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Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”amQD6ZjYu8t2YRGCmpFryBtpOyytyVJQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. According to the mayor’s office, 10.3 million square feet of office and R&D space is in the pipeline in North San Jose alone, the neighborhood Apple is considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been growing at a record clip for really the last two or three years in terms of jobs,” says Mayor Sam Liccardo. “What we’re seeing in terms of demand for sites from employers has been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says from the time he moved to Sunnyvale in 1970, “Everything historically has rolled from north to south: high tech companies, occupancies, vacancies, rents, roll from Palo Alto south to San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it is important that San Jose takes advantage of the current boom to lock in new tech companies. That’s because while he doesn’t think this tech boom is a bubble, he says he’s seen enough economic busts to doubt that any boom lasts forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because our cycles tend to be steeper, there’s more pressure for cities to get with it before the inevitable downturn to come.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 3:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/07/09/exclusiveapple-signs-major-lease-in-north-san-jose.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> has reported that Apple Inc. signed a major lease for space in San Jose. Citing unnamed sources, the business publication said the Cupertino-based company has reached an agreement to lease nearly 300,000 square feet in North San Jose. The deal, if confirmed, would mark Apple’s first major entry into San Jose in quite some time. Apple wouldn’t comment on the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of two-part series looking at why San Jose, the third largest city in California, has faced fiscal problems while the tech boom is enriching the Silicon Valley communities around it. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. 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"content": "\u003cp>In most fire stations across America, you’ll find a fire engine ready to fight fires. But in San Jose, budget cuts forced the Fire Department to mothball a handful of engines. So some stations have trucks that can respond to medical emergencies -- but they can't put out fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in those areas, you see a big red vehicle in the building, and you think, 'Oh, we've got a fire engine here; we're OK,' \" explains San Jose Fire Capt. Sean Kaldor, who is also vice president of IAFF, Local 230. \"The reality is they're not carrying the water it would take to put out a fire, or to stop that fire from spreading in your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2RvVMonWOFVa4cxqRSnTUYY2mIxMuSLN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, two years ago, a house \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Serial-San-Jose-Arsonist-Sparks-Concerns-About-Fire-Department-Staffing-240190001.html\" target=\"_blank\">across the street from Station 30\u003c/a> burned. While the neighbors yelled at firefighters to do something, all they could do was call for help from other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's under-resourced fire stations provide just one example of the fiscal challenges facing California's third-largest city. San Jose is barely in the black after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Yet all around San Jose, the Silicon Valley boom is pumping unprecedented wealth into the Bay Area. Why is San Jose -- the self-described “Heart of Silicon Valley” -- not riding the economic wave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10585514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 72 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Fire Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 68 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"In Silicon Valley, in the public sector, we live in a very different world than in the private sector,\" says Mayor Sam Liccardo. \"Many of the employers that drive Silicon Valley innovation and many of the large employers are located just outside our border, and so we don’t get necessarily all the tax revenue from all those companies’ growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, being “wealth-adjacent” doesn’t do anything for city coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213818606\" 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>With 1 million residents, San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the United State, according to the U.S. Census. But each workday, it drops to the equivalent of the 13th-largest city. That's because residents leave San Jose for jobs elsewhere in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has negative consequences for the city budget. Take sales taxes, for instance. San Jose pulls in some of the lowest revenues per capita in Santa Clara County. Every business lunch bought in Los Gatos, every pair of hiking boots in Campbell, helps to cement a regional imbalance. The smaller cities are pulling in more sales tax income relative to their population base. That applies to hotel, business, utility and parcel taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/local-taxes/voter-approval-032014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10582009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 728px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10582009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\" alt=\"San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are.