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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday, San Francisco's Planning Commission is set to consider changes to the law to address both the low registration rate and lack of enforcement. Two proposals -- one from Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell, and another from Supervisors David Campos, Eric Mar, and John Avalos -- include strict limits on rental lengths, whether or not a host is home during a guest's stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosts are currently allowed to rent out their entire home for 90 days a year. There is no limit on \"hosted rentals,\" when a host stays in their home while a guest is visiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That distinction is very difficult for our enforcement staff to determine,\" says Scott Sanchez, an administrator with the Planning Department, which supports a hard cap on rental lengths. \"Going to a straight number of day limit and not requiring it to be hosted or unhosted just makes the enforcement a lot more straightforward and transparent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Key Differences in Proposals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's plan would limit a host's Airbnb-style rentals to 120 days a year; Campos' plan would impose a cap of 60 days. The proposals also differ on how to help the Planning Department enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Lee's legislation, a new city office would process applications and crack down on hosts who illegally rent out units. Sanchez says his department supports the plan to bring together the expertise of the Department of Building Inspection and the Tax Collector's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance from Supervisor Campos would instead empower neighbors and affordable housing nonprofits to bring legal action against hosts who violate the law, even if a violation has not been determined by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Enforcement is going to take a role by everyone, not just the city,\" Campos says. \"That there are limits in terms of what the city can do and limitations in what the city can know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Campos wants rental platforms like Airbnb to make sure all postings are registered with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My experience has been that Airbnb will do things not because we ask nicely but because we require them to do them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ballot Measure Moving Ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his proposal fails, Campos says he'll support a planned November ballot measure that could provide another chance to limit short-term rentals in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareBetter San Francisco\u003c/a> plans to file an initiative next week that would include many of the changes proposed by Supervisors Campos, Avalos and Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter from ShareBetter cofounder Dale Carlson to the Planning Commission says Lee's proposal \"incentivizes the continued conversion of residential units to de facto hotel rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Airbnb supported the city's initial ordinance, which housing activists and others characterized as a major victory for the company. But with increasing pressure coming from \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-airbnb-legislation-20150421-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">state lawmakers\u003c/a> as well as in its own backyard, the company says it will fight new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of Trojan Horse proposals designed to effectively ban home sharing, lawmakers should focus on making it easier for San Franciscans to share their homes and follow the rules,\" Airbnb spokesperson Christopher Nulty said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday, the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnbsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">launched a campaign\u003c/a> aimed at dissuading city officials from adopting new proposals to regulate short-term rentals. The campaign, “The Home Sharing 11,\" will feature 11 Airbnb hosts -- one from each of the city's supervisorial districts.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If the barefooted woman pushing a shopping cart down the sidewalk or the guy brushing his teeth outside a tattered blue tent doesn’t tell you where you are, the enormous \"Welcome to Skid Row\" mural should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/200650548\" 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 basically a city-limits sign, typical green with the white trim like ‘now entering such-and-such a place,’ ” explains \u003ca title=\"Jeff Page FB PAGE\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/General-Jeff/106807136010057\">Jeff Page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then on the left of the sign it says, ‘Population: too many’ because there’s definitely too many people living in this condition like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page is a Skid Row resident and activist behind a mural project along San Julian Street, a grimy back alley surrounded by homeless encampments, shelters and a host of other homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page says he’s trying to create a splash of Technicolor in an otherwise bleak environment that many people prefer to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our effort to try to be recognized as a community,” says Page. “That way, people will see it more than just some transitional place for hobos and drug addicts, that we just have people who suffer from poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s spurring this quest for community recognition? Is it a crackdown by the cops? Stricter rules about sidewalk camping? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s $9 ice cream cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a couple blocks from the mural is an upscale ice cream shop called Peddler’s Creamery. It’s the kind of place that embodies the changing face of L.A.’s historic core -- the neighborhood that rubs right up against the hard stubble of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stop by the place with Mike Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s organically grown, sustainably farmed ingredients that he uses in his ice cream by peddling on his bicycle,” says Alvirez, beaming at the site of the Rube Goldberg-esque bicycle-powered ice cream churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvirez is chief of the \u003ca title=\"SKid Row Housing Trust\" href=\"http://skidrow.org/\">Skid Row Housing Trust\u003c/a>. The nonprofit owns around two dozen buildings, including the New Genesis, also home to Peddler’s Creamery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1180x729.