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They even have new furniture and dishes from \u003ca href=\"http://shelterinc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shelter, Inc.\u003c/a>, the local nonprofit that has been assisting the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/208770446&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nice here. It's quiet. I can think,\" Rigsby said of her new life. \"I wake up every day to go to work and I feel like I am in charge of my own life, and I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said both she and Kion are still adjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's overwhelming because my son doesn’t understand still -- he'll say, 'Mom, I want to go back to my house,' \" she said, referring to a friend's place where they had been crashing. \"I was like -- that was never your house ... he says, 'Well, is this my house now? Yes? Is this my bedroom? Is this my tablecloth?' Everything, it's just it’s a little overwhelming, and he's still coping with trying to understand is this mine, so I am just wanting him to be comfortable and understand we don’t have to go couch-to-couch anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548644\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10548644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, wants to hear more success stories like Rigsby's. Mitchell has been pushing for years to expand state spending on CalWORKS. This year, she has the backing of the entire Democratic legislative caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Assembly and Senate are pushing Gov. Jerry Brown to add between $200 million and $300 million a year in additional funding for CalWORKS, a program that costs $6 billion a year and serves more than 525,000 families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the grant amounts offered to families -- the average CalWORKS family receives around $570 a month -- are simply not enough to help struggling Californians get back on their feet. Grant levels were cut during the recession, she noted, creating \"the perfect storm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our grant levels are at really historical lows, at the same level we paid 20-plus years ago -- and a quart of milk doesn't cost what it cost 20 years ago,\" she said. \"Housing costs have gone up, grant levels have gone down, jobs are difficult to come by.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some differences between the Assembly and Senate proposals, Democrats in both houses would like to see the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article10966202.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeal a two-decade-old law\u003c/a> that denies additional CalWORKS cash to families who have another child while they're on welfare. That change alone would cost the state $158 million a year; it's one Mitchell has pushed for three years running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as the \"maximum family grant\" rule, the limit was pushed by Republicans in the early 1990s, when there was a public perception that families were abusing the welfare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was really fundamentally, I believe, based on the premise that poor women on CalWORKS simply had babies to increase their grant,\" said Mitchell. \"I don't believe in that premise, I don't know anybody who would have a baby for the mere fact of getting an additional $120 a month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats also want to delay a 2012 law set to go into effect in the coming months that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1011\" target=\"_blank\">cut families' CalWORKS grants after two years\u003c/a> unless a parent is working or engaged in work-related activity at least 20 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I don't know anybody who would have a baby for the mere fact of getting an additional $120 a month.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Holly Mitchell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>H.D. Palmer, Brown's budget spokesman, said the two-year limit was imposed to comply with federal rules and that the state could face steep fines if it reverses the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michael Herald, a lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said many families have barriers that prevent them from working that much -- and in some cases, can't get consistent enough hours at their low-paying jobs to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Frank Mecca, director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, said for some people, 24 months simply isn't long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes a family might experience a job loss or domestic violence, and they address whatever issues come up and move from welfare to work, and then a recession comes up and they are out of work again,\" he said. \"People's lives are not linear and people's lives are complicated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the timing wouldn't be as big of a deal if there were better resources to help CalWORKS parents thrive. The Assembly, for example, has proposed a cost-of-living increase that would bring grant levels up by about 2.5 percent next year -- at an annual cost to the state of $91 million. The Assembly is also proposing to increase the amount of funding available to help house CalWORKS families -- the program that helped Deshay Risgby get her apartment -- from $20 million to $50 million next fiscal year .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we really need to do,\" said Mecca, \"is make sure people have adequate resources, adequate supportive services, like meaningful job training and child care, and give them that assistance as quickly as possible so they can move from welfare to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two legislative houses are meeting this week in a conference committee to iron out their budget differences; negotiations with Brown are likely to begin in earnest by Monday. But Palmer, the governor's spokesman, said that in general the administration is opposed to the increased spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Legislature is depending on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/27/california-state-budget-fight-now-about-predictions-more-than-programs\" target=\"_blank\">revenue projections\u003c/a> that are about $3 billion higher than the governor's. Even if revenues are significantly higher, Palmer said, it would be irresponsible to commit any extra money to ongoing spending programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If we get to a point where the economy takes a turn for the worse ... then these programs are going to have to turn right back around and face reductions.'\u003ccite>H.D. Palmer,\u003cbr>\nSpokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"They are basing that higher revenue significantly on higher assumptions around capital gains, which are, by definition, volatile and can turn on a dime,\" he said. \"The augmentations the Legislature has made at this point ... are intended to be ongoing in nature, and if we get to a point where the economy takes a turn for the worse, and revenues decline significantly, then these programs are going to have to turn right back around and face reductions. So we don't believe it's prudent to build ongoing spending on revenues we believe from that forecast are going to be one time in nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer noted that the governor has proposed a poverty-fighting program that pretty much everyone in Sacramento seems to support: An \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-jerry-brown-tax-credit-budget-california-20150513-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a> for the working poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for all the disagreements, Mecca struck a positive note, saying policymakers in California seem to agree -- after years of attacking these programs -- that poverty is \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/toddler-language-gap-091213.html\" target=\"_blank\">damaging to kids\u003c/a> and that state leaders have a responsibility to tackle the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a big hill to climb and a long way to go, but before the Legislature and the governor right now is a really great foundation,\" Mecca said, citing the proposals to repeal the maximum family grant, enact the earned income tax credit and expand housing support for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are all really incredibly important foundational measures that can help us take the first step toward eliminating poverty, because that should be our goal -- to eliminate poverty for children and their parents,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nice here. It's quiet. I can think,\" Rigsby said of her new life. \"I wake up every day to go to work and I feel like I am in charge of my own life, and I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said both she and Kion are still adjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's overwhelming because my son doesn’t understand still -- he'll say, 'Mom, I want to go back to my house,' \" she said, referring to a friend's place where they had been crashing. \"I was like -- that was never your house ... he says, 'Well, is this my house now? Yes? Is this my bedroom? Is this my tablecloth?' Everything, it's just it’s a little overwhelming, and he's still coping with trying to understand is this mine, so I am just wanting him to be comfortable and understand we don’t have to go couch-to-couch anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548644\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10548644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, wants to hear more success stories like Rigsby's. Mitchell has been pushing for years to expand state spending on CalWORKS. This year, she has the backing of the entire Democratic legislative caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Assembly and Senate are pushing Gov. Jerry Brown to add between $200 million and $300 million a year in additional funding for CalWORKS, a program that costs $6 billion a year and serves more than 525,000 families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the grant amounts offered to families -- the average CalWORKS family receives around $570 a month -- are simply not enough to help struggling Californians get back on their feet. Grant levels were cut during the recession, she noted, creating \"the perfect storm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our grant levels are at really historical lows, at the same level we paid 20-plus years ago -- and a quart of milk doesn't cost what it cost 20 years ago,\" she said. \"Housing costs have gone up, grant levels have gone down, jobs are difficult to come by.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some differences between the Assembly and Senate proposals, Democrats in both houses would like to see the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article10966202.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeal a two-decade-old law\u003c/a> that denies additional CalWORKS cash to families who have another child while they're on welfare. That change alone would cost the state $158 million a year; it's one Mitchell has pushed for three years running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as the \"maximum family grant\" rule, the limit was pushed by Republicans in the early 1990s, when there was a public perception that families were abusing the welfare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was really fundamentally, I believe, based on the premise that poor women on CalWORKS simply had babies to increase their grant,\" said Mitchell. \"I don't believe in that premise, I don't know anybody who would have a baby for the mere fact of getting an additional $120 a month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats also want to delay a 2012 law set to go into effect in the coming months that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1011\" target=\"_blank\">cut families' CalWORKS grants after two years\u003c/a> unless a parent is working or engaged in work-related activity at least 20 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I don't know anybody who would have a baby for the mere fact of getting an additional $120 a month.