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Over the past seven months, we've made at least a dozen phone calls to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230312356\" 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>Each time, I tell outreach workers about Sofia's silver-gray hair, her long pink skirt, the white socks that peek out from under her blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's usually there sometime between 2 and 2:30 a.m.,\" I say in a call I made from work last month. \"She tends to leave around 6:30. And if she's not on my door, she's usually on one of the doorsteps around that block.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city has made contact with Sofia, privacy laws prevent employees from telling me. So, when I didn't see her for a couple of weeks, I thought, \"Maybe -- finally -- she's gotten some help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YPsvtQndCs4B2muFmRUeR41elVWaFQLd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a few days ago, around 1:30 a.m., we found her in the doorway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sofia, I’ve been trying to call people to come out and help,\" I say, as she wearily pulls the blanket off her head. \"Has anyone come out and helped you?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one has come out to talk to you?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, the answer is no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From New Hampshire to San Francisco in the '60s\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia is smart, and enjoys reading at the library. She seems suspicious of people, though, explaining that most who offer her help just want to take her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Sofia was evicted from her apartment about six years ago and has been on the streets ever since\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Still, after a few minutes, she agrees to tell us a bit of her story. And, like our neighborhood, it's also classic San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia says she grew up in New Hampshire and came here in the late 1960s. \"I came for the music,\" she says, smiling. \"I liked all of it. The Mamas and Papas, the Beach Boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia says she lived at the center of hippie culture -- in the Haight-Ashbury -- and worked as a nurse at the neighborhood's famous free clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What kind of people did you help?\" I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mostly it was people on drugs,\" she says, laughing. \"We had a living room where everybody would come in that was on drugs, and we'd have to feed 'em all because they were all so hungry, you know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After an Eviction, Trouble at Shelters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia tells us she never married, doesn't have kids and her friends are dead or have moved away. She says she was evicted from her apartment about six years ago and has been on the streets ever since. She has been to shelters, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it's really horrible,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why?\" David asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, people don't sleep at night. You know, they're swearing at each other. You're in a room, like, with a hundred other people, maybe. And people steal things,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints like these keep many of the homeless on the streets. And they're why, earlier this year, the city opened a new shelter called the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">Navigation Center.\u003c/a> Unlike traditional shelters, it's open 24/7 and staffed with counselors who try to steer homeless people into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737126\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg\" alt=\"Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737126\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-960x514.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-280x150.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter. \u003ccite>(NavigationCenter.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A number of homeless advocates I've spoken with tell me Sofia would be a good candidate. But she says she's never heard of it and doesn't trust the city anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told you, I don't get involved in these things,\" Sofia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think some people have good intentions,\" David says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Very few,\" she sighs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, I went to City Hall to speak with San Francisco's interim homeless czar, Sam Dodge. The mayor appointed him to replace \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dufty-out-as-homeless-czar-deputy-to-take-6567096.php\">Bevan Dufty\u003c/a>, who announced his retirement earlier this month. I told Dodge that I'm not convinced the outreach team is looking for Sofia or keeping track of her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge said his office may have a file on her and may have spoken with her. But, again, because of privacy laws, he can't say. And if she doesn't want help, the city can't make her get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not a kind of system where you can simply abduct people against their will,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also spoke about Sofia with San Francisco Chronicle columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/c-w-nevius/\">Chuck Nevius\u003c/a>. He's spent the last decade taking the city to task on homelessness. My frustration did not surprise him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of us in San Francisco have had the same experience you had. Which is, you go to this homeless person, and you talk to them, and you say, 'Wait a minute -- he or she is making perfect sense. They're actually very bright. This is not someone who should be out on the street.' And these are people we can have an immediate impact with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevius says the city's outreach team needs to be more persistent with people like Sofia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't walk up to them and say, 'Would you like to go to a shelter?' and they say, 'No.\" And you say, 'OK, fine.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia says she's fine sleeping outside. But David and I don't believe it. We've heard her whimper in fear and seen her run across the street to hide, leaving her bags strewn on our steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll keep calling the city but we're now looking at other options -- church leaders, mental health counselors -- anyone willing to talk to Sofia in the middle of the night and help her get off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And they're why, earlier this year, the city opened a new shelter called the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">Navigation Center.\u003c/a> Unlike traditional shelters, it's open 24/7 and staffed with counselors who try to steer homeless people into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10737126\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg\" alt=\"Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737126\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-800x428.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-400x214.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1440x771.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-1180x632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-960x514.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NavigationCenterBeds-280x150.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beds at San Francisco's new Navigation Center homeless shelter. \u003ccite>(NavigationCenter.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A number of homeless advocates I've spoken with tell me Sofia would be a good candidate. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's Mission District is distinct from the rest of the city in a hundred obvious and subtle ways, from its mural-lined streets and alleys to its close-packed and vividly painted homes to the maze of flickering \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em> altars that spring up at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the district's unique character grows out of the Latino community that long ago took root in the Mission -- a population that a new city report shows is increasingly at risk of being pushed out amid a relentless increase in housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, by the Board of Supervisors budget and legislative analyst, found that if current trends continue, the Mission's Latino population will fall from 60 percent in 2000 to 31 percent in 2025. It is now at 48 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10736408\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 11.44.49 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM-400x324.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a map showing the most recent demographic data:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10736407\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 11.45.11 PM\" width=\"625\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM.png 625w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM-400x332.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of Latino Mission dwellers is projected to coincide with an increase in the number of households earning $150,000 and above annually -- a demographic projected to rise from 12 percent in 2000 to 26 percent by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of Mission households with children is also expected to drop, to a projected 11 percent by 2025, compared with an estimated 21 percent today.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-10736406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 11.46.00 PM\" width=\"393\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM.png 410w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM-400x252.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the status quo continues, we are going to lose this neighborhood as we know it,” Supervisor David Campos, who represents the Mission, said at a City Hall press conference Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the current trend in development continues and we let the market do what it has been doing -- which is continue to build luxury housing -- what will happen to the racial and economic diversity of the Mission?\" Campos asked. \"How much housing would we have to build in this neighborhood for prices to actually come down?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget and legislative analyst's report broadly answered that question, too -- with some mind-boggling math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borrowing from an analysis performed by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, the report suggested San Francisco wouldn’t find itself in its present housing affordability mess if it had managed to build 459,000 housing units between 1980 and 2010, instead of the 60,334 units actually built. Currently, the city has about 370,000 housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, this means that to bring housing costs down to a level considered normal nationwide, “we’d have to double the size of San Francisco,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study was released a week before San Franciscans vote on Proposition I, a measure backed by Campos that would impose a moratorium on market-rate housing development in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in this city is not working,” Campos said. “We need a change of direction. That’s what Prop. I and the neighborhood stabilization plan are about -- creating a new plan and a new direction for the Mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative analyst’s report isn’t the first formal study examining the future of the Mission in light of the proposed Mission development moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September the city controller's office released a report by chief economist Ted Egan, which found that the proposed moratorium would “lead to slightly higher housing prices across the city, have no appreciable effect on no-fault eviction pressures, and have a limited impact on the city's ability to produce affordable housing during the moratorium period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that a moratorium “would temporarily preserve sites that could later be acquired for affordable housing, but it is highly unlikely that it would reduce the cost of any such site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egan’s study was produced at the behest of supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener, who both oppose Prop. I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proposition I for me is going to be a huge step in the wrong direction,\" Farrell said in an interview. \"I don’t think that today in San Francisco we should be promoting policies that will cause housing prices to increase and that will halt the production of affordable housing. That is the wrong approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. I proponents champion the moratorium as a strategy to allow for a plan to create affordable housing, but Egan’s report suggested the housing freeze would do little to address the underlying issue of displacement due to property prices. If trends from the last two years continue, the legislative analyst said, Mission home prices could more than double in the next decade. Under the report's most conservative projection, prices would rise by 9 percent by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new report by the budget and legislative analyst also suggests San Francisco’s total Latino population has actually held steady despite the recent declines in the Mission. U.S. Census data reflect an increase in Latino households in other San Francisco neighborhoods, including the Bayview, Mission Terrace, Excelsior and Lakeshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report said it's impossible to say whether Latinos from the Mission are relocating to these other neighborhoods or are leaving the city entirely and being replaced with Latino residents new to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco's Mission District is distinct from the rest of the city in a hundred obvious and subtle ways, from its mural-lined streets and alleys to its close-packed and vividly painted homes to the maze of flickering \u003cem>Dia de los Muertos\u003c/em> altars that spring up at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the district's unique character grows out of the Latino community that long ago took root in the Mission -- a population that a new city report shows is increasingly at risk of being pushed out amid a relentless increase in housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, by the Board of Supervisors budget and legislative analyst, found that if current trends continue, the Mission's Latino population will fall from 60 percent in 2000 to 31 percent in 2025. It is now at 48 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10736408\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 11.44.49 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.44.49-PM-400x324.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a map showing the most recent demographic data:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10736407\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 11.45.11 PM\" width=\"625\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM.png 625w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.45.11-PM-400x332.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of Latino Mission dwellers is projected to coincide with an increase in the number of households earning $150,000 and above annually -- a demographic projected to rise from 12 percent in 2000 to 26 percent by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of Mission households with children is also expected to drop, to a projected 11 percent by 2025, compared with an estimated 21 percent today.