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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A day after a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/26/video-downtown-berkeley-worker-assaults-homeless-man/\">video that showed a Downtown Ambassador assaulting a homeless man \u003c/a>went viral, a group of activists held an action to denounce what they consider an ongoing pattern of harassment against those living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of about 20 protesters held a press conference March 27 near the offices of the Downtown Berkeley Association, the group that hires the private security detail that roves the downtown, cleans the streets and helps keep sidewalks clear by interacting with the people who live outside. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/john-caner/\">John Caner, the CEO of the DBA\u003c/a>, announced Thursday that John D. Bailey, the ambassador filmed hitting a homeless man, James Wilbur Cocklereese, in an alley behind CVS Pharmacy on Shattuck Ave had been fired. He also expressed shock and remorse over the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some homeless people have said that pattern of behavior is typical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Caner of the DBA says that this is contrary to his organization’s goals,” Ninja Kitty, a homeless man who has lived in Berkeley for over a decade, said in a press release. “But part of ambassadors’ job is to intimidate homeless people off of Shattuck Avenue. People are only intimidated if the violence is sometimes real. This brutality is a part of what the DBA does. This isn’t the first time that ambassadors have assaulted homeless people — it’s just the first time it’s been caught so well on camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assault happened around 7 p.m. on March 19 in an alleyway behind the downtown Berkeley CVS, at Shattuck Avenue and Bancroft Way. Two Downtown Ambassadors, Bailey and his partner, Carmen Francios, approached two homeless men, Cocklereese, 30, and Nathan Swor, 23. Cocklereese became upset and shouted invectives at Bailey, who then \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/26/video-downtown-berkeley-worker-assaults-homeless-man/\">punched him at least 10 times,\u003c/a> forcing him to the ground. Swor pulled out a weapon — a 6-foot-long pole with a 4-inch blade attached at the end — and started swinging it to prevent the attack. Bailey was cut in the arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Cocklereese and Swor, and they entered no contest pleas on March 23 to misdemeanor battery. Authorities said they would be sentenced to two years of probation, but that was before the video became public. The district attorney’s office has said they will take a look at the new evidence. Francios has been suspended pending a DBA investigation into why she did not intervene in the fight, said Caner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Bryan Hamilton \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sQ8nNr03cU\">posted the video on You Tube\u003c/a>. It went viral as newspapers and television stations around the country reported on the assault. The video has now been viewed more than 49,000 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The altercation came just a few days after the Berkeley City Council asked the city manager \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/18/berkeley-council-approves-proposal-to-curb-impacts-of-homelessness/\">to look at new rules\u003c/a> that would make it harder for the many people who camp out on Shattuck Avenue to occupy the sidewalk and sleep there. The proposal includes everything from preventing panhandling within 10 feet of parking pay stations to asking for recommendations to curb public urination and defecation. Other items limit the placement of “personal objects” in public space; prohibit lying down on or near planters; restrict the hours people can put out bedding to 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.; and prevent cooking on sidewalks. The new rules were first proposed by the DBA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proposed rules, combined with the video, led activists to hold a protest to highlight their contention that Berkeley seeks to penalize the homeless rather than help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a coincidence,” Osha Neumann, an attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center and a longtime homeless advocate, said in a press release. “When the DBA pushes for criminalization, police and ambassadors feel pressured to use force to push homeless citizens out of public spaces. We don’t want to see just the one guy who got caught fired: We want the DBA to end its campaign of criminalization and brutality against homeless people. If they want to address homelessness, then they need to be good-faith members of the community, and participate in public processes like the Homeless Taskforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley spends close to $3 million a year on homeless services, but has only one full-time outreach coordinator, and has its youth shelter open only a few months a year, among other issues. Affordable housing is also difficult to find, and many activists have called on the City Council to force developers to build more inclusionary housing. There are currently close to 2,000 apartments in the pipeline or recently built around the downtown. Berkeley law requires developers to make 10 percent of those units below market rate or to pay an in-lieu fee. But few of those below-market-rate apartments have been built yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caner said the DBA will ramp up its training of ambassadors to make sure this type of assault doesn’t happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DBA was shocked by this totally unacceptable egregious behavior, that runs completely contrary to the extensive training, protocols, and mission of hospitality and outreach of our Ambassadors, Block-by-Block (our contractor / service partner), and the Downtown Berkeley Association,” Caner said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It is 3:10 a.m. when Ronnie Thomas rolls out of bed in his Stockton apartment. He brushes his teeth, takes his vitamins, throws on a bright orange reflective jacket, kisses his sleeping wife and 6-month-old son and hops on his bike. This is the beginning of Thomas’s 80-mile commute to Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, 55, is a Stanford University Dining employee. To get to and from Stanford, Thomas has to take a bike, a train and a bus. Monday through Friday, Thomas spends 16 hours away from home and treks a total commute of nearly six hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every weekday, Thomas rides his bike for 30 minutes and 5 miles to the Stockton train station. He lifts his bike onto the train and sits in the same seat of the same car on the 4:20 a.m. Altamont Commuter Express. Thomas keeps himself awake in fear of missing his stop at the Fremont station at 6:00 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I do what I have to do, I have a family to take care of. It is my responsibility to take care of them. If that means sacrificing a few spare hours a day to give them a better life, I’ll do it.’