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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 11:15 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his apartment complex, Ashburn Dancy can see the unique string of palm trees over his fence lining Ninth Avenue in Oakland’s Bella Vista neighborhood. The trees stand in the foreground of the city’s skyline, about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former boxer also has another view — a beige, boarded-up apartment complex that has been quietly vacant for nearly a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a waste, man,” Dancy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some in Bella Vista, the building has been an eyesore. They remember that it failed when it was public housing for low-income families. Others have become so used to the building that they say it has just become part of the neighborhood’s backdrop. Now the owners want to reopen it and make some units affordable, though there’s no guarantee this will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bella Vista, which is southeast of Lake Merritt and close to Highland Hospital, is the type of neighborhood the city talks about preserving. It’s working class, the average family income is below average for the region and it’s diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Down over here, it’s mixed up pretty good,” says Dancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761967\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10761967 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0656\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashburn Dancy says he would like the 2530 Ninth Ave. building to become homes for low-income families who are ‘going to stick around.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Bella Vista is not immune to the gentrification happening in Oakland — a city trying to write its own narrative in the shadow of San Francisco, which has an uncontrollable housing market that has been defined by money and tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has heightened many residents’ \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/activists-take-over-oakland-city-council-meeting-prevent-vote-on-condo-project\">sensitivity toward housing development in Oakland\u003c/a>, and people are taking notice when property is being bought and sold. The building at 2530 Ninth Ave. has just 15 family units. It’s not going to fix the city’s housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Ninth Avenue property is a microcosm of the kinds of decisions and reactions that occur when people are getting priced out and market forces take hold. Its owners say it likely can’t reopen as housing for low-income families because it’s not sustainable — and many Bella Vista neighbors seem to understand. The next question is who will live in these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big old complex. It has all those rooms and stuff,” says Dancy. “Why is it closed down anyway?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why the Building Closed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment house was built in the late 1970s to serve 15 low-income families. The Oakland Housing Authority was in charge of the complex, but OHA couldn’t maintain the property because it was being underfunded by the federal government, says Executive Director Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the building deteriorated and was vacated by the end of 2005, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the Oakland Housing Authority submitted a request to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to allow it to sell the property to an affiliated nonprofit that OHA had created, which also contracts with HUD. That request was approved and the property was sold for the appraised value of $1.2 million in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also serves as CEO of the nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahi-oakland.org/\">California Affordable Housing Initiatives\u003c/a>, or CAHI. He says that CAHI’s purchase of the Ninth Avenue property kept it in the hands of people who want to preserve affordable housing. But it has been tough to put a deal together, and when the recession hit there wasn’t a lot of building going on, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that there’s a lot of demand for affordable housing at all income levels, CAHI wants to fill the “workforce” housing niche, Johnson says. Workforce housing is for people with moderate income, such as teachers, who are also being priced out of Oakland, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ninth Avenue property in Bella Vista is the group’s first attempt to make this work, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Building Affordable Housing Is a Challenge Even With Owned Land\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. Jerry Brown cut redevelopment funding in 2012, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/24/redevelopment-hurt-affordable-housing/\">affordable housing developers have had to scramble\u003c/a> to piece together money to see projects through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the larger affordable housing developers are working on projects that include dozens of units, says Johnson. The Ninth Avenue building has only 15 units, with the potential to add just a few more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is nobody wants to get invested in a 15-unit property,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAHI opened up a request for proposals to develop the property. Two of Oakland’s largest affordable housing developers, Bridge Housing and East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., confirmed that they did not submit an RFP application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI, unlike OHA, is not required to partner with or sell the land to an affordable housing developer. This allows CAHI to be more flexible and creative with how it funds and develops the Ninth Avenue building. But it could be sold to a market-rate developer, which happened earlier this year with another, much smaller CAHI property nearby, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income from the sale will go toward CAHI’s mission to build or preserve affordable housing projects in the future, but it also could mean one less parcel available for affordable housing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors and housing activists have argued that any land where housing can be built is sacred land and should be used for affordable housing — especially land owned by an affordable housing nonprofit like CAHI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland really does need housing for our lowest-income residents,” says Amy Vanderwarker, co-founder of Eastlake United for Justice, which formed after the city tried selling a parcel of land on East 12th Street to a market-rate developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Activists shut down May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists shut down a May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Vanderwarker says it’s hard to find the funding to make any affordable housing project work, even for more moderate-income people, like CAHI wants to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of creative thinking,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge is that projects at that level don’t get federal tax credits that are aimed at housing for the lowest-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Johnson says that whoever develops the Ninth Avenue property needs to ensure its future maintenance. He points to the building’s deterioration when it was last used for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At Least One Option Would Keep the Land Affordable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, CAHI received four proposals to develop the property. Johnson says the nonprofit has chosen its finalist but won’t say who it is just yet. The decision will likely be announced by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the four proposals came from the \u003ca href=\"http://oakclt.org/about/people/\">Oakland Community Land Trust\u003c/a>, which purchases land to keep it affordable. So far, the trust has focused its efforts on developing 18 single-family homes around Oakland. The Ninth Avenue project would be its first venture into a larger-scale development, says Executive Director Steve King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past few years it has been increasingly difficult for us to compete in the single-family market,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land trust wants to turn the 15 units into a permanently affordable rental cooperative, King says. It would be similar to the tactic being used by other affordable housing developers in Oakland to purchase property in order to stabilize rents and housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essentially resident-controlled housing over community-controlled land,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King presented his plan to a group of Bella Vista neighbors, some of whom I spoke with and who say they support his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI gets to decide who leases or owns the Ninth Avenue property, and Johnson says his group rarely agrees to a deal where it gives up ownership of the land. A ground lease may be more likely, he says, in which the nonprofit maintains ownership of the land but a developer gets to build on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says CAHI wants a certain number of affordable units, but he can’t guarantee any number. It’s unlikely that it will be 100 percent housing for extremely low-income residents or high-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the building becomes, Ashburn Dancy says he wants families that are going to stick around. He comes from a military family and moved around a lot as a kid. It wasn’t good, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want some low-income families that are going to stay there for the duration,” he says. “Some young kids that are going to be there. Not somebody that’s going to go in and out, in and out. That messes up the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other neighbors agree. Whatever goes in, they want people who are going to be a part of this community — one that’s changing rapidly and that could look different soon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s working class, the average family income is below average for the region and it’s diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Down over here, it’s mixed up pretty good,” says Dancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761967\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10761967 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0656\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0656-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashburn Dancy says he would like the 2530 Ninth Ave. building to become homes for low-income families who are ‘going to stick around.