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"content": "\u003cp>After three years of back-and-forth with Santa Clara County, Stanford University pulled a shocker last week by dropping its bid to build another 3.5 million square feet of academic facilities and student housing over the next 15 years. What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/01/stanford-withdraws-general-use-permit-application/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> explaining their decision to pull out of applying for what’s called a general use permit, Stanford officials wrote that “feasibility” was a big issue and obliquely referenced a tug of war with county supervisors over how to mitigate the consequences of future growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are stepping back from this permit process, we will be launching a new phase of engagement with our local communities,” the statement said. “We hope to gain deeper mutual understanding of the challenges facing our region, how Stanford can best enhance its contribution to addressing those challenges, and what the implications are for our longer-term campus development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of this conflict is the impact Stanford’s size has on the region. Increasingly, surrounding communities are asking whether the university should do more to address its role in Silicon Valley’s housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amulya Yerrapotu, Stanford student\"]“The question here today is not whether Stanford is a good school. It’s about who gets to reap the benefit of development and who has to bear the costs.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a>, KQED analyzed county assessor office records from 2018\u003cem> \u003c/em>to identify the largest landowners in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford was far and away at the top of the list in terms of property value. More than that, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781771/how-stanford-became-the-largest-landowner-in-silicon-valley\">value of the university’s holdings\u003c/a> was greater than those of Google, Apple and Intel combined last year. The data reflects not only Stanford’s standing as one of the world’s top universities, but also as a \u003ca href=\"https://42floors.com/for-lease/us/ca/roseville/stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://scrl.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">residential\u003c/a> landlord and employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11784686 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A multi-newsroom investigation called "Who Owns Silicon Valley?" dug into Santa Clara County assessor's office records for 2018 and found Stanford University dominates the region. It's one of the top land holders in the county, and top in terms of property value.\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut.jpg 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-800x671.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-1020x855.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40074_Survey-top-10-final-qut-1200x1006.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A multi-newsroom investigation called “Who Owns Silicon Valley?” dug into Santa Clara County assessor’s office records for 2018 and found Stanford University dominates the region. It’s one of the top land holders in the county, and top in terms of property value. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The general use permit is a special case. It’s unique, in fact, in Santa Clara County planning,” said Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who led the county’s negotiations with Stanford. “It’s an opportunity for the university to plan longer term, over a 15-20 year horizon. But the challenge is always going to be the same with any developer out there. The applicant always wants what they want, and they want to give up as little as possible to get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps 20 years ago, when the last general use permit was approved, 3.5 million square feet and 9,610 more faculty, staff and students would not have caused much of a stir in Santa Clara County offices. But times have changed, and the 9,610 comes on top of a Stanford community numbering near 34,000 people, including undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" tag=\"who-owns-silicon-valley\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes Stanford as big as some of the tech titans of Silicon Valley, and like those major employers, Stanford finds itself engaged now in a new public conversation about its physical footprint in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the county’s planning commission unanimously voted to recommend that the supervisors approve Stanford’s application, but if and only if Stanford agreed to certain changes. One of their top demands would have been a requirement that Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/countyofsantaclara/pages/16/attachments/original/1558655720/Attachment_F_General_Use_Permit_Conditions_of_Approval.pdf?1558655720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quadruple the amount of housing\u003c/a> it was originally proposing to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one example of the “full mitigation” county officials were demanding, insisting the university offset all of its expected impacts to local housing, traffic and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for instance, at a recent public meeting in Palo Alto, Stanford senior Amulya Yerrapotu spoke on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://scope2035.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCOPE 2035,\u003c/a> a student group lobbying Stanford to house more of its own service workers and other staff. “The question here today is not whether Stanford is a good school,” Yerrapotu said. “It’s about who gets to reap the benefit of development and who has to bear the costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its press release last week — Stanford declined to comment beyond that — officials said they’d come around to delivering all of the housing the county asked for. But that followed months of back- and-forth, including a well-publicized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757024/stanford-wants-to-expand-and-hopes-4-7-billion-in-mitigations-will-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counterproposal\u003c/a> and at least two lawsuits brought by Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://padailypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/stanford-dismiss-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one\u003c/a> of which was thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for traffic mitigations stipulated by the county, Stanford concluded in its press release they were simply unfeasible.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb class=\"\">Stanford’s Footprint in Silicon Valley\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m writing a book about the 1960s,” said Lenny Siegel, former Mountain View mayor turned housing advocate. “I dug out a flyer about how Palo Alto had more than twice as many jobs as employed residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today is a different story. Off campus, the region around Stanford has grown crowded in the last half-century. Nobody blames Stanford entirely for today’s housing crisis, but Stanford does get a lot of the credit for launching Silicon Valley back in the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boom after Silicon Valley boom has packed the Peninsula with people, creating traffic jams and a housing crisis the likes of which California has never seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech boom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displaced\u003c/a> many of those making less money, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve stopped working in the region. They just have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10467044/long-commute-to-silicon-valley-increasingly-the-norm-for-many\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commute\u003c/a> from farther and farther away. That includes Stanford workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11784718 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever-shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visit the Stanford campus on any given day, and there are several construction sites going. Stanford maintains a\u003ca href=\"http://maps.stanford.edu/construction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> website\u003c/a> with a map of what’s happening where. The last general use permit, approved in 2000 and effective until 2020, allows the university to build about 200,000 square feet per year on land within Santa Clara County’s borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has also been expanding in San Mateo County in recent years, especially in \u003ca href=\"https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood City\u003c/a>. San Mateo County officials have watched with \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/stanford-expansion-only-benefits-stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interest\u003c/a> over the last three years, as their counterparts in Santa Clara County bargained hard with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth noting that in the 128-year history of Stanford University, the university has never had an application denied by Santa Clara County,” Simitian said. “If you’re batting 1,000 over the course of more than a century, you ought to feel pretty good about how well you’re being treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of weeks ago, Simitian suggested it would be up to Stanford officials to decide if they want to accept the county’s terms or walk away. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes Stanford as big as some of the tech titans of Silicon Valley, and like those major employers, Stanford finds itself engaged now in a new public conversation about its physical footprint in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the county’s planning commission unanimously voted to recommend that the supervisors approve Stanford’s application, but if and only if Stanford agreed to certain changes. One of their top demands would have been a requirement that Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/countyofsantaclara/pages/16/attachments/original/1558655720/Attachment_F_General_Use_Permit_Conditions_of_Approval.pdf?1558655720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quadruple the amount of housing\u003c/a> it was originally proposing to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one example of the “full mitigation” county officials were demanding, insisting the university offset all of its expected impacts to local housing, traffic and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for instance, at a recent public meeting in Palo Alto, Stanford senior Amulya Yerrapotu spoke on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://scope2035.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCOPE 2035,\u003c/a> a student group lobbying Stanford to house more of its own service workers and other staff. “The question here today is not whether Stanford is a good school,” Yerrapotu said. “It’s about who gets to reap the benefit of development and who has to bear the costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its press release last week — Stanford declined to comment beyond that — officials said they’d come around to delivering all of the housing the county asked for. But that followed months of back- and-forth, including a well-publicized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757024/stanford-wants-to-expand-and-hopes-4-7-billion-in-mitigations-will-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counterproposal\u003c/a> and at least two lawsuits brought by Stanford, \u003ca href=\"https://padailypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/stanford-dismiss-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one\u003c/a> of which was thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for traffic mitigations stipulated by the county, Stanford concluded in its press release they were simply unfeasible.