\" width=\"728\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png 728w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Jose Auditor's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more taxes a city has coming in, the more money it has to pay for services like police and fire protection. Ideally, a city cultivates a healthy mix of residential, corporate and retail taxes to pay the bills. Here again is where San Jose is out of balance: It's housing-heavy. More housing means more people who draw on city services. And in a post-Proposition 13 era when many property tax bills are more or less frozen in time, that’s a big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did San Jose get into this budgetary pickle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals start by blaming A.P. “Dutch” Hamann, city manager back in the '50s and '60s. He was the guy who started paving over farmland to create a sprawling suburb in the image of Los Angeles. (Before the city tied itself to the Silicon Valley moniker, the area was \"The Valley of Heart’s Delight.\") This video shows how dramatically the city grew after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5sDrsHEtPI]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a good idea at the time. The \"Greatest Generation\" was raising a bumper crop of baby boomers. Defense firms were hiring locally. And Hamann could count on an ever-growing pot of property taxes because Prop 13 hadn’t passed yet. By the time he left in 1969,\u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2013-04-04/shaping-downtown-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose had grown\u003c/a> from 17 to 136 square miles, from 95,000 to roughly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was city manager when it was the Divine Right of Kings-era of city managers,\" says Tom McEnery, mayor through much of the 1980s and the son of \"Big John\" McEnery, who was good friends with Hamann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamann wasn’t the last housing-happy bureaucrat. Long after San Jose planners should have known better, they kept paving over not just farmland but factories, warehouses and office complexes in favor of housing, McEnery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands of acres that should have been the tax base for cops, youth workers, firefighters, et cetera, was pretty much gobbled up in a mistaken attempt to satisfy a lot of developers that didn’t deserve to be satisfied in that way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10584434 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From an overpass above 280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an overpass above I-280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose is now the biggest bedroom community in Silicon Valley, but it didn’t find the right balance to create the tax base it needs today. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> tech boom offers San Jose another chance to get that mix right. Or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is one of two exploring San Jose's struggles in the midst of this tech boom. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/08/finally-san-jose-starts-to-capitalize-on-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2\u003c/a> looks at how the city is finally beginning to capitalize on the wealth of tech companies expanding across the region.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, being “wealth-adjacent” doesn’t do anything for city coffers.\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/213818606&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/213818606'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 1 million residents, San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the United State, according to the U.S. Census. But each workday, it drops to the equivalent of the 13th-largest city. That's because residents leave San Jose for jobs elsewhere in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has negative consequences for the city budget. Take sales taxes, for instance. San Jose pulls in some of the lowest revenues per capita in Santa Clara County. Every business lunch bought in Los Gatos, every pair of hiking boots in Campbell, helps to cement a regional imbalance. The smaller cities are pulling in more sales tax income relative to their population base. That applies to hotel, business, utility and parcel taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/local-taxes/voter-approval-032014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10582009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 728px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10582009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\" alt=\"San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are.\" width=\"728\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png 728w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Jose Auditor's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more taxes a city has coming in, the more money it has to pay for services like police and fire protection. Ideally, a city cultivates a healthy mix of residential, corporate and retail taxes to pay the bills. Here again is where San Jose is out of balance: It's housing-heavy. More housing means more people who draw on city services. And in a post-Proposition 13 era when many property tax bills are more or less frozen in time, that’s a big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did San Jose get into this budgetary pickle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals start by blaming A.P. “Dutch” Hamann, city manager back in the '50s and '60s. He was the guy who started paving over farmland to create a sprawling suburb in the image of Los Angeles. (Before the city tied itself to the Silicon Valley moniker, the area was \"The Valley of Heart’s Delight.