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"content": "\u003cp>Many cities in Silicon Valley are working to develop new sources of water to avoid shortfalls in future decades, but East Palo Alto is already at a critical point. The city needs more water in order to spur much-needed economic development and new housing. Here’s how it hopes to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If you don’t have water, you don’t have affordable housing. If you don’t have water, you can’t grow.”\u003ccite>Carlos Martinez, City Manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Carlos Martinez has big dreams for East Palo Alto. It will continue to be multi-ethnic, there will be residents of all economic classes, affordable housing, schools with 100 percent graduation rates and community programs for youth and seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a lot to ask from any town and East Palo Alto has an additional hurdle right now. The city doesn’t have enough water to drive economic growth, which would help provide the tax dollars to fund housing, schools, city services and new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is true when you look at other planets, when you look for life, you look for water and it is equally true here,” said Martinez, who is East Palo Alto’s city manager. “If you don’t have water, you don’t have affordable housing. If you don’t have water, you can’t grow, and if we can’t grow we can’t generate jobs, which our citizens need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Development on Hold\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key to East Palo Alto’s future is a small triangle of land in the back corner of a Home Depot parking lot. A sunken indent in the lawn is the only indication of the good fortune below. This is the location known as Pad D, where the city has already dug a test well in search of drinkable groundwater. The results were very promising – a good quantity of water and good quality. In less than two years, it’s possible this could be a producing well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592429\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-400x219.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-768x420.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1440x787.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1920x1049.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1180x645.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-960x525.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan/Water Deeply)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that’s good news because East Palo Alto’s water supply today comes from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Hetch Hetchy water system. The water itself is not problematic, but the amount is. East Palo Alto currently uses all of its allocation. By 2035, with the city’s projected growth, it will be short 1,200 acre-feet a year (an average household uses between one half and one acre-foot a year and East Palo Alto residents have some of the lowest water use in the state).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is not as dire as some Central Valley towns where wells ran dry last year and residents had to haul water for showering and drinking. East Palo Alto residents currently have enough water to meet their basic needs, but without an \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9865/silicon-valley-seeks-local-water-sources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additional supply\u003c/a> the city’s economic growth is hamstrung because new developments are not able to be approved by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this isn’t a function of California’s four-year drought, either. “I don’t want to give the impression that because of the drought there is no water,” said Martinez. “There is water – there is plenty of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have developers lining up.’\u003ccite>Michelle Daher, Environmental Coordinator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In fact, he says, other nearby cities have allocations that currently exceed their needs, but East Palo Alto officials haven’t yet managed to find cities that are willing to sell or trade their unused water. “There is plenty of water in the system, it’s just not ours,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And without well water or supplies from other cities to increase their allocation, East Palo Alto is out of other options. Even increasing conservation would be hard at this point. Residents have a reported per capita daily water use of 52 gallons – one of the lowest in the area (and the state). When Gov. Jerry Brown ordered statewide conservations mandates of up to 36 percent last year, East Palo Alto was tasked with trimming its water use only 8 percent because it was already low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents didn’t just hit the target, they nearly tripled it. By February they had saved enough water to meet an October target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very few parks and open spaces so we are not irrigating huge lawns. Our lots are small also, we don’t have three or four acre lots with landscaping,” said Martinez. “There is little we can do to gather more water. We are already doing what we can. We can’t tell our residents to use less water because it would be dangerous to their health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So East Palo Alto is looking to add two new wells to augment Hetch Hetchy water with local groundwater. The first is Pad D and the second well will be located 1.5 miles (2.4km) away on Gloria Way, a residential road. The Gloria Way well was in use decades ago, but residents disliked the color and odor of the water because of high levels of manganese and iron, so a filtration system will be needed before a well here can be used again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”zgmST6DMzFvdGUOq3KwBwke7VW4gGDTx”]Martinez estimates that construction could start on the Gloria Way well at the beginning of 2017. And it won’t be soon enough for some developers hoping to begin construction on projects in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have developers lining up,” said Michelle Daher, the city’s environmental coordinator. “We’re telling them we’ll process your applications, but without having the water to promise to your project we are not going to move forward beyond just an initial preview of the application. We can’t take it to the planning commission and get it fully vetted or get the entitlements because there isn’t water to meet the requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says there are three main projects in limbo while the city works on securing new water sources. Two are “Class A” office spaces (the most premiere) – one at 200,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) and the other a whopping 1.4 million square feet (130,000 square meters). The third project is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theprimaryschool.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primary School\u003c/a>, a new school combining education and health services for 500 kids led by Priscilla Chan, the pediatrician and philanthropist wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The school plans to open in a temporary location this fall until it can complete construction on its permanent East Palo Alto site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three projects would bring in needed revenue for the city, but East Palo Alto also has other priorities as well. “The city has a site they would like to develop as affordable housing, but of course we can’t develop affordable housing without water,” said Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning for the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more water, East Palo Alto, which is squeezed between the shoulders of Palo Alto (home to Stanford University) and Menlo Park (headquarters of Facebook), may be poised for big changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade Martinez says he’s already seen substantial changes. Back in 1992 East Palo Alto held the unenviable title of having the highest homicide rate per capita in the country. These days, though, thanks to the proliferation of the tech boom, it finally has the attention of moneyed interests and large developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t always been the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the city of East Palo Alto incorporated, many people in San Mateo County thought that the city could not survive because it has a very tiny tax base,” said Martinez. For example, in 1977 total \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sales tax revenue\u003c/a> per capita in East Palo Alto was $8.33. Next door in Palo Alto, it was $64.35 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until 1983, East Palo Alto was an unincorporated part of San Mateo County. In the years preceding, neighboring towns and highway construction had chipped away parts of East Palo Alto’s neighborhoods, shrinking the city’s borders down to an irregularly shaped 2.5 square miles (6.5 square km).