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Nobody blames Stanford entirely for today’s housing crisis, but Stanford does get a lot of the credit for launching Silicon Valley back in the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boom after Silicon Valley boom has packed the Peninsula with people, creating traffic jams and a housing crisis the likes of which California has never seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech boom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displaced\u003c/a> many of those making less money, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve stopped working in the region. They just have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10467044/long-commute-to-silicon-valley-increasingly-the-norm-for-many\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commute\u003c/a> from farther and farther away. That includes Stanford workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11784718 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40078_Photo-Oct-29-8-55-31-AM-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Camino Real, on the border of the Stanford University campus, has been home for years to an ever-shifting collection of RVs where construction workers and local homeless people live — a reflection of the local housing crisis. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visit the Stanford campus on any given day, and there are several construction sites going. Stanford maintains a\u003ca href=\"http://maps.stanford.edu/construction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> website\u003c/a> with a map of what’s happening where. The last general use permit, approved in 2000 and effective until 2020, allows the university to build about 200,000 square feet per year on land within Santa Clara County’s borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has also been expanding in San Mateo County in recent years, especially in \u003ca href=\"https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood City\u003c/a>. San Mateo County officials have watched with \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/stanford-expansion-only-benefits-stanford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interest\u003c/a> over the last three years, as their counterparts in Santa Clara County bargained hard with the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth noting that in the 128-year history of Stanford University, the university has never had an application denied by Santa Clara County,” Simitian said. “If you’re batting 1,000 over the course of more than a century, you ought to feel pretty good about how well you’re being treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of weeks ago, Simitian suggested it would be up to Stanford officials to decide if they want to accept the county’s terms or walk away. 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"content": "\u003cp>First came \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u003c/a>. Then \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/facebook-commits-1b-to-tackle-affordable-housing-in-california-other-locations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>. Now Apple is the latest Silicon Valley tech titan to throw its hat into the housing triage ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Cupertino-based company announced a $2.5 billion plan to address California’s housing crisis, with a major chunk of funding focused on affordability in Silicon Valley. The range of initiatives include aid for prospective homebuyers and the new affordable developments in and around San Jose.[aside label=related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s housing offer eclipses recent large commitments from other tech giants to address the state’s housing crisis. Both \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/733728082/google-will-devote-1-billion-trying-to-tame-housing-costs-in-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u003c/a> have pledged $1 billion in recent months. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686413267/microsoft-pledges-500-million-investment-to-tackle-affordable-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft\u003c/a> made a $500 million investment to ease similar pressures near its headquarters in the Seattle area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as California grapples with how to keep pace with growing housing demand — by one estimate, the state must build more than 3 million homes by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sky-high cost of housing — both for homeowners and renters — is the defining quality-of-life concern for millions of families across this state, one that can only be fixed by building more housing,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-commits-two-point-five-billion-to-combat-housing-crisis-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple press release\u003c/a>. “This partnership with Apple will allow the state of California to do just that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who want to own or rent a home in California increasingly face tight supply in high-demand areas. While the crisis has a wide reach, the struggle to find new housing at an affordable price is even more daunting for the millions of people who haven’t benefited from the tech boom that has made some into billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s plan includes $1 billion to create a mortgage assistance fund for first-time homebuyers, and another $1 billion that will be an open line of credit to support building “very low- to moderate-income housing,” the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Apple’s projected breakdown of the $2.5 billion in aid:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$1 billion affordable housing investment fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1 billion first-time homebuyer mortgage assistance fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$300 million worth of land Apple owns in San Jose, which will be available for affordable housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$150 million Bay Area housing fund, consisting of long-term forgivable loans and grants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$50 million to support vulnerable people: Apple is donating $50 million to support Destination: Home’s efforts to address homelessness in Silicon Valley, and will look for similar philanthropies throughout the state\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Before the world knew the name Silicon Valley, and long before we carried technology in our pockets, Apple called this region home, and we feel a profound civic responsibility to ensure it remains a vibrant place where people can live, have a family and contribute to the community,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook in the company’s release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move, however, marks a \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/google-v-apple-while-one-takes-on-the-housing-crisis-the-other-stands-back/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major shift\u003c/a> in tactics for the iconic company, which unlike Google and Facebook has traditionally distanced itself from high-profile civic engagement projects. That general lack of involvement has been a source of criticism among some local advocacy groups, which argue that Apple has largely abdicated its responsibility to address community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have walled themselves inside their mini-Pentagon as if they don’t participate in community life here,” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, told Reveal last month. “And that’s really insulting and wrong. So I welcome Apple to come to the table and be part of the community that they benefit from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, was quick to criticize the company’s announcement, accusing the company of “throwing pennies” at the housing crisis he said Apple helped create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple’s announcement that it is entering the real estate lending business is an effort to distract from the fact that it has helped create California’s housing crisis — all while raking in \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/T07iC829m0ujXkPyT1glMC?domain=u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\">$800 million \u003c/a>of taxpayer subsidies, and keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore, in order to avoid paying \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/g14lC9r2nPTmzONwf3Ldy6?domain=u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\">billions of dollars in taxes\u003c/a>,” Sanders said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple is committed to being a good neighbor and helping to write the next chapter of the region that has been a great home of innovation and creativity for generations,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said Apple crafted its approach to match the broad reach of the housing crisis, from helping first-time homebuyers to backing philanthropies that support people who are at the greatest risk of experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple said its funding commitment will be rolled out over two years, depending on the availability of projects, and that it plans reinvest unused funds in future projects over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said it is working to identify private developers who, with the right financing and investment, are ready to immediately begin construction on affordable housing projects in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting from NPR’s Bill Chappell.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg\" alt='\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism, and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Who Owns Silicon Valley?” is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686413267/microsoft-pledges-500-million-investment-to-tackle-affordable-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft\u003c/a> made a $500 million investment to ease similar pressures near its headquarters in the Seattle area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as California grapples with how to keep pace with growing housing demand — by one estimate, the state must build more than 3 million homes by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sky-high cost of housing — both for homeowners and renters — is the defining quality-of-life concern for millions of families across this state, one that can only be fixed by building more housing,” Gov. 