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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\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Often I get on a flight, and people say, “Where do you live?” And when I say Oakland you can feel them pull away from you, ever so slightly lean away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you make of this latest boom?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that it highlights both the division in America that has come up most perceptibly around race and some of the #BlackLivesMatter issues, but it also represents a tremendous opportunity for us to be much more thoughtful and to get it right this time. To really think differently about what does it mean as a nation to be “indivisible” and what does it mean for us to really make sure that there’s a place for everybody at the table. “Right” would look like a mixed-income opportunity: that you have neighborhoods that are not all affluent or all poor, but in fact we begin to really deliver on the American Dream and create an opportunity for people across a much broader range … to live in a neighborhood where all the benefits of a healthy community are available to everyone in our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this boom having any benefit for the young people you serve at Youth UpRising?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”z9UQlyDMpe4adprPJp1jaG6hKfGeamjA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. And that’s not just the truth in East Oakland. We work in a neighborhood that we call the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/media/14552/copy%20of%20castlemont_advantage_privatepartners%20%287%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Castlemont Community\u003c/a>, at Census Tract 4097. That neighborhood really has been untouched by the boom. We have seven times the national crime rate in our neighborhood. And so the interface between crime and gentrification — or “boom,” as some people will call it more politely — isn’t often explored. But the truth is people are not running into a neighborhood where homicide is the leading cause of death. We also, though, have the cover of that to allow us an opportunity to really advance an agenda that’s a mixed-income housing, as opposed to a displacement, strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A young staff member at Youth UpRising was recently shot dead, years after turning his life around. Tell us about him and how you view his passing in light of this boom.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(He was) Born and raised in Sobrante Park, mother strung out on drugs, father completely absent. At 9 years old, really started fending for himself on the streets. And came to us six years ago, I promise you, the kind of kid you see and you cross the street. I \u003cem>promise\u003c/em> you. Very dark, very large, and looked menacing, because life had not been good to him. But as you began to love him, because love changes everything, he unfolded and became by far the best worker on our janitorial crew. …. The problem is that as you become softer, but you’re still living in a hard place, you become much more at risk. He was shot in the head in a dispute with someone else that was ultimately about $8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we should be ashamed of ourselves. As we drink our lattes and we commute back and forth with our heated seats and the comfort of what we’ve been fortunate enough to have, what is our responsibility to other Americans? And how dare we pathologize them for a failure that they were born into? That they didn’t create, but they suffer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But simply bringing more tech jobs to East Oakland wouldn’t solve the problem, because it would displace these struggling young people, too, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beauty of our economy and capitalism is that we can specialize. I just need (tech firms) to be an economic engine. Young people are dying in your backyard for a job. They’re \u003cem>dying!\u003c/em> And you have an obligation to that as a corporate citizen, as an economic member of this region. If you don’t want to hire people, let’s have a job creation strategy that’s based on procurement. Let’s onshore Oakland. Let’s bring dollars back in these communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Michael Picker, appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to become the new president of the California Public Utilities Commission, told KQED he is not concerned about the close ties the agency has had with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said he thinks the large regulatory agency is too focused on the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker, whose appointment will become effective at the beginning of the new year, said he wants the agency to more aggressively investigate safety violations and evolve into a stronger and faster enforcer of rules governing the state’s energy and transportation industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to the criticism that dogged his predecessor -- detractors have criticized the CPUC for having a cozy relationship with PG&E -- Picker said he is not worried. His remarks stunned a local state senator, a consumer advocacy group and two experts who follow state politics and government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183742356\" 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>The outgoing CPUC president, Michael Peevey, came under fire after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/15/cpuc-act-after-new-round-of-inappropriate-emails-with-pge\" target=\"_blank\">emails showed improper ties\u003c/a> between the commission and the utility company it regulates. Those emails showed Peevey and PG&E executives privately discussed regulatory matters in the years after the deadly PG&E natural gas transmission line explosion in San Bruno in September 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20141222_pge_backs_transparency_and_accountability_in_communications_with_the_cpuc_and_self-reports_additional_emails_that_could_reflect_past_violations_of_rules\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E recently announced\u003c/a> that it was releasing 65,000 emails between the company and the commission, including a dozen email chains that executives believe may have been in violation of the CPUC's rules on ex parte communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not concerned because I don’t do that stuff,” Picker said. “If there’s a prohibition on having a conversation with somebody about something that’s on our agenda or in a proceeding, I’m not going to talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Picker emphasized that the scrutiny and criticism of his agency’s ties to PG&E are not as important outside the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Sacramento and I commute to work,\" Picker said. \"A lot of the Bay Area focus on this tends to pass me by because in Sacramento we have other concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Talking to my neighbors, they’re much more worried about how will we know when our gas pipelines are safe and a lot less about the back and forth in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the commission would have a different relationship with PG&E, Picker said, \"I can't say the organization is really going to change because I don't think the organization generally had those kinds of communications. Nor do I detect they currently are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those comments surprised state Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), a critic of PG&E who represents San Bruno and who called for Peevey's ouster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was shocked to hear that Mr. Picker did not feel that there was a cozy relationship that existed with PG&E and the PUC,\" Hill said. \"Certainly the governor recognized the problem, and that's why I believe he picked Mr. Picker for the position for president. And certainly everyone else recognized the conflict as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Hill said he thought Brown made the right choice in Picker and applauded the new CPUC president for his focus on safety, enforcement and transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183743019\" 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>Picker's remarks about his agency's dealings with PG&E \"were stunning in how politically tone deaf they were about how PG&E essentially owned members of the PUC and many of its top political advisors,\" said David McCuan, a Sonoma State University professor of political science who specializes in state politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish he would have been more open and forthcoming,\" said Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor who focuses on governance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker's comments also struck a nerve with the local consumer advocacy group, The Utility Reform Network (TURN), which was not happy that Picker, who's been on the commission since January, did not speak up in recent weeks to denounce ties between the agency and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the last couple of CPUC meetings, many were stunned that not only did Peevey fail to address recent revelations of back-room deals, but none of the other commissioners did either,\" TURN spokeswoman Mindy Spatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While everyone from the governor on down seems unwilling to acknowledge the public's concerns about corruption, those concerns are very real, bread-and-butter issues,\" Spatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker told KQED that he feels the CPUC spends too much time on issues local to the Bay Area, including a focus on the emerging ride-service industry that has taken business away from the region's cab companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has required Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar to provide increased auto insurance coverage for their drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will just remind you guys, the PUC is a statewide organization. 