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A month after that, a historic \u003ca href=\"http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/salinas-fire-officials-announce-chinatown-fire-was-an-accident/article_b1e62446-1982-11e7-9f21-3fdc3155fb91.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chinatown building caught fire\u003c/a> and is set to be torn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" ids=\"11418255,11418530,11418537,11418529,11418533,11418528,11418531,11418534,11418535\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the bars that Lee once frequented to watch TV as a kid have either been torn down or shuttered up. And Lee’s home, where the shootings took place in 1912, was demolished. In its stead is an empty lot, covered in weeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was part of the urban renewal plan,\" Lee says. \"They asked people to move. We had to have someone tear our home down because we couldn’t keep up with the repairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened in 1961. In the '70s, Lee saw Chinatown go downhill. That's when the streets around the community were widened to make it faster for cars to get to the highway. And that meant that all the streets going from Chinatown into downtown Salinas -- across the railroad tracks -- were cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one-way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee thinks the design was planned to keep all the vices contained in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/search/chinatown,+salinas/@36.6781423,-121.6522571,17z\" target=\"_blank\">small five-block neighborhood\u003c/a>. The result -- whether intentional or not -- isolated the area. And this isolation made the vices of Chinatown worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime homeless residents Jimmy Rice and Diana West noticed the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This used to be a really nice place to come,” Rice says. “But all the drugs moved in and the businesses were shut down because of drugs.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with drugs, the area also saw an increase in prostitution. It got so bad that the city changed all the streets to be one way and to point in the same direction. The reasoning was that it would discourage traffic, but Rice and West see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" columns=\"2\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"11418323,11418322,11418400,11418404\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All these one-way streets didn't deter nothing,” says Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West agrees. \"It didn’t deter nothing. If you were coming in, you knew what you were coming in for -- either for drugs, prostitution or to get high.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the first time in over 30 years the homeless couple has lived there, the design of those streets could change. That’s because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/11/30/salinas-awards-212k-chinatown-deal/94649416/\" target=\"_blank\">city of Salinas is trying to plan\u003c/a> its way out of the dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty much everyone is on board to get rid of the one-way streets, put in a pedestrian railroad crossing and make Chinatown more walkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The view out of Commander Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view out of Cmdr. David Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://csumb.edu/directory/people/seth-pollack\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Pollack\u003c/a>, a professor of service learning at CSU Monterey Bay, believes in this power of design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With simple design changes, Pollack says, “You’re going to have energy, you’re going to have people exchanging, you’re going to have new business, you’re going to have people come to Chinatown for something other than prostitution, drugs and alcohol. Wouldn’t it be nice to come to Chinatown for some Chinese food? Or for good food in general? Or to see some art?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as when we cut off air flow or circulation -- whether it’s a part of your body or a city -- decay happens. But Pollack says it’s not just the built environment that will change Chinatown. He sees it as a first step for changing our mental environment and demystifying the \"other\" -- the \"other\" being the huge homeless population that currently resides there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for 3 years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. "At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for three years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. \"At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here.\" \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/city-manager/community-safety-division/profiles/jose-arreola\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Arreola\u003c/a>, director of the city’s Community Safety Division, it’s less about demystifying the other than it is about moving the other to a different location. Or moving the activities that go on -- mainly using and dealing drugs -- elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those drugs are gonna get sold, that’s a huge business. The demand for it is not going to go away, so they will get sold someplace else,\" he says. \"What we will get rid of, it looks like, is the concentration of those problems in one area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this concentration is good or bad depends on who you talk to. And the next step in the planning process is to talk to all of the stakeholders in the area -- homeless organizations, the Asian community, surrounding businesses, etc. This input has already been collected twice before -- in 2007 and 2010 -- during \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/09/01/salinas-starts-chinatown-revitalization/89747042/\" target=\"_blank\">previous Chinatown revitalization plans\u003c/a>. But they failed because the funding fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To discourage those who come to Chinatown to deal the daily fix, the city will have to wait over a year for the plan to be completed. Then it is looking at an estimated price tag -- taken from the 2010 plan -- of $30 million to $50 million to implement it. But maybe, this time around, the third plan’s a charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man rests from pushing his cart as the sun sets behind the railroad tracks in Salinas' Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man rests from pushing his cart as the sun sets behind the railroad tracks in Salinas' Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the bars that Lee once frequented to watch TV as a kid have either been torn down or shuttered up. And Lee’s home, where the shootings took place in 1912, was demolished. In its stead is an empty lot, covered in weeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was part of the urban renewal plan,\" Lee says. \"They asked people to move. We had to have someone tear our home down because we couldn’t keep up with the repairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened in 1961. In the '70s, Lee saw Chinatown go downhill. That's when the streets around the community were widened to make it faster for cars to get to the highway. And that meant that all the streets going from Chinatown into downtown Salinas -- across the railroad tracks -- were cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one-way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee thinks the design was planned to keep all the vices contained in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/search/chinatown,+salinas/@36.6781423,-121.6522571,17z\" target=\"_blank\">small five-block neighborhood\u003c/a>. The result -- whether intentional or not -- isolated the area. And this isolation made the vices of Chinatown worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime homeless residents Jimmy Rice and Diana West noticed the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This used to be a really nice place to come,” Rice says. “But all the drugs moved in and the businesses were shut down because of drugs.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with drugs, the area also saw an increase in prostitution. It got so bad that the city changed all the streets to be one way and to point in the same direction. The reasoning was that it would discourage traffic, but Rice and West see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That’s because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/11/30/salinas-awards-212k-chinatown-deal/94649416/\" target=\"_blank\">city of Salinas is trying to plan\u003c/a> its way out of the dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty much everyone is on board to get rid of the one-way streets, put in a pedestrian railroad crossing and make Chinatown more walkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The view out of Commander Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view out of Cmdr. David Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://csumb.edu/directory/people/seth-pollack\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Pollack\u003c/a>, a professor of service learning at CSU Monterey Bay, believes in this power of design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With simple design changes, Pollack says, “You’re going to have energy, you’re going to have people exchanging, you’re going to have new business, you’re going to have people come to Chinatown for something other than prostitution, drugs and alcohol. Wouldn’t it be nice to come to Chinatown for some Chinese food? Or for good food in general? Or to see some art?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as when we cut off air flow or circulation -- whether it’s a part of your body or a city -- decay happens. But Pollack says it’s not just the built environment that will change Chinatown. He sees it as a first step for changing our mental environment and demystifying the \"other\" -- the \"other\" being the huge homeless population that currently resides there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for 3 years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. "At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for three years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. \"At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here.