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The largest tax generator was a McDonald’s,” said Martinez. “You can’t run a city with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592434\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592434\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community leaders were determined to make East Palo Alto economically sound and do so with a commitment to fair housing. The first step after incorporation, said Martinez, was enacting rent control ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing has been a defining factor in the area’s history, long before it was officially incorporated. In the post World War II boom that drove population growth in the peninsula, East Palo Alto became a refuge for African Americans at a time when housing discrimination and “\u003ca href=\"http://sils.unc.edu/news/2010/t-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redlining\u003c/a>” were common in other nearby cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades East Palo Alto was predominantly African American, but the demographics have shifted in recent years, though it still remains more racially diverse than neighboring towns or the county as a whole. Census numbers from 2010 show the city is 65 percent Hispanic or Latino, 17 percent Black and 7.5 percent Pacific Islander or Hawaiian. The majority of people in the city speak a language other than English at home and 40 percent were born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the tech boom has fueled a drastic rise in rents and home prices throughout the area, East Palo Alto remains more affordable, relatively speaking. Neighborhoods tend to have more modest homes and multiunit buildings. Median home prices have risen in East Palo Alto to $650,000, but it’s still a bargain compared to $2 million in neighboring Palo Alto or $1.5 million in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of East Palo Alto, though, have smaller paychecks than their neighbors. Median household income is 43 percent less than the rest of San Mateo County, which makes the need for economic development even greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Martinez knows that it will come with trade-offs. It already has. Back in the 1990s, when others counted East Palo Alto as down and out, the city’s leaders made strategic decisions to boost its economy. The downtown area known as Whiskey Gulch “suffered from physically dilapidated buildings, high crime and drug activity, and the proliferation of liquor stores and bars,” the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> explains. But it was razed and replaced in 1999 with “University Circle,” which now includes a Four Seasons hotel and office towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that began to bring property tax revenue and stabilize the city,” said Martinez. “People didn’t think retail users would relocate to East Palo Alto.” But they were wrong. Next came another development with Ikea, Home Depot, Nordstrom Rack, Sports Authority, Starbucks and other big chain businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no longer a doubt that East Palo Alto can sustain itself as a city but I think in that process to get to that point, many people were displaced, multi-family homes were demolished and families were relocated,” said Martinez. “The city council had to make very hard choices in order to survive as a city. Development generates revenues for financial services but also creates other impacts – it’s a balancing act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That balancing act is something that the city takes seriously as it develops a new general plan for how to grow East Palo Alto as more water becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is actively seeking input to make sure we get it right for future generations and have a vision that is long-term,” said Daher. “The residents have made it clear they are interested in seeing development happen, but in certain areas they want to focus on retaining their low-income housing portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the horizon is a new city center that would bring more pedestrian-friendly streets, retail and higher-density housing. The area that Martinez calls the “linchpin” for this new downtown is an empty 6-acre (2.4-hectare) lot surrounded by a chain-link fence. It’s across from the McDonald’s that used to be the city’s biggest tax generator. A sign lists a phone number for the vacant parcel’s developer, Barry Swenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is another dream deferred for East Palo Alto. Like other developments, it will have to wait for more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez hopes the wait is not too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have more and better city facilities and better recreational opportunities,” said Martinez. “There are many things that we should be doing but we don’t have the resources at this point. Additional development would enable us to provide that for our citizens. But that cannot happen if we don’t have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"http://waterdeeply.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Deeply\u003c/a>, and you can find the original \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9934/east-palo-altos-economic-future-tied-water/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. For important news about the California drought, you can \u003ca href=\"http://nwsdp.ly/waterlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up to the Water Deeply email list\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key to East Palo Alto’s future is a small triangle of land in the back corner of a Home Depot parking lot. A sunken indent in the lawn is the only indication of the good fortune below. This is the location known as Pad D, where the city has already dug a test well in search of drinkable groundwater. The results were very promising – a good quantity of water and good quality. In less than two years, it’s possible this could be a producing well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592429\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-400x219.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-768x420.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1440x787.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1920x1049.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1180x645.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-960x525.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan/Water Deeply)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that’s good news because East Palo Alto’s water supply today comes from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Hetch Hetchy water system. The water itself is not problematic, but the amount is. East Palo Alto currently uses all of its allocation. By 2035, with the city’s projected growth, it will be short 1,200 acre-feet a year (an average household uses between one half and one acre-foot a year and East Palo Alto residents have some of the lowest water use in the state).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is not as dire as some Central Valley towns where wells ran dry last year and residents had to haul water for showering and drinking. East Palo Alto residents currently have enough water to meet their basic needs, but without an \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9865/silicon-valley-seeks-local-water-sources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additional supply\u003c/a> the city’s economic growth is hamstrung because new developments are not able to be approved by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this isn’t a function of California’s four-year drought, either. “I don’t want to give the impression that because of the drought there is no water,” said Martinez. “There is water – there is plenty of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have developers lining up.’