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While the crisis has a wide reach, the struggle to find new housing at an affordable price is even more daunting for the millions of people who haven’t benefited from the tech boom that has made some into billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s plan includes $1 billion to create a mortgage assistance fund for first-time homebuyers, and another $1 billion that will be an open line of credit to support building “very low- to moderate-income housing,” the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Apple’s projected breakdown of the $2.5 billion in aid:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$1 billion affordable housing investment fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1 billion first-time homebuyer mortgage assistance fund\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$300 million worth of land Apple owns in San Jose, which will be available for affordable housing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$150 million Bay Area housing fund, consisting of long-term forgivable loans and grants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$50 million to support vulnerable people: Apple is donating $50 million to support Destination: Home’s efforts to address homelessness in Silicon Valley, and will look for similar philanthropies throughout the state\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Before the world knew the name Silicon Valley, and long before we carried technology in our pockets, Apple called this region home, and we feel a profound civic responsibility to ensure it remains a vibrant place where people can live, have a family and contribute to the community,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook in the company’s release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move, however, marks a \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/google-v-apple-while-one-takes-on-the-housing-crisis-the-other-stands-back/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major shift\u003c/a> in tactics for the iconic company, which unlike Google and Facebook has traditionally distanced itself from high-profile civic engagement projects. That general lack of involvement has been a source of criticism among some local advocacy groups, which argue that Apple has largely abdicated its responsibility to address community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have walled themselves inside their mini-Pentagon as if they don’t participate in community life here,” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, told Reveal last month. “And that’s really insulting and wrong. So I welcome Apple to come to the table and be part of the community that they benefit from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Vermont Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Leland Stanford Junior University is as beautiful as it is big: replete with huge palm trees, Romanesque-inspired sandstone buildings, concert halls, art galleries and a football stadium that seats 50,000 people. But in the midst of a housing crisis some say Stanford helped create, locals are asking if the university is doing enough to house those it employs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a>, we analyzed county assessor office records from 2018\u003cem> \u003c/em>to identify the largest landowners in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of the list in terms of property value: Stanford. The value of the university’s holdings is greater than those of Google, Apple and Intel combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" tag=\"who-owns-silicon-valley\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On campus and off, the value of Stanford’s real estate empire tops $19.7 billion, as of 2018. That’s probably an undercount because Proposition 13, California’s landmark property tax law from the 1970s, has held down the reported value of a lot of Stanford’s properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can drive for miles and still be on Stanford land. I mean, it’s got a golf course. It’s got a nature preserve. The Stanford Linear Accelerator is operated by the federal government, but it’s on Stanford land,” said Steve Staiger, a historian with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pahistory.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palo Alto Historical Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, as the region’s housing crisis has metastasized, a growing number of community voices are asking whether Stanford’s size comes attached to a greater responsibility to house its faculty and staff. “Stanford certainly has, in many people’s eyes, a responsibility to do their fair share,” Staiger said. “Now, what they think is their fair share and how that’s being handled? It’s different than others because they have space on their lands for housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3081px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11782709 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg\" alt=\"Leland, Jane and Leland Jr. Stanford in Paris c. 1881-1883.\" width=\"3081\" height=\"3838\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg 3081w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-160x199.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-800x997.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1020x1271.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-963x1200.jpeg 963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1920x2392.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3081px) 100vw, 3081px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland, Jane and Leland Stanford Jr. in Paris c. 1881-1883. \u003ccite>((Courtesy of Stanford University Archives))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How Stanford Came to Be So Big\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford has one of the largest campuses in the country and sits on roughly 8,180 acres straddling the border of two counties. UC Davis, for comparison’s sake, is just 5,300 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As every visitor who takes a campus tour learns, the university was founded by a grieving father who dedicated the school to his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amasa Leland Stanford was one of the “Big Four,” a group of California merchants who banded together to build the western portion of America’s first transcontinental railroad, the Central Pacific, with generous support from state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford lived lavishly off the profits of his railroad. He joined an exclusive coterie of ultra-wealthy people and owned both a mansion on Nob Hill in San Francisco and a country estate south of the city. He grew grapes and raised horses on a stretch of land that grew to rival the rancheras of the Spanish colonial era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He might have faded into history if not for a tragedy that struck the family in 1884 when his 15-year-old son, Leland Jr., died of typhoid fever while touring Italy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no heir to pass on all their wealth to, the grief-stricken parents decided to launch a university. In 1885, they donated their land to a new school — with the unusual stipulation that it could never be sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11781793 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, which were founded by Herbert Hoover before he became President of the United States.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, which were founded by Herbert Hoover before he became president of the United States.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Land Rich, Cash Poor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades following, this edict guaranteed Stanford would be land rich in an area many considered the boonies. To this day, one of Stanford’s nicknames is “The Farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until the 1950s that Stanford officials devised a plan to lease out land they couldn’t sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.simon.com/mall/stanford-shopping-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Stanford] Shopping Center\u003c/a> is on leased land,” said Staiger. “The \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordresearchpark.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Stanford] Research Park\u003c/a> is on leased land.” The leasing deals allow Stanford to generate income without selling the land, which they’re prohibited from doing by the 1885 founding grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a man named Fred Terman helped launch what we now call Silicon Valley, first as an electrical engineering professor and then as provost at Stanford. Terman was one of the first to encourage tech talent and businesses to stay close to campus rather than seek fame and fortune elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say the university made a major contribution to the companies here,” Terman said in a 1969 interview. “But then, the companies made a major contribution to those parts of the university that contributed to these companies. So we all grew up together, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Stanford boasts an \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2019/10/02/stanford-releasereturn-endowment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endowment of $27.7 billion\u003c/a>, which puts it near the top in the U.S., behind Harvard and Yale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwk2Y4mi87w]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Steve Staiger, a historian with the Palo Alto Historical Association']‘Stanford certainly has, in many people’s eyes, a responsibility to do their fair share. Now: what they think is their fair share and how that’s being handled? It’s different than others because they have space on their lands for housing.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, PayPal, Google, Yahoo, Netflix and others, the center of gravity for tech companies gradually shifted from the East Coast to the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year after year, Silicon Valley companies draw in tens of thousands of software engineers, lawyers and other professionals. Not all of them make huge salaries, but in recent years, the economic influx has displaced thousands of people who do not work in tech, forcing them to leave the Bay Area. A quick search on the real estate platform Zillow reveals the median home price in Palo Alto is $2,833,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Housing Crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You can see people living in vehicles on the streets,” said Lenny Siegel, former mayor of Mountain View. “School districts are losing teachers. It’s gotten worse because we’ve had this unprecedented employment growth and very little housing development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordresearchpark.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Research Park\u003c/a> is home to more than 150 different companies and their 23,000 employees. The university itself directly employs about 13,028 staff members, plus another 2,240 faculty members as of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had faculty housing on campus from the very beginning, to provide an opportunity for faculty to be close to the education and research mission of the institution,” said Martin Shell, Stanford’s vice president and chief external relations officer. “And we think that we’ve been following in that tradition for the last 125 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782708\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford's campus spans 8,180 acres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and is one of the largest in the country\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39801_StandfordEdit006-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford’s campus spans 8,180 acres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and is one of the largest in the country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They [Stanford University] are the major employer on the Mid-Peninsula both for the university faculty and staff, but more importantly perhaps, numerically, is the \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordhealthcare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medical Center\u003c/a>. It’s a huge employer, so big that now they have a separate plant out in Redwood City that thousands of people are working at,” historian Staiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford officials told our investigative reporting team they plan to build about 1,300 housing units and more than 2,400 beds for graduate students, at an estimated cost of more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did that for many reasons, not the least of which was our graduate students were increasingly having a challenge to find a place to live in close proximity where they could afford to live here,” said Shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an apartment complex in the works, the expanded \u003ca href=\"https://newgradhousing.