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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Bernice Yeung, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/california-workers-rally-minimum-wage-increase-17229\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workers in Inglewood and Sacramento will join labor advocates across the country at rallies today to support forthcoming legislation by U.S. Rep. 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The overwhelming majority of economists continue to affirm the job-killing nature of mandatory wage increases: mandatory minimum-wage increases end up reducing employment levels for those people with the lowest skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/page/-/rtmw/NELP-Big-Business-Corporate-Profits-Minimum-Wage.pdf?nocdn=1\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> released last week by the National Employment Law Project, an employee rights advocacy organization, said most low-wage workers are, in fact, employees of corporations that are in a “strong financial position,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the low-wage employers that would be disproportionately affected by an increase in the minimum wage are in a strong financial position and can afford the cost of a higher minimum wage,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy discussions about raising the minimum wage long have been a battle of conflicting research over its true economic effects, said Jeannette Wicks-Lim, an assistant research professor at the University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main reason why people are concerned about the impact on minimum wage of low-wage workers is over whether it will jeopardize business opportunities,” she said. “There is a ton of research on this question, and the debate has been going on back and forth decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks-Lim said the recent research shows\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>minimum wage laws enacted in the past “have not had a negative impact on workers’ job opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increases to minimum wage have not produced the loss of jobs in the ways that opponents of these types of proposals predict,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal bill, there also are efforts to increase the minimum wage in San Jose, where voters will consider a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/minwage/minimum_wage.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ballot initiative\u003c/a> in November that would give minimum wage workers a raise to $10 per hour. Wages also would be adjusted for inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal emerged from a San Jose State University sociology class taught by Scott Myers-Lipton. “Faced with the rising costs of gas, food, and tuition, the students concluded that making a wage of $8 an hour was simply not enough to live in Silicon Valley,” he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative is partially modeled on a wage policy in San Francisco that establishes a higher minimum wage than the rest of the state at $10.24 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business organizations said the San Jose initiative would negatively affect the local economy. “If $8 an hour is not livable, then neither is $10, frankly,” said Tab Berg, a consultant for a coalition of business groups called Save San Jose Jobs, Oppose Government Mandated Wage Hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the initiative, the increase in wages “isn’t going to be a significant change for workers, but what it will do is limit the number of jobs that are going to be available at that wage level, and it will be worse off for the people that they (the bill proponents) say they are going to help,” Berg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small-business owners in downtown San Jose’s San Pedro Square Market said recently that while they are sympathetic to minimum wage employees and supported the raise in concept, they also had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose Mendoza, who owns Ay Dios Mio, a boutique specializing in Mexican folk art accessories and gifts, said increases to the minimum wage should be tied to an economic benchmark like the Consumer Price Index.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want a raise every year, and so do minimum wage workers,” said Mendoza, who also works in the finance department of tech company Intel. “I support an increase, but it should be done annually and tied to an economic indicator, and then I think it would be very fair to employers, and workers could keep up with inflation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Millares of The Showroom, an apparel store, said he also feels conflicted about the minimum wage proposal. 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Will Mason said it's just one chain buying another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can go to a Peet’s anywhere up and down the West Coast, it’s not like you’re gonna have some really idiosyncratic experience at any one of those stores,\" Mason said last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's announcement didn't come as a surprise to Marcia Mogelonsky, Director of Insight at \u003ca href=\"http://foodanddrink.mintel.com/our-experts\" target=\"_blank\">Mintel Food and Drink\u003c/a>, an industry research firm based in Chicago. 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It’s not a stand-out brand nationally.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogelonsky said Benckiser would be smart to push Peet's eastward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The East Coast is Starbucks saturated,\" she said. \"It really needs a new coffee player on the East Coast because people are tired of Starbucks--they’re really looking for something different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogelonsky said Benckiser is also well-positioned to expand Peet's to Europe because it just bought \u003ca href=\"http://www.demasterblenders1753.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\">D.E. 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Coty recently \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/15/business/la-fi-mo-avon-coty-20120515\" target=\"_blank\">abandoned its attempts\u003c/a> to buy beauty company \u003ca id=\"ORCRP001475\" title=\"Avon Products Incorporated\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/avon-products-incorporated-ORCRP001475.topic\">Avon Products\u003c/a> Inc. for $10.7 billion and said it instead plans to raise $700 million in an initial public offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benckiser also owns Labelux, a luxury goods company with brands such as Jimmy Choo and Bally. The deal with Peet’s, which was unanimously approved by the coffee-maker’s board, is expected to close in about three months.