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Holly Mitchell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>H.D. Palmer, Brown's budget spokesman, said the two-year limit was imposed to comply with federal rules and that the state could face steep fines if it reverses the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michael Herald, a lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said many families have barriers that prevent them from working that much -- and in some cases, can't get consistent enough hours at their low-paying jobs to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Frank Mecca, director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, said for some people, 24 months simply isn't long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes a family might experience a job loss or domestic violence, and they address whatever issues come up and move from welfare to work, and then a recession comes up and they are out of work again,\" he said. \"People's lives are not linear and people's lives are complicated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the timing wouldn't be as big of a deal if there were better resources to help CalWORKS parents thrive. The Assembly, for example, has proposed a cost-of-living increase that would bring grant levels up by about 2.5 percent next year -- at an annual cost to the state of $91 million. The Assembly is also proposing to increase the amount of funding available to help house CalWORKS families -- the program that helped Deshay Risgby get her apartment -- from $20 million to $50 million next fiscal year .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we really need to do,\" said Mecca, \"is make sure people have adequate resources, adequate supportive services, like meaningful job training and child care, and give them that assistance as quickly as possible so they can move from welfare to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two legislative houses are meeting this week in a conference committee to iron out their budget differences; negotiations with Brown are likely to begin in earnest by Monday. But Palmer, the governor's spokesman, said that in general the administration is opposed to the increased spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Legislature is depending on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/27/california-state-budget-fight-now-about-predictions-more-than-programs\" target=\"_blank\">revenue projections\u003c/a> that are about $3 billion higher than the governor's. Even if revenues are significantly higher, Palmer said, it would be irresponsible to commit any extra money to ongoing spending programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If we get to a point where the economy takes a turn for the worse ... then these programs are going to have to turn right back around and face reductions.'\u003ccite>H.D. Palmer,\u003cbr>\nSpokesman for Gov. 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So we don't believe it's prudent to build ongoing spending on revenues we believe from that forecast are going to be one time in nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer noted that the governor has proposed a poverty-fighting program that pretty much everyone in Sacramento seems to support: An \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-jerry-brown-tax-credit-budget-california-20150513-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a> for the working poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for all the disagreements, Mecca struck a positive note, saying policymakers in California seem to agree -- after years of attacking these programs -- that poverty is \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/toddler-language-gap-091213.html\" target=\"_blank\">damaging to kids\u003c/a> and that state leaders have a responsibility to tackle the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a big hill to climb and a long way to go, but before the Legislature and the governor right now is a really great foundation,\" Mecca said, citing the proposals to repeal the maximum family grant, enact the earned income tax credit and expand housing support for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State Sen. Mark Leno's\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0351-0400/sb_364_bill_20150224_introduced.pdf\"> attempt to limit\u003c/a> some types of evictions in San Francisco will not move forward this year after the Democrat ran into opposition in a Senate policy committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the second year in a row that Leno \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/PoliticsBlog/archives/2014/05/29/ellis-act-reform-bill-stalls-at-senate-floor\" target=\"_blank\">has tried\u003c/a> to amend state law to allow San Francisco to require that landlords own their buildings \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/25/127595/two-bills-would-limit-san-francisco-ellis-act\" target=\"_blank\">for at least five years\u003c/a> before they can evict someone using the Ellis Act. While San Francisco tenants have strong protections under the city's rent control ordinance, the state law allows property owners to evict tenants if they want to take the building off the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/207559646\" 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>Tenant advocates and city officials, including Mayor Ed Lee, pushed hard for the bill, arguing that real estate speculators are taking advantage of the state law to clear their buildings of low-paying tenants. They cited \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-evictions-surge-report-finds-4955020.php\" target=\"_blank\">city reports\u003c/a> showing that Ellis Act evictions tripled in 2014, and that half of landlords who used the act to boot tenants in 2013 had owned their buildings for less than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is being abused currently, specifically in San Francisco, not by landlords and not by people who even pretend or intend to be landlords,\" Leno said. \"These are speculators who, with very clear intent, purchase rental properties with the design to evict all tenants so that they can make a quick and significant profit by flipping the property.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'These are speculators who ... purchase rental properties with the design to evict all tenants so that they can make a quick and significant profit by flipping the property.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Mark Leno\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Leno said his proposal would have separated and protected what he called \"real landlords.\" The bill would have applied only to San Francisco and would have required the city change its own law to realize the protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m certainly very disappointed and somewhat frustrated,\" he said. \"The bill very simply deals with a crisis we are experiencing in San Francisco, my Senate district.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno says he will try again next year, but the decision to abandon the bill this year is a big win for real estate interests, which have lobbied hard against it. They say Ellis Act evictions are just a tiny fraction of evictions in San Francisco and that the proposal would prevent small-property owners from moving into buildings they have bought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the San Francisco Association of Realtors argued that Leno's proposal was actually encouraging Ellis Act evictions by giving longtime property owners who are interested in selling their homes a perverse incentive to evict tenants before they put the building on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walt Baczkowski, CEO of San Francisco Association of Realtors, pledged to work with Leno in the coming months to \"achieve a comprehensive and effective solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're glad Senator Leno is taking time to improve his legislation, knee-jerk solutions are not what we should be reaching for at this time,\" he said in a written statement. \"Everyone is aware that our housing market faces many challenges, and needs a well thought out solution. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno was able to get a similar bill through the state Senate last year, but it\u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/techflash/2014/06/lenos-ellis-act-reform-bill-assembly-san-francisco.html\" target=\"_blank\"> died in an Assembly committee.\u003c/a> This time around, it couldn't even make it out of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee before a legislative deadline to move bills out of their house of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB364\" target=\"_blank\">SB364\u003c/a> isn't dead, however. It now becomes a two-year bill and will be reconsidered in January.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In late January, Daniel Moore came home to his apartment in a 12-unit complex on College Avenue to find there was a new keypad lock on the front gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, who had been living at 3100 College for 12 years, didn’t have the combination to the keypad. He was locked out of his own building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was just the first of a series of mysterious changes to the apartment complex, alterations that his landlords never told him about. Suddenly, washer and dryer units were installed on every landing. New couches appeared in the hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Moore started hearing loud noises from the unit above him. It appeared as if a family of five had moved in suddenly, and the kids were stomping on the new stone kitchen floor. That family moved out, but was replaced by others, people who stayed up until 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that three units in Moore’s rent-controlled building had been converted into short-term rentals through online rental company Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Airbnb has replaced our quiet environment with noise, anxiety and the nuisance of a steady flow of transients who have no investment in living here,” Moore wrote in a letter he sent to the City Council and the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.\u003cspan id=\"more-192743\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of apartments into a short-term rentals, where guests come and go, is part of a trend that is sweeping Berkeley. While renting out apartments to anyone for less than 14 days is prohibited under Berkeley law, hundreds of homeowners are renting out rooms, suites, whole houses, cottages — even a tent and a yurt — according to listings posted on Airbnb, VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner), Home Away and other short-term rental websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can find a bed in an apartment of UC Berkeley students for as little as $26 a night, or a house in the hills with a pool for $700 a night. There were 1,162 different units for rent in Berkeley in April, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">according to a city staff report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden influx of short-term rentals, coupled with a shortage of housing, has become a huge issue in the Bay Area as the technology boom has lured thousands of well-paid people to the region. Rents have risen and evictions have increased. While the issue has been most acute in San Francisco, Berkeley is now feeling its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant activists, as well as the Rent Stabilization Board, are concerned that short-term rentals are contributing to a housing crisis. They are not overly worried about the casual hosts who rent a bed or a room in a home they live in. They are most troubled by property owners who remove units with kitchens from the market, thereby decreasing Berkeley’s housing supply. There are about \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">400 rent-controlled units now being used only as short-term rentals,\u003c/a> according to the Rent Stabilization Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renting units primarily as vacation rentals is contributing to the housing crisis,” the Rent Board told the City Council in a letter sent in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whole units that could be rented to people who live and work here should not be rented to tourists,” said Katherine Harr, speaking as a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. (She is also on the Rent Board, but was not speaking in that capacity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have noted that those renting for less than 14 days are not paying any taxes on their properties, even though Berkeley’s bed-and-breakfast establishments must do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners who rent out for short terms often stand to make a substantial amount of money, certainly more than if they rented month to month. For example, Moore and his wife, Yenli, pay $1,785 a month for their 850-square-foot space on the second floor of a building within easy walking distance of the shops in the Elmwood. The building’s owners, Jack L. and Margaret C. Phillips, are renting out three apartments in that complex on Airbnb for $125 a night, meaning they can earn as much as $3,750 a month if they rent the units every day for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only property they are renting out on a short-term basis. They are also renting other units at 2616 Parker St., 2619 Regent St., and 2435 Virginia St., as well as 3100 College Ave., \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">according to information gathered by the Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s?host_id=7933344\">they are offering 11 spaces \u003c/a>for rent on Airbnb. They do not reside in any of the properties. Collectively, their Airbnb listings have an earning potential of $35,790 