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That's creating instability in our schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these programs that cities are pressing have yet to significantly move the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So far, few local initiatives have been able to make a major dent in the problem,\" says Stockton Williams, a housing expert with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://uli.org/\">Urban Land Institute\u003c/a>. The biggest changes cities can make, he says, are \"removing or alleviating local obstacles to more development. This means everything from more flexible zoning, more efficient entitlements and more outreach to neighborhoods that resist more development.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, Tara Hunt says she knows some parents are sympathetic. But she's not sure they really get it. Many are in a different tax bracket and, at times she says it feels like they're in a different world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Steve Jobs' kids went through this school. We have some pretty high-profile parents. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's normal for millennials to still live at home these days. But what if you're a millennial who doesn't have a home to go back to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Alkeisha Porter says, she didn't like her mom's husband, and her dad had a drug problem. So at 16, she moved out and became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was basically just house-hopping from friends to some family members. Hey, it was comfortable to me. It wasn't cold. I wasn't sleeping outside,\" says Porter, now 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people — 18- to 24-year-olds — make up one of the \u003ca href=\"http://homeless.samhsa.gov/Channel/Youth-31.aspx\">fastest-growing homeless populations in the country\u003c/a>. 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The group declined the offer, the statement said, at which point Schaaf left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Leslie, the Oakland Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, said in a statement later that the protest had disrupted a meeting focused on helping city residents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today the Oakland Chamber of Commerce had no choice but to cancel its long-planned annual Economic Summit after it was disrupted by an action of activists protesting an unrelated topic. Local business, nonprofit and community leaders were eager to hear from speakers like Denis Ring, Founder of OCHO Chocolate who is committed to sustainable business manufacturing and creating jobs for West Oaklanders. Representatives from Goodwill Industries were also present and eager to engage in a dialogue about growing jobs in Oakland. Attendees were unable to hear about the work that the Chamber and business community are doing to ensure that our residents are prepared for college and careers right here. While the protestors chose to deny participants the opportunity to learn about some of the great work being done, The Chamber and its partners in the public and private sector will continue their efforts to build a thriving Oakland. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One specific target of the protesters' anger was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/16/despite-protest-oakland-city-council-oks-talks-with-developer-for-lake-merritt-site\" target=\"_blank\">the City Council's tentative approval\u003c/a> earlier this week of a 360-unit housing development on a city-owned parcel on East 12th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DevikaAtPAN/status/710846428843642880\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That development would contain 108 \"affordable\" units -- priced for those earning between 30 percent and 120 percent of the area's median income -- with the remainder of the project being comprised of market-rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community activists have criticized the approved development as a luxury project that will accelerate displacement in the city. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Andrew’s Plaza isn’t big enough to even be officially called a park. Still, this small sliver of asphalt in West Oakland has become yet another contested space -- a flashpoint over gentrification. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neighborhood parks and public spaces are usually representative of the people who live nearby. But what happens when the neighborhoods themselves are in transition? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this month, the city began to fence off the plaza, \u003cspan class=\"st\">at 32nd Street and San Pablo Avenue,\u003c/span> which had long become a gathering point for homeless and low-income locals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Johnson says that he hangs out in the park playing chess and listening to music.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gather and tell jokes and laugh with each other. It’s very real at this park. It’s a lot of real people with no disguises,” he says. “We come here to share the love for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But others say the park is a hot spot for fights, public intoxication and drug activity. It’s not the first time the city has fenced off St. Andrew’s Plaza. The city erected a fence in 2014, but it didn’t last long. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27179396/protester-tear-down-fences-at-oakland-plazas-slated\" target=\"_blank\">Some local residents tore it down\u003c/a> and the city backed off. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that reprieve for the plaza won’t happen this time. The temporary fence around the park will be replaced by a permanent one, and there will be a complete renovation of the plaza as a green public space. The city has a $456,275 grant to make that happen, and it has been soliciting public input at a series of community meetings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics of the city say those meetings have left one important part of the community out -- people like Johnson, who use the park day in and day out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-gentrification activists like \u003ca href=\"http://www.tinygraygarcia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Gray-Garcia\u003c/a>, who goes by the name Tiny, say this is less about renovation and more about exclusion, a thinly veiled attempt to push out poor Oaklanders of color from one of the few remaining spaces they can claim as their own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tiny, along with other activists from \u003ca href=\"http://www.poormagazine.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Poor Magazine\u003c/a>, say they did their own research on people in the park -- what they call “wesearch” -- asking them what they wanted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a rally, Tiny and other activists set up a folding table, handing out cups of warm coffee, oranges and slices of pizza. A smattering of people, including some journalists and activists, gathered, while some park regulars came for the pizza and then watched from a short distance, standing across the street. An Oakland police car pulled up about half a block away, and then the officer got out and circled the park. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We want it to stay the same.” Tiny says. “We want to be able to stay in our neighborhood, sitting and convening.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tiny and others believe fencing off the plaza has less to do with community improvement and more to do with changing just who gets to gather under the umbrella of community. “The reality is racist, classist stereotypes are said about poor people when we sit in public, when we stand in public and when we be in public,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10896778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A community meeting to plan the resdesign of St. Andrew's Plaza in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community meeting to plan the redesign of St. Andrew's Plaza in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days later and less than two blocks away from the plaza, a different group of community members gathered to talk about the future of St. Andrew’s Plaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the auditorium of the West Oakland Youth Center, about 40 local residents discussed how to renovate the park. One point of discussion was a fence that would surround the plaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There had been an overwhelming response at a previous meeting that a fence was necessary to protect the park as a safe public space. City officials told the crowd that a community member would hold the keys to the park -- opening the gates in the morning and shutting them at night. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some in the crowd wondered what that would mean. Would one person have the power to decide who could gain entry to the park? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">City Council member Lynette Gibson McElhaney, whose West Oakland district includes St. Andrew's Plaza, told the group that it would be more about making sure the plaza wouldn’t become a dumping ground for trash and waste, as it had been in the past.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “The idea,” she says, “isn’t to keep people out, it’s to make it inclusive for all.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others wondered if a wrought-iron fence would create a prisonlike feel, or if it would visually break up the vision of a welcoming open space. Among most in the room, the fence was considered necessary, but the crowd offered suggestions on how to make it less foreboding. Perhaps it doesn’t need to be black, one resident said -- perhaps it could be green. Several residents suggested some kind of art to make the fence less, well, fencelike. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The room was not filled with just newcomers to the neighborhood. Renia Webb grew up in West Oakland and works for the nonprofit developer East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. (\u003ca href=\"http://ebaldc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">EBALDC\u003c/a>). For her this isn’t about gentrification. It’s a long overdue project that she believes will create a safe space for her children to enjoy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They are scared to even walk by that park,” Webb says. “It’s unfair that because of about 20-30 people, our whole community does not get to enjoy that beautiful space, and now it’s going to be a green space.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Webb looks forward to activities in the park, such as tai chi and art classes. “In a perfect society, can we have more communal spaces,” she says. “That’s the only way you are going to know your neighbor.” For Webb, the plan for the plaza is a way to create community in a changing neighborhood, not a way to push people out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hard to Reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was outreach to people who frequent the plaza in the month leading up to the first community meeting, including posted signs in the plaza and at the corner store, according to city spokeswoman Karen Boyd.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For several years the city has tried connecting people with the services they may need, but in some cases outreach workers have been threatened, she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We had those communications with the young men and women that were there, who were at a place where they could have those conversations, because some of them were not able to get out of their addictions,” says Brigitte Cook, a staff member in McElhaney’s office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past 12 months, there have been 239 police calls for service at the park, including calls related to drug dealing and assaults. The public works department has removed illegal dumping 140 times during that same time period, says Boyd.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Operation Dignity is the nonprofit that visits the plaza regularly to provide outreach to the homeless. Executive Director Tomika Perkins says helping this population comes down to a matter of resources. It can take months or years before people receive the services that they need because of the backlog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our primary barrier to stabilizing these clients are the long waiting lists ahead of them -- not just for general affordable housing, but particularly programs that provide supportive services for the mental health and substance abuse needs so conspicuously present at this site,” Perkins writes in an email.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some anti-gentrification activists agree that the park needs to be cleaned up, and acknowledge that the city did reach out to the people who frequent the park. Paul Blasenheim, with the group Economic Development without Displacement, critiques the way in which the city connected to the plaza’s population. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city, he says, focused on services, including holding a social service fair. But he says when he asked the city if the architects running the redesign process would be at the fair, “they looked at us like we were crazy -- they were like, no, of course they wouldn’t be there.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blasenheim says this sends a clear message. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Folks who are in the park get 'served' -- quote unquote -- with services, but nobody actually asks them what real vision they have,\" he says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blasenheim says that’s a shame.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “Folks who are poor know how to hustle, and that hustle is really brilliance, that just doesn’t get recognized by the powers that be,” he says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether or not the renovation of St. Andrew's Plaza is a sign of gentrification or a community coming together to clean up their neighborhood may be up for debate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But there is one thing both sides agree on. The realities of gentrification -- skyrocketing rents, evictions and displacement -- are pushing more and more people to the margins and making it harder and harder for the city to serve their growing needs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But others say the park is a hot spot for fights, public intoxication and drug activity. It’s not the first time the city has fenced off St. Andrew’s Plaza. The city erected a fence in 2014, but it didn’t last long. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27179396/protester-tear-down-fences-at-oakland-plazas-slated\" target=\"_blank\">Some local residents tore it down\u003c/a> and the city backed off. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that reprieve for the plaza won’t happen this time. The temporary fence around the park will be replaced by a permanent one, and there will be a complete renovation of the plaza as a green public space. The city has a $456,275 grant to make that happen, and it has been soliciting public input at a series of community meetings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics of the city say those meetings have left one important part of the community out -- people like Johnson, who use the park day in and day out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-gentrification activists like \u003ca href=\"http://www.tinygraygarcia.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Gray-Garcia\u003c/a>, who goes by the name Tiny, say this is less about renovation and more about exclusion, a thinly veiled attempt to push out poor Oaklanders of color from one of the few remaining spaces they can claim as their own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tiny, along with other activists from \u003ca href=\"http://www.poormagazine.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Poor Magazine\u003c/a>, say they did their own research on people in the park -- what they call “wesearch” -- asking them what they wanted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a rally, Tiny and other activists set up a folding table, handing out cups of warm coffee, oranges and slices of pizza. A smattering of people, including some journalists and activists, gathered, while some park regulars came for the pizza and then watched from a short distance, standing across the street. An Oakland police car pulled up about half a block away, and then the officer got out and circled the park. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We want it to stay the same.” Tiny says. “We want to be able to stay in our neighborhood, sitting and convening.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tiny and others believe fencing off the plaza has less to do with community improvement and more to do with changing just who gets to gather under the umbrella of community. “The reality is racist, classist stereotypes are said about poor people when we sit in public, when we stand in public and when we be in public,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10896778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A community meeting to plan the resdesign of St. Andrew's Plaza in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1647.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community meeting to plan the redesign of St. Andrew's Plaza in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days later and less than two blocks away from the plaza, a different group of community members gathered to talk about the future of St. Andrew’s Plaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the auditorium of the West Oakland Youth Center, about 40 local residents discussed how to renovate the park. One point of discussion was a fence that would surround the plaza. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There had been an overwhelming response at a previous meeting that a fence was necessary to protect the park as a safe public space. City officials told the crowd that a community member would hold the keys to the park -- opening the gates in the morning and shutting them at night. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some in the crowd wondered what that would mean. Would one person have the power to decide who could gain entry to the park? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">City Council member Lynette Gibson McElhaney, whose West Oakland district includes St. Andrew's Plaza, told the group that it would be more about making sure the plaza wouldn’t become a dumping ground for trash and waste, as it had been in the past.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “The idea,” she says, “isn’t to keep people out, it’s to make it inclusive for all.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others wondered if a wrought-iron fence would create a prisonlike feel, or if it would visually break up the vision of a welcoming open space. Among most in the room, the fence was considered necessary, but the crowd offered suggestions on how to make it less foreboding. Perhaps it doesn’t need to be black, one resident said -- perhaps it could be green. Several residents suggested some kind of art to make the fence less, well, fencelike. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The room was not filled with just newcomers to the neighborhood. Renia Webb grew up in West Oakland and works for the nonprofit developer East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. (\u003ca href=\"http://ebaldc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">EBALDC\u003c/a>). For her this isn’t about gentrification. It’s a long overdue project that she believes will create a safe space for her children to enjoy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They are scared to even walk by that park,” Webb says. “It’s unfair that because of about 20-30 people, our whole community does not get to enjoy that beautiful space, and now it’s going to be a green space.