\u003ccite>Michelle Daher, Environmental Coordinator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In fact, he says, other nearby cities have allocations that currently exceed their needs, but East Palo Alto officials haven’t yet managed to find cities that are willing to sell or trade their unused water. “There is plenty of water in the system, it’s just not ours,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And without well water or supplies from other cities to increase their allocation, East Palo Alto is out of other options. Even increasing conservation would be hard at this point. Residents have a reported per capita daily water use of 52 gallons – one of the lowest in the area (and the state). When Gov. Jerry Brown ordered statewide conservations mandates of up to 36 percent last year, East Palo Alto was tasked with trimming its water use only 8 percent because it was already low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents didn’t just hit the target, they nearly tripled it. By February they had saved enough water to meet an October target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very few parks and open spaces so we are not irrigating huge lawns. Our lots are small also, we don’t have three or four acre lots with landscaping,” said Martinez. “There is little we can do to gather more water. We are already doing what we can. We can’t tell our residents to use less water because it would be dangerous to their health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So East Palo Alto is looking to add two new wells to augment Hetch Hetchy water with local groundwater. The first is Pad D and the second well will be located 1.5 miles (2.4km) away on Gloria Way, a residential road. The Gloria Way well was in use decades ago, but residents disliked the color and odor of the water because of high levels of manganese and iron, so a filtration system will be needed before a well here can be used again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Martinez estimates that construction could start on the Gloria Way well at the beginning of 2017. And it won’t be soon enough for some developers hoping to begin construction on projects in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have developers lining up,” said Michelle Daher, the city’s environmental coordinator. “We’re telling them we’ll process your applications, but without having the water to promise to your project we are not going to move forward beyond just an initial preview of the application. We can’t take it to the planning commission and get it fully vetted or get the entitlements because there isn’t water to meet the requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says there are three main projects in limbo while the city works on securing new water sources. Two are “Class A” office spaces (the most premiere) – one at 200,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) and the other a whopping 1.4 million square feet (130,000 square meters). The third project is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theprimaryschool.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primary School\u003c/a>, a new school combining education and health services for 500 kids led by Priscilla Chan, the pediatrician and philanthropist wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The school plans to open in a temporary location this fall until it can complete construction on its permanent East Palo Alto site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three projects would bring in needed revenue for the city, but East Palo Alto also has other priorities as well. “The city has a site they would like to develop as affordable housing, but of course we can’t develop affordable housing without water,” said Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning for the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more water, East Palo Alto, which is squeezed between the shoulders of Palo Alto (home to Stanford University) and Menlo Park (headquarters of Facebook), may be poised for big changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade Martinez says he’s already seen substantial changes. Back in 1992 East Palo Alto held the unenviable title of having the highest homicide rate per capita in the country. These days, though, thanks to the proliferation of the tech boom, it finally has the attention of moneyed interests and large developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t always been the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the city of East Palo Alto incorporated, many people in San Mateo County thought that the city could not survive because it has a very tiny tax base,” said Martinez. For example, in 1977 total \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sales tax revenue\u003c/a> per capita in East Palo Alto was $8.33. Next door in Palo Alto, it was $64.35 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until 1983, East Palo Alto was an unincorporated part of San Mateo County. In the years preceding, neighboring towns and highway construction had chipped away parts of East Palo Alto’s neighborhoods, shrinking the city’s borders down to an irregularly shaped 2.5 square miles (6.5 square km).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The largest tax generator was a McDonald’s,” said Martinez. “You can’t run a city with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592434\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592434\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community leaders were determined to make East Palo Alto economically sound and do so with a commitment to fair housing. The first step after incorporation, said Martinez, was enacting rent control ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing has been a defining factor in the area’s history, long before it was officially incorporated. In the post World War II boom that drove population growth in the peninsula, East Palo Alto became a refuge for African Americans at a time when housing discrimination and “\u003ca href=\"http://sils.unc.edu/news/2010/t-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redlining\u003c/a>” were common in other nearby cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades East Palo Alto was predominantly African American, but the demographics have shifted in recent years, though it still remains more racially diverse than neighboring towns or the county as a whole. Census numbers from 2010 show the city is 65 percent Hispanic or Latino, 17 percent Black and 7.5 percent Pacific Islander or Hawaiian. The majority of people in the city speak a language other than English at home and 40 percent were born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the tech boom has fueled a drastic rise in rents and home prices throughout the area, East Palo Alto remains more affordable, relatively speaking. Neighborhoods tend to have more modest homes and multiunit buildings. Median home prices have risen in East Palo Alto to $650,000, but it’s still a bargain compared to $2 million in neighboring Palo Alto or $1.5 million in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of East Palo Alto, though, have smaller paychecks than their neighbors. Median household income is 43 percent less than the rest of San Mateo County, which makes the need for economic development even greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Martinez knows that it will come with trade-offs. It already has. Back in the 1990s, when others counted East Palo Alto as down and out, the city’s leaders made strategic decisions to boost its economy. The downtown area known as Whiskey Gulch “suffered from physically dilapidated buildings, high crime and drug activity, and the proliferation of liquor stores and bars,” the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> explains. But it was razed and replaced in 1999 with “University Circle,” which now includes a Four Seasons hotel and office towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that began to bring property tax revenue and stabilize the city,” said Martinez. “People didn’t think retail users would relocate to East Palo Alto.” But they were wrong. Next came another development with Ikea, Home Depot, Nordstrom Rack, Sports Authority, Starbucks and other big chain businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no longer a doubt that East Palo Alto can sustain itself as a city but I think in that process to get to that point, many people were