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Escondido Village Graduate Residences,\u003c/a> opens in about a year, Stanford will house more than 75 percent of its graduate students on its campus. The university already houses all of its undergraduates on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may ask why building more housing is Stanford’s problem when Mountain View, Palo Alto and other nearby cities also haven’t kept pace with growing demand over the last half-century. Or, for that matter, whether it’s a problem for tech companies in the region to solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, tech titans like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u003c/a> and Facebook have announced major initiatives to help build housing for their employees and others, providing a combination of cash and land as incentives and asking local municipalities to help shape their housing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift in the public conversation is putting Stanford in the spotlight for a growing number of local politicians and housing advocates. “Stanford has more land than the city of Mountain View,” said Siegel. “Yeah, they’re a big institution and they do a lot, but they need to do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expanding Real Estate Empire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford leases homes to faculty at prices well below market rates — it’s one of the ways Stanford attracts top academic talent from around the world that might not otherwise move to the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Pria Graves, College Terrace Residents Association']‘Probably most of Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist without Stanford. On the other hand, there are definite downsides.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the university’s concerns about housing affordability have focused largely on faculty, as opposed to staff — or the communities that neighbor Stanford. A university-led \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/20/affordability-task-force-digging-needs-various-communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Affordability Task Force\u003c/a> is expected to deliver recommendations later this year that expand Stanford’s definition of constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, Stanford has been busy expanding its residential real estate portfolio off-campus. For example, in just the last five years, the university has bought more than 30 properties in a neighborhood near the campus called College Terrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pria Graves, a retired software engineer from Palo Alto, has lived in College Terrace for 34 years. She’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.collegeterrace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">College Terrace Residents Association’s\u003c/a> “Stanford observer.” She argues that Stanford’s choice to absorb properties off-campus to secure housing for its employees is drying up the pool of available housing for others in the community. That, she says, drives local housing prices past already stratospheric levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does Graves say to those who argue her neighborhood wouldn’t be as nice as it is without Stanford, or might not even exist without Stanford? “Oh it probably wouldn’t. Probably most of Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist without Stanford,” Graves admits. “On the other hand, there are definite downsides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those downsides are at the center of a contentious battle with Santa Clara County supervisors. After three years of back and forth over Stanford’s proposed plans to build another 3.5 million square feet in the coming years, the university abruptly withdrew its application last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/01/stanford-withdraws-general-use-permit-application/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, the university acknowledged “obstacles on the path to a successful permit” and committed to “a new phase of engagement and dialogue with its neighbors and surrounding communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11782840 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"Who Owns Silicon Valley?\" is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Renaissance Journalism and Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Copy-of-WhoOwnsSiliconValley_ppt2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Who Owns Silicon Valley?” is a multi-newsroom investigative project involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/local/labs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mercury News\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://renjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Renaissance Journalism\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Telemundo 48 Área de la BahíaTelemundo\u003c/a> and KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On campus and off, the value of Stanford’s real estate empire tops $19.7 billion, as of 2018. That’s probably an undercount because Proposition 13, California’s landmark property tax law from the 1970s, has held down the reported value of a lot of Stanford’s properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can drive for miles and still be on Stanford land. I mean, it’s got a golf course. It’s got a nature preserve. The Stanford Linear Accelerator is operated by the federal government, but it’s on Stanford land,” said Steve Staiger, a historian with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pahistory.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palo Alto Historical Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, as the region’s housing crisis has metastasized, a growing number of community voices are asking whether Stanford’s size comes attached to a greater responsibility to house its faculty and staff. “Stanford certainly has, in many people’s eyes, a responsibility to do their fair share,” Staiger said. “Now, what they think is their fair share and how that’s being handled? It’s different than others because they have space on their lands for housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3081px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11782709 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg\" alt=\"Leland, Jane and Leland Jr. Stanford in Paris c. 1881-1883.\" width=\"3081\" height=\"3838\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002.jpeg 3081w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-160x199.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-800x997.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1020x1271.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-963x1200.jpeg 963w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PC0001_B1_F44_I002-1920x2392.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3081px) 100vw, 3081px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland, Jane and Leland Stanford Jr. in Paris c. 1881-1883. \u003ccite>((Courtesy of Stanford University Archives))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How Stanford Came to Be So Big\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford has one of the largest campuses in the country and sits on roughly 8,180 acres straddling the border of two counties. UC Davis, for comparison’s sake, is just 5,300 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As every visitor who takes a campus tour learns, the university was founded by a grieving father who dedicated the school to his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amasa Leland Stanford was one of the “Big Four,” a group of California merchants who banded together to build the western portion of America’s first transcontinental railroad, the Central Pacific, with generous support from state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford lived lavishly off the profits of his railroad. He joined an exclusive coterie of ultra-wealthy people and owned both a mansion on Nob Hill in San Francisco and a country estate south of the city. He grew grapes and raised horses on a stretch of land that grew to rival the rancheras of the Spanish colonial era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He might have faded into history if not for a tragedy that struck the family in 1884 when his 15-year-old son, Leland Jr., died of typhoid fever while touring Italy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no heir to pass on all their wealth to, the grief-stricken parents decided to launch a university. In 1885, they donated their land to a new school — with the unusual stipulation that it could never be sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11781793 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, which were founded by Herbert Hoover before he became President of the United States.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS36464_IMG_8792-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, which were founded by Herbert Hoover before he became president of the United States.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, PayPal, Google, Yahoo, Netflix and others, the center of gravity for tech companies gradually shifted from the East Coast to the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Year after year, Silicon Valley companies draw in tens of thousands of software engineers, lawyers and other professionals. Not all of them make huge salaries, but in recent years, the economic influx has displaced thousands of people who do not work in tech, forcing them to leave the Bay Area. A quick search on the real estate platform Zillow reveals the median home price in Palo Alto is $2,833,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Housing Crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You can see people living in vehicles on the streets,” said Lenny Siegel, former mayor of Mountain View. “School districts are losing teachers. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.changeresearch.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Change Research\u003c/a> poll commissioned by KQED found that nearly half of Californians surveyed earlier this month viewed Facebook more negatively than other tech giants like Google, Amazon, Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ztKwQ5amx-7pZcUPj_MeUwwRzapv0SvMXOrm-gDrlFo/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online survey\u003c/a>, conducted Oct. 15-18, asked 2,605 Californian primary voters — about two-thirds Democratic and one-third Republican — a range of political and social questions, including how “favorable” they felt about each of the five companies. Nearly half of respondents said they felt either “somewhat unfavorable” or”very unfavorable” about Facebook, a higher percentage than in the previous survey done in September. Just under a quarter of respondents said they viewed the company favorably. The remaining respondents held a neutral position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, 31% of respondents viewed Amazon and Google unfavorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/jBUr9-how-californians-feel-about-five-of-the-big-tech-firms-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11783750 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/jBUr9-how-californians-feel-about-five-of-the-big-tech-firms-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1762\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/jBUr9-how-californians-feel-about-five-of-the-big-tech-firms-2.jpg 1762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/jBUr9-how-californians-feel-about-five-of-the-big-tech-firms-2-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/jBUr9-how-californians-feel-about-five-of-the-big-tech-firms-2-800x272.