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"content": "\u003cp>The new nuclear deal with Iran has some Californians salivating, quite literally. That's because the deal will lift longtime bans on the imports of food and carpets after Iran meets certain obligations to change its nuclear program, possibly as soon as next summer. With more than 200,000 people of Persian descent in California, that has piqued the interest of some Iranian entrepreneurs here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Idin Deeb, who immigrated to the Los Angeles area from Tehran with his parents at the age of 5. 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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\">B\u003c/span>ack in October, a crowd of about 80 people marched along busy El Camino Real, near Redwood City’s downtown. The marchers, many of them parents with young children, were demanding that the City Council do something to limit steep rent increases and stop evictions. Among the signs they waved was one reading, \"A healthy community welcomes all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estefania Camacho, a nanny and college student, led the protesters through intersections of halted traffic. Camacho had recently received an eviction notice and she, her mother and husband had to vacate their two-bedroom apartment in less than two months. But the search for another home was not going well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really worried. We are counting the days,” Camacho said at the time. “We haven’t found a place. We cannot afford a place with minimum wage in Redwood City or any place in the Bay Area. Everything is so overpriced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799541 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marchers get ready to cross El Camino Real in Redwood City on October 1, 2015. They ask the City Council limits evictions and rent hikes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marchers get ready to cross El Camino Real in Redwood City on Oct. 1, 2015. The cost of housing is transforming the city, once known for its affordability compared with neighboring cities in San Mateo County.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across Redwood City, the median rent price for two-bedroom apartments increased from $2,500 to $3,800 since 2012, according to the real estate website Zillow. Minimum wage and other full-time workers are unable to afford those rents. They end up having to move out of the area and sometimes quitting their local jobs. Anecdotes abound of “Help wanted” signs up longer than usual in Redwood City’s downtown businesses, while some local employers worry about retaining workers that can’t afford housing nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We haven’t found a place. We cannot afford a place with minimum wage in Redwood City or any place in the Bay Area. Everything is so overpriced.'\u003ccite>Estefania Camacho,\u003cbr>\nRedwood City renter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The issue is prompting a wide array of residents to call for measures such as rent control and “just cause” requirements for eviction, which don't exist in Redwood City or most of San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of evictions in Redwood City and much of the Bay Area is hard to track, as only cases that make it to court tend to be recorded. Residents and housing advocates say some landlords are getting rid of low-income tenants -- often through “no fault” evictions -- so they can charge higher rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower-income and heavily Latino census tracts surrounding Redwood City's downtown are at risk of or already undergoing displacement, according to UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the area where Estefania Camacho lives. Last summer, Palo Alto-based Spieker Companies Inc. bought the 85-unit apartment complex that includes Camacho's home and, according to residents, began sending eviction letters to tenants. Spieker did not return requests for comment, but Camacho's eviction notice says the company needs her to vacate her unit so it can be remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238190822&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238191076&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and other tenants banded together and got help from attorneys at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. They were able to negotiate with the new owners for more time to move out and a gradual, rather than immediate, increase in rent. Tenants will still be forced to leave -- but not until next July. In the meantime, tenants said rent on two-bedroom units, currently $1,600 a month, will increase by $300 next month, with an additional $300 increase coming in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and her family are moving after Christmas to Tracy, about 50 miles to the east in San Joaquin County. They will be renting a three-bedroom house there for $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho is quitting her nanny jobs for two families in San Carlos and San Mateo because commuting from Tracy would be too taxing. Her mother is also quitting her work at a Peninsula restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be challenging because we have to find jobs there,\" said Camacho. \"But that's all we can afford for now.\"\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\">S\u003c/span>tories like Camacho’s -- of working residents leaving their jobs and simply moving -- are becoming more common, says Charleen White, a lifelong resident of Redwood City who runs her own interior design and remodeling business. She says her contractor of 15 years got fed up of living in a crammed one-bedroom apartment with his family and he is moving to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me very unhappy because we are going to lose our dear friends. We are going to lose our diversity in our community,\" said White. She added that every Sunday at church she hears more news of families struggling to hang on to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila is the pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Roman Catholic parish and school that serves over 1,700 families, including White's. Some families have been coming here for generations, while others are new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Aquila says the lack of affordable housing is a source of anxiety for an overwhelming number of his parishioners, including children who sense their parents' stress when they can't afford to pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I think it's a big crisis. And I think it's an economic crisis exteriorly and I think interiorly it's a deep moral crisis, that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here,\" said D'Aquila. He says he supports rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long ago, Redwood City had a reputation as being more affordable than its neighbors. Unlike other communities in San Mateo County, the town produced nearly \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/planning/housing/datasets.html#reports\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 housing units\u003c/a> for low-income residents from 1988 to 1998, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments. But that supply was dwarfed by demand long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799542 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 per cent of all the new construction since 2012 was housing for low and moderate incomes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 percent of all the new construction since 2012 has been housing for low and moderate incomes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the big new buildings under construction downtown are mostly for offices and market-rate housing. Only about 5 percent of all new construction since 2012 has been housing for people with low and moderate incomes, according to Diana O'Dell, Redwood City's principal planner. Moderate incomes, according to county figures, include families of four earning up to $120,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Britschgi, who grew up in Redwood City and raised her kids there, says the loss of cultural and economic diversity in the city hurts upper-income families as well, even if they are not struggling directly with displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To have quality of life we are called to all live together, and this is where we learn and grow from each other,\" said Britschgi, a member of the city's Senior Affairs Commission. \"So if we lose that sense of diversity, we're losing a little bit of our quality of life.\"\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>t the root of the housing crunch is a huge imbalance between the number of jobs and housing created. Between 2010 and 2014, San Mateo County gained 54,600 jobs but only 2,500 new homes, according to the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/labor-market-data-library.html\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Development Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-5/2011-20/view.php\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County recently created a task force to study that imbalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll see growth taper off as companies decide they can no longer locate in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the lack of workforce housing,\" said Michael Lane, from the \u003ca href=\"http://nonprofithousing.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California\u003c/a> and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a regional business group, identified workforce housing, traffic congestion and the growing difficulty employers face in finding workers as the region’s top \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/category/housing-and-sustainable-development/\">challenges\u003c/a> for 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think it's a big crisis. ... It's a deep moral crisis that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here.'\u003ccite>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila,\u003cbr>\nPastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing costs are impacting more and more people, and cities across the region are struggling to figure out what to do about it, said Lane. That conversation often includes rent control. Pacifica, Alameda and the city of San Mateo are debating whether to regulate rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have jurisdictions that probably five or 10 years ago would never consider rent stabilization ordinances, and now that’s on the table and residents are demanding that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, which currently allows rent hikes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2313\" target=\"_blank\">under 8 percent\u003c/a> in a year, is considering tightening its rent ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a senior affairs commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as resident's quality of life.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a Senior Affairs Commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as residents' quality of life. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has not formally considered rent control, but residents have raised the issue before the City Council. At a recent meeting, children told council members their parents are unable to afford rent increases, and their families will have to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of rent control contend these ordinances have unintended consequences, such as keeping the most affordable units off market. Tenants in rent-controlled units in San Francisco tend to stay there even if they can afford to move somewhere more expensive, says Michael Verdone, president of the San Mateo County Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it does is it creates a stagnant housing market,\" said Verdone, former chair of Redwood City's Planning Commission and a resident of the city since the 1980s. \"Normally if there was no rent control, tenants with means would purchase a home, and that unit would become available on the open market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee, whose mayoral term ended this month, is also opposed to any rent regulation by the city. Gee, an architect who works full time managing construction projects, says he’s seen that owners of rent-controlled buildings don't spend as much to upgrade and maintain them. Sometimes that means the buildings don't comply with current safety codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent control doesn’t address the investment that is needed to maintain a property at quality level,” said Gee, adding that a large portion of the city’s rental stock is old and lacking earthquake retrofits and fire sprinklers. “That’s why we need to find new tools to moderate rents.\"\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\">T\u003c/span>o tackle the issue, Gee and the rest of the City Council approved Fire Safety First, a program aimed at improving safety and stabilizing rents at the same time. The initiative gives property owners low-interest loans to pay for sprinkler installations, and if the owners agree to limit rent increases, the city forgives the loan. It's still unclear how many renters the program might help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has also taken other steps to ease the housing crisis, such as approving plans to build as many as 137 homes for low-income residents on city land. Developers working on new projects will now also have to pay a fee to fund affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates supporting rent control, such as Aracely Mondragon from Peninsula Interfaith Action, say Redwood City's affordable housing measures may bear fruit years from now, but do little for people who are desperate for help now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just not going to help that family who received a 60-day notice last week and is thinking about moving to Oregon and taking their kids off the school district here,\" said Mondragon, who also leads her organization's countywide campaign for renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee says the problem is a regional one, and the solutions need to be worked on by governments in the entire region as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get it, I see the 'help wanted' signs. ... Living here on minimum wage is a challenge,\" he said. \"But it’s not just my responsibility. We have to work together with our neighbors to address affordability and the housing and employment needs of the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Barbara Britschgi remains hopeful that her neighbors and elected officials will come together to protect the city's diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a sense of concern and caring for each other, and I think that's going to come through,\" Britschgi said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of evictions in Redwood City and much of the Bay Area is hard to track, as only cases that make it to court tend to be recorded. Residents and housing advocates say some landlords are getting rid of low-income tenants -- often through “no fault” evictions -- so they can charge higher rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower-income and heavily Latino census tracts surrounding Redwood City's downtown are at risk of or already undergoing displacement, according to UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the area where Estefania Camacho lives. Last summer, Palo Alto-based Spieker Companies Inc. bought the 85-unit apartment complex that includes Camacho's home and, according to residents, began sending eviction letters to tenants. Spieker did not return requests for comment, but Camacho's eviction notice says the company needs her to vacate her unit so it can be remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238190822&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238191076&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and other tenants banded together and got help from attorneys at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. They were able to negotiate with the new owners for more time to move out and a gradual, rather than immediate, increase in rent. Tenants will still be forced to leave -- but not until next July. In the meantime, tenants said rent on two-bedroom units, currently $1,600 a month, will increase by $300 next month, with an additional $300 increase coming in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and her family are moving after Christmas to Tracy, about 50 miles to the east in San Joaquin County. They will be renting a three-bedroom house there for $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho is quitting her nanny jobs for two families in San Carlos and San Mateo because commuting from Tracy would be too taxing. Her mother is also quitting her work at a Peninsula restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be challenging because we have to find jobs there,\" said Camacho. \"But that's all we can afford for now.\"\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\">S\u003c/span>tories like Camacho’s -- of working residents leaving their jobs and simply moving -- are becoming more common, says Charleen White, a lifelong resident of Redwood City who runs her own interior design and remodeling business. She says her contractor of 15 years got fed up of living in a crammed one-bedroom apartment with his family and he is moving to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me very unhappy because we are going to lose our dear friends. We are going to lose our diversity in our community,\" said White. She added that every Sunday at church she hears more news of families struggling to hang on to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila is the pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Roman Catholic parish and school that serves over 1,700 families, including White's. Some families have been coming here for generations, while others are new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Aquila says the lack of affordable housing is a source of anxiety for an overwhelming number of his parishioners, including children who sense their parents' stress when they can't afford to pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I think it's a big crisis. And I think it's an economic crisis exteriorly and I think interiorly it's a deep moral crisis, that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here,\" said D'Aquila. He says he supports rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long ago, Redwood City had a reputation as being more affordable than its neighbors. Unlike other communities in San Mateo County, the town produced nearly \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/planning/housing/datasets.html#reports\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 housing units\u003c/a> for low-income residents from 1988 to 1998, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments. But that supply was dwarfed by demand long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799542 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 per cent of all the new construction since 2012 was housing for low and moderate incomes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 percent of all the new construction since 2012 has been housing for low and moderate incomes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the big new buildings under construction downtown are mostly for offices and market-rate housing. Only about 5 percent of all new construction since 2012 has been housing for people with low and moderate incomes, according to Diana O'Dell, Redwood City's principal planner. Moderate incomes, according to county figures, include families of four earning up to $120,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Britschgi, who grew up in Redwood City and raised her kids there, says the loss of cultural and economic diversity in the city hurts upper-income families as well, even if they are not struggling directly with displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To have quality of life we are called to all live together, and this is where we learn and grow from each other,\" said Britschgi, a member of the city's Senior Affairs Commission. \"So if we lose that sense of diversity, we're losing a little bit of our quality of life.\"\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>t the root of the housing crunch is a huge imbalance between the number of jobs and housing created. Between 2010 and 2014, San Mateo County gained 54,600 jobs but only 2,500 new homes, according to the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/labor-market-data-library.html\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Development Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-5/2011-20/view.php\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County recently created a task force to study that imbalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll see growth taper off as companies decide they can no longer locate in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the lack of workforce housing,\" said Michael Lane, from the \u003ca href=\"http://nonprofithousing.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California\u003c/a> and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a regional business group, identified workforce housing, traffic congestion and the growing difficulty employers face in finding workers as the region’s top \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/category/housing-and-sustainable-development/\">challenges\u003c/a> for 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think it's a big crisis. ... It's a deep moral crisis that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here.'\u003ccite>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila,\u003cbr>\nPastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing costs are impacting more and more people, and cities across the region are struggling to figure out what to do about it, said Lane. That conversation often includes rent control. Pacifica, Alameda and the city of San Mateo are debating whether to regulate rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have jurisdictions that probably five or 10 years ago would never consider rent stabilization ordinances, and now that’s on the table and residents are demanding that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, which currently allows rent hikes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2313\" target=\"_blank\">under 8 percent\u003c/a> in a year, is considering tightening its rent ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a senior affairs commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as resident's quality of life.