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Webb looks forward to activities in the park, such as tai chi and art classes. “In a perfect society, can we have more communal spaces,” she says. “That’s the only way you are going to know your neighbor.” For Webb, the plan for the plaza is a way to create community in a changing neighborhood, not a way to push people out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hard to Reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was outreach to people who frequent the plaza in the month leading up to the first community meeting, including posted signs in the plaza and at the corner store, according to city spokeswoman Karen Boyd.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For several years the city has tried connecting people with the services they may need, but in some cases outreach workers have been threatened, she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We had those communications with the young men and women that were there, who were at a place where they could have those conversations, because some of them were not able to get out of their addictions,” says Brigitte Cook, a staff member in McElhaney’s office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past 12 months, there have been 239 police calls for service at the park, including calls related to drug dealing and assaults. The public works department has removed illegal dumping 140 times during that same time period, says Boyd.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Operation Dignity is the nonprofit that visits the plaza regularly to provide outreach to the homeless. Executive Director Tomika Perkins says helping this population comes down to a matter of resources. It can take months or years before people receive the services that they need because of the backlog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our primary barrier to stabilizing these clients are the long waiting lists ahead of them -- not just for general affordable housing, but particularly programs that provide supportive services for the mental health and substance abuse needs so conspicuously present at this site,” Perkins writes in an email.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some anti-gentrification activists agree that the park needs to be cleaned up, and acknowledge that the city did reach out to the people who frequent the park. Paul Blasenheim, with the group Economic Development without Displacement, critiques the way in which the city connected to the plaza’s population. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city, he says, focused on services, including holding a social service fair. But he says when he asked the city if the architects running the redesign process would be at the fair, “they looked at us like we were crazy -- they were like, no, of course they wouldn’t be there.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blasenheim says this sends a clear message. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Folks who are in the park get 'served' -- quote unquote -- with services, but nobody actually asks them what real vision they have,\" he says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blasenheim says that’s a shame.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “Folks who are poor know how to hustle, and that hustle is really brilliance, that just doesn’t get recognized by the powers that be,” he says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether or not the renovation of St. Andrew's Plaza is a sign of gentrification or a community coming together to clean up their neighborhood may be up for debate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tuesday night wasn't the first time that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/activists-take-over-oakland-city-council-meeting-prevent-vote-on-condo-project\">protesters stopped\u003c/a> an Oakland City Council meeting before a scheduled vote on whether to sell a piece of public land on East 12th Street to build market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, protesters halted the proceedings with chanting and music. Some members of the crowd chained themselves to the divider separating the council dais from the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252256936\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of shutting down the meeting, the protest merely led the City Council to move its session to a mayoral conference room, where discussion continued before the media and city staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property has become a battleground for Oakland residents who worry that the high cost of housing is forcing residents out and that local politicians are choosing development over its own residents -- an idea disputed by many council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the council's vote to pursue a 360-unit development that will include 108 affordable apartments was a compromise -- an attempt to meet community demands for affordable housing while clearing the way for a substantial new market-rate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RadioDevin/status/709942505664434176\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, the City Council was planning to grant approval of a plan to sell the East 12th Street parcel to developer UrbanCore for a tower of market-rate apartments. That vote was stopped by protesters who took over the council chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that meeting, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/07/06/breaking-news-oakland-city-attorney-said-luxury-tower-deal-is-illegal\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> reported that the city attorney was questioning whether the deal was legal under the state Surplus Lands Act, which requires local government to give affordable housing developers the first crack at public parcels that are up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that disclosure, the city retracted the UrbanCore deal and opened up the bidding to new proposals that would include at least 25 percent of below-market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As outlined in a report from the city administrators office (\u003ca href=\"#oaklandreport\">embedded below\u003c/a>), three main proposals came out of that process:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A 132-unit development by Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, or SAHA. All units in the proposed seven-story building would be below market rate, priced for those earning between 30 percent and 100 percent of the area median income.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 364-unit development from Bridge Housing and AGI Avant. The 27-story tower would include 104 below-market-rate units for those earning between 30 and 120 percent of the area median income.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 360-unit, two-building project from UrbanCore and the East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., or EBALDC. The development would include a 26-story tower and an eight-story midrise; 90 of the development's 108 below-market-rate units would be located in the smaller building.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The size and the affordability of the project were not the only criteria city officials considered as they weighed the proposals. Also crucial was how much each developer would pay the city up front for the right to develop the East 12th Street parcel and how much of a subsidy they'd be seeking for developing the below-market rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff rated the UrbanCore/EBALDC proposal highest, citing the developer's offer of a high up-front payment of $4.7 million and low subsidy requirement -- $400,000. The SAHA plan, developed after a series of community meeting and called the \"\u003ca href=\"http://proposal.e12thoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Proposal\u003c/a>,\" offered the city $1 million to develop the property and would require $4.1 in subsidies for its below-market-rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the downside, staff noted that UrbanCore and EBALDC are proposing an outright purchase of the East 12th parcel. That would go against a City Council policy to lease rather than sell city land. The staff recommended making an exception to the city policy to allow the UrbanCore development to go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10897324\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10897324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Council members discuss the 12th Street parcel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council members discuss the 12th Street parcel. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During their discussion of the issue Tuesday night, council members expressed strong support for the UrbanCore proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot build a wall around Oakland,\" said Councilman Abel Guillen, representing the district that includes the East 12th Street parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillen said despite fears that market-rate development at the site will fuel gentrification in the Eastlake neighborhood, the UrbanCore development includes housing for a wide range of incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Oakland Councilman Dan Kalb, acknowledging the addition of affordable housing to all the proposals, said moving forward with any one of the three would allow him to sleep soundly,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not perfect, but it's good,\" says Kalb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council President Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who represents West Oakland, joined the meeting by teleconference and said the proposal will preserve the neighborhood's mix of higher- and lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see that this project will continue in the name of diversity,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Annie Campbell Washington, whose district stretches from the edge of the Fruitvale through the Oakland Hills, said the UrbanCore plan combines a good range of affordability and high density -- a plus for a site near public transit such as the Lake Merritt BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is clearly the deal that makes sense for the city,\" says Campbell Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only dissenting voice came from Fruitvale Councilman Noel Gallo, who said he's concerned that the city is still in violation of the state Surplus Lands Act and he believes the city has an obligation to provide as many affordable housing units as it can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10897325\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10897325\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters wait outside the city conference room where the council voted 6-1 in favor of a developer group that many residents oppose. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters wait outside the city conference room where the council voted 6-1 in favor of a developer group that many residents oppose. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I still believe that any public land that's owned by the city, that's owned by the citizens should remain with the public,\" Gallo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted 6-1 -- with Gallo the lone \"no\" vote -- to enter into a six-month exclusive negotiating period with UrbanCore/EBALDC. 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All units in the proposed seven-story building would be below market rate, priced for those earning between 30 percent and 100 percent of the area median income.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 364-unit development from Bridge Housing and AGI Avant. The 27-story tower would include 104 below-market-rate units for those earning between 30 and 120 percent of the area median income.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 360-unit, two-building project from UrbanCore and the East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., or EBALDC. The development would include a 26-story tower and an eight-story midrise; 90 of the development's 108 below-market-rate units would be located in the smaller building.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The size and the affordability of the project were not the only criteria city officials considered as they weighed the proposals. Also crucial was how much each developer would pay the city up front for the right to develop the East 12th Street parcel and how much of a subsidy they'd be seeking for developing the below-market rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff rated the UrbanCore/EBALDC proposal highest, citing the developer's offer of a high up-front payment of $4.7 million and low subsidy requirement -- $400,000. The SAHA plan, developed after a series of community meeting and called the \"\u003ca href=\"http://proposal.e12thoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Proposal\u003c/a>,\" offered the city $1 million to develop the property and would require $4.1 in subsidies for its below-market-rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the downside, staff noted that UrbanCore and EBALDC are proposing an outright purchase of the East 12th parcel. That would go against a City Council policy to lease rather than sell city land. The staff recommended making an exception to the city policy to allow the UrbanCore development to go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10897324\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10897324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland City Council members discuss the 12th Street parcel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1516-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council members discuss the 12th Street parcel. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During their discussion of the issue Tuesday night, council members expressed strong support for the UrbanCore proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot build a wall around Oakland,\" said Councilman Abel Guillen, representing the district that includes the East 12th Street parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillen said despite fears that market-rate development at the site will fuel gentrification in the Eastlake neighborhood, the UrbanCore development includes housing for a wide range of incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Oakland Councilman Dan Kalb, acknowledging the addition of affordable housing to all the proposals, said moving forward with any one of the three would allow him to sleep soundly,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not perfect, but it's good,\" says Kalb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council President Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who represents West Oakland, joined the meeting by teleconference and said the proposal will preserve the neighborhood's mix of higher- and lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see that this project will continue in the name of diversity,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Annie Campbell Washington, whose district stretches from the edge of the Fruitvale through the Oakland Hills, said the UrbanCore plan combines a good range of affordability and high density -- a plus for a site near public transit such as the Lake Merritt BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is clearly the deal that makes sense for the city,\" says Campbell Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only dissenting voice came from Fruitvale Councilman Noel Gallo, who said he's concerned that the city is still in violation of the state Surplus Lands Act and he believes the city has an obligation to provide as many affordable housing units as it can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10897325\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10897325\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters wait outside the city conference room where the council voted 6-1 in favor of a developer group that many residents oppose. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1518-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters wait outside the city conference room where the council voted 6-1 in favor of a developer group that many residents oppose. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I still believe that any public land that's owned by the city, that's owned by the citizens should remain with the public,\" Gallo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted 6-1 -- with Gallo the lone \"no\" vote -- to enter into a six-month exclusive negotiating period with UrbanCore/EBALDC. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=10&clip_id=24875&autostart=0&embed=1\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, David Campos, who represents the Mission District on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, issued \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/08/mission-district-supervisor-calls-for-s-f-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\">a widely publicized call\u003c/a> for a state of emergency to help the city deal with homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos used the word \"crisis\" to describe the situation, which in recent month has been characterized by growing tent encampments in the Mission, South of Market and other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That word -- \"crisis\" -- apparently hit a nerve with Mayor Ed Lee, who was due to make his monthly \"question time\" appearance at the beginning of Tuesday's Board of Supes meeting. Without naming names, he upbraided whoever it was had used the word \"crisis\" for spouting rhetoric without providing solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then noted the manifold actions of his own administration to address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the accomplishments he pointed to was \"helping hundreds of homeless people out of a public health emergency on Division Street and into shelter without having to make a single arrest.\" (Ours is not to quibble, but as the mayor must know, \"shelter\" for many of those hundreds consists of tents they've moved to streets near Division.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In answer to Campos' principal criticism -- that the city is moving too slowly to open new \"navigation centers\" to provide services and housing -- Lee said progress is being made on two more centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's remarks, which also seem to suggest that the main difference between him and his critics is their stance over the use of heroin and methamphetamine in city-run shelters, begin at the 2-minute mark of the video above. The full transcript is below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Good afternoon, supervisors and also to the members of the public that are here. I didn't receive any questions this month, but I'm going to take the opportunity to address our city's response to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that early today there was a media event calling homelessness a quote \"crisis.