\" \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/city-manager/community-safety-division/profiles/jose-arreola\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Arreola\u003c/a>, director of the city’s Community Safety Division, it’s less about demystifying the other than it is about moving the other to a different location. Or moving the activities that go on -- mainly using and dealing drugs -- elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those drugs are gonna get sold, that’s a huge business. The demand for it is not going to go away, so they will get sold someplace else,\" he says. \"What we will get rid of, it looks like, is the concentration of those problems in one area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this concentration is good or bad depends on who you talk to. And the next step in the planning process is to talk to all of the stakeholders in the area -- homeless organizations, the Asian community, surrounding businesses, etc. This input has already been collected twice before -- in 2007 and 2010 -- during \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/09/01/salinas-starts-chinatown-revitalization/89747042/\" target=\"_blank\">previous Chinatown revitalization plans\u003c/a>. But they failed because the funding fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Buy a Home, 1% Down, Free Recorded Message,” reads a sign at the edge of a vacant lot in the scrappy working-class town of Bloomington near Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tempting pitch. But it sounds a little suspicious to those who remember subprime lenders and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/subprime_mortgage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mortgage meltdown.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland Southern California became something of a poster child for the housing crisis that sunk scores of homeowners, wiped out a booming construction sector, shredded city and county budgets, and contributed to a spectacular \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/case-of-interest/city-san-bernardino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">municipal bankruptcy\u003c/a> in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the phone number on the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message. “Buying a home has never been easier. Here’s how it works. You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t leave a message. But somehow I get a call back anyway from a broker based in L.A. who says he’s authorized to sell these new 1 percent down home loans through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/mortgage-products/conventional-loans/1-percent-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a licensed private lender in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I tell him I’m just fishing for information and not looking for a new mortgage, he’s reluctant to say much more. So I pay a visit to the storefront mortgage company of veteran broker \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tims.teresa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theresa Tims\u003c/a> in the leafy business district of Upland, about 30 minutes outside L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media-savvy Tims has produced video explainers about 1 percent down and other loan programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fXzz9yozD3LK2Secfa9Zg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBGpZeqnpoY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I specialize in these low down loan type of programs and they fit our area perfectly,” Tims tells me during an interview her assistant simultaneously webcasts on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tims does a lot of business in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, the Inland Empire, where median home prices are still comparatively cheap: about $300,000 for a basic three- or even four-bedroom home. That’s less than half the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/orange-county-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price\u003c/a> in neighboring Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now one of the only feasible programs is the 1 percent down with equity boost,” says Tims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been offering 1 percent down conventional loans since late last year, when they first became available through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Wholesale Mortgage\u003c/a> and its Detroit-based rival \u003ca href=\"https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/quicken-loans-offers-1-down-payment-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken Loans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-960x721.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The basic arithmetic is pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you’re buying a $400,000 house in Riverside. You put down $4,000 — that’s the 1 percent. The lender kicks in $8,000 — that’s the 2 percent “grant.’ And that gets you to the 3 percent threshold required to qualify for federally backed mortgage insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans are typically marketed to mid-income borrowers without a lot of cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very common for somebody to be able to come up with $4,000 or $5,000 [for a down payment]… $8,000 to $10,000 is a little bit of a push,” says Tims. “Unless they get some kind of inheritance or they’ve been saving since like age 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air.’\u003ccite>Abraham Bustillos, new homeowner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Right around Christmas, Abraham Bustillos moved his wife and three kids into a 1,300-square-foot home in Riverside with one of these 1 percent down conventional loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were thinking we were going to need at least $15,000 to $20,000,” Bustillos tells me. “So to go from that to just $6,000 [down payment], we were able to move into the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balance on Bustillos’ loan is around $350,000 stretched over a 30-year fixed mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it is a little bit more than we were paying as renters,” says Bustillos, a FedEx delivery driver. “But at the same time, now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air or paying the owner’s mortgage for him. You know, money is going into us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage to these 1 percent down loans is that traditional bank lenders may require heftier minimum down payments, higher minimum incomes and flawless credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big non-bank lenders like United Wholesale and Quicken are filling the vacuum and scooping up customers who may not have cash for the more traditional 20 percent down payment — or maybe just have good but not golden credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Wholesale Mortgage declined to comment for this story over concerns it might make 1 percent down loans look risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing finance expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/scholar/edward-j-pinto/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Pinto\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/policy/economics/housing-finance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Enterprise Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., says they can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you have reliable house price increases, you’re going to be in trouble for many years,” says Pinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trouble as in your monthly payments will be pretty steep and it’ll take awhile to build up equity in your property. If real estate doesn’t work for you, you may consider investing in gold assets from \u003ca href=\"https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\">https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\u003c/a> instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.’\u003ccite>Edward Pinto, housing finance expert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Within California, the most volatile metropolitan area for housing is Riverside-San Bernardino,” Pinto explains. “And so if you’re buying a home in one of these areas with a very low down payment and then other risk factors are present, if anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinto says a bigger appetite for risk has led to problems for some non-bank lenders dealing in low down payment loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-lawsuit-alleging-quicken-loans-improperly-originated-and-underwrote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued both Quicken Loans \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-settlement-20170410-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Shore Financial Services\u003c/a>, the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say between 2006 and 2012, the companies wrongly certified hundreds of low down payment loan applications insured through a Federal Housing Administration program (different from the 1 percent down conventional loans Quicken and United began offering last year). The government alleges that when the loans went bad, taxpayers were on the hook for millions of dollars in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-shore-financial-services-llc-agrees-pay-48-million-resolve-alleged-false-claims-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> its case last year after paying a $48 million penalty. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mortgageorb.com/quicken-loans-small-victory-might-not-small\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken is fighting\u003c/a> the charges in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, then-\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QbXrCWf4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken CEO Bill Emerson told Fox Business\u003c/a> the government actions would stifle affordable loan programs targeting mid- and low-income borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For-sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely driven a lot of financial institutions away from the FHA program for sure,” said Emerson. “And you know who suffers from that. It’s the American consumer, the middle class who depend on the FHA program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing risk expert Ed Pinto says these days, the majority of people buying a home for the first time in the U.S. are using FHA, 1 percent down and other types of low down payment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this group of low down payment loans is growing very rapidly,” says Pinto. “Seventy percent of all first-time homebuyers today have down payments of \u003ca href=\"https://themortgagereports.com/22592/ellie-mae-report-home-buyers-making-smaller-mortgage-down-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less than 5 percent\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the potential drawbacks, these loans remain the last best option in places like San Bernardino, a city still clawing its way back from a crushing foreclosure crisis and that municipal bankruptcy. It’s also a city where home ownership remains far below the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of being in a mobile home park, we said let’s go and be homeowners,” says Isabel Montanez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met her with her two young sons outside her modest two-bedroom San Bernardino home abutting a pair of auto repair shops. The single mom just purchased the home after qualifying for a low down payment FHA loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I signed the documents April 5, and before June I’ll be in,” she says proudly, before explaining how she plans to expand the home and move in a couple of relatives to help offset mortgage payments and other costs associated with home ownership.