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-10736406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-27 at 11.46.00 PM\" width=\"393\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM.png 410w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-10-27-at-11.46.00-PM-400x252.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the status quo continues, we are going to lose this neighborhood as we know it,” Supervisor David Campos, who represents the Mission, said at a City Hall press conference Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the current trend in development continues and we let the market do what it has been doing -- which is continue to build luxury housing -- what will happen to the racial and economic diversity of the Mission?\" Campos asked. \"How much housing would we have to build in this neighborhood for prices to actually come down?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget and legislative analyst's report broadly answered that question, too -- with some mind-boggling math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borrowing from an analysis performed by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, the report suggested San Francisco wouldn’t find itself in its present housing affordability mess if it had managed to build 459,000 housing units between 1980 and 2010, instead of the 60,334 units actually built. Currently, the city has about 370,000 housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, this means that to bring housing costs down to a level considered normal nationwide, “we’d have to double the size of San Francisco,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study was released a week before San Franciscans vote on Proposition I, a measure backed by Campos that would impose a moratorium on market-rate housing development in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in this city is not working,” Campos said. “We need a change of direction. That’s what Prop. 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"content": "\u003cp>For most of this year, a battle has been brewing over the proposed \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mission-district-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Moratorium\u003c/a>\" and how to address a shortage of affordable places to live in the neighborhood that's been called ground zero for San Francisco's housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos, who represents the Mission District, first \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/s-f-supes-gear-up-for-battle-over-mission-housing-construction\" target=\"_blank\">publicly floated\u003c/a> the idea of halting market-rate residential construction in May. His legislation \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Supes-reject-proposed-building-moratorium-in-6303325.php\" target=\"_blank\">fell two votes short\u003c/a> of a nine-vote supermajority it needed to pass the Board of Supervisors in June. But by that time, a coalition of community groups was \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/05/mission-housing-moratorium-november-ballot-sf.html\" target=\"_blank\">already crafting\u003c/a> what would become Proposition I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/candidates/Nov2015/MissionBuildingMoratorium_Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">measure's language\u003c/a> is deceptively simple: If Prop. I passes, the city would not issue permits for 18 months in the Mission for either new market-rate housing developments (what Prop. I supporters call \"luxury housing\") or renovations of buildings containing five or more units. It would also halt demolition, renovation or conversion of certain industrial businesses zoned as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1638\" target=\"_blank\">production, distribution and repair\u003c/a>. The measure would allow the Board of Supervisors, by a majority vote, to extend the development halt for an additional year.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"LbFOXGn5R5mQnLSch5DyaO3UBERUeWZP\"]\u003cbr>\nIt also requires the city to create a comprehensive housing plan by early 2017 that would ensure at least half of all new housing in the Mission be affordable for low-, moderate- and middle-income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition's implications, however, are somewhat complex and involve the soft science of economics and the fluid housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and opponents agree that the Mission District has been ravaged by San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out\" target=\"_blank\">housing crisis\u003c/a>. Long-term residents of the neighborhood have been priced out in droves, to the point that Latino residents no longer make up a majority of the population. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=54068\" target=\"_blank\">report released Tuesday\u003c/a> by the city's budget and legislative analyst projects that, if current trends continue, Latinos will make up less than a third of Mission District residents in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s going to become a boring neighborhood,\" said Roberto Hernandez, a resident and Mission District organizer affiliated with many groups, including Our Mission, No Eviction. \"You’re not going to have the mariachi. You’re not going to have the person selling churros, the lady selling flowers on the corner, and just that vibrant Latin-American feel that the Mission has -- it’s going to be gone. It’s going to disappear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that the district is losing its economic diversity as well. From 2000 to 2013, low-income Mission District households earning less than $35,000 per year increased by about 900. The neighborhood shed 600 moderate-income households and added more than 1,000 households earning $150,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. I opponents point to \u003ca href=\"http://sfcontroller.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=6742\" target=\"_blank\">another report\u003c/a>, this one released in September by the city controller's office. They say despite the Mission's troubles, halting development there will only make things worse. The controller's report found \"a temporary, 18-month moratorium would lead to slightly higher housing prices across the city, have no appreciable effect on no-fault eviction pressures and have a limited impact on the city's ability to produce affordable housing during the moratorium period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because \u003ca href=\"http://sf-moh.org/index.aspx?page=308\" target=\"_blank\">city law\u003c/a> requires market-rate developers to either sprinkle some affordable units in any given project (12 percent of the total units), build more affordable units in another location (20 percent), or pay a fee for developing below-market-rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we stop market-rate development, it will absolutely dry up those funds, funds that are being currently slated to be used in the Mission District to build affordable housing,\" said Supervisor Mark Farrell. \"It is simply the wrong approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Campos, who supports the ballot initiative after his legislative attempt failed, said the city's affordable housing fee hasn't worked to actually develop the units the Mission needs to keep home prices and rents in the neighborhood down to something resembling sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think it’s working because the concept of letting developers not build on site is a flawed one,\" Campos said. \"I’m all for building more, but we’re not going to take that argument to its logical next step in a way that’s realistic. ... We’d have to double the size of San Francisco. We’d have to build another city on top of this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That point comes from the budget and legislative analyst's report, which applied national and statewide housing needs estimates to San Francisco. It found that for city housing costs to have stayed on par with prices nationwide, San Francisco would need to have added 459,000 housing units between 1980 and 2010. There are less than 400,000 units in the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as opponents point out, there's no disagreement over the debacle that is San Francisco's housing market and the need to do something. The question is what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all know that there is an issue around affordability, not only in the Mission District but across the city,\" Farrell said. \"From my perspective, we need to be building more housing at all income levels. ... We need to make sure that we build more housing in our city, more housing in the Mission District, and that’s the only way we’re going to be able to alleviate the housing crisis that we have right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberto Hernandez has heard that argument. He said he's been hearing it for years while his friends and neighbors have been forced out of the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been coined by the developers and the mayor: 'Build, build, build, build.' But that's for the rich and not for the everyday folk. ... It's not for the people in the Mission. It's not for people in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For most of this year, a battle has been brewing over the proposed \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mission-district-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Moratorium\u003c/a>\" and how to address a shortage of affordable places to live in the neighborhood that's been called ground zero for San Francisco's housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos, who represents the Mission District, first \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/s-f-supes-gear-up-for-battle-over-mission-housing-construction\" target=\"_blank\">publicly floated\u003c/a> the idea of halting market-rate residential construction in May. His legislation \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Supes-reject-proposed-building-moratorium-in-6303325.php\" target=\"_blank\">fell two votes short\u003c/a> of a nine-vote supermajority it needed to pass the Board of Supervisors in June. But by that time, a coalition of community groups was \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/05/mission-housing-moratorium-november-ballot-sf.html\" target=\"_blank\">already crafting\u003c/a> what would become Proposition I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/candidates/Nov2015/MissionBuildingMoratorium_Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">measure's language\u003c/a> is deceptively simple: If Prop. I passes, the city would not issue permits for 18 months in the Mission for either new market-rate housing developments (what Prop. I supporters call \"luxury housing\") or renovations of buildings containing five or more units. It would also halt demolition, renovation or conversion of certain industrial businesses zoned as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1638\" target=\"_blank\">production, distribution and repair\u003c/a>. The measure would allow the Board of Supervisors, by a majority vote, to extend the development halt for an additional year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIt also requires the city to create a comprehensive housing plan by early 2017 that would ensure at least half of all new housing in the Mission be affordable for low-, moderate- and middle-income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition's implications, however, are somewhat complex and involve the soft science of economics and the fluid housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and opponents agree that the Mission District has been ravaged by San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out\" target=\"_blank\">housing crisis\u003c/a>. Long-term residents of the neighborhood have been priced out in droves, to the point that Latino residents no longer make up a majority of the population. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=54068\" target=\"_blank\">report released Tuesday\u003c/a> by the city's budget and legislative analyst projects that, if current trends continue, Latinos will make up less than a third of Mission District residents in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s going to become a boring neighborhood,\" said Roberto Hernandez, a resident and Mission District organizer affiliated with many groups, including Our Mission, No Eviction. \"You’re not going to have the mariachi. You’re not going to have the person selling churros, the lady selling flowers on the corner, and just that vibrant Latin-American feel that the Mission has -- it’s going to be gone. It’s going to disappear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that the district is losing its economic diversity as well. From 2000 to 2013, low-income Mission District households earning less than $35,000 per year increased by about 900. The neighborhood shed 600 moderate-income households and added more than 1,000 households earning $150,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. I opponents point to \u003ca href=\"http://sfcontroller.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=6742\" target=\"_blank\">another report\u003c/a>, this one released in September by the city controller's office. They say despite the Mission's troubles, halting development there will only make things worse. The controller's report found \"a temporary, 18-month moratorium would lead to slightly higher housing prices across the city, have no appreciable effect on no-fault eviction pressures and have a limited impact on the city's ability to produce affordable housing during the moratorium period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because \u003ca href=\"http://sf-moh.org/index.aspx?page=308\" target=\"_blank\">city law\u003c/a> requires market-rate developers to either sprinkle some affordable units in any given project (12 percent of the total units), build more affordable units in another location (20 percent), or pay a fee for developing below-market-rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we stop market-rate development, it will absolutely dry up those funds, funds that are being currently slated to be used in the Mission District to build affordable housing,\" said Supervisor Mark Farrell. \"It is simply the wrong approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Campos, who supports the ballot initiative after his legislative attempt failed, said the city's affordable housing fee hasn't worked to actually develop the units the Mission needs to keep home prices and rents in the neighborhood down to something resembling sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think it’s working because the concept of letting developers not build on site is a flawed one,\" Campos said. \"I’m all for building more, but we’re not going to take that argument to its logical next step in a way that’s realistic. ... We’d have to double the size of San Francisco. We’d have to build another city on top of this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That point comes from the budget and legislative analyst's report, which applied national and statewide housing needs estimates to San Francisco. It found that for city housing costs to have stayed on par with prices nationwide, San Francisco would need to have added 459,000 housing units between 1980 and 2010. There are less than 400,000 units in the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as opponents point out, there's no disagreement over the debacle that is San Francisco's housing market and the need to do something. The question is what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all know that there is an issue around affordability, not only in the Mission District but across the city,\" Farrell said. \"From my perspective, we need to be building more housing at all income levels. ... We need to make sure that we build more housing in our city, more housing in the Mission District, and that’s the only way we’re going to be able to alleviate the housing crisis that we have right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberto Hernandez has heard that argument. He said he's been hearing it for years while his friends and neighbors have been forced out of the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been coined by the developers and the mayor: 'Build, build, build, build.' But that's for the rich and not for the everyday folk. ... It's not for the people in the Mission. It's not for people in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A plan to redesign the stretch of Middlefield Road that runs through the working-class neighborhood of North Fair Oaks, just south of Redwood City, has residents torn between wanting a safer, more inviting main thoroughfare, and being concerned that upgrades will lead to gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, cars speed along Middlefield’s four traffic lanes, while pedestrians crowd on narrow sidewalks and cyclists risk being struck by cars backing out of diagonal parking spaces. Last October, the County of San Mateo approved a $12.5 million revamp of Middlefield between Pacific and Fifth Avenues, making the street the \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/north-fair-oaks-road-project/\" target=\"_blank\">centerpiece of its renewed focus\u003c/a> on this unincorporated area. The plan will cut the road to three traffic lanes, switch from diagonal to parallel parking, and use the extra space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks and public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as housing costs skyrocket in surrounding cities, community support for the project has become mixed with fear. Residents and business owners worry that a spruced-up Middlefield may attract affluent newcomers and push up prices in one of the last affordable pockets in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10728866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10728866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1440x863.