\" That event did not offer any solutions. No new philanthropic partnerships. No new sites for navigation centers and no path forward. But it did offer rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my years of public service, supervisors, I've never governed in search of headlines. I do believe in real results, and I know that those who are homeless also count on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in December 3 of last year, I too, said homelessness had reached a crisis point, but my response included substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Substance like 522 new units of permanent supportive housing in the last seven months. Expanding the national shelter model my administration created, the navigation center. Ending chronic homelessness for veterans. A new 180-bed shelter at Pier 80. El Niño shelters to cover for 700 people, thanks to the collaboration and cooperation of our Interfaith Council. Helping hundreds of homeless people out of a public health emergency on Division Street and into shelter without having to make a single arrest. Twenty million dollars for a new bond funding for homeless shelters. Creating a new coordinated homeless department. A billion-dollar funding commitment with a goal of subsidizing 8,000 homeless people by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've held several meetings with HUD Secretary Julian Castro and President Obama's homelessness director. And last month, I led a West Coast mayors funding effort to get more resources to solve homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much we agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I believe we have a vigorous disagreement over allowing people to inject heroin and meth to literally destroy their bodies and their minds in a city-funded shelter as some have proposed. We should instead focus on expanding successful residential drug treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, we need to build more navigation centers, and I share the frustration of those are critical of how long our efforts are taking to bear fruit. But anger does not help -- cooperation does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to those who are actually interested in cooperating, genuinely willing to work together, we have a great opportunity. In the six months since I've announced plans to double our navigation centers, I have received very cooperative responses from about four supervisors. You know who you are, and I want to thank you. 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"content": "\u003cp>Kokavulu Lumukanda is a history buff who likes chatting about how his family moved to Oakland from Texas during the first half of the 20th century. First it was his aunt in the ’30s, then his uncle in the ’40s. Lumukanda moved from Dallas to Oakland in 1968 when he was 21 and eventually found himself living in West Oakland — a part of the city that has felt a lot of pressure from gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that his family has roots in Oakland, he takes personally the displacement of the city’s African-American population — which has dropped 10 percent in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t found a place I can really call home yet in this American wilderness,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250047618″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumukanda, 68, raised his children in a West Oakland home with the help of housing vouchers and had to leave when his landlord died and the property was sold. Last summer, he moved into the historic California Hotel, an affordable housing building near the Emeryville border. He doesn’t want to leave the neighborhood, a place where he was politically active many years ago, but it’s likely a “foregone conclusion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883888\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10883888 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kukavulu Lumakanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he's already lost his battle with gentrification.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kukavulu Lumukanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he’s already lost his battle with gentrification. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland talks about keeping longtime residents from moving away, but the city is struggling to find ways to make that happen. The nonprofit in charge of the California Hotel recently bought the vacant lot next door to build more affordable housing, and has been trying to re-engineer the larger neighborhood — a part of town that hasn’t seen the heavy investment and new development going on elsewhere — with the help of numerous partners and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Hotel is an anchor in the corridor that runs along San Pablo Avenue from Emeryville toward downtown. The hotel was once \u003cem>the\u003c/em> place for African-American musicians and entertainers in the ’50s and ’60s, like \u003ca href=\"http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/88000969.pdf\">Ray Charles and Richard Pryor\u003c/a>. It now serves 149 residents in 137 units through Section 8 housing subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. bought and renovated the hotel in 2012 (it has been used for affordable housing for decades) after its previous owners let it fall into disrepair. The California Hotel now has case managers on hand and psych services, a computer lab and a community garden. Plus , residents in the building can hear live music every third Friday in the hotel lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s what these people need. They need the whole package. Not just one piece of it,” says resident Raymond Maurice Edwards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look out the window and you walk down the street and you see 20 needles and things like that, that’s not a conducive environment to do constructive things,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards, 48, has noticed dramatic changes in West Oakland, such as new residents. But he hasn’t seen many of the benefits to his neighborhood that are often brought on when big money moves in. That’s why he applauds EBALDC’s commitment to work with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Charise Fong points out mounds of fresh dirt and new plants on the San Pablo Avenue median. She says that last summer her organization held a series of community meetings during which it received input from residents and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10884130\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10884130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. Improving the street median was one project that came from those meetings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. Improving the street median was one project that came from those meetings. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The residents came together with a design team to think about what are some quick guerrilla-style projects that they could turn around and beautify,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Kidd, co-chair of West Oakland Neighbors, attended a couple of these meetings and was part of the team that helped improve the median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was actually more volunteers than there were tools,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd says that EBALDC coming to the neighborhood and buying up the California Hotel was a game changer, but he doesn’t think the hotel alone is enough to prevent market forces and private development from having a larger impact, as it has in other areas of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adjacent to the hotel is the vacant lot where EBALDC plans to build about 55 new low-income apartments, many of which will be for families, Fong says. In the meantime, a $1 million grant from the San Francisco Foundation will help pay for programs and “pop-up” events on the site, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10852375\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10852375 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation bought the lot adjacent to the hotel and will build more affordable housing on the site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. bought the lot adjacent to the hotel and will build more affordable housing on the site. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re actually going to turn that into a temporary community gathering space,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a place where EBALDC can experiment, Fong says, including having pop-up markets where residents can try out small business ideas. There may be a performance space with a temporary stage when the weather gets nicer, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Events will coincide with First Fridays, which are held on Telegraph Avenue, and will have general themes, like the arts or education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBALDC is also helping lead a larger neighborhood initiative through a partnership called the San Pablo Area Revitalization Collaborative (SPARC), which focuses on improving the health, economy and safety of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is a groundswell frankly in the country — certainly in the Bay Area because of all the pressures on people, particularly in low-income communities — to bring everybody on board to figure it out,” says Fong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the SPARC collaborative includes other nonprofits and public agencies chipping in to provide services. For example, every week Heather Smith serves food in the lobby and sets up a makeshift health care clinic where hotel residents can come and get blood pressure readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can get information here, and we sit down and build relationships and trust in the community,” says Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Most affordable housing developments have residential services on-site, but this is resident services times 10, says Amber Lamason, EBALDC’s neighborhood and economic development manager.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBALDC, which has been around since the 1970s, is known mostly for affordable housing. The group was able to pull together to raise the $40 million to renovate the California Hotel apartments. Now the nonprofit will take the next couple of years to raise between $25 million to $30 million to pay for the new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumukanda says what EBALDC is trying to do is good. But he recognizes that everyone who wants to see this part of West Oakland improve for the people who live there now is up against a city grappling with rapid change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need two or three more California Hotel-size residential places,” says Lumukanda. “It’s as though these economic pressures will overtake us and our memory of what had gone before will pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this experiment works, it may represent one of the few models of how an Oakland neighborhood was able to grow from the ground up.