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Bella Vista is not immune to the gentrification happening in Oakland — a city trying to write its own narrative in the shadow of San Francisco, which has an uncontrollable housing market that has been defined by money and tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has heightened many residents’ \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/activists-take-over-oakland-city-council-meeting-prevent-vote-on-condo-project\">sensitivity toward housing development in Oakland\u003c/a>, and people are taking notice when property is being bought and sold. The building at 2530 Ninth Ave. has just 15 family units. It’s not going to fix the city’s housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Ninth Avenue property is a microcosm of the kinds of decisions and reactions that occur when people are getting priced out and market forces take hold. Its owners say it likely can’t reopen as housing for low-income families because it’s not sustainable — and many Bella Vista neighbors seem to understand. The next question is who will live in these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big old complex. It has all those rooms and stuff,” says Dancy. “Why is it closed down anyway?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why the Building Closed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment house was built in the late 1970s to serve 15 low-income families. The Oakland Housing Authority was in charge of the complex, but OHA couldn’t maintain the property because it was being underfunded by the federal government, says Executive Director Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the building deteriorated and was vacated by the end of 2005, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the Oakland Housing Authority submitted a request to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to allow it to sell the property to an affiliated nonprofit that OHA had created, which also contracts with HUD. That request was approved and the property was sold for the appraised value of $1.2 million in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also serves as CEO of the nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahi-oakland.org/\">California Affordable Housing Initiatives\u003c/a>, or CAHI. He says that CAHI’s purchase of the Ninth Avenue property kept it in the hands of people who want to preserve affordable housing. But it has been tough to put a deal together, and when the recession hit there wasn’t a lot of building going on, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that there’s a lot of demand for affordable housing at all income levels, CAHI wants to fill the “workforce” housing niche, Johnson says. Workforce housing is for people with moderate income, such as teachers, who are also being priced out of Oakland, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ninth Avenue property in Bella Vista is the group’s first attempt to make this work, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Building Affordable Housing Is a Challenge Even With Owned Land\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. Jerry Brown cut redevelopment funding in 2012, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/24/redevelopment-hurt-affordable-housing/\">affordable housing developers have had to scramble\u003c/a> to piece together money to see projects through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the larger affordable housing developers are working on projects that include dozens of units, says Johnson. The Ninth Avenue building has only 15 units, with the potential to add just a few more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is nobody wants to get invested in a 15-unit property,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAHI opened up a request for proposals to develop the property. Two of Oakland’s largest affordable housing developers, Bridge Housing and East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., confirmed that they did not submit an RFP application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI, unlike OHA, is not required to partner with or sell the land to an affordable housing developer. This allows CAHI to be more flexible and creative with how it funds and develops the Ninth Avenue building. But it could be sold to a market-rate developer, which happened earlier this year with another, much smaller CAHI property nearby, Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Income from the sale will go toward CAHI’s mission to build or preserve affordable housing projects in the future, but it also could mean one less parcel available for affordable housing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some neighbors and housing activists have argued that any land where housing can be built is sacred land and should be used for affordable housing — especially land owned by an affordable housing nonprofit like CAHI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland really does need housing for our lowest-income residents,” says Amy Vanderwarker, co-founder of Eastlake United for Justice, which formed after the city tried selling a parcel of land on East 12th Street to a market-rate developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762592\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Activists shut down May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS15092_IMG_0388.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists shut down a May 5 Oakland City Council meeting to protest development of a market-rate tower near Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Vanderwarker says it’s hard to find the funding to make any affordable housing project work, even for more moderate-income people, like CAHI wants to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of creative thinking,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge is that projects at that level don’t get federal tax credits that are aimed at housing for the lowest-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Johnson says that whoever develops the Ninth Avenue property needs to ensure its future maintenance. He points to the building’s deterioration when it was last used for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At Least One Option Would Keep the Land Affordable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, CAHI received four proposals to develop the property. Johnson says the nonprofit has chosen its finalist but won’t say who it is just yet. The decision will likely be announced by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the four proposals came from the \u003ca href=\"http://oakclt.org/about/people/\">Oakland Community Land Trust\u003c/a>, which purchases land to keep it affordable. So far, the trust has focused its efforts on developing 18 single-family homes around Oakland. The Ninth Avenue project would be its first venture into a larger-scale development, says Executive Director Steve King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past few years it has been increasingly difficult for us to compete in the single-family market,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land trust wants to turn the 15 units into a permanently affordable rental cooperative, King says. It would be similar to the tactic being used by other affordable housing developers in Oakland to purchase property in order to stabilize rents and housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essentially resident-controlled housing over community-controlled land,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King presented his plan to a group of Bella Vista neighbors, some of whom I spoke with and who say they support his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAHI gets to decide who leases or owns the Ninth Avenue property, and Johnson says his group rarely agrees to a deal where it gives up ownership of the land. A ground lease may be more likely, he says, in which the nonprofit maintains ownership of the land but a developer gets to build on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says CAHI wants a certain number of affordable units, but he can’t guarantee any number. It’s unlikely that it will be 100 percent housing for extremely low-income residents or high-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the building becomes, Ashburn Dancy says he wants families that are going to stick around. He comes from a military family and moved around a lot as a kid. It wasn’t good, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want some low-income families that are going to stay there for the duration,” he says. “Some young kids that are going to be there. Not somebody that’s going to go in and out, in and out. That messes up the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Marvin Jordan is a father, has gold in his teeth, wears a Raiders cap and is left-handed when he writes this note, which begins:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“To Whom It May Concern: My name is Marvin Jordan Sr. I’m a 54-year-old homeless man raising a three-year-old and looking for housing.