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Tenants Union \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">has identified at least eight other commercial hosts\u003c/a> in Berkeley who are renting out multiple units in Berkeley and may be removing what was once permanent rental housing from the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/real-estate/\">Read more real-estate stories on Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Claude Zamanian, a Realtor and contractor in San Francisco, lists 13 units in five separate rent-controlled properties. They have the potential to bring in $41,670 a month, according to the BTU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marina Ekman and Adelina Esquerra have a single-family home at 2928 Ellsworth, not subject to rent control, that they have split into nine separate units available for rental. The owners of an\u003ca href=\"http://www.oxford-apartments.com/berkeleyapartmentrental.htm\"> Oxford fourplex near the UC Berkeley campus\u003c/a>, which has kitchens and could be used for long-term housing, is also listed for short-term housing on Home Away, according to the BTU. There is also a woman named Esperanza C. Garcia who has nine units for rent in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Tenants Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquerra did not respond to an email asking her to comment on her Airbnb units. Berkeleyside tried to find contact information for the Phillipses and Zamanian and the other owners, but was unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City enforcement is lacking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the prohibition against renting for less than 14 days, Berkeley officials do not appear to be cracking down on the problem, and may even be confused by what the law actually says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pruess and his wife (who asked that her name not be used), and their young daughter, live in a duplex near the North Berkeley BART station. For two years, another couple lived upstairs from them. They became good friends, often had dinner together, worked in the garden together, and had keys to one another’s apartments. Since the duplex only had one thermostat – in the upstairs apartment – that informal arrangement was critical to the Pruess family's comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upstairs neighbors moved out in mid-December and the landlord converted the unit to a short-term rental in January. Since then, a succession of people has moved in and out of the unit, said Pruess. The experience has been dreadful, particularly since there is a newborn in the house and no one is getting much sleep. Some Airbnb renters had jet lag and were up at all hours making noise. Others smoked cigarettes, which is illegal in Berkeley. Some had parties. Users have thrown trash into the yard, (Pruess’ lease specifies that he has to keep the yard clean), filled recycling bins with garbage, and turned off the heat, making the family's below-grade apartment too cold for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst experience was when a family from China came to stay. The parents picked oranges from Pruess’ tree and gave them to their toddler, who proceeded to pelt the chickens in the yard. When Pruess complained in sign language (the renters did not speak English), the family just laughed in his face, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think you are living in a residential zone and all of a sudden there is a hotel above you,” said Pruess. “Not only that, but a hotel without any employees. Our landlord lives in another city. He wasn’t there to mitigate whatever problems there might be, or handle things, or be aware of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess isn’t even sure where his landlord, Peter Louie, lives. He thinks it is San Francisco, but all he has is a post office box address for him. The couple writes rent checks to Radiant Services, a property management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\"> posting on Airbnb\u003c/a> lists the unit upstairs from Pruess as “The Farmhouse,” and says the host is a man named Lorenzo, although some of the guest comments mention dealing with a Peter. Pruess does not know who “Lorenzo” is, but he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2165574\">rents out a studio near Dolores Park\u003c/a> in San Francisco, according to Airbnb. \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/san-francisco-report-shows-impact-of-airbnb-on-rental-market/723431/\">That unit was recently the subject of a story\u003c/a> on ABC News that said a Peter Louie evicted the tenant to convert the apartment into an Airbnb unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside contacted Peter Louie’s attorney, David Semel, who said he does not represent any of Louie’s Berkeley properties. Berkeleyside could not find contact information for Louie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Confusion over legality of short-term rentals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pruess contacted the Rent Board with a series of questions in January, and a staff member mistakenly told him that short-term rentals were legal so there was nothing he could do. He also attended a clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center and was told the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then tried pleading with his landlord, who agreed to put a rug in the upstairs unit, but declined to stop renting out the apartment on Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then heard that the Rent Board had created an ad hoc committee on short-term rentals. He contacted them and its members told him what his landlord was doing was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess went to Berkeley’s code enforcement division to explore filing a complaint against his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to code enforcement once. They said the issue is proving that Airbnb is being done. You have to prove people are there less than 14 days and are paying rent for it,” said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess said he plans to file a complaint this week with Berkeley’s code enforcement division. The last straw came last week when his landlord set up a time for his wife to talk to the Pruesses. She never called, said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for the city of Berkeley, would not specify what information code enforcement would need to investigate a short-term rental complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t disclose what evidence or strategies we use, as it could hinder enforcement,” said Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore also tried to reason with his landlords at 3100 College Ave., but found it difficult. They never told him the new code for the gate; he had to hunt down the building manager to get it. \u003cdel>It took them days to hand out the code for the keypad lock, forcing tenants to essentially break into their own front yard, said Moore.\u003c/del> The code was not given to the mailmen or UPS drivers, and there was no working intercom to call up to the units. There are still days when Moore doesn’t get his mail because there is a new mailman who doesn’t know the code and can’t get to the mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Moore knocked on the door of the unit above him, which had been rented to a couple using Airbnb, and asked them to be quiet. He then told the renters that “running a hotel in our building violates the city’s ordinances, and that it would be a good idea if they inquired in the future whether their Airbnb hosts are operating in a rent-controlled building,” he told Berkeleyside in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Airbnb tenants reported the visit to the Phillipses, and Moore received a warning letter from Jack and Margaret Phillips a short time later. The landlords said that Moore’s actions violated the terms of his lease that specified that he “shall not disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors.” The Phillipses went on to say: “This letter, which is sent by Registered E-mail, is a warning to you that: (a) your actions (described above) are a direct violation of your rental agreement; and (b) following this notice, any repeat of those – or similar – actions would be good cause for eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phillipses have offered the Moores $7,000 to move out, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our landlords want us out big time,” said Moore. “We are a problem for them. We complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Short-term rentals are impacting business at B&Bs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants are not the only ones affected by the bump in short-term rentals available in Berkeley. Proprietors of bed-and-breakfast establishments are also feeling the squeeze. Berkeley grandfathered in 12 B&B establishments when it prohibited short-term rentals in 2003. Only about eight are still operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Harrow, who runs Mary’s Bed & Breakfast at 47 Alvarado Rd, said she has noticed a drop in the number of people inquiring about her rooms, which cost $150 a night. The decline coincided with the rise of Airbnb and other online sites, she said. Harrow said she cannot lower what she charges because she must pay city hotel taxes and provide breakfast to her customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Sprague, who runs the Brick Path B&B, said her business fluctuates but she cannot be sure if Airbnb is the cause. “I don’t have any way of knowing concretely,” she said. (Sprague \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45264?checkin=05%2F29%2F2015&checkout=06%2F03%2F2015&s=ArJ7\">also lists her rooms\u003c/a> on Airbnb.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are grappling with how to respond to the increase in short-term rentals. The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal by Mayor Tom Bates and City Councilwoman Lori Droste on May 26 that will essentially legalize and tax some short-term rentals -- but not in rent-controlled or other buildings that could be used for long-term housing for Berkeley residents. Under the proposed law, which will be sent to the Planning and Housing commissions for review, the units in Moore’s building and the unit in the Pruesses’ building could not be converted to short-term rentals because the property owners don’t live in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ and Droste’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">proposal \u003c/a>will allow people living in a home at least nine months of the year to rent out a bedroom as often as they like when they are home. If the hosts leave for vacation, they can only rent out their unit for a maximum of 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you own an apartment house and you live in Apartment 2, that’s the only one you can rent out,” Bates told Berkeleyside. “The rent-controlled places, they have vacancies and (the landlords) are renting out those vacant units as Airbnb … that would be prohibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed law would also require the property owner to inform neighbors of the plan, provide a local contact in case there are complaints, require a business license and carry $500,000 in liability insurance, among other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law would impose a transient occupancy tax on all rentals, to be collected by the host or the rental-platform company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most significantly, the proposal would add a 2-3 percent tax on top of the transient occupancy tax. Those funds would be used to hire extra code enforcement officers to make sure property owners are following city rules, said Bates. He referred to San Francisco, which passed legislation in February restricting homeowners to renting out their property for only 90 days. But only a handful of the thousands of property owners on Airbnb, Home Away and other services have registered their properties, making enforcement difficult, said Bates. He hopes Berkeley will not encounter the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rent Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/final.Comments-to-Council-on-Short-Term-Rentals-1.pdf\">sent a letter to the City Council \u003c/a>supporting the proposed measure, but cautioned that Berkeley needs a strong enforcement mechanism to ensure the system works. Jesse Townley, president of the Rent Board, also asked that the Rent Board “have a voice” in crafting local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sid Lakireddy, the president of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said the Bates/Droste proposal, and the letter sent by the Rent Board, is missing one huge element: the fact that tenants in rent-controlled units often rent out their apartments on Airbnb and other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It that person isn’t living there, why should they be entitled to rent-controlled rent in a rent-controlled unit?” said Lakireddy. “That’s one unit staying off the market. That is one thing (the Rent Board) has completely failed to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out some short-term rentals available in Berkeley:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p478910vb\">A $700-a-night house with a pool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6366936?s=9wMR\">A $26-a-night room in an apartment with UC Berkeley students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\">“The Farmhouse” mentioned in the story\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s/berkeley?price_max=90&property_type_id%5B%5D=34&keywords=tent&ss_id=h19sj2i3\">Tents and yurts for rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Support independent local journalism by \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-berkeleyside/\">\u003cb>becoming a Berkeleyside member\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Airbnb has replaced our quiet environment with noise, anxiety and the nuisance of a steady flow of transients who have no investment in living here,” Moore wrote in a letter he sent to the City Council and the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.