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/jBUr9-how-californians-feel-about-five-of-the-big-tech-firms-2-1020x347.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/jBUr9-how-californians-feel-about-five-of-the-big-tech-firms-2-1200x409.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1762px) 100vw, 1762px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 2016 election, the Menlo Park-based social media behemoth has been confronted by a host of issues dragging down its public profile, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101864431/what-the-cambridge-analytica-scandal-means-for-facebook-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge Analytica\u003c/a> scandal that erupted last year and helped further erode the social media company’s trust among users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Facebook sold the British political consulting firm access to the personal data of 87 million of its users on behalf of the Trump for President campaign. That information was subsequently used to place targeted, and often questionably truthful, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101873996/under-fire-for-misleading-political-ads-facebook-promises-some-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">political ads\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"facebook\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial transaction incited public outrage and spurred more than 250 of Facebook’s own employees to sign a\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> letter\u003c/a> opposing the company’s hands-off approach to political activity on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia last month launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11772737/is-facebook-too-big-state-attorneys-general-want-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formal investigation\u003c/a> into the company over anti-competitive practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The October survey was conducted before Facebook’s recent moves to improve its image, including \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledging $1 billion\u003c/a> to address California’s housing crisis and unveiling its latest effort to support factual news consumption through the addition of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/facebook-launches-its-test-news-tab-in-the-u-s-but-you-may-not-see-it-yet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news tab\u003c/a>“.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the poll also took place before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772075523/mark-zuckerberg-offers-a-choice-the-facebook-way-or-the-china-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">congressional committee\u003c/a> to defend his flailing plans to roll out a new digital currency, called Libra, next year. Lawmakers, especially Democrats, took turns berating, criticizing and skewering Zuckerberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT9BRUoXhh8]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the poll clearly shows is that Californians’ opinion about Facebook is heading in the wrong direction,” said Pat Reilly of Change Research, who oversaw the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, use of the platform in California does not appear to be flagging as a result of this negative attention. When respondents were asked how often they use Facebook, 45% said “many times throughout the day,” while another 37% said “a few times per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same October survey found that a majority of respondents felt relatively neutral about Uber and Lyft, despite the ride-hailing companies’ highly publicized and controversial battle with California lawmakers over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774025/which-jobs-will-be-impacted-by-ab-5-californias-landmark-employment-measure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gig contract labor\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>High winds are in the forecast this week for all of California as fires burn up and down the Golden State. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782314/what-you-need-to-know-sonoma-countys-kincade-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a> in Sonoma County has charred more than 75,000 acres, destroyed more than 120 structures and forced thousands to evacuate in the state’s famed wine country. To the south, firefighters in Los Angeles are battling a number of blazes, including the Getty Fire in the hills near UCLA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Kincade Fire\" tag=\"kincade-fire\"]Helping teams on the ground as they fight the flames is an arsenal of air support. The fires have prompted authorities to call in some of the biggest firefighting planes in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour east of Los Angeles, the three engines of Tanker 914 whine and fade as the jet comes to a halt on the tarmac at the former Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino. The onetime military facility is now partially used as an air operations center for the U.S. Forest Service and hosts both firefighting helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, pilot Kevin Hopf explains why the main cabin is so roomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re standing in a Douglas DC-10 made in the mid-to-late ’80s,” Hopf says. “In its original passenger configuration it had about 350 seats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopf is the lead pilot with 10 Tanker, a private company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that operates four of the firefighting jets. 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But it’s a pretty small margin there of places that we can’t put this airplane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most remote terrain in canyons and on hillsides is where the plane shines. It drops its load of up to 9,400 gallons of Phos-Chek, the sticky red gel that helps keep fire at bay, from only a few hundred feet above the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11783653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/retardanttanks_custom-f9315839eade11228d5fa5d8a09aaa0efd28be86-s1600-c85-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Over 9,000 gallons of Phos-Chek, an orange-red gel that slows the spread of fire, can be stored in three huge tanks attached to the bottom of the aircraft. 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The onetime military facility is now partially used as an air operations center for the U.S. Forest Service and hosts both firefighting helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, pilot Kevin Hopf explains why the main cabin is so roomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re standing in a Douglas DC-10 made in the mid-to-late ’80s,” Hopf says. “In its original passenger configuration it had about 350 seats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopf is the lead pilot with 10 Tanker, a private company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that operates four of the firefighting jets. 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"content": "\u003cp>Alex Espinoza isn’t sure what next month will look like for his family — where he’ll find work, if his wife will find a seasonal job like the one she has with a local taco truck, where they’ll buy groceries for their 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All he knows is that in the next three weeks, they’re moving out of their two-bed, one bathroom Los Banos apartment that he’s lived in for the last five years, and moving in with his mother-in-law in Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the new owners of the Canal Farm Gardens, a 50-plus unit complex, gave Espinoza and at least 30 of his neighbors a choice: Pay more than $1,200 a month for a newly renovated unit — a nearly 50 percent increase above the rent he pays now — or expect to be evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Espinoza’s Sept. 16 eviction notice had arrived after Dec. 31, his landlord would owe him a month’s rent in relocation assistance. And evicting the entire apartment complex would be a much more expensive proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mass evictions in this Central Valley town are among rising \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/10/15/angry-renters-facing-evictions-demand-action-by-daly-city-officials/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports across California\u003c/a> of landlords removing tenants from their properties ahead of a statewide change taking effect Jan. 1 — a law that will make evictions more costly and difficult for landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not worth it to live here for that much,” said Espinoza, 26, who works making granite countertops. “They [landlords] don’t give a shit about where we go. They’re too worried about their money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2019/09/big-rent-hikes-illegal-in-california-heres-what-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The new law,\u003c/a> championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom as the strongest statewide renter protection in the country, caps annual rent increases at 5% plus inflation, while also forcing landlords to specify a legitimate reason for evicting tenants and to offer relocation assistance for no-fault evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11782920 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2020 ballot initiative could allow cities to impose tighter rent controls than what the new state law allows (Assembly Bill 1482). The 74,000 signatures collected last week marked a more than 60% increase over the previous week. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the interim months until the law kicks in, tenant rights groups are scrambling to combat what they say is a wave of landlords exploiting a temporary loophole that allows them to get rid of tenants now. That way they can raise rents beyond the rent cap, avoid having to pay any relocation help to displaced tenants, and simply remove tenants they view as problems without going through additional legal hurdles introduced by the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether the new owners of the Los Banos apartment complex were motivated by the new law; they did not return multiple messages seeking comment left with the complex manager and a real estate agent involved in the property sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction reports are coming in elsewhere, too. “My office alone saw more than 40 separate buildings with no-cause (eviction) notices in the last three weeks,” said Elena Popp, co-founder of the Eviction Defense Network, which provides tenant legal services in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her organization typically sees four or five mass evictions a week, she said, but since a prominent attorney in Southern California was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-07/california-landlords-respond-to-rent-caps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted in the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> advising property owners to evict tenants as soon as possible, those numbers have soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles City Council passed a temporary eviction freeze Tuesday to prevent landlords from trying to skirt the new state law. Tenant groups are urging other localities to enact similar measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"eviction, housing\" label=\"More Related Stories.