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-960x575.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks. \u003ccite>(Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d be really sorry to see the community driven out, and our nice little working street that’s always been really useful turn into some kind of chichi, boutiquey area,” said Penny Durham, a 36-year resident of North Fair Oaks. “There’s been historically sort of benign neglect. Now there’s so much pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar projects to swap traffic lanes for bike paths and broad sidewalks are increasingly common around the Bay Area. Often known as “complete streets” or “road diets,” these redesigns can reduce traffic injuries, encourage healthier and more sustainable commutes, and spark activity on street corners and in local shops. Yet on the Peninsula, these projects have typically been in wealthy neighborhoods and downtown business districts, such as California Avenue in Palo Alto or Lincoln Avenue in San Jose’s Willow Glen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks doesn’t fit this mold. Tucked between the mansions of Atherton and booming Redwood City, the neighborhood’s median household income was just $60,000 in 2013, and 73 percent of residents are Latino. Instead of being lined with upscale restaurants, this stretch of Middlefield is home to auto repair shops and beauty salons, the signs outside a blend of English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help adapt the complete street concept to North Fair Oaks, the county has engaged community members throughout the project. It launched an outreach initiative called North Fair Oaks Forward, and selected the three-lane, parallel-parking concept through a series of collaborative neighborhood meetings. Now, the project team is hosting workshops where community members can shape the details of the new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229363665\" 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>County officials acknowledge risks of gentrification, but say they are taking a similarly collaborative approach to developing protections for existing residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will form a gentrification group and we will talk about this,” said Deputy County Manager Mike Callagy at the first design workshop on Sept. 30. “I promise you these issues are really important to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all residents are convinced, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just hard to know who to trust,” said Armando Garcia, a resident and business owner. “I wouldn’t mind having a nice street, but I feel like it’s going to snowball into something bigger than that eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond policy protections, thoughtful design can also help check gentrification, said landscape architect Steve Rasmussen Cancian. A bilingual former community organizer, Cancian was brought in by the county to facilitate design workshops and help translate neighborhood feedback into specific plans. He described how the project could enhance the street for existing residents, but in ways that have limited appeal to outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than putting one bench next to a bus stop, you put two benches facing each other under some trees,\" he said. \"And you don’t put them in front of a cafe where they become an extension of the cafe, you put them in front of an auto parts store.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to successful projects in other cities, Cancian said that with thoughtful choices and extensive community input, Middlefield can be redesigned in a way that avoids displacement. “It is possible to have both the best quality, the full diversity of services and affordability, but it’s not going to happen without an extraordinary level of effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county will host additional planning meetings through the end of the year, then will draw up detailed plans during 2016 and 2017. 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"content": "\u003cp>Increased traffic and soaring construction, combined with rising real estate costs, have prompted more than 500 Redwood City residents to sign a petition asking for a moratorium on approval of new commercial buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229337133\" 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 city planning meetings, protesters are routinely demanding that officials amend the Downtown Precise Plan, a blueprint for future growth in the three-block radius surrounding the county’s Old Courthouse downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan — approved in 2011 and first conceived during the 2007-2010 economic recession — anticipated slow urban growth to take place over 20 years, allowing residents to gauge its impact over time. But as the economy bloomed and conditions changed, the city reached 86 percent of the plan’s office cap in the last four years alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727613\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BoxPlaza-800x478.jpg\" alt=\"New headquarters for tech storage firm Box loom over a gateway to the emerging downtown in Redwood City. 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Dostart Development Co. is proposing a nine-story office building and 270 parking spots at 601 Marshall St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City’s Planning Commission says the 112-foot-tall building won’t dwarf historic buildings like the City Hall of Justice (143 feet) or the Old Courthouse (118 feet). But residents remain skeptical, arguing that the project’s modern architecture will change the downtown look and feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10727775,10727841\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is simply too much,” said Tania Sole, who is running for City Council in November. “Within less than 12 months, four huge buildings went up and totally changed the character of the city. 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From the 500,000 square feet planned for commercial buildings, only 61,341 remain open. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of tech workers have flooded into San Francisco in recent years, changing the face of the city. How will they affect the upcoming election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”euoK6Sh12GY9mcweKJitUKuGbBZcxtCT”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s begin by agreeing that there is no techie block vote. We’re not talking about \u003ca href=\"http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Borg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Borg\u003c/a> here. But more to the point, the data don’t back up the assumption that all tech workers vote the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a variable that says ‘techie’ that we can check off,” says David Latterman, who runs the quantitative research firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.flanalytics.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fall Line Analytics\u003c/a>. He has crunched political data locally for more than a decade, and he thinks the most salient factor is not so much what people do for a living but how old they are and how recently they arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know 50-year-old techies on the far left, and [others] who are staunchly conservative, and everything in between,” Latterman says. “The older they get, the more they diffuse into the city and the body politic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ned Lerner, director of engineering at Sony Computer Entertainment America, typifies that older techie voter. “I only started voting local when I thought of myself as part of the local community, which took a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 56-year-old resident of the Richmond district moved to San Francisco in 1995. Lerner says his attitude about voting changed after he became a homeowner and a parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m much more likely to think about what is better — or worse — for my kids,” Lerner says. “I’m also increasingly aware of how complex the world is, which the issues on the ballot reflect, how the process is manipulated by those who have a personal stake, and how inadequate my knowledge is — and very likely, the knowledge of those who I might defer to, including the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latterman adds: “A lot of younger people, they’re not focused yet. People like to talk: ‘You know, we have this tech group mobilized.’ No, they don’t. There’s no evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, he says, because young tech workers are not likely to vote, they’re not being targeted by political candidates and campaigns, either with mailers or social media. At least, not in this year’s election, given that there’s no hotly contested race at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Airbnb, which has reportedly spent\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-spends-8-million-against-prop-f-2015-9\"> $8 million\u003c/a> to defeat \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition F\u003c/a>, might be the only compelling ballot draw, David Latterman says, mainly because the company has spent so much money to raise public awareness.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Latterman’s assessment is widely shared by other analysts who watch San Francisco politics closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the jury is still out as to how politically engaged the majority of new young tech workers are,” says Rachel Brahinsky, assistant professor of urban affairs at the University of San Francisco. “You may have some people who are new to the city and haven’t figured out how to plug in yet. They may be just out of college and aren’t that politicized necessarily. Some of them are. Some of them aren’t. And then if they’re getting some of these tech jobs, they are very, very busy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the stereotype: the young recent arrival to San Francisco who lives in a bubble, shuttling between home and work, the bar and coffee bar, with nary a thought to civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enough from the political pundits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s Talk To More Techies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I headed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sightglasscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sightglass Coffee\u003c/a>, South of Market. It’s hip, spacious and packed with people who work in tech. Over the hum and swoosh of beans being roasted on-site, people hold business meetings or tap away diligently on their laptops. I expected to meet disengaged workaholics. Instead, I ran into 26-year-old Bill Rowan, a software engineer who’s been living in Cole Valley for three years. Does he vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has he voted yet this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not yet,” Rowan replies. “I know I still have a little more time to make my selections, but I’ve already started studying the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowan is so serious about doing his civic duty that he’s a member of the nonprofit San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (or \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR\u003c/a>) and attended a recent meeting to learn more about this year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do meet a couple of guys who don’t vote, like Amit Desai, who’s lived in SoMa for seven years. He works in marketing for a software company. Desai is 44. So, according to prevailing wisdom, he should be politically active. But no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m largely apolitical.” He chalks it up to cynicism, even though Desai says he’s troubled by the way the housing crisis has affected the cultural diversity of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a great city, pretty city,” Desai says. “But it’s definitely becoming less diverse. At this rate, we’re going to have something akin to Manhattan, for techies, as opposed to bankers. More homogenous, wealthy group of residents, plus commuters and tourists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to myself the KQED mic flag might be scaring away “brogrammers,” the stereotypical frat boy programmer everybody loves to hate. Or perhaps I’m attracting a self-selecting data pool of voters. I meet one middle-aged tech worker who refuses to talk on tape. He says he listens to KQED and he knows he’ll come off badly admitting he doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the more time I spend at Sightglass, the more I meet young people working in tech who are really, really politically engaged. None more so than 24-year-old Will Hayworth, a software developer for \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlassian.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlassian\u003c/a>. Hayworth voted the same night the ballot arrived in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t fall asleep because I was so excited to vote!” Hayworth laughs. Despite moving to San Francisco just a year and a half ago, Hayworth can go down the list of housing measures from memory, thoughtfully explaining each vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already seeing how high rents are re-shaping the city, and not in good ways,” they say. (Hayworth identifies as genderqueer, so I’ll be using the pronoun “they” from here on out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if Hayworth’s passion for politics is considered normal by friends and co-workers. Sipping on a vanilla iced cold brew, they say no. “When you try and discuss it and everything, you just sort of get blank stares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayworth’s interest makes a lot more sense when you learn politics is a family concern. Their mother \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1DuHYhDtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nan Hayworth\u003c/a> was a Republican congresswoman in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel loathed as a gay guy, sometimes. I feel loathed as a Republican among the gays. And I feel loathed as a techie by everybody who’s not in tech,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fingernails painted bright blue, Hayworth taps on an iPhone to pull up a photo of a poster you can still find slapped on telephone poles around SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10725875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10725875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-800x642.jpg\" alt='\"Brogrammers off the block,\" this poster up in SoMa reads. \"Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Brogrammers off the block,” this poster up in SoMa says. “Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Will Hayworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The logic of the poster isn’t exactly clear. Only the Mission is mentioned, although tech workers have reshaped a number of neighborhoods in the city. The list of companies seems to favor those that get a lot of media coverage, as opposed to, say, a list of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2015/03/06/san-francisco-tech-employers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top tech employers\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Whatever the case, Hayworth resents the malice communicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody, but nobody would confuse me for a brogrammer. I hope,” Hayworth says. “The fact they would just tar such a big group of people without knowing any of them. You know, obnoxious people in a bar do not represent, like, the entire tech community. And it’s really unfortunate that political discourse in San Francisco kind of throws all these people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do I relate my findings here at Sightglass to what political analysts who parse voting data say? I went back to David Latterman to get his take. He promises voters like Hayworth who are outliers now \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get noticed within a couple election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And “anyone who’s ever voted will be targeted next year.” Why? Because that will be a presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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People like to talk: ‘You know, we have this tech group mobilized.’ No, they don’t. There’s no evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, he says, because young tech workers are not likely to vote, they’re not being targeted by political candidates and campaigns, either with mailers or social media. At least, not in this year’s election, given that there’s no hotly contested race at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Airbnb, which has reportedly spent\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-spends-8-million-against-prop-f-2015-9\"> $8 million\u003c/a> to defeat \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition F\u003c/a>, might be the only compelling ballot draw, David Latterman says, mainly because the company has spent so much money to raise public awareness.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Latterman’s assessment is widely shared by other analysts who watch San Francisco politics closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the jury is still out as to how politically engaged the majority of new young tech workers are,” says Rachel Brahinsky, assistant professor of urban affairs at the University of San Francisco. “You may have some people who are new to the city and haven’t figured out how to plug in yet. They may be just out of college and aren’t that politicized necessarily. Some of them are. Some of them aren’t. And then if they’re getting some of these tech jobs, they are very, very busy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the stereotype: the young recent arrival to San Francisco who lives in a bubble, shuttling between home and work, the bar and coffee bar, with nary a thought to civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enough from the political pundits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s Talk To More Techies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I headed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sightglasscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sightglass Coffee\u003c/a>, South of Market. It’s hip, spacious and packed with people who work in tech. Over the hum and swoosh of beans being roasted on-site, people hold business meetings or tap away diligently on their laptops. I expected to meet disengaged workaholics. Instead, I ran into 26-year-old Bill Rowan, a software engineer who’s been living in Cole Valley for three years. Does he vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has he voted yet this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not yet,” Rowan replies. “I know I still have a little more time to make my selections, but I’ve already started studying the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowan is so serious about doing his civic duty that he’s a member of the nonprofit San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (or \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR\u003c/a>) and attended a recent meeting to learn more about this year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do meet a couple of guys who don’t vote, like Amit Desai, who’s lived in SoMa for seven years. He works in marketing for a software company. Desai is 44. So, according to prevailing wisdom, he should be politically active. But no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m largely apolitical.” He chalks it up to cynicism, even though Desai says he’s troubled by the way the housing crisis has affected the cultural diversity of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a great city, pretty city,” Desai says. “But it’s definitely becoming less diverse. At this rate, we’re going to have something akin to Manhattan, for techies, as opposed to bankers. More homogenous, wealthy group of residents, plus commuters and tourists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to myself the KQED mic flag might be scaring away “brogrammers,” the stereotypical frat boy programmer everybody loves to hate. Or perhaps I’m attracting a self-selecting data pool of voters. I meet one middle-aged tech worker who refuses to talk on tape. He says he listens to KQED and he knows he’ll come off badly admitting he doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the more time I spend at Sightglass, the more I meet young people working in tech who are really, really politically engaged. None more so than 24-year-old Will Hayworth, a software developer for \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlassian.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlassian\u003c/a>. Hayworth voted the same night the ballot arrived in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t fall asleep because I was so excited to vote!” Hayworth laughs. Despite moving to San Francisco just a year and a half ago, Hayworth can go down the list of housing measures from memory, thoughtfully explaining each vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already seeing how high rents are re-shaping the city, and not in good ways,” they say. (Hayworth identifies as genderqueer, so I’ll be using the pronoun “they” from here on out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if Hayworth’s passion for politics is considered normal by friends and co-workers. Sipping on a vanilla iced cold brew, they say no. “When you try and discuss it and everything, you just sort of get blank stares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayworth’s interest makes a lot more sense when you learn politics is a family concern. Their mother \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1DuHYhDtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nan Hayworth\u003c/a> was a Republican congresswoman in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel loathed as a gay guy, sometimes. I feel loathed as a Republican among the gays. And I feel loathed as a techie by everybody who’s not in tech,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fingernails painted bright blue, Hayworth taps on an iPhone to pull up a photo of a poster you can still find slapped on telephone poles around SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10725875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10725875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-800x642.jpg\" alt='\"Brogrammers off the block,\" this poster up in SoMa reads. \"Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Brogrammers off the block,” this poster up in SoMa says. “Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Will Hayworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The logic of the poster isn’t exactly clear. Only the Mission is mentioned, although tech workers have reshaped a number of neighborhoods in the city. The list of companies seems to favor those that get a lot of media coverage, as opposed to, say, a list of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2015/03/06/san-francisco-tech-employers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top tech employers\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Whatever the case, Hayworth resents the malice communicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody, but nobody would confuse me for a brogrammer. I hope,” Hayworth says. “The fact they would just tar such a big group of people without knowing any of them. You know, obnoxious people in a bar do not represent, like, the entire tech community. And it’s really unfortunate that political discourse in San Francisco kind of throws all these people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do I relate my findings here at Sightglass to what political analysts who parse voting data say? I went back to David Latterman to get his take. He promises voters like Hayworth who are outliers now \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get noticed within a couple election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Nov. 3, San Francisco voters will be asked to decide between Mayor Ed Lee and five other candidates for San Francisco's top political job, which Lee has held since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"hHKJUgQkq9Cz031E0R6nJ6nzs0YwuU4D\"]None of Lee’s challengers have a track record in politics, nor do they have strong name recognition. The mayor has received nearly $1.5 million in campaign contributions, compared with about $42,000 raised by all five of his opponents combined. Some news outlets have gone so far as to state that Lee is running unopposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his challengers are still making the rounds to try and drum up support as Election Day nears, holding happy hours to introduce themselves to voters or even climbing aboard Muni buses to deliver impromptu stump speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 8, every contender who has thrown his or her hat into the ring had a chance to sound off at a forum organized by the San Francisco League of Women Voters. Questions were formulated by members of the audience, and contenders were allotted 60 seconds each to deliver an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228407701\" 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>Here's a rundown of who's running and what they said in response to selected questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714013\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Mayor Ed Lee, incumbent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was appointed to serve as interim mayor by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in January 2011 after then-Mayor Gavin Newsom was elected lieutenant governor. Despite initially stating that he had no intention of seeking a full term, Lee entered the November 2011 race and won. Among his opponents were two members of the Board of Supervisors and several elected officials who held citywide office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>In 2011, \"We were coming out of the worst recession ever. People were looking for all kinds of answers, but they ultimately wanted jobs. And the reason that I concentrated with supervisors on Mid-Market was ... every third storefront was empty. Porno shops every block ... There was misery in that whole site. ... So I made a promise ... that we would show our efforts there as to how to clean it up. Well, guess who led that effort? It was local artists. ... Yes, the companies took advantage, at our invitation, to come in for six-year exemption. And guess what? It's revitalizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We put together a transportation task force … but we do need infrastructure money. And I am a true believer in not only making sure we extend the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf ... I think we need to have more subway systems in the city, we need to have that extra BART tube ... and we need to have the federal government and the state government support us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We have thousands of people on the streets. Our latest model, which is the Navigation Center, we believe puts together the best services. But also [it's] inviting, gets rid of the shelter rules and makes sure people live in dignity as we place hundreds of units of housing behind that. We should work with the school district, with the Human Services Agency, to make sure that our children who are in school who are homeless … to make sure there is sustained housing for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “This past year we were able to pass a two-year budget that had no budget cuts … because we have a very strong economy. That strong economy is a reflection of good relationships with our business community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has collected endorsements from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. Jerry Brown and a host of other elected officials and political organizations. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoredlee.com/about\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Amy Farah Weiss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss has nearly a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector, including on community garden projects. She got her start in San Francisco politics by organizing \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2011/10/occupy401divis-movement-planning-boycott-of-chase-bank?utm_source=story&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=stories\">opposition to a Chase Bank on Oak and Divisadero streets\u003c/a> -- favored by Lee's Office of Economic and Workforce Development -- which displaced two independently owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In her words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>“The only tool that’s available to us to be able to acquire power is grass-roots democracy. When our leaders are not accountable to us, when they’re not using that power in a way that gives us an exciting vision for the future that’s truly inclusive and equitable, then we need to become those leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We need an environmental impact review for the tech buses. We need an environmental impact review for Uber and Lyft, and it’s ridiculous that taxi drivers have had to endure what they endured with the regulations that are put upon them, but aren’t being placed on the [transportation network companies]. The administration is just capitulating to these large corporate interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I have a background in transitional housing, mental health, reactivating spaces, starting urban gardens. I came up with an idea called transitional eco-villages where we identify all of the under-utilized city property ... and we create these transitional eco-villages. I call it the St. Francisco Super Bowl Homelessness Challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Note: Weiss said her project title \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/super-bowl-50-homeless-san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-super-bowl-city/\">is a reference to this statement\u003c/a> made by Mayor Lee.