\u003cspan id=\"more-192743\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of apartments into a short-term rentals, where guests come and go, is part of a trend that is sweeping Berkeley. While renting out apartments to anyone for less than 14 days is prohibited under Berkeley law, hundreds of homeowners are renting out rooms, suites, whole houses, cottages — even a tent and a yurt — according to listings posted on Airbnb, VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner), Home Away and other short-term rental websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can find a bed in an apartment of UC Berkeley students for as little as $26 a night, or a house in the hills with a pool for $700 a night. There were 1,162 different units for rent in Berkeley in April, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">according to a city staff report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden influx of short-term rentals, coupled with a shortage of housing, has become a huge issue in the Bay Area as the technology boom has lured thousands of well-paid people to the region. Rents have risen and evictions have increased. While the issue has been most acute in San Francisco, Berkeley is now feeling its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant activists, as well as the Rent Stabilization Board, are concerned that short-term rentals are contributing to a housing crisis. They are not overly worried about the casual hosts who rent a bed or a room in a home they live in. They are most troubled by property owners who remove units with kitchens from the market, thereby decreasing Berkeley’s housing supply. There are about \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">400 rent-controlled units now being used only as short-term rentals,\u003c/a> according to the Rent Stabilization Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renting units primarily as vacation rentals is contributing to the housing crisis,” the Rent Board told the City Council in a letter sent in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whole units that could be rented to people who live and work here should not be rented to tourists,” said Katherine Harr, speaking as a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. (She is also on the Rent Board, but was not speaking in that capacity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have noted that those renting for less than 14 days are not paying any taxes on their properties, even though Berkeley’s bed-and-breakfast establishments must do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners who rent out for short terms often stand to make a substantial amount of money, certainly more than if they rented month to month. For example, Moore and his wife, Yenli, pay $1,785 a month for their 850-square-foot space on the second floor of a building within easy walking distance of the shops in the Elmwood. The building’s owners, Jack L. and Margaret C. Phillips, are renting out three apartments in that complex on Airbnb for $125 a night, meaning they can earn as much as $3,750 a month if they rent the units every day for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only property they are renting out on a short-term basis. They are also renting other units at 2616 Parker St., 2619 Regent St., and 2435 Virginia St., as well as 3100 College Ave., \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">according to information gathered by the Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s?host_id=7933344\">they are offering 11 spaces \u003c/a>for rent on Airbnb. They do not reside in any of the properties. Collectively, their Airbnb listings have an earning potential of $35,790 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Tenants Union \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">has identified at least eight other commercial hosts\u003c/a> in Berkeley who are renting out multiple units in Berkeley and may be removing what was once permanent rental housing from the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/real-estate/\">Read more real-estate stories on Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Claude Zamanian, a Realtor and contractor in San Francisco, lists 13 units in five separate rent-controlled properties. They have the potential to bring in $41,670 a month, according to the BTU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marina Ekman and Adelina Esquerra have a single-family home at 2928 Ellsworth, not subject to rent control, that they have split into nine separate units available for rental. The owners of an\u003ca href=\"http://www.oxford-apartments.com/berkeleyapartmentrental.htm\"> Oxford fourplex near the UC Berkeley campus\u003c/a>, which has kitchens and could be used for long-term housing, is also listed for short-term housing on Home Away, according to the BTU. There is also a woman named Esperanza C. Garcia who has nine units for rent in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Tenants Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquerra did not respond to an email asking her to comment on her Airbnb units. Berkeleyside tried to find contact information for the Phillipses and Zamanian and the other owners, but was unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City enforcement is lacking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the prohibition against renting for less than 14 days, Berkeley officials do not appear to be cracking down on the problem, and may even be confused by what the law actually says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pruess and his wife (who asked that her name not be used), and their young daughter, live in a duplex near the North Berkeley BART station. For two years, another couple lived upstairs from them. They became good friends, often had dinner together, worked in the garden together, and had keys to one another’s apartments. Since the duplex only had one thermostat – in the upstairs apartment – that informal arrangement was critical to the Pruess family's comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upstairs neighbors moved out in mid-December and the landlord converted the unit to a short-term rental in January. Since then, a succession of people has moved in and out of the unit, said Pruess. The experience has been dreadful, particularly since there is a newborn in the house and no one is getting much sleep. Some Airbnb renters had jet lag and were up at all hours making noise. Others smoked cigarettes, which is illegal in Berkeley. Some had parties. Users have thrown trash into the yard, (Pruess’ lease specifies that he has to keep the yard clean), filled recycling bins with garbage, and turned off the heat, making the family's below-grade apartment too cold for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst experience was when a family from China came to stay. The parents picked oranges from Pruess’ tree and gave them to their toddler, who proceeded to pelt the chickens in the yard. When Pruess complained in sign language (the renters did not speak English), the family just laughed in his face, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think you are living in a residential zone and all of a sudden there is a hotel above you,” said Pruess. “Not only that, but a hotel without any employees. Our landlord lives in another city. He wasn’t there to mitigate whatever problems there might be, or handle things, or be aware of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess isn’t even sure where his landlord, Peter Louie, lives. He thinks it is San Francisco, but all he has is a post office box address for him. The couple writes rent checks to Radiant Services, a property management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\"> posting on Airbnb\u003c/a> lists the unit upstairs from Pruess as “The Farmhouse,” and says the host is a man named Lorenzo, although some of the guest comments mention dealing with a Peter. Pruess does not know who “Lorenzo” is, but he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2165574\">rents out a studio near Dolores Park\u003c/a> in San Francisco, according to Airbnb. \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/san-francisco-report-shows-impact-of-airbnb-on-rental-market/723431/\">That unit was recently the subject of a story\u003c/a> on ABC News that said a Peter Louie evicted the tenant to convert the apartment into an Airbnb unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside contacted Peter Louie’s attorney, David Semel, who said he does not represent any of Louie’s Berkeley properties. Berkeleyside could not find contact information for Louie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Confusion over legality of short-term rentals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pruess contacted the Rent Board with a series of questions in January, and a staff member mistakenly told him that short-term rentals were legal so there was nothing he could do. He also attended a clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center and was told the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then tried pleading with his landlord, who agreed to put a rug in the upstairs unit, but declined to stop renting out the apartment on Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then heard that the Rent Board had created an ad hoc committee on short-term rentals. He contacted them and its members told him what his landlord was doing was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess went to Berkeley’s code enforcement division to explore filing a complaint against his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to code enforcement once. They said the issue is proving that Airbnb is being done. You have to prove people are there less than 14 days and are paying rent for it,” said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess said he plans to file a complaint this week with Berkeley’s code enforcement division. The last straw came last week when his landlord set up a time for his wife to talk to the Pruesses. She never called, said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for the city of Berkeley, would not specify what information code enforcement would need to investigate a short-term rental complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t disclose what evidence or strategies we use, as it could hinder enforcement,” said Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore also tried to reason with his landlords at 3100 College Ave., but found it difficult. They never told him the new code for the gate; he had to hunt down the building manager to get it. \u003cdel>It took them days to hand out the code for the keypad lock, forcing tenants to essentially break into their own front yard, said Moore.\u003c/del> The code was not given to the mailmen or UPS drivers, and there was no working intercom to call up to the units. There are still days when Moore doesn’t get his mail because there is a new mailman who doesn’t know the code and can’t get to the mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Moore knocked on the door of the unit above him, which had been rented to a couple using Airbnb, and asked them to be quiet. He then told the renters that “running a hotel in our building violates the city’s ordinances, and that it would be a good idea if they inquired in the future whether their Airbnb hosts are operating in a rent-controlled building,” he told Berkeleyside in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Airbnb tenants reported the visit to the Phillipses, and Moore received a warning letter from Jack and Margaret Phillips a short time later. The landlords said that Moore’s actions violated the terms of his lease that specified that he “shall not disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors.” The Phillipses went on to say: “This letter, which is sent by Registered E-mail, is a warning to you that: (a) your actions (described above) are a direct violation of your rental agreement; and (b) following this notice, any repeat of those – or similar – actions would be good cause for eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phillipses have offered the Moores $7,000 to move out, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our landlords want us out big time,” said Moore. “We are a problem for them. We complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Short-term rentals are impacting business at B&Bs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants are not the only ones affected by the bump in short-term rentals available in Berkeley. Proprietors of bed-and-breakfast establishments are also feeling the squeeze. Berkeley grandfathered in 12 B&B establishments when it prohibited short-term rentals in 2003. Only about eight are still operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Harrow, who runs Mary’s Bed & Breakfast at 47 Alvarado Rd, said she has noticed a drop in the number of people inquiring about her rooms, which cost $150 a night. The decline coincided with the rise of Airbnb and other online sites, she said. Harrow said she cannot lower what she charges because she must pay city hotel taxes and provide breakfast to her customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Sprague, who runs the Brick Path B&B, said her business fluctuates but she cannot be sure if Airbnb is the cause. “I don’t have any way of knowing concretely,” she said. (Sprague \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45264?checkin=05%2F29%2F2015&checkout=06%2F03%2F2015&s=ArJ7\">also lists her rooms\u003c/a> on Airbnb.