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking reliable, timely eviction data, neither policymakers nor renters groups know precisely how many more evictions are occurring ahead of the law taking effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord groups and some supporters of the law argue that the vast majority of landlords aren’t trying to evade it, and that the industry shouldn’t be demonized for the rogue actions of what they say are a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I wish we could wave a magic wand when it comes to what owners are doing now, I think we have seen some attorneys outside of (our organization) give advice about terminating tenancies to avoid the application of (the law),” said Debra Carlton, vice president of public affairs for the California Apartment Association. “And we have commented that this is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others in the industry expect an uptick in evictions before January 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It somewhat reminds me of the Obama administration and everything they were trying to do to restrict guns,” said Steve Hrdlicka, a lawyer who specializes in evictions and debt collection in the Central Valley. “And people who would not have normally thought about buying a weapon thought this right is being taken away from me — and gun sales skyrocketed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Landlords Fear More Cumbersome Evictions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California now, landlords can evict tenants at the end of their lease without specifying any reason, as long as they give advance notice of 60 days, or 30 days if the tenant has lived there less than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come January, landlords can legally remove renters from their property only if they have a “just cause” — such as if renters violate the terms of a lease, fail to pay rent or cause a nuisance to neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Canal Farm Gardens, every unit in the apartment complex is undergoing a major renovation, which qualifies as a circumstance under which even the new rules would allow “no-fault” evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re doing a renovation, it’s very costly,’ said Suzie Lucero, the apartment manager on the property for 25 years. “I think they’re worth the price they’re going for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a key provision in the new law forces landlords to provide one month’s worth of rent as relocation help to those displaced by renovations or other “no-fault” evictions, such as when a landlord moves in with a family member. That’s a major expenditure when evicting 30-plus units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Tran, a lawyer for Central California Legal Services, said no tenant that she’s been in contact with had been offered relocation assistance or had their last month of rent waived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups contend that many landlords are simply profit-maximizing: evicting tenants who are paying rents below what the market can bear while they still can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hrdlicka, the Central Valley landlord lawyer, said that while he’s heard some stories of landlords pursuing that strategy, he doesn’t believe the practice is widespread. But he acknowledged that he has advised some clients to initiate evictions now, before they might have to prove a tenant’s bad behavior in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that a very effective tool is being taken away from (landlords),” said Hrdlicka, who cautioned that his clients can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see approach with problematic tenants who could cause trouble down the road. “Landlords in my experience do not serve terminations for no reason. There’s always a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Could Evictions Have Been Avoided?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Popp, the eviction defense attorney in Los Angeles, praised state lawmakers for passing the new law, which advocates call the most significant statewide tenant-protection legislation in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she expressed frustration that more wasn’t done to stop what she says was eminently foreseeable: some landlords would try to get ahead of the law any way they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They should have just had this go into effect immediately, and then we wouldn’t have these emergency problems,” said Popp. “Did the state Legislature make this bill strong enough? Absolutely not. Did we need this bill? Absolutely yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39808_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39808_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39808_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39808_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39808_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-3-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39808_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canal Farm Gardens is a 59-unit apartment complex in Los Banos. Until two months ago, renters paid $750 per month for a two-bedroom apartment, they now pay $850. Renovated units will rent for nearly $1300 per month, pricing out many of the current tenants. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu, theSan Francisco Democrat who was the bill’s lead author, said having the bill take effect immediately was neither politically nor practically realistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Urgency measures” — state laws that go into effect as soon as the governor signs them — require a two-thirds vote in California’s Legislature. The Assembly approved Chiu’s bill with 48 votes, five shy of that supermajority threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This behavior of predatory no-fault evictions has been happening for decades with no transparency,” said Chiu. “And that’s exactly why we did this bill, and come January 1st, 8 million Californians will no longer be exploited in this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law does aim to block landlords from raising rents beyond the new cap before the new law takes effect: Landlords can still hike rents as much as they please before the new year, but if they exceed the cap, they’ll just have to reset them back to March 2019 levels once the new law kicks in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t legislate away every bad actor,” said Chiu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some landlord groups argue that the Legislature could have deterred some of the behavior happening now if it the new law allowed “banking” — allowing them to raise rents above the allowable annual increase if they didn’t raise them to the full cap the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Chiu’s office is counting down the days until November 2 — the last day it says landlords could legally issue 60-day eviction notices unaffected by the new law’s constraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A boon to 2020 rent control initiative?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other cities may join Los Angeles in passing temporary eviction freezes, but renters shouldn’t look to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Newsom administration was planning any statewide emergency action to halt evictions, a spokesman for the governor said in an email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kinds of unfair evictions are exactly why California passes AB 1482 and the very situations it will protect against. Tenants have rights and access to legal services. They should contact local legal aid clinics if they believe they are being illegally or unfairly targeted or evicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason the rent-cap/just-eviction measure passed at all was the threat of a looming 2020 ballot initiative that would allow cities to impose tighter rent controls than what the new state law allows. The California Apartment Association, the largest interest group for major landlords in the Capitol, withdrew opposition to the bill at least partly so it could argue the 2020 initiative was no longer necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, amid reports of an eviction rush, the sponsor of that initiative said it’s already garnered more than the 700,000 signatures needed to place it on the November 2020 ballot — and that the 74,000 signatures collected last week marked a more than 60% increase over the previous week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Weinstein, president of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation was surprised the new law was proved so quickly it was not a solution to housing affordability. The foundation’s affiliated housing group Housing is a Human Right opposed the law, arguing a 5%-plus-inflation cap was too weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carlton, lobbyist for the California Apartment Association, says she doesn’t think anecdotal reports of eviction will matter: A previous version of that initiative, also sponsored by Weinstein, lost by nearly 20 points last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to find a better solution,” said Carlton. “It can’t just be about pointing the finger at these landlords, it’s got to be about finding the market balance with new construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Canal Farm Gardens in Los Banos, apartment manager Lucero says she’s seen a steady stream of applicants for the newly renovated apartments, with many prospective renters from the Bay Area expressing interest in units going for $1,295 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Banos is about 80 miles southeast of San Jose, where the median two-bedroom \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rental-price-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rents for nearly $2,700\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment complex owners did allow intake workers from various safety net agencies to spend a day trying to help relocate residents, many of whom are farmworkers or have other low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sargeez Teimoorshahi, program director at the social services nonprofit Turning Point, said that despite efforts to connect evicted residents with county funds for security deposits and extended motel stays, he expects some will be unable to find stable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately without available affordable housing, that will lead to some families becoming homeless,” said Teimoorshahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alex Espinoza isn’t sure what next month will look like for his family — where he’ll find work, if his wife will find a seasonal job like the one she has with a local taco truck, where they’ll buy groceries for their 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All he knows is that in the next three weeks, they’re moving out of their two-bed, one bathroom Los Banos apartment that he’s lived in for the last five years, and moving in with his mother-in-law in Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the new owners of the Canal Farm Gardens, a 50-plus unit complex, gave Espinoza and at least 30 of his neighbors a choice: Pay more than $1,200 a month for a newly renovated unit — a nearly 50 percent increase above the rent he pays now — or expect to be evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Espinoza’s Sept. 16 eviction notice had arrived after Dec. 31, his landlord would owe him a month’s rent in relocation assistance. And evicting the entire apartment complex would be a much more expensive proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mass evictions in this Central Valley town are among rising \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/10/15/angry-renters-facing-evictions-demand-action-by-daly-city-officials/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports across California\u003c/a> of landlords removing tenants from their properties ahead of a statewide change taking effect Jan. 1 — a law that will make evictions more costly and difficult for landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not worth it to live here for that much,” said Espinoza, 26, who works making granite countertops. “They [landlords] don’t give a shit about where we go. They’re too worried about their money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2019/09/big-rent-hikes-illegal-in-california-heres-what-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The new law,\u003c/a> championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom as the strongest statewide renter protection in the country, caps annual rent increases at 5% plus inflation, while also forcing landlords to specify a legitimate reason for evicting tenants and to offer relocation assistance for no-fault evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11782920 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39809_EVICTION-RUSH-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2020 ballot initiative could allow cities to impose tighter rent controls than what the new state law allows (Assembly Bill 1482). The 74,000 signatures collected last week marked a more than 60% increase over the previous week. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the interim months until the law kicks in, tenant rights groups are scrambling to combat what they say is a wave of landlords exploiting a temporary loophole that allows them to get rid of tenants now. That way they can raise rents beyond the rent cap, avoid having to pay any relocation help to displaced tenants, and simply remove tenants they view as problems without going through additional legal hurdles introduced by the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether the new owners of the Los Banos apartment complex were motivated by the new law; they did not return multiple messages seeking comment left with the complex manager and a real estate agent involved in the property sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction reports are coming in elsewhere, too. “My office alone saw more than 40 separate buildings with no-cause (eviction) notices in the last three weeks,” said Elena Popp, co-founder of the Eviction Defense Network, which provides tenant legal services in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her organization typically sees four or five mass evictions a week, she said, but since a prominent attorney in Southern California was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-07/california-landlords-respond-to-rent-caps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted in the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> advising property owners to evict tenants as soon as possible, those numbers have soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles City Council passed a temporary eviction freeze Tuesday to prevent landlords from trying to skirt the new state law. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking reliable, timely eviction data, neither policymakers nor renters groups know precisely how many more evictions are occurring ahead of the law taking effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord groups and some supporters of the law argue that the vast majority of landlords aren’t trying to evade it, and that the industry shouldn’t be demonized for the rogue actions of what they say are a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I wish we could wave a magic wand when it comes to what owners are doing now, I think we have seen some attorneys outside of (our organization) give advice about terminating tenancies to avoid the application of (the law),” said Debra Carlton, vice president of public affairs for the California Apartment Association. “And we have commented that this is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others in the industry expect an uptick in evictions before January 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It somewhat reminds me of the Obama administration and everything they were trying to do to restrict guns,” said Steve Hrdlicka, a lawyer who specializes in evictions and debt collection in the Central Valley. “And people who would not have normally thought about buying a weapon thought this right is being taken away from me — and gun sales skyrocketed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Landlords Fear More Cumbersome Evictions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California now, landlords can evict tenants at the end of their lease without specifying any reason, as long as they give advance notice of 60 days, or 30 days if the tenant has lived there less than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come January, landlords can legally remove renters from their property only if they have a “just cause” — such as if renters violate the terms of a lease, fail to pay rent or cause a nuisance to neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Canal Farm Gardens, every unit in the apartment complex is undergoing a major renovation, which qualifies as a circumstance under which even the new rules would allow “no-fault” evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re doing a renovation, it’s very costly,’ said Suzie Lucero, the apartment manager on the property for 25 years. “I think they’re worth the price they’re going for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a key provision in the new law forces landlords to provide one month’s worth of rent as relocation help to those displaced by renovations or other “no-fault” evictions, such as when a landlord moves in with a family member. That’s a major expenditure when evicting 30-plus units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Tran, a lawyer for Central California Legal Services, said no tenant that she’s been in contact with had been offered relocation assistance or had their last month of rent waived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups contend that many landlords are simply profit-maximizing: evicting tenants who are paying rents below what the market can bear while they still can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hrdlicka, the Central Valley landlord lawyer, said that while he’s heard some stories of landlords pursuing that strategy, he doesn’t believe the practice is widespread. But he acknowledged that he has advised some clients to initiate evictions now, before they might have to prove a tenant’s bad behavior in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that a very effective tool is being taken away from (landlords),” said Hrdlicka, who cautioned that his clients can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see approach with problematic tenants who could cause trouble down the road. “Landlords in my experience do not serve terminations for no reason. There’s always a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Could Evictions Have Been Avoided?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Popp, the eviction defense attorney in Los Angeles, praised state lawmakers for passing the new law, which advocates call the most significant statewide tenant-protection legislation in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she expressed frustration that more wasn’t done to stop what she says was eminently foreseeable: some landlords would try to get ahead of the law any way they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They should have just had this go into effect immediately, and then we wouldn’t have these emergency problems,” said Popp. “Did the state Legislature make this bill strong enough? Absolutely not. Did we need this bill? 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It says it does not want to judge whether political speech is true or not, and that users should be free to hear from politicians and make up their own minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that has not satisfied critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of this will be a massive voter suppression effort that will move at the speed of a click,” Waters said. “Your claim to promote free speech does not ring true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts ran her own \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769946841/troll-watch-elizabeth-warrens-facebook-ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliberately false Facebook ad\u003c/a> to protest the policy. In it, she incorrectly claimed Facebook and Zuckerberg had endorsed President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg said he had considered dropping political advertising altogether — noting that it contributes just a tiny fraction of Facebook’s billions of dollars in annual sales. But he argued that could have the effect of favoring incumbents and candidates favored by the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What is Facebook Doing to Prevent the 2020 Election From Being a Repeat of 2016?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With U.S. intelligence agencies warning that foreign governments may try to influence American politics leading up to next year’s election, lawmakers want to know how Facebook is defending its platform from manipulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook has been found at the scene of the crime” when it comes to false information spreading in many places around the world, said Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11770683,news_11750792,news_11619331\" label=\"Facebook and Election Security\"]Zuckerberg gave an update about Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/21/772035601/we-have-a-big-responsibility-facebook-rolls-out-new-election-security-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">election security\u003c/a> efforts on Monday. That included a number of new features and updates to existing policies to provide more transparency about who is posting on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the site will now be labeling content from media outlets it considers to be “state-controlled,” which Facebook defines as “wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the scope of the problem Facebook must confront was also highlighted on Monday when the company said it had taken down four more networks of fake accounts. Facebook said it has removed more than 50 such networks, which could attempt to manipulate its users, in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of the newly disabled networks were tied to Iran, while the fourth originated in Russia and showed some links to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll farm involved in political interference in 2016, Facebook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg told reporters on Monday that election security “is one of my top priorities for the company” and that Facebook is no longer “on our back foot” when it comes to identifying fake accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Is Facebook too Powerful?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Congress is not the only branch of government asking tough questions about Facebook. The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and a group of 47 state attorneys general are all investigating Facebook for potential antitrust violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have opened up a serious discussion about whether Facebook should be broken up,” Waters told Zuckerberg on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"mark-zuckerberg\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The state prosecutors are “concerned that Facebook may have put consumer data at risk, reduced the quality of consumers’ choices, and increased the price of advertising,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics are calling for the company to be broken up, or for its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to be unwound. Warren has made the breakup of Facebook — along with Google and Amazon — a key part of her campaign platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some tech veterans agree. Marc Benioff, the CEO of software company Salesforce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/tech/salesforce-marc-benioff-break-up-facebook-boss-files/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a> that Facebook is “addictive” and has too much control of users’ data — and therefore should be broken up. “They’re having an undue influence as the largest social media platform on the planet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even a Facebook co-founder has turned on the company. Chris Hughes, who was one of Zuckerberg’s roommates at Harvard, launched a $10 million anti-monopoly fund to support policy, academic research and organizing to take on corporate power in tech and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg bristles at the idea of breaking up his company. 