\") This video shows how dramatically the city grew after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/y5sDrsHEtPI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/y5sDrsHEtPI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a good idea at the time. The \"Greatest Generation\" was raising a bumper crop of baby boomers. Defense firms were hiring locally. And Hamann could count on an ever-growing pot of property taxes because Prop 13 hadn’t passed yet. By the time he left in 1969,\u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2013-04-04/shaping-downtown-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose had grown\u003c/a> from 17 to 136 square miles, from 95,000 to roughly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was city manager when it was the Divine Right of Kings-era of city managers,\" says Tom McEnery, mayor through much of the 1980s and the son of \"Big John\" McEnery, who was good friends with Hamann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamann wasn’t the last housing-happy bureaucrat. Long after San Jose planners should have known better, they kept paving over not just farmland but factories, warehouses and office complexes in favor of housing, McEnery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands of acres that should have been the tax base for cops, youth workers, firefighters, et cetera, was pretty much gobbled up in a mistaken attempt to satisfy a lot of developers that didn’t deserve to be satisfied in that way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10584434 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From an overpass above 280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an overpass above I-280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose is now the biggest bedroom community in Silicon Valley, but it didn’t find the right balance to create the tax base it needs today. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> tech boom offers San Jose another chance to get that mix right. 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"content": "\u003cp>An anonymous donor has given San Francisco $3 million to help address homelessness. The city is using the donation to try something new — a homeless shelter with fewer rules and more open space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is running the Navigation Center in conjunction with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfinterfaithcouncil.org/\">San Francisco Interfaith Council\u003c/a>, a community organization. The shelter is a kind of pilot project. The goal is to create an efficient path from the street to housing. One big hope is that tech companies will see success and contribute much-needed funds for more programs like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213673858″ 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\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re trying to lower the barriers to access shelter.’\u003ccite>Julie Leadbetter,\u003cbr>\nNavigation Center director\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Navigation Center is near the 16th Street BART Station in the Mission District. Much of the surrounding area has been gentrified, pushing the poor and homeless into neglected spots like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of the day, homeless people are scattered around the intersection, some with shopping carts, others sleeping on pieces of cardboard. People are shouting, rattling cups with coins. A group of guys in a corner gamble over a game of dice. The smell of urine comes in strong bursts along the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the Navigation Center is a completely different scene. There is a big open courtyard, with lots of sunlight. Guests are reading books, working on bikes, playing music. There is a lounge area with a TV playing the NBA Finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This place does not feel like typical shelters, which are struggling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/18/a-homeless-man-brings-wi-fi-to-san-francisco-shelters\">just to provide a place to sleep\u003c/a>. There is an abundance of open space. The capacity is 75 guests, and no one is crammed anywhere. There is no curfew, so people can come and go whenever they please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Naethe is sitting at a picnic bench in the middle of the courtyard. Naethe is an Army veteran. He has been homeless 15 years but never went to a shelter. He couldn’t abandon the love of his life on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naethe calls over Benthe, an English Staffordshire terrier he has been with for years. Naethe says he “doesn’t go nowhere she won’t go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10564467\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 523px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10564467 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut-e1434404599131-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Naethe did not have to leave the love of his life behind to stay at The Navigation Center\" width=\"523\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut-e1434404599131-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut-e1434404599131-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut-e1434404599131-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut-e1434404599131-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut-e1434404599131-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15478_IMG_2924.JPG-qut-e1434404599131.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Naethe did not have to leave the love of his life behind to stay at the Navigation Center \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At most shelters, Naethe would have to leave his dog behind. But not at the Navigation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Leadbetter is the center’s director. “We’re trying to lower the barriers to access shelter,” she says. What is really innovative here is that guests can bring what are called the “three Ps”– pets, possessions and partners. Leadbetter says, “It’s about addressing people with their lives intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, treating them like people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is easy to see the difference that makes with someone like Naethe. He has his dog, his things, friends out on the street. Most shelters cannot accommodate all that. They are rooms crammed with beds, and there is no place to put all your stuff. Couples can’t stay together in the same bed or dorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to create a place that breaks down the very little supports that people have,” Leadbetter says, “It’s about starting with what they have and building up.” And building quickly. The original goal was to get people benefits and housing in two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city put services directly on-site to cut through all the red tape. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/\">Episcopal Community Services\u003c/a> is providing support, such as counseling and case management. Guests can sign up for benefits and programs right at the shelter. It’s remarkable, says Naethe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do it all here. They’ve got general assistance workers here, they’ve got case managers here. It’s a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it opened 2½ months ago, the Navigation Center has gotten 35 people into housing. But it is already taking longer than hoped to sort everything out and find homes — about a month per person instead of two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Bevan Dufty is San Francisco’s director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement (HOPE), a city agency dedicated to addressing homelessness. Dufty thinks the program could spur tech companies to get off the sidelines and kick in more financial support. He says, “The technology companies that are here, they want to see us do a better job responding to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The technology companies that are here, they want to see us do a better job responding to homelessness.’\u003ccite>Bevan Dufty, director of HOPE\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dufty hopes the original donor will renew the $3 million pledge once it runs out. He says this kind of private cash makes a program like the Navigation Center easier to jump-start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives you the latitude to be much more nimble and dynamic with what you are doing,” Dufty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the city is making homelessness more of a priority in its budget. Mayor Ed Lee announced about $29 million more will be spent on homelessness over the next two years. But homeless advocates say that budget increase won’t solve the big problem: the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10564468\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 276px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10564468\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"James Quiet was living on the street even though he was working as a cook at AT&T Park.\" width=\"276\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Quiet was living on the street, even though he was working as a cook at AT&T Park. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is just too expensive. Even people with steady jobs are ending up out on the street. That is what happened to James Quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last year, Quiet says he was a cook at AT&T Park during the day. At night he slept on the street. He was working and homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiet says having a job made it hard for him to get support for housing. He is not disabled, elderly or a veteran, so he couldn’t get benefits through most specialized programs. Quiet couldn’t afford shelter, but he did not qualify for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navigation Center took Quiet in. “It’s a blessing,” he says, “Without this, I’d still be homeless on the street, I’d still be sleeping on the sidewalk and going to work. That would be my reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Navigation Center, both Allen Naethe and James Quiet have now found housing. Quiet says having his own home will be a life-changer. He will finally have a place to put his things and start rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">‘Without this, I’d still be sleeping on the sidewalk and going to work. That would be my reality.’\u003ccite>James Quiet\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Regardless of success stories, the whole Navigation Center experiment could be short-lived. The property it is on will start being developed into affordable housing by 2017. Dufty hopes the shelter can secure a new home before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as anyone in San Francisco knows, finding a home in this city is not an easy thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the Navigation Center is a completely different scene. There is a big open courtyard, with lots of sunlight. Guests are reading books, working on bikes, playing music. There is a lounge area with a TV playing the NBA Finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This place does not feel like typical shelters, which are struggling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/18/a-homeless-man-brings-wi-fi-to-san-francisco-shelters\">just to provide a place to sleep\u003c/a>. There is an abundance of open space. The capacity is 75 guests, and no one is crammed anywhere. There is no curfew, so people can come and go whenever they please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Naethe is sitting at a picnic bench in the middle of the courtyard. Naethe is an Army veteran. He has been homeless 15 years but never went to a shelter. 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But not at the Navigation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Leadbetter is the center’s director. “We’re trying to lower the barriers to access shelter,” she says. What is really innovative here is that guests can bring what are called the “three Ps”– pets, possessions and partners. Leadbetter says, “It’s about addressing people with their lives intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, treating them like people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is easy to see the difference that makes with someone like Naethe. He has his dog, his things, friends out on the street. Most shelters cannot accommodate all that. They are rooms crammed with beds, and there is no place to put all your stuff. Couples can’t stay together in the same bed or dorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to create a place that breaks down the very little supports that people have,” Leadbetter says, “It’s about starting with what they have and building up.” And building quickly. The original goal was to get people benefits and housing in two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city put services directly on-site to cut through all the red tape. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/\">Episcopal Community Services\u003c/a> is providing support, such as counseling and case management. Guests can sign up for benefits and programs right at the shelter. It’s remarkable, says Naethe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do it all here. They’ve got general assistance workers here, they’ve got case managers here. It’s a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it opened 2½ months ago, the Navigation Center has gotten 35 people into housing. But it is already taking longer than hoped to sort everything out and find homes — about a month per person instead of two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Bevan Dufty is San Francisco’s director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement (HOPE), a city agency dedicated to addressing homelessness. Dufty thinks the program could spur tech companies to get off the sidelines and kick in more financial support. He says, “The technology companies that are here, they want to see us do a better job responding to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The technology companies that are here, they want to see us do a better job responding to homelessness.’\u003ccite>Bevan Dufty, director of HOPE\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dufty hopes the original donor will renew the $3 million pledge once it runs out. He says this kind of private cash makes a program like the Navigation Center easier to jump-start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives you the latitude to be much more nimble and dynamic with what you are doing,” Dufty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the city is making homelessness more of a priority in its budget. Mayor Ed Lee announced about $29 million more will be spent on homelessness over the next two years. But homeless advocates say that budget increase won’t solve the big problem: the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10564468\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 276px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10564468\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"James Quiet was living on the street even though he was working as a cook at AT&T Park.\" width=\"276\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15479_IMG_2912.JPG-qut-e1434404892919-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Quiet was living on the street, even though he was working as a cook at AT&T Park. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is just too expensive. Even people with steady jobs are ending up out on the street. That is what happened to James Quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last year, Quiet says he was a cook at AT&T Park during the day. At night he slept on the street. He was working and homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiet says having a job made it hard for him to get support for housing. He is not disabled, elderly or a veteran, so he couldn’t get benefits through most specialized programs. Quiet couldn’t afford shelter, but he did not qualify for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navigation Center took Quiet in. “It’s a blessing,” he says, “Without this, I’d still be homeless on the street, I’d still be sleeping on the sidewalk and going to work. That would be my reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Navigation Center, both Allen Naethe and James Quiet have now found housing. Quiet says having his own home will be a life-changer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Agency-overseeing-Berkeley-builder-unaware-of-6354649.php\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxon Van Derbeken reported\u003c/a> in a story published Sunday that Segue has paid $26.5 million in settlements in just the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Chronicle notes that the contractors board knew nothing about those settlements or others that go at least as far back as 2004 because state law requires only formal, court-imposed judgments to be reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Chron:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We didn’t know — that’s a problem,” said David Fogt, the board’s enforcement chief, who said his agency found out only after the June 16 collapse that Segue had a long history of construction-defect lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody has to let us know about it,” Fogt said. “It’s troubling that we didn’t. We had no prior complaints. There is nothing in place that would notify us of a lawsuit ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... As a result of the Berkeley collapse, Fogt said, he will press for changes that would mandate that contractors report settlements for construction defects to the board within 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good example of why we need to fix it, so we can get notice sent to us,” Fogt said. “Perhaps this horrible tragedy will make that happen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segue's comment to the Chronicle: It's cooperating with all investigations.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A poll released Thursday by a business-backed policy organization found more than three-quarters of Bay Area residents support building more low- to middle-income housing, and a growing number of people favor greater density in their neighborhoods if it would create more places to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the epicenter of housing concern for the whole Bay Area, finding an affordable place to live ranked higher than worries about California's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">extreme drought\u003c/a> in the 2015 Bay Area Council Poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Water isn’t the only thing that’s in short supply in the Bay Area,\" Bay Area Council President Jim Wunderman wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://documents.bayareacouncil.org/RELEASE_2015%20Bay%20Area%20Council%20Poll_Housing_062515.