\u003ccite>Ronnie Thomas, Stanford University employee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>From the train station, Thomas grabs his bike and rushes to catch the 6:04 a.m. AC Transit U-Line bus, a line created to accommodate Stanford commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun has just started to peak over the horizon as Thomas arrives at Stanford’s campus at 6:40 a.m., just in time for him to clock in at 6:45 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every commute is mentally and physically draining for Thomas and requires a great sense of humor and patience. That he is able to do it is a testament to his commitment to provide for his family, his respect for his supervisors and his fondness of his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do what I have to do, I have a family to take care of. It is my responsibility to take care of them. If that means sacrificing a few spare hours a day to give them a better life, I’ll do it,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas’s exceptionally long commute isn’t unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In regards to my commute, it’s not like I am isolated,” he said. “I am not doing anything special. There are hundreds and hundreds of other people doing the same thing I do, every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas’ commute is representative of the challenges a growing number of low-income workers face in the Bay Area as rents rise and affordable housing options continue to vanish, especially in Silicon Valley where the bulk of the employment opportunities are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/tQzoNTC1DOw\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose held the number one and two spots on a list of the highest rent increases in the United States, according to the real estate website Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is as bad as I have ever remembered it,” said Joe Simitian, former California state senator and current Santa Clara County supervisor, about the rental prices in the Palo Alto area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech boom has increased employment opportunities for low-income service workers even more than for programmers in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, compounding an already punishing shortage of affordable housing in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”uXRffK2XQ83esYKyaxCIiqe5KlHuROs1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One tech job creates approximately five service jobs,” said Candace Gonzalez, executive director of the Palo Alto Housing Corp. “The pace of jobs has outpaced housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto Housing Corp.’s 20 properties of affordable housing units have thousands of people on the waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our waitlist will take five years or more to get off it, and by the time the people get off the waitlist, they have already moved out of town,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas moved from one of the Bay Area’s last havens for affordable housing — East Palo Alto — to Stockton last year, increasing his square footage and reducing his rent by $1,039 a month. On a $43,000 yearly salary, this option was attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend of workers moving further away from Stanford is growing. Last year, Thomas told his friend and co-worker, Henry Jackson, about the monetary benefits of moving to Stockton. By Thanksgiving, Jackson decided to pack his bags, save some money and move there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10467113\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10467113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas waits for the Stanford commuter bus at Fremont train station.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-400x341.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-800x682.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-1440x1228.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-1180x1006.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-768x655.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-320x273.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas waits for the Stanford commuter bus at Fremont train station. \u003ccite>(Sabrina Greenway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the workers who live near Stanford are struggling, living from paycheck to paycheck. After paying the rent and the rest of their bills, they are broke. Living in Stockton is a lot better. I can save money, spend it on other things and even look forward to buying a house,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income workers used to be able to afford housing near Palo Alto in low-income areas such as East Palo Alto. But in recent years, East Palo Alto’s rents have risen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other place in the Peninsula where rents are cheaper than EPA. But now we have seen huge increases in rent, as tenants are moving out of the area. So lower-income workers will no longer be able to afford housing nearby,” said Victor Ramirez, EPA rent control administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas explained that one of the most difficult parts of his commute is the risk of train or bus delays that can make him late for work or arrive at home at an unreasonable time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long day at work and commuting, he can use the rest. Thomas’ job as a storekeeper requires an immense amount of physical labor. He