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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lance Knobel\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/04/22/berkeley-mayor-proposes-east-bay-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/restaurant.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/restaurant-640x421.png\" alt=\"The speed of adoption of an increased minimum wage has faced pushback from some restaurateurs in Berkeley. (Postcard PR/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The speed of adoption of an increased minimum wage has faced pushback from some restaurateurs in Berkeley. 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From 2016, $0.55 is added to the CPI adjustment, until the rate reaches the Berkeley Living Wage, which is currently $13.34 per hour, according to the commission. For “corporate franchises” or businesses with over 50 employees, the commission recommends a minimum wage increase to the Berkeley Living Wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some restaurant owners in Berkeley have been vocal in opposing the labor commission plan, arguing that it raises the rate too rapidly for their businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The restaurant people will think the regional plan goes too fast, and the people that are supporting the labor commission will think it’s a sell out,” Bates said. “So maybe it’s the perfect position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates sent the proposal to all elected councilmembers in Oakland, Richmond, Emeryville, Albany and El Cerrito. 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Financial activities posted the largest decrease over the month, down 2,400 jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine categories (mining and logging; construction; trade, transportation and utilities; information; professional and business services; educational and health services; leisure and hospitality; other services; and government) posted job gains over the year, adding 328,800 jobs. Professional and business services posted the largest gains on a numerical basis, adding 88,100 jobs (up 3.8 percent). Construction posted the largest gains on a percentage basis, up 5.9 percent (adding 37,100 jobs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two categories (manufacturing and financial activities) posted job declines over the year, down 3,700 jobs. 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Right now there are more than 100 firms licensed to collect what those Angelenos toss out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my neighborhood you’ll see anywhere from seven to 10 trucks all driving around the neighborhood, different days and different times,” says Jackie Cornejo of West Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornejo has been pushing for L.A. to reform its trash collection system for years as director of \u003ca href=\"www.dontwastela.com\" target=\"_blank\">Don’t Waste L.A.\u003c/a>, an environmental advocacy group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You also have varying levels of recycling, and so some buildings will actually be contributing to improving our environment and dependence on landfills and others will not, and this will guarantee that there are standards across the board,” says Cornejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Zero Waste Plan, L.A. will be carved into 11 \"exclusive franchise\" zones, meaning one hauler will be awarded a city contract through a competitive bidding process to work one zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haulers will also have to abide by strict trash-handling recycling rules. Right now L.A. diverts about 75 percent of its waste from landfills through recycling. That’s actually ahead of most other big cities in California, but it's short of the 90 percent diversion goal L.A. hopes to attain within a decade. And the new policy aims to do more, says L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about protecting our neighborhoods, protecting them from the Wild, Wild West of scores of trucks running down our streets spewing horrible emissions, making untold noise and destroying our streets that we’re working so hard to try and repair someday,” says Bonin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Waldman heads the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, an advocacy group that opposes the new rules. He agrees that L.A.’s long-standing trash collection system was a bit messy -- but it was fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens is a business can go to multiple businesses and let those businesses compete. When you have an exclusive franchise, then there is no competition,” says Waldman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Zero Waste, trash companies are free to compete for contracts in multiples zones. Waldman says that means the biggest three or four \"Wall Street\" waste haulers will dominate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So all these business who had 10, 20 employees and four trucks will go out of business,\" Waldman says. \"You know, mom-and-pop shops that have been in office for 50 years are gonna be forced out of business by this new policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillip Kotanjian and his brother run a 10-truck waste-hauling operation, AAA Rubbish, from a small facility in Bell Gardens, south of downtown L.A. That’s where a lot of the company’s clientele is located. Some have been customers since the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kotanjians opposed the Zero Waste Plan at first, then warmed up to it after the city agreed to set aside three of the trash-hauling zones for smaller companies. There are dozens of small and mid-size firms permitted to handle L.A. garbage, but Phillip Kotanjian says probably fewer than two dozen do so on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the new system will weed out underperforming companies, like the ones who say they’re steering trash away from landfills but really aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to control the bad companies in an open system,” says Kotanjian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But with this new system I think the bad companies, even if they got a zone, they wouldn’t go far in that contract because they would get exposed. This will automatically eliminate all the bad haulers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also leaves many other companies locked out of a potentially lucrative trash-hauling market. But many of those who opposed the change hope that haulers will be able to adapt. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks and Lisa Pickoff-White\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123982\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/airbnbsf-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. Photo: Effie Yang/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. (Effie Yang/Flickr) \u003ccite>(Effie Yang/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is considering regulating home rental vacation services like Airbnb in hopes of reducing illegal short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Chiu proposes to let residents rent their dwellings for a period shorter than 30 days, currently illegal for owners and tenants alike. But those who want to legally rent their residences short-term will have to comply with some stiff requirements, and landlords could still prohibit the rentals through language in a lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Chiu's proposal, tenants or landlords who want to become Airbnb \"hosts\" would need to register with the city, prove they occupy the unit 75 percent of the year and pay the same taxes as hotels. Airbnb has already agreed to pay San Francisco's 14 percent hotel tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the legislation was aimed in part at people who are contributing to the housing shortage by using their homes mostly as hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have had the worst offenders, who have been taking entire units off the marketplace,\" he said. \"Tenants who've been renting multiple units in order to turn most of them into de facto hotels, and owners and landlords who've been evicting tenants to do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Rules for Short-Term Rentals and Hosting Services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules the Department of Building Inspection would create and maintain a registry of permitted hosts. Residents would have to apply and pay a fee to the department to obtain a permit. To qualify, residents need to meet several requirements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>residents need to have lived in their unit for at least 60 days,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>be able to prove that they live in the unit for at least 275 days a year,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts who live in units with rent control could not charge short-term visitors more than they are paying to their landlord,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts would have to pay San Francisco's hotel tax,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>and hosts would have to maintain rental or homeowners insurance for at least $150,000 worth of property damage.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The legislation also regulates \"hosting platforms,\" like Airbnb or VRBO. Those companies would have to notify hosts about the city's regulations, and remove listings that do not have a permit for up to a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evictions on the Rise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.'\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>--Time magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle has been reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-cracks-down-on-Airbnb-rentals-5381237.php\" target=\"_blank\">evictions of San Francisco tenants\u003c/a> who have been renting out their residences short-term through Airbnb are increasing. \"Since 2012, the Planning Department has witnessed a surge in complaints about short-term rentals, normally from neighbors,\" the paper wrote last week. \"The agency is now actively investigating about 85 people offering their spaces on Airbnb, VRBO and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report quotes a tenants attorney who said eviction notices in the city were \"reaching epidemic levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://time.com/63810/san-francisco-airbnb-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">Time reports\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation offers some protection for tenants who find themselves on the wrong side of city regulations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The legislation ... protects tenants from being evicted right away for listing their apartment on a site like Airbnb. Currently, the law gives a landlord the authority to evict someone if the renter is violating the city’s prohibition against short-term rentals, no questions asked. The new law says that tenants who meet all the criteria and registered with the city would be protected from such evictions. Tenants who hadn’t registered would also get a chance to remedy their behavior (i.e. stop renting out their apartment) on the first offense, assuming their lease is silent on the issue.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But if their lease is not silent on the issue, then they're out of luck. Any legalization of short-term rentals in Chiu's legislation would not override restrictions against them stated on a lease. \"(S)o if a resident has signed papers agreeing not to rent out their apartment to anyone else, the new law would likely not protect them from eviction,\" Time wrote. \"As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb, which is based in San Francisco, said in a statement that it was reviewing the proposal and looked forward to working with policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups applauded Chiu's bill, while advocates for property owners said it does not adequately address their concern that short-term renters could pose a safety and health risk to other tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People that are using a unit for transient use typically aren't as careful as they are when it's their primary residence,\" Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, told the Chronicle. \"We would prefer the status quo to anything else - and we are not in support of creating another dysfunctional bureaucracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Planning Director John Rahaim says he supports the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it's great for the city, we think it's great for sustainable development,\" he said. \"The primary concern, and both from our standpoint and the standpoint of the complaints we hear, is almost exclusively around owners and tenants who are vacating their units entirely and using them as hotel rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Jose City Council committee will discuss imposing a hotel tax on short-term rentals Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, including New York, have similar prohibitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York's attorney general has demanded that Airbnb turn over data about New York City residents who have put listings on the site as part of an investigation into whether they are breaking a state law barring sublets for fewer than 30 days if the occupants are not present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, Airbnb warns