ship fire, Cottam says he and his fellow tenants hoped to ensure their safety by being upfront with the personnel from city agencies who came to inspect the property. Cottom says the building underwent multiple fire department inspections and hearings, and that it was cleared of safety breaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Housing-and-Buildings/Fire-Inspections/wb4c-6hwj/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was able to confirm\u003c/a> the fire department did conduct three violation inspections at the property and one hearing re-inspection between December of last year and this past February. The inspection status for all four is listed “pending.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4frp1ZnjO0Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4frp1ZnjO0Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Cottam says he and the other residents applied to get rent control on the building when they were first served their eviction notice. The city handles these types of issues on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/#Commercial_Units_Used_as_Residential_with_the_Landlord8217s_Knowledge_Are_Not_Exempt_from_Rent_Control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case-by-case basis\u003c/a>. “This is an unusual case,” says San Francisco Rent Board executive director Robert Collins. Cottam had expected a response from the rent control board in the next two weeks — a decision that may now be moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant and artist Tony Burgess, who has lived in the space for more than a year and a half, was loading his boxed belongings onto a U-Haul truck as deputies arrived. Burgess is well aware of the dangers that can befall converted spaces, and says he lost 10 friends to the Ghost Ship fire. But the eviction caught him off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will probably get a storage unit for my stuff,” Burgess says. “I have no idea where I’ll go or where I’ll sleep tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cottam plans on moving in with a friend in the Sunset for a few nights. He says he’s heartbroken about leaving the home he’s worked hard to make safe, but he’s trying to stay positive. “I’m gonna keep going,” Cottam says. I’m gonna find a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by Claudia Escobar and Tiffany Camhi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump is both dismissing his first 100 days in office as a \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/855373184861962240\" target=\"_blank\">ridiculous standard\u003c/a>\" and doing everything he can to convince the public that he \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/04/25/the-white-house-boo-boo-in-counting-roosevelts-executive-orders/?utm_term=.9848cf2f84fd\" target=\"_blank\">has accomplished more in his first 100 days than any other president since Franklin Roosevelt\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help make that case before April 29, the businessman-turned-president is tapping into his inner salesman, pushing out a slew of executive orders and other plans that are generating massive amounts of headlines. In essence, like so many other rollouts by this unconventional president, he appears to be treating campaign issues like the proverbial cooked spaghetti, throwing a host of issues to the wall and seeing what sticks with the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, if enacted, these plans could create significant financial, economic and environmental changes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issue\u003c/strong>: Many Republican lawmakers believe federal interference reached a high point under the Obama administration, which was notably aggressive on civil rights. Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/26/presidential-executive-order-enforcing-statutory-prohibitions-federal\" target=\"_blank\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> that allows his team to study whether the federal government has overstepped its authority in public education, including on issues of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential Impact\u003c/strong>: In California, a number of reforms have already been adopted, returning control to local schools. 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She has 300 days to conduct the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Environment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issue\u003c/strong>: In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/04/26/trump-to-sign-executive-order-that-could-shrink-national-monuments/\" target=\"_blank\">another executive order\u003c/a>, Trump ordered the U.S. Department of Interior to examine all U.S. national monument designations since 1996 that are over 100,000 acres. This comes after a decades-long campaign by conservative groups -- many funded by the Koch Brothers and other natural resource industries -- to loosen environmental regulations that make it more difficult to extract those resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"i1JGTMOqVL4OHIN7QSKYaRdfxcxNU3S3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential Impact\u003c/strong>: The review will include six national monuments in California. The San Gabriel Mountains, Mojave Trails, Carrizo Plain, Giant Sequoia and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monuments will have their designations reviewed. The entire California coast is also a national monument, meaning offshore environmental protections enacted by President Bill Clinton and expanded by President Barack Obama could be reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That potential reversal comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-25/trump-said-to-order-review-of-oil-drilling-off-california-coast\">Bloomberg reports\u003c/a> the Trump administration is planning to open up studies on the feasibility of offshore oil and gas drilling on California's coast. That has environmental activists like Marce Gutierrez-Graudins, founder of Azul in San Francisco, concerned the Trump administration is rapidly moving toward opening offshore drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We in California are very familiar with both the environmental and economic havoc that is caused by spills,\" Gutierrez-Graudins says. \"And it is something we do not want to revisit again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/04/2017-04-27d-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/OilPlatform-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"Trump Administration Looking Into Offshore Drilling In California\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford environmental law professor Deborah Sivas says while it's unlikely that new oil platforms will be built in the near future, it's clear the two actions by the Trump administration signal a willingness to drill off the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Trump