displaced, multi-family homes were demolished and families were relocated,” said Martinez. “The city council had to make very hard choices in order to survive as a city. Development generates revenues for financial services but also creates other impacts – it’s a balancing act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That balancing act is something that the city takes seriously as it develops a new general plan for how to grow East Palo Alto as more water becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is actively seeking input to make sure we get it right for future generations and have a vision that is long-term,” said Daher. “The residents have made it clear they are interested in seeing development happen, but in certain areas they want to focus on retaining their low-income housing portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the horizon is a new city center that would bring more pedestrian-friendly streets, retail and higher-density housing. The area that Martinez calls the “linchpin” for this new downtown is an empty 6-acre (2.4-hectare) lot surrounded by a chain-link fence. It’s across from the McDonald’s that used to be the city’s biggest tax generator. A sign lists a phone number for the vacant parcel’s developer, Barry Swenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is another dream deferred for East Palo Alto. Like other developments, it will have to wait for more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez hopes the wait is not too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have more and better city facilities and better recreational opportunities,” said Martinez. “There are many things that we should be doing but we don’t have the resources at this point. Additional development would enable us to provide that for our citizens. But that cannot happen if we don’t have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a bill that approves $53 million in state funds to aid construction of a new \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/21/oakland-moves-to-block-coal-at-new-terminal\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland cargo terminal\u003c/a> that backers hope to use to export coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herbert on Tuesday signed \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/03/10/utah-lawmakers-voting-to-spend-public-funds-on-oakland-coal-terminal-took-29000-from-company-that-stands-to-profit\" target=\"_blank\">legislation\u003c/a> authored by Republican state Sen. J. Stuart Adams that would help finance the project so Utah coal and other products reach overseas markets more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herbert's spokesman linked the governor's support for the bill to the national political debate over the future of the coal industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gov. Herbert is alarmed to hear the comments from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton when she said 'We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,'\" the spokesman, Jon Cox, said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox was referencing remarks Clinton made earlier this month when \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/255ab210cd0c4229bf4036cb3f6cb715/facing-backlash-clinton-says-coal-still-has-future\" target=\"_blank\">she emphasized her commitment to policies that promote renewable energy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Utah will continue to pursue an all-of-the-above approach to energy development including one of, if not the largest, growth of solar development in America over the past two years,\" Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terminal and Utah's role in financing it has outraged local environmentalists who have been working to stop the project. They say it will increase air pollution in West Oakland, which already has high asthma rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're already experiencing a lot of health effects, so to bring a project that can worsen the effects of residents and potentially the workers -- we're opposed to that,\" said Brittany King, a conservation program coordinator at the Sierra Club's Bay Area chapter, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics also say the project perpetuates dependence on fossil fuels, contributing to high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that scientists have identified as a key driver of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm deeply disappointed in the decision by Utah's lawmakers to use public funds to prop up a dying industry that will only pollute our planet and contribute to global warming,\" East Bay State Senator Loni Hancock said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Adams said the project will help in the global environmental battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Utah has the cleanest coal on the planet,\" Adams said in an interview earlier this month. \"You actually may be improving the environment by allowing this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said if India and China burned more clean coal from Utah, the earth's environment could get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as the rest of the world is using it, you ought to use a better product than dirty coal,\" Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Bay Area's top energy experts disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no such thing as clean coal,\" said Daniel Kammen, a UC Berkeley professor of energy and co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, in an email. \"When you burn coal you get carbon dioxide, no getting around that. Poison is poison. Adams is wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Burning coal with less trace toxin elements in it is better than injecting it into a vein, but far worse than the many clean energy options that are available,\" Kammen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said California should return favors that Utah has done for the Golden State in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When there were power generation lines that needed to be run through Utah from Wyoming to California, we allowed those lines to be run through,\" he said. \"Most of the goods that come from the rest of the world come into California and travel through Utah through our freeways, with trucks and whatever else may pollute our air. And we've actually tried to accommodate California, tried to be neighborly.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>West Oakland is one step closer to getting its first full-service grocery store in a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/27/west-oakland-property-prices-peoples-community-market\">As KQED reported last year\u003c/a>, Brahm Ahmadi has been trying to buy land since 2014 in West Oakland — a food desert that has also become a more expensive place to live than it used to be. Ahmadi’s efforts to build People’s Community Market were stalled as land prices shot up. Now an anonymous investor and a well-known nonprofit developer have stepped up to help Ahmadi complete a deal that will allow him to build a market near the San Pablo corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the primary focus is on access to good food, there’s also a really big focus on community-building,” says Ahmadi, who envisions a grocery store that would also act as a community gathering space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting this far has been a struggle for Ahmadi, and his story demonstrates the challenges of getting a deal like this done in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How People’s Community Market Got Here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last couple of years, Ahmadi has tried to buy several properties in West Oakland to build his store. But the $1.2 million he raised wasn’t enough to buy land near West Grand Avenue and Market Street, where his studies showed a grocery store would have the greatest impact. One landowner told KQED that his offers were “sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has received help from East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., a well-known nonprofit developer in Oakland, which has helped Ahmadi search for a location for People’s Community Market and has even negotiated deals with landowners, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it was hard to get a deal done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was extraordinarily difficult,” says Joshua Simon, executive director of EBALDC. “I have been doing this work for many, many years and I’ve never seen a market heat up this fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10891494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Ahmadi.