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He slips the note through a small crack in the window of a work truck, which sits outside an apartment building in Berkeley. Through a window, Jordan can tell one apartment is empty except for a few tools that signal to him the room hasn’t been rented out yet. Jordan tells me he’d rather be taking his son, Marvin Jr., to the park instead of walking around the East Bay looking for a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan has been searching for housing since May, after being jailed for a DUI, completing an alcohol abuse program through Highland Hospital and then receiving a housing voucher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt relieved at the time,” he says. “But I didn’t know the battle was just really beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10760416 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Jordan says he wants landlords to know the adversity and challenges in life that he's had to overcome. He thinks that may convince someone who empathizes with his situation, he says.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jordan is among the hundreds of Section 8 and other voucher holders who are having a hard time finding housing in the East Bay. Housing agencies here report fewer landlords participating in these voluntary programs because the private market is providing a bigger return. For some, this has caused longer search periods; others are forced to find different options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most nights, Jordan sleeps next to Junior on a twin bed at his sister’s house in Richmond. When Jordan is not sleeping there, he’s riding trains or buses all night. He received joint custody of Junior, and right now he says Junior is his top priority. But not having a place to call home makes it tough to be a good father, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Just Out of Reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first started searching for housing, Jordan was running into common problems that many apartment hunters experience. There was fierce competition at open houses from dozens of other applicants. Plus, there were fees just to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan’s voucher means that he will receive help for a two-bedroom apartment listed up to $1,585. He would pay 30 percent of his own monthly income, derived from Social Security Disability benefits tied to his peroneal nerve palsy, and the rest would be taken care of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These caps are known as fair market rent and are set annually by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which pays local housing authorities to administer the voucher program. But as the housing market has soared across the Bay Area, these caps haven't kept pace and are making it hard for people with vouchers to compete for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD recently announced it would allow East Bay housing authorities to increase rent caps. This means Jordan's current two-bedroom voucher, capped at $1,585, will increase to $1,952.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But HUD is not providing the authorities with any more money, which means each of the East Bay's eight local authorities has to decide whether to raise the caps but serve fewer people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760411\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10760411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The authorities from Contra Costa and Alameda counties have commissioned their own rent survey to challenge HUD's fair market rent, which they did successfully in 2013. HUD officials say they recognize that their agency is limited by using older data and that they look forward to what the rent survey will find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the department realizes that this is something we need to be looking at,” says Ophelia Basgal, regional director for HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD officials tell KQED the challenge by Alameda and Contra Costa county housing authorities will likely influence any fair market rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thousands Still on \u003c/strong>\u003cb>Wait Lists\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the question remains whether any changes will be enough to keep or attract landlords to Section 8 and other voucher programs. Voucher holders are taking more than three months to find a place on average, according to a letter sent by East Bay housing authorities to HUD in September. That’s longer than the 90-day period most vouchers are good for. Many voucher holders ask for extensions, while thousands of people in the region are on waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more vouchers to put on the street. We’re just waiting to put them on the street for the current people looking to be successful,” says Eric Johnson, executive director of the Oakland Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hand out all the vouchers available, it would flood the market and make it harder for people to find a place, he says. At any given time, around 200 people with Section 8 vouchers from OHA are looking for an apartment. OHA has to give out about 600 more vouchers, says Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voucher holders in Oakland are finding some success, though. In September around 110 families did find housing, Johnson says. But the same month, 120 landlords quit participating in the program, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landlords Dropping Out of Section 8 Across the East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, voucher holders are given a free report that lists available Section 8 housing. In 2012, that list averaged seven to 10 units at any given time. For the past 18 months, the city averages zero to one unit, according to Tia Ingram, executive director of Berkeley Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been extremely difficult to have 10 excited families in the room awaiting receipt of their voucher and have to advise, ‘Sorry there are no suitable units in the report’; best of luck in your search,” she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority of the County of Alameda (HACA), which does not represent Berkeley, Oakland, Livermore or the city of Alameda, has seen a 10 percent drop since 2012 in the number of landlords participating in the voucher program, according to Ron Dion, deputy director for programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more telling, Dion says, is the number of landlords participating in the voluntary online database where landlords and property management groups can list available units. In 2012, HACA averaged 58 available rental units on the first of each month, he says. Each year that number has dropped, and the average so far for 2015 is only seven per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Even With an Advocate It's Tough to Find a Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Wednesday in mid-October, Rachel Cole-Jansen, with Operation Dignity’s homeless outreach program, meets with Marvin Jordan. She helped him get his voucher earlier this year and has, at times, been his advocate -- even searching Craigslist and making calls to landlords on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's frustrated because the free website that lists available Section 8 housing doesn't update regularly. And too often she'll call and someone on the other end will say there's nothing available, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she does connect with a property manager it’s for an apartment in a neighborhood where Jordan doesn’t feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks with Section 8 vouchers are being concentrated in a lot of these neighborhoods,” says Cole-Jansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jordan says he’s getting desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's looking in areas where he initially refused to look. Still, nothing. He often calls Ryan Norris, with Marquardt Property Management, because Norris told Jordan once that you have to just keep calling, every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10760420 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"“To be honest I think Marvin is a rare case. He’s very polite so that makes [it] very easy to talk to him. He’s persistent in a good way.” - Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'To be honest I think Marvin is a rare case. He’s very polite so that makes [it] very easy to talk to him. He’s persistent in a good way,' says Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet Jordan one morning at his sister's apartment in Richmond. It’s dark -- Junior is still sleeping on a twin bed in the living room. Jordan begins making breakfast and slowly wakes up his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Junior is going house hunting with dad, which means everything will take a little longer and be a little more challenging. Jordan would rather be doing things that fathers do with their sons, like going to the park, he says. Instead he focuses on the smaller things he can do -- like helping him brush his teeth or making him breakfast before they both head out the door to search for a new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when he finally does find a place, Jordan says he looks forward to getting Junior back into preschool, and having more time to teach him about life and getting his toys out of storage.