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://investor.peets.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=694136\" target=\"_blank\">In a press release\u003c/a>, the company said despite the sale, many things will stay the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At the close of the transaction, Peet's will be privately owned and will continue to be operated by the company's current management team and employees. Peet's Coffee & Tea, founded in Berkeley, CA in 1966 by Alfred Peet, will remain based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with its home office in Emeryville and its LEED\u003csup>®\u003c/sup> (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certified roast-to-order facility in Alameda.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Alfred Peet opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.peets.com/who_we_are/history_vine.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the original Peet's \u003c/a>on Walnut and Vine in North Berkeley. The chain has since expanded to six states including Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 p.m. \u003c/strong>\u003cem>New Owner's Rodent Poison Lead to Complaints\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've bought my last beans from Peet's,\" writes Kendra Armer on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/329968440427187\">KQED Facebook page.\u003c/a> She and a few others are unhappy with Joh. A. Benckiser over a legal battle involving rodent poison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120723-707929.html\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>, Joh. A. Benckiser owns a stake in Reckitt Benckiser, among other companies. Reckitt Benckiser produces \u003ca href=\"http://www.d-conproducts.com/\">d-CON\u003c/a> and several other rodent poisons that the EPA has argued \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/rodenticides/finalriskdecision.htm\">violate measures designed to reduce health risks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40722528/ns/us_news-environment/t/decades-epa-verge-curbing-use-rat-poisons/#.UA2_OTFWpms\">Reckitt Benckiser sued the EPA\u003c/a> to stop the enforcement of the measures and won, arguing that it \u003ca href=\"http://www.martindale.com/environmental-law/article_Keller-Heckman-LLP_1238572.htm\">had not been given a hearing before action was taken to enforce the measures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MSNBC quoted a pesticide lobbyist talking about the number of children exposed to rat poison in \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40722528/ns/us_news-environment/t/decades-epa-verge-curbing-use-rat-poisons/#.UA3D5TFWpms\">its coverage of the lawsuit\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“You’re looking at very low numbers of exposures that (usually only) require observation,” said Karen Reardon, spokeswoman for a pesticide lobbying organization call Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment. “The benefits of the products are quite enormous, especially if you’re living in an environment where most people have exposure to rats.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area residents seem to disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed to lose (Peet's) Coffee from my life, but I cannot put a penny more into a corporation with that kind of audacious and criminal disregard for the wildlife of my state and country,\" wrote Allen Fish on the KQED Facebook page. \"Bye (Peet's) - you're hanging out with the wrong kind of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's announcement didn't come as a surprise to Marcia Mogelonsky, Director of Insight at \u003ca href=\"http://foodanddrink.mintel.com/our-experts\" target=\"_blank\">Mintel Food and Drink\u003c/a>, an industry research firm based in Chicago. She told KQED's Joshua Johnson it's a red flag that “Peet’s was being threatened from someone and we can probably guess who that was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened with Peet’s in the first quarter that might make it look like it needed protecting from--let’s be honest--Starbucks?” asked Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, you’re gonna say the S-word,\" said Mogelonsky. \"I think the main problem that Peet’s has is the main problem that everyone is having: commodity prices are expensive; coffee’s gotten expensive. But Peet’s, unlike Starbucks, doesn’t have the national reach. It’s not a stand-out brand nationally.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogelonsky said Benckiser would be smart to push Peet's eastward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The East Coast is Starbucks saturated,\" she said. \"It really needs a new coffee player on the East Coast because people are tired of Starbucks--they’re really looking for something different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogelonsky said Benckiser is also well-positioned to expand Peet's to Europe because it just bought \u003ca href=\"http://www.demasterblenders1753.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\">D.E. 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Coty recently \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/15/business/la-fi-mo-avon-coty-20120515\" target=\"_blank\">abandoned its attempts\u003c/a> to buy beauty company \u003ca id=\"ORCRP001475\" title=\"Avon Products Incorporated\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/avon-products-incorporated-ORCRP001475.topic\">Avon Products\u003c/a> Inc. for $10.7 billion and said it instead plans to raise $700 million in an initial public offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benckiser also owns Labelux, a luxury goods company with brands such as Jimmy Choo and Bally. The deal with Peet’s, which was unanimously approved by the coffee-maker’s board, is expected to close in about three months.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://investor.peets.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=694136\" target=\"_blank\">In a press release\u003c/a>, the company said despite the sale, many things will stay the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At the close of the transaction, Peet's will be privately owned and will continue to be operated by the company's current management team and employees. Peet's Coffee & Tea, founded in Berkeley, CA in 1966 by Alfred Peet, will remain based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with its home office in Emeryville and its LEED\u003csup>®\u003c/sup> (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certified roast-to-order facility in Alameda.