hosts to be aware of the laws in their city, noting that some restrict people's ability to host paying guests for short periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very happy to see a move toward creating a regulatory infrastructure of Airbnb hosting at all,\" said Arun Sundararajan, a New York University professor who studies the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sundararajan said the CPUC's regulation of ride services like UberX and Lyft sets a good precedent for balancing regulation and innovation for the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It represents a new kind of partnership where the government lays out some guidelines and delegates the responsibility for regulation to the platform,\" he said. \"EBay is not responsible for monitoring actively, but eBay is responsible for stopping the sale of something if it's pointed out that counterfeit or illegal activity is taking place. The challenge for holding the sharing economy platforms to the same standard is we haven't had clear guidelines for what is and isn't illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read Chiu's proposal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Mina Kim and The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have had the worst offenders, who have been taking entire units off the marketplace,\" he said. \"Tenants who've been renting multiple units in order to turn most of them into de facto hotels, and owners and landlords who've been evicting tenants to do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Rules for Short-Term Rentals and Hosting Services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules the Department of Building Inspection would create and maintain a registry of permitted hosts. Residents would have to apply and pay a fee to the department to obtain a permit. To qualify, residents need to meet several requirements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>residents need to have lived in their unit for at least 60 days,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>be able to prove that they live in the unit for at least 275 days a year,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts who live in units with rent control could not charge short-term visitors more than they are paying to their landlord,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts would have to pay San Francisco's hotel tax,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>and hosts would have to maintain rental or homeowners insurance for at least $150,000 worth of property damage.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The legislation also regulates \"hosting platforms,\" like Airbnb or VRBO. Those companies would have to notify hosts about the city's regulations, and remove listings that do not have a permit for up to a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evictions on the Rise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.'\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>--Time magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle has been reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-cracks-down-on-Airbnb-rentals-5381237.php\" target=\"_blank\">evictions of San Francisco tenants\u003c/a> who have been renting out their residences short-term through Airbnb are increasing. \"Since 2012, the Planning Department has witnessed a surge in complaints about short-term rentals, normally from neighbors,\" the paper wrote last week. \"The agency is now actively investigating about 85 people offering their spaces on Airbnb, VRBO and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report quotes a tenants attorney who said eviction notices in the city were \"reaching epidemic levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://time.com/63810/san-francisco-airbnb-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">Time reports\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation offers some protection for tenants who find themselves on the wrong side of city regulations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The legislation ... protects tenants from being evicted right away for listing their apartment on a site like Airbnb. Currently, the law gives a landlord the authority to evict someone if the renter is violating the city’s prohibition against short-term rentals, no questions asked. The new law says that tenants who meet all the criteria and registered with the city would be protected from such evictions. Tenants who hadn’t registered would also get a chance to remedy their behavior (i.e. stop renting out their apartment) on the first offense, assuming their lease is silent on the issue.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But if their lease is not silent on the issue, then they're out of luck. Any legalization of short-term rentals in Chiu's legislation would not override restrictions against them stated on a lease. \"(S)o if a resident has signed papers agreeing not to rent out their apartment to anyone else, the new law would likely not protect them from eviction,\" Time wrote. \"As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb, which is based in San Francisco, said in a statement that it was reviewing the proposal and looked forward to working with policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups applauded Chiu's bill, while advocates for property owners said it does not adequately address their concern that short-term renters could pose a safety and health risk to other tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People that are using a unit for transient use typically aren't as careful as they are when it's their primary residence,\" Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, told the Chronicle. \"We would prefer the status quo to anything else - and we are not in support of creating another dysfunctional bureaucracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Planning Director John Rahaim says he supports the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it's great for the city, we think it's great for sustainable development,\" he said. \"The primary concern, and both from our standpoint and the standpoint of the complaints we hear, is almost exclusively around owners and tenants who are vacating their units entirely and using them as hotel rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Jose City Council committee will discuss imposing a hotel tax on short-term rentals Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, including New York, have similar prohibitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York's attorney general has demanded that Airbnb turn over data about New York City residents who have put listings on the site as part of an investigation into whether they are breaking a state law barring sublets for fewer than 30 days if the occupants are not present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, Airbnb warns hosts to be aware of the laws in their city, noting that some restrict people's ability to host paying guests for short periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very happy to see a move toward creating a regulatory infrastructure of Airbnb hosting at all,\" said Arun Sundararajan, a New York University professor who studies the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sundararajan said the CPUC's regulation of ride services like UberX and Lyft sets a good precedent for balancing regulation and innovation for the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It represents a new kind of partnership where the government lays out some guidelines and delegates the responsibility for regulation to the platform,\" he said. \"EBay is not responsible for monitoring actively, but eBay is responsible for stopping the sale of something if it's pointed out that counterfeit or illegal activity is taking place. 