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Iron gates fronting set-back mansions are suddenly replaced with concrete business facades, and utility wires begin to crisscross the sky above like a spider’s web.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387483\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Middlefield-01-e1418594715265.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387483\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Middlefield-01-e1418594715265.png\" alt=\"(Graphic by Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"300\" height=\"1667\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Graphic by Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That moment marks the boundary between one of the wealthiest communities on the Peninsula and one of the poorest — the mostly Hispanic unincorporated residential area of North Fair Oaks. Yard sales, elaborate backyard birthday parties and live mariachi bands are common here, though outsiders regard it — if they’ve heard of it at all — as a sketchy pass-through between cities with little identity of its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're our own entity. But it's an entity without an identity.'\u003ccite>Kent Manske, local artist and professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you tell people that you live in North Fair Oaks, no one has a clue to what North Fair Oaks is,” said Kent Manske, a local artist and professor who has lived in the neighborhood for 24 years. “And in some regards I really like that we live in this little unincorporated pocket, that we don’t belong to Redwood City or Menlo Park. We’re our own entity. But it’s an entity without an identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may change now that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors — which administers the 1-square-mile area — has approved a plan to turn the rough stretch of Middlefield that runs through the heart of North Fair Oaks into a pedestrian and bike-friendly commercial district by widening sidewalks, cutting traffic lanes and painting new bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is now in its formal planning phase, with a construction start date yet to be determined. County officials do not expect the project to be completed until 2018 or 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The improvements come as Silicon Valley struggles with its well-documented problem of income inequality. Low-income pockets of the Peninsula that were long immune to the effects of the growing bourgeois tech industry are now feeling the pain of rising rent prices. With tech money fueling a building boom in neighboring downtown Redwood City, North Fair Oaks is struggling to keep life affordable for its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks residents have no greater advocate than Linda Lopez, the 64-year-old chairwoman of the North Fair Oaks Community Council, a position that allows her to bring the concerns of the district to San Mateo County, but has little independent governing authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, a 15-year union employee who has worked in the North Fair Oaks community since the early 1970s, has a long history of advocacy. As a student at Sequoia High School, she campaigned against racism and fought to close a napalm factory operating at the Redwood City port. More recently, she worked in juvenile and family court for San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent community council meeting, she vigorously questioned a man applying for permits to turn part of his building into apartment units, trying to use what power she has to make those new units affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be renting out that place or leasing at market rate,” she said later. “People cannot afford to rent out a one-bedroom apartment for $2,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks is the only densely populated unincorporated area on the Peninsula, and it was long disenfranchised. But that’s changing, Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UrW9PKZVTvzfAWY47jHW2yF4CSQNmrRI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last couple of years, there has been a change in the fact that some of the people in power in San Mateo County are supporting the socialeconomic redevelopment of North Fair Oaks. We’ve never had that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credits District 4 County Supervisor Warren Slocum, who has opened his door to his constituents since his election in 2012. Slocum has ushered in a new era of collaboration between the county and North Fair Oaks. Lopez says she returned to the council after a 10-year absence, in part because of his willingness to get things done in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at where we were 10 years ago and you look at where we are now, it’s absolutely amazing,” she said. “Ten years ago, I would not have been able to call any supervisor and say, ‘Hey, you know I got this concern, I think we really need to do this.’ I couldn’t even get my calls returned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county and the community council went through an extensive feedback process to create a project that reflects the community’s needs. The county met with business owners in person, distributed bilingual surveys and hung informational door hangers throughout the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The purpose of this whole thing is to support and nurture what we already have, number one, but it's also to welcome and invite in new business, new merchants to create that solid foundation for a diverse downtown district.'\u003ccite>Linda Lopez, Chairwoman of the North Fair Oaks Community Council\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County created the North Fair Oaks Forward initiative in 2013 to guide its new proactive efforts in the area. Since February, the county and the community council have jointly held a slew of community meetings to offer residents a chance to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to make sure that there is no one who has not heard of this Middlefield Road project,” said Ellie Dallman, 24, an outreach coordinator for North Fair Oaks Forward. “We’ve invested a lot of time and effort into doing as much as we can to cover everyone within North Fair Oaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awareness is high, but some community members still say they want more information. The mostly small Latino-owned beauty shops, restaurants and vehicle repair shops along Middlefield fear the street project will disrupt or displace their businesses. Despite the county’s outreach efforts, store owners say they are frustrated by a lack of details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can I talk about something I don’t know anything about?” said one beauty supply shop owner when asked about the proposed changes. She said most of what she does know comes from reading newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [community] meetings are always in the evening, when we are busy and have lots of customers,” she said. “I would like to go, but how am I supposed to leave my shop then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fear of disruption or dislocation was common throughout the planning process, said Lopez, and one that the planners took seriously. Protections for business owners and neighboring residents were made a condition for any plan put into action, though particulars are still being determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of this whole thing is to support and nurture what we already have, number one, but it’s also to welcome and invite in new business, new merchants to create that solid foundation for a diverse downtown district,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is planning to cut the current four traffic lanes to two — plus a turning lane — and will convert two 45-degree parking lanes into bike lanes, parallel parking lanes and wider sidewalks. Utilities will be put underground, clearing the sky, and public art projects will be installed, including a planned living wall and a large mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want to make sure that Middlefield Road is safe for all users,” stressed Dallman. “Whether you’re driving your vehicle, riding a bicycle or walking trying to cross Middlefield Road or walk on the sidewalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Area residents let the county know that pedestrian and bike safety on Middlefield was a key concern for the community. With inadequate crossing points, anxious