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Marvin Jordan is a father, has gold in his teeth, wears a Raiders cap and is left-handed when he writes this note, which begins:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“To Whom It May Concern: My name is Marvin Jordan Sr. I’m a 54-year-old homeless man raising a three-year-old and looking for housing.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He slips the note through a small crack in the window of a work truck, which sits outside an apartment building in Berkeley. Through a window, Jordan can tell one apartment is empty except for a few tools that signal to him the room hasn’t been rented out yet. Jordan tells me he’d rather be taking his son, Marvin Jr., to the park instead of walking around the East Bay looking for a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan has been searching for housing since May, after being jailed for a DUI, completing an alcohol abuse program through Highland Hospital and then receiving a housing voucher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt relieved at the time,” he says. “But I didn’t know the battle was just really beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10760416 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9206-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Jordan says he wants landlords to know the adversity and challenges in life that he's had to overcome. He thinks that may convince someone who empathizes with his situation, he says.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jordan is among the hundreds of Section 8 and other voucher holders who are having a hard time finding housing in the East Bay. Housing agencies here report fewer landlords participating in these voluntary programs because the private market is providing a bigger return. For some, this has caused longer search periods; others are forced to find different options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most nights, Jordan sleeps next to Junior on a twin bed at his sister’s house in Richmond. When Jordan is not sleeping there, he’s riding trains or buses all night. He received joint custody of Junior, and right now he says Junior is his top priority. But not having a place to call home makes it tough to be a good father, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Just Out of Reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first started searching for housing, Jordan was running into common problems that many apartment hunters experience. There was fierce competition at open houses from dozens of other applicants. Plus, there were fees just to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan’s voucher means that he will receive help for a two-bedroom apartment listed up to $1,585. He would pay 30 percent of his own monthly income, derived from Social Security Disability benefits tied to his peroneal nerve palsy, and the rest would be taken care of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These caps are known as fair market rent and are set annually by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which pays local housing authorities to administer the voucher program. But as the housing market has soared across the Bay Area, these caps haven't kept pace and are making it hard for people with vouchers to compete for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD recently announced it would allow East Bay housing authorities to increase rent caps. This means Jordan's current two-bedroom voucher, capped at $1,585, will increase to $1,952.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But HUD is not providing the authorities with any more money, which means each of the East Bay's eight local authorities has to decide whether to raise the caps but serve fewer people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10760411\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10760411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0725-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Jordan leaves a note at an apartment in Berkeley to try and convince a landlord to rent to him using his Section 8 voucher. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The authorities from Contra Costa and Alameda counties have commissioned their own rent survey to challenge HUD's fair market rent, which they did successfully in 2013. HUD officials say they recognize that their agency is limited by using older data and that they look forward to what the rent survey will find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the department realizes that this is something we need to be looking at,” says Ophelia Basgal, regional director for HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD officials tell KQED the challenge by Alameda and Contra Costa county housing authorities will likely influence any fair market rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thousands Still on \u003c/strong>\u003cb>Wait Lists\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the question remains whether any changes will be enough to keep or attract landlords to Section 8 and other voucher programs. Voucher holders are taking more than three months to find a place on average, according to a letter sent by East Bay housing authorities to HUD in September. That’s longer than the 90-day period most vouchers are good for. Many voucher holders ask for extensions, while thousands of people in the region are on waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more vouchers to put on the street. We’re just waiting to put them on the street for the current people looking to be successful,” says Eric Johnson, executive director of the Oakland Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hand out all the vouchers available, it would flood the market and make it harder for people to find a place, he says. At any given time, around 200 people with Section 8 vouchers from OHA are looking for an apartment. OHA has to give out about 600 more vouchers, says Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voucher holders in Oakland are finding some success, though. In September around 110 families did find housing, Johnson says. But the same month, 120 landlords quit participating in the program, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landlords Dropping Out of Section 8 Across the East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, voucher holders are given a free report that lists available Section 8 housing. In 2012, that list averaged seven to 10 units at any given time. For the past 18 months, the city averages zero to one unit, according to Tia Ingram, executive director of Berkeley Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been extremely difficult to have 10 excited families in the room awaiting receipt of their voucher and have to advise, ‘Sorry there are no suitable units in the report’; best of luck in your search,” she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority of the County of Alameda (HACA), which does not represent Berkeley, Oakland, Livermore or the city of Alameda, has seen a 10 percent drop since 2012 in the number of landlords participating in the voucher program, according to Ron Dion, deputy director for programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more telling, Dion says, is the number of landlords participating in the voluntary online database where landlords and property management groups can list available units. In 2012, HACA averaged 58 available rental units on the first of each month, he says. Each year that number has dropped, and the average so far for 2015 is only seven per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Even With an Advocate It's Tough to Find a Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Wednesday in mid-October, Rachel Cole-Jansen, with Operation Dignity’s homeless outreach program, meets with Marvin Jordan. She helped him get his voucher earlier this year and has, at times, been his advocate -- even searching Craigslist and making calls to landlords on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's frustrated because the free website that lists available Section 8 housing doesn't update regularly. And too often she'll call and someone on the other end will say there's nothing available, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she does connect with a property manager it’s for an apartment in a neighborhood where Jordan doesn’t feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks with Section 8 vouchers are being concentrated in a lot of these neighborhoods,” says Cole-Jansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jordan says he’s getting desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's looking in areas where he initially refused to look. Still, nothing. 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He’s persistent in a good way.” - Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_0795-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'To be honest I think Marvin is a rare case. He’s very polite so that makes [it] very easy to talk to him. He’s persistent in a good way,' says Ryan Norris with Marquardt Property Management\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet Jordan one morning at his sister's apartment in Richmond. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco has dropped a divisive plan to build a shelter in a neighborhood that has the second-highest homeless population in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have withdrawn an application for state funding to help construct a 100-bed shelter in the Bayview-Hunters Point district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, executive director of the city's Human Services Agency, wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/a/kqed.org/file/d/0BzbsC36--LzqQldNcUVxeTRtTFE/view?