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “[Venture capitalist] Ron Conway was actually part of the plan to change our tax structure in San Francisco … but we went too far with that, and we should have put more onus on tech companies who are coming into our city to pay their fair share. … As mayor, I’m going to figure out how we get more balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss received second-place endorsements from the San Francisco Green Party and SEIU Local 1021, the city's largest public employee union, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com\">Visit her website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10713999 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS16987_IMG_8844-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart Schuffman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Stuart Schuffman, aka “Broke-Ass Stuart” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/category/the-city/sf-news-columns/broke-ass-city/\">\"Broke-Ass City,\"\u003c/a> and is the author of \"Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco\" and two other books on living cheaply. He also created and hosted a travel show on IFC called \"Young, Broke and Beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “People say they leave their heart in San Francisco -- I found my heart in San Francisco. I found a community, I found a place where everybody was welcome, no matter where they were from, or what they did, or what they were like. And that’s what we’re losing. Part of it has to do with housing, a lot of that has to do with corruption. We need to take our city back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I met my first serious girlfriend on Muni. I love Muni. Part of being a San Franciscan is using mass transit ... The city feels congested … and part of that’s because of ride-sharing. … There has to be a way we can regulate who is driving here. Also, I think that if we put a higher charge on the stops of Google buses, then we can put that money into Muni.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“There’s roughly 10,000-ish homeless people on the streets of San Francisco. And there’s roughly 10,000-ish Airbnb rentals out there -- I’m just sayin’. ... These are people who are veterans, they are people who come from broken homes, people who come from abuse, they are people who need our help, and 71 percent of them were in San Francisco residences before they were on the streets. And so, we need housing first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make them pay their taxes! I can’t wait for these tax breaks to expire -- $55 million worth of tax breaks were given to these tech companies. There are three meals per day served at the Twitter building, and there’s one meal per person at St. Anthony’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman was endorsed by comedian Margaret Cho -- because, according to his blog post, she was impressed with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SpQnlS0zo\">plan for solving San Francisco's poop problem\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\">Visit Stuart Schuffman's website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10714000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS17000_IMG_9053-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Herrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Francisco Herrera\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera has lived in the city for nearly 30 years. Originally from Mexicali, he studied political science and graduated with a master's degree in theology. He's a musician, activist and co-founder of San Francisco's Day Labor Program. After his closing remarks at the forum, Herrera treated participants to a short \u003cem>a cappella\u003c/em> tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “Forty thousand jobs -- but for people who don’t live here. Ten thousand people have been kicked out of the Mission. The Bayview-Hunters Point has been completely devastated. People are feeling the angst, a general angst, at what this has created. So, this planning is not for us. We have to come back to plan and develop for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “We need to start by limiting where these [tech] buses travel. We need to have them pay into the public common good, so that we can have a better Muni for all workers together. This corporate cheating, corporate welfare called tax breaks, just does not work, and it creates a two-tier among working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “Homelessness starts at the moment that people can’t pay the rent. There’s folks who have jobs who are living in their cars. … We all have to support\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\"> Prop. F\u003c/a> and we have to support the systems that are helping people deal with their own experience of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “This whole idea of tax breaks is nothing but corporate welfare. … Make the investor pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera won first-place endorsements from SEIU Local 1021 and the San Francisco Green Party, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714014 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Reed Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a tech-sector employee who also serves on the board of San Francisco Transit Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong> \"As someone who has spent time working in the tech industry, I understand the power of technology to influence our lives, to bring us closer, and to shape a more equitable future. At the same time, the impact this industry has on our city has not always shared these values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transportation has been my passion for the last 10 years or so. Every single building that gets built in San Francisco has to be putting money in [for transportation offsets]. The problem that we’ve seen in development in San Francisco is a lot of the development itself is happening to us, it’s not happening by us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think the Navigation Center is an interesting model. I think there are a lot of different ways that we need to be tackling homelessness in San Francisco, and the first of which is making sure we’re treating everybody with respect and taking a housing-first policy. This has to be something we do as a regional level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a strong economy, and yet we’re talking about all of the problems. I think San Francisco has a corruption problem at our core. My background is in tech, I work in tech, and we don‘t really have a tech problem. We have a corporate tech problem, and it’s money that’s coming with the corporate side and it’s working with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mayorgrandsf.org/\">Visit Reed Martin's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Graham\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Graham\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Kent Graham\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his website, Kent Graham holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and has a background in business management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"I think San Francisco deserves a manager running the show and not a politician.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I’m not so interested in what’s going to happen 20 or 30 years from now. I mean, I know we have to do it, and the transportation systems, the high-speed rails, that all has to come. But I’m going to put emphasis on how do we get this done in the next six months?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Homelessness is not a crime, it’s a condition. Before you can do anything, you have to go up to the person, find out why he’s homeless, get a read on that. Social workers in other areas of the country do this … it’s those types of things, we need more social workers involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Well, I’m troubled by the amount of new development that comes in and doesn’t pay their fair share and has workers from out of town. You can’t keep doing that and sustain what we want in San Francisco. I think we have to tax the corporations at the rate that we need to support our current population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kentgraham4mayor.com/\">Visit Graham's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Nov. 3, San Francisco voters will be asked to decide between Mayor Ed Lee and five other candidates for San Francisco's top political job, which Lee has held since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>None of Lee’s challengers have a track record in politics, nor do they have strong name recognition. The mayor has received nearly $1.5 million in campaign contributions, compared with about $42,000 raised by all five of his opponents combined. Some news outlets have gone so far as to state that Lee is running unopposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his challengers are still making the rounds to try and drum up support as Election Day nears, holding happy hours to introduce themselves to voters or even climbing aboard Muni buses to deliver impromptu stump speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 8, every contender who has thrown his or her hat into the ring had a chance to sound off at a forum organized by the San Francisco League of Women Voters. Questions were formulated by members of the audience, and contenders were allotted 60 seconds each to deliver an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228407701&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228407701'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a rundown of who's running and what they said in response to selected questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714013\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Mayor Ed Lee, incumbent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was appointed to serve as interim mayor by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in January 2011 after then-Mayor Gavin Newsom was elected lieutenant governor. Despite initially stating that he had no intention of seeking a full term, Lee entered the November 2011 race and won. Among his opponents were two members of the Board of Supervisors and several elected officials who held citywide office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>In 2011, \"We were coming out of the worst recession ever. People were looking for all kinds of answers, but they ultimately wanted jobs. And the reason that I concentrated with supervisors on Mid-Market was ... every third storefront was empty. Porno shops every block ... There was misery in that whole site. ... So I made a promise ... that we would show our efforts there as to how to clean it up. Well, guess who led that effort? It was local artists. ... Yes, the companies took advantage, at our invitation, to come in for six-year exemption. And guess what? It's revitalizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We put together a transportation task force … but we do need infrastructure money. And I am a true believer in not only making sure we extend the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf ... I think we need to have more subway systems in the city, we need to have that extra BART tube ... and we need to have the federal government and the state government support us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We have thousands of people on the streets. Our latest model, which is the Navigation Center, we believe puts together the best services. But also [it's] inviting, gets rid of the shelter rules and makes sure people live in dignity as we place hundreds of units of housing behind that. We should work with the school district, with the Human Services Agency, to make sure that our children who are in school who are homeless … to make sure there is sustained housing for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “This past year we were able to pass a two-year budget that had no budget cuts … because we have a very strong economy. That strong economy is a reflection of good relationships with our business community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has collected endorsements from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. Jerry Brown and a host of other elected officials and political organizations. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoredlee.com/about\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Amy Farah Weiss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss has nearly a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector, including on community garden projects. She got her start in San Francisco politics by organizing \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2011/10/occupy401divis-movement-planning-boycott-of-chase-bank?utm_source=story&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=stories\">opposition to a Chase Bank on Oak and Divisadero streets\u003c/a> -- favored by Lee's Office of Economic and Workforce Development -- which displaced two independently owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In her words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>“The only tool that’s available to us to be able to acquire power is grass-roots democracy. When our leaders are not accountable to us, when they’re not using that power in a way that gives us an exciting vision for the future that’s truly inclusive and equitable, then we need to become those leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We need an environmental impact review for the tech buses. We need an environmental impact review for Uber and Lyft, and it’s ridiculous that taxi drivers have had to endure what they endured with the regulations that are put upon them, but aren’t being placed on the [transportation network companies]. The administration is just capitulating to these large corporate interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I have a background in transitional housing, mental health, reactivating spaces, starting urban gardens. I came up with an idea called transitional eco-villages where we identify all of the under-utilized city property ... and we create these transitional eco-villages. I call it the St. Francisco Super Bowl Homelessness Challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Note: Weiss said her project title \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/super-bowl-50-homeless-san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-super-bowl-city/\">is a reference to this statement\u003c/a> made by Mayor Lee.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “[Venture capitalist] Ron Conway was actually part of the plan to change our tax structure in San Francisco … but we went too far with that, and we should have put more onus on tech companies who are coming into our city to pay their fair share. … As mayor, I’m going to figure out how we get more balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss received second-place endorsements from the San Francisco Green Party and SEIU Local 1021, the city's largest public employee union, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com\">Visit her website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10713999 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS16987_IMG_8844-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart Schuffman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Stuart Schuffman, aka “Broke-Ass Stuart” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/category/the-city/sf-news-columns/broke-ass-city/\">\"Broke-Ass City,\"\u003c/a> and is the author of \"Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco\" and two other books on living cheaply. He also created and hosted a travel show on IFC called \"Young, Broke and Beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “People say they leave their heart in San Francisco -- I found my heart in San Francisco. I found a community, I found a place where everybody was welcome, no matter where they were from, or what they did, or what they were like. And that’s what we’re losing. Part of it has to do with housing, a lot of that has to do with corruption. We need to take our city back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I met my first serious girlfriend on Muni. I love Muni. Part of being a San Franciscan is using mass transit ... The city feels congested … and part of that’s because of ride-sharing. … There has to be a way we can regulate who is driving here. Also, I think that if we put a higher charge on the stops of Google buses, then we can put that money into Muni.