administration really wanting to open up offshore oil drilling, I think they need to get rid of or somehow undermine the monument status,\" Sivas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"95hirIxHzGsxVw6KOyXqoSkgYRV8lUcq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western States Petroleum Association represents the oil industry, and a spokeswoman tells KQED that no oil companies want to drill offshore in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Next\u003c/strong>\u003cem>:\u003c/em> We are expecting the order to study offshore drilling near California to come as early as Friday, April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Taxes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issue\u003c/strong>: The Trump administration also \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/525683530/4-questions-about-trumps-tax-plan?ft=nprml&f=1003,1004,1007,1013,1014,1017,1019,1128\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out a massive tax cut proposal\u003c/a> on Wednesday, highlighted by big cuts in the corporate tax rate. Under the plan, corporations would be taxed at a 15 percent rate, down from the current 35 percent mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blueprint offers few details to assuage concerns that big tax cuts would create a massive hole in the federal budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/04/2017-04-27c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/1040Form-375x240.jpg\" Title=\"How President Trump's Tax Plan Might Trip Up California\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the few deductions on the chopping block would place an outsized burden on California taxpayers. The Trump administration wants to end the practice of allowing taxpayers to deduct local and state taxes from federal filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tzpmc88aHITxPTvpHiEXSLIM7fQ0SuEn\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential Impact\u003c/strong>: In a high-tax state like California, taxpayers could be left on the hook for tens of millions of dollars more in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to pay for cuts, it’s not a crazy way to do it,” says Joseph Bankman, professor of law and business at Stanford Law School. “It’s a little bit unfair because we’re being taxed on a different portion of our income than our counterparts in red states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Next\u003c/strong>: The president's plan would have to be introduced as legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. 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"content": "\u003cp>Labor and immigrant advocates are planning to mark May Day on Monday with walkouts and protests opposing the Trump administration's immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holiday, also called International Workers' Day, has become a day for action on behalf of undocumented workers in recent years. In San Francisco, participants will march from Justin Herman Plaza to the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 87 and the May 1st Coalition of San Francisco held a press conference Monday announcing their planned actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their coalition will lead a walkout to highlight the rights of immigrant workers, called \"Un Dia Sin Inmigrantes.\" In a press release, they demanded \"immediate comprehensive immigration reform,\" and called for an end to ICE raids and deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11425330 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra, who declined to give her last name, is a member of traditional dance troupe Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca. 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They performed before the May 1st Coalition's press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olga Miranda, president of SEIU Local 87, invited local residents to join the demonstrations, but asked for calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ask everybody to wear white. We want to make sure that it's a day of peace and nonviolence in our respective communities,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Miranda said she hopes immigrants will be joined by U.S. citizens who support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stand up for the people who don't have their papers in order, but that have children that are waiting to become somebody great,\" she said, adding that immigrants \"are contributing to this country. They are not taking anybody’s jobs. In fact they are doing the jobs that nobody wants to do but everybody wants to be served on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425334\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11425334 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Estrella, a member of SEIU Local 87, held a banner during a press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Labor and immigrant advocates are planning to mark May Day on Monday with walkouts and protests opposing the Trump administration's immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holiday, also called International Workers' Day, has become a day for action on behalf of undocumented workers in recent years. In San Francisco, participants will march from Justin Herman Plaza to the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 87 and the May 1st Coalition of San Francisco held a press conference Monday announcing their planned actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their coalition will lead a walkout to highlight the rights of immigrant workers, called \"Un Dia Sin Inmigrantes.\" In a press release, they demanded \"immediate comprehensive immigration reform,\" and called for an end to ICE raids and deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11425330 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra, who declined to give her last name, is a member of traditional dance troupe Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca. They performed before a press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017 that was organized by members of the May 1st Coalition, who were announcing their participation in the upcoming May Day protest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra, who declined to give her last name, is a member of traditional dance troupe Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca. They performed before the May 1st Coalition's press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olga Miranda, president of SEIU Local 87, invited local residents to join the demonstrations, but asked for calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ask everybody to wear white. We want to make sure that it's a day of peace and nonviolence in our respective communities,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Miranda said she hopes immigrants will be joined by U.S. citizens who support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stand