mothers huddle their young children at intersections waiting for a break in the speeding traffic, and bikers live in fear of being plowed over by drivers backing out of spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the safety improvements, the county has prioritized making the stretch of Middlefield a vibrant destination — not just a way station between Atherton and Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manske, 54, the artist, has been tasked with creating the entry signs into the community, telling unknowing visitors when they have entered North Fair Oaks. Instead of traditional signage, he’s planning four colorful 10-foot-tall metal figures that represent the people who live in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concept that I wanted was as much North Fair Oaks community engagement as possible,” he said. “It’s actually really nice to go to a public place where you slow down and talk with people and reacquaint yourself with what is home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story originally appeared on KQED News Associate site \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a> and is part of a special reporting project focus on \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/special-report-living-in-silicon-valley-profiles-of-communities-in-transition/\" target=\"_blank\">South Bay communities in transition\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As you drive north on Middlefield Road from the affluent town of Atherton toward Redwood City, the thick tree canopy suddenly vanishes from above and the lush bushes and grasses morph into gravel and cement. Iron gates fronting set-back mansions are suddenly replaced with concrete business facades, and utility wires begin to crisscross the sky above like a spider’s web.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387483\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Middlefield-01-e1418594715265.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387483\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Middlefield-01-e1418594715265.png\" alt=\"(Graphic by Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"300\" height=\"1667\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Graphic by Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That moment marks the boundary between one of the wealthiest communities on the Peninsula and one of the poorest — the mostly Hispanic unincorporated residential area of North Fair Oaks. Yard sales, elaborate backyard birthday parties and live mariachi bands are common here, though outsiders regard it — if they’ve heard of it at all — as a sketchy pass-through between cities with little identity of its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're our own entity. But it's an entity without an identity.'\u003ccite>Kent Manske, local artist and professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you tell people that you live in North Fair Oaks, no one has a clue to what North Fair Oaks is,” said Kent Manske, a local artist and professor who has lived in the neighborhood for 24 years. “And in some regards I really like that we live in this little unincorporated pocket, that we don’t belong to Redwood City or Menlo Park. We’re our own entity. But it’s an entity without an identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may change now that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors — which administers the 1-square-mile area — has approved a plan to turn the rough stretch of Middlefield that runs through the heart of North Fair Oaks into a pedestrian and bike-friendly commercial district by widening sidewalks, cutting traffic lanes and painting new bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is now in its formal planning phase, with a construction start date yet to be determined. County officials do not expect the project to be completed until 2018 or 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The improvements come as Silicon Valley struggles with its well-documented problem of income inequality. Low-income pockets of the Peninsula that were long immune to the effects of the growing bourgeois tech industry are now feeling the pain of rising rent prices. With tech money fueling a building boom in neighboring downtown Redwood City, North Fair Oaks is struggling to keep life affordable for its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks residents have no greater advocate than Linda Lopez, the 64-year-old chairwoman of the North Fair Oaks Community Council, a position that allows her to bring the concerns of the district to San Mateo County, but has little independent governing authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, a 15-year union employee who has worked in the North Fair Oaks community since the early 1970s, has a long history of advocacy. As a student at Sequoia High School, she campaigned against racism and fought to close a napalm factory operating at the Redwood City port. More recently, she worked in juvenile and family court for San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent community council meeting, she vigorously questioned a man applying for permits to turn part of his building into apartment units, trying to use what power she has to make those new units affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be renting out that place or leasing at market rate,” she said later. “People cannot afford to rent out a one-bedroom apartment for $2,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks is the only densely populated unincorporated area on the Peninsula, and it was long disenfranchised. But that’s changing, Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last couple of years, there has been a change in the fact that some of the people in power in San Mateo County are supporting the socialeconomic redevelopment of North Fair Oaks. We’ve never had that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credits District 4 County Supervisor Warren Slocum, who has opened his door to his constituents since his election in 2012. Slocum has ushered in a new era of collaboration between the county and North Fair Oaks. Lopez says she returned to the council after a 10-year absence, in part because of his willingness to get things done in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at where we were 10 years ago and you look at where we are now, it’s absolutely amazing,” she said. “Ten years ago, I would not have been able to call any supervisor and say, ‘Hey, you know I got this concern, I think we really need to do this.’ I couldn’t even get my calls returned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county and the community council went through an extensive feedback process to create a project that reflects the community’s needs. The county met with business owners in person, distributed bilingual surveys and hung informational door hangers throughout the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The purpose of this whole thing is to support and nurture what we already have, number one, but it's also to welcome and invite in new business, new merchants to create that solid foundation for a diverse downtown district.'\u003ccite>Linda Lopez, Chairwoman of the North Fair Oaks Community Council\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County created the North Fair Oaks Forward initiative in 2013 to guide its new proactive efforts in the area. Since February, the county and the community council have jointly held a slew of community meetings to offer residents a chance to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to make sure that there is no one who has not heard of this Middlefield Road project,” said Ellie Dallman, 24, an outreach coordinator for North Fair Oaks Forward. “We’ve invested a lot of time and effort into doing as much as we can to cover everyone within North Fair Oaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awareness is high, but some community members still say they want more information. The mostly small Latino-owned beauty shops, restaurants and vehicle repair shops along Middlefield fear the street project will disrupt or displace their businesses. Despite the county’s outreach efforts, store owners say they are frustrated by a lack of details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can I talk about something I don’t know anything about?” said one beauty supply shop owner when asked about the proposed changes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley’s major commercial districts are awash with plywood — some of it covers broken glass, some has been erected as a preventive measure to protect vulnerable windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">protests that have taken over Berkeley streets\u003c/a> this month, in response to police-involved killings of unarmed black men, have remained peaceful. Others have culminated in \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/07/ferguson-garner-protesters-take-to-streets-of-berkeley-for-second-night-running/\" target=\"_blank\">smashed storefronts and blazing trashcans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merchants’ reactions to the destruction run the gamut from patience and praise of the peaceful majority, to criticism of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/08/city-of-berkeley-told-police-to-use-restraint-avoid-tear-gas-on-second-night-of-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">hands-off approach taken by the Berkeley police\u003c/a> Sunday, Dec. 7, the night local businesses sustained the most significant damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10384019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link.jpg\" alt=\"Missing Link bicycle cooperative at 1988 Shattuck Ave. has repaired its two windows that were damaged during protests. A worker there said they don’t think they were specifically targeted. Next door, McDonald’s is covered in plywood. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missing Link bicycle cooperative at 1988 Shattuck Ave. has repaired its two windows that were damaged during protests. A worker there said they don’t think they were specifically targeted. Next door, McDonald’s is covered in plywood. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the affected merchants were on Shattuck and Telegraph avenues. Many of the businesses hit that night were branches of banks and major corporate chains, including Radio Shack, Bank of America and Chase on Shattuck Avenue. But a determined group of demonstrators also smashed the windows of several small local shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Downtown Berkeley is open for business, and we need to support our mom-and-pops. It's unfortunate that they're sort of collateral damage in this.'\u003ccite>John Caner, Downtown Berkeley Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The worker-owned Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative on Shattuck was among those vandalized Dec. 7. The collective’s members quickly fixed the two panels of glass that were broken, and preemptively put up plywood to protect the windows during the nights following the destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were mostly just taking the precaution of putting plywood up, but we don’t feel like we were really targeted in the first place,” said member Danita McGinnis, who declined to comment much beyond the \u003ca href=\"http://www.missinglink.org/blogs/blog/16243980-as-always-we-appreciate-your-support\" target=\"_blank\">statement the collective posted on its website\u003c/a>, which expresses gratitude to the marchers who intervened to prevent anyone from taking bikes or entering the shop on that Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door to Missing Link, McDonald’s is covered completely in plywood after windows were smashed there on Dec. 7. Police scanner communication suggested that employees at the burger chain locked themselves inside upstairs and called for police to respond after 1 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 8, to assure them it was safe to leave. Looters did not go inside the restaurant, according to the Berkeley police radio traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384020\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"After protesters broke windows at True Value Eastern Supply at 2900 Shattuck Ave., neighbors made this sign in support of the hardware store. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After protesters broke windows at True Value Eastern Supply at 2900 Shattuck Ave., neighbors made this sign in support of the hardware store. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At True Value, new windows and a handwritten sign of support from neighbors have replaced the broken glass. But it didn’t come cheap. Three window repairs — two damaged by demonstrators and a third broken in unrelated circumstances — cost the merchants $3,200, and their deductible is $2,000, said the store’s manager, Godfrey Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he wasn’t worried about repeat incidents, a sentiment that many local merchants have expressed, according to Downtown Berkeley Association CEO John Caner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I visited with most of the merchants and businesses that were damaged, and they were sort of taking it in stride,” said Caner, who began emailing protest advisories to DBA members following the events of Dec. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is very supportive of First Amendment rights,” he said, “and a lot of people are sympathetic, including the merchants, to the cause and a need to deal with the problems that have arisen in Ferguson and elsewhere. And it’s a small faction that has caused the problems. Clearly if people own and operate a business in Berkeley, they understand what the Berkeley communities and values are about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the case with many out-of-towners who have avoided shopping or dining in Berkeley due to the protests, Caner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you start having people come in from other areas, they might not understand what’s going on, or have different thresholds for dealing with uncertainty,” he said. “Downtown Berkeley is open for business, and we need to support our mom-and-pops. It’s unfortunate that they’re sort of collateral damage in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Fok9gXznAPe2Oz2Ee5G0YF96ZfujFhu0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the first major Berkeley protest on Dec. 6, Bistro Liaison, at 1849 Shattuck Ave., has received 50 canceled reservations, said chef-owner Todd Kniess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support everybody’s right to protest,” Kniess said. “What I don’t support are people damaging businesses and intimidating people. Even if it’s 2 percent of the protests, it’s still there. It scares people away from downtown Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other merchants say a temporary decline in business is a blow they may be willing to take to support the “black lives matter” protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are trying to raise awareness, or bring justice to certain issues, there are sometimes sacrifices that are going to be made in the name of that,” said Games of Berkeley managing owner Erik Bigglestone. “For me, I’d be happy to shut down my business when the protests are going by in solidarity, but I can’t make that sacrificial decision for my employees. They gotta work, they gotta eat. I really do have very mixed feelings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10384021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase.jpg\" alt=\"Chase was one of three banks in downtown Berkeley damaged by demonstrators on Dec. 7. (William Newton/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase was one of three banks in downtown Berkeley damaged by demonstrators on Dec. 7. (William Newton/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until December, sales at Games of Berkeley, which is at 2151 Shattuck Ave., were averaging a 12.5 percent increase in sales in 2014 compared with the previous year, Bigglestone said. This month, sales have been down 5 percent compared with last December, which he partially attributes to the bad weather, but assumes is a consequence of the protests, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Bigglestone’s vantage point, the vandalism looks like a “crime of opportunity” committed by “infiltrators” latching onto a bigger movement to accomplish their own goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some local protests, organizers have advised demonstrators to keep peaceful. At the beginning of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/13/uc-berkeleys-black-student-union-leads-peaceful-protest-march-from-campus-to-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">march led by the UC Berkeley Black Student Union\u003c/a> on Saturday, Dec. 13, Cal junior Alana Banks instructed protesters to “disrupt business as usual,” but refrain from physically disrupting their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, speaking through a megaphone to merchants in the Elmwood, she said, “We’re not here to destroy your shit. We’re here because black lives matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Monday, Dec. 8, Berkeley protest, UC Berkeley student Melissa Hossain, who had been in attendance when businesses were damaged the previous night, said her impression was that most of the vandals were unaffiliated with the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s white anarchists who are taking over this protest,” she said. “They’re setting trashcans on fire, they’re vandalizing buildings, and this is not part of the cause. They’re here for their own purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers, including those affiliated with the group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), have argued that it’s necessary to disturb the peace to capture the public’s attention and effect change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have business as usual when it comes to … saving people’s lives and stopping the police from murdering,” Yvette Felarca of BAMN said at the protests on Dec. 7. She said “it wasn’t until there was that kind of action” that the officer who killed Oscar Grant in Oakland was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of Dec. 7, protesters argued among themselves about whether to vandalize shops. That night, Berkeley police, acting on an order from City Manager Christine Daniel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/08/city-of-berkeley-told-police-to-use-restraint-avoid-tear-gas-on-second-night-of-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">took a deliberately hands-off approach\u003c/a> during the protests. The previous night, officers had used tear gas