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Alfred Peet opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.peets.com/who_we_are/history_vine.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the original Peet's \u003c/a>on Walnut and Vine in North Berkeley. The chain has since expanded to six states including Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 p.m. \u003c/strong>\u003cem>New Owner's Rodent Poison Lead to Complaints\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've bought my last beans from Peet's,\" writes Kendra Armer on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/329968440427187\">KQED Facebook page.\u003c/a> She and a few others are unhappy with Joh. A. 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Reckitt Benckiser produces \u003ca href=\"http://www.d-conproducts.com/\">d-CON\u003c/a> and several other rodent poisons that the EPA has argued \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/rodenticides/finalriskdecision.htm\">violate measures designed to reduce health risks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40722528/ns/us_news-environment/t/decades-epa-verge-curbing-use-rat-poisons/#.UA2_OTFWpms\">Reckitt Benckiser sued the EPA\u003c/a> to stop the enforcement of the measures and won, arguing that it \u003ca href=\"http://www.martindale.com/environmental-law/article_Keller-Heckman-LLP_1238572.htm\">had not been given a hearing before action was taken to enforce the measures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MSNBC quoted a pesticide lobbyist talking about the number of children exposed to rat poison in \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40722528/ns/us_news-environment/t/decades-epa-verge-curbing-use-rat-poisons/#.UA3D5TFWpms\">its coverage of the lawsuit\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“You’re looking at very low numbers of exposures that (usually only) require observation,” said Karen Reardon, spokeswoman for a pesticide lobbying organization call Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment. “The benefits of the products are quite enormous, especially if you’re living in an environment where most people have exposure to rats.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area residents seem to disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed to lose (Peet's) Coffee from my life, but I cannot put a penny more into a corporation with that kind of audacious and criminal disregard for the wildlife of my state and country,\" wrote Allen Fish on the KQED Facebook page. \"Bye (Peet's) - you're hanging out with the wrong kind of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Anika Anand, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/green-homes-sell-9-percent-more-study-says-17199\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71134\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/145893206.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-71134\" title=\"Long Term Mortgage Rates Fall To Historic Lows\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/145893206-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ''sale pending'' sign is posted in front of a home in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California homes that meet environmental standards, such as energy efficiency and proximity to public transportation, are selling at higher prices than homes that don't, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nilskok.com/2012/07/greenhomes.html\">a new report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley and UCLA, looked at homes that were labeled green by LEED, GreenPoint Rated and Energy Star – rating systems that give green label certifications to homes. To be certified, each rating system has a list of criteria homes must meet, including well-insulated ceilings and walls and energy-efficient lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first systematic evidence of the financial value of green label homes as measured in the marketplace,\" said one of the study’s researchers, Nils Kok, a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. \"Green labels seem to inform and influence the opinions of consumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A green label increased the selling price of a single-family home by an average of 9 percent compared with nongreen label homes. Researchers controlled the data for the age, location and size of the home so that all homes were comparable\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> They studied data from all of the 1.6 million green label homes sold in the state in the past five years.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the average California home price of $400,000, a green label increased the value of a home by an average of $34,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers value green label homes because of the increasing cost of keeping a home cool, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The value of a green home will be higher in a hotter area like the Central Valley than a more moderate area like Santa Cruz,\" Kok said. “It seems like consumers are rational or quite smart in pricing in this value and the benefits of a more efficient home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason the price of green homes is increasing is because of an increased awareness of the “going green” ideology, the report released Thursday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers calculated the number of hybrid car registrations in different areas across the state. Where there were more hybrid car registrations, people paid more for green homes. The report termed this the “Prius effect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agent Heather Leikin, who mostly works in west Los Angeles, said her clientele for green homes is usually \"hipper, more forward-thinking people\" and younger families who are concerned about the health of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't want leaky air ducts that are going to get dust in their children's lungs and things like that,\" she said. \"They want a higher quality of life for their family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leikin sells both green and nongreen homes, but often she'll encourage buyers who are in the market for a nongreen home to make green upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I