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“There’s roughly 10,000-ish homeless people on the streets of San Francisco. And there’s roughly 10,000-ish Airbnb rentals out there -- I’m just sayin’. ... These are people who are veterans, they are people who come from broken homes, people who come from abuse, they are people who need our help, and 71 percent of them were in San Francisco residences before they were on the streets. And so, we need housing first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make them pay their taxes! I can’t wait for these tax breaks to expire -- $55 million worth of tax breaks were given to these tech companies. There are three meals per day served at the Twitter building, and there’s one meal per person at St. Anthony’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman was endorsed by comedian Margaret Cho -- because, according to his blog post, she was impressed with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SpQnlS0zo\">plan for solving San Francisco's poop problem\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\">Visit Stuart Schuffman's website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10714000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS17000_IMG_9053-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Herrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Francisco Herrera\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera has lived in the city for nearly 30 years. Originally from Mexicali, he studied political science and graduated with a master's degree in theology. He's a musician, activist and co-founder of San Francisco's Day Labor Program. After his closing remarks at the forum, Herrera treated participants to a short \u003cem>a cappella\u003c/em> tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “Forty thousand jobs -- but for people who don’t live here. Ten thousand people have been kicked out of the Mission. The Bayview-Hunters Point has been completely devastated. People are feeling the angst, a general angst, at what this has created. So, this planning is not for us. We have to come back to plan and develop for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “We need to start by limiting where these [tech] buses travel. We need to have them pay into the public common good, so that we can have a better Muni for all workers together. This corporate cheating, corporate welfare called tax breaks, just does not work, and it creates a two-tier among working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “Homelessness starts at the moment that people can’t pay the rent. There’s folks who have jobs who are living in their cars. … We all have to support\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\"> Prop. F\u003c/a> and we have to support the systems that are helping people deal with their own experience of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “This whole idea of tax breaks is nothing but corporate welfare. … Make the investor pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera won first-place endorsements from SEIU Local 1021 and the San Francisco Green Party, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714014 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Reed Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a tech-sector employee who also serves on the board of San Francisco Transit Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong> \"As someone who has spent time working in the tech industry, I understand the power of technology to influence our lives, to bring us closer, and to shape a more equitable future. At the same time, the impact this industry has on our city has not always shared these values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transportation has been my passion for the last 10 years or so. Every single building that gets built in San Francisco has to be putting money in [for transportation offsets]. The problem that we’ve seen in development in San Francisco is a lot of the development itself is happening to us, it’s not happening by us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think the Navigation Center is an interesting model. I think there are a lot of different ways that we need to be tackling homelessness in San Francisco, and the first of which is making sure we’re treating everybody with respect and taking a housing-first policy. This has to be something we do as a regional level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a strong economy, and yet we’re talking about all of the problems. I think San Francisco has a corruption problem at our core. My background is in tech, I work in tech, and we don‘t really have a tech problem. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco voters will be asked to decide on a number of ballot measures this fall pertaining to the city’s affordable housing crisis. Absentee voting starts Monday, kicking off the final stretch of the campaign season before the Nov. 3 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of several housing-related proposals. Visit \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Department of Elections\u003c/a> website for more detailed information on ballot measures and local candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition A: Affordable Housing Bond\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition A is a $310 million general obligation bond that’s being floated to finance the construction or rehabilitation of 30,000 affordable housing units. The bond measure requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass, and could set a precedent for other Bay Area counties contending with their own housing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a supercharged rental market that ranks as the most expensive nationwide and \u003ca href=\"http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/09/17/new_map_compares_sf_housing_prices_to_the_most_expensive_neighborhoods_around_the_world.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even compares with pricey neighborhoods internationally\u003c/a>, there’s massive unmet need for affordable housing throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unusual to get three, four, even 5,000 applicants for a 50- or 70-unit apartment building when it opens,” Doug Shoemaker, president of affordable housing developer Mercy Housing California, said in an interview with KQED News. “We need to demonstrate to people that there are solutions to these problems, and the bond is a huge part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsored by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and backed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors, the measure has widespread support and has won endorsements from the San Francisco Democratic Party and\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Yes-on-S-F-Prop-A-6517019.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, which noted that while it would barely put a dent in the city’s affordable housing crisis, Prop. A is nevertheless “a step in the right direction.” At the same time, the San Francisco Green Party recommends a “no” vote on the measure, on the grounds that it has “few restrictions and little oversight on what the money will be spent on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition F: Restricting Short-Term Rentals \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Airbnb has spent more than $8 million fighting Proposition F, a measure backed by tenants rights groups who point to the proliferation of short-term rentals as a contributing factor to the loss of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. F seeks to impose tougher restrictions on short-term rentals by limiting them to 75 days per year across the board, requiring property owners to provide proof that they authorize short-term rentals and imposing provisions to ensure that private rentals are paying hotel taxes and complying with city codes, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website and in ad campaigns, meanwhile, Airbnb has argued that “home sharing and Airbnb are helping to fight economic inequality by giving every resident the opportunity to turn their apartment or home into an economic asset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-protesters-labeling-airbnb-stickers-2014-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been the target of protests\u003c/a>, such as the one planned for Oct. 1, when activists plan to lead a march around North Beach “to multiple formerly rent-controlled units in the area and protest evictions of their former tenants and their conversion into tourist rentals via Airbnb, VRBO, and the like,” according to a Facebook event announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulation of short-term rentals has long been a contentious issue, which\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/23/San-Francisco-Tighten-Airbnb-Law\"> KQED has covered extensively\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City law already limits short-term rentals in an effort to prohibit the conversion of rental housing to tourist use. But a hearing at Wednesday’s Budget and Finance Committee, called by Supervisor David Campos, seeks to determine whether the existing ordinance and newly created enforcement agency have been effective at collecting taxes from private short-term rentals and enforcing the existing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition I: Mission Moratorium\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition I seeks to impose a temporary moratorium on luxury housing construction 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 also develop a stabilization plan to preserve land that could be used for affordable housing in the area, which has been impacted by gentrification and displacement of long-time residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was introduced by Campos. The Mission District supervisor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/01/san-francisco-supervisors-debate-proposed-market-rate-housing-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">squared off against Supervisor Scott Wiener earlier this year on \u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, drawing a lively response from listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our strategy says to protect, to preserve the limited amount of land, let’s do a pause on luxury housing so that the city can actually buy these parcels and begin to build as quickly as possible,” Campos said during that program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener shot back: “If we don’t build the new housing, we’re going to see the pressure cooker in the Mission become an even worse pressure cooker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report by San Francisco’s Office of Economic Analysis determined that a temporary moratorium\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-report-finds-mission-moratorium-would-drive-up-housing-costs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> would not prevent the displacement\u003c/a> of current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the measure, meanwhile, say it’s needed in order to allow time to plan for more affordable-housing construction. Supporters recently made their pitch with an animated video by mayoral candidate Stuart Schuffman (aka Broke Ass Stuart), explaining his support for the measure:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/UeGAguLxw6Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stephanie Martin Taylor and Marisa Lagos contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But a hearing at Wednesday’s Budget and Finance Committee, called by Supervisor David Campos, seeks to determine whether the existing ordinance and newly created enforcement agency have been effective at collecting taxes from private short-term rentals and enforcing the existing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition I: Mission Moratorium\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition I seeks to impose a temporary moratorium on luxury housing construction 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 also develop a stabilization plan to preserve land that could be used for affordable housing in the area, which has been impacted by gentrification and displacement of long-time residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was introduced by Campos. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland is accusing Wells Fargo Bank of systematic predatory lending to minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/Oakland%20v.%20Wells%20Fargo%20endorsed%20complaint%209-21-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week, the city alleges that the bank targeted blacks and Latinos, steering them toward risky, likely-to-fail loans — the kind that caused many families to lose their homes in the ongoing foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker says the city has collected proof, including the testimony of former Well Fargo employees, suggesting the bank intentionally gave more expensive loans to African-American and Latino residents. Parker says minorities with good credit were given bad loans, in contrast to loans given to white borrowers with the same credit and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the testimony that we have gotten indicates that they felt that these borrowers were less sophisticated,\" Parker says. \"In some cases there's comments that they thought they were less intelligent. It's hard to imagine that being the case today, but in effect that's what happened over years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes the high-risk loans significant, Parker says, is that they led to a disproportionate number of foreclosures for minority homeowners — a large factor in the displacement of longtime Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank vehemently denies the claims. Wells Fargo spokesman, Ruben Pulido, sent this email to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The City Attorney’s accusations against Wells Fargo do not reflect how we operate in the communities where we do business and it’s disappointing that she has chosen this course of action over a collaborative approach to helping borrowers and home owners in Oakland. Wells Fargo has been a part of the Oakland community for more than 140 years and we will vigorously defend our record as a fair and responsible lender. We will continue to focus on helping customers in Oakland and its surrounding communities succeed financially, and on expanding homeownership in California and across the United States.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christopher Palmer, of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, says there's no doubt the housing crisis hit minorities hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subprime lending was much more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics,\" Palmer says. \"That's just a fact that just jumps out of the data.