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are grappling with how to respond to the increase in short-term rentals. The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal by Mayor Tom Bates and City Councilwoman Lori Droste on May 26 that will essentially legalize and tax some short-term rentals -- but not in rent-controlled or other buildings that could be used for long-term housing for Berkeley residents. Under the proposed law, which will be sent to the Planning and Housing commissions for review, the units in Moore’s building and the unit in the Pruesses’ building could not be converted to short-term rentals because the property owners don’t live in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ and Droste’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">proposal \u003c/a>will allow people living in a home at least nine months of the year to rent out a bedroom as often as they like when they are home. If the hosts leave for vacation, they can only rent out their unit for a maximum of 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you own an apartment house and you live in Apartment 2, that’s the only one you can rent out,” Bates told Berkeleyside. “The rent-controlled places, they have vacancies and (the landlords) are renting out those vacant units as Airbnb … that would be prohibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed law would also require the property owner to inform neighbors of the plan, provide a local contact in case there are complaints, require a business license and carry $500,000 in liability insurance, among other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law would impose a transient occupancy tax on all rentals, to be collected by the host or the rental-platform company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most significantly, the proposal would add a 2-3 percent tax on top of the transient occupancy tax. Those funds would be used to hire extra code enforcement officers to make sure property owners are following city rules, said Bates. He referred to San Francisco, which passed legislation in February restricting homeowners to renting out their property for only 90 days. But only a handful of the thousands of property owners on Airbnb, Home Away and other services have registered their properties, making enforcement difficult, said Bates. He hopes Berkeley will not encounter the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rent Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/final.Comments-to-Council-on-Short-Term-Rentals-1.pdf\">sent a letter to the City Council \u003c/a>supporting the proposed measure, but cautioned that Berkeley needs a strong enforcement mechanism to ensure the system works. Jesse Townley, president of the Rent Board, also asked that the Rent Board “have a voice” in crafting local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sid Lakireddy, the president of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said the Bates/Droste proposal, and the letter sent by the Rent Board, is missing one huge element: the fact that tenants in rent-controlled units often rent out their apartments on Airbnb and other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It that person isn’t living there, why should they be entitled to rent-controlled rent in a rent-controlled unit?” said Lakireddy. “That’s one unit staying off the market. That is one thing (the Rent Board) has completely failed to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out some short-term rentals available in Berkeley:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p478910vb\">A $700-a-night house with a pool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6366936?s=9wMR\">A $26-a-night room in an apartment with UC Berkeley students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\">“The Farmhouse” mentioned in the story\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s/berkeley?price_max=90&property_type_id%5B%5D=34&keywords=tent&ss_id=h19sj2i3\">Tents and yurts for rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One night Darcel Jackson was lying in bed at a homeless shelter, wondering what local tech companies could do for the poor. How could they help people like him get jobs and find housing? Then it hit him — an idea so simple and cheap you probably assumed someone had already done it years ago. Darcel thought tech companies could get Wi-Fi for people in homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson was staying at\u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/programs/nextdoor.html\"> Next Door\u003c/a>, a shelter in the middle of San Francisco. Not only was there no Wi-Fi, there weren’t even computers. Like many homeless shelters in the state and country, it was a total Internet dead-zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205679706″ 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>It’s hard to do anything these days without the Internet, and it’s no different for the homeless. Imagine having to go all the way down to a city library and wait in line just to check your email. An Internet connection makes it easier to sign up for government services and support. Many job postings and housing opportunities are listed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But being connected means more than all that, says Wayne Samuelson, another resident of the shelter. Samuelson is a Marine veteran. He’s been homeless on and off since the early ’90s. Without the Internet, he says you are left behind. It’s like you live in another era.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re behind the times, like primitive.’\u003ccite>Shelter resident Wayne Samuelson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Everybody is wired up,” Samuelson says, “People are like, ‘Are you connected?’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Am I a gangster?’ Oh, Internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuelson says many modern tech trends have passed him by. “About a month ago, I finally figured out what a selfie stick was,” he says. “I saw these people walking around with these sticks. Are they backscratchers? What the heck are people doing with the sticks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he saw someone put a camera on the end of the stick and take a picture, a selfie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital divide usually isn’t comical. Samuelson became homeless after losing his job as a museum security guard, and he has been at the Next Door shelter for a few weeks. Since there’s no Internet, he can’t go on Craigslist to look for jobs. Instead, he’s been going door to door and scouring help-wanted ads in newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re behind the times,” Samuelson says, “like primitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 334 beds at Next Door. Shelter director Kathy Treggiari shows me the living quarters. They are bare bones. People are sleeping, reading, lying on the beds with their eyes open. One man has emptied out two plastic bags on a bunk. He’s reorganizing all his worldly possessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You don’t get away here.’\u003ccite>Shelter director Kathy Treggiari\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At night, the place is packed. Usually, every single bed is filled. “You don’t get away here,” Treggiari whispers, “You’re sleeping besides someone who can talk to themselves, smell. It’s scary. You know them, or you don’t know them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter lost tons of city funding after the 2008 financial crisis. She says she had to scrounge for bedding and cleaning supplies. Eventually, she was forced to closed the computer lab, and the Internet disappeared right here in the heart of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter “is a world unto itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelter resident Scott Nelson tells me how people crowded windows on one side of the room, hoping to pick up some shred of Wi-Fi signal from nearby businesses. “We were trying to use the Monarch Hotel across the street,” he says, “It was real sketchy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527355\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-400x459.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1440x1654.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1180x1355.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-960x1103.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Nelson has been at the shelter for almost 120 days. He says the Internet should be available for everyone. “It’s a required thing,” Nelson says, “and cities should provide it as a vital utility, sort of like water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the economy has improved since 2008, Internet is still scarce for the homeless. Some shelters in California have computers, but most don’t have Wi-Fi. Many have no Internet at all. That was the case at Next Door until just a few weeks ago. That was when Darcel Jackson found a way to actualize his idea to have tech companies help get Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What got Jackson thinking about how tech companies could help the homeless was an article he’d read about Greg Gopman. The former tech CEO had \u003ca href=\"http://greggopman.com/the-stupidest-thing-i-ever-did/\">written a screed\u003c/a> against the poor and homeless on Facebook. He called them hyenas — lower parts of society who should keep to themselves. Gopman wrote, “It’s a burden having them so close to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year later, Gopman had decided to\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ex-tech-CEO-who-blasted-degenerates-hosts-6129315.php\"> hold a town hall meeting\u003c/a> on homelessness, looking for solutions, seeking redemption. Jackson decided to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting wasn’t very accommodating for the poor, Jackson says. For one, you had to submit questions using a smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really wasn’t geared for homeless people,” Jackson says. “It was for people to pat themselves on the back about what they’d already been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, Jackson approached Gopman and told him about his idea to put Wi-Fi in shelters. Gopman liked it, and together they contacted a local Internet provider, MonkeyBrains, which donated time and equipment. How much did it all cost? About $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527359\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 423px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10527359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"Wayne Samuelson says he got a job because he could check Craigslist at the homeless shelter.\" width=\"423\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-400x236.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-1440x851.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson-960x568.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/WayneSamuelson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Samuelson says he got a job because he could check Craigslist at the homeless shelter. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for six grand the whole shelter, 334 beds, was connected. 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People are sleeping, reading, lying on the beds with their eyes open. One man has emptied out two plastic bags on a bunk. He’s reorganizing all his worldly possessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You don’t get away here.’