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-768x474.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-320x198.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The top floors of the New Genesis are reserved for low-income housing. And in a controversial move, the Trust created spaces on the ground floor for a couple of retailers that cater to the area’s more affluent newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a double-edged sword. It does obviously create more pressure on homeless folks for those who want to see them get swept away,” says Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time I think many of the downtown residents who have chosen to live in downtown, understanding that there is this population in Skid Row, want to see something done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of homeless people and a lot of desperation packed into one 70-square-block sliver of Skid Row. One thing that’s woefully lacking is low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skid Row has been losing cheap housing for years, as the neighborhood’s old residence hotels and apartment buildings were torn down or transformed into market-rate apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498180 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK StarApts\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-768x507.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the modular and modernist Star Apartments, built two years ago in the heart of Skid Row\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days there are a little more than 3,000 low-income housing units in the Skid Row area, and more than double the number of people living on the streets on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, that kind of thing would have been enough to scare off the most hardened of urban dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so much anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in, technically, the boundaries of Skid Row,” says real estate agent Blair Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She chose to move to the Skid Row area when she took a job as director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS581US581&q=Historic+Core+Business+Improvement+District%20\">Historic Core Business Improvement District, \u003c/a>an organization that represents downtown merchants, developers and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great many of them come down here and find out maybe it’s a little bit of an edgier experience than they were expecting,” says Besten of many of the area’s new denizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498182 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK BukKeroWaits\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1440x947.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1180x776.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-768x505.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cultural ‘patron saints’ of Skid Row: Images of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and John Fante are stenciled on the wall of an alley behind the New Genesis apartments.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because we do find ourselves adjunct to Skid Row, and we do have a considerable homeless population here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besten lives in a building on the edge of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s raising a family there, too. She does worry about the proliferation of sidewalk encampments, which the police essentially ignore. A number of ordinances and court rulings handcuff their ability to seize a person’s belongings. Besten is sympathetic yet frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is someone’s personal property really needs to be defined because five shopping carts filled with garbage and tents and tarps dedicated to one individual probably isn’t making their lives any better,” says Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people need to be integrated in their own communities rather than being pushed out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Navales agrees that other cities need to do more to help the homeless in their own communities. Navales is a community outreach coordinator with the \u003ca title=\"Midnight Mission\" href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/%20\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, one of Skid Row’s oldest and biggest shelters and service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers, and there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized,” says Navales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498183\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corporation in Skid Row\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1440x1025.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-320x228.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corp. in Skid Row \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have all that down here, it just stresses the system. There’s already a lack of housing, so that’s what you’re facing is a housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing apartments that currently do exist on Skid Row cannot be converted to market rates. A 2008 ordinance shields them from commercial development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is adding more affordable housing units to an area that’s becoming one of the hottest real estate markets in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have allowed this to persist for decades and it’s shameful,” says Alvirez. “It should have never gotten to this point. We can’t solve it unless we own it. This is our problem that we have to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With competition for any slice of available real estate looking only to get fiercer, and homeless services slowly expanding in other places, Los Angeles could be facing what once seemed unimaginable: the gradual shrinking of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page says he’s trying to create a splash of Technicolor in an otherwise bleak environment that many people prefer to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our effort to try to be recognized as a community,” says Page. “That way, people will see it more than just some transitional place for hobos and drug addicts, that we just have people who suffer from poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s spurring this quest for community recognition? Is it a crackdown by the cops? Stricter rules about sidewalk camping? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s $9 ice cream cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a couple blocks from the mural is an upscale ice cream shop called Peddler’s Creamery. It’s the kind of place that embodies the changing face of L.A.’s historic core -- the neighborhood that rubs right up against the hard stubble of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stop by the place with Mike Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s organically grown, sustainably farmed ingredients that he uses in his ice cream by peddling on his bicycle,” says Alvirez, beaming at the site of the Rube Goldberg-esque bicycle-powered ice cream churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvirez is chief of the \u003ca title=\"SKid Row Housing Trust\" href=\"http://skidrow.org/\">Skid Row Housing Trust\u003c/a>. The nonprofit owns around two dozen buildings, including the New Genesis, also home to Peddler’s Creamery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1180x729.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-768x474.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-320x198.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The top floors of the New Genesis are reserved for low-income housing. And in a controversial move, the Trust created spaces on the ground floor for a couple of retailers that cater to the area’s more affluent newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a double-edged sword. It does obviously create more pressure on homeless folks for those who want to see them get swept away,” says Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time I think many of the downtown residents who have chosen to live in downtown, understanding that there is this population in Skid Row, want to see something done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of homeless people and a lot of desperation packed into one 70-square-block sliver of Skid Row. One thing that’s woefully lacking is low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skid Row has been losing cheap housing for years, as the neighborhood’s old residence hotels and apartment buildings were torn down or transformed into market-rate apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498180 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK StarApts\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-768x507.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the modular and modernist Star Apartments, built two years ago in the heart of Skid Row\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days there are a little more than 3,000 low-income housing units in the Skid Row area, and more than double the number of people living on the streets on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, that kind of thing would have been enough to scare off the most hardened of urban dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so much anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in, technically, the boundaries of Skid Row,” says real estate agent Blair Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She chose to move to the Skid Row area when she took a job as director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS581US581&q=Historic+Core+Business+Improvement+District%20\">Historic Core Business Improvement District, \u003c/a>an organization that represents downtown merchants, developers and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great many of them come down here and find out maybe it’s a little bit of an edgier experience than they were expecting,” says Besten of many of the area’s new denizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498182 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK BukKeroWaits\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1440x947.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1180x776.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-768x505.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cultural ‘patron saints’ of Skid Row: Images of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and John Fante are stenciled on the wall of an alley behind the New Genesis apartments.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because we do find ourselves adjunct to Skid Row, and we do have a considerable homeless population here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besten lives in a building on the edge of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s raising a family there, too. She does worry about the proliferation of sidewalk encampments, which the police essentially ignore. A number of ordinances and court rulings handcuff their ability to seize a person’s belongings. Besten is sympathetic yet frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is someone’s personal property really needs to be defined because five shopping carts filled with garbage and tents and tarps dedicated to one individual probably isn’t making their lives any better,” says Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people need to be integrated in their own communities rather than being pushed out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Navales agrees that other cities need to do more to help the homeless in their own communities. Navales is a community outreach coordinator with the \u003ca title=\"Midnight Mission\" href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/%20\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, one of Skid Row’s oldest and biggest shelters and service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers, and there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized,” says Navales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498183\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corporation in Skid Row\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1440x1025.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-320x228.