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“Buy a Home, 1% Down, Free Recorded Message,” reads a sign at the edge of a vacant lot in the scrappy working-class town of Bloomington near Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tempting pitch. But it sounds a little suspicious to those who remember subprime lenders and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/subprime_mortgage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mortgage meltdown.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland Southern California became something of a poster child for the housing crisis that sunk scores of homeowners, wiped out a booming construction sector, shredded city and county budgets, and contributed to a spectacular \u003ca href=\"http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/case-of-interest/city-san-bernardino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">municipal bankruptcy\u003c/a> in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called the phone number on the sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message. “Buying a home has never been easier. Here’s how it works. You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t leave a message. But somehow I get a call back anyway from a broker based in L.A. who says he’s authorized to sell these new 1 percent down home loans through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/mortgage-products/conventional-loans/1-percent-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a licensed private lender in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I tell him I’m just fishing for information and not looking for a new mortgage, he’s reluctant to say much more. So I pay a visit to the storefront mortgage company of veteran broker \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tims.teresa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theresa Tims\u003c/a> in the leafy business district of Upland, about 30 minutes outside L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media-savvy Tims has produced video explainers about 1 percent down and other loan programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fXzz9yozD3LK2Secfa9Zg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on her YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBGpZeqnpoY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBGpZeqnpoY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I specialize in these low down loan type of programs and they fit our area perfectly,” Tims tells me during an interview her assistant simultaneously webcasts on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tims does a lot of business in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, the Inland Empire, where median home prices are still comparatively cheap: about $300,000 for a basic three- or even four-bedroom home. That’s less than half the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/orange-county-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price\u003c/a> in neighboring Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now one of the only feasible programs is the 1 percent down with equity boost,” says Tims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been offering 1 percent down conventional loans since late last year, when they first became available through \u003ca href=\"https://www.uwm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Wholesale Mortgage\u003c/a> and its Detroit-based rival \u003ca href=\"https://www.quickenloans.com/blog/quicken-loans-offers-1-down-payment-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken Loans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-960x721.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-rent-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Southern California’s foreclosure crisis has led cities like San Bernardino to become largely a city of renters. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The basic arithmetic is pretty straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you’re buying a $400,000 house in Riverside. You put down $4,000 — that’s the 1 percent. The lender kicks in $8,000 — that’s the 2 percent “grant.’ And that gets you to the 3 percent threshold required to qualify for federally backed mortgage insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans are typically marketed to mid-income borrowers without a lot of cash on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very common for somebody to be able to come up with $4,000 or $5,000 [for a down payment]… $8,000 to $10,000 is a little bit of a push,” says Tims. “Unless they get some kind of inheritance or they’ve been saving since like age 13.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air.’\u003ccite>Abraham Bustillos, new homeowner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Right around Christmas, Abraham Bustillos moved his wife and three kids into a 1,300-square-foot home in Riverside with one of these 1 percent down conventional loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were thinking we were going to need at least $15,000 to $20,000,” Bustillos tells me. “So to go from that to just $6,000 [down payment], we were able to move into the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balance on Bustillos’ loan is around $350,000 stretched over a 30-year fixed mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it is a little bit more than we were paying as renters,” says Bustillos, a FedEx delivery driver. “But at the same time, now we’re not just throwing the money up in the air or paying the owner’s mortgage for him. You know, money is going into us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One advantage to these 1 percent down loans is that traditional bank lenders may require heftier minimum down payments, higher minimum incomes and flawless credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big non-bank lenders like United Wholesale and Quicken are filling the vacuum and scooping up customers who may not have cash for the more traditional 20 percent down payment — or maybe just have good but not golden credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Wholesale Mortgage declined to comment for this story over concerns it might make 1 percent down loans look risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing finance expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/scholar/edward-j-pinto/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Pinto\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/policy/economics/housing-finance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Enterprise Institute\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., says they can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you have reliable house price increases, you’re going to be in trouble for many years,” says Pinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trouble as in your monthly payments will be pretty steep and it’ll take awhile to build up equity in your property. If real estate doesn’t work for you, you may consider investing in gold assets from \u003ca href=\"https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\">https://citygoldbullion.com.au/buy-gold-brisbane/\u003c/a> instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.’\u003ccite>Edward Pinto, housing finance expert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Within California, the most volatile metropolitan area for housing is Riverside-San Bernardino,” Pinto explains. “And so if you’re buying a home in one of these areas with a very low down payment and then other risk factors are present, if anything happens like they lose their job, they have no cushion to fall back on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinto says a bigger appetite for risk has led to problems for some non-bank lenders dealing in low down payment loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-lawsuit-alleging-quicken-loans-improperly-originated-and-underwrote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued both Quicken Loans \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-settlement-20170410-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Shore Financial Services\u003c/a>, the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say between 2006 and 2012, the companies wrongly certified hundreds of low down payment loan applications insured through a Federal Housing Administration program (different from the 1 percent down conventional loans Quicken and United began offering last year). The government alleges that when the loans went bad, taxpayers were on the hook for millions of dollars in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-shore-financial-services-llc-agrees-pay-48-million-resolve-alleged-false-claims-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> its case last year after paying a $48 million penalty. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mortgageorb.com/quicken-loans-small-victory-might-not-small\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken is fighting\u003c/a> the charges in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, then-\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QbXrCWf4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicken CEO Bill Emerson told Fox Business\u003c/a> the government actions would stifle affordable loan programs targeting mid- and low-income borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"For sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-2-house-sale-close-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For-sale signs dot neighborhoods across San Bernardino. Despite comparatively low prices, home ownership remains out of reach for many locals. \u003ccite>(Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely driven a lot of financial institutions away from the FHA program for sure,” said Emerson. “And you know who suffers from that. It’s the American consumer, the middle class who depend on the FHA program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing risk expert Ed Pinto says these days, the majority of people buying a home for the first time in the U.S. are using FHA, 1 percent down and other types of low down payment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this group of low down payment loans is growing very rapidly,” says Pinto. “Seventy percent of all first-time homebuyers today have down payments of \u003ca href=\"https://themortgagereports.com/22592/ellie-mae-report-home-buyers-making-smaller-mortgage-down-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less than 5 percent\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the potential drawbacks, these loans remain the last best option in places like San Bernardino, a city still clawing its way back from a crushing foreclosure crisis and that municipal bankruptcy. It’s also a city where home ownership remains far below the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of being in a mobile home park, we said let’s go and be homeowners,” says Isabel Montanez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met her with her two young sons outside her modest two-bedroom San Bernardino home abutting a pair of auto repair shops. The single mom just purchased the home after qualifying for a low down payment FHA loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Marvin Jordan called KQED recently with some good news: He found an apartment in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a big deal, because \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/17/for-one-man-looking-for-housing-means-putting-fatherhood-on-hold/\">when we met him\u003c/a> in 2015, Jordan was homeless. He was walking the streets, knocking on doors and leaving letters for landlords, trying to find anyone who would accept his Section 8 housing voucher.