\u003ccite>Shelter director Kathy Treggiari\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At night, the place is packed. Usually, every single bed is filled. “You don’t get away here,” Treggiari whispers, “You’re sleeping besides someone who can talk to themselves, smell. It’s scary. You know them, or you don’t know them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter lost tons of city funding after the 2008 financial crisis. She says she had to scrounge for bedding and cleaning supplies. Eventually, she was forced to closed the computer lab, and the Internet disappeared right here in the heart of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treggiari says the shelter “is a world unto itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelter resident Scott Nelson tells me how people crowded windows on one side of the room, hoping to pick up some shred of Wi-Fi signal from nearby businesses. “We were trying to use the Monarch Hotel across the street,” he says, “It was real sketchy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527355\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-800x919.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-400x459.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1440x1654.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-1180x1355.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson-960x1103.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/ScottNelson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Nelson says Wi-Fi should be available to everyone, like a public utility. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Nelson has been at the shelter for almost 120 days. He says the Internet should be available for everyone. “It’s a required thing,” Nelson says, “and cities should provide it as a vital utility, sort of like water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the economy has improved since 2008, Internet is still scarce for the homeless. Some shelters in California have computers, but most don’t have Wi-Fi. Many have no Internet at all. That was the case at Next Door until just a few weeks ago. That was when Darcel Jackson found a way to actualize his idea to have tech companies help get Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What got Jackson thinking about how tech companies could help the homeless was an article he’d read about Greg Gopman. The former tech CEO had \u003ca href=\"http://greggopman.com/the-stupidest-thing-i-ever-did/\">written a screed\u003c/a> against the poor and homeless on Facebook. He called them hyenas — lower parts of society who should keep to themselves. Gopman wrote, “It’s a burden having them so close to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year later, Gopman had decided to\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ex-tech-CEO-who-blasted-degenerates-hosts-6129315.php\"> hold a town hall meeting\u003c/a> on homelessness, looking for solutions, seeking redemption. Jackson decided to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting wasn’t very accommodating for the poor, Jackson says. For one, you had to submit questions using a smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really wasn’t geared for homeless people,” Jackson says. “It was for people to pat themselves on the back about what they’d already been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, Jackson approached Gopman and told him about his idea to put Wi-Fi in shelters. Gopman liked it, and together they contacted a local Internet provider, MonkeyBrains, which donated time and equipment. How much did it all cost? 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That blaze, and a series of others, have prompted two San Francisco supervisors to consider legislation that would increase the number of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/20/fires-prompt-sf-city-hall-to-consider-ways-to-increase-sprinklers-in-older-buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sprinklers in the city’s older apartment buildings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/05/major-san-francisco-apartment-fires-prompt-new-push-for-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve enforcement of the fire code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building where Orellana was killed had no sprinkler system, which the city did not require, and its smoke detectors did not work properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a hard-wired, electric-powered smoke detection system in the building at the time that failed to work correctly, Talmadge said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters probably could not see Orellana when they initially entered the unit, Talmadge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orellana was lying face down and unresponsive when firefighters discovered him, according to the medical examiner’s report. That’s when the 20-minute effort to get him out of the building began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talmadge said several factors complicated the rescue attempt: the simultaneous efforts to get other residents out of the building, concerns that the roof was about to fail (it did) and, not least, the victim’s size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orellana was 5-foot-10 and weighed 263 pounds. Talmadge said firefighters labored to carry him down from the third floor and out of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 firefighters battled the four-alarm fire, which caused $8.6 million in damage to a structure that housed residential and commercial spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, deemed unintentional, started inside a wall, the Fire Department says. Investigators have said they believe some sort of electrical failure may have caused the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was “most likely accidental and originated in the third floor south/west hallway within the west stud wall with fire extension to and throughout the common attic space,” according to a Fire Department report about the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/one-reported-dead-in-four-alarm-mission-district-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first fatal blaze in the city this year\u003c/a>. That blaze, and a series of others, have prompted two San Francisco supervisors to consider legislation that would increase the number of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/20/fires-prompt-sf-city-hall-to-consider-ways-to-increase-sprinklers-in-older-buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sprinklers in the city’s older apartment buildings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/05/major-san-francisco-apartment-fires-prompt-new-push-for-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve enforcement of the fire code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building where Orellana was killed had no sprinkler system, which the city did not require, and its smoke detectors did not work properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a hard-wired, electric-powered smoke detection system in the building at the time that failed to work correctly, Talmadge said. She said it was possible the same electrical problem that may have caused the fire might have made the smoke detectors inoperable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after the blaze, KQED learned that several exits in the building were blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze led the fire marshal to acknowledge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/source-exits-blocked-in-fatal-mission-district-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weaknesses in the Fire Department’s recording of safety problems\u003c/a> in the city’s apartment buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, a five-alarm fire a block away burned \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/02/mission-big-house-fire-building-had-no-smoke-alarms-or-sprinklers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a commercial building that did not have sprinklers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two members of a family suffered fatal injuries in an apartment fire at 24th Street and Treat Avenue in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent fatal fire in San Francisco took place in North Beach.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/another-fatal-apartment-fire-in-san-francisco-this-one-in-north-beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> That blaze killed a man on Columbus Avenue in early April\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dan Brekke of KQED News contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Members of the Berkeley City Council, the Downtown Berkeley Association and the Berkeley Food and Housing Project gathered by the downtown BART station last Thursday to launch a donation program for the city’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.downtownberkeley.com/dba-programs-positive-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positive Change\u003c/a> program will install up to 10 tamper-proof donation boxes around downtown Berkeley in which donors can drop off money to pay for social services geared to help reduce homelessness. Collected by the Downtown Berkeley Association once a week, the donations will go into a bank account from which the \u003ca href=\"http://bfhp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Food and Housing Project\u003c/a> can allocate funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The donations will go toward transportation assistance in the form of bus or BART fares; ID card and housing application fees; supplies, such as socks, underwear and toiletries; and the Homeward Bound program, which pays for long-distance bus tickets to reunite with family members in another California city, according to a statement released by the Downtown Berkeley Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were all things people come to us and ask for,” said Terrie Light, executive director for the Berkeley Food and Housing Project. “When people come for help, we will track the funds from the donations very specifically. There will be a ledger to keep track of these expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsored by Berkeley City Councilman Jesse Arreguín and Vice Mayor Linda Maio, the motion to implement Positive Change was passed with eight in favor and one abstention — by Max Anderson — at the March 17 council meeting. Arreguín has been working for three years with the Downtown Berkeley Association to implement the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar public donation programs have been adopted throughout the country in cities like San Diego and Louisville over the past few years. The donation program in Denver — repeatedly cited as a role model for Positive Change by Arreguín and Downtown Berkeley Association CEO John Caner — raised roughly $100,000 a year for its homeless population, using old parking meters as donation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes nearly two months after the City Council approved the gist of a proposal to address problematic behavior linked to the city’s homeless population, such as the intimidation of passers-by and public urination and defecation. Critics say the new laws will serve only to criminalize the homeless, while failing to address the root causes of the issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Arreguín said he did not expect Positive Change to be as immediately successful as the Denver program, he hoped donations would be in the tens of thousands of dollars a year to get the program running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not anticipating a lot of money first,” he said. “Berkeley Food and Housing Project has faced a lot of cuts over the last few years, so any money toward them will go a very long way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the council meeting when it was passed, several advocates from the homeless community expressed distrust of the program. They said they saw it as a way to discourage panhandling and make life tougher for homeless people who are desperately in need of the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you are doing is criminalizing homeless people further by cutting off resources,” said Robert Norris, a Santa Cruz resident and member of an advocacy group called Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín and Light said the Positive Change program will be an addition, not a diversion, in supporting the homeless and their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not support [Positive Change] as an alternative to panhandling,” Arreguín said. “The reality is that there are some people who will feel more comfortable donating to a box, knowing that the money will directly go to services which will improve homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safety of the boxes was cited as another concern. Akin to the stations in Denver or San Diego, the city considered revamping old police telephone boxes or Postal Service boxes as donation stations. But the Downtown Berkeley Association settled on new metal boxes welded to lighting poles as a safety precaution against vandals and thieves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín and the association plan to market the program actively to local businesses and downtown Berkeley residents. They said they plan to use an array of means, including distributing fliers to businesses, council members emailing their constituencies about the program, and using