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corp. in Skid Row \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have all that down here, it just stresses the system. There’s already a lack of housing, so that’s what you’re facing is a housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing apartments that currently do exist on Skid Row cannot be converted to market rates. A 2008 ordinance shields them from commercial development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is adding more affordable housing units to an area that’s becoming one of the hottest real estate markets in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have allowed this to persist for decades and it’s shameful,” says Alvirez. “It should have never gotten to this point. We can’t solve it unless we own it. This is our problem that we have to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Yes, it’s a little bit of a surprise that Emeryville, a town that many Bay Area residents probably associate with the massive yellow-and-blue \u003ca href=\"http://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/02/12/18/29_full.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Swedish furniture store\u003c/a> adjacent to the MacArthur Maze, has a poet laureate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the interest of enriching the local cultural landscape, the city created such a position. And a couple years ago, Sarah Kobrinsky, a Winnipeg native who came to Emeryville by way of Fargo, North Dakota, was appointed to the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Seeing human beings as dollar signs and not as human beings — that’s a sickness.’\u003ccite>Sarah Kobrinsky\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Wherever I’ve lived, I’ve loved to connect somehow to the artistic community and to play a part in that,” Kobrinsky says. “I like to bring people together and organize events and make things happen.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kobrinsky’s day job is helping run her family’s small ceramics business. She applied for the poet laureate’s post after she saw a posting on a local bakery bulletin board. In addition to writing poetry for community events, she conducts workshops for residents and has started a project to distribute poems on the Emery-Go-Round, the city’s shuttle bus service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Emeryville’s poet laureate, whose verse touches on subjects like the town’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/6316\" target=\"_blank\">long-vanished Native American shellmounds\u003c/a> and the presence of that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/6317\" target=\"_blank\">big Swedish furniture store\u003c/a>, can no longer afford to live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kobrinsky recently joined the growing ranks of Bay Area artists who have been priced out of their homes — in this case, a 1-bedroom flat she shared with her husband, a potter, and their young son. At the end of last year, their landlords, who live in an adjacent home, notified them via letter of a 38 percent rent increase. They had 60 days to move from their home of five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was actually very scary,” Kobrinsky says. “I remember getting the letter and breaking down in tears because its something so primal — your sense of shelter, your home.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her family landed just up the Eastshore Freeway in Richmond. She recognizes there are plenty of people in the same boat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the young creative folks I’ve met recently — the ones who are able to stay are the ones who are lucky enough to secure a situation,” Kobrinsky says. “Either they end up living in a warehouse or they find a room in a house that people have been able to hang onto for years so the rent has stayed low. I know people who are at the top of their fields who are struggling every month to make their ends meet.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she wonders aloud about the health of a region that’s seeing so many people, artists and non-artists alike, pushed out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real sickness in the Bay Area,” she says. “Seeing human beings as dollar signs and not as human beings — that’s a sickness.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kairee Tann, one of Kobrinsky’s landlords, said Tuesday she didn’t want to discuss the situation. A\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_27951888/housing-crisis-emeryville-planning-official-uses-huge-rent\" target=\"_blank\"> Bay Area News Group story\u003c/a> on Kobrinsky earlier this week quoted Tann as saying the rent hike was “standard operating procedure” and that she was not “aware of any issue regarding the rent increase.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kobrinsky’s response might also be regarded as standard operating procedure, for her. Reflecting on her experience and what’s happening across the Bay Area, she wrote about it. In the audio clip below, she reads her poem “Aftershock”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In another time and place,\u003cbr>\nwe are better people.\u003cbr>\nNo one lies. The Earth\u003cbr>\nnever shakes.\u003cbr>\nSomewhere else,\u003cbr>\nwe are stronger still —\u003cbr>\nWhen we say we are sorry,\u003cbr>\nwe honestly mean it.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202085132&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\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Updated\u003c/strong> to include San Francisco Fire Department statistics on residential and commercial fires in San Francisco. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of fatal fires in San Francisco has prompted a Board of Supervisors committee hearing Monday, aimed at finding ways to install sprinklers in more of the city's older apartment buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both property owners and city officials acknowledge retrofitting older structures with sprinklers is likely to be difficult and costly, setting up a political battle over housing at a moment when the city is in the midst of a real estate crunch and increasingly focused on fire safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the year, more than half a dozen blazes have killed four people throughout the city. Fire officials have said that at least \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/source-exits-blocked-in-fatal-mission-district-fire\" target=\"_blank\">one of the buildings involved in those fires\u003c/a> did not have a sprinkler system on floors where residents lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A five-alarm fire last September \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/02/mission-big-house-fire-building-had-no-smoke-alarms-or-sprinklers\" target=\"_blank\">destroyed a Mission Street dollar store\u003c/a> -- a building that lacked sprinklers in the middle of a crowded shopping district.