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Kokavulu Lumukanda is a history buff who likes chatting about how his family moved to Oakland from Texas during the first half of the 20th century. First it was his aunt in the ’30s, then his uncle in the ’40s. Lumukanda moved from Dallas to Oakland in 1968 when he was 21 and eventually found himself living in West Oakland — a part of the city that has felt a lot of pressure from gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that his family has roots in Oakland, he takes personally the displacement of the city’s African-American population — which has dropped 10 percent in the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t found a place I can really call home yet in this American wilderness,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='’166′'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250047618″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250047618″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumukanda, 68, raised his children in a West Oakland home with the help of housing vouchers and had to leave when his landlord died and the property was sold. Last summer, he moved into the historic California Hotel, an affordable housing building near the Emeryville border. He doesn’t want to leave the neighborhood, a place where he was politically active many years ago, but it’s likely a “foregone conclusion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883888\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10883888 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kukavulu Lumakanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he's already lost his battle with gentrification.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0868-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kukavulu Lumukanda, once politically active in West Oakland, says he’s already lost his battle with gentrification. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland talks about keeping longtime residents from moving away, but the city is struggling to find ways to make that happen. The nonprofit in charge of the California Hotel recently bought the vacant lot next door to build more affordable housing, and has been trying to re-engineer the larger neighborhood — a part of town that hasn’t seen the heavy investment and new development going on elsewhere — with the help of numerous partners and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Hotel is an anchor in the corridor that runs along San Pablo Avenue from Emeryville toward downtown. The hotel was once \u003cem>the\u003c/em> place for African-American musicians and entertainers in the ’50s and ’60s, like \u003ca href=\"http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/88000969.pdf\">Ray Charles and Richard Pryor\u003c/a>. It now serves 149 residents in 137 units through Section 8 housing subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. bought and renovated the hotel in 2012 (it has been used for affordable housing for decades) after its previous owners let it fall into disrepair. The California Hotel now has case managers on hand and psych services, a computer lab and a community garden. Plus , residents in the building can hear live music every third Friday in the hotel lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s what these people need. They need the whole package. Not just one piece of it,” says resident Raymond Maurice Edwards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look out the window and you walk down the street and you see 20 needles and things like that, that’s not a conducive environment to do constructive things,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards, 48, has noticed dramatic changes in West Oakland, such as new residents. But he hasn’t seen many of the benefits to his neighborhood that are often brought on when big money moves in. That’s why he applauds EBALDC’s commitment to work with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Charise Fong points out mounds of fresh dirt and new plants on the San Pablo Avenue median. She says that last summer her organization held a series of community meetings during which it received input from residents and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10884130\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10884130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. Improving the street median was one project that came from those meetings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1478.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EBALDC held community meetings last year and asked residents what type of quick turnaround projects they wanted to see. Improving the street median was one project that came from those meetings. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The residents came together with a design team to think about what are some quick guerrilla-style projects that they could turn around and beautify,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Kidd, co-chair of West Oakland Neighbors, attended a couple of these meetings and was part of the team that helped improve the median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was actually more volunteers than there were tools,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd says that EBALDC coming to the neighborhood and buying up the California Hotel was a game changer, but he doesn’t think the hotel alone is enough to prevent market forces and private development from having a larger impact, as it has in other areas of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adjacent to the hotel is the vacant lot where EBALDC plans to build about 55 new low-income apartments, many of which will be for families, Fong says. In the meantime, a $1 million grant from the San Francisco Foundation will help pay for programs and “pop-up” events on the site, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10852375\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10852375 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation bought the lot adjacent to the hotel and will build more affordable housing on the site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0873-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. bought the lot adjacent to the hotel and will build more affordable housing on the site. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re actually going to turn that into a temporary community gathering space,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a place where EBALDC can experiment, Fong says, including having pop-up markets where residents can try out small business ideas. There may be a performance space with a temporary stage when the weather gets nicer, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Events will coincide with First Fridays, which are held on Telegraph Avenue, and will have general themes, like the arts or education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBALDC is also helping lead a larger neighborhood initiative through a partnership called the San Pablo Area Revitalization Collaborative (SPARC), which focuses on improving the health, economy and safety of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is a groundswell frankly in the country — certainly in the Bay Area because of all the pressures on people, particularly in low-income communities — to bring everybody on board to figure it out,” says Fong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the SPARC collaborative includes other nonprofits and public agencies chipping in to provide services. For example, every week Heather Smith serves food in the lobby and sets up a makeshift health care clinic where hotel residents can come and get blood pressure readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can get information here, and we sit down and build relationships and trust in the community,” says Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Most affordable housing developments have residential services on-site, but this is resident services times 10, says Amber Lamason, EBALDC’s neighborhood and economic development manager.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBALDC, which has been around since the 1970s, is known mostly for affordable housing. The group was able to pull together to raise the $40 million to renovate the California Hotel apartments. Now the nonprofit will take the next couple of years to raise between $25 million to $30 million to pay for the new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lumukanda says what EBALDC is trying to do is good. 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"content": "\u003cp>Elvis Summers is not part of any nonprofit or government agency. He's just a 38-year-old guy with a mohawk and tattooed arms who started a GoFundMe campaign last spring so he could build tiny houses for homeless people to live in. He got the idea after befriending a homeless woman in his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just got to me, you know, I'm just like, you know, everybody in this neighborhood knows you, they like you,\" he says. \"Why does nobody give a crap that you're sleeping in the dirt? Literally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/469054634/469083227\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far Summer has given out 37 tiny 6- by-8-foot houses, which cost $1,200 each to build. They resemble sheds, painted in bright, solid colors, with solar panels on the roof, wheels to make them mobile and a portable camping toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recently, city sanitation workers confiscated three of the houses from a sidewalk in South Los Angeles and tagged others for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, these structures are a safety hazard,\" says Connie Llanos, a spokeswoman for L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti. \"These structures, some of the materials that were found in some of them, just the thought of folks having some of these things in a space so small, so confined, without the proper insulation, it really does put their lives in danger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Llanos says they'd be better off taking advantage of official resources like shelters or housing vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8nTcqwqdU4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest count, 44,000 people live on the streets in and around L.A. The city's sweep put some people back on the sidewalks, and since then Summers has been handing out tents instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Hadnot lost his tiny house when the city confiscated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About my house, you know, you know I had a peace of mind,\" he says. \"I could shut the door, go lay down, quiet. And that's what I miss a whole lot, man. I don't want to start crying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"pyxL9x4wLepdPRzLgGjuuNLa4vgkaLbE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone who understands that pain is Kevin Green, whose tiny house was tagged for removal. Before the city could take it, Summers moved it to the parking lot where it now stands, temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you're homeless, your day is consumed with, you know, that you don't have a place to store your things so you're walking around carrying all this stuff with you, you know, what can you get accomplished?