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi told KQED in 2015 that he was not be able to develop People's Community Market at his first-choice location near West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. The prices for land were too high.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Ahmadi.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Ahmadi-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi told KQED in 2015 that he was not able to develop People’s Community Market at his first-choice location near West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. The prices for land were too high. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What hasn’t helped was the elimination of state redevelopment money, which was once used for infrastructure and other projects, like Ahmadi’s, in neighborhoods that needed it the most. That has left a giant hole to fill in financing projects that are meant to uplift certain neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working with angel investors and creative foundations and alternative funding sources that take a social equity approach to their investment decisions is a critical piece of this,” says Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi eventually met an Oakland native who was willing to help. Ahmadi won’t name his investor but says he owns several commercial properties in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just believes in this project and in the need in the community,” says Ahmadi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investor has loaned EBALDC $970,000 so that the nonprofit can purchase the property at 3103 Myrtle St. in the San Pablo corridor. EBALDC will then give People’s Community Market a 30-year lease with little rent, says Ahmadi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two Properties Needed for One Grocery Store\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, perhaps more complicated, deal was struck with St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church, which is adjacent to where the store will be built. The historic black church has been in West Oakland since the mid-1950s. And it’s not for sale, says church financial secretary Altheria Jinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gentrification and displacement of longtime Oakland residents is a common conversation at the church, Jinks says. It’s also a conversation that she needed to have with Ahmadi before agreeing to any deals with him, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10891497\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Peoples-Market-800x368.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmadi says one of the toughest parts of the deal was getting the church to lease its parking lot space.\" width=\"800\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Peoples-Market-800x368.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Peoples-Market-400x184.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Peoples-Market.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmadi says one of the toughest parts of the deal was getting the church to lease its parking lot space. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brahm Ahmadi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had the discussion with Brahm when they first came to us with that offer. I just feel like a lot of areas in Oakland are seeing gentrification,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he understands the church’s concerns, which is why he would show up on Sundays without “the suits” (his lawyer and broker) before even talking about specific details of the deal, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew step one for us was absolutely about trust building,” says Ahmadi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church has agreed to lease its parking lot to People’s Community Market. Ahmadi says he plans on making improvements like new pavement and lighting. The lease with the church includes a provision in which a certain number of parking spaces are reserved for the church \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> mornings, \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Friday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> evenings, four \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> afternoons a year and up to four funerals per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jinks says the grocery store could also have a positive impact on the greater community, perhaps bringing new members to the aging church, or at least help clean up an area that has seen plenty of drugs and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Developing Neighborhood\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood has been starved of investment. That was a major concern Ahmadi had last year when considering whether to even try and develop a grocery store in that part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also been concerned about the crime, blight and drug use in the area — specifically a small triangle park, St. Andrew’s Plaza, which the city has closed and plans to renovate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once open, Ahmadi hopes People’s Community Market will improve community health and community-building. He envisions the store having a social hall with its own separate entrance that could be a venue for guest speakers, workshops and community activities. By evening, it could be an event space for live music, poetry readings and recreation, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be a nonprofit arm to the grocery store that will run programs on nutrition and health education, Ahmadi says. The long-term goal would be to create technology that can track customers’ health and to help them monitor what they’re buying and give recommendations and rewards toward achieving healthy outcomes, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first Ahmadi has to raise even more cash. The store, which he plans to open in late 2017, still needs between $4.5 million to $5.5 million for construction costs. Plus, he plans to raise an additional $800,000 for operating costs after the store opens, through a direct public offering.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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One landowner told KQED that his offers were “sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has received help from East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., a well-known nonprofit developer in Oakland, which has helped Ahmadi search for a location for People’s Community Market and has even negotiated deals with landowners, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it was hard to get a deal done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was extraordinarily difficult,” says Joshua Simon, executive director of EBALDC. “I have been doing this work for many, many years and I’ve never seen a market heat up this fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10891494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Ahmadi.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi told KQED in 2015 that he was not be able to develop People's Community Market at his first-choice location near West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. The prices for land were too high.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Ahmadi.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Ahmadi-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi told KQED in 2015 that he was not able to develop People’s Community Market at his first-choice location near West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. The prices for land were too high. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What hasn’t helped was the elimination of state redevelopment money, which was once used for infrastructure and other projects, like Ahmadi’s, in neighborhoods that needed it the most. That has left a giant hole to fill in financing projects that are meant to uplift certain neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working with angel investors and creative foundations and alternative funding sources that take a social equity approach to their investment decisions is a critical piece of this,” says Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi eventually met an Oakland native who was willing to help. Ahmadi won’t name his investor but says he owns several commercial properties in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just believes in this project and in the need in the community,” says Ahmadi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investor has loaned EBALDC $970,000 so that the nonprofit can purchase the property at 3103 Myrtle St. in the San Pablo corridor. EBALDC will then give People’s Community Market a 30-year lease with little rent, says Ahmadi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two Properties Needed for One Grocery Store\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, perhaps more complicated, deal was struck with St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church, which is adjacent to where the store will be built. The historic black church has been in West Oakland since the mid-1950s. And it’s not for sale, says church financial secretary Altheria Jinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gentrification and displacement of longtime Oakland residents is a common conversation at the church, Jinks says. 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"content": "\u003cp>Last year was a terrible season for the American pistachio industry, especially in California. Warm temperatures and the lack of water resulted in a loss of almost half the crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry hopes to recover this year, but growers across the country may have a different issue, a problem that stems from the lifting of sanctions against Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmer Brian Blackwell manages over 10,000 acres of nuts on the southern edge of Tulare County in the Central Valley. He’s pruning a 47-year-old pistachio orchard near Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just continue to grow bigger and bigger and bigger,” says Blackwell. “Every year we come through and we prune them. When you prune the trees back, the circumference on the trunk continues to get larger and larger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most American pistachios are grown in California, but until about 30 years ago most of the nuts came from Iran. They're one of the country’s main non-oil exports, sold in large quantities to places like China. The American pistachio industry didn’t boom until an embargo was put in place on the Iranian nut as a result of the Iran hostage crisis. Jim Zion, with Meridian Growers, markets 60 million pounds of nuts annually in Clovis. 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Farmers keep calling Zion, worried that the lifting of sanctions will flood the U.S. market with foreign nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of growers calling asking and I said, ‘It’s the way the world is,’” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zion doesn’t think farmers should fret yet over the decision. “I’m not that concerned, to be honest,” he says. “It doesn’t matter whether I sell this product to someone in Chicago or someone in Singapore. It’s all the same for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10888867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/BrianBlackwellPistachio-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Central Valley pistachio grower Brian Blackwell.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10888867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/BrianBlackwellPistachio-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/BrianBlackwellPistachio-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/BrianBlackwellPistachio.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/BrianBlackwellPistachio-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/BrianBlackwellPistachio-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central Valley pistachio grower Brian Blackwell. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But grower Brian Blackwell is concerned it would hurt the farms he manages crops for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re bringing in product for less than what we can grow it for and we have to compete in the marketplace, at least here in United States, then that means product is going to be sold at a lower price. 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It found that sheets labeled “100 percent Pima” sold at popular American retailers had been cut with subpar fiber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" link=\"none\" size=\"large\" ids=\"10886172,10886171\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those retailers called up David Greenstein, CEO of the major textile producer \u003ca href=\"http://www.himatsingka.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Himatsingka\u003c/a>, which sells Pima cotton sheets to retailers like Costco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The customer called me and said: Do you know that this product that you’re supplying us is not 100 percent pure?” Greenstein says. “We were unaware. We thought we were innocent, so we said that can’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenstein oversees the supply chain that takes cotton to China where it’s spun into thread, to India where it’s made into fabric and then to American stores like Costco. Greenstein called Hayward, the scientist behind the DNA technology, and asked him for help. 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So he hopped on a plane to China with a delegation of farmers, scientists and retailers to confront the company that was selling him the bogus thread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenstein made a presentation to the Chinese spinners, outlining his evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They asked for time, and they left us in the room and went to talk among themselves, and they came back and told us they were ready to admit to certain things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886174\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10886174 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/LizhuDavis-800x681.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Lizhu Davis says DNA tagging technology could change the way supply chains are monitored in the textile industry.\" width=\"800\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/LizhuDavis-800x681.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/LizhuDavis-400x341.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/LizhuDavis.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/LizhuDavis-1180x1005.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/LizhuDavis-960x818.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Lizhu Davis says DNA tagging technology could change the way supply chains are monitored in the textile industry. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those things included mixing in cheap-quality cotton with more expensive types, like Pima.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of firing them, Greenstein decided to continue using the spinners now that he could basically proof their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a handful of other California growers tag their cotton with the DNA serum, and Greenstein’s company is using that cotton to make sheets under the brand PimaCott. Currently, PimaCott bedding can be bought only at Costco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I brought a sample of the sheets to someone who knows a lot about fabric. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnostate.edu/jcast/cfcs/faculty-staff/l-davis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizhu Davis\u003c/a> manages a fashion merchandising program at Cal State Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow, it’s very luxurious,” Davis says. “Feels just like silk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis hopes that this use of DNA technology to track products globally is just the beginning of a change in her industry. She suspects the DNA tagging system could also be used on silk and synthetic materials.