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“To Whom It May Concern: My name is Marvin Jordan Sr. I’m a 54-year-old homeless man raising a three-year-old and looking for housing.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>The introduction of a note left for a landlord\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Getting a voucher is partly a matter of luck. The application periods are years apart and waitlists in cities like Oakland can be thousands of people deep. Plus, in the current housing shortage, landlords have been leaving the voluntary Section 8 program because they can get more money on the open market than the vouchers can cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, it's taking people longer to find apartments. The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), which distributes Section 8 vouchers, gives people a few months to find a place before their vouchers expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OHA has been granting extensions for up to a year for people like Jordan to find a place. It wasn't until the last day of his final extension that he got a call from a property management group that he'd been reaching out to almost daily. They had a place for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It brought tears to me eyes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan said telling his story to the property management group helped: How he was once addicted to drugs and alcohol. How he spent time in jail. How he was homeless, but determined to take care of his kid, Marvin Jordan Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10760411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"in 2015, Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">in 2015, Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try to convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since April 2016, Jordan and his son have been living in his two-bedroom apartment on 105th Avenue in Oakland. His $1,500 rent is subsidized by his voucher. He's not too fond of his East Oakland neighborhood, but he's grateful to have a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I got in here I said to myself, 'When we close our doors, this is our neighborhood,' \" Jordan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"aqnTiSe8ipBlHoRgFYtfhqdzm2KhErOS\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's rents have seen some of the steepest increases in the nation in recent years, although \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/rentals/article/Bay-Area-2017-rents-are-falling-everywhere-except-11023345.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there are some signs\u003c/a> the housing market is cooling off. One more small, but positive sign, is the number of landlords participating in the Section 8 program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between June 2015 and June 2016, 310 landlords in Oakland dropped out of the Section 8 program, according to OHA. But in the first few months of 2017, a couple of dozen landlords have been added to the program, said OHA Executive Director Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, out of the 580 voucher holders who found apartments between July 2016 and April 2017, 40 percent leased in the last three months, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't alone. The Housing Authority of the County of Alameda has also seen a small increase in landlord participation and tenants who are leasing up, according to Executive Director Christine Gouig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The market does seem to be leveling off,\" Gouig wrote in an email. \"Of course, the level remains very high, but we are not seeing the requests for rent increases of $400-$500 that we once were.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also helped when a number of Bay Area housing authorities won approval from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to increase the rent amounts that vouchers could cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it still takes a voucher holder in Oakland between four to six months on average to find a place, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OHA is aware that convincing landlords to participate in the Section 8 program can be a tough sell. The paperwork and government bureaucracy can be tedious, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keeping and growing the roughly 4,254 Oakland landlords in the program is the goal. HUD recently granted OHA approval for a number of incentives to keep and attract more landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the incentives are rent increases for certain neighborhoods, a one-time $500 payment for new landlords, an expedited inspection process, payments for participating landlords searching for new tenants, and capital improvement loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did this specifically because we have to address what’s happening in this market,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OHA has also partnered with a number of single-room-occupancy (SRO) property owners to subsidize operating costs in exchange for renting to residents with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re going to have long-term affordability, if we’re really going to make sure we have economic diversity in this city going forward, we really feel you have to lock down as many hard units as you can,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Jordan is grateful to have found an apartment. Around the same time, he also found a job working with people who are trying to navigate social services. He's able to share his experiences with them, he said. And since he and his son moved into their place, he's noticed dramatic improvements in Marvin Jr.'s mood, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Jordan said he's having trouble saving money. He puts $50 from every paycheck into a savings account that's supposed to be used for his son. But after paying for his subsidized rent, car insurance and other bills, he often needs to dip into that pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought I could have a savings,\" Jordan said. \"But I end up spending it because we have to live, and we have to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Marvin Jordan called KQED recently with some good news: He found an apartment in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a big deal, because \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/17/for-one-man-looking-for-housing-means-putting-fatherhood-on-hold/\">when we met him\u003c/a> in 2015, Jordan was homeless. He was walking the streets, knocking on doors and leaving letters for landlords, trying to find anyone who would accept his Section 8 housing voucher.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“To Whom It May Concern: My name is Marvin Jordan Sr. I’m a 54-year-old homeless man raising a three-year-old and looking for housing.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>The introduction of a note left for a landlord\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Getting a voucher is partly a matter of luck. The application periods are years apart and waitlists in cities like Oakland can be thousands of people deep. Plus, in the current housing shortage, landlords have been leaving the voluntary Section 8 program because they can get more money on the open market than the vouchers can cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, it's taking people longer to find apartments. The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), which distributes Section 8 vouchers, gives people a few months to find a place before their vouchers expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OHA has been granting extensions for up to a year for people like Jordan to find a place. It wasn't until the last day of his final extension that he got a call from a property management group that he'd been reaching out to almost daily. They had a place for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It brought tears to me eyes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan said telling his story to the property management group helped: How he was once addicted to drugs and alcohol. How he spent time in jail. How he was homeless, but determined to take care of his kid, Marvin Jordan Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10760411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"in 2015, Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">in 2015, Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try to convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since April 2016, Jordan and his son have been living in his two-bedroom apartment on 105th Avenue in Oakland. His $1,500 rent is subsidized by his voucher. He's not too fond of his East Oakland neighborhood, but he's grateful to have a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I got in here I said to myself, 'When we close our doors, this is our neighborhood,' \" Jordan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's rents have seen some of the steepest increases in the nation in recent years, although \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/rentals/article/Bay-Area-2017-rents-are-falling-everywhere-except-11023345.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there are some signs\u003c/a> the housing market is cooling off. One more small, but positive sign, is the number of landlords participating in the Section 8 program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between June 2015 and June 2016, 310 landlords in Oakland dropped out of the Section 8 program, according to OHA. But in the first few months of 2017, a couple of dozen landlords have been added to the program, said OHA Executive Director Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, out of the 580 voucher holders who found apartments between July 2016 and April 2017, 40 percent leased in the last three months, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't alone. The Housing Authority of the County of Alameda has also seen a small increase in landlord participation and tenants who are leasing up, according to Executive Director Christine Gouig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The market does seem to be leveling off,\" Gouig wrote in an email. \"Of course, the level remains very high, but we are not seeing the requests for rent increases of $400-$500 that we once were.