up for the people who don't have their papers in order, but that have children that are waiting to become somebody great,\" she said, adding that immigrants \"are contributing to this country. They are not taking anybody’s jobs. In fact they are doing the jobs that nobody wants to do but everybody wants to be served on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425334\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11425334 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Estrella, a member of SEIU Local 87, held a banner during a press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. He appeared with members of the May 1st Coalition, who were announcing their participation in the upcoming May Day protest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Estrella, a member of SEIU Local 87, held a banner that said \"Off your laptops & onto the streets\" in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miranda also believes that the Trump administration is creating an atmosphere of hatred, and it is important for citizens to come out in solidarity. She hopes the May Day march will be an opportunity for immigrants and their families to unify: \"We are trying to demonstrate that we will not be pushed into fear, and that we are standing together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations and work stoppages are also planned in Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Concord.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Augie Cortez and his wife, Blanca, bought a little slice of the American Dream about 17 years ago in Bloomington, a working-class community in San Bernardino about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their roomy four-bedroom house was the very first on the block of a brand-new subdivision not unlike scores of others that began carpeting Inland Southern California toward the end of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortezes gathered up their savings and managed to put up a healthy down payment on a 15-year mortgage. After a couple of other home purchasing efforts collapsed, they were eager to make this one stick and they wanted to pay it off fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another point that often deserves more attention is the assumption that a brand-new property will automatically be free from defects. That was certainly my expectation until I started researching the common issues many homeowners encounter after moving in. Looking through examples of \u003ca href=\"https://homesnag.co.uk/what-is-snagging/\">a qualified snagging survey and detailed new-build inspection process for homeowners\u003c/a> helped me appreciate how many technical concerns can remain hidden beneath what appears to be a finished home. My own experience showed that small imperfections were only part of the picture, as some findings related to workmanship standards and compliance issues that would have been difficult to recognise without training. The ability to present a structured report to the developer also made communication much easier and encouraged quicker responses. Rather than relying on guesswork, I felt far more confident discussing repairs because every concern had been properly documented and explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthly payments would be high. But the name of the little cul-de-sac seemed like a good omen: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0621667,-117.3957405,3a,75y,144.34h,60.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTLzuz0fGR8FQ5Cznj9CJSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Street\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that was a cool name! I don’t think I’d ever heard of a Dream Street. Have you?” Cortez asks as he sits at an expansive table in the family’s dining room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for a while, the dream was good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"When Augie Cortez’ moved his family into its new Dream Street home he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Augie Cortez moved his family into its new Dream Street home, he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Augie works in construction as a cement finisher, and when he first bought his home, business was booming in the Inland Empire. After moving his wife and kids into the new house, he had enough extra cash to redo all the cement work along the sides of the house and the back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a family portrait taken the day his three daughters pressed some memories into the wet cement. While showing off his property, he points to the spot just outside a garage side door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are my daughters’ handprints,” he says, beaming with pride. “Man, those are my daughters’ handprints right there. Nov. 27, 1999.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez’ daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez’s daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Easy Credit Dragged Everyone Down\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With so much homebuilding going on, it was easy for just about anyone to get a mortgage back then, even if you had shaky credit or no job at all. Low-income minority neighborhoods like the ones around Dream Street were ripe targets for subprime lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife had a sound conventional loan, but still got dragged under in a housing crisis that would ultimately steamroll through neighborhoods across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It impacted other people who own homes who were current, and the value of their homes went down,” says Edward Pinto, co-director of the International Center on Housing Risk at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/\">American Enterprise Institute, \u003c/a>a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Areas that have a lot of foreclosures and very seriously delinquent loans have an impact on declining house prices, so it spreads throughout the neighborhood,” Pinto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night.’\u003ccite>Augie Cortez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2006, the last of the brand-new homes on Dream Street sold for about $430,000. Three years later, at the peak of the mortgage meltdown, the same home was worth barely a quarter of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the same story up and down the block and across the region as the bubble burst on the housing market and people couldn’t afford their mortgages. Even people like Augie Cortez, who didn’t have mortgages spring-loaded with dangerous adjustable rates and hidden fees, were dragged down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction work vanished and Cortez’s cement finishing jobs dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418640 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he's glad he stayed now that Dream Street is finally recovering.