generally sell it to them by saying, 'Listen, you need to do these upgrades anyway, and you can get green credits back through state programs and local programs … and us marketing the property as green will also get you more money and get it sold in a faster period of time,' \" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green home updates can include installing insulation with 30 percent post-consumer recycled content, high-efficiency toilets with dual-flush, an energy-efficient heating, cooling and ventilation system (HVAC) and solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a homeowner is making green updates from scratch, the most basic green renovations cost on average about $10,000, said Janine Kubert with Build It Green, a nonprofit that promotes energy- and resource-efficient homes in California\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>The organization launched GreenPoint Rated, its own green home rating system, in 2006 and has since green label certified a little more than 13,000 single and multi-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because there are many homebuilders and homeowners claiming their homes are green in one way or another, it's important to have third-party rating systems that prove the label means something, Kubert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green labels are given when construction is completed and currently there isn't a system that checks on the maintenance and upkeep of a green home, said Nathan Krantz, director of technical services at Build It Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's probably the next wave of influence,\" Krantz said. \"Right now, homeowners just want to know if there's a green label at all. … That will be a more sophisticated buyer at that point. I feel like we're still a ways from that being an issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, potential buyers should ask when a green label was given, Kubert said. \"A home that was rated more recently has a better guarantee of being green.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kok said in his study he did find that the more recently labeled green homes seem to have gone up in value relative to the beginning of the sample period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It might be various reasons,” he said. “Maybe brand recognition or slowly the market is picking up and buyers are taking these features more into account.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides energy savings, there are other benefits of owning a green home, Kok said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian MacLeod, an architect who upgraded his Albany home to meet green standards a few years ago, can attest to those benefits. While he appreciates that his monthly electricity bill ranges from $4 to $15 a month, he said he gets great satisfaction from saving energy and living green. Also, his house is comfortable to live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not drafty, there aren't big temperature swings. You're just getting a better experience,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anika Anand is a contributor to \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matt Smith, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/housing/story/mortgage-bailout-proposal-san-francisco/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and a longtime business partner are among investors in a company drawing criticism for working with local government officials to take over and discount underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69874\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The plan gained impetus last month, when officials in San Bernardino County formed a joint powers authority to consider a proposal from San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://mortgageresolutionpartners.com/\">Mortgage Resolution Partners\u003c/a> for local governments to use their powers of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company would raise capital to buy the mortgages from lenders at their depressed market price, perhaps less than half their original value. It would then offer the existing homeowners a new mortgage at a value in between the two, preventing foreclosure and pocketing a profit in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy, which Berkeley real estate investor Bill Falik told The Bay Citizen he helped develop, is expected to generate profits of as much as 20 percent, according to an October pitch to potential funders. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Falik are among 12 founding investors in Mortgage Resolution Partners, according to company spokesman Peter Ragone. Though San Bernardino is the furthest along, the company hopes to partner with local governments across the country to use eminent domain as a tool in fighting blight, Ragone added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond investors, the real estate industry and the editorial pages of national newspapers have denounced the plan as a politically wired money grab, warning that lenders will shun areas where they face the threat of government seizure of their home loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New buyers would be unable to get new loans in those communities, they allege. House prices might drop further, increasing, rather than reducing, blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics also complain that their warnings are being ignored in Sacramento and Washington because the Mortgage Resolution Partners deal is backed by politically powerful individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragone characterized the criticism as the self-serving complaints of financiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the typical canard that Wall Street and its lobbyists used whenever they don’t support an innovative public policy,” he said in an email. “Loans will still be made and investors will still make returns. Capitalism will carry on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did not respond to telephone and email messages requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time Falik, with Brown as an investment partner, has pursued a strategy that hinged on controversial real estate decisions by municipal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the boom years of California’s real estate market, then-Assembly Speaker Brown was a partner in a series of Falik-run real estate partnerships that helped turn thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland into new housing developments. In that case, the key was persuading