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a Senior Affairs Commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as residents' quality of life. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has not formally considered rent control, but residents have raised the issue before the City Council. At a recent meeting, children told council members their parents are unable to afford rent increases, and their families will have to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of rent control contend these ordinances have unintended consequences, such as keeping the most affordable units off market. Tenants in rent-controlled units in San Francisco tend to stay there even if they can afford to move somewhere more expensive, says Michael Verdone, president of the San Mateo County Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it does is it creates a stagnant housing market,\" said Verdone, former chair of Redwood City's Planning Commission and a resident of the city since the 1980s. \"Normally if there was no rent control, tenants with means would purchase a home, and that unit would become available on the open market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee, whose mayoral term ended this month, is also opposed to any rent regulation by the city. Gee, an architect who works full time managing construction projects, says he’s seen that owners of rent-controlled buildings don't spend as much to upgrade and maintain them. Sometimes that means the buildings don't comply with current safety codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent control doesn’t address the investment that is needed to maintain a property at quality level,” said Gee, adding that a large portion of the city’s rental stock is old and lacking earthquake retrofits and fire sprinklers. “That’s why we need to find new tools to moderate rents.\"\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\">T\u003c/span>o tackle the issue, Gee and the rest of the City Council approved Fire Safety First, a program aimed at improving safety and stabilizing rents at the same time. The initiative gives property owners low-interest loans to pay for sprinkler installations, and if the owners agree to limit rent increases, the city forgives the loan. It's still unclear how many renters the program might help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has also taken other steps to ease the housing crisis, such as approving plans to build as many as 137 homes for low-income residents on city land. 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"content": "\u003cp>Deanna Lynn Wulff shoves rusty tin cans, cigarettes and beer bottles into an oversized garbage bag. She’s cleaning up a campsite in the Sierra National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This won’t take that long,” she says. Ten minutes later and she’s still picking up trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s see what the magazine is? Dirt Rider!” she says, and shoves it into the bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same campsite where 20 years ago she pitched her tent for the entire summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238197561″ 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>“It’s looking good,” she says. “Somebody can come here now and feel that it’s pristine and was waiting for them, just as it was waiting for me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797151\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10797151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp.jpg\" alt=\"Deanna Lynn Wulff always brings trash bags to the Sierra National Forest so she can pick up litter. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"2469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-400x514.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-768x988.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-1440x1852.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-1180x1517.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-960x1235.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna Lynn Wulff always brings trash bags to the Sierra National Forest so she can pick up litter. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wulff was working at a nearby lodge and camped out here after a rental situation turned sour. She confesses that she initially was afraid of the dark. In fact, she kept a cooking pot and a bottle of bleach nearby in case of intruders. But nothing scary happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead, I would wake up every morning to this, which is the sound of the water, birds singing, and the sunlight filtering through the trees,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never felt better in all of my life. To be in a beautiful place all of the time is an amazing experience. I’m from the suburbs of Cupertino. It’s a fine place to be and all that, but it was definitely beyond my expectation that spending time in the forest would make you feel so good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the experience altered the course of her life dramatically. “If you recognize something that brings you total joy, how can you walk away from that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You connect the parks, and you create this wonderful corridor for people and wildlife.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And she hasn’t. She’s spent many summers since in the woods. She’s trekked thousands of miles, and she’s seen a lot of the forest. There are areas of great beauty here, she says, including some huge granite outcroppings and pristine mountain lakes. But she’s also seen things that upset her: trash, poorly maintained trails and the logging of large trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she asked herself, “What can I do to save this place, to make sure it’s here for others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her answer is a sometimes daunting project with plenty of resistance from opponents: to turn the Sierra National Forest — that vast stretch of land between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks — into the 1.4 million-acre Sierra National Monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You connect the parks, and you create this wonderful corridor for people and wildlife,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790881\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790881 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Courtesy Daryl Jamgotchian\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon Dome is part of the Sierra National Forest which sits between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for the past 2½ years, she’s canvassed legislative offices and area businesses to garner enthusiasm for her mission. She’s calling it \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/unitetheparks/\">Unite the Parks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An act of Congress can establish a monument, but typically what it takes is a presidential proclamation, often following a groundswell of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the entire state and the entire country are involved in these kinds of decisions,” Wulff says. “It’s just way better if you have the community support for it. My job is to get all of those pieces of the puzzle together, and then the president has to decide that this is an important thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monuments get more protection than national forests. “You can still do a lot of recreation in the monument,” Wulff says. “You can still mountain bike, do disperse camping, you can still hunt. But you make sure there’s a forest there to go spend time in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”08975zY7VEBBiHtdYcr34crY0JfMYUum”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A monument designation would mean no more commercial logging, although there would be some thinning of the forests using controlled burns. Wulff would also like to phase out grazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cows that are up here are in high alpine meadows, for the most part, and they shouldn’t be there. They’re not part of nature, you know,” Wulff says. “They’re bad for the watershed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 area organizations and businesses support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Garner, owner of Yosemite Bicycle and Sport in Oakhurst, says he’s in favor because the trail system in the forest is a mess. He says motorbikes have the run of mountain biking trails and are trashing the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They come up to these trails, they destroy them and they pack up their motorcycles and drive away to wherever they came from,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three California legislators, all Democrats, are also on board: Zoe Lofgren, Mike Honda and Alan Lowenthal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been plenty of opposition. Republican Rep. Tom McClintock’s district includes the Sierra National Forest, and he is dead set against it. He says he’s been getting phone calls from his constituents asking him to fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797161\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10797161 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Long says he loves the forest too, but he’ll fight the monument’s creation tooth-and-nail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-400x323.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-768x621.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-1440x1164.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-1180x954.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-960x776.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Long says he loves the forest, too, but he’ll fight the monument’s creation tooth and nail. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McClintock would like to see a revival of the timber industry. “A national monument means more restrictions on public use,” he says. “We want to restore public access and sound forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a group called Stop the Sierra National Monument. Its Facebook page has 3,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Long, one of the group’s leaders, says people signed up on the Facebook page last spring when they heard that outdoors store REI had scheduled a presentation in Fresno by Wulff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REI canceled the event when it learned there were plans for a large protest by members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/916364548384667/\">Stop the Sierra National Monument \u003c/a>group. “They canceled it when they heard we were coming,” Long says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long is an avid hunter, four-wheeler and backpacker. He owns a military surplus business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/G-I-Jims-Military-Surplus-and-Survival-181593165192390/\">G.I. Jim’s\u003c/a>. He says the forest is his home, and he doesn’t want more restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a monument. A monument is a statue, OK. It’s not a forest,” says Long. “A forest is a properly managed resource.” One that he believes should have more local control, and provide more access to logging and mining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this happens, I mean these communities have already had their logging and mills shut down, everything else,” he says. “What I don’t want to see is limitations on our rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wulff sees it another way. She says a recreational wilderness is good for tourism, which helps the economy. Even some of the bumpy dirt roads we’re driving along in her Toyota Tacoma could be restored, she says, while keeping others open for wilderness access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many old logging roads that it’s easy to get lost. On this day, Wulff is trying to find the right road to get to a particular trailhead. “We’re going to find out very soon if it connects us with another road that takes us where we want to go,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s kind of like her Unite the Parks mission. She’s not sure how many roads she’ll have to take but, she says, even if it doesn’t happen with this president, she’s in it for the long haul.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She’s trekked thousands of miles, and she’s seen a lot of the forest. There are areas of great beauty here, she says, including some huge granite outcroppings and pristine mountain lakes. But she’s also seen things that upset her: trash, poorly maintained trails and the logging of large trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she asked herself, “What can I do to save this place, to make sure it’s here for others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her answer is a sometimes daunting project with plenty of resistance from opponents: to turn the Sierra National Forest — that vast stretch of land between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks — into the 1.4 million-acre Sierra National Monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You connect the parks, and you create this wonderful corridor for people and wildlife,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790881\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790881 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Courtesy Daryl Jamgotchian\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon Dome is part of the Sierra National Forest which sits between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for the past 2½ years, she’s canvassed legislative offices and area businesses to garner enthusiasm for her mission. 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But you make sure there’s a forest there to go spend time in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A monument designation would mean no more commercial logging, although there would be some thinning of the forests using controlled burns. Wulff would also like to phase out grazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cows that are up here are in high alpine meadows, for the most part, and they shouldn’t be there. They’re not part of nature, you know,” Wulff says. “They’re bad for the watershed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 area organizations and businesses support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Garner, owner of Yosemite Bicycle and Sport in Oakhurst, says he’s in favor because the trail system in the forest is a mess. 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Its Facebook page has 3,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Long, one of the group’s leaders, says people signed up on the Facebook page last spring when they heard that outdoors store REI had scheduled a presentation in Fresno by Wulff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REI canceled the event when it learned there were plans for a large protest by members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/916364548384667/\">Stop the Sierra National Monument \u003c/a>group. “They canceled it when they heard we were coming,” Long says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long is an avid hunter, four-wheeler and backpacker. He owns a military surplus business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/G-I-Jims-Military-Surplus-and-Survival-181593165192390/\">G.I. Jim’s\u003c/a>. He says the forest is his home, and he doesn’t want more restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a monument. A monument is a statue, OK. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are plenty of people who -- in order to pursue their passions -- have jobs on the side to support themselves. It’s pretty common to hear about a novelist who does PR, an actor waiting tables. But a rancher?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up in the Sierra Valley, just 30 miles from the Nevada border, I meet such a person. Twenty-nine-year-old Annie Tipton is a new mom and an elementary school teacher, but this morning she’s on the back of a pickup truck with a couple dozen cows and calves following closely behind. She’s tossing hay onto the snowy ground below, feeding the cows her family raises for beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238197642\" 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>“It’s always been one of my favorite things since I was a little kid,” she says. “You’re just giving them something they need, and you get to see the calves so happy, bouncing around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom, Cindy Maddalena, is driving the truck, and Tipton's 5-month-old son is bundled up in a car seat in the cab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s interested in it,” Tipton says with a laugh. “He loves staring at the cows while we're driving. He’s going to be involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797069\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10797069 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Tipton feeds hay to her family's cattle from the back of a pick-up.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2620\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-400x546.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-800x1092.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-768x1048.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-1440x1965.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-1180x1610.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-960x1310.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Tipton feeds hay to her family's cattle from the back of a pickup. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how she was raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would always sit on the bales and help my dad push them off,” she remembers. “And then we were on horses. I can't even remember when I didn't ride horses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cows munch on hay around us, mother and daughter look out over the valley, explaining that this cooing baby makes five generations of the Maddalena family living in this place rimmed by the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s peaceful. Very wide-open,” says Tipton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only an hour from Tahoe, so we’ve got a lot of the same climate,” explains Maddalena. “But there are no ski resorts over here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because this is cattle country, and has been since Swiss-Italian immigrants built dairies here to sell milk and cheese to Gold Rush miners. Lots of their descendants still live and work here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rattling off a list of neighbors, Maddalena jokes, “Most of the names end with ‘i’ and ‘e.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that instead of dairy cows, now they raise all-natural Black Angus cows, which they sell at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I’m not an inside worker. I felt like I was in prison and I wanted to come home and work on the ranch.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always worked on ranch,” Maddalena says. “We gather cows, I fix fence, we pull calves. I do everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And everything includes working jobs referred to as “off-ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our kids were smaller the cow prices were not good,” Maddalena remembers. “I started cleaning houses and I worked in the local dentist office for five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family really needed the extra income, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked for some great people, but I’m not an inside worker. I felt like I was in prison and I wanted to come home and work on the ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that when they could afford it, the family made further cutbacks in their budget, and she did return to the ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maddalenas are typical: In nearly half of all farming and ranching families in California, at least one person who works on the ranch also has a separate full-time job. Nationally, the numbers are even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of us are willing to not make a lot of money to keep our lifestyle and to keep families on the ranch. We all work together,” Maddalena says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10797076\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Tipton lassos a dummy cow for roping practice.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-768x504.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-1440x944.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Tipton lassos a dummy cow for roping practice. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing they all do is roping. The whole family has competed in team roping as a sport, but Annie Tipton says they practice on dummy cows -- basically, pieces of wood with heads and horns attached -- in the back yard for work around the ranch, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says only the last couple generations of women have been so hands-on with the outside work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I think back, my grandmas never roped or did that kind of stuff on the ranch. Now we all love to,” says Tipton. “When I was little, this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be on the ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qh6ctuIfXR0oiqV2TdL4hxJhRyOO1lnm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tipton never wanted to do anything else. After college and a desk job in the cattle industry, now she and her husband live on the ranch her parents own. Her husband is the muscle of the operation and Tipton works on the ranch every day, but her full-time job is across the valley, teaching elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do love teaching. I think I would miss it, but ideally -- if money were no object and benefits were no object -- I would be working on the ranch,” Tipton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But teaching provides some stability in an unpredictable business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean the market can fluctuate a week at a time or days at a time even,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought has impacted water supply and the very grass the cows graze on. Consumer desires, even overseas trade agreements, can alter cattle prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be prepared,” Tipton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10797083 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Maddalena and son-in-law Joe Tipton work at separating cows in the corral, guiding a specific number of them through a chute onto the truck. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-1440x899.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-1180x737.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Maddalena and son-in-law, Joe Tipton, work at separating cows in the corral, guiding a specific number of them through a chute onto the truck. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early the next morning, mother and daughter and their husbands are working at their corral, along with neighbors who run a business transporting livestock in specially equipped trucks. Tipton’s mother and husband are on horseback, pushing select cows toward a chute, where her father guides them up a ramp into the truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cows are moving to warmer pastures near Oroville for winter. Most of them belong to her parents, but Tipton and her husband are slowly buying their own, in part because of her teaching income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband and I right now are working towards eventually, hopefully, owning the cattle when my parents are ready to retire,” Tipton says, taking over what they and generations before them built, and keeping this family ranch going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The series \u003ca href=\"www.californiafoodways.com\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported in part by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">California Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He’s going to be involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797069\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10797069 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Tipton feeds hay to her family's cattle from the back of a pick-up.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2620\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-400x546.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-800x1092.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-768x1048.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-1440x1965.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-1180x1610.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FeedingCattle-960x1310.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Tipton feeds hay to her family's cattle from the back of a pickup. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how she was raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would always sit on the bales and help my dad push them off,” she remembers. “And then we were on horses. I can't even remember when I didn't ride horses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cows munch on hay around us, mother and daughter look out over the valley, explaining that this cooing baby makes five generations of the Maddalena family living in this place rimmed by the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s peaceful. Very wide-open,” says Tipton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only an hour from Tahoe, so we’ve got a lot of the same climate,” explains Maddalena. “But there are no ski resorts over here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because this is cattle country, and has been since Swiss-Italian immigrants built dairies here to sell milk and cheese to Gold Rush miners. Lots of their descendants still live and work here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rattling off a list of neighbors, Maddalena jokes, “Most of the names end with ‘i’ and ‘e.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that instead of dairy cows, now they raise all-natural Black Angus cows, which they sell at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I’m not an inside worker. I felt like I was in prison and I wanted to come home and work on the ranch.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always worked on ranch,” Maddalena says. “We gather cows, I fix fence, we pull calves. I do everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And everything includes working jobs referred to as “off-ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our kids were smaller the cow prices were not good,” Maddalena remembers. “I started cleaning houses and I worked in the local dentist office for five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family really needed the extra income, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked for some great people, but I’m not an inside worker. I felt like I was in prison and I wanted to come home and work on the ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that when they could afford it, the family made further cutbacks in their budget, and she did return to the ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maddalenas are typical: In nearly half of all farming and ranching families in California, at least one person who works on the ranch also has a separate full-time job. Nationally, the numbers are even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of us are willing to not make a lot of money to keep our lifestyle and to keep families on the ranch. We all work together,” Maddalena says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10797076\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Tipton lassos a dummy cow for roping practice.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-768x504.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-1440x944.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PracticeRoping-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Tipton lassos a dummy cow for roping practice. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing they all do is roping. The whole family has competed in team roping as a sport, but Annie Tipton says they practice on dummy cows -- basically, pieces of wood with heads and horns attached -- in the back yard for work around the ranch, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says only the last couple generations of women have been so hands-on with the outside work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I think back, my grandmas never roped or did that kind of stuff on the ranch. Now we all love to,” says Tipton. “When I was little, this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be on the ranch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tipton never wanted to do anything else. After college and a desk job in the cattle industry, now she and her husband live on the ranch her parents own. Her husband is the muscle of the operation and Tipton works on the ranch every day, but her full-time job is across the valley, teaching elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do love teaching. I think I would miss it, but ideally -- if money were no object and benefits were no object -- I would be working on the ranch,” Tipton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But teaching provides some stability in an unpredictable business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean the market can fluctuate a week at a time or days at a time even,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought has impacted water supply and the very grass the cows graze on. Consumer desires, even overseas trade agreements, can alter cattle prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be prepared,” Tipton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10797083 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Maddalena and son-in-law Joe Tipton work at separating cows in the corral, guiding a specific number of them through a chute onto the truck. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-1440x899.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-1180x737.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CorralWork-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Maddalena and son-in-law, Joe Tipton, work at separating cows in the corral, guiding a specific number of them through a chute onto the truck. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early the next morning, mother and daughter and their husbands are working at their corral, along with neighbors who run a business transporting livestock in specially equipped trucks. 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"content": "\u003cp>An Oakland City Council committee has put off action on \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4160171&GUID=C0DF881B-F016-4710-98CF-5CD95E2503A3\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal\u003c/a> to increase relocation payments to renters displaced by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction\">Ellis Act\u003c/a> evictions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council is considering action in response to a spike in the number of such evictions in Oakland. The act, passed in the 1980s, allows evictions when landlords decide to take properties off the rental market. Ellis Act evictions have become notorious in San Francisco, where hundreds of tenants have been forced to relocate in recent years, largely due to conversion of rental properties to condominiums. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the pace of Ellis Act evictions has been slower, with a total of 47 Ellis filings covering 98 units between fiscal 2003-04 and 2014-15. But there are signs that's changing, with a dozen Ellis filings covering 15 units since July 1. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the time to bring this to you,\" Connie Taylor, manager of Oakland's Rent Adjustment Program manager, told the council's Community and Economic Development Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor offered a two-part proposal to respond to the rise in Ellis Act evictions: an expansion of relocation payments, currently available only to low-income renters, to all displace tenants; and an increase in payments, currently set at two months of a tenant's rent, to $8,000 plus $2,500 per unit for \"vulnerable residents,\" including low income, disabled and senior tenants and those with minor children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several landlords who addressed the panel said that the low number of Ellis Act evictions in Oakland doesn’t warrant such dramatic changes to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think that four cases per year out of 90,000 rental units necessarily is a good enough basis for rushing this through,” said Wayne Rowland, president of East Bay Rental Housing Association. \"If we could just have a little bit more time to review this and provide thoughtful comment, we would really appreciate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Larry Reid joined other committee members who said they want more clarity and possible adjustments made to the proposed payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just think that we're being forced in making a rushed decision,\" Reid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff will report back to the committee on Jan. 12.