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\">letter \u003c/a>to the state Department of Housing and Community Development on Tuesday, acknowledging that the city would not move forward on the project because it would cost too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago the city estimated that it would take about $1 million to convert a warehouse next to Mother Brown's Dining Room on Jennings Avenue into a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Works, however, estimated construction would cost $4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would have required $3 million from the city's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We made the decision that for $3 million we would rather pursue other alternatives to helping the homeless rather than a shelter,\" Rhorer said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's basically a public policy decision,\" Rhorer added, saying he'd rather see the funding put toward supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 19 percent of San Francisco's homeless residents live in District 10, which encompasses the Bayview, according to the city's latest \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">homeless count\u003c/a>. That report found that 1,272 people were living on the streets in the district last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood has only one other shelter. The Providence Baptist Church on McKinnon Avenue is open for homeless people overnight but not during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhood's homeless people are served by the United Council of Human Services, which runs Mother Brown's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10755243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10755243 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In this file photo from April 2014, Calvin Henderson attended breakfast service at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. "I've been up all night," he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this file photo from April 2014, Calvin Henderson attended breakfast service at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. 'I've been up all night,' he said. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gwendolyn Westbrook, the council's CEO, was outraged by the city's decision not to move forward on the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's despicable,\" Westbrook said in an interview. \"The city has money for everything else. They'd rather have people living and dying on the streets out here than give them a bed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"I have seniors here who come every single night to get a hot meal and then they're back out on the street, sleeping in a car, sleeping on the sidewalk. It's ridiculous. All we wanted to do was get some people off the street until we could get them in housing. Since there's no housing in San Francisco, they'll just sleep on the sidewalk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal for the shelter was a source of controversy for the last few years, chronicled in this \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/20/controversy-over-bayview-homeless-shelter-highlights-fears-of-displacement/\" target=\"_blank\">article \u003c/a>by KQED's Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents and business owners said it would have hurt efforts to revitalize the Bayview, an area that has struggled with violence and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen echoed those concerns, and applauded the city's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While there are undoubtedly a significant number of individuals that are in desperate need of emergency shelter and long term housing, the plan for 2115 Jennings Avenue was flawed from its inception,\" Cohen said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For years, the Bayview community has been forced to carry a bulk of many of San Francisco's supportive services. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would have required $3 million from the city's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We made the decision that for $3 million we would rather pursue other alternatives to helping the homeless rather than a shelter,\" Rhorer said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's basically a public policy decision,\" Rhorer added, saying he'd rather see the funding put toward supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 19 percent of San Francisco's homeless residents live in District 10, which encompasses the Bayview, according to the city's latest \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">homeless count\u003c/a>. That report found that 1,272 people were living on the streets in the district last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood has only one other shelter. The Providence Baptist Church on McKinnon Avenue is open for homeless people overnight but not during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhood's homeless people are served by the United Council of Human Services, which runs Mother Brown's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10755243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10755243 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In this file photo from April 2014, Calvin Henderson attended breakfast service at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. "I've been up all night," he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Mother-Browns-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this file photo from April 2014, Calvin Henderson attended breakfast service at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. 'I've been up all night,' he said. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gwendolyn Westbrook, the council's CEO, was outraged by the city's decision not to move forward on the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's despicable,\" Westbrook said in an interview. \"The city has money for everything else. They'd rather have people living and dying on the streets out here than give them a bed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"I have seniors here who come every single night to get a hot meal and then they're back out on the street, sleeping in a car, sleeping on the sidewalk. It's ridiculous. All we wanted to do was get some people off the street until we could get them in housing. Since there's no housing in San Francisco, they'll just sleep on the sidewalk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal for the shelter was a source of controversy for the last few years, chronicled in this \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/20/controversy-over-bayview-homeless-shelter-highlights-fears-of-displacement/\" target=\"_blank\">article \u003c/a>by KQED's Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents and business owners said it would have hurt efforts to revitalize the Bayview, an area that has struggled with violence and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen echoed those concerns, and applauded the city's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While there are undoubtedly a significant number of individuals that are in desperate need of emergency shelter and long term housing, the plan for 2115 Jennings Avenue was flawed from its inception,\" Cohen said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For years, the Bayview community has been forced to carry a bulk of many of San Francisco's supportive services. The idea to build a 100 bed shelter was another example of a unilateral decision by the city that completely lacked any real community process or input,\" Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer said his agency is working with the city's real estate division and Mayor Ed Lee's Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement (HOPE) to find other locations to possibly set up a new Navigation Center, like the new homeless facility in the city's Mission District, or some other type of supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/san-francisco-2015-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">defeat\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/06/how-san-franciscos-prop-f-would-change-airbnb-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition F\u003c/a> and its stricter rules on short-term rentals, San Francisco is still legislative light-years ahead of other California cities in regulating rental platforms like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco passed its initial law regulating Airbnb-type rentals more than a year ago. It now has a city office -- a small one, so far -- dedicated to administering and enforcing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precursor to San Francisco's legislative action was an agreement with Airbnb in which the company would collect a hotel tax from guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though few cities in California have attempted to pass and enforce restrictions on short-term rentals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/653/in-what-areas-is-occupancy-tax-collection-and-remittance-by-airbnb-available\" target=\"_blank\">eight cities in the state\u003c/a> have reached an agreement with Airbnb to remit the taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231698816\" 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>\u003cstrong>Tax First, Ask Questions Later?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tax collection agreement has benefits for both cities and operators like Airbnb. Cities get a new stream of revenue, and platforms gain legitimacy by coming to terms with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities should go ahead and make their units subject to the transit occupancy tax right away,\" says Karen Chapple, a professor of urban planning at UC Berkeley. \"Why not take that first move, while we're still figuring out that regulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements are not always a precursor to more expansive regulation, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dsJkDW2CH7xicOk57plk0fXUutQfDqfv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Santa Clara is the most recent California city to begin collecting taxes from Airbnb, and officials there say they have no intention of taking on legislation to regulate short-term rentals. When the City Council \u003ca href=\"http://sireweb.santaclaraca.gov/sirepub/cache/2/eq14msd1nepqabvo0spvym1q/7294861105201512165731.