social media to spread the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lance Gorée, operations manager for the association, said there is a also need to promote the program beyond Berkeley so that people who visit the city are aware of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of San Francisco residents live in small dwelling spaces popularly known as \u003ca href=\"http://homeguides.sfgate.com/inlaw-apartment-45307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in-law units. \u003c/a>Until recently, most of these converted garages, attics and basements were technically illegal. But the current housing crunch has prompted city leaders to not only bring them out of the shadows, but also find ways to create new in-law apartments in underused spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really just at the infancy of this movement,” says building contractor Kurt Beale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beale and his team are currently giving an apartment building in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood its first big makeover since the 1967 “Summer of Love.” It’s a boxy three-story, painted a muddy harvest gold. For the ultimate 1960s throwback, Beale says, look at all the space. There’s a parking lot out back, plus additional parking and storage on the ground floor, and only six apartments to share it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204986059″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’60s when all the kids came out, they were affordable. They were these huge flats and you could get all these people in,” Beale says. “There’s a lot of space underneath these buildings that could be accessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beale’s renovation project includes converting an old first-floor laundry room into an in-law apartment. The city now allows this as a bonus for property owners who strengthen their buildings for earthquake safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retrofits are pricy, and Beale says the promise of the extra rental income should take some of the sting out of it for property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once people start seeing that they can get an asset out of this, I think that property owners will jump to it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfdbi.org/legalize-your-illegal-units-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent moves to legalize in-law units\u003c/a> mark a major policy shift. For years, concerns about neighborhood density, parking and public transit kept the units in the shadows. But the housing crunch has softened those attitudes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener says his pilot program allowing new in-law units in the Castro district and the seismic retrofit legislation, which he also authored, both passed with little pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the situation that we are in today in San Francisco, people are open to a lot of housing ideas, including in-law units, that they may have been skeptical of, even a few years ago,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many architects and designers are eager to get in on the new wave and overthrow, once and for all, the image of a dark and cramped basement with a Murphy bed and a hot plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young housing professionals and students swarmed a recent \u003ca href=\"http://issuu.com/theurbanworksagency/docs/iu_exhibition_catalog_digital_publi\">gallery show\u003c/a> at the urban policy think tank \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR,\u003c/a> which featured a series of sleek, modern in-law unit designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a> drew many of the plans. Architecture student Blake Stevenson named his design “The Lifted Garden.” It shows a terraced garden angled over a new in-law unit, which Stevenson imagines placing in the backyard of a two-story house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you’re putting a new unit in the backyard, it’s angled in such a way that the light can get to the lower unit in front,” Stevenson explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So everybody has light access, everybody has garden space or green space and, hopefully, everybody’s happy,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg\" alt='\"Thickened Wall\" by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos ' width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Thickened Wall” by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A design called “The Public Interface” depicts garages converted into live-work spaces for artists, with large windows to showcase artwork to people passing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another one, “The Thickened Wall,” depicts a light-filled attic in an old Victorian with a private, staircase entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Architect and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia, also a CCA professor, asked students to think about who would live in each space and consider what it would feel like to call it home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make someone feel that they’re not living in a hidden area of the city that they’re not supposed to be in?” Bhatia says. “How do they feel proud of where they are and how do they carve out their space within a city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answers came naturally to many students. Bhatia says many live in the city’s once-illegal law units or have been priced out of San Francisco’s housing market altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing by Jared Clifton. \" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Jared Clifton. \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tens of thousands of San Francisco residents live in small dwelling spaces popularly known as \u003ca href=\"http://homeguides.sfgate.com/inlaw-apartment-45307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in-law units. \u003c/a>Until recently, most of these converted garages, attics and basements were technically illegal. But the current housing crunch has prompted city leaders to not only bring them out of the shadows, but also find ways to create new in-law apartments in underused spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really just at the infancy of this movement,” says building contractor Kurt Beale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beale and his team are currently giving an apartment building in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood its first big makeover since the 1967 “Summer of Love.” It’s a boxy three-story, painted a muddy harvest gold. For the ultimate 1960s throwback, Beale says, look at all the space. There’s a parking lot out back, plus additional parking and storage on the ground floor, and only six apartments to share it all.\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/204986059″&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/204986059″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’60s when all the kids came out, they were affordable. They were these huge flats and you could get all these people in,” Beale says. “There’s a lot of space underneath these buildings that could be accessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beale’s renovation project includes converting an old first-floor laundry room into an in-law apartment. The city now allows this as a bonus for property owners who strengthen their buildings for earthquake safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retrofits are pricy, and Beale says the promise of the extra rental income should take some of the sting out of it for property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once people start seeing that they can get an asset out of this, I think that property owners will jump to it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfdbi.org/legalize-your-illegal-units-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent moves to legalize in-law units\u003c/a> mark a major policy shift. For years, concerns about neighborhood density, parking and public transit kept the units in the shadows. But the housing crunch has softened those attitudes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener says his pilot program allowing new in-law units in the Castro district and the seismic retrofit legislation, which he also authored, both passed with little pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the situation that we are in today in San Francisco, people are open to a lot of housing ideas, including in-law units, that they may have been skeptical of, even a few years ago,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many architects and designers are eager to get in on the new wave and overthrow, once and for all, the image of a dark and cramped basement with a Murphy bed and a hot plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young housing professionals and students swarmed a recent \u003ca href=\"http://issuu.com/theurbanworksagency/docs/iu_exhibition_catalog_digital_publi\">gallery show\u003c/a> at the urban policy think tank \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR,\u003c/a> which featured a series of sleek, modern in-law unit designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a> drew many of the plans. Architecture student Blake Stevenson named his design “The Lifted Garden.” It shows a terraced garden angled over a new in-law unit, which Stevenson imagines placing in the backyard of a two-story house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you’re putting a new unit in the backyard, it’s angled in such a way that the light can get to the lower unit in front,” Stevenson explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So everybody has light access, everybody has garden space or green space and, hopefully, everybody’s happy,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg\" alt='\"Thickened Wall\" by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos ' width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Thickened Wall” by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A design called “The Public Interface” depicts garages converted into live-work spaces for artists, with large windows to showcase artwork to people passing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another one, “The Thickened Wall,” depicts a light-filled attic in an old Victorian with a private, staircase entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Architect and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia, also a CCA professor, asked students to think about who would live in each space and consider what it would feel like to call it home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make someone feel that they’re not living in a hidden area of the city that they’re not supposed to be in?” Bhatia says. “How do they feel proud of where they are and how do they carve out their space within a city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answers came naturally to many students. 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"content": "\u003cp>Six years ago, Melissa Hennings scored a great deal on an apartment in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. It was $875 a month and rent-controlled. But like similar finds, her apartment was old and not in great shape. She consciously traded building quality for an apartment she could afford, in a neighborhood she liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such apartments are in high demand, despite their poor condition. And the possibility of finding one in Oakland is rapidly fading. Investors are buying up old properties, and rents increased more than 14 percent from August 2013 to August 2014, \u003ca href=\"http://www.trulia.com/trends/2014/09/trulia-price-rent-monitors-aug-2014/\">according to the real estate website Trulia\u003c/a>. So, it wasn’t a total surprise when real estate investors bought Hennings’ building last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few days later, major renovation work began -- work which has been going on ever since. The four-unit building is shrouded in black mesh and plastic from an effort to replace its siding. Work has also focused on a vacant unit, a stairwell and a balcony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, city building officials have issued several orders for work to stop, either because it wasn’t done properly or the owner lacked appropriate permits. But Hennings doesn’t think the construction is actually about restoring an old property. She thinks the new owner is using it to push her out, so that he can raise the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204584694\" 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>“It’s just wreaked havoc on my life,” says Hennings. “It does not feel like they would treat tenants who are paying more money with the same amount of disrespect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants rights advocates, as well as some city politicians, say pushing out rent-control tenants is a growing trend in Oakland. That’s because when a rent-control tenant leaves, landlords can raise rent as much as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennings and the other tenants all pay less than $1,000 each month in rent. When new landlord Marty Higgins advertised the building’s one vacant unit, he asked for twice as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Higgins, who's part owner of an investment group that purchased Hennings’ building, says he’s being completely misjudged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no intention of pushing out any of our residents whatsoever,” he says. “This is a case of a property that was in severe disrepair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins acknowledges some mistakes have been made during the building’s renovation, but says he just wants to fix up the place and make it safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Listening to your residents, hearing what they would like to have repaired and repairing that in a timely manner, that’s our main goal,\" he says. \"Making sure their life safety issues are cleared up, that’s our goal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Illegal Harassment?