\" asks Green, who lived on the streets of South L.A. for six months before he got this house around Christmas. His bed takes up most of his tiny blue house. Green is proud to have a roof over his head as he opens the door and steps inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have two windows, one on each side with blue curtains, thin enough to allow the breeze to come through,\" he says. \"You know, I keep my keys around a keychain that I hang around my neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But you know, it's a constant reminder with it around my neck that I have something that I can call mine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KCRW-FM. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcrw.com\">KCRW-FM\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">V\u003c/span>anessa Ladson has a pool, a hot tub and a laundry room. And on this particular day, a rainbow arcs over her five-bedroom home in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Sunday in December, she’s wearing a red top, hoop earrings and lipstick: Ladson is ready for church. It’s about 40 minutes away in East Oakland, where she used to live. But she doesn’t think too much about the distance between her home and Lily of the Valley Christian Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my family,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Sundays that Ladson gets into her blue Ford Focus, which she calls “Fiona,” and heads to Oakland. During the week, she wakes up at 4 a.m. to beat rush-hour traffic to downtown Oakland, where she works for the East Bay Municipal Utility District. If she’s running late and catches the worst of it, the commute could be two hours, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is awful getting up that early, but that is the price to pay,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249886579″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ladson loves Oakland. But after leaving in 2006 and bouncing around cities in the East Bay for a few years, she finally landed her own home in Antioch, a deal too good to pass up, says Ladson. Plus, she didn’t want her then-teenage son, Tyler Thompson, to be brought up in such a dangerous city, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson appreciates the house in Antioch. It almost makes it worth it, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you always have that thought in the back of your head, like, man, if I could, I would be down where everyone knows me,” says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though its been nearly a decade since he lived in Oakland, he still thinks of the city as home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>urrently, many Oakland residents are being forced to think about quality of life and how far their money can go as “The Town” sheds its reputation as an affordable alternative to San Francisco. Oakland has become \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2015/12/zumper-national-rent-report-december-2015/\">one of the fastest-growing renters’ markets\u003c/a>, and as prices rise there will continue to be displacement that leaves a bad impression on those who are choosing or are forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10851545 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Howard Kees has been an Oakland real estate agent for 25 years. He bought a cheaper home in East Oakland in the 80s so that he could pay for a better education for his children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Howard Kees has been an Oakland real estate agent for 25 years. He bought a cheaper home in East Oakland in the ’80s so that he could pay for a better education for his children. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like when you’re with somebody, and they’re not quite where they need to be. They have all this potential and they’re just bummin’,” says Denise Kees, a real estate agent from East Oakland. “Then they go off and they become successful and then they dump you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kees says Oakland has dumped plenty of longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city has lost nearly 10 percent of its African-American population, down from 113,833 in 2005 to 102,933 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hits home with Kees, whose best friend moved to Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I want to go see my best friend, I have to get on three or four freeways and drive for an hour,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s in many major cities, \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/pl-report-oak-housing-070715.pdf\">most residents in Oakland are renters\u003c/a> — more than 60 percent, according to the Census Bureau. But the majority of both renters and homeowners wouldn’t be able to afford a median-priced home in their communities, according to an analysis by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.urbanstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/USC_HousingEquityRoadmap_DataPacket_July2014.pdf\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a> in 2014 that looked at selected Oakland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees, Denise’s father, has been a real estate agent in Oakland for about 25 years. Before that, he coached youth basketball. Now some of his former players are settling down. They have good credit and stable jobs that provide steady income — just not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those same kids that I coached are coming back to me and saying, ‘Coach, I’m ready to buy a house. If coach could do it, so could I,'” he says. “And I hold my head down and say, ‘You don’t qualify.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees grew up in West Oakland at 20th and Wood streets and attended McClymonds High School. Now, “yuppies, buppies and hipsters” have moved into the neighborhood, he says. The last house he sold in West Oakland went for $600,000 and was “tore from the floor up” — a fixer-upper. There are two more homes he’s currently trying to broker in the neighborhood for more than $800,000 apiece, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that there are very few incentives for developers to build houses for residents with average incomes. State and federal tax incentives often support low-income housing developments, while private developers are able to make up costs of building more expensive housing by charging prices that more and more people are willing to pay to live in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers built no housing specifically for people making a “moderate” income between \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/files/RHNAProgress2007_2014_082815.pdf\">2007 and 2014\u003c/a>, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a surprise. I didn’t think it was zero,” says Michele Byrd, Oakland’s housing director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state Assembly bill introduced last year would have tried to extend certain housing subsidies statewide for middle-income residences. It failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, a Democrat from Richmond, is working \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/11/oakland-middle-income-bill-housing-bill-thurmond.html\">on legislation\u003c/a> that also targets more moderate income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently considering new housing policies, including a discussion about impact fees that would either require developers to build a certain percentage of affordable housing as part of their projects or charge developers a fee that would help pay for more affordable housing elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch has a different story. Between 2007 and 2014, the city surpassed its housing goals, set by the Association of Bay Area Governments. The bedroom community in eastern Contra Costa County has space to build and land is cheaper than in Oakland, says Forrest Ebbs, Antioch’s community development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can actually build moderately priced housing here and make a good profit on it,” Ebbs says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10883035\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10883035\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-800x450.png\" alt=\"Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder (2)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Average_Sale_Price_of_a_Single_Family_Home_Antioch_Oakland_chartbuilder-2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ver the last decade, Vanessa Ladson moved from Oakland to Hercules, then to Pittsburg and finally to Antioch in 2010 — jumping on a five-bedroom house that sold for $300,000. To her, leaving Oakland means she’s able to live in comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she misses her former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts her to think about the house on 105th Avenue in East Oakland where she grew up, she says. The home had roses along the walkway and carport. Plus, there’s the fish market she remembers, along with the local corner store and her favorite taco truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not eat a taco or burrito if I don’t go to \u003cem>that\u003c/em> truck,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some people, the idea of losing a local network isn’t just about losing a sense of community, says Richard Walker, an author and retired UC Berkeley professor. There is “enormous economic cost,” especially for more vulnerable populations like the elderly, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t get to their old doctor. They don’t know where to go. They’ve gotten lost and some of them literally die,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order for people to have a chance at staying in Oakland, there need to be stronger city policies and leadership to implement laws that will at least try to keep them here, Walker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Oakland Is Simmering\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether homes are available in East Oakland to the middle class, Howard and Denise Kees simultaneously say, “Yes!