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">passed a tax agreement\u003c/a> in September, the chief concern of many members seemed to be whether the deal would go into effect fast enough to collect taxes from renters during the Super Bowl, which the city hosts in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to be proactive in capturing revenue for the Super Bowl,\" City Attorney Richard Nosky told the council in September. \"Our code does not have any use restrictions on rentals ... so we didn't see a need to regulate short-term rentals and kick that rock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, short-term rentals have been seen as a direct threat to permanent rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Santa Clara, that's not the case. Many of our homes are occupied by one or two people,\" says Mayor Jamie Matthews. \"This will give people an opportunity to try out what it's like to be able to have part of their home or accessory unit rented. That might lead to additional affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ready use for that new stream of tax revenue would be to offset the loss of affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't set up a regulatory system that is going to cost us a lot of money to implement,\" Chapple says. \"Ideally, what we want to do with this hotel tax revenue coming in is put it into an affordable housing trust fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Cost of Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the beachside city of Santa Monica made headlines by enacting a ban on the short-term rental of a full unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation was more straightforward than the rules in San Francisco. By banning all rentals of a full unit and placing no restrictions on hosts renting out a spare bedroom, the city doesn't need to keep track of the number of nights a unit was rented. Under San Francisco's ordinance, full unit rentals are capped at 90 nights a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Santa Monica begins its enforcement effort in earnest, it's finding it needs to devote every penny of the hotel tax in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The money that we are going to collect on the now-legal short-term vacation rentals is only enough to pay for the two code people and staff analyst to do effective enforcement against the illegal ones that were doing us so much damage,\" says Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown. \"So it's probably going to be revenue-neutral for the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been loath to give cities like San Francisco and Santa Monica specific data on rentals that might aid enforcement. A state bill to require the release of that information \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB593\" target=\"_blank\">stalled earlier this year in the state Senate. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Holding Off on Tax Agreement \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's largest city is taking a different approach: holding off on a tax agreement while legislation plods through the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10747654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10747654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1180x1447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged the city to move ahead on a tax agreement, but some council members have expressed concern that taking the money now would muddy the waters if the city imposes regulations on short-term rentals later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this would actually put the cart before the horse,\" said City Councilman Mitch Englander at a Budget and Finance Committee meeting over the summer. \"To go forth and say, 'Let's go ahead and look at this revenue' before we've set off a path of having the policy in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city will instead move ahead with committee hearings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/09/29/54719/city-takes-publics-pulse-on-short-term-rentals/\" target=\"_blank\">public meetings\u003c/a> and staff studies before an ordinance moves to the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Airbnb Stays on Message \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, says the leading short-term rental platform is comfortable reaching agreements with cities, like San Diego, in which short-term rentals are not fully legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to pay taxes, we're happy to pay taxes, we want to contribute,\" he says. \"When we can collect and remit, it's a great thing for a city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb may have gotten a bit too excited about its willingness to fill city coffers with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/22/airbnb-concedes-it-goofed-with-dear-san-francisco-ads\" target=\"_blank\">series of billboards\u003c/a> in San Francisco last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads notified city and county agencies of the things they could be doing with the $12 million in tax money that Airbnb remitted on the behalf of hosts. Not mentioned was the possibility some of the money could be used to fund the Office of Short-Term Rentals, which currently is budgeted for \u003ca href=\"http://openbook.sfgov.org/openbooks/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Reports%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27Budget%27%5d&ui.name=20Budget&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=false\" target=\"_blank\">just $475,000\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year and $464,630 for next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ads that threatened to become a snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory marketing blunder didn't move the needle enough for voters to approve Prop. 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When the City Council \u003ca href=\"http://sireweb.santaclaraca.gov/sirepub/cache/2/eq14msd1nepqabvo0spvym1q/7294861105201512165731.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">passed a tax agreement\u003c/a> in September, the chief concern of many members seemed to be whether the deal would go into effect fast enough to collect taxes from renters during the Super Bowl, which the city hosts in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to be proactive in capturing revenue for the Super Bowl,\" City Attorney Richard Nosky told the council in September. \"Our code does not have any use restrictions on rentals ... so we didn't see a need to regulate short-term rentals and kick that rock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, short-term rentals have been seen as a direct threat to permanent rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Santa Clara, that's not the case. 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By banning all rentals of a full unit and placing no restrictions on hosts renting out a spare bedroom, the city doesn't need to keep track of the number of nights a unit was rented. Under San Francisco's ordinance, full unit rentals are capped at 90 nights a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Santa Monica begins its enforcement effort in earnest, it's finding it needs to devote every penny of the hotel tax in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The money that we are going to collect on the now-legal short-term vacation rentals is only enough to pay for the two code people and staff analyst to do effective enforcement against the illegal ones that were doing us so much damage,\" says Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown. \"So it's probably going to be revenue-neutral for the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been loath to give cities like San Francisco and Santa Monica specific data on rentals that might aid enforcement. A state bill to require the release of that information \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB593\" target=\"_blank\">stalled earlier this year in the state Senate. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Holding Off on Tax Agreement \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's largest city is taking a different approach: holding off on a tax agreement while legislation plods through the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10747654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10747654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1180x1447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged the city to move ahead on a tax agreement, but some council members have expressed concern that taking the money now would muddy the waters if the city imposes regulations on short-term rentals later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this would actually put the cart before the horse,\" said City Councilman Mitch Englander at a Budget and Finance Committee meeting over the summer. \"To go forth and say, 'Let's go ahead and look at this revenue' before we've set off a path of having the policy in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city will instead move ahead with committee hearings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/09/29/54719/city-takes-publics-pulse-on-short-term-rentals/\" target=\"_blank\">public meetings\u003c/a> and staff studies before an ordinance moves to the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Airbnb Stays on Message \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, says the leading short-term rental platform is comfortable reaching agreements with cities, like San Diego, in which short-term rentals are not fully legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to pay taxes, we're happy to pay taxes, we want to contribute,\" he says. \"When we can collect and remit, it's a great thing for a city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb may have gotten a bit too excited about its willingness to fill city coffers with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/22/airbnb-concedes-it-goofed-with-dear-san-francisco-ads\" target=\"_blank\">series of billboards\u003c/a> in San Francisco last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads notified city and county agencies of the things they could be doing with the $12 million in tax money that Airbnb remitted on the behalf of hosts. 