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also helped when a number of Bay Area housing authorities won approval from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to increase the rent amounts that vouchers could cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it still takes a voucher holder in Oakland between four to six months on average to find a place, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OHA is aware that convincing landlords to participate in the Section 8 program can be a tough sell. The paperwork and government bureaucracy can be tedious, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keeping and growing the roughly 4,254 Oakland landlords in the program is the goal. HUD recently granted OHA approval for a number of incentives to keep and attract more landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the incentives are rent increases for certain neighborhoods, a one-time $500 payment for new landlords, an expedited inspection process, payments for participating landlords searching for new tenants, and capital improvement loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did this specifically because we have to address what’s happening in this market,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OHA has also partnered with a number of single-room-occupancy (SRO) property owners to subsidize operating costs in exchange for renting to residents with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re going to have long-term affordability, if we’re really going to make sure we have economic diversity in this city going forward, we really feel you have to lock down as many hard units as you can,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Jordan is grateful to have found an apartment. Around the same time, he also found a job working with people who are trying to navigate social services. He's able to share his experiences with them, he said. And since he and his son moved into their place, he's noticed dramatic improvements in Marvin Jr.'s mood, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Jordan said he's having trouble saving money. He puts $50 from every paycheck into a savings account that's supposed to be used for his son. But after paying for his subsidized rent, car insurance and other bills, he often needs to dip into that pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought I could have a savings,\" Jordan said. \"But I end up spending it because we have to live, and we have to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Deputies from the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department evicted tenants from an arts warehouse in Bernal Heights early Wednesday afternoon, marking what might be the first court-sanctioned San Francisco arts warehouse eviction since last December’s deadly \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/12/ghost-ship-fire-prompts-sffd-to-consider-random-warehouse-inspections/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that the occupants of 968 Peralta Avenue were living unlawfully in a commercially leased building. The eight residents, who failed to successfully appeal their eviction notice, had until Wednesday morning to load their belongings into boxes before deputies arrived to escort them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Landlord Ron Erickson has owned and rented out the building for 17 years. Erickson says he called for the tenants’ eviction after visiting the space last December and finding out it had been converted into an eight-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They violated the lease,” Erickson says. “My job is property management. I live by the rules and I live by the laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erickson says he plans to gut the building and turn it back into a warehouse, though he says he might eventually turn it into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choreographer Nathan Cottam has been living in the building since October 2014. He says that the landlord has known people were living in the space for at least 15 years. Erickson denies this claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole lot has been used for residential purposes since 2001,” Cottam says. “The landlord had been operating under ‘I don’t care what you do there, just keep me out of it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the Ghost Ship fire, Cottam says he and his fellow tenants hoped to ensure their safety by being upfront with the personnel from city agencies who came to inspect the property. Cottom says the building underwent multiple fire department inspections and hearings, and that it was cleared of safety breaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Housing-and-Buildings/Fire-Inspections/wb4c-6hwj/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was able to confirm\u003c/a> the fire department did conduct three violation inspections at the property and one hearing re-inspection between December of last year and this past February. The inspection status for all four is listed “pending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4frp1ZnjO0Q&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cottam says he and the other residents applied to get rent control on the building when they were first served their eviction notice. The city handles these types of issues on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/#Commercial_Units_Used_as_Residential_with_the_Landlord8217s_Knowledge_Are_Not_Exempt_from_Rent_Control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case-by-case basis\u003c/a>. “This is an unusual case,” says San Francisco Rent Board executive director Robert Collins. Cottam had expected a response from the rent control board in the next two weeks — a decision that may now be moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant and artist Tony Burgess, who has lived in the space for more than a year and a half, was loading his boxed belongings onto a U-Haul truck as deputies arrived. Burgess is well aware of the dangers that can befall converted spaces, and says he lost 10 friends to the Ghost Ship fire. But the eviction caught him off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will probably get a storage unit for my stuff,” Burgess says. “I have no idea where I’ll go or where I’ll sleep tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cottam plans on moving in with a friend in the Sunset for a few nights. He says he’s heartbroken about leaving the home he’s worked hard to make safe, but he’s trying to stay positive. “I’m gonna keep going,” Cottam says. I’m gonna find a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by Claudia Escobar and Tiffany Camhi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Deputies from the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department evicted tenants from an arts warehouse in Bernal Heights early Wednesday afternoon, marking what might be the first court-sanctioned San Francisco arts warehouse eviction since last December’s deadly \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/12/ghost-ship-fire-prompts-sffd-to-consider-random-warehouse-inspections/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that the occupants of 968 Peralta Avenue were living unlawfully in a commercially leased building. The eight residents, who failed to successfully appeal their eviction notice, had until Wednesday morning to load their belongings into boxes before deputies arrived to escort them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6983.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenants empty the Bernal Heights converted warehouse before deputies arrive. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Landlord Ron Erickson has owned and rented out the building for 17 years. Erickson says he called for the tenants’ eviction after visiting the space last December and finding out it had been converted into an eight-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They violated the lease,” Erickson says. “My job is property management. I live by the rules and I live by the laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erickson says he plans to gut the building and turn it back into a warehouse, though he says he might eventually turn it into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Erickson denies this claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13114715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13114715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/IMG_6975.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bernal Heights warehouse housed eight tenants, most of whom were artists in different mediums. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nathan Cottam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole lot has been used for residential purposes since 2001,” Cottam says. “The landlord had been operating under ‘I don’t care what you do there, just keep me out of it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the Ghost Ship fire, Cottam says he and his fellow tenants hoped to ensure their safety by being upfront with the personnel from city agencies who came to inspect the property. Cottom says the building underwent multiple fire department inspections and hearings, and that it was cleared of safety breaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Housing-and-Buildings/Fire-Inspections/wb4c-6hwj/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was able to confirm\u003c/a> the fire department did conduct three violation inspections at the property and one hearing re-inspection between December of last year and this past February. The inspection status for all four is listed “pending.