on demonstrators and shot non-lethal projectiles at them, which concerned some city officials. Police made 11 arrests over the course of the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, city staff were working actively during the protests, said city spokesman Matthai Chakko, who was in the police emergency command center during some of the protests. Economic development staff have been in close contact with affected merchants, and public works staff have worked throughout the nights cleaning debris and garbage, and bringing plywood to board up damaged windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to get a contractor to come out at 2 in the morning,” Chakko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown merchants expressed appreciation for the DBA advisories, which included details on known protest plans and tips for businesses not to leave out loose items or trashcans that could be used by vandals. But Bigglestone said he had trouble getting his trash picked up quickly, despite the advisories’ promise that special pickup could be arranged if cans were kept inside on trash night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roland Peterson, who heads up the Telegraph Business Improvement District, said he had warned merchants in advance of protests, but only on the occasions when “he had consistent, solid information that a protest would occur and begin at Telegraph and Bancroft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have also had a fair number of conversations with merchants who have asked me questions like, ‘Should I board up my windows?’ or ‘Should I close?' ” he said. “Of course, in advance I can’t really answer either one of those questions for them. Mainly I have tried to be a reliable source of good information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the lack of police presence Dec. 7, some merchants and residents took it upon themselves to monitor the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A row of regulars at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/02/berkeleys-iconic-caffe-mediterraneum-is-up-for-sale/\" target=\"_blank\">Caffe Med on Telegraph\u003c/a> stood vigil in front of the famous coffee shop, along with owner Craig Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart Johnston, owner of Johnston Medical on Shattuck in South Berkeley, stood guard outside that same night and helped put out a trashcan fire. He said there were no police to be seen, but a resident came out and successfully instructed the protesters not to destroy any more small shops in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never once gotten a warning from the police,” Johnston said. “But I have no criticism of the Berkeley police. It’s very difficult to know how to handle it. It seems strange to be breaking windows and looting and call it a protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At True Value, Wong said he was grateful that the police exhibited some restraint on Sunday even though his windows were broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police should keep calm in those situations, otherwise [protesters would] be more wild,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bigglestone said videos and photographs of the protests on Saturday make him think the police “overreacted” that night. One of his customer’s kids was bruised trying to help a protester knocked down by an officer, and another was arrested and let go after three days without charges being filed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s not my job to protect and serve, so I can’t say,” Bigglestone said. “In the face of big-style vandalism like we saw on the 7th, it’s kind of difficult to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Berkeley’s major commercial districts are awash with plywood — some of it covers broken glass, some has been erected as a preventive measure to protect vulnerable windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">protests that have taken over Berkeley streets\u003c/a> this month, in response to police-involved killings of unarmed black men, have remained peaceful. Others have culminated in \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/07/ferguson-garner-protesters-take-to-streets-of-berkeley-for-second-night-running/\" target=\"_blank\">smashed storefronts and blazing trashcans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merchants’ reactions to the destruction run the gamut from patience and praise of the peaceful majority, to criticism of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/08/city-of-berkeley-told-police-to-use-restraint-avoid-tear-gas-on-second-night-of-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">hands-off approach taken by the Berkeley police\u003c/a> Sunday, Dec. 7, the night local businesses sustained the most significant damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10384019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link.jpg\" alt=\"Missing Link bicycle cooperative at 1988 Shattuck Ave. has repaired its two windows that were damaged during protests. A worker there said they don’t think they were specifically targeted. Next door, McDonald’s is covered in plywood. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/missing-link-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missing Link bicycle cooperative at 1988 Shattuck Ave. has repaired its two windows that were damaged during protests. A worker there said they don’t think they were specifically targeted. Next door, McDonald’s is covered in plywood. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the affected merchants were on Shattuck and Telegraph avenues. Many of the businesses hit that night were branches of banks and major corporate chains, including Radio Shack, Bank of America and Chase on Shattuck Avenue. But a determined group of demonstrators also smashed the windows of several small local shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Downtown Berkeley is open for business, and we need to support our mom-and-pops. It's unfortunate that they're sort of collateral damage in this.'\u003ccite>John Caner, Downtown Berkeley Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The worker-owned Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative on Shattuck was among those vandalized Dec. 7. The collective’s members quickly fixed the two panels of glass that were broken, and preemptively put up plywood to protect the windows during the nights following the destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were mostly just taking the precaution of putting plywood up, but we don’t feel like we were really targeted in the first place,” said member Danita McGinnis, who declined to comment much beyond the \u003ca href=\"http://www.missinglink.org/blogs/blog/16243980-as-always-we-appreciate-your-support\" target=\"_blank\">statement the collective posted on its website\u003c/a>, which expresses gratitude to the marchers who intervened to prevent anyone from taking bikes or entering the shop on that Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door to Missing Link, McDonald’s is covered completely in plywood after windows were smashed there on Dec. 7. Police scanner communication suggested that employees at the burger chain locked themselves inside upstairs and called for police to respond after 1 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 8, to assure them it was safe to leave. Looters did not go inside the restaurant, according to the Berkeley police radio traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384020\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"After protesters broke windows at True Value Eastern Supply at 2900 Shattuck Ave., neighbors made this sign in support of the hardware store. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/eastern-supply.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After protesters broke windows at True Value Eastern Supply at 2900 Shattuck Ave., neighbors made this sign in support of the hardware store. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At True Value, new windows and a handwritten sign of support from neighbors have replaced the broken glass. But it didn’t come cheap. Three window repairs — two damaged by demonstrators and a third broken in unrelated circumstances — cost the merchants $3,200, and their deductible is $2,000, said the store’s manager, Godfrey Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he wasn’t worried about repeat incidents, a sentiment that many local merchants have expressed, according to Downtown Berkeley Association CEO John Caner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I visited with most of the merchants and businesses that were damaged, and they were sort of taking it in stride,” said Caner, who began emailing protest advisories to DBA members following the events of Dec. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is very supportive of First Amendment rights,” he said, “and a lot of people are sympathetic, including the merchants, to the cause and a need to deal with the problems that have arisen in Ferguson and elsewhere. And it’s a small faction that has caused the problems. Clearly if people own and operate a business in Berkeley, they understand what the Berkeley communities and values are about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the case with many out-of-towners who have avoided shopping or dining in Berkeley due to the protests, Caner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you start having people come in from other areas, they might not understand what’s going on, or have different thresholds for dealing with uncertainty,” he said. “Downtown Berkeley is open for business, and we need to support our mom-and-pops. It’s unfortunate that they’re sort of collateral damage in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the first major Berkeley protest on Dec. 6, Bistro Liaison, at 1849 Shattuck Ave., has received 50 canceled reservations, said chef-owner Todd Kniess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support everybody’s right to protest,” Kniess said. “What I don’t support are people damaging businesses and intimidating people. Even if it’s 2 percent of the protests, it’s still there. It scares people away from downtown Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other merchants say a temporary decline in business is a blow they may be willing to take to support the “black lives matter” protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are trying to raise awareness, or bring justice to certain issues, there are sometimes sacrifices that are going to be made in the name of that,” said Games of Berkeley managing owner Erik Bigglestone. “For me, I’d be happy to shut down my business when the protests are going by in solidarity, but I can’t make that sacrificial decision for my employees. They gotta work, they gotta eat. I really do have very mixed feelings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10384021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase.jpg\" alt=\"Chase was one of three banks in downtown Berkeley damaged by demonstrators on Dec. 7. (William Newton/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/chase-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase was one of three banks in downtown Berkeley damaged by demonstrators on Dec. 7. (William Newton/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until December, sales at Games of Berkeley, which is at 2151 Shattuck Ave., were averaging a 12.5 percent increase in sales in 2014 compared with the previous year, Bigglestone said. This month, sales have been down 5 percent compared with last December, which he partially attributes to the bad weather, but assumes is a consequence of the protests, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Bigglestone’s vantage point, the vandalism looks like a “crime of opportunity” committed by “infiltrators” latching onto a bigger movement to accomplish their own goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some local protests, organizers have advised demonstrators to keep peaceful. At the beginning of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/13/uc-berkeleys-black-student-union-leads-peaceful-protest-march-from-campus-to-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">march led by the UC Berkeley Black Student Union\u003c/a> on Saturday, Dec. 13, Cal junior Alana Banks instructed protesters to “disrupt business as usual,” but refrain from physically disrupting their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, speaking through a megaphone to merchants in the Elmwood, she said, “We’re not here to destroy your shit. We’re here because black lives matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Monday, Dec. 8, Berkeley protest, UC Berkeley student Melissa Hossain, who had been in attendance when businesses were damaged the previous night, said her impression was that most of the vandals were unaffiliated with the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s white anarchists who are taking over this protest,” she said. “They’re setting trashcans on fire, they’re vandalizing buildings, and this is not part of the cause. They’re here for their own purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers, including those affiliated with the group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), have argued that it’s necessary to disturb the peace to capture the public’s attention and effect change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have business as usual when it comes to … saving people’s lives and stopping the police from murdering,” Yvette Felarca of BAMN said at the protests on Dec. 7. She said “it wasn’t until there was that kind of action” that the officer who killed Oscar Grant in Oakland was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of Dec. 7, protesters argued among themselves about whether to vandalize shops. That night, Berkeley police, acting on an order from City Manager Christine Daniel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/08/city-of-berkeley-told-police-to-use-restraint-avoid-tear-gas-on-second-night-of-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">took a deliberately hands-off approach\u003c/a> during the protests. The previous night, officers had used tear gas on demonstrators and shot non-lethal projectiles at them, which concerned some city officials. Police made 11 arrests over the course of the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, city staff were working actively during the protests, said city spokesman Matthai Chakko, who was in the police emergency command center during some of the protests. Economic development staff have been in close contact with affected merchants, and public works staff have worked throughout the nights cleaning debris and garbage, and bringing plywood to board up damaged windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to get a contractor to come out at 2 in the morning,” Chakko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown merchants expressed appreciation for the DBA advisories, which included details on known protest plans and tips for businesses not to leave out loose items or trashcans that could be used by vandals. But Bigglestone said he had trouble getting his trash picked up quickly, despite the advisories’ promise that special pickup could be arranged if cans were kept inside on trash night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roland Peterson, who heads up the Telegraph Business Improvement District, said he had warned merchants in advance of protests, but only on the occasions when “he had consistent, solid information that a protest would occur and begin at Telegraph and Bancroft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have also had a fair number of conversations with merchants who have asked me questions like, ‘Should I board up my windows?’ or ‘Should I close?' ” he said. “Of course, in advance I can’t really answer either one of those questions for them. Mainly I have tried to be a reliable source of good information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the lack of police presence Dec. 7, some merchants and residents took it upon themselves to monitor the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A row of regulars at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/02/berkeleys-iconic-caffe-mediterraneum-is-up-for-sale/\" target=\"_blank\">Caffe Med on Telegraph\u003c/a> stood vigil in front of the famous coffee shop, along with owner Craig Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart Johnston, owner of Johnston Medical on Shattuck in South Berkeley, stood guard outside that same night and helped put out a trashcan fire. He said there were no police to be seen, but a resident came out and successfully instructed the protesters not to destroy any more small shops in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never once gotten a warning from the police,” Johnston said. “But I have no criticism of the Berkeley police. It’s very difficult to know how to handle it. It seems strange to be breaking windows and looting and call it a protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At True Value, Wong said he was grateful that the police exhibited some restraint on Sunday even though his windows were broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police should keep calm in those situations, otherwise [protesters would] be more wild,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bigglestone said videos and photographs of the protests on Saturday make him think the police “overreacted” that night. One of his customer’s kids was bruised trying to help a protester knocked down by an officer, and another was arrested and let go after three days without charges being filed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s not my job to protect and serve, so I can’t say,” Bigglestone said. “In the face of big-style vandalism like we saw on the 7th, it’s kind of difficult to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I worked in the so-called sharing economy for about a year, driving for the ride company Lyft. I was doing it to make \u003ca href=\"http://drivingwithstrangers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a podcast\u003c/a>, and it was a convenient vehicle for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I had concerns. It seemed like the income kept falling and would keep falling if no one regulated the number of drivers. I was unsure about insurance coverage. Most of all, I felt like driving for Lyft was taking money out of the pockets of cab drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Lyft driver Dan Carrigan has some of the same concerns. He says he does not feel like his interests as an individual are a priority for the company, nor does he feel protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can only trust a process to a certain extent,” Carrigan says. “Nobody is taking care of you in this business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone with aspirations to be self-employed — an entrepreneur of some kind — Carrigan is drawn to the sharing economy. There seem to be all kinds of possibilities for people, like running errands on TaskRabbit, providing services through Fiverr, or cleaning houses for Handy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan started by trying to rent out his apartment on Airbnb, but he stopped because he was worried about getting evicted. So now he is driving for Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/01/HarnettSharingEcoStruggles2014.