lifts anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds per day, sorting all the produce, proteins and canned goods that supply Stanford’s dining halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford works to provide housing for thousands of students and offers housing assistance to faculty it tries to recruit in the form of rental assistance, specialized loans and a cash allowance, according to Jan Thompson, the Faculty Staff Housing director at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, the low-income workers — those that serve food, clean up after residents, maintain grounds and make Stanford’s campus work — are often forced to move far away, to cities like Manteca, Tracy and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more housing opportunities and we need people to be more supportive of it,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building more affordable housing has been a tough sell in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community has openly resisted high-density development,” said Simitian, in reference to the Palo Alto area. “An indicator of this was the community’s rejection of building a senior affordable housing project in Maybell.” In November 2013, over 56 percent of Santa Clara County voters voted against the building of a 60-unit apartment complex on Maybell Avenue for seniors who make less than the area median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez warns: “There needs to be a focus on mixed-income housing or else we will lose all diversity (social, economical and cultural). Palo Alto will be completely homogenous and that is not good for the character or vitality of a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the bleak affordable housing picture, Thomas’ positive attitude on life shines bright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t complain,” he said. “I’m happy with my apartment. My family’s taken care of. I’m simple. As long as they are taken care of, I’m happy. I don’t need a whole lot.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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There are hundreds and hundreds of other people doing the same thing I do, every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas’ commute is representative of the challenges a growing number of low-income workers face in the Bay Area as rents rise and affordable housing options continue to vanish, especially in Silicon Valley where the bulk of the employment opportunities are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/tQzoNTC1DOw\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose held the number one and two spots on a list of the highest rent increases in the United States, according to the real estate website Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is as bad as I have ever remembered it,” said Joe Simitian, former California state senator and current Santa Clara County supervisor, about the rental prices in the Palo Alto area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech boom has increased employment opportunities for low-income service workers even more than for programmers in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, compounding an already punishing shortage of affordable housing in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One tech job creates approximately five service jobs,” said Candace Gonzalez, executive director of the Palo Alto Housing Corp. “The pace of jobs has outpaced housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto Housing Corp.’s 20 properties of affordable housing units have thousands of people on the waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our waitlist will take five years or more to get off it, and by the time the people get off the waitlist, they have already moved out of town,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas moved from one of the Bay Area’s last havens for affordable housing — East Palo Alto — to Stockton last year, increasing his square footage and reducing his rent by $1,039 a month. 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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has stepped into one of the most contentious development battles along the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27747719/san-francisco-bay-huge-development-project-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> reports the agency has asserted its authority to review a major bayfront development in Redwood City under terms of the federal \u003ca href=\"http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act\" target=\"_blank\">Clean Water Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, Arizona-based developer DMB has been seeking permission to \u003ca href=\"http://www.rcsaltworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">develop 1,478 acres\u003c/a> with up to 12,000 homes on a site owned by food and agricultural products company Cargill. There’s a long history of salt ponds in San Francisco Bay, stemming back to the 19th century, but in recent decades the EPA and state and local agencies have been engaged in a multimillion-dollar \u003ca href=\"http://www.southbayrestoration.org/\" target=\"_blank\">effort to restore\u003c/a> the ponds to their previous incarnation: tidal wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"512\" height=\"376\" src=\"http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365343054\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Cargill \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Salt-ponds-on-way-to-becoming-wetlands-Cargill-2816609.php\" target=\"_blank\">sold 16,500 acres\u003c/a> of its salt ponds to the public for $100 million, but the company still has substantial holdings in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Army Corps of Engineers determined the property was not subject to the Clean Water Act. 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In a region starved for housing, some welcome the prospect, but environmentalists and a number of locals worry about the potential impacts.\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-768x521.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-320x217.