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, the Oakland City Council passed a Tenant Protection Ordinance, which is intended to protect tenants from harassing behavior aimed at pushing them out. The law has 16 provisions defining harassment, including work that doesn’t meet code. It also guarantees tenants the right to quiet enjoyment of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s building inspection manager, Timothy Low, says the number of mistakes he has found in Hennings' building -- largely as a result of her phone calls -- is more than average. “It’s a lot of mistakes,” Low says, stretching out the word \"lot.\" More than the average number of mistakes, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn't necessarily violate the Tenant Protection Ordinance, though. And even if it did, it's hard for tenants to prove a landlord is harassing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocate James Vann of the Oakland Tenants Union says the law has “no teeth at all.” Vann’s group advocated for a law that would allow tenants to file a simple complaint to the city. But in the end, the City Council pulled that provision from the ordinance. Instead, tenants must file a claim against a landlord in civil court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Dan Kalb authored the law, and believes that with time it will help deter harassing landlords. But he acknowledges, “It might take one or two court cases to filter things out and get the message across.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vann says tenants call him all the time about their landlords harassing them. He often tells them they have a case. But he says, “Many of them, even educated people, will say, ‘It’s just too much hassle. I don’t want to go through it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Headed to Court\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDuring her standoff with the landlord, Melissa Hennings has changed as a tenant. Until the building sold, she says, she was laid-back and rarely contacted the previous owner. Now she’s a hawk, constantly scouring the building for code violations, firing off emails to her landlord and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins has offered to put Hennings and other building residents in an extended stay hotel while the work is going on. Two tenants have taken him up on the offer. But they both said it’s stressful not knowing when they’ll be allowed to come back to the apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tenant, who didn’t want to be named, recently decided to leave the extended stay and find a new place. She says she believes that’s exactly what Higgins wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, Higgins says no. “I’ve dealt with hundreds of landlords over the course of my career,\" he says, \"and I haven’t heard of too many cases of landlords offering extended stay during rather extreme renovations. We just think it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennings is determined to be the exception to the trend of tenants walking away from fights with their landlords. She has hired a lawyer and is expecting to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows most people don’t have the time, energy or money to mount such a campaign. “I’m just doing as much as I can, because I know I’m in a better position that than they are,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever happens in her own case, Hennings has no illusions that one law can temper the market forces bearing down on Temescal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I give this neighborhood only so long before investors come through and purchase more of these small apartments that a lot of my friends live in,\" she says, \"before we’ll all get forced out of here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>**Update: Since this story was reported, Oakland building inspectors declared Hennings' building \"unsafe to occupy.\" They were routinely monitoring the renovation and found extensive dry rot beneath its outdoor siding. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants rights advocates, as well as some city politicians, say pushing out rent-control tenants is a growing trend in Oakland. That’s because when a rent-control tenant leaves, landlords can raise rent as much as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennings and the other tenants all pay less than $1,000 each month in rent. When new landlord Marty Higgins advertised the building’s one vacant unit, he asked for twice as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Higgins, who's part owner of an investment group that purchased Hennings’ building, says he’s being completely misjudged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no intention of pushing out any of our residents whatsoever,” he says. “This is a case of a property that was in severe disrepair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins acknowledges some mistakes have been made during the building’s renovation, but says he just wants to fix up the place and make it safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Listening to your residents, hearing what they would like to have repaired and repairing that in a timely manner, that’s our main goal,\" he says. \"Making sure their life safety issues are cleared up, that’s our goal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Illegal Harassment?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, the Oakland City Council passed a Tenant Protection Ordinance, which is intended to protect tenants from harassing behavior aimed at pushing them out. The law has 16 provisions defining harassment, including work that doesn’t meet code. It also guarantees tenants the right to quiet enjoyment of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s building inspection manager, Timothy Low, says the number of mistakes he has found in Hennings' building -- largely as a result of her phone calls -- is more than average. “It’s a lot of mistakes,” Low says, stretching out the word \"lot.\" More than the average number of mistakes, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn't necessarily violate the Tenant Protection Ordinance, though. And even if it did, it's hard for tenants to prove a landlord is harassing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocate James Vann of the Oakland Tenants Union says the law has “no teeth at all.” Vann’s group advocated for a law that would allow tenants to file a simple complaint to the city. But in the end, the City Council pulled that provision from the ordinance. Instead, tenants must file a claim against a landlord in civil court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Dan Kalb authored the law, and believes that with time it will help deter harassing landlords. But he acknowledges, “It might take one or two court cases to filter things out and get the message across.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vann says tenants call him all the time about their landlords harassing them. He often tells them they have a case. But he says, “Many of them, even educated people, will say, ‘It’s just too much hassle. I don’t want to go through it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Headed to Court\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDuring her standoff with the landlord, Melissa Hennings has changed as a tenant. Until the building sold, she says, she was laid-back and rarely contacted the previous owner. Now she’s a hawk, constantly scouring the building for code violations, firing off emails to her landlord and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins has offered to put Hennings and other building residents in an extended stay hotel while the work is going on. Two tenants have taken him up on the offer. But they both said it’s stressful not knowing when they’ll be allowed to come back to the apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tenant, who didn’t want to be named, recently decided to leave the extended stay and find a new place. She says she believes that’s exactly what Higgins wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, Higgins says no. “I’ve dealt with hundreds of landlords over the course of my career,\" he says, \"and I haven’t heard of too many cases of landlords offering extended stay during rather extreme renovations. We just think it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennings is determined to be the exception to the trend of tenants walking away from fights with their landlords. She has hired a lawyer and is expecting to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows most people don’t have the time, energy or money to mount such a campaign. “I’m just doing as much as I can, because I know I’m in a better position that than they are,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever happens in her own case, Hennings has no illusions that one law can temper the market forces bearing down on Temescal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I give this neighborhood only so long before investors come through and purchase more of these small apartments that a lot of my friends live in,\" she says, \"before we’ll all get forced out of here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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UrbanCore Development's Michael Johnson contends that adding the units \"will take demand pressure off the city's tight rental market,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/a-parcel-for-the-people/Content?oid=4229717\">East Bay Express\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson has worked on affordable housing projects in Oakland before, but some of his publicly funded projects have exceeded their costs and ended up \"costing taxpayers millions,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Contention-over-Oakland-condo-tower-urban-boon-6239755.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UrbanCore has been negotiating the agreement with the city for more than two years. As a member of the City Council, Schaaf voted in favor of allowing the plan to proceed. In an interview with KQED this week, the mayor said she still supports the project, \"particularly because we've added significant community benefits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those benefits: a quarter of the $5.1 million sale proceeds would go into the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to building more affordable housing,\" said Schaaf. \"But we need housing at every income level to address the affordability crisis that we have in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Johnson said at least one market study shows there is strong demand for more high-rise rental housing in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are going to pay the city market value for the land, which they requested, then it is not feasible to add affordable units to the project unit mix,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204110977\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said that there are currently 903 affordable housing units in the pipeline, which are spread out across five of the seven council districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the agreement, UrbanCore must also try to hire at least 25 percent of its builders from the local community and fund a study \"to create a Business Improvement District or Community Benefits District\" in the area. The total list of community benefits added to the city deal totals $500,000 in monetary contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's still not enough for many residents, said Amy Vanderwarker, spokeswoman for Eastlake United for Justice, one of the groups that participated in the Tuesday night rally. While she said she appreciates the city's effort to add more community benefits, \"We don't think they're actual community benefits because community benefits have to be actually negotiated with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanderwarker said the group has been in communication with City Council members, including Abel Guillen, whose District 2 is where the project would be located. 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