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Fires and sprinklers\u003cbr>\nin San Francisco\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>San Francisco fire officials say there have been 434 residential fires and 204 commercial property fires in the city since the beginning of 2010 -- 638 in all. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of that total, sprinkler systems were confirmed to exist at 106 fire locations. 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She called for Monday's hearing of the Land Use Transportation Committee and is crafting an ordinance aimed at increasing the number of sprinklers in the city's older building stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The data shows that sprinklers absolutely save lives,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds she's been talking with building owners about ways to require some older apartments to have sprinklers in their common areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's been tough is that it is a political issue,\" Kim says. \"It's not cheap. 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But you might never know it until you start motoring south, past Disney Concert Hall, past City Hall, Pershing Square and newly renovated million-dollar condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when you’ll begin the slow descent into Skid Row, arguably the largest concentration of homeless people in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199499800\" 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>By some estimates, there are several thousand people living on the streets of Skid Row on any given night. 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And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. But the quest to build more is running right up against a new wave of upscale downtown development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a marketing scheme to have people to buy into this newer and shinier up-and-coming downtown Los Angeles,” says Skid Row activist and resident-general Jeff Page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we want new and shiny in Skid Row, too!”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. But the quest to build more is running right up against a new wave of upscale downtown development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a marketing scheme to have people to buy into this newer and shinier up-and-coming downtown Los Angeles,” says Skid Row activist and resident-general Jeff Page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland's deadliest fire in nearly three years continues to have an impact on the friends of the two artists who died in the blaze, dozens of displaced residents, and several businesses that have been forced to shut down for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe the March 21 three-alarm blaze at 669 24th St. in West Oakland was probably caused accidentally, after one of the men found dead in the unit where the fire started fell asleep while smoking, said Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Darin White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials want to know if one of the men was intoxicated. \"We do believe it's possible that alcohol or other drugs could have played a part in the individuals' inability to find themselves able to remove themselves from the situation,\" White said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire department got word of the blaze at around 3 a.m. but did not see smoke or fire when they arrived minutes later. However, as crews searched the two-story brick building, a smoke alarm began to sound and smoke started coming out the top of the door leading to Apartment D on the second floor, White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters broke into the unit and \"encountered an apartment charged with black smoke all the way to the floor,\" White said. \"Heavy flame was coming from the back of the apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is connected to an adjacent structure at 674 23rd St. that houses two publishing firms and a printing company. They share a common wall, and the fire spread rapidly to the building next door. The two structures started out as one space -- a National Guard armory built in 1930 -- but they were eventually divided into live/work units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighters' aggressive fire attack helped save the second building, White said. But the blaze killed 27-year-old Davis Letona and 36-year-old Daniel \"Moe\" Thomas, roommates in Apartment D. It destroyed a large part of 669 24th St. and gutted several units on the second floor of 674 23rd St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marks the first time since June 2012 that Oakland experienced at least two fatalities in a fire, according to Cynthia Perkins, the Oakland Fire Department's chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the blaze -- smoking -- is fairly common, and federal officials say it's the leading cause of fatal residential fires. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/res_bldg_fire_estimates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Fire Administration's latest report\u003c/a>, 330 people throughout the country died in residential blazes caused by smoking in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, one out of every four people who dies in smoking-related fires is not the smoker who started the fire, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fire-causes/smoking-materials\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit fire prevention advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have not said which man in the unit where the blaze began was smoking before it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona, who perished in the fire, had moved into the apartment in the weeks before the blaze, according to Jonah Strauss, a tenant and recording engineer who lived and worked below the two men, as well as Alex Ramos, one of Letona's close friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona was a digital videographer. \"His main passion was cinema,\" said Ramos, who organized an \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/pjk2p0\" target=\"_blank\">online fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to pay for a recent memorial. Some of his work can be seen on his website, \u003ca href=\"https://davisletona.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">davislatona.wordpress.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, the second victim, had \u003ca href=\"http://wesplittheatom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">artwork \u003c/a>featured in a number of exhibitions and collections in Oakland and San Francisco over the last six years, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mgart.