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he’s glad he stayed, now that Dream Street is recovering from the mortgage meltdown. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to do the fast payoff and it was like, why did we get into this, a 15-year loan,” he says, recalling the painful days when the family seemed close to losing the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night,” says Cortez grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put food on the table Cortez sold lumber and other items online. He did odd jobs for neighbors. Mortgage payments got skipped for months. Default notices were dropping into mailboxes across the neighborhood — including his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just walk away, that’s what people were doing, just walking away,” he says, recalling what it was like then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was weird man, just empty houses. It was sad to see people pack their stuff. But I wasn’t going to do that. Not me, heck no. I would have stayed here until they put that (eviction) tag on my door,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off.’\u003ccite>Doug McCulloh, photojournalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife worked out a deal with their lender. Their 15-year mortgage was extended to 20 years, and the lender agreed to let them make lower minimum monthly payments for a fixed period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were surrounded by the wreckage of the mortgage meltdown. By the end of 2009, half of Dream Street’s original 13 owners had either been pushed out or foreclosed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foreclosure meltdown swept across this entire area and up and down Dream Street like a tsunami in spring of 2009,” says photojournalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.pe.com/2014/03/28/artist-spotlight-douglas-mcculloh/\">Doug McCulloh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh lives in nearby Riverside. But his connection to Dream Street runs deep. He’s the one who gave the little avenue its name. It was a prize at a San Bernardino County charity auction. McCulloh says the come-on was irresistible: name a street, minimum bid $25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My immediate thought is: It’s the American Dream, it’s your dream house and so on,” says McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, reflecting on what happened there, he adds, “A nightmare is kind of a dream, too. So dreams can cut in all directions, can be all kinds of things. And it’s turned out to be that here on Dream Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McCulloh also won permission from the developer to document the housing tract’s rise from plowed-over fruit orchard to model suburbia to ground zero of the mortgage crisis. He got to know the construction workers, the development company and mortgage team, and the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh tells the story of the last family to move onto Dream Street. They bought near the peak of the housing boom and couldn’t hang on. When the notice to vacate got slapped on the door, they salvaged what they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off,” recalls McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two months later they got a family member who had good credit, they bottom-fished the market. They bought a house about a mile away. The palm trees, they planted them at their new house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday afternoon, McCulloh catches up with Augie Cortez and his brother, Johnny, on the sidewalk outside Cortez’s home. Neighbor Jerry Williams pulls his pickup truck into his driveway. He waves and heads over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez (r) and his brother outside Cortez’ Dream Street home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez (R) and his brother, Johnny, (L) outside Cortez’s Dream Street home. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams is a burly long-haul truck driver with a shaggy, graying beard and wide smile. He and his wife Kelley, also a truck driver, moved in around the same time as Cortez and his wife. He complains about some kids that recently tagged a couple of fences. Other than the minor graffiti, all is good here, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty quiet. You see how it is man,” he says, nodding to the tidy cul-de-sac. “We like it, it works for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days all the houses on Dream Street are occupied. No more busted-out windows or dead lawns; the emblems of the foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess it was a dream,” laughs Augie Cortez. “Actually got to keep (the house), shoot. That’s what’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a sense it’s a dream half-realized. From his front yard we look across to a pair of large dusty vacant lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No houses were ever built on the \u003cem>other\u003c/em> side of Dream Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s undeveloped county land that, at the time the housing tract was developed, was to be the site of a park and library. The developers even dangled the county project as a selling point to would-be home buyers like Cortez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that sounded good for my girls, like ‘wow’ perfect,” Cortez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there’s the park and library,” he says, pointing to the vacant land. When everyone looks to see where Cortez is pointing, he drops the punch line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s invisible!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Bernardino County spokesman says the land turned out to be too narrow for a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County tax revenue also plummeted with housing values during the housing market crash. There are currently no plans for the empty lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some people were betting that the bubble would go on, and of course it couldn’t,” says photographer McCulloh. “Other people bet against the bubble. So the one thing you can say is there will be another spot where hanging onto the dream gets really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local real estate experts warn that Inland Empire housing is once again way overvalued, and overdue for a “correction.” Prices have surged to an unsustainable level in the last year, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhsie.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helped guys like Augie hold onto their houses 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the edge of those vacant lots, a sign lashed to a post beckons with a come-on that sounds a little suspicious, given what this neighborhood has survived over the last decade: “Buy a Home, 1% Down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would be home buyers with a seemingly irresistible offer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would-be homebuyers with a seemingly irresistible offer. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no name for a real estate agent or mortgage broker. But there’s a local phone number. I give it a call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buying a home has never been easier! Here’s how it works,” continues Emily. “You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.” If you invested in a rental property, consider working with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propertytaxpartners.co.uk/blog/property-tax-accountant-london\">property accountant south london\u003c/a> to help prepare the taxes from your rental income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily asks me to leave my number and a good time to call back. I don’t. But I do find out more about that sign, and about new trends in home loans that are stoking old fears.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Augie Cortez and his wife, Blanca, bought a little slice of the American Dream about 17 years ago in Bloomington, a working-class community in San Bernardino about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their roomy four-bedroom house was the very first on the block of a brand-new subdivision not unlike scores of others that began carpeting Inland Southern California toward the end of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortezes gathered up their savings and managed to put up a healthy down payment on a 15-year mortgage. After a couple of other home purchasing efforts collapsed, they were eager to make this one stick and they wanted to pay it off fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another point that often deserves more attention is the assumption that a brand-new property will automatically be free from defects. That was certainly my expectation until I started researching the common issues many homeowners encounter after moving in. Looking through examples of \u003ca href=\"https://homesnag.co.uk/what-is-snagging/\">a qualified snagging survey and detailed new-build inspection process for homeowners\u003c/a> helped me appreciate how many technical concerns can remain hidden beneath what appears to be a finished home. My own experience showed that small imperfections were only part of the picture, as some findings related to workmanship standards and compliance issues that would have been difficult to recognise without training. The ability to present a structured report to the developer also made communication much easier and encouraged quicker responses. Rather than relying on guesswork, I felt far more confident discussing repairs because every concern had been properly documented and explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthly payments would be high. But the name of the little cul-de-sac seemed like a good omen: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0621667,-117.3957405,3a,75y,144.34h,60.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTLzuz0fGR8FQ5Cznj9CJSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Street\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that was a cool name! I don’t think I’d ever heard of a Dream Street. Have you?” Cortez asks as he sits at an expansive table in the family’s dining room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for a while, the dream was good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"When Augie Cortez’ moved his family into its new Dream Street home he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Augie Cortez moved his family into its new Dream Street home, he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Augie works in construction as a cement finisher, and when he first bought his home, business was booming in the Inland Empire. After moving his wife and kids into the new house, he had enough extra cash to redo all the cement work along the sides of the house and the back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a family portrait taken the day his three daughters pressed some memories into the wet cement. While showing off his property, he points to the spot just outside a garage side door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are my daughters’ handprints,” he says, beaming with pride. “Man, those are my daughters’ handprints right there. Nov. 27, 1999.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez’ daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez’s daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Easy Credit Dragged Everyone Down\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With so much homebuilding going on, it was easy for just about anyone to get a mortgage back then, even if you had shaky credit or no job at all. Low-income minority neighborhoods like the ones around Dream Street were ripe targets for subprime lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife had a sound conventional loan, but still got dragged under in a housing crisis that would ultimately steamroll through neighborhoods across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It impacted other people who own homes who were current, and the value of their homes went down,” says Edward Pinto, co-director of the International Center on Housing Risk at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/\">American Enterprise Institute, \u003c/a>a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Areas that have a lot of foreclosures and very seriously delinquent loans have an impact on declining house prices, so it spreads throughout the neighborhood,” Pinto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night.’\u003ccite>Augie Cortez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2006, the last of the brand-new homes on Dream Street sold for about $430,000. Three years later, at the peak of the mortgage meltdown, the same home was worth barely a quarter of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the same story up and down the block and across the region as the bubble burst on the housing market and people couldn’t afford their mortgages. Even people like Augie Cortez, who didn’t have mortgages spring-loaded with dangerous adjustable rates and hidden fees, were dragged down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction work vanished and Cortez’s cement finishing jobs dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418640 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he's glad he stayed now that Dream Street is finally recovering.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he’s glad he stayed, now that Dream Street is recovering from the mortgage meltdown. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to do the fast payoff and it was like, why did we get into this, a 15-year loan,” he says, recalling the painful days when the family seemed close to losing the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night,” says Cortez grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put food on the table Cortez sold lumber and other items online. He did odd jobs for neighbors. Mortgage payments got skipped for months. Default notices were dropping into mailboxes across the neighborhood — including his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just walk away, that’s what people were doing, just walking away,” he says, recalling what it was like then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was weird man, just empty houses. It was sad to see people pack their stuff. But I wasn’t going to do that. Not me, heck no. I would have stayed here until they put that (eviction) tag on my door,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off.’\u003ccite>Doug McCulloh, photojournalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife worked out a deal with their lender. Their 15-year mortgage was extended to 20 years, and the lender agreed to let them make lower minimum monthly payments for a fixed period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were surrounded by the wreckage of the mortgage meltdown. By the end of 2009, half of Dream Street’s original 13 owners had either been pushed out or foreclosed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foreclosure meltdown swept across this entire area and up and down Dream Street like a tsunami in spring of 2009,” says photojournalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.pe.com/2014/03/28/artist-spotlight-douglas-mcculloh/\">Doug McCulloh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh lives in nearby Riverside. But his connection to Dream Street runs deep. He’s the one who gave the little avenue its name. It was a prize at a San Bernardino County charity auction. McCulloh says the come-on was irresistible: name a street, minimum bid $25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My immediate thought is: It’s the American Dream, it’s your dream house and so on,” says McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, reflecting on what happened there, he adds, “A nightmare is kind of a dream, too. So dreams can cut in all directions, can be all kinds of things. And it’s turned out to be that here on Dream Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McCulloh also won permission from the developer to document the housing tract’s rise from plowed-over fruit orchard to model suburbia to ground zero of the mortgage crisis. He got to know the construction workers, the development company and mortgage team, and the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh tells the story of the last family to move onto Dream Street. They bought near the peak of the housing boom and couldn’t hang on. When the notice to vacate got slapped on the door, they salvaged what they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off,” recalls McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two months later they got a family member who had good credit, they bottom-fished the market. They bought a house about a mile away. The palm trees, they planted them at their new house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday afternoon, McCulloh catches up with Augie Cortez and his brother, Johnny, on the sidewalk outside Cortez’s home. Neighbor Jerry Williams pulls his pickup truck into his driveway. He waves and heads over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez (r) and his brother outside Cortez’ Dream Street home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez (R) and his brother, Johnny, (L) outside Cortez’s Dream Street home. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams is a burly long-haul truck driver with a shaggy, graying beard and wide smile. He and his wife Kelley, also a truck driver, moved in around the same time as Cortez and his wife. He complains about some kids that recently tagged a couple of fences. Other than the minor graffiti, all is good here, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty quiet. You see how it is man,” he says, nodding to the tidy cul-de-sac. “We like it, it works for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days all the houses on Dream Street are occupied. No more busted-out windows or dead lawns; the emblems of the foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess it was a dream,” laughs Augie Cortez. “Actually got to keep (the house), shoot. That’s what’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a sense it’s a dream half-realized. From his front yard we look across to a pair of large dusty vacant lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No houses were ever built on the \u003cem>other\u003c/em> side of Dream Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s undeveloped county land that, at the time the housing tract was developed, was to be the site of a park and library. The developers even dangled the county project as a selling point to would-be home buyers like Cortez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that sounded good for my girls, like ‘wow’ perfect,” Cortez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there’s the park and library,” he says, pointing to the vacant land. When everyone looks to see where Cortez is pointing, he drops the punch line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s invisible!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Bernardino County spokesman says the land turned out to be too narrow for a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County tax revenue also plummeted with housing values during the housing market crash. There are currently no plans for the empty lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some people were betting that the bubble would go on, and of course it couldn’t,” says photographer McCulloh. “Other people bet against the bubble. So the one thing you can say is there will be another spot where hanging onto the dream gets really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local real estate experts warn that Inland Empire housing is once again way overvalued, and overdue for a “correction.” Prices have surged to an unsustainable level in the last year, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhsie.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helped guys like Augie hold onto their houses 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the edge of those vacant lots, a sign lashed to a post beckons with a come-on that sounds a little suspicious, given what this neighborhood has survived over the last decade: “Buy a Home, 1% Down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would be home buyers with a seemingly irresistible offer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would-be homebuyers with a seemingly irresistible offer. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no name for a real estate agent or mortgage broker. 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