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By supporting innovation and technology, these city and state leaders have the opportunity of paving the way for providing safe, affordable and sustainable transportation and we’re thrilled to be working with them to improve our cities of tomorrow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://blog.uber.com/TNCpermit\" target=\"_blank\">Uber post\u003c/a> announcing its permit said, \"The unprecedented growth in this industry and the leadership shown by California’s regulatory leaders sends a clear message. The innovation economy is thriving in California and the roadmap is simple: public safety and consumer choice go hand in hand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft and UberX had been operating conditionally as the CPUC reviewed their applications. Just last month, the commission sent letters to both companies informing them they needed to correct \"deficiencies\" in their applications within 60 days or have them denied. The CPUC specifically singled out questions about the companies' vehicle inspection programs. As reported by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/03/07/california-to-lyft-uber-sidecar-wingz-get-your-act-together/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The letter asked them to clarify\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Who is conducting the vehicle inspection?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What qualifications do they possess to conduct the inspection?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Any copies of contracts with outside vendors that may provide these services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The CPUC also said that UberX must make its driver safety program mandatory, the Chronicle reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UberX's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/E3470797-2DCB-463F-B898-E5F2697850BE/0/RaiserCALLCPermit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">permit\u003c/a> (issued to its subsidiary, Rasier), is especially interesting because, as we found in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/30/lyft-uberx-driver-safety\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> earlier this year, the company was conducting inspections strictly by reviewing photos of applicants' vehicles. The CPUC decision requires TNCs to either conduct a 19-point inspection “prior to allowing the driver to operate the vehicle” or to have the vehicle inspected at a facility licensed by the California Bureau of Automotive Repair. None of the drivers we spoke to reported anyone from UberX ever looking at their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to submit photos of every angle of your car, and interior photos,” said Tyler Granlund, an UberX driver in Los Angeles. “Those had to be approved before you could drive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC inspection mandate includes things like brakes, steering, headlights, seat belts, muffler and exhaust -- difficult items to assess, seemingly, from photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft, for its part, assigns what it calls \"mentors\" to inspect the vehicles of prospective drivers, providing checklists as guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the inspection requirements, the CPUC mandated the establishment of driver-training programs by TNCS to \"ensure that all drivers are safely operating the vehicle prior to the driver being able to offer service.\" The commission said TNCs had to report annually the number of drivers completing the course, and it gave each company 45 days to file its training program. UberX's filing was notable for its brevity: one page (including double spacing and double paragraph breaks). Filing as Rasier, its ride-service subsidiary, Uber submitted under a heading of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/203225658/Rasier-Driver-Training-Program%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">Driver Training Program\u003c/a>” exactly four paragraphs, with the actual steps the company plans to enhance driver training expressed in two sentences:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rasier will also recommend that partners with less than five years of driving history take a driver training course at a school listed in the California DMV’s Occupational License Status Information System database. 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For many San Franciscans, they were a symbol of the ascendance of “yuppies,” young professionals with high-paying jobs and expensive tastes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco activist and historian Chris Carlsson moved to the Haight Ashbury in 1978, when it was mostly poor and rundown. But, he says, it didn’t take long for gentrification — or “\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-03/news/mn-28445_1_san-francisco-s-skyline\">croissantification\u003c/a>,” as some called it at the time — to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, soon enough, you had conflicts on the streets of the Haight, between new boutiques and bars that were kind of like chi-chi bars and the old dive bars that had been there,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlsson says the changes affecting many of the city’s working-class enclaves stemmed largely from a commercial office boom happening downtown. From the late 1970s and well through the ’80s, developers worked with Dianne Feinstein, then the mayor of San Francisco, to build high-rise offices and condominiums serving white-collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>“And people who had lived in the Haight 10, 15, or 20 years felt like they were losing their neighborhood to these interlopers coming in with all their money,” Carlsson adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144847527&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime activist Calvin Welch was, and still is, one of those frustrated residents. Right now, he’s concerned that the young tech workers moving into the city don’t understand San Francisco’s strong sense of place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cyberspace, for them, is where life is lived,” Welch says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In San Francisco, Activists Have Fought for Affordable Housing for Decades\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWelch has been fighting to control growth and displacement for more than three decades. In 1986, during the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-03/news/mn-6786_1_downtown-office-space\">office boom\u003c/a>, he ran a successful campaign to limit high-rise development and preserve affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What those of us who are concerned about growth control, and go to the ballots with ballot measures, bank on: Everybody who lives here doesn’t want it to change,” Welch says. “They don’t want it to be different from the first day they came.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other activists also had their work cut out for them as economy surged in the 1990s. Dot-com entrepreneurs flooded into San Francisco looking for cheap office space, places to live — not to mention luxuries, such as upscale coffee bars and sushi restaurants. They moved into the former warehouse district south of Market Street and, increasingly, the Mission neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’m hoping that 10 or 20 years from now, we’re doing a piece on all the great solutions to the housing crisis that San Francisco was able to put forward.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A documentary called “\u003ca href=\"http://boomthemovie.org/preview.html\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>” shows \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/21/news/mn-48707\">anti-yuppie graffiti\u003c/a> scrawled on apartment lofts and offices and numerous street demonstrations against rising housing costs and soaring evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one scene, a young woman stands on an outdoor stage in the Mission, clutching a small child, and says goodbye to the place she calls her “barrio”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We probably won’t be here,” she says, her voice quivering. “But we’ll always come back to make sure that everybody that’s left here can stay, at least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, Willie Brown, \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=McFrisco\">took a lot of the blame\u003c/a>. He welcomed the dot-com boom and defended \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/How-S-F-s-live-work-development-boom-began-3272818.php\">the real estate developers\u003c/a> who were cashing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Boom documentary, Brown argued displacement had an upside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People moving into the Mission are replacing Latinos,” Brown admits to the interviewer. But, he says, “Latinos have taken in many cases money from those old rundown structures that they live in, and they’re buying in Daly City or they’re buying a better structure some other place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also pointed out that San Francisco neighborhoods have changed hands many times over the years. He said it’s a natural process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mission was not always Latino,” Brown says. “The Mission, at one time, was Irish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the bubble \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Wide-open-spaces-Dot-com-demise-sends-2922863.php\">burst\u003c/a>, a new generation of activists had earned its stripes on the streets of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author James Tracy co-founded San Francisco’s Eviction Defense Network and worked with many similar groups. He’s finishing a book about the dot-com period. He says activists had many “small” triumphs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”a37d6559416a7ac7f0449a6bf75f4655″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing organizers in San Francisco have pulled many amazing rabbits out of our hats,” says Tracy. “We’ve stopped evictions, we’ve stopped homelessness from happening. We’ve created much better planning policies than were in place before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it’s not like all has been lost,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tracy says it’s humbling to realize that, after all the sit-ins, trips to jail and meetings with city leaders, San Francisco remains one of the least affordable cities in the U.S. There were no \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/google-buses/\">Google buses\u003c/a> to block back in 1999, but he says what’s happening now is essentially the same story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>little bit too familiar,’ Tracy says. “I’m hoping that 10 or 20 years from now, we’re doing a piece on all the great solutions to the housing crisis that San Francisco was able to put forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists say it does \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> somewhat different this time around. For one thing, the tech companies are larger and more entrenched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As new residents settle into San Francisco, the changes they bring may be here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like the croissant.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/04/2014-04-11f-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is the defining feature of the Delta, and recreation on the water -- fishing, windsurfing, water-skiing and boating -- is a big part of the economy and culture of this place. Today, though, a lot of businesses that cater to those recreational pursuits are struggling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I come face to face with this reality one early Tuesday morning. At 7 a.m., a boat named Fishing Fool 4 pulls out of a private dock in the town of Isleton. It’s loaded with poles, bait and four avid fishermen. Its captain is Barry Canavero, who has run Fish Hookers Sport Fishing for 41 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We head down the Sacramento River, into the deep-water channel and under the Rio Vista Bridge, where big ships pass through to the port of Sacramento. 