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Kees says she feels like Oakland is a relationship that's not going to last.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Kees says she feels like Oakland is a relationship that’s not going to last. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The historically working-class East Oakland neighborhood where Howard Kees lives near MacArthur Boulevard and 100th Avenue has below-average incomes, but most people own their homes, he says. The supply hasn’t changed, but prices have been elastic. In recent years, he’s seen homes in the neighborhood sell for less than $100,000 and for as high as $600,000, he says. The average price is around $300,000, about $100,000 less than the citywide average, says Kees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more is changing in the neighborhood than property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of black residents in Kees’ census tract dropped nearly 25 percent from 2009 to 2014, according to just-released census estimates. The white population has increased, and household income numbers are rising, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Denise Kees still calls her community “the ’hood” with affection, she is concerned that the demographic upheaval in Oakland neighborhoods will ultimately drain the city of its diversity — and force friends to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when people make that choice to leave, she says, “You can’t come back.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It almost makes it worth it, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you always have that thought in the back of your head, like, man, if I could, I would be down where everyone knows me,” says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though its been nearly a decade since he lived in Oakland, he still thinks of the city as home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>urrently, many Oakland residents are being forced to think about quality of life and how far their money can go as “The Town” sheds its reputation as an affordable alternative to San Francisco. Oakland has become \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2015/12/zumper-national-rent-report-december-2015/\">one of the fastest-growing renters’ markets\u003c/a>, and as prices rise there will continue to be displacement that leaves a bad impression on those who are choosing or are forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10851545 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0843-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Howard Kees has been an Oakland real estate agent for 25 years. 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He bought a cheaper home in East Oakland in the ’80s so that he could pay for a better education for his children. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like when you’re with somebody, and they’re not quite where they need to be. They have all this potential and they’re just bummin’,” says Denise Kees, a real estate agent from East Oakland. “Then they go off and they become successful and then they dump you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kees says Oakland has dumped plenty of longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city has lost nearly 10 percent of its African-American population, down from 113,833 in 2005 to 102,933 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hits home with Kees, whose best friend moved to Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I want to go see my best friend, I have to get on three or four freeways and drive for an hour,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s in many major cities, \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/pl-report-oak-housing-070715.pdf\">most residents in Oakland are renters\u003c/a> — more than 60 percent, according to the Census Bureau. But the majority of both renters and homeowners wouldn’t be able to afford a median-priced home in their communities, according to an analysis by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.urbanstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/USC_HousingEquityRoadmap_DataPacket_July2014.pdf\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a> in 2014 that looked at selected Oakland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees, Denise’s father, has been a real estate agent in Oakland for about 25 years. Before that, he coached youth basketball. Now some of his former players are settling down. They have good credit and stable jobs that provide steady income — just not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those same kids that I coached are coming back to me and saying, ‘Coach, I’m ready to buy a house. If coach could do it, so could I,'” he says. “And I hold my head down and say, ‘You don’t qualify.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Kees grew up in West Oakland at 20th and Wood streets and attended McClymonds High School. Now, “yuppies, buppies and hipsters” have moved into the neighborhood, he says. The last house he sold in West Oakland went for $600,000 and was “tore from the floor up” — a fixer-upper. There are two more homes he’s currently trying to broker in the neighborhood for more than $800,000 apiece, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that there are very few incentives for developers to build houses for residents with average incomes. State and federal tax incentives often support low-income housing developments, while private developers are able to make up costs of building more expensive housing by charging prices that more and more people are willing to pay to live in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers built no housing specifically for people making a “moderate” income between \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/files/RHNAProgress2007_2014_082815.pdf\">2007 and 2014\u003c/a>, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a surprise. 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Between 2007 and 2014, the city surpassed its housing goals, set by the Association of Bay Area Governments. 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To her, leaving Oakland means she’s able to live in comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she misses her former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts her to think about the house on 105th Avenue in East Oakland where she grew up, she says. The home had roses along the walkway and carport. Plus, there’s the fish market she remembers, along with the local corner store and her favorite taco truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not eat a taco or burrito if I don’t go to \u003cem>that\u003c/em> truck,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some people, the idea of losing a local network isn’t just about losing a sense of community, says Richard Walker, an author and retired UC Berkeley professor. There is “enormous economic cost,” especially for more vulnerable populations like the elderly, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t get to their old doctor. They don’t know where to go. They’ve gotten lost and some of them literally die,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order for people to have a chance at staying in Oakland, there need to be stronger city policies and leadership to implement laws that will at least try to keep them here, Walker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Oakland Is Simmering\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether homes are available in East Oakland to the middle class, Howard and Denise Kees simultaneously say, “Yes!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Kees says she feels like Oakland is a relationship that's not going to last.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0854-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Kees says she feels like Oakland is a relationship that’s not going to last. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The historically working-class East Oakland neighborhood where Howard Kees lives near MacArthur Boulevard and 100th Avenue has below-average incomes, but most people own their homes, he says. The supply hasn’t changed, but prices have been elastic. In recent years, he’s seen homes in the neighborhood sell for less than $100,000 and for as high as $600,000, he says. The average price is around $300,000, about $100,000 less than the citywide average, says Kees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more is changing in the neighborhood than property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of black residents in Kees’ census tract dropped nearly 25 percent from 2009 to 2014, according to just-released census estimates. The white population has increased, and household income numbers are rising, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Denise Kees still calls her community “the ’hood” with affection, she is concerned that the demographic upheaval in Oakland neighborhoods will ultimately drain the city of its diversity — and force friends to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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