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>. “We need a bold regional response to our historic housing crisis that is on par with the aggressive and immediate action we’re taking to combat the drought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water worries surpassed housing concerns in every other corner of the Bay Area -- but not, the Bay Area Council points out, if you combine housing and cost of living. It's worth noting that lawn-scarce San Francisco has already met state-mandated water conservation goals and is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/06/23/san-francisco-requires-water-recycling/\" target=\"_blank\">taking steps\u003c/a> to use even less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the news is not so good for the city's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out\" target=\"_blank\">affordable housing crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577352\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Epicenter-Map_fix.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10577352\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Epicenter-Map_fix.jpg\" alt=\"The Bay Area Council's poll included an interactive map that asked respondents to click where they thought new housing is most needed.\" width=\"550\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Epicenter-Map_fix.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Epicenter-Map_fix-400x462.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Area Council's poll included an interactive map that asked respondents to click where they thought new housing is most needed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of EMC Research)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's pervasive,\" said Matt Regan, a Bay Area Council senior vice president of public policy who focuses on housing issues. \"The housing crisis that we currently find ourselves in is impacting every family across economic spectrums.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it was a first to find that half of Bay Area residents support new housing construction, even if it increases the density of their cities. Support for new housing with greater density was higher in Santa Clara (56 percent), Alameda (55 percent) and San Francisco (53 percent) counties. An even larger majority -- 61 percent -- of San Franciscans said they'd accept new housing in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s a new phenomenon for us,\" Regan said. \"People are saying things they’ve never said before about welcoming new development in their neighborhoods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's release was a drill-down into housing-related responses and part of the Bay Area Council's yearly poll. Oakland-based EMC Research administered the online survey of 1,000 adults, all residents of the nine-county Bay Area. Respondents were fairly evenly represented across income levels, and most live in Santa Clara, Alameda and San Francisco counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council also asked questions about reducing state and local regulations that could \"hasten new housing,\" according to the group's press release. The poll noted growing support for reducing local building regulations and fees, and reforming state-level environmental impact regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New support for increased density wasn't particularly surprising to Peter Cohen, who co-chairs the San Francisco Council of Community Housing Organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not surprised at all that folks are interested in a more urbanistic environment, even in their own neighborhoods,\" he said. \"I’m not surprised at all that people want low- and middle-income housing, but that does not mean the answer is to strip away regulation and let the free market run its course. That’s not what this is saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen pointed out a question in the poll that asked whether people would support making it \"easier to build housing while still maintaining environmental protections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That makes it seem like you can have your cake and eat it, too,\" he said. \"How do you do that? There’s no answer. It just sounds good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regan said low- and middle-income housing -- far below San Francisco's market rates -- is a \"doughnut hole\" in the region's housing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is funding for very low-income homes, and the market rate housing will obviously take care of itself,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what Regan called \"workforce housing,\" for teachers and firefighters, has slipped through the cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s the most difficult to finance,\" he said, \"and that’s where the respondents of the poll have said we need to focus our attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regan said the poll shows growing support for deregulation, so housing can be built for people at all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen, however, sees the opposite, and believes San Francisco needs more regulation to control short-term rentals (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/airbnb\" target=\"_blank\">like \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/?af=1922719&c=A_TC%3Dm84nccm9s3%26G_MT%3De%26G_CR%3D22111491256%26G_N%3Dg%26G_K%3Dairbnb%26G_P%3D&gclid=Cj0KEQjwza6sBRCMiaaPtY_c2tIBEiQAacj5IxpNzn_abL1mG8w1BzlX5oYdLbPPHiCTet4g0TZrKZMaArYg8P8HAQ&dclid=CL6T1ZmMrMYCFW0dRQodFagLEg\">Airbnb\u003c/a>), and stem evictions from rent-controlled properties in favor of market-rate condo conversions. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:36 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley has joined the Alameda County District Attorney's probe into the fatal balcony collapse, after announcing Tuesday that its investigation was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-joins-criminal-probe-into-balcony-6347588.php\">a report in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Berkeley officials initially said they weren't trying to determine what led to the dry rot that caused the structure to fail, but changed their position around the same time that Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that her office planned to look into the matter. O'Malley's office is now leading the investigation, with Berkeley police also taking part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also noted that Berkeley police had retained the collapsed balcony as evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:55 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced Thursday that her office will conduct a criminal investigation into the balcony collapse that killed six in downtown Berkeley on June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said it will include forensic and laboratory analysis, making it broader in scope than an investigation completed by the city of Berkeley Tuesday. The probe will determine whether there was criminal negligence that led to the deaths. If negligence is found, a possible charge would be involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The negligence that we'll be evaluating must be aggravated, culpable, gross or reckless,\" she explained, \"and it must be conduct that is such a departure from what could be the conduct of an ordinarily prudent person, or careful person, as to be incompatible with protecting life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of the six people killed were Irish nationals. Speaking to the families of the young people who were killed, O'Malley said, \"Each of you deserves to have this case thoroughly and exhaustively investigated. We will do so, and that is the pledge I make from my office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City of Berkeley building inspectors are confirming \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/17/experts-suspect-dry-rot-to-blame-for-berkeley-balcony-plunge\" target=\"_blank\">what several independent experts said\u003c/a> in the wake of last week's fatal balcony collapse: The lumber that was supposed to support the structure showed signs of extensive dry rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press conference Tuesday, the city also said that even though it's not known how water got into the balcony structure and caused it to deteriorate, its investigation into the collapse is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our analysis is complete and we the city are not going to be conducting any further investigations,\" said Eric Angstadt, Berkeley's director of planning and development. City spokesman Matthai Chakko added that the city is not conducting a criminal investigation into the collapse, which killed six people -- apparently the deadliest single incident in Berkeley's nearly 150-year-history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office is \"reaching out to the city of Berkeley\" and \"will begin looking at this matter,\" Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick wrote in an email response. The office is not providing any further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Attorney David Anderson represents plaintiffs pressing personal injury claims against property managers. He said criminal charges are unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's highly unlikely that there was anything deliberate, purposeful or even a conscious disregard of safety,\" he said, adding the building's owner and property management company would likely face civil litigation, though. \"If you're going to accept rent, you've got to use some of that to pay to keep the place safe for people that are using it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster occurred last week at the Library Gardens apartment complex, a development on downtown Berkeley's Kittredge Street completed in 2007. The six people who died -- five of them students from Ireland working in the Bay Area for the summer -- plunged to the street when the fifth-floor balcony failed during a party. 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The inspectors observed that the deck joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be severely dry rotted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And subsequent inspections by daylight confirmed that impression. The city's supervising building inspector, Patrick Emmons, was hoisted on a platform to get a close-up look at the collapsed balcony, and observed \"that the joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be extensively rotted at the failure points.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found dry rot in the balcony immediately below the one that collapsed. They ordered that balcony removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt, the city planning director, cautioned that the inspectors' findings are not a formal determination of the cause of the balcony collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our observations were is there was severe deterioriation of the wooden structural members,\" Angstadt said. \"The most likely cause of that deterioration was dry rot, and the most likely contributor to dry rot is moisture infiltration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt also said the city is not investigating how the moisture got into the interior of the balcony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know and we're not going to know or determine how the moisture got into the assembly,\" he said. \"What we're going to do is make a set of recommendations that will hopefully deal with any form of moisture infiltration to closed assemblies in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those recommendations for emergency changes to the city's building code include improved ventilation for the enclosed portions of balcony support structures, requiring the use of resistant or specially treated wood and mandatory inspections every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/17/firm-that-built-berkeley-complex-has-been-fined-sued/\" target=\"_blank\">Several media outlets\u003c/a> have reported that the general contractor on Library Gardens, Segue Construction, has faced a series of legal actions connected to water damage and dry rot in several Bay Area apartment projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Balcony-subcontractor-s-waterproofing-work-6339810.php\" target=\"_blank\">reported Sunday\u003c/a> that one of Segue's subcontractors, R. 