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Off the side of the boat, sturgeon jump, as if they’re taunting us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canavero explains, “This is a waiting game, it’s watching paint dry.” Passenger Jim Cox adds, “I describe it as hours of tedium broken up with moments of pure panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that moment, there’s a little tug on one of the rods and all four men jump up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canavero comes from a fishing family – his grandfather, originally from Italy, was a commercial fisherman in nearby Pittsburg before the salmon fishery dwindled in the 1950s. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been in every part of fishing you can be in,” Canavero says. “We were manufacturers, we build and sold tackle. I’d go out commercially and get bait to sell to the bait shops. 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Farms and cities have been drawing water out of the rivers that feed the Delta for more than a century. Big dams went up in the early '50s, and pumps began shipping water south from the Delta. Canavero is worried that the proposal to build tunnels under the Delta could hurt the fish population even more. And local businesses -- from bait shops to early-morning diners and gas stations -- all depend on customers who fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 12 miles away, Kande Korth is sitting outside at the Pirate’s Lair Marina, where the Mokelumne and San Joaquin rivers meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141099\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fishermen.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fishermen-286x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fishermen wait for bites onboard Barry Canavero's boat, "Fishing Fool IV." (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"286\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141099\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishermen wait for bites onboard Barry Canavero's boat, \"Fishing Fool IV.\" (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a fisherman's paradise in the past, and there’s a lot less fish,” she says. “So, naturally, with less fish there's less fishermen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land has been in her family a long time. Her great-grandfather, originally from Portugal, moved to the Delta after trying his hand at mining during the Gold Rush. In the 1930s her grandmother and grandfather decided to farm, and bought this undeveloped land at the end of the road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started establishing himself here by bringing out oil and gas and hay, and when he returned the next day they were all stolen,” Korth says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it happened again, the story goes, her grandmother said, “All we’ve got is a pirate’s lair,” and the name stuck. Korth says this land was tough for her family to farm. They just happened into the boating industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother personally had a small de-masted sailboat that she used to go out on the water herself,” which she would loan out for free to people looking to fish, Korth says. “Finally one day, one of the people insisted on paying her and pressed a silver dollar into her hands and a light bulb went off.” She convinced her husband to build more boats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Korth family runs several marinas in the Delta serving people who love water recreation. People visit the cafe and gift shop in the summer, and store boats here year-round for water-skiing and fishing. In the summer, especially, boaters will get their boats and anchor out, or “hang on the hook,” just find a peaceful spot and spend a few days in nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Korth says business has been tough for marina owners lately. Her records show their gas sales went down 27 percent between 2007 and 2011, though they're starting to recover. Some people with smaller boats pulled them out of marina berths, storing them at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had vacancy levels that I have personally never seen in my lifetime,” she says -- close to 25 percent at the worst of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Korth family offered discounts and promotions, cut back on some capital improvements, and added things like Wi-Fi to stay attractive. Her family is opposed to the tunnels. Even though the state’s plan includes water quality regulations, Korth is concerned that too much freshwater diversion will leave the water here too salty for the fish population. But she’s not trying to be possessive about the water that drains into the Delta\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never really think about the water in the Delta as being that Delta's water,” she says. “It's the state's water. I understand that a certain amount can be diverted without catastrophic harm, but there is a pressure to continue to divert and possibly to divert more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of the fishing day, Capt. Barry Canavero shouts to the owner of a boat nearby, exchanging ideas about where fish might be biting. It’s a poignant reminder of how business has changed: That very boat was one of three Canavero used to own and operate his sportfishing business with. Now he has just this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canavero leaves the Delta for a month or two each summer, leading fishing trips up the coast. People have paid Canavero to use his boat and expertise for other work. When prices for natural gas were higher, he’d take equipment and workers out to local gas fields. When the Antioch Bridge was under construction, he did the same there. I ask, with so many questions about the future of the Delta, what does he do to plan ahead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughs and says, “Retire. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston, \u003cstrong> The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/WomanArrest.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132115 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/WomanArrest-640x358.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Rob Halverson of the Chula Vista police verifies the identity of a woman just arrest for possession of narcotics with facial recognition software. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Rob Halverson of the Chula Vista police verifies the identity of a woman just arrested for possession of narcotics with facial recognition software. 