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data on their own don't necessarily mean the city can prove there was an abusive pattern that violated fair housing laws, according to Palmer. However, while proving these cases can be difficult, there have been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/wells-fargo-loans-lawsuit_n_6261356.html\" target=\"_blank\">number of lawsuits\u003c/a> filed against banks in recent years, including some by the Department of Justice, that have resulted in hefty settlements. In a very similar case in Baltimore in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo settled\u003c/a> with the U.S. Department of Justice for more than $175 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those settlements, Parker says, are part of the reason Oakland is joining with other cities — \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-suit-20150505-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">including Los Angeles\u003c/a> -- in taking on Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, with the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, says that in many ways cities are turning to the courts as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think local governments, local jurisdictions, have been trying to deal with the crisis, because they see it had not been dealt with at the federal and state level sufficiently,\" Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy/oakland-wells-fargo-foreclosures\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosure crisis\u003c/a> hit cities like Oakland directly in their pocketbooks, Parker says, leaving the city — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy\" target=\"_blank\">and the state \u003c/a>— with a large gap in property tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein says cities like Oakland are caught in a bind — they are the places that feel the full weight of the housing crisis, yet they have no way to regulate or hold banks accountable. Not for lack of trying, according to Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2001, Oakland passed an anti-predatory lending ordinance. \"That ordinance,\" Stein says, \"would have restricted abusive lending practices. And if laws like that were in place throughout all of the cities in California, then we would not have had the crisis that we ultimately had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law was challenged by the banking industry — and the California Supreme Court eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheppardmullin.com/media/article/94_pub354.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overturned the rule\u003c/a>, saying that the city did not have the authority to regulate banks in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't the only city that has tried to deal with the foreclosure crisis itself. Last year Richmond floated the idea of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/in-richmond-california-a-long-shot-against-blight.html?_r=1&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to take back foreclosed and blighted houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo blocked that move with a lawsuit -- which Stein says basically amounted to a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a way what they were arguing was the city of Richmond shouldn't be allowed to implement an eminent domain program, because the result of that would be that banks wouldn't lend in the city of Richmond,\" Stein says. \"Which is another way of saying, if you proceed with eminent domain, which we don't like -- we will redline your city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which,\" Stein adds, \"is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/\" target=\"_blank\">Redlining\u003c/a> is a practice, often thought of as in the past, that in effect cut off certain neighborhoods from receiving loans. And yes, those neighborhoods were largely populated by \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/\" target=\"_blank\">African-Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If redlining were a form of starving certain neighborhoods for credit, so-called predatory lending \u003cimg class=\"ajT\" src=\"https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\">acted as a sort of reverse redlining, Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhoods that had been deprived of conventional low-cost credit were flooded with the opposite, with the converse, just before the crisis and have suffered as a result,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Stein says, banks may be redlining again. \"In a way we've kind of come full circle,\" he says. \"What we're seeing now is kind of a return to redlining. In the best possible light, lenders are being more conservative in making loans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some cases in the courts claim something more nefarious than the pendulum swinging back from over-lending, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/business/dealbook/evans-bank-settles-new-york-redlining-lawsuit.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a recent case \u003c/a>in New York, and a case settled in 2001 in Michigan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland is accusing Wells Fargo Bank of systematic predatory lending to minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/Oakland%20v.%20Wells%20Fargo%20endorsed%20complaint%209-21-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week, the city alleges that the bank targeted blacks and Latinos, steering them toward risky, likely-to-fail loans — the kind that caused many families to lose their homes in the ongoing foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker says the city has collected proof, including the testimony of former Well Fargo employees, suggesting the bank intentionally gave more expensive loans to African-American and Latino residents. Parker says minorities with good credit were given bad loans, in contrast to loans given to white borrowers with the same credit and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the testimony that we have gotten indicates that they felt that these borrowers were less sophisticated,\" Parker says. \"In some cases there's comments that they thought they were less intelligent. It's hard to imagine that being the case today, but in effect that's what happened over years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes the high-risk loans significant, Parker says, is that they led to a disproportionate number of foreclosures for minority homeowners — a large factor in the displacement of longtime Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank vehemently denies the claims. Wells Fargo spokesman, Ruben Pulido, sent this email to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The City Attorney’s accusations against Wells Fargo do not reflect how we operate in the communities where we do business and it’s disappointing that she has chosen this course of action over a collaborative approach to helping borrowers and home owners in Oakland. Wells Fargo has been a part of the Oakland community for more than 140 years and we will vigorously defend our record as a fair and responsible lender. We will continue to focus on helping customers in Oakland and its surrounding communities succeed financially, and on expanding homeownership in California and across the United States.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christopher Palmer, of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, says there's no doubt the housing crisis hit minorities hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subprime lending was much more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics,\" Palmer says. \"That's just a fact that just jumps out of the data.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data on their own don't necessarily mean the city can prove there was an abusive pattern that violated fair housing laws, according to Palmer. However, while proving these cases can be difficult, there have been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/wells-fargo-loans-lawsuit_n_6261356.html\" target=\"_blank\">number of lawsuits\u003c/a> filed against banks in recent years, including some by the Department of Justice, that have resulted in hefty settlements. In a very similar case in Baltimore in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo settled\u003c/a> with the U.S. Department of Justice for more than $175 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those settlements, Parker says, are part of the reason Oakland is joining with other cities — \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-suit-20150505-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">including Los Angeles\u003c/a> -- in taking on Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, with the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, says that in many ways cities are turning to the courts as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think local governments, local jurisdictions, have been trying to deal with the crisis, because they see it had not been dealt with at the federal and state level sufficiently,\" Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy/oakland-wells-fargo-foreclosures\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosure crisis\u003c/a> hit cities like Oakland directly in their pocketbooks, Parker says, leaving the city — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy\" target=\"_blank\">and the state \u003c/a>— with a large gap in property tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein says cities like Oakland are caught in a bind — they are the places that feel the full weight of the housing crisis, yet they have no way to regulate or hold banks accountable. Not for lack of trying, according to Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2001, Oakland passed an anti-predatory lending ordinance. \"That ordinance,\" Stein says, \"would have restricted abusive lending practices. And if laws like that were in place throughout all of the cities in California, then we would not have had the crisis that we ultimately had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law was challenged by the banking industry — and the California Supreme Court eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheppardmullin.com/media/article/94_pub354.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overturned the rule\u003c/a>, saying that the city did not have the authority to regulate banks in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't the only city that has tried to deal with the foreclosure crisis itself. Last year Richmond floated the idea of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/in-richmond-california-a-long-shot-against-blight.html?_r=1&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to take back foreclosed and blighted houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo blocked that move with a lawsuit -- which Stein says basically amounted to a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a way what they were arguing was the city of Richmond shouldn't be allowed to implement an eminent domain program, because the result of that would be that banks wouldn't lend in the city of Richmond,\" Stein says. \"Which is another way of saying, if you proceed with eminent domain, which we don't like -- we will redline your city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which,\" Stein adds, \"is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/\" target=\"_blank\">Redlining\u003c/a> is a practice, often thought of as in the past, that in effect cut off certain neighborhoods from receiving loans. And yes, those neighborhoods were largely populated by \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/\" target=\"_blank\">African-Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If redlining were a form of starving certain neighborhoods for credit, so-called predatory lending \u003cimg class=\"ajT\" src=\"https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\">acted as a sort of reverse redlining, Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhoods that had been deprived of conventional low-cost credit were flooded with the opposite, with the converse, just before the crisis and have suffered as a result,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Stein says, banks may be redlining again. \"In a way we've kind of come full circle,\" he says. \"What we're seeing now is kind of a return to redlining. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two San Francisco supervisors want the city to buy the site of the old Pagoda Palace Theater in North Beach to help pave the way for a possible future expansion of the city's Central Subway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to purchase the site comes as its owner moves forward on turning the area into a \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2015/09/plans-moving-forward-for-luxury-condos-on-pagoda-theater-site\" target=\"_blank\">home for 19 luxury condominiums\u003c/a>, a move some believe could slow efforts to extend the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/central-subway-project\" target=\"_blank\">Central Subway Project\u003c/a> all the way to Fisherman's Wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Julie Christensen and Scott Wiener on Thursday directed the San Francisco Department of Real Estate to appraise the site so that city officials could start talks with the owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd like to see it stay in play in the hopes that it could become a critical component of our efforts to extend the subway,\" Christensen, who represents the area, said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen and Wiener, who recently unveiled his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/scott-wiener-san-francisco-muni-subway-plan\" target=\"_blank\">push to expand subway service citywide\u003c/a>, want the site at Columbus and Powell streets to become a construction staging area and eventually an entrance for a subway station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Pagoda theater is a critical site and the city needs to get it together and purchase it,\" Wiener said in a statement. \"We can't bury our heads in the sand and let this opportunity to purchase the site slip away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pagoda Palace Theater was demolished in 2013, and boring machines for the subway project were extracted at the site. The parcel is also a rare undeveloped space in North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no more large open parcels in the district,\" Christensen said. \"The fact that this one is vacant is a very unique opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen said the time is now for the city to move forward, even if the site is expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What will it cost us if we don't do this now?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a representative for the site's owner said he wants construction on the housing project to begin soon. Martin Kirkwood, a real state broker for owner Joel Campos, said the city should look elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are several other alternative sites in North Beach for a subway station which are not about to be changed to new housing stock,\" Kirkwood said in an email. \"There are politicians talking about it right now, but it's campaign season.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener is running for a seat in the state Senate and Christensen is campaigning to keep her seat on the board against former Supervisor Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin agrees with Christensen that the project should eventually be expanded to Fisherman's Wharf and that the city should consider buying the Pagoda site, but he cautions against moving too fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the city rushes to do that, they may end up paying too high a price,\" Peskin said. \"I am skeptical that the development is imminent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"I think this is a ploy by the owner of that property to get top dollar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen's proposal could help her election chances, said Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It clearly signals her strong support for the Central Subway, which is very popular in that district and especially in the Asian-American community,\" McDaniel said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Pagoda theater is a critical site and the city needs to get it together and purchase it,\" Wiener said in a statement. \"We can't bury our heads in the sand and let this opportunity to purchase the site slip away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pagoda Palace Theater was demolished in 2013, and boring machines for the subway project were extracted at the site. The parcel is also a rare undeveloped space in North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no more large open parcels in the district,\" Christensen said. \"The fact that this one is vacant is a very unique opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen said the time is now for the city to move forward, even if the site is expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What will it cost us if we don't do this now?