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he drives to pay his bills. He was laid off from his previous job and wanted flexibility while he figured out what to do next. At first it seemed great, and he thought he could do it for a few years. But now he says he has realized there is not enough stability because as a driver he is replaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re part of a pool, you are really part of a pool,” Carrigan says, “so if suddenly companies could pay much less to drivers, and there were still drivers willing to drive for that rate, they would. And the rates are going lower and lower and lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lyft Says It’s Listening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft says it listens to drivers, and that it has recently improved the tipping system. In the summer, Lyft let drivers keep all their earnings. But now it takes a 20 percent commission on each fare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft representative Katie Dally told KQED via email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lyft’s commission is 20 percent of each trip cost — and drivers keep 100 percent of tips from passengers. Lyft is also the only ridesharing platform to offer drivers an opportunity to earn a percentage of their weekly earnings as a bonus. The more drivers drive, the more they can earn, up to 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if they drive enough, they earn back the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he makes between $25 and $31 an hour, and that is before insurance, gas, taxes and car upkeep. It is less than I made a year ago, and Carrigan says the income continues to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10382936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10382936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Carrigan drives for Lyft to help pay the bills. (Sam Harnett/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Carrigan drives for Lyft to help pay the bills. (Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for earning the bonuses for logging more hours, Carrigan says that makes it more like a regular job, which is not what he signed up for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice to know that I could do this for a while without it changing,” Carrigan says, “but the way things are now, I’m looking for work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Union Organizing Begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, some drivers for Lyft’s competitor, Uber, are trying to organize a union so they can achieve more stability and a stronger voice within the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local chapter of the Teamsters union is giving them support and advice. Teamsters spokesman Galen Munroe says that when it comes down to it, this is just the same old story — companies using part-time workers to cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These companies “don’t want the responsibilities or the costs associated with direct employees,” Munroe says, “and to a certain degree we feel that this is misclassification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a fine line between contract worker and employee, and it is causing trouble for these new gig sites. Uber faces \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/250503465/O-Connor-Et-Al-v-Uber-Technologies-Inc-Et-Al-11-12-14-Amended-Complaint\">lawsuits\u003c/a>, as does \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Handy-com-housecleaners-lawsuit-could-rock-5891672.php\">Handy\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/250504957/O-Connor-Et-Al-v-Uber-Technologies-Inc-Et-Al-11-25-14-Defendant-s-Answer-to-Amended-Complaint\">claims\u003c/a> are that they control workers like employees, but do not give them benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the dark side of these companies, says Gerald Friedman, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Friedman adds that by cleverly branding this work as the sharing economy, these tech companies are normalizing what is really unprotected, deregulated contract labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman says these tech platforms are “used to deny workers protections that we established in the New Deal era to protect people against unemployment, health crisis and to protect people’s work safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the gigs on these sites are pitched, Friedman says, sounds kind of like the worker utopia described by Karl Marx, where one could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do criticism in the evening, without having to become a hunter, a fisherman or a critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of flexibility is desirable, he says, but in our modern capitalist society such gig work brings a harsh reality of less protection and more instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that charge, Lyft makes the case that its workers can purchase health insurance on their own now, with the Affordable Care Act. And the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Lyft-plays-Whac-a-Mole-with-regulators-nationwide-5958762.php\">company says\u003c/a> drivers work for them precisely because they don’t want an employer, or because they already have one and just want to make money on the side. The point here is the freedom that Lyft provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impacts on Taxi Drivers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\">Of course what may be freedom for the ride-service drivers has impacts on others,\u003c/a> such as San Francisco cabbie Harbir Batth. He says taxi drivers in this city used to have the kind of gig advertised by these tech companies: flexible decent pay, plus even some protection and stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never had a union. It is kind of a self-employed industry,” Batth says. “Everybody is divided. It’s a cash business, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Batth says these new, less regulated companies are stealing his business and killing his profession. So, like those Uber drivers in L.A., Batth and others are unionizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have done something for 25 or 30 years, you are old,” he says, “you have no other option. You can’t look for a change of career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batth has been driving a cab for 22 years, and in 2012, he finally got his dream: a medallion. It allows him to rent a cab to another person, so he can make income without having to drive. It cost $250,000, he says, and Batth borrowed money to make the down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I will retire after 10 years or so,” Batth says, “I thought I could pay off the loan and have a little income to live off of. But now it’s all down the drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batth says he would sell the medallion if he could, but now nobody wants to buy one. With a child headed to college and another in third grade, plus the loan payments for the medallion, Batth says he has no option but to keep driving — for less money.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan started by trying to rent out his apartment on Airbnb, but he stopped because he was worried about getting evicted. So now he is driving for Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/01/HarnettSharingEcoStruggles2014.