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Step into \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/duxwell-printing-san-francisco-2\">Duxwell Printing\u003c/a>, tucked away in one of Chinatown's narrow alleyways, and you'll feel like you've entered a time warp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cramped space is stacked with paper, and there's an old-fashioned printing press chugging away in the middle. Owner David Tse says he uses it to number laundry tickets, restaurant invoices -- basically anything on paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Except money,\" Tse laughs. \"We don't print money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laughing alongside him is one of his frequent customers, Jenny Chan. About eight months ago, she and two other women opened a new business upstairs called \u003ca href=\"http://1920c.com/\">1920C\u003c/a>, and today Tse is one of their biggest cheerleaders. A year ago, he was thinking about closing up shop. Then they moved in, and everything changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ever since they showed up, I think they recommended more than 20 other businesses to me,\" says Tse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, 25, and her partners thought Chinatown would welcome their idea of turning an old abandoned restaurant into a place where people could rent out workspace. They wanted to create a safe and supportive community, particularly for women. But what they didn't anticipate was that, to some Chinatown activists, the business looked like gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it was their intention to break the rules of the plan intentionally, but that's the situation they find themselves in,\" says Cindy Wu, deputy director of operations at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.chinatowncdc.org/\"> Chinatown\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">Community Development Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan she's talking about is a set of zoning restrictions that limit office space, and she has good reasons for guarding it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/general_plan/Chinatown.htm\">Chinatown Area Plan\u003c/a>, there would not be the Chinatown that we know today,\" says Wu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown was born out of discrimination -- it was for a long time one of the few places in San Francisco that Chinese immigrants could live. After the 1906 earthquake, some city officials wanted to move the residents and take over the valuable land\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>but \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5337215\">strong resistance \u003c/a>from the Chinese population caused them to abandon that effort. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It continues to be prime real estate today, but the zoning plan, developed in the 1980s, prevents commercial office developers from taking over the neighborhood. To Wu, Chan's business looked a lot like an office when it opened last spring, and she sounded the alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco's Chinatown is held up as a model of protection and keeping a living and breathing Chinatown, and the nation looks to us as a model,\" Wu says. \"And without these protections, we would not be able to endure all the different booms and busts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see how the plan works as you walk through \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/attractions/portsmouthsquare.html\">Portsmouth Square\u003c/a>. Elderly residents sit in circles playing card games. Parents watch toddlers chase pigeons. The office towers of the Financial District loom large over the square, but they don't encroach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan thinks her business is more like Portsmouth Square than one of those big offices. It offers free community space with art gallery shows, yoga classes and music recitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had a lot of people who've come to our events who say, 'Wow! This is the first time that we've ever held events in Chinatown,' and so I really feel like we're opening the door of Chinatown to everyone,\" says Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan speaks fluent Cantonese but she's still learning about her own heritage. A couple of weeks ago, she went to Chinatown's \u003ca href=\"http://www.wokshop.com/\">The Wok Shop \u003c/a>to buy her first wok. When she took it home, she quickly realized she didn't really know what she was doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first few times I burned it because I didn't know how to cook with the wok,\" Chan explains. \"But I'm much better at it now! You have to be really fast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan is also getting seasoned in Chinatown's laws and politics. She's waiting to find out whether the city will reclassify her business as a neighborhood service and retail space. Whatever happens, she says, there's got to be a place for thoughtful new ventures that enhance Chinatown without tearing it down.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Seattle on Monday became the first city in the nation to allow drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters erupted into cheers after the City Council voted 8-0 in favor of the legislation, which is seen as a test case for the changing 21st century workforce. The companies strongly oppose it, and several council members acknowledged there would be legal challenges ahead but said it was worth doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'My intent is to make sure that the people, the drivers, the workers in our community continue to have access to good wage jobs.'\u003ccite>Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The measure requires companies that hire or contract with drivers of taxis, for-hire transportation companies and app-based ride-hailing services to bargain with their drivers, if a majority shows they want to be represented. Drivers would be represented by nonprofit organizations certified by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle has been a national leader on workers' rights, such as gradually raising the minimum wage to $15 and requiring most employers to provide paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My intent is to make sure that the people, the drivers, the workers in our community continue to have access to good wage jobs,\" Councilmember Mike O'Brien said. He added innovation can continue to happen, but it shouldn't be done at the expense of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many drivers in Seattle are immigrants who depend on full-time work, but some make less than minimum wage and lack basic worker rights, such as sick leave and protection from retaliation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"cD4eZlRSX1eM0jcx1iHjlhmRNpBVcMSd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Labor Relations Act does not extend collective bargaining rights to independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Uber and others say federal labor law prevents cities from regulating collective bargaining, and the ordinance would violate federal antitrust laws. Opponents also argue it would be costly for the city to implement, it would violate drivers' privacy since their information would be given to the organization, and it would stifle the growth of the on-demand economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a response to a request for a comment on the legislation, Uber said in a statement Monday it is \"creating new opportunities for many people to earn a better living on their own time and their own terms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Lyft urged the mayor and council to reconsider the measure and listen to those who seek the flexible economic opportunity the company offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the ordinance passed today threatens the privacy of drivers, imposes substantial costs on passengers and the city, and conflicts with longstanding federal law,\" Lyft's statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Garden, an assistant law professor at Seattle University, said it's a \"virtual certainty\" that the ordinance will be challenged in court if it's enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I anticipate that other cities will consider similar measures, but they may wait to see whether the ordinance survives review by a federal court,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Mayor Ed Murray told the council in a letter Monday that he supports the right of workers to unionize but has concerns about the bill. Murray worried about the unknown costs of administering the measure, the burden of rulemaking on city staff and the potential costs of defending it court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10794695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/TNCDriver.jpg\" alt=\"Tevita Vainuku, 59, fiddles with his smartphone as he prepares to pick up his next Lyft customer on Aug. 31, 2015. 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Vainuku drives for Lyft and Uber six days a week. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uber has about 400,000 drivers nationwide with about 10,000 in Seattle. Its rival, Lyft, also has thousands of drivers in Seattle but declined to give a specific number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts have been mixed on how the bill would be challenged in court, including whether the ordinance violates antitrust laws because it would allow drivers to get together and set rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/uber-drivers-class-action-lawsuit-expanded\" target=\"_blank\">facing a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> in federal court in California over worker classification. The plaintiffs named in the suit say they are Uber employees, not independent contractors, and have been shortchanged on expenses and tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft say drivers have flexibility in deciding when they work and how many hours, and many chose to drive to supplement their income. But drivers don't have a say in rate changes, can be deactivated at will and don't have access to worker protections such as sick leave and minimum wage laws, Dawn Gearhart, a representative with Teamsters Local 117.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposed ordinance, the city will give certified nonprofit organizations a list of eligible drivers at each company, and the groups must show that a majority of drivers of each company want representation. 