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Speaking to the families of the young people who were killed, O'Malley said, \"Each of you deserves to have this case thoroughly and exhaustively investigated. We will do so, and that is the pledge I make from my office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City of Berkeley building inspectors are confirming \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/17/experts-suspect-dry-rot-to-blame-for-berkeley-balcony-plunge\" target=\"_blank\">what several independent experts said\u003c/a> in the wake of last week's fatal balcony collapse: The lumber that was supposed to support the structure showed signs of extensive dry rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a press conference Tuesday, the city also said that even though it's not known how water got into the balcony structure and caused it to deteriorate, its investigation into the collapse is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our analysis is complete and we the city are not going to be conducting any further investigations,\" said Eric Angstadt, Berkeley's director of planning and development. City spokesman Matthai Chakko added that the city is not conducting a criminal investigation into the collapse, which killed six people -- apparently the deadliest single incident in Berkeley's nearly 150-year-history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office is \"reaching out to the city of Berkeley\" and \"will begin looking at this matter,\" Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick wrote in an email response. The office is not providing any further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Attorney David Anderson represents plaintiffs pressing personal injury claims against property managers. He said criminal charges are unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's highly unlikely that there was anything deliberate, purposeful or even a conscious disregard of safety,\" he said, adding the building's owner and property management company would likely face civil litigation, though. \"If you're going to accept rent, you've got to use some of that to pay to keep the place safe for people that are using it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster occurred last week at the Library Gardens apartment complex, a development on downtown Berkeley's Kittredge Street completed in 2007. The six people who died -- five of them students from Ireland working in the Bay Area for the summer -- plunged to the street when the fifth-floor balcony failed during a party. Seven other students were severely injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balcony, which was roughly 4½ by 8½ feet, was supported by laminated wood joists that projected out from the building's exterior wall in a cantilever -- meaning its support ultimately depended on the joists being securely tied into the structure's framing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those joists immediately became the focus of the investigation into the collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report released by Berkeley officials on Tuesday (and \u003ca href=\"#balconyreport\">embedded below\u003c/a>) details a series of inspections beginning less than two hours after the 12:41 a.m. collapse. Initially, the report says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The inspectors observed from the exterior French doors of Unit 405 that the cantilevered balcony joists had completely sheared off approximately 16-20 inches from the exterior building face. ... The inspectors observed that the deck joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be severely dry rotted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And subsequent inspections by daylight confirmed that impression. The city's supervising building inspector, Patrick Emmons, was hoisted on a platform to get a close-up look at the collapsed balcony, and observed \"that the joist ends protruding from the exterior wall appeared to be extensively rotted at the failure points.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found dry rot in the balcony immediately below the one that collapsed. They ordered that balcony removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt, the city planning director, cautioned that the inspectors' findings are not a formal determination of the cause of the balcony collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our observations were is there was severe deterioriation of the wooden structural members,\" Angstadt said. \"The most likely cause of that deterioration was dry rot, and the most likely contributor to dry rot is moisture infiltration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angstadt also said the city is not investigating how the moisture got into the interior of the balcony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know and we're not going to know or determine how the moisture got into the assembly,\" he said. \"What we're going to do is make a set of recommendations that will hopefully deal with any form of moisture infiltration to closed assemblies in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those recommendations for emergency changes to the city's building code include improved ventilation for the enclosed portions of balcony support structures, requiring the use of resistant or specially treated wood and mandatory inspections every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/17/firm-that-built-berkeley-complex-has-been-fined-sued/\" target=\"_blank\">Several media outlets\u003c/a> have reported that the general contractor on Library Gardens, Segue Construction, has faced a series of legal actions connected to water damage and dry rot in several Bay Area apartment projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Balcony-subcontractor-s-waterproofing-work-6339810.php\" target=\"_blank\">reported Sunday\u003c/a> that one of Segue's subcontractors, R. 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Berkeley's initial inspection indicated that at least some of the required measures -- for instance, a waterproof membrane designed to protect the wooden joists from exposure -- were in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vinnee Tong of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to include a statement from the Alameda County District Attorney's Office and attorney David Anderson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"balconyreport\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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