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">McLoughlin Gallery\u003c/a> in Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Alameda County Coroner's Office, Letona's cause of death was asphyxia and smoke inhalation. The cause of death for Thomas is under investigation pending toxicology tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the fire displaced 34 residents. They are having a tough time finding housing, said Chuck Smuckler, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Alameda County, which has been coordinating aid for the displaced residents with officials at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's office and the Salvation Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the Bay Area we have such a problem with affordable housing,\" Smuckler said in an interview. \"When people suddenly get displaced, finding replacement housing that is affordable and accessible ... that's the key issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross provided the residents who were turned out by the blaze with three nights free at local motels, but it is difficult for them to find long-term transitional housing or permanent places to live, Smuckler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has also worsened what were already poor relations between the owner of the building and about a dozen of its residents, said Strauss in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss said the landlord has done nothing to help him and the other tenants and has effectively asked the residents to give up returning to the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner/landlord is Kim Marienthal, a realtor at a Coldwell Banker residential brokerage firm in Berkeley. Marienthal said that he feels very sorry for the plight of his tenants. \"But the process to rebuild after a disaster like this is slow and arduous,\" he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not respond to complaints brought up by tenants. \"I am advised by legal counsel not to discuss these matters,\" Marienthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss also said there were no sprinklers in the building, something fire and building officials as well as the landlord have yet to corroborate. There were reports that some of the smoke detectors were not working at the time of the fire, but several fire officials have said they have no evidence to suggest that an alarm was not operating properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss' independent music recording business has been hit hard by the fire, and he has begun an online fundraising campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\" target=\"_blank\">www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke and water used to battle the blaze damaged a well-known radical book publishing firm, AK Press, and two other businesses, 1984 Printing and Omnidawn, all in the adjacent structure on 23rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of AK Press's books are waterlogged, said Charles Weigl, one of the publisher's members, in a phone interview from the collective's office, which has been red-tagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The road ahead is unclear except that I'm sure that we will persevere,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AK Press has insurance, but it's not certain how much the policy will cover damages from the fire. The publisher will probably not make back the money it needs to have the books it had in stock before the blaze, Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective is one of the oldest continuously running anarchist presses in the country. \"A lot of people first come to understand about anarchism and anti-state, communist literature through AK Press,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years the worker-owned publisher has sent funds and free books to young radical bookstores to help them get started. Some of the people AK Press has helped over the years have been sending money to the collective. In the weeks after the fire, it has raised around $50,000 through an online campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/akpressfire\" target=\"_blank\">gofundme.com/akpressfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of that karma is coming back to us,\" Weigl said. The money AK Press has received is going to replenish its books, but also to help the building's residents as well as 1984 Printing and Omnidawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Weigl at AK Press and Amy Watson, who runs 1984, expressed frustration that the city red-tagged their businesses, forcing them to shut down until building officials deem their space safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also emphasized that their building had above the normal level of fire safety systems in place. In fact, it had 180 smoke detectors, Watson and Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1984 resumed printing just days ago, according to the online fundraising campaign for the independent shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/1984printing\" target=\"_blank\">gofundme.com/1984printing\u003c/a>, which has raised some $11,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're certainly not business as usual,\" Watson said of 1984. \"But, we're moving forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omnidawn, a poetry publisher, experienced very minor water damage, according to its manager, Ken Keegan. The business lost only about two dozen water-damaged books.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It destroyed a large part of 669 24th St. and gutted several units on the second floor of 674 23rd St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marks the first time since June 2012 that Oakland experienced at least two fatalities in a fire, according to Cynthia Perkins, the Oakland Fire Department's chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the blaze -- smoking -- is fairly common, and federal officials say it's the leading cause of fatal residential fires. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/res_bldg_fire_estimates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Fire Administration's latest report\u003c/a>, 330 people throughout the country died in residential blazes caused by smoking in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, one out of every four people who dies in smoking-related fires is not the smoker who started the fire, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fire-causes/smoking-materials\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit fire prevention advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have not said which man in the unit where the blaze began was smoking before it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona, who perished in the fire, had moved into the apartment in the weeks before the blaze, according to Jonah Strauss, a tenant and recording engineer who lived and worked below the two men, as well as Alex Ramos, one of Letona's close friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona was a digital videographer. \"His main passion was cinema,\" said Ramos, who organized an \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/pjk2p0\" target=\"_blank\">online fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to pay for a recent memorial. Some of his work can be seen on his website, \u003ca href=\"https://davisletona.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">davislatona.wordpress.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, the second victim, had \u003ca href=\"http://wesplittheatom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">artwork \u003c/a>featured in a number of exhibitions and collections in Oakland and San Francisco over the last six years, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mgart.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">McLoughlin Gallery\u003c/a> in Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Alameda County Coroner's Office, Letona's cause of death was asphyxia and smoke inhalation. The cause of death for Thomas is under investigation pending toxicology tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the fire displaced 34 residents. They are having a tough time finding housing, said Chuck Smuckler, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Alameda County, which has been coordinating aid for the displaced residents with officials at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's office and the Salvation Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the Bay Area we have such a problem with affordable housing,\" Smuckler said in an interview. \"When people suddenly get displaced, finding replacement housing that is affordable and accessible ... that's the key issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross provided the residents who were turned out by the blaze with three nights free at local motels, but it is difficult for them to find long-term transitional housing or permanent places to live, Smuckler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has also worsened what were already poor relations between the owner of the building and about a dozen of its residents, said Strauss in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss said the landlord has done nothing to help him and the other tenants and has effectively asked the residents to give up returning to the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner/landlord is Kim Marienthal, a realtor at a Coldwell Banker residential brokerage firm in Berkeley. Marienthal said that he feels very sorry for the plight of his tenants. \"But the process to rebuild after a disaster like this is slow and arduous,\" he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not respond to complaints brought up by tenants. \"I am advised by legal counsel not to discuss these matters,\" Marienthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss also said there were no sprinklers in the building, something fire and building officials as well as the landlord have yet to corroborate. There were reports that some of the smoke detectors were not working at the time of the fire, but several fire officials have said they have no evidence to suggest that an alarm was not operating properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss' independent music recording business has been hit hard by the fire, and he has begun an online fundraising campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\" target=\"_blank\">www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke and water used to battle the blaze damaged a well-known radical book publishing firm, AK Press, and two other businesses, 1984 Printing and Omnidawn, all in the adjacent structure on 23rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of AK Press's books are waterlogged, said Charles Weigl, one of the publisher's members, in a phone interview from the collective's office, which has been red-tagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The road ahead is unclear except that I'm sure that we will persevere,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AK Press has insurance, but it's not certain how much the policy will cover damages from the fire. The publisher will probably not make back the money it needs to have the books it had in stock before the blaze, Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective is one of the oldest continuously running anarchist presses in the country. \"A lot of people first come to understand about anarchism and anti-state, communist literature through AK Press,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years the worker-owned publisher has sent funds and free books to young radical bookstores to help them get started. Some of the people AK Press has helped over the years have been sending money to the collective. In the weeks after the fire, it has raised around $50,000 through an online campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/akpressfire\" target=\"_blank\">gofundme.com/akpressfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of that karma is coming back to us,\" Weigl said. The money AK Press has received is going to replenish its books, but also to help the building's residents as well as 1984 Printing and Omnidawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Weigl at AK Press and Amy Watson, who runs 1984, expressed frustration that the city red-tagged their businesses, forcing them to shut down until building officials deem their space safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also emphasized that their building had above the normal level of fire safety systems in place. In fact, it had 180 smoke detectors, Watson and Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1984 resumed printing just days ago, according to the online fundraising campaign for the independent shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/1984printing\" target=\"_blank\">gofundme.com/1984printing\u003c/a>, which has raised some $11,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're certainly not business as usual,\" Watson said of 1984. \"But, we're moving forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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