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Opponents also argue it would be costly for the city to implement, it would violate drivers' privacy since their information would be given to the organization, and it would stifle the growth of the on-demand economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a response to a request for a comment on the legislation, Uber said in a statement Monday it is \"creating new opportunities for many people to earn a better living on their own time and their own terms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Lyft urged the mayor and council to reconsider the measure and listen to those who seek the flexible economic opportunity the company offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the ordinance passed today threatens the privacy of drivers, imposes substantial costs on passengers and the city, and conflicts with longstanding federal law,\" Lyft's statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Garden, an assistant law professor at Seattle University, said it's a \"virtual certainty\" that the ordinance will be challenged in court if it's enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I anticipate that other cities will consider similar measures, but they may wait to see whether the ordinance survives review by a federal court,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Mayor Ed Murray told the council in a letter Monday that he supports the right of workers to unionize but has concerns about the bill. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’re a foodie, at some point you’ve probably signed up to get a fresh veggie box delivered from a local farm. You know, the kind that has organic carrots, juicy tomatoes and sometimes a weird root like a kohlrabi or rutabaga thrown in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those veggie boxes can be pricey for many Californians. Now, a new pilot project in Fresno is trying to change that, setting up mobile markets in low-income neighborhoods where people can sample produce and tell surveyors what they could afford to pay for a veggie box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of an effort called \u003ca href=\"http://thefoodcommons.org\">The Food Commons\u003c/a>, a project that’s also trying to transform food systems in Atlanta and New Zealand. They’re piloting the effort in Fresno, America’s most productive farm belt. It’s a place where food is largely grown for export outside the region, not for the folks who actually live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food Commons is the brainchild of a farmer who has brought some radical ideas into agriculture, Santa Cruz strawberry grower Jim Cochran. “Good food is not just for yuppies,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/big-think\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Big Think”\u003c/a> series, we’ve been asking innovative Californians to share their big ideas in 10 words or less. Cochran’s Big Think, though, has a second part: “To grow it, can it, and sell it, all community owned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237171203″ 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>Cochran has long believed that the people who pick and package our food should own a stake in the business, and labor under good working conditions. That’s all been part of his vision ever since he started \u003ca href=\"http://www.swantonberryfarm.com/\">Swanton Berry Farm\u003c/a>, California’s first organic strawberry farm, nearly 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanton was the first organic farm in the U.S. to sign a union contract with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers union\u003c/a>, or UFW. A big picture of Cesar Chavez hangs on the wall of his farmstand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790090 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stop at Swanton's Farm stand to buy organic berries, veggies, and pies, using the honor system - a box where they put in money and make their own change. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stop at the Swanton farmstand to buy organic berries, veggies and pies, using the honor system — a box where they put in money and make their own change. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cochran says consumers sometimes have a “complete misconception” that if they are eating organically, they’re supporting better pay or working conditions for farmworkers. “It’s not just about small farms, and it’s not just about organic. Really it’s about good business practices, and good farming practices,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay.’\u003ccite>Pedro Venega\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like paying farmworkers to take care of their physical health. Before the sun rises at Cochran’s farm just north of Santa Cruz, farmworkers get ready to plant strawberries in a misty field. They greet the dawn by warming up with calisthenics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochran brought in a kick-boxing trainer to help his farmworkers stretch their muscles before a day of digging and bending in the dirt. The rows of berries are also planted higher than most farms, so the workers don’t have to stoop so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10790087\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of Cochran’s employees get health insurance. Like Pedro Venegas, who’s worked here six years. “Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay,” Venegas explains in Spanish, as he shovels clods of heavy dirt. “If they don’t care about their employees, they don’t give them health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, all the employees get a little bit of stock in the company, becoming part owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farming can bring in some pretty thin margins. So how does Cochran afford to pay those benefits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”qkftUnLFN2SKhDcTFFPxKS4N8l8Uj7Gv”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We grow the product, we package it, we distribute it, we process it, and we retail it. We make our own jam out of our own strawberries and out of our own other products. And we sell it directly,” he explains. “I’ve chosen to put that efficiency and that extra margin into paying slightly better wages and quite significantly greater benefits to the employees. Instead of pocketing that myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With The Food Commons, Cochran wants to expand that vision beyond his farm — to transform entire food systems in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the person who is picking carrots winds up owning some stock in the company that is farming,” Cochran explains. “They also own a little bit of share of the grocery store, and the processing plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno there’s a real need for food access and decent wages: More than a quarter of residents here live below the poverty line. They’re starting with the mobile pop-up markets and the produce delivery boxes. They’re also planning to open a storefront in a low-income neighborhood, where they’ll package and sell local products like jam and veggies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790089 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"West Fresno residents take home free veggies in exchange for taking a survey about how much they'd pay for a veggie box. “We really have the opportunity to build something special with food commons, “says Food Commons Fresno Manager Kiel Schmidt. “It will be owned by the community, it will create wealth for the community, while it's also improving their health.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17721_food-commons-5-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Fresno residents take home free veggies in exchange for taking a survey about how much they’d pay for a veggie box.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcommonsfresno.org/\">Fresno Food Commons\u003c/a> manager Jenny Saklar says they chose to start the pop-up markets in west Fresno because it was recently highlighted by the state EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This Zip code of 93706 in west Fresno is the least healthy place to live in all of California,” she says. “In terms of pesticide use, and highest asthma rates, and proximity to toxic sites, this community has all these layers added on top of not having these fresh fruits and vegetables to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other local managers are working to realize Cochran’s vision. The workers and community members would all be part owners, and the food would be priced somewhere between Whole Foods and the local mini-mart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not aiming for the boutique market,” says Cochran. “We’re aiming to produce not necessarily heirloom tomatoes, just really good tomatoes. Not fancy broccoli, just good broccoli.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might be skeptical that folks with limited resources will pay a little more after trying really good broccoli. But a lot of Cochran’s crazy ideas have made good sense. Like going organic when no one else would.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237171203″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237171203″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochran has long believed that the people who pick and package our food should own a stake in the business, and labor under good working conditions. That’s all been part of his vision ever since he started \u003ca href=\"http://www.swantonberryfarm.com/\">Swanton Berry Farm\u003c/a>, California’s first organic strawberry farm, nearly 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanton was the first organic farm in the U.S. to sign a union contract with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers union\u003c/a>, or UFW. A big picture of Cesar Chavez hangs on the wall of his farmstand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790090 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stop at Swanton's Farm stand to buy organic berries, veggies, and pies, using the honor system - a box where they put in money and make their own change. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17722_farm-stand-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stop at the Swanton farmstand to buy organic berries, veggies and pies, using the honor system — a box where they put in money and make their own change. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cochran says consumers sometimes have a “complete misconception” that if they are eating organically, they’re supporting better pay or working conditions for farmworkers. “It’s not just about small farms, and it’s not just about organic. Really it’s about good business practices, and good farming practices,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay.’\u003ccite>Pedro Venega\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like paying farmworkers to take care of their physical health. Before the sun rises at Cochran’s farm just north of Santa Cruz, farmworkers get ready to plant strawberries in a misty field. They greet the dawn by warming up with calisthenics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochran brought in a kick-boxing trainer to help his farmworkers stretch their muscles before a day of digging and bending in the dirt. The rows of berries are also planted higher than most farms, so the workers don’t have to stoop so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10790087\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17723_calesthenics-2-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers at Swanton Berry Farm warm up by doing stretching and calesthenics each morning, to prevent injury while stooping and bending in the fields. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of Cochran’s employees get health insurance. Like Pedro Venegas, who’s worked here six years. “Other ranchers should treat their workers like this, too, if they want them to stay,” Venegas explains in Spanish, as he shovels clods of heavy dirt. “If they don’t care about their employees, they don’t give them health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, all the employees get a little bit of stock in the company, becoming part owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farming can bring in some pretty thin margins. So how does Cochran afford to pay those benefits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We grow the product, we package it, we distribute it, we process it, and we retail it. We make our own jam out of our own strawberries and out of our own other products. And we sell it directly,” he explains. “I’ve chosen to put that efficiency and that extra margin into paying slightly better wages and quite significantly greater benefits to the employees. Instead of pocketing that myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With The Food Commons, Cochran wants to expand that vision beyond his farm — to transform entire food systems in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the person who is picking carrots winds up owning some stock in the company that is farming,” Cochran explains. “They also own a little bit of share of the grocery store, and the processing plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno there’s a real need for food access and decent wages: More than a quarter of residents here live below the poverty line. They’re starting with the mobile pop-up markets and the produce delivery boxes. 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But now they're trying to bring in the local community by opening up their offices every Wednesday night for a free dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent free community meal, where the crowd skews mid-20s and early 30s, there are plenty of tech and media types. Darrell Jones III, one of the event organizers, says firefighters, public officials, even the bartender from down the street, sometimes will show up for a plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10781021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5563px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10781021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0.jpg\" alt=\"A recent Wednesday community dinner at Clef, a data security startup in Oakland.\" width=\"5563\" height=\"3129\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0.jpg 5563w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/dsc06050_wide-47e084ece864b83ff19589fdc552080296d7bba0-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5563px) 100vw, 5563px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent Wednesday community dinner at Clef, a data security startup in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/Youth Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hoping that the culture of Oakland is just an overwhelming wave against any type of invading horde of 'tech bros' coming in,\" Jones says. \"Through this smaller kind of community-centric local open event, we hope that we're able to [build] strong bridges between Oakland tech and just Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just Oakland\" means the blue-collar workers who settled here during World War II. 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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles is a region better known for Hollywood, but it actually has more manufacturing jobs than any other metro area in the U.S. Of the more than half-million manufacturing jobs in the region, about 50,000 of them are in the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fashion is a big part of L.A.'s identity, and you feel it in the Fashion District downtown. It has changed a lot since the late 1980s, when plain beige towers called California Mart bustled with all things related to the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weitman grew up around the garment industry and remembers Cal Mart's heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was first-generation migrant workers working their butts off all day long on a sewing machine or cutting tables, and these buildings were just humming. And there were racks rolling in and out all day long. These freight elevators, you'd have to wait to just load your garments in them to get them into a truck to get them to ship out to a store,\" Weitman says. \"But everyone wanted to be around here because this was the hub. This was the only showroom center in L.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QNVLCx8OoEhArjc0PqcTlvJDK1xEZ2bm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, he says, workers could spend all their time here. \"It was amazing energy, and also, inside of this building, you could almost like live in there and never leave except for sleep,\" he says. \"They had a barbershop, dry cleaner, 15 different restaurants you could eat in, a dentist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weitman owns a company that makes the things that go on the inside of a garment — waistbands, pocket lining, shirt collar lining, dress linings. When you reach into your jeans for your keys and rub your hand against the lining of the pocket — there's a chance Weitman's company made that material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times have changed in the fashion industry here in L.A. Weitman, a board member of the California Fashion Association, says the Cal Mart building \"is probably at 50 percent occupancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg\" alt='(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds.' width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1920x2319.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-960x1159.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry here has been bleeding jobs for years. A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. While the garment industry has helped keep L.A. as a manufacturing city for longer than other American cities, economists agree this industry is not the way of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bright spot here has been high-end denim. A lot of $30 jeans are made in Mexico or China, but designer jeans almost always come from L.A. That's because hot trends come and go — and designers can't really send stuff abroad and wait for it to come back. They're still using the talent and expertise here in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're doing it at places like Blue Creations, a wash house that puts finishing touches on designer jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1440x1088.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are serious finishing touches. Designers send their instructions, and employees here cut those perfect designer rips, and they iron and sand. They load jeans into ozone machines to distress them, or they stuff them into massive dryers with a bunch of golf balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throw the golf balls in with the jeans, and it tumbles. It softens it up,\" says Oscar Quintero, whose family runs the wash house. With all those cheaper jeans being made overseas, Quintero deals with some fancy designer stuff. Jeans that cost $200 or $300 come through a wash house with really humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintero's dad, Raul, brought the family to the U.S. from Mexico in the '80s. He worked in this wash house and then bought it in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the beginning, when I take over the company, I [was] doing everything — sales, driving, answer the phone, everything,\" he says. \"I [didn't] have money to bring somebody to help me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raul Quintero mortgaged the house to buy the company. The previous owners were selling, he says, because clients wanted to move production to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in that time, I didn't know,\" he says. \"So maybe if I know what happened, maybe I don't take it, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he took a risk and is still in the game today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Weitman, a board member of the California Fashion Association, says the Cal Mart building \"is probably at 50 percent occupancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg\" alt='(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds.' width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1920x2319.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-960x1159.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry here has been bleeding jobs for years. A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. 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They're still using the talent and expertise here in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're doing it at places like Blue Creations, a wash house that puts finishing touches on designer jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1440x1088.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are serious finishing touches. Designers send their instructions, and employees here cut those perfect designer rips, and they iron and sand. They load jeans into ozone machines to distress them, or they stuff them into massive dryers with a bunch of golf balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throw the golf balls in with the jeans, and it tumbles. It softens it up,\" says Oscar Quintero, whose family runs the wash house. With all those cheaper jeans being made overseas, Quintero deals with some fancy designer stuff. Jeans that cost $200 or $300 come through a wash house with really humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintero's dad, Raul, brought the family to the U.S. from Mexico in the '80s. He worked in this wash house and then bought it in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the beginning, when I take over the company, I [was] doing everything — sales, driving, answer the phone, everything,\" he says. \"I [didn't] have money to bring somebody to help me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raul Quintero mortgaged the house to buy the company. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lydia Flores saves gas money by taking a two-hour train ride to and from her cashier job at a Los Angeles supermarket. She tells her teenage sons about another way the family can save on the cost of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eat it slow,” she tells them. “They gotta savor their eggs now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stretch her dollars, Flores gets some food from churches. Her sons wear their uncle’s hand-me-downs. A couple of times a year, she’ll ask a local nonprofit to help pay a utility bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You pay one bill and leave the other. 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Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. 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