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"content": "\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsBayArea/status/662199555035824128\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda City Council has imposed a temporary limit on rent increases and \"no cause\" evictions while it considers stronger measures to aid tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven-hour meeting drew a big, emotional crowd of renters and landlords. Property owners managed to grab virtually all of the seats in the council chamber before the meeting began, leading to angry chants from tenants forced to stand in a hallway outside or follow the session on a TV set up in the City Hall lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda police arrested two men, including one -- pictured above -- who suffered a bloody nose as officers tried to detain him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231766447\" 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>In the end, the council adopted an urgency ordinance that would bar rent increases of 8 percent or more for the next 65 days. Landlords will also be prohibited from evicting tenants without cause during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the council will consider changes to Alameda's mild tenant protections. Under \u003ca href=\"http://alamedaca.gov/sites/default/files/board-commission-docs/ordinance_3131.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the current system\u003c/a>, tenants can appeal rent increases to the city's Rent Review Advisory Committee. The panel can mediate between the parties and issue a recommendation after hearing from both sides, but landlords are not required to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has come to a head for several reasons, including the city's strict (and now rescinded) limits on developing multifamily housing. As in cities throughout the central Bay Area, Alameda is also seeing rent increases that far outstrip tenants' incomes. An outside consultant's report found that the median income for tenant households has grown 29 percent since 2000, while rents have increased by 54 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council is considering a range of actions, including imposing some form of rent control and ending evictions without cause. Here are \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_29074881/alameda-city-council-imposes-moratorium-some-rent-increases\" target=\"_blank\">highlights of Wednesday's debate\u003c/a>, by way of Peter Hegarty of the Bay Area News Group:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Councilman Frank Matarrese wanted the moratorium, which will take effect immediately, to cover all rent increases. But Councilman Tony Daysog said that would hurt landlords who treat tenants fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see no reason to penalize the small 'mom and pop' landlords who have done their part to make Alameda great,\" Daysog said. \"And I think tenants see that, too.\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"There is an economic expulsion happening here,\" said Laura Thomas of Renewed Hope Housing Advocates, which promotes the development of affordable housing in the Bay Area. \"It's probably one of the most serious things that has happened in the 30 years that I have lived here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restricting rent increases will protect renters from predatory landlords, Duane Moles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Bey has been a landlord for 35 years. \"Rent control does not work,\" said Bey, who noted rents are climbing in Oakland and San Francisco, despite restrictions in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want to see the moratorium or any rent control,\" said Karin Lucas, a landlord in Alameda for 40 years who keeps her rents below market-rate. \"I feel that it would interfere with my relationships with my tenants.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Airbnb spent more than $8 million to defeat the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231618699\" 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>Proposition I sought to impose a temporary moratorium on luxury housing development in San Francisco’s Mission District for at least 18 months, halting the construction of market-rate housing and any project larger than five units. It would have also developed a stabilization plan to preserve land that could be used for affordable housing, which has been impacted by gentrification and displacement of longtime residents. 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Losing by about 9 percentage points to Aaron Peskin, former Board of Supervisors president and a prominent Lee critic, Christensen released a concession statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"While there are still more ballots to be counted, the outcome is clear. I congratulate Mr. Peskin and wish him the best. Although I did not prevail last night, I am so grateful to Mayor Lee for appointing me as supervisor, and I appreciate the support of my colleagues, staff, supporters, and the residents of District Three while I served. This was an amazing opportunity and learning experience, and I look forward to continuing serving the community as an advocate for our neighborhoods in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christensen's defeat means the board's progressive bloc now enjoys a 6-5 majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, he got\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/04/mirkarimi-gets-swamped-by-vicki-hennessy\" target=\"_blank\"> swamped\u003c/a> by former Chief Deputy Sheriff Vicki Hennesy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results below include votes counted through Thursday, Nov. 5, with all precincts reporting and 89,336 vote-by-mail ballots counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Department of Elections said Thursday that it still had about 42,000 mail-in and provisional ballots to count. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Proposition A, a $310 million bond for affordable housing backed by the mayor, is passing easily, with 73.8 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee's re-election was never in doubt. He got 57 percent of first-choice votes, a percentage that increases to 69 percent after two rounds of ranked-choice voting. However, the field of what one publication's editor called \"a clown car of neophytes and eccentrics\" garnered a cumulative total of 43 percent. Make of that what you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And any feeling of invulnerability for Lee has to be tempered by the loss of Supervisor Julie Christensen, whom Lee had appointed to the District 3 seat. Losing by about 9 percentage points to Aaron Peskin, former Board of Supervisors president and a prominent Lee critic, Christensen released a concession statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"While there are still more ballots to be counted, the outcome is clear. I congratulate Mr. Peskin and wish him the best. Although I did not prevail last night, I am so grateful to Mayor Lee for appointing me as supervisor, and I appreciate the support of my colleagues, staff, supporters, and the residents of District Three while I served. This was an amazing opportunity and learning experience, and I look forward to continuing serving the community as an advocate for our neighborhoods in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christensen's defeat means the board's progressive bloc now enjoys a 6-5 majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, he got\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/04/mirkarimi-gets-swamped-by-vicki-hennessy\" target=\"_blank\"> swamped\u003c/a> by former Chief Deputy Sheriff Vicki Hennesy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results below include votes counted through Thursday, Nov. 5, with all precincts reporting and 89,336 vote-by-mail ballots counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Department of Elections said Thursday that it still had about 42,000 mail-in and provisional ballots to count. About 31,000 of them are mail-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/be-prepared-to-wait-and-wait-for-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">For the first time\u003c/a>, ballots postmarked by Election Day, and received by election officials up to three days after the election, will be counted. 