local officials to rezone Sacramento River floodplain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had some successful investments, and we had some successes involving permits in Sacramento,” Falik said, adding that Brown was only one of 140 partners in those investments. “But I’m a very careful lawyer: I never met with Willie concerning one of my projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, owners of the homes built on that land, like thousands of other California homeowners, find their houses worth less than what they owe. Falik said that the new company, Mortgage Resolution Partners, would help local governments overcome problems preventing lenders from assisting such underwater borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many U.S. loans have been resold to investors as packages of mortgage-backed securities. These arrangements often prohibit loan discounting. In theory, an eminent domain seizure could override those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to my business partners in Sacramento, and they say nothing is selling because there’s all this foreclosure overhang,” Falik said. “If you can keep people in their homes and give them a mortgage in some way where they can continue to pay, it would make a huge difference in terms of blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, a group of 18 financial services lobbying organizations, including the American Bankers Association and the Inland Valley Association of Realtors, sent a joint letter to five San Bernardino County-area officials denouncing Mortgage Resolution Partners’ eminent domain plan. The proposal raises important “constitutional issues,” the letter said, suggesting the possibility of lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the major industry players on the critical letter’s masthead, opponents have had difficulties rallying politicians to their side, said Steve Manos, president of the Inland Valley Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From our vantage point, bringing attention to this was difficult. There seemed to be a reluctance for some people to take up the fight, though this seemed to be an easy one,” Manos said. “You have serious influence coming from heavy hitters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have warned that political influence might play a role in Mortgage Resolution Partners’ strategy as well. In January, Reuters reported that Mortgage Resolution Partners had sent a letter to potential investors saying the company would use “legal and political leverage” to purchase distressed mortgage, and that its founding executive chairman, Phil Angelides, “will be front-line center stage nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, U.S. Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., sent a letter to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, expressing concern about “influence peddling” by prominent California politicians linked to Mortgage Resolution Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company spokesman Ragone, who served as communications director for former Gov. Gray Davis and press secretary for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, said in an email that Mortgage Resolution Partners’ use of the term “political leverage” has been misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The January memo was an “outdated presentation where we used that phrase to characterize the policy of using eminent domain,” Ragone wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falik said the initial sales pitch promising “legal and political leverage” has morphed into perfecting a legal strategy focused on allowing homeowners to remain in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think initially people were thinking about politics more, and obviously, Willie is politically connected and very savvy, and so is Phil,” Falik said. “But it became a reality that this is much more legal in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelides, a former California state treasurer who also headed the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, has since left the company, replaced as chairman by venture capitalist and prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Steven Gluckstern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Angelides and Gluckstern together pitched the eminent domain idea in a Jan. 31 conference call with San Bernardino County CEO Greg Devereaux, according to a copy of Devereaux’s calendar obtained by The Bay Citizen. In March, April and May Devereaux’s calendar noted scheduled phone calls with Mortgage Resolution Partners executives, including Falik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mortgage Resolution Partners representatives mentioned during their conversations with him that Brown was an investor, said San Bernardino County spokesman David Wert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Devereaux would not “be influenced by any political clout Mr. Brown or Mr. Angelides are perceived to have in the Bay Area,” Wert said. “I think it could be agreed they have no such clout outside of the Bay Area and Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/\">www.baycitizen.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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House prices might drop further, increasing, rather than reducing, blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics also complain that their warnings are being ignored in Sacramento and Washington because the Mortgage Resolution Partners deal is backed by politically powerful individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragone characterized the criticism as the self-serving complaints of financiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the typical canard that Wall Street and its lobbyists used whenever they don’t support an innovative public policy,” he said in an email. “Loans will still be made and investors will still make returns. Capitalism will carry on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did not respond to telephone and email messages requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time Falik, with Brown as an investment partner, has pursued a strategy that hinged on controversial real estate decisions by municipal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the boom years of California’s real estate market, then-Assembly Speaker Brown was a partner in a series of Falik-run real estate partnerships that helped turn thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland into new housing developments. 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