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">V\u003c/span>anessa Ladson has a pool, a hot tub and a laundry room. And on this particular day, a rainbow arcs over her five-bedroom home in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Sunday in December, she’s wearing a red top, hoop earrings and lipstick: Ladson is ready for church. It’s about 40 minutes away in East Oakland, where she used to live. But she doesn’t think too much about the distance between her home and Lily of the Valley Christian Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my family,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Sundays that Ladson gets into her blue Ford Focus, which she calls “Fiona,” and heads to Oakland. During the week, she wakes up at 4 a.m. to beat rush-hour traffic to downtown Oakland, where she works for the East Bay Municipal Utility District. If she’s running late and catches the worst of it, the commute could be two hours, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is awful getting up that early, but that is the price to pay,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249886579″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ladson loves Oakland. But after leaving in 2006 and bouncing around cities in the East Bay for a few years, she finally landed her own home in Antioch, a deal too good to pass up, says Ladson. Plus, she didn’t want her then-teenage son, Tyler Thompson, to be brought up in such a dangerous city, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson appreciates the house in Antioch. It almost makes it worth it, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you always have that thought in the back of your head, like, man, if I could, I would be down where everyone knows me,” says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though its been nearly a decade since he lived in Oakland, he still thinks of the city as home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>urrently, many Oakland residents are being forced to think about quality of life and how far their money can go as “The Town” sheds its reputation as an affordable alternative to San Francisco. Oakland has become \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2015/12/zumper-national-rent-report-december-2015/\">one of the fastest-growing renters’ markets\u003c/a>, and as prices rise there will continue to be displacement that leaves a bad impression on those who are choosing or are forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10851545 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Howard Kees has been an Oakland real estate agent for 25 years. He bought a cheaper home in East Oakland in the 80s so that he could pay for a better education for his children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Howard Kees has been an Oakland real estate agent for 25 years. He bought a cheaper home in East Oakland in the ’80s so that he could pay for a better education for his children. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like when you’re with somebody, and they’re not quite where they need to be. They have all this potential and they’re just bummin’,” says Denise Kees, a real estate agent from East Oakland. “Then they go off and they become successful and then they dump you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kees says Oakland has dumped plenty of longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city has lost nearly 10 percent of its African-American population, down from 113,833 in 2005 to 102,933 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hits home with Kees, whose best friend moved to Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I want to go see my best friend, I have to get on three or four freeways and drive for an hour,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s in many major cities, \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/pl-report-oak-housing-070715.pdf\">most residents in Oakland are renters\u003c/a> — more than 60 percent, according to the Census Bureau. But the majority of both renters and homeowners wouldn’t be able to afford a median-priced home in their communities, according to an analysis by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.urbanstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/USC_HousingEquityRoadmap_DataPacket_July2014.pdf\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a> in 2014 that looked at selected Oakland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees, Denise’s father, has been a real estate agent in Oakland for about 25 years. Before that, he coached youth basketball. Now some of his former players are settling down. They have good credit and stable jobs that provide steady income — just not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those same kids that I coached are coming back to me and saying, ‘Coach, I’m ready to buy a house. If coach could do it, so could I,'” he says. “And I hold my head down and say, ‘You don’t qualify.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees grew up in West Oakland at 20th and Wood streets and attended McClymonds High School. Now, “yuppies, buppies and hipsters” have moved into the neighborhood, he says. The last house he sold in West Oakland went for $600,000 and was “tore from the floor up” — a fixer-upper. There are two more homes he’s currently trying to broker in the neighborhood for more than $800,000 apiece, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that there are very few incentives for developers to build houses for residents with average incomes. State and federal tax incentives often support low-income housing developments, while private developers are able to make up costs of building more expensive housing by charging prices that more and more people are willing to pay to live in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers built no housing specifically for people making a “moderate” income between \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/files/RHNAProgress2007_2014_082815.pdf\">2007 and 2014\u003c/a>, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a surprise. I didn’t think it was zero,” says Michele Byrd, Oakland’s housing director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state Assembly bill introduced last year would have tried to extend certain housing subsidies statewide for middle-income residences. It failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, a Democrat from Richmond, is working \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/11/oakland-middle-income-bill-housing-bill-thurmond.html\">on legislation\u003c/a> that also targets more moderate income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently considering new housing policies, including a discussion about impact fees that would either require developers to build a certain percentage of affordable housing as part of their projects or charge developers a fee that would help pay for more affordable housing elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch has a different story. Between 2007 and 2014, the city surpassed its housing goals, set by the Association of Bay Area Governments. The bedroom community in eastern Contra Costa County has space to build and land is cheaper than in Oakland, says Forrest Ebbs, Antioch’s community development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can actually build moderately priced housing here and make a good profit on it,” Ebbs says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10883035\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10883035\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-800x450.png\" alt=\"Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder (2)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ver the last decade, Vanessa Ladson moved from Oakland to Hercules, then to Pittsburg and finally to Antioch in 2010 — jumping on a five-bedroom house that sold for $300,000. To her, leaving Oakland means she’s able to live in comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she misses her former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts her to think about the house on 105th Avenue in East Oakland where she grew up, she says. The home had roses along the walkway and carport. Plus, there’s the fish market she remembers, along with the local corner store and her favorite taco truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not eat a taco or burrito if I don’t go to \u003cem>that\u003c/em> truck,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some people, the idea of losing a local network isn’t just about losing a sense of community, says Richard Walker, an author and retired UC Berkeley professor. There is “enormous economic cost,” especially for more vulnerable populations like the elderly, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t get to their old doctor. They don’t know where to go. They’ve gotten lost and some of them literally die,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order for people to have a chance at staying in Oakland, there need to be stronger city policies and leadership to implement laws that will at least try to keep them here, Walker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Oakland Is Simmering\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether homes are available in East Oakland to the middle class, Howard and Denise Kees simultaneously say, “Yes!