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"content": "\u003cp>It used to be that farms were cleared to make way for housing developments. Now, developments are making room for farms. Agricultural neighborhoods — or agrihoods — are neighborhoods with urban farms. They are being sown across California, and buyers are eating them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis is home to one of the newest agrihoods, The Cannery. While The Cannery offers 10 miles of bike paths and plenty of open space for kids to play, it’s the 7.5-acre farm that’s received the most attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That barn when you first enter, it just gives you a warm wonderful feeling. I just love the whole concept of what they have with the farm,” says Livia Hamrah, who was looking through one of the homes with her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230635934″ 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>Developers who have been offering golf courses and swimming pools for years say that their customers are looking for something new. In California, consumers want green, organic, sustainable and local products. So it’s no surprise that they are loving the urban farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 30 years of building homes, I’ve never had the opportunity to build a barn before,” says Kevin Carson, president of the Northern California division of New Home Co., which developed The Cannery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homes there range from $400,000 to over $1 million. While many of the residents might like the idea of farming, it would be unreasonable to expect them to quit their day jobs. It seems they will more likely post farm pictures on Facebook than actually farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-800x443.jpg\" alt=\"Homes being built alongside The Cannery’s 7.5-acre farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-800x443.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-400x221.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-1440x797.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-1180x653.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-960x531.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ConstructionAgriHomes-1038x576.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes being built alongside The Cannery’s 7.5-acre farm. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s where Mary Kimball comes in. She is executive director of the Center for Land-Based Learning. The center is partnering with The Cannery to help run the farm. Kimball’s organization will provide two or three California Farm Academy graduates to work the land and turn it into a money-making business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want it to be a farm that is able to sustain itself over time,” says Kimball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New Home Co. will help underwrite the first three years of farm operations and help pay for resident workshops and volunteer days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a community farm,” Kimball says. People can’t “walk the rows and pick and harvest what they want anytime day or night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to homebuyers, farms are also attractive to city officials. Kimball believes the farm helped gain approval for the development as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farm was really the shining star, and it consistently came up at the top of everyone’s list as to why this particular project should move forward,” says Kimball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning industrial land into farmland has had its own set of problems. Decades of wasting away under concrete resulted in poor soil quality. Developers and farmers had to dig up the first 3 feet of soil and replace it with nutrient-rich soil from neighboring farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”53Wrmjx4D8TkAuRE76LsJq16yR2rwKRs”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis isn’t the only city where developers are opening agrihoods. In South Orange County, there’s Rancho Mission Viejo. It’s a 23,000-acre working ranch with cattle and produce that includes 63,000 lemon trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s that millennial generation who’s enjoying that culinary experience,” says Amaya Genaro of Rancho Mission Viejo. She says there are currently about 1,500 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rancho Mission Viejo has been experimenting with community farming among its older residents, but Genaro says it expects to woo millennials with the recent opening of its second agrihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re kinda dubbed the foodie generation and they want to really eat healthy,” Genaro says. “They want to teach their children to eat healthy. And also really to teach their children, you know, even where food comes from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Rancho Mission Viejo provides its residents with moon hikes, falconry, astronomy and ecology classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rancho Mission Viejo aims to eventually build 14,000 homes in its agrihoods. Elsewhere in California, agrihoods have been proposed in Santa Clara and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: Kimball’s organization has no association with University of California Davis.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Joe Parra is like a lot of guys you meet on Skid Row. He’s not from Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was (on the streets) in the South Bay, like in the Torrance and Carson area,” says Parra. “And then it got harder and I had to stay in Bellflower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those cities are a good 20 miles from Skid Row. They’re also woefully thin on homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230522157\" 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>People like Parra might be able to get a hotel voucher for a couple nights or directions to a local food bank. But often they’ll get steered to Skid Row. And if they’re lucky, like Parra, they will eventually qualify for a space in one of its tightly packed \u003ca href=\"http://skidrow.org\">supportive housing apartments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services and that supportive network behind it just wasn’t happening in other areas outside Skid Row,” says Ryan Navales, an outreach coordinator at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mission dishes out around 3,000 meals a day on Skid Row, and runs a temporary shelter and a host of drug and alcohol rehab programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers,” says Navales. “And there’s 88 different mayors, I think, in L.A. County, and so there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the critical mass of homeless services remains concentrated in Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737200\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find housing and services in their own communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-1440x938.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-1180x768.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkidRowCartsGuys-960x625.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find housing and services in their own communities. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s left a lot of communities ill-prepared to deal with sudden spikes of homelessness. And when there are services, there can be resistance to expanding them for fear of becoming a magnet for more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re throwing bait out right now for people to come here, and we’re attracting people,” says Redondo Beach Mayor Steve Aspel at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re not trying to boot the homeless out...But it’s not the city of Redondo Beach’s responsibility to take care of the entire South Bay'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city just formed a homelessness task force after this year’s L.A. County homeless count recorded a surge in Redondo Beach’s homeless population. Redondo Beach police say 911 calls involving homeless individuals are up some 400 percent since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is mulling a number of actions, from expanding existing services to cracking down on nuisance laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspel echoes a sentiment you hear a lot and not just in Redondo Beach: Homelessness is a problem exported from outside the city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not like trying to boot the homeless out of town,” says Aspel. “But it’s not the city of Redondo Beach’s responsibility to take care of the entire South Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a person does end up on the street, it’s usually in the streets of where they live, in an area where they have ties to friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most homeless have three or four reasons to connect them to a community. They used to live there, they got family there, they work there, something that draws them to that community,\" says Todd Palmquist of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"One of Skid Row's dozens of sidewalk encampments.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-1440x877.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SkEncampment-960x585.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Skid Row's dozens of sidewalk encampments. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody likes to see the guy with the shopping cart sitting in front of McDonald's, but there's a reason why he or she is there. 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He says women and kids usually have priority when it comes to shelter and supportive housing like this. If you’re a single male, you can fall through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, you can get food here and there,” says Marty. “The resources are gone by the time you try to get something, and that's what makes CHAP different. 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And when there are services, there can be resistance to expanding them for fear of becoming a magnet for more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re throwing bait out right now for people to come here, and we’re attracting people,” says Redondo Beach Mayor Steve Aspel at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re not trying to boot the homeless out...But it’s not the city of Redondo Beach’s responsibility to take care of the entire South Bay'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city just formed a homelessness task force after this year’s L.A. County homeless count recorded a surge in Redondo Beach’s homeless population. 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