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a representative for the site's owner said he wants construction on the housing project to begin soon. Martin Kirkwood, a real state broker for owner Joel Campos, said the city should look elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are several other alternative sites in North Beach for a subway station which are not about to be changed to new housing stock,\" Kirkwood said in an email. \"There are politicians talking about it right now, but it's campaign season.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener is running for a seat in the state Senate and Christensen is campaigning to keep her seat on the board against former Supervisor Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin agrees with Christensen that the project should eventually be expanded to Fisherman's Wharf and that the city should consider buying the Pagoda site, but he cautions against moving too fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the city rushes to do that, they may end up paying too high a price,\" Peskin said. \"I am skeptical that the development is imminent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"I think this is a ploy by the owner of that property to get top dollar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen's proposal could help her election chances, said Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It clearly signals her strong support for the Central Subway, which is very popular in that district and especially in the Asian-American community,\" McDaniel said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The next time you bring home a case of those little 16-ounce bottles of water, imagine living out of them: pouring a little out every time you wash a dish and dumping them into buckets to shower or flush the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Maria Medina’s family has done since their well went dry 18 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I use just a little bit of water,” Medina explains in Spanish as she trickles water over a dirty plate. “It takes about half of one of these bottles to wash a single dish. I have to use enough water to get the soap off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina, her husband and two children live in Okieville, a cluster of ramshackle houses and trailer homes in rural Tulare County. Originally settled by Dust Bowl migrants, the unincorporated community is now home to mostly Mexican farmworkers and their families. Because of the drought, many of them have seen their wells slow to a trickle -- or go completely dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A year and a half and no water. It’s really hard,” sighs Medina. “Okieville used to be such a pretty place. I had grass. Now I just have a poor dog chained up to a dead tree. The situation just feels so impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686936\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10686936 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter Guadalupe outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter, Guadalupe, outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She and her 18-year-old son, Ricardo, fan themselves in their sweltering kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t even turn on the swamp cooler,” he says. “No water, no cooler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m telling you,” his mother jokes. “Sometimes the only way we get a bath is from our own sweat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last year and a half, Gov. Jerry Brown has set aside $587 million for immediate emergency drought relief. But a third of that money still hasn’t been spent. And the Medinas have yet to see any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is it?” Medina asks, throwing her hands up in the air. “We’re here. And there isn’t any help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Communications Gap\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that some families, like the Medinas, haven’t reported their dry wells to the county because they don’t know that help is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent open house for a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.cset.org/droughtresources\">drought assistance center in nearby Porterville\u003c/a>, county officials and nonprofits tried to get the word out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224884468\" 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>“If your well goes dry, you want to sign up immediately for the bottled drinking water program,” advised Tulare County’s Melissa Withnell, “because you want to make sure you have water to drink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Withnell says Tulare County is \u003ca href=\"http://tularecounty.ca.gov/emergencies/index.cfm/drought/household-bottled-water-program/\">delivering bottles of water\u003c/a> to about 1,200 homes where wells have gone dry. \u003ca href=\"http://www.selfhelpenterprises.org/programs/community-development/drought-response/\">Another program\u003c/a> installs tanks of water at homes so people can shower and flush toilets. But the Medinas, who don’t own their home, don’t qualify for a tank because, so far, state funds can’t be used to pay for upgrades to rental properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as falling through the cracks, the people that might be are renters who live in homes that are without water,” explains Withnell. “Unfortunately, the county's not in a position where we can do any type of enforcement toward landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a waiting list for homeowners, too. So far, the county has installed more than 360 tanks, although wells for more than 1,700 homes have gone dry. And yet Tulare County’s program is the most aggressive in the region. Nearby Fresno County has installed just eight household water tanks. The state estimates close to 150 homes in the county are without water, but there could be more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flying Blind\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any way of keeping track of all the wells that have gone dry,” says Wayne Fox, with the Fresno County Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago..jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10686942\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alvaro Alvarez and his family had been out of water for almost 18 months before a county-sponsored nonprofit installed a water tank at their Porterville home last month. Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvaro Alvarez and his family had been out of water for almost 18 months before a county-sponsored nonprofit installed a water tank at their Porterville home last month. Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To estimate the number of dry wells in the county, says Fox, they rely on state data combined with a list of county residents who’ve applied for permits to drill new wells on their property. But only homeowners who can potentially foot the bill for a new well -- typically thousands of dollars -- will be on that list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many counties don’t collect data on private wells serving individual homes. Yet it’s the counties that have to work out the best ways to provide relief, says Eric Lamoureux with the state Office of Emergency Services. His agency is coordinating drought relief with individual counties -- the state estimates that \u003ca href=\"http://ca.gov/drought/pdf/Weekly-Drought-Update.pdf\">some 12,000 household wells have gone dry in the drought\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never dealt with a drought response of this magnitude in California,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has distributed nearly 900,000 food boxes to food banks in drought-stricken communities and has distributed over $400,000 to help low-income families pay their water bills. That's an unprecedented level of assistance, according to Lamoureux, who acknowledges that water tank programs were slow to ramp up. Local agencies had to figure out how to build and install them, and the state had to find the water to fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tank program was something we had never done in the history of California,” he says, “so understanding what the logistical challenges were going to be on the front end was very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Failing Grade\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Omar Carillo, an advocate with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/\">Community Water Center\u003c/a>, headquartered in Tulare County, says the state hasn’t worked fast enough for families like the Medinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not an appropriate response,” he says. “If you have an individual home and they haven’t had water for 18 months, that is a big problem. That is a huge problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10686934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\" alt=\"Medina’s daughter Guadalupe prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg 4272w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medina’s daughter, Guadalupe, prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He blames the state’s alphabet soup of agencies working to address the drought with different pockets of money, and questions whether the state’s emergency services office, which traditionally handles wildfires and earthquakes, is the most qualified agency to coordinate the efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of Emergency Services is more set up to address maybe more short-term needs,” he says, “but ultimately what we’re looking at here is a multiyear drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funds are earmarked for a range of emergency relief efforts, from drinking water to public showers to food boxes for farmworkers. State officials acknowledge the slow pace of spending, but point out that the vast majority of the nearly $4 billion in total drought funding is meant for longer-term construction projects, such as connecting homes to existing city water systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Maria Medina says she will stay in her house without water because she has no choice. The drought has cost her husband his longtime job in the cotton fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve looked,” Medina says. “We can’t move because another house is more expensive. And we can’t pay more; there’s no work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina’s son, Ricardo, can’t even make money mowing lawns for his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much I used to cut every yard out here; now, no water, no yard,” he shrugs. “I’m going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has allocated about $6 million to help families relocate. But so far, none of that money has made its way to people like the Medinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a Bay Area nonprofit has launched a new online fundraising effort. Through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.droughtrelief.org/\">Drought Relief Fund\u003c/a>, individual Californians can donate to help fill in the gaps for families that have had no help from the state or county government.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The next time you bring home a case of those little 16-ounce bottles of water, imagine living out of them: pouring a little out every time you wash a dish and dumping them into buckets to shower or flush the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Maria Medina’s family has done since their well went dry 18 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I use just a little bit of water,” Medina explains in Spanish as she trickles water over a dirty plate. “It takes about half of one of these bottles to wash a single dish. I have to use enough water to get the soap off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina, her husband and two children live in Okieville, a cluster of ramshackle houses and trailer homes in rural Tulare County. Originally settled by Dust Bowl migrants, the unincorporated community is now home to mostly Mexican farmworkers and their families. Because of the drought, many of them have seen their wells slow to a trickle -- or go completely dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A year and a half and no water. It’s really hard,” sighs Medina. “Okieville used to be such a pretty place. I had grass. Now I just have a poor dog chained up to a dead tree. The situation just feels so impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686936\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10686936 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter Guadalupe outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter, Guadalupe, outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She and her 18-year-old son, Ricardo, fan themselves in their sweltering kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvaro Alvarez and his family had been out of water for almost 18 months before a county-sponsored nonprofit installed a water tank at their Porterville home last month. Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To estimate the number of dry wells in the county, says Fox, they rely on state data combined with a list of county residents who’ve applied for permits to drill new wells on their property. But only homeowners who can potentially foot the bill for a new well -- typically thousands of dollars -- will be on that list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many counties don’t collect data on private wells serving individual homes. Yet it’s the counties that have to work out the best ways to provide relief, says Eric Lamoureux with the state Office of Emergency Services. His agency is coordinating drought relief with individual counties -- the state estimates that \u003ca href=\"http://ca.gov/drought/pdf/Weekly-Drought-Update.pdf\">some 12,000 household wells have gone dry in the drought\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never dealt with a drought response of this magnitude in California,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has distributed nearly 900,000 food boxes to food banks in drought-stricken communities and has distributed over $400,000 to help low-income families pay their water bills. That's an unprecedented level of assistance, according to Lamoureux, who acknowledges that water tank programs were slow to ramp up. Local agencies had to figure out how to build and install them, and the state had to find the water to fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tank program was something we had never done in the history of California,” he says, “so understanding what the logistical challenges were going to be on the front end was very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Failing Grade\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Omar Carillo, an advocate with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/\">Community Water Center\u003c/a>, headquartered in Tulare County, says the state hasn’t worked fast enough for families like the Medinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not an appropriate response,” he says. “If you have an individual home and they haven’t had water for 18 months, that is a big problem. That is a huge problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10686934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\" alt=\"Medina’s daughter Guadalupe prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg 4272w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medina’s daughter, Guadalupe, prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He blames the state’s alphabet soup of agencies working to address the drought with different pockets of money, and questions whether the state’s emergency services office, which traditionally handles wildfires and earthquakes, is the most qualified agency to coordinate the efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of Emergency Services is more set up to address maybe more short-term needs,” he says, “but ultimately what we’re looking at here is a multiyear drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funds are earmarked for a range of emergency relief efforts, from drinking water to public showers to food boxes for farmworkers. 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