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4frp1ZnjO0Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4frp1ZnjO0Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Cottam says he and the other residents applied to get rent control on the building when they were first served their eviction notice. The city handles these types of issues on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/#Commercial_Units_Used_as_Residential_with_the_Landlord8217s_Knowledge_Are_Not_Exempt_from_Rent_Control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case-by-case basis\u003c/a>. “This is an unusual case,” says San Francisco Rent Board executive director Robert Collins. Cottam had expected a response from the rent control board in the next two weeks — a decision that may now be moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant and artist Tony Burgess, who has lived in the space for more than a year and a half, was loading his boxed belongings onto a U-Haul truck as deputies arrived. Burgess is well aware of the dangers that can befall converted spaces, and says he lost 10 friends to the Ghost Ship fire. But the eviction caught him off guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will probably get a storage unit for my stuff,” Burgess says. “I have no idea where I’ll go or where I’ll sleep tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cottam plans on moving in with a friend in the Sunset for a few nights. He says he’s heartbroken about leaving the home he’s worked hard to make safe, but he’s trying to stay positive. “I’m gonna keep going,” Cottam says. I’m gonna find a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by Claudia Escobar and Tiffany Camhi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Augie Cortez and his wife, Blanca, bought a little slice of the American Dream about 17 years ago in Bloomington, a working-class community in San Bernardino about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their roomy four-bedroom house was the very first on the block of a brand-new subdivision not unlike scores of others that began carpeting Inland Southern California toward the end of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortezes gathered up their savings and managed to put up a healthy down payment on a 15-year mortgage. After a couple of other home purchasing efforts collapsed, they were eager to make this one stick and they wanted to pay it off fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another point that often deserves more attention is the assumption that a brand-new property will automatically be free from defects. That was certainly my expectation until I started researching the common issues many homeowners encounter after moving in. Looking through examples of \u003ca href=\"https://homesnag.co.uk/what-is-snagging/\">a qualified snagging survey and detailed new-build inspection process for homeowners\u003c/a> helped me appreciate how many technical concerns can remain hidden beneath what appears to be a finished home. My own experience showed that small imperfections were only part of the picture, as some findings related to workmanship standards and compliance issues that would have been difficult to recognise without training. The ability to present a structured report to the developer also made communication much easier and encouraged quicker responses. Rather than relying on guesswork, I felt far more confident discussing repairs because every concern had been properly documented and explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthly payments would be high. But the name of the little cul-de-sac seemed like a good omen: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0621667,-117.3957405,3a,75y,144.34h,60.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTLzuz0fGR8FQ5Cznj9CJSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Street\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that was a cool name! I don’t think I’d ever heard of a Dream Street. Have you?” Cortez asks as he sits at an expansive table in the family’s dining room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for a while, the dream was good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"When Augie Cortez’ moved his family into its new Dream Street home he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Augie Cortez moved his family into its new Dream Street home, he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Augie works in construction as a cement finisher, and when he first bought his home, business was booming in the Inland Empire. After moving his wife and kids into the new house, he had enough extra cash to redo all the cement work along the sides of the house and the back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a family portrait taken the day his three daughters pressed some memories into the wet cement. While showing off his property, he points to the spot just outside a garage side door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are my daughters’ handprints,” he says, beaming with pride. “Man, those are my daughters’ handprints right there. Nov. 27, 1999.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez’ daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez’s daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Easy Credit Dragged Everyone Down\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With so much homebuilding going on, it was easy for just about anyone to get a mortgage back then, even if you had shaky credit or no job at all. Low-income minority neighborhoods like the ones around Dream Street were ripe targets for subprime lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife had a sound conventional loan, but still got dragged under in a housing crisis that would ultimately steamroll through neighborhoods across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It impacted other people who own homes who were current, and the value of their homes went down,” says Edward Pinto, co-director of the International Center on Housing Risk at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/\">American Enterprise Institute, \u003c/a>a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Areas that have a lot of foreclosures and very seriously delinquent loans have an impact on declining house prices, so it spreads throughout the neighborhood,” Pinto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night.’\u003ccite>Augie Cortez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2006, the last of the brand-new homes on Dream Street sold for about $430,000. Three years later, at the peak of the mortgage meltdown, the same home was worth barely a quarter of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the same story up and down the block and across the region as the bubble burst on the housing market and people couldn’t afford their mortgages. Even people like Augie Cortez, who didn’t have mortgages spring-loaded with dangerous adjustable rates and hidden fees, were dragged down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction work vanished and Cortez’s cement finishing jobs dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418640 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he's glad he stayed now that Dream Street is finally recovering.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he’s glad he stayed, now that Dream Street is recovering from the mortgage meltdown. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to do the fast payoff and it was like, why did we get into this, a 15-year loan,” he says, recalling the painful days when the family seemed close to losing the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night,” says Cortez grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put food on the table Cortez sold lumber and other items online. He did odd jobs for neighbors. Mortgage payments got skipped for months. Default notices were dropping into mailboxes across the neighborhood — including his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just walk away, that’s what people were doing, just walking away,” he says, recalling what it was like then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was weird man, just empty houses. It was sad to see people pack their stuff. But I wasn’t going to do that. Not me, heck no. I would have stayed here until they put that (eviction) tag on my door,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off.’\u003ccite>Doug McCulloh, photojournalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife worked out a deal with their lender. Their 15-year mortgage was extended to 20 years, and the lender agreed to let them make lower minimum monthly payments for a fixed period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were surrounded by the wreckage of the mortgage meltdown. By the end of 2009, half of Dream Street’s original 13 owners had either been pushed out or foreclosed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foreclosure meltdown swept across this entire area and up and down Dream Street like a tsunami in spring of 2009,” says photojournalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.pe.com/2014/03/28/artist-spotlight-douglas-mcculloh/\">Doug McCulloh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh lives in nearby Riverside. But his connection to Dream Street runs deep. He’s the one who gave the little avenue its name. It was a prize at a San Bernardino County charity auction. McCulloh says the come-on was irresistible: name a street, minimum bid $25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My immediate thought is: It’s the American Dream, it’s your dream house and so on,” says McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, reflecting on what happened there, he adds, “A nightmare is kind of a dream, too. So dreams can cut in all directions, can be all kinds of things. And it’s turned out to be that here on Dream Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McCulloh also won permission from the developer to document the housing tract’s rise from plowed-over fruit orchard to model suburbia to ground zero of the mortgage crisis. He got to know the construction workers, the development company and mortgage team, and the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh tells the story of the last family to move onto Dream Street. They bought near the peak of the housing boom and couldn’t hang on. When the notice to vacate got slapped on the door, they salvaged what they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off,” recalls McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two months later they got a family member who had good credit, they bottom-fished the market. They bought a house about a mile away. The palm trees, they planted them at their new house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday afternoon, McCulloh catches up with Augie Cortez and his brother, Johnny, on the sidewalk outside Cortez’s home. Neighbor Jerry Williams pulls his pickup truck into his driveway. He waves and heads over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez (r) and his brother outside Cortez’ Dream Street home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez (R) and his brother, Johnny, (L) outside Cortez’s Dream Street home. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams is a burly long-haul truck driver with a shaggy, graying beard and wide smile. He and his wife Kelley, also a truck driver, moved in around the same time as Cortez and his wife. He complains about some kids that recently tagged a couple of fences. Other than the minor graffiti, all is good here, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty quiet. You see how it is man,” he says, nodding to the tidy cul-de-sac. “We like it, it works for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days all the houses on Dream Street are occupied. No more busted-out windows or dead lawns; the emblems of the foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess it was a dream,” laughs Augie Cortez. “Actually got to keep (the house), shoot. That’s what’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a sense it’s a dream half-realized. From his front yard we look across to a pair of large dusty vacant lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No houses were ever built on the \u003cem>other\u003c/em> side of Dream Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s undeveloped county land that, at the time the housing tract was developed, was to be the site of a park and library. The developers even dangled the county project as a selling point to would-be home buyers like Cortez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that sounded good for my girls, like ‘wow’ perfect,” Cortez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there’s the park and library,” he says, pointing to the vacant land. When everyone looks to see where Cortez is pointing, he drops the punch line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s invisible!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Bernardino County spokesman says the land turned out to be too narrow for a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County tax revenue also plummeted with housing values during the housing market crash. There are currently no plans for the empty lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some people were betting that the bubble would go on, and of course it couldn’t,” says photographer McCulloh. “Other people bet against the bubble. So the one thing you can say is there will be another spot where hanging onto the dream gets really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local real estate experts warn that Inland Empire housing is once again way overvalued, and overdue for a “correction.” Prices have surged to an unsustainable level in the last year, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhsie.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helped guys like Augie hold onto their houses 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the edge of those vacant lots, a sign lashed to a post beckons with a come-on that sounds a little suspicious, given what this neighborhood has survived over the last decade: “Buy a Home, 1% Down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would be home buyers with a seemingly irresistible offer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would-be homebuyers with a seemingly irresistible offer. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no name for a real estate agent or mortgage broker. But there’s a local phone number. I give it a call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buying a home has never been easier! Here’s how it works,” continues Emily. “You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.” If you invested in a rental property, consider working with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propertytaxpartners.co.uk/blog/property-tax-accountant-london\">property accountant south london\u003c/a> to help prepare the taxes from your rental income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily asks me to leave my number and a good time to call back. I don’t. But I do find out more about that sign, and about new trends in home loans that are stoking old fears.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Augie Cortez and his wife, Blanca, bought a little slice of the American Dream about 17 years ago in Bloomington, a working-class community in San Bernardino about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their roomy four-bedroom house was the very first on the block of a brand-new subdivision not unlike scores of others that began carpeting Inland Southern California toward the end of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cortezes gathered up their savings and managed to put up a healthy down payment on a 15-year mortgage. After a couple of other home purchasing efforts collapsed, they were eager to make this one stick and they wanted to pay it off fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another point that often deserves more attention is the assumption that a brand-new property will automatically be free from defects. That was certainly my expectation until I started researching the common issues many homeowners encounter after moving in. Looking through examples of \u003ca href=\"https://homesnag.co.uk/what-is-snagging/\">a qualified snagging survey and detailed new-build inspection process for homeowners\u003c/a> helped me appreciate how many technical concerns can remain hidden beneath what appears to be a finished home. My own experience showed that small imperfections were only part of the picture, as some findings related to workmanship standards and compliance issues that would have been difficult to recognise without training. The ability to present a structured report to the developer also made communication much easier and encouraged quicker responses. Rather than relying on guesswork, I felt far more confident discussing repairs because every concern had been properly documented and explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthly payments would be high. But the name of the little cul-de-sac seemed like a good omen: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0621667,-117.3957405,3a,75y,144.34h,60.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTLzuz0fGR8FQ5Cznj9CJSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Street\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that was a cool name! I don’t think I’d ever heard of a Dream Street. Have you?” Cortez asks as he sits at an expansive table in the family’s dining room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for a while, the dream was good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"When Augie Cortez’ moved his family into its new Dream Street home he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-cement-JP-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Augie Cortez moved his family into its new Dream Street home, he redid all the outside cement work with the help of friends and family. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Augie works in construction as a cement finisher, and when he first bought his home, business was booming in the Inland Empire. After moving his wife and kids into the new house, he had enough extra cash to redo all the cement work along the sides of the house and the back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a family portrait taken the day his three daughters pressed some memories into the wet cement. While showing off his property, he points to the spot just outside a garage side door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are my daughters’ handprints,” he says, beaming with pride. “Man, those are my daughters’ handprints right there. Nov. 27, 1999.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez’ daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-kids-cement-jp-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez’s daughters press their hands into the wet cement of their new Dream Street home while his father looks on. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Easy Credit Dragged Everyone Down\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With so much homebuilding going on, it was easy for just about anyone to get a mortgage back then, even if you had shaky credit or no job at all. Low-income minority neighborhoods like the ones around Dream Street were ripe targets for subprime lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife had a sound conventional loan, but still got dragged under in a housing crisis that would ultimately steamroll through neighborhoods across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It impacted other people who own homes who were current, and the value of their homes went down,” says Edward Pinto, co-director of the International Center on Housing Risk at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/\">American Enterprise Institute, \u003c/a>a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Areas that have a lot of foreclosures and very seriously delinquent loans have an impact on declining house prices, so it spreads throughout the neighborhood,” Pinto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night.’\u003ccite>Augie Cortez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2006, the last of the brand-new homes on Dream Street sold for about $430,000. Three years later, at the peak of the mortgage meltdown, the same home was worth barely a quarter of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the same story up and down the block and across the region as the bubble burst on the housing market and people couldn’t afford their mortgages. Even people like Augie Cortez, who didn’t have mortgages spring-loaded with dangerous adjustable rates and hidden fees, were dragged down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction work vanished and Cortez’s cement finishing jobs dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418640 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he's glad he stayed now that Dream Street is finally recovering.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-front-house-JP-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez stands outside his home and says he’s glad he stayed, now that Dream Street is recovering from the mortgage meltdown. \u003ccite>(Doug McCulloh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to do the fast payoff and it was like, why did we get into this, a 15-year loan,” he says, recalling the painful days when the family seemed close to losing the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just look up at the ceiling, what are you gonna do the next day? You don’t sleep at night,” says Cortez grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put food on the table Cortez sold lumber and other items online. He did odd jobs for neighbors. Mortgage payments got skipped for months. Default notices were dropping into mailboxes across the neighborhood — including his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just walk away, that’s what people were doing, just walking away,” he says, recalling what it was like then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was weird man, just empty houses. It was sad to see people pack their stuff. But I wasn’t going to do that. Not me, heck no. I would have stayed here until they put that (eviction) tag on my door,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off.’