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In the past, to verify her identity, Halverson would have had to drive her to the police station, take her picture, and run it through a San Diego County database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, the facial recognition software on Halverson’s tablet allows him to verify the woman’s identity as he stands on her front lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I look at her booking photos, and that's her,” said Halverson, pointing at the tablet. “So I’m able to verify that she’s the right person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"91eed1a1b9b0c9f24048ef99f1464aa9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The software on Halverson’s tablet is made by \u003ca href=\"http://www.facefirst.com/\" target=\"_blank\">FaceFirst\u003c/a>, a Camarillo-based company. In an interview, CEO Joe Rosenkrantz said his firm uses an algorithm to analyze facial images by comparing the distance between key points on a person’s face, like from chin to ear or between the eyes. He said the error rate is minimal – he claims it’s less than 1 percent of images scanned – and law-abiding people shouldn't feel threatened by the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not in a database or somebody who's legitimately being sought out, whether it's a criminal database or some type of watch list, you really have nothing to worry about,” Rosenkrantz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition is only part of a wider technological shift in policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies around the state are creating databases of information gathered from license-plate readers, which are mounted on police cars or fixed objects and use high-resolution cameras to take pictures of vehicles. Police say license-plate databases help them track criminals and identify stolen cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law Enforcement Data Collection Leads to Privacy Concerns\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor many, the rapid changes in law enforcement technology – and the huge amount of data now collected and stored by local police, private companies and governments – raise troubling questions. Peter Biebring, senior staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclusocal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a> of Southern California, said the devices let police gather data about the personal lives of law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not just obviously where they live and work, but if they go to a psychiatrist, if they go to AA meetings, if they go to political meetings – potentially, if they have a mistress or any manner of details about their personal life,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California law has no strict limits for how long police can keep such data. There also are few regulations governing the use of so-called stingray devices, which mimic cellphone towers and allow police to gather information from all wireless devices in the area. Police in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego and Los Angeles have purchased such equipment, documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say they are concerned not just about individual rights, but also about what happens when police are able to mine data from all these technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern that technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause and is reason to scrutinize these technologies closely and ask if the technologies are really compatible with the kind of society we want to live in,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Convergence of Surveillance Technologies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest trend in policing is to merge all of these technologies into one location where police can monitor and analyze the data using sophisticated software. Oakland's proposed Domain Awareness Center was scaled back in March after sustained protests. The Los Angeles Police Department has been running a similar center since 2009 called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the facility, police watch data from camera feeds, license-plate readers, crime reports and GPS ankle monitors worn by paroled sex offenders and gang members. The center also has access to the regional license-plate database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly trying to keep a pulse on the city,” said Capt. John Romero, who runs the division. He describes it as a digital command post that enhances the department's “ready war-making capability” – or how they deploy officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Muniz, a researcher with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youth4justice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Justice Coalition\u003c/a> in Inglewood, said the use of technology and tactics once reserved for the military has migrated from gang policing to entire police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132142 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance-640x357.jpg\" alt=\"In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"322\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who haven't normally been targeted for surveillance are now starting to experience some portion of what poor communities of color have been experiencing their whole lives,” Muniz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials say that in a technology-centric world, they need to collect and monitor far more information than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sena, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ncric.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California Regional Intelligence Center\u003c/a>, said such technologies need strict guidelines – and the public’s trust. Sena’s operation is one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/what-fusion-center-2951\" target=\"_blank\">78 fusion centers\u003c/a> that were set up around the country after 9/11. While the center doesn't monitor cameras, it maintains a database of license-plate reader information and coordinates the use of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/129328/\" target=\"_blank\">stingrays\u003c/a> by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the trust of the public in what we do – information-sharing and intelligence – then we can't do information-sharing and intelligence,” Sena said. “The Constitution is in place for a reason, and the Bill of Rights is in place for a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sena has his own concerns with the privacy challenges brought about by technological advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants an Orwellian society where people are under constant surveillance,” he said. “I still have issues with – and many people do – with the fact that privacy has kind of been redefined in the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-132136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/cirlogo-640x267.jpg\" alt=\"cirlogo\" width=\"230\" height=\"96\">\u003c/a>This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, the country’s largest investigative reporting team, in collaboration with KQED. 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