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Kees says she feels like Oakland is a relationship that's not going to last.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Kees says she feels like Oakland is a relationship that’s not going to last. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The historically working-class East Oakland neighborhood where Howard Kees lives near MacArthur Boulevard and 100th Avenue has below-average incomes, but most people own their homes, he says. The supply hasn’t changed, but prices have been elastic. In recent years, he’s seen homes in the neighborhood sell for less than $100,000 and for as high as $600,000, he says. The average price is around $300,000, about $100,000 less than the citywide average, says Kees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more is changing in the neighborhood than property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of black residents in Kees’ census tract dropped nearly 25 percent from 2009 to 2014, according to just-released census estimates. The white population has increased, and household income numbers are rising, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Denise Kees still calls her community “the ’hood” with affection, she is concerned that the demographic upheaval in Oakland neighborhoods will ultimately drain the city of its diversity — and force friends to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when people make that choice to leave, she says, “You can’t come back.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It almost makes it worth it, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you always have that thought in the back of your head, like, man, if I could, I would be down where everyone knows me,” says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though its been nearly a decade since he lived in Oakland, he still thinks of the city as home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>urrently, many Oakland residents are being forced to think about quality of life and how far their money can go as “The Town” sheds its reputation as an affordable alternative to San Francisco. Oakland has become \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2015/12/zumper-national-rent-report-december-2015/\">one of the fastest-growing renters’ markets\u003c/a>, and as prices rise there will continue to be displacement that leaves a bad impression on those who are choosing or are forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10851545 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Howard Kees has been an Oakland real estate agent for 25 years. He bought a cheaper home in East Oakland in the 80s so that he could pay for a better education for his children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Howard Kees has been an Oakland real estate agent for 25 years. He bought a cheaper home in East Oakland in the ’80s so that he could pay for a better education for his children. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like when you’re with somebody, and they’re not quite where they need to be. They have all this potential and they’re just bummin’,” says Denise Kees, a real estate agent from East Oakland. “Then they go off and they become successful and then they dump you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kees says Oakland has dumped plenty of longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city has lost nearly 10 percent of its African-American population, down from 113,833 in 2005 to 102,933 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hits home with Kees, whose best friend moved to Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I want to go see my best friend, I have to get on three or four freeways and drive for an hour,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s in many major cities, \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/pl-report-oak-housing-070715.pdf\">most residents in Oakland are renters\u003c/a> — more than 60 percent, according to the Census Bureau. But the majority of both renters and homeowners wouldn’t be able to afford a median-priced home in their communities, according to an analysis by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.urbanstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/USC_HousingEquityRoadmap_DataPacket_July2014.pdf\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a> in 2014 that looked at selected Oakland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees, Denise’s father, has been a real estate agent in Oakland for about 25 years. Before that, he coached youth basketball. Now some of his former players are settling down. They have good credit and stable jobs that provide steady income — just not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those same kids that I coached are coming back to me and saying, ‘Coach, I’m ready to buy a house. If coach could do it, so could I,'” he says. “And I hold my head down and say, ‘You don’t qualify.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees grew up in West Oakland at 20th and Wood streets and attended McClymonds High School. Now, “yuppies, buppies and hipsters” have moved into the neighborhood, he says. The last house he sold in West Oakland went for $600,000 and was “tore from the floor up” — a fixer-upper. There are two more homes he’s currently trying to broker in the neighborhood for more than $800,000 apiece, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that there are very few incentives for developers to build houses for residents with average incomes. State and federal tax incentives often support low-income housing developments, while private developers are able to make up costs of building more expensive housing by charging prices that more and more people are willing to pay to live in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers built no housing specifically for people making a “moderate” income between \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/files/RHNAProgress2007_2014_082815.pdf\">2007 and 2014\u003c/a>, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a surprise. I didn’t think it was zero,” says Michele Byrd, Oakland’s housing director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state Assembly bill introduced last year would have tried to extend certain housing subsidies statewide for middle-income residences. It failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, a Democrat from Richmond, is working \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/11/oakland-middle-income-bill-housing-bill-thurmond.html\">on legislation\u003c/a> that also targets more moderate income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently considering new housing policies, including a discussion about impact fees that would either require developers to build a certain percentage of affordable housing as part of their projects or charge developers a fee that would help pay for more affordable housing elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch has a different story. Between 2007 and 2014, the city surpassed its housing goals, set by the Association of Bay Area Governments. 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To her, leaving Oakland means she’s able to live in comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she misses her former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts her to think about the house on 105th Avenue in East Oakland where she grew up, she says. The home had roses along the walkway and carport. Plus, there’s the fish market she remembers, along with the local corner store and her favorite taco truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not eat a taco or burrito if I don’t go to \u003cem>that\u003c/em> truck,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some people, the idea of losing a local network isn’t just about losing a sense of community, says Richard Walker, an author and retired UC Berkeley professor. There is “enormous economic cost,” especially for more vulnerable populations like the elderly, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t get to their old doctor. They don’t know where to go. 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