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"content": "\u003cp>Driving up and down the roads just outside downtown Salinas, you’re likely to spot crews of farmworkers in the fields, moving swiftly in an ocean of green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Jesús Alba, a work crew supervisor, was watching over one group of men and women as they harvested celery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jesús Alba, farmworker supervisor\"]‘Before, people crossed the border a lot. And now, people can’t cross. For the people who go home to their country, it’s difficult to return. They go, but then they don’t come back.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of farmers, a lot of crops, that don’t have enough people,” Alba said, as the workers around him bent down to chop celery stalks and toss them onto washing stations. “Before, a lot of people went back and forth across the border. Now, people can’t cross. For the people who go home to their country, it’s difficult to return. They go, but then they don’t come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California grows\u003c/a> over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts, and \u003ca href=\"https://arefiles.ucdavis.edu/uploads/filer_public/0b/1a/0b1a6c3a-b166-4131-b8e9-78ba62754df7/carroll.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a majority\u003c/a> of the workers who tend to those crops are undocumented immigrants. But increased enforcement, coupled with an aging population of U.S.-based farmworkers, has diminished the supply of California agricultural labor in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That availability of farm labor was the number one concern growers shared with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue during his June tour of Northern California farming communities. Purdue’s visit came about a week after President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11756670/trump-delays-nationwide-ice-raids-including-san-francisco\">delayed plans\u003c/a> for nationwide deportations of undocumented families. But when asked whether the planned crackdown would exacerbate farm labor issues, Perdue told reporters he didn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not talking about immigration when we talk about a legal, reliable workforce,” he said. “We’re talking about people who want to come and provide for their families on a temporary basis, on a seasonal basis, in the H-2A program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue was referring to a decades-old\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-2a-temporary-agricultural-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> temporary agricultural visa program\u003c/a> that enables farmers to hire laborers from other countries. Soon after Perdue’s visit, the Department of Labor announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/26/2019-15307/temporary-agricultural-employment-of-h-2a-nonimmigrants-in-the-united-states\">proposed reforms\u003c/a> that the agency said would “modernize” and “improve” the H-2A process. If approved, the changes would allow employers to stagger workers’ start dates on a single application, modify how workers’ wages are determined, require online applications and allow for e-signatures, among other reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Slow Growth in California \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Use of the H-2A visa program has risen steadily in recent years. But the growth in California has been gradual\u003cb>. \u003c/b>This year, over \u003ca href=\"https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/pdf/PerformanceData/2019/H-2A_Selected_Statistics_FY2019_Q3.pdf\">19,000\u003c/a> H-2A positions requested by California ranchers, farm labor contractors and other employers have been certified — the highest to date — but that’s a tiny small slice of the \u003ca href=\"https://s.giannini.ucop.edu/uploads/giannini_public/b0/21/b0219b84-4333-4fec-9111-eff182da42a8/v21n5_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive migrant worker population\u003c/a> California farmers rely on each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the H-2A program can be costly, time-consuming and cumbersome — the program is managed by three separate federal government agencies — many California growers instead prefer to enlist the help of farm labor contractors to find and hire local farmworkers, most of whom are immigrants without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/17a74978-c3b6-413b-8d05-84c015c4d7f7?src=embed\" title=\"H2A Visas CA\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But traditional hiring methods have also proved challenging of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent\u003ca href=\"https://www.cfbf.com/storage/app/media/documents/LaborScarcity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> California Farm Bureau Federation/UC Davis survey\u003c/a> of more than 1,000 California farmers found that over 70% said they had trouble hiring workers in 2017 and 2018. And 86% of respondents said they had raised wages in an effort to attract and keep workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That workforce is getting older, and there are fewer of them than there used to be,” said Bryan Little, CFBF’s employment policy director. “Their kids, by and large, aren’t going into agriculture in much the same way that a lot of farmers’ kids aren’t staying in agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Lengthy’ but ‘Worth it’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Central Valley farm labor contractor Ileana Arvizu, who over the last three years has brought workers from southern Mexico to California through the H-2A program, said the process was “lengthy” but “worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781814\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/23/can-a-costly-guest-worker-program-meet-californias-need-for-farm-labor/img_5729-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11781814\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11781814 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5729-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5729-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5729-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5729-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5729-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5729-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ileana Arvizu, a Central Valley farm labor contractor who uses the H-2A program. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One requirement of the program is to provide housing for guest workers, a deterrent for many growers in California, where housing is particularly expensive. In order to make the program work for her, Arvizu made an upfront investment that not all employers can, or are willing to, afford: She bought and renovated a hotel in Merced where workers stay while they pick tomatoes on various farms for several months during the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent warm evening, Arvizu stood in the parking lot of her hotel, where rows of picnic tables were arranged beneath a large tent. The newest group of workers, having just returned from the day’s harvest in the tomato fields, were preparing to sit down for a dinner of chicken mole and red rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once upon a time, being a farm labor contractor was like a no-brainer. Like, labor was no issue,” Arvizu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, she said, a group of workers from Mexico she had hired through the H-2A program ended up arriving in California a month late because the paperwork was still being processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to tell the growers that I’m still in the process,” she said. “So we just kinda scrambled to grab whoever was willing to come and help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781819\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/23/can-a-costly-guest-worker-program-meet-californias-need-for-farm-labor/img_5630-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11781819\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11781819 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5630-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5630-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5630-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5630-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5630-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_5630-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new group of workers, hired by Ileana Arvizu, sit down for a dinner of chicken mole and red rice after a day of harvesting tomatoes. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Farmworkers With Deep Roots\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California’s large population of undocumented farmworkers with deep roots in the state is another reason the H-2A program has been slow to catch on here.[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"farmworkers\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayors of communities that I’ve talked to on an annual basis in this valley want to take care of the people of their communities,” said Manuel Cunha Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why bring in new people and bust the people that are in your community? 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I think it’s immoral,” Cunha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most farmers, he added, cannot afford to pay the expenses associated with bringing H-2A workers into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Farm Workers Foundation and the UFW union submitted over 80,000 individual public comments to the Department of Labor opposing the changes to the visa program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the UFW’s concerns: that the proposed changes would result in domestic workers losing jobs to H-2A workers because growers wouldn’t be required to give hiring preference to domestic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed changes to the H-2A program will not only have harmful impacts on the domestic farmworkers who are currently working in America’s fields but also the foreign guest workers who participate in the program,” said National Field Coordinator Marichel Mejia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must protect the farmworkers who have been integral members of our communities and who have years of experience as skilled laborers,” Mejia said. “The Trump administration needs to recognize the hard work farmworkers do to feed the country and not implement these changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Jacobsen, CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, said that many farmers and contractors would much rather obtain legal status for their existing workers, as opposed to bringing in new seasonal crews. 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