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he drives to pay his bills. He was laid off from his previous job and wanted flexibility while he figured out what to do next. At first it seemed great, and he thought he could do it for a few years. But now he says he has realized there is not enough stability because as a driver he is replaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re part of a pool, you are really part of a pool,” Carrigan says, “so if suddenly companies could pay much less to drivers, and there were still drivers willing to drive for that rate, they would. And the rates are going lower and lower and lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lyft Says It’s Listening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft says it listens to drivers, and that it has recently improved the tipping system. In the summer, Lyft let drivers keep all their earnings. But now it takes a 20 percent commission on each fare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft representative Katie Dally told KQED via email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lyft’s commission is 20 percent of each trip cost — and drivers keep 100 percent of tips from passengers. Lyft is also the only ridesharing platform to offer drivers an opportunity to earn a percentage of their weekly earnings as a bonus. The more drivers drive, the more they can earn, up to 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if they drive enough, they earn back the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he makes between $25 and $31 an hour, and that is before insurance, gas, taxes and car upkeep. It is less than I made a year ago, and Carrigan says the income continues to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10382936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10382936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Carrigan drives for Lyft to help pay the bills. (Sam Harnett/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Carrigan drives for Lyft to help pay the bills. (Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for earning the bonuses for logging more hours, Carrigan says that makes it more like a regular job, which is not what he signed up for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice to know that I could do this for a while without it changing,” Carrigan says, “but the way things are now, I’m looking for work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Union Organizing Begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, some drivers for Lyft’s competitor, Uber, are trying to organize a union so they can achieve more stability and a stronger voice within the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local chapter of the Teamsters union is giving them support and advice. Teamsters spokesman Galen Munroe says that when it comes down to it, this is just the same old story — companies using part-time workers to cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These companies “don’t want the responsibilities or the costs associated with direct employees,” Munroe says, “and to a certain degree we feel that this is misclassification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a fine line between contract worker and employee, and it is causing trouble for these new gig sites. Uber faces \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/250503465/O-Connor-Et-Al-v-Uber-Technologies-Inc-Et-Al-11-12-14-Amended-Complaint\">lawsuits\u003c/a>, as does \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Handy-com-housecleaners-lawsuit-could-rock-5891672.php\">Handy\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/250504957/O-Connor-Et-Al-v-Uber-Technologies-Inc-Et-Al-11-25-14-Defendant-s-Answer-to-Amended-Complaint\">claims\u003c/a> are that they control workers like employees, but do not give them benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the dark side of these companies, says Gerald Friedman, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Friedman adds that by cleverly branding this work as the sharing economy, these tech companies are normalizing what is really unprotected, deregulated contract labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman says these tech platforms are “used to deny workers protections that we established in the New Deal era to protect people against unemployment, health crisis and to protect people’s work safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the gigs on these sites are pitched, Friedman says, sounds kind of like the worker utopia described by Karl Marx, where one could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do criticism in the evening, without having to become a hunter, a fisherman or a critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of flexibility is desirable, he says, but in our modern capitalist society such gig work brings a harsh reality of less protection and more instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that charge, Lyft makes the case that its workers can purchase health insurance on their own now, with the Affordable Care Act. 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"content": "\u003cp>As Richmond prepared to enter the 1960s, the city was about to encounter an era of rapid change. In November of 1959, readers opened the pages of the city’s daily newspaper, the Richmond Independent, to be confronted with Thanksgiving sales and headlines about next fall’s presidential race (“State GOP Supports Nixon”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advertisements reflected an idyllic version of late 1950s America: A well-dressed businessman, hands clasped in his lap, dozes with a smile as a cherubic young boy gazes up in admiration from the next seat above the headline, “rest assured,” with Greyhound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a time of expansion. The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge had been finished three years earlier, and the post-World War II shipbuilding boom was still driving Richmond’s economy. The city was solidly middle class. The city’s median household income exceeded both the state and national medians. New developments were popping up, spreading out into areas like El Sobrante, where new three-bedroom, two-bath houses were advertised in the newspaper for as little as $16,950, a little less than $140,000 in today’s dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s commercial life took place in the central part of town, around Macdonald Avenue. Auto showrooms were commonplace. A new sedan at Plymouth Motors on Macdonald Avenue, where a 7-Eleven convenience store now stands next to Casper’s Famous Hot Dogs, cost $1,995, or about $16,400 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several grocery stores dotted Richmond’s main thoroughfare, such as Nelson’s Shopping Center at 23rd and Macdonald Avenue, where Alta Coffee cost 47 cents a pound ($3.84 in today’s dollars) and three pounds of hamburger meat sold for a dollar ($8.22 today). 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Richmond became a majority-minority city, as the percentage of African-American residents (47) and Hispanic residents (11) grew rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Richmond’s median household income had dropped almost 15 percent below the California median income, a stunning change from just 20 years before when it exceeded the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10376641\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png\" alt=\"Median-Household-Income-1024x705\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705-400x275.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705-800x550.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons for this shift are complex and not given to simple explanation, but one event that still resonates with longtime residents is a riot on Macdonald Avenue in 1968 that occurred after police shot a 15-year-old African-American youth. Coming shortly after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the conflict has traditionally been characterized as a race riot, although the exact origins are somewhat unclear. The riot affected businesses between Second and 15th streets on Macdonald Avenue, and caused police to temporarily implement a curfew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever lingering impact the riot had for downtown, the opening of Hilltop Mall in 1976 presented new and ultimately long-lasting problems. It drew the city’s business district out of central Richmond 5 miles north to the freeway, taking with it easy access to many basic goods and services for lower- and middle-class residents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of those planning decisions continue to be felt today. At the same time middle-class wages stagnated, meaning buying power for middle-class households began to weaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2010, at the height of the Great Recession, the median Richmond household took in 19 percent less than the typical household in California, reaching its lowest ebb. Richmond households also trailed the typical national household income, despite the high cost of living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the cost of basic goods such as groceries has remained relatively even or dropped over the decades, other metrics indicate the average Richmond resident faces more challenges than he or she did 55 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1959, a typical household could put a student through a year of college at UC Berkeley on 2 percent of its annual income. By 2010, the same academic year at Berkeley would cost 23 percent of the median Richmond household’s income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Richmond is its own story. 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(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Clovis Water Authority says that although this seems like a lot of city water used by truck haulers, it’s really less than 4 percent of the city’s yearly water production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice a week Keeney delivers water to over 40 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Hammar, who lives on a 2½-acre parcel, is one of Keeney’s customers. He’s had to severely cut his household water consumption since his well was reduced to a dribble earlier this summer.“We noticed that the tank was filling slower and slower and slower,” Hammar says. “Finally, I had the well guy out, Scott Water. Scott’s guy said the well is essentially dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammar’s yard is sparse. There’s not a weed in sight, just a giant palm and three other trees. 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