\u003ccite>Doug McCulloh, photojournalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Augie and his wife worked out a deal with their lender. Their 15-year mortgage was extended to 20 years, and the lender agreed to let them make lower minimum monthly payments for a fixed period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were surrounded by the wreckage of the mortgage meltdown. By the end of 2009, half of Dream Street’s original 13 owners had either been pushed out or foreclosed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foreclosure meltdown swept across this entire area and up and down Dream Street like a tsunami in spring of 2009,” says photojournalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.pe.com/2014/03/28/artist-spotlight-douglas-mcculloh/\">Doug McCulloh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh lives in nearby Riverside. But his connection to Dream Street runs deep. He’s the one who gave the little avenue its name. It was a prize at a San Bernardino County charity auction. McCulloh says the come-on was irresistible: name a street, minimum bid $25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My immediate thought is: It’s the American Dream, it’s your dream house and so on,” says McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, reflecting on what happened there, he adds, “A nightmare is kind of a dream, too. So dreams can cut in all directions, can be all kinds of things. And it’s turned out to be that here on Dream Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-DreamSign-color-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the streets around Dream Street have western-themed names. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McCulloh also won permission from the developer to document the housing tract’s rise from plowed-over fruit orchard to model suburbia to ground zero of the mortgage crisis. He got to know the construction workers, the development company and mortgage team, and the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulloh tells the story of the last family to move onto Dream Street. They bought near the peak of the housing boom and couldn’t hang on. When the notice to vacate got slapped on the door, they salvaged what they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody showed up, a relative, dug up four palm trees right out of their front yard and hauled them off,” recalls McCulloh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two months later they got a family member who had good credit, they bottom-fished the market. They bought a house about a mile away. The palm trees, they planted them at their new house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday afternoon, McCulloh catches up with Augie Cortez and his brother, Johnny, on the sidewalk outside Cortez’s home. Neighbor Jerry Williams pulls his pickup truck into his driveway. He waves and heads over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Augie Cortez (r) and his brother outside Cortez’ Dream Street home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-Augie-n-Bro-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augie Cortez (R) and his brother, Johnny, (L) outside Cortez’s Dream Street home. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams is a burly long-haul truck driver with a shaggy, graying beard and wide smile. He and his wife Kelley, also a truck driver, moved in around the same time as Cortez and his wife. He complains about some kids that recently tagged a couple of fences. Other than the minor graffiti, all is good here, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty quiet. You see how it is man,” he says, nodding to the tidy cul-de-sac. “We like it, it works for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days all the houses on Dream Street are occupied. No more busted-out windows or dead lawns; the emblems of the foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess it was a dream,” laughs Augie Cortez. “Actually got to keep (the house), shoot. That’s what’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a sense it’s a dream half-realized. From his front yard we look across to a pair of large dusty vacant lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No houses were ever built on the \u003cem>other\u003c/em> side of Dream Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s undeveloped county land that, at the time the housing tract was developed, was to be the site of a park and library. The developers even dangled the county project as a selling point to would-be home buyers like Cortez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that sounded good for my girls, like ‘wow’ perfect,” Cortez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there’s the park and library,” he says, pointing to the vacant land. When everyone looks to see where Cortez is pointing, he drops the punch line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s invisible!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Bernardino County spokesman says the land turned out to be too narrow for a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County tax revenue also plummeted with housing values during the housing market crash. There are currently no plans for the empty lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-tire-swing-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tire swing dangles from a eucalyptus tree at the edge of a vacant lot on Dream Street \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some people were betting that the bubble would go on, and of course it couldn’t,” says photographer McCulloh. “Other people bet against the bubble. So the one thing you can say is there will be another spot where hanging onto the dream gets really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local real estate experts warn that Inland Empire housing is once again way overvalued, and overdue for a “correction.” Prices have surged to an unsustainable level in the last year, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhsie.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helped guys like Augie hold onto their houses 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the edge of those vacant lots, a sign lashed to a post beckons with a come-on that sounds a little suspicious, given what this neighborhood has survived over the last decade: “Buy a Home, 1% Down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would be home buyers with a seemingly irresistible offer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DREAM-1-1-down-sign-jp-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign lashed to street post across from Dream Street beckons would-be homebuyers with a seemingly irresistible offer. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no name for a real estate agent or mortgage broker. But there’s a local phone number. I give it a call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, this is Emily your friendly real estate professional,” chirps a pre-recorded message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buying a home has never been easier! Here’s how it works,” continues Emily. “You put down 1 percent and your lender 2 percent toward your down payment, which puts you on your way to home ownership.” If you invested in a rental property, consider working with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propertytaxpartners.co.uk/blog/property-tax-accountant-london\">property accountant south london\u003c/a> to help prepare the taxes from your rental income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's plan to raise millions of dollars for affordable housing by charging a new fee on real estate development looks like a foregone conclusion, says the head of the area's largest trade group for builders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This one's a freight train,\" said Randy Johnson, president of the Los Angeles/Ventura chapter of the Building Industry Association. \"The mayor really wants it and there’s no one on the City Council that is going to go against it that I know of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, who first proposed the fee in fall 2015 as a way to fund the much-needed production of below-market-rate housing, brought up his proposal again in \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/04/20/70944/la-mayor-to-deliver-city-address-budget-plan-with/\">his State of the City address\u003c/a> last week. Garcetti urged the City Council to pass the fee \"and do it now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"loiie8W8Ax5yM0dIU42ZGmwkTPBh0CYU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is reviving a debate over whether developer fees lead to more affordable housing or discourage housing development in the city. There may not be consensus on that issue, but most agree that there's an urgent need to address affordable housing in Los Angeles, where many spend over 50 percent of their income for a roof over their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Winter, the mayor’s housing policy specialist, said planners have been working to shape the proposal so council members can pass it this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s gone through the analysis, through City Planning Commission and multiple hearings,\" Winter said. \"So it’s ready to go, ready to rock 'n' roll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers have \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/10/23/55198/mayor-garcetti-seeks-developer-fee-for-affordable/\">expressed concerns\u003c/a> over the fee at hearings, but they are not the only critics. City Controller Ron Galperin said imposing another fee on builders -- $12 per square foot on residential buildings, $5 for commercial -- isn’t going to help fix the city’s housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just making it more expensive to build and charging that to those who are actually building more units is really counterintuitive,\" Galperin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"wTkEdwfW3Bj9wN18Qmn4bt32N0gtZA8J\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the fee would not generate enough money to help the low-income households who could use the affordable housing. His office estimates that more than 90 percent of low-income households in L.A. live in market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office has tried to address concerns about the fee's impact on the cost of development by exempting smaller buildings, such as homes under 1,500 square feet, buildings with five units or less and second homes in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter said developers also have the option to include a certain amount of affordable housing in their project rather than paying the fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal will go before the council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee, led by Councilman Jose Huizar, before a vote by the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement from Huizar's office, the councilman said he \"looks forward to a robust discussion\" on the new fee and that his goal is to hear it \"as part of a comprehensive affordable housing discussion related to land-use issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galperin said another initiative by the mayor and the council mentioned in Garcetti's State of the City speech will boost housing production in a way a new fee can't. The mayor reiterated a plan to update the city's planning documents, many of them decades-old, which Galperin said will streamline the approval process for projects.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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