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cargill and the developer DMB want to develop 1,478 acres of salt ponds along the waterfront of Redwood City. In a region starved for housing, some welcome the prospect, but environmentalists and a number of locals worry about the potential impacts. \u003ccite>(Matt Leddy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blumenfeld says, \"Really, the question before us today is: Should it be afforded Clean Water Act protection or not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is the EPA considering this question now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a long time for us to work out exactly what was happening in terms of the jurisdictional determination,\" Blumenfeld says, \"and whether it would indeed benefit from additional scrutiny and oversight by the EPA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say EPA is moving to stop development, but rather, to determine how much if any of the property falls under the protection of the Clean Water Act. If so, and if the development involves fill or dredged material in those areas, Cargill would have to apply to the Army Corps of Engineers for a special permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has not yet responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney David Smith, who has been representing the project, said he is \u003cspan class=\"st\">\"disappointed and confused.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"EPA has been involved with this since Day One. As far back as eight years ago, we had sit-down meetings with them asking for their engagement,\" Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says developers asked the EPA to resolve the jurisdiction question three years ago, but the agency declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've done nothing but sit on the sidelines,\" Smith adds. \"We just want an answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10461559\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10461559\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-400x261.jpg\" alt='Cargill and the developer DMB want to develop 1,478 acres of salt ponds along the waterfront of Redwood City. The US EPA claims jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, but a representative for the developer argues the land \"has been completely severed from the bay and any tidal interaction since 1940.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-1440x938.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-768x500.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-320x209.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cargill and the developer DMB want to develop 1,478 acres of salt ponds along the waterfront of Redwood City. The US EPA claims jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, but a representative for the developer argues the land \"has been completely severed from the bay and any tidal interaction since 1940.\" \u003ccite>(Cargill, Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The website for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rcsaltworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Redwood City Saltworks\u003c/a>, as the project is known, notes the plan has been adjusted to reflect feedback from the community so far:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Our revised approach will confine development to less than half the acreage of the earlier “50/50 Balanced Plan” and focus on areas where industrial uses have long occurred and where the land is already highly engineered and has been subject to the greatest industrial use and historic disturbance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the plan see property strategically located near Facebook and Oracle in a region hungry for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others see an area better suited to wetland restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Save the Bay couldn't be happier\" with the EPA's latest move, said the group's communications director, Cyril Manning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The EPA has taken a good step in asserting its authority in the case. Ultimately, that site should be part of the national refuge,\" Manning says, referring to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/refuge/don_edwards_san_francisco_bay/\" target=\"_blank\">Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfei.org/sites/default/files/sfbaygoals031799.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Estuary Institute\u003c/a>, there used to be 190,000 acres of tidal marsh around the bay. Currently, there are 40,000 acres of restored and historic tidal marsh, and 31,000 acres more slated for restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manning adds, \"There are plenty of places to develop housing that are appropriate. 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In a region starved for housing, some welcome the prospect, but environmentalists and a number of locals worry about the potential impacts.\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-768x521.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-320x217.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cargill and the developer DMB want to develop 1,478 acres of salt ponds along the waterfront of Redwood City. In a region starved for housing, some welcome the prospect, but environmentalists and a number of locals worry about the potential impacts. \u003ccite>(Matt Leddy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blumenfeld says, \"Really, the question before us today is: Should it be afforded Clean Water Act protection or not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is the EPA considering this question now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a long time for us to work out exactly what was happening in terms of the jurisdictional determination,\" Blumenfeld says, \"and whether it would indeed benefit from additional scrutiny and oversight by the EPA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say EPA is moving to stop development, but rather, to determine how much if any of the property falls under the protection of the Clean Water Act. If so, and if the development involves fill or dredged material in those areas, Cargill would have to apply to the Army Corps of Engineers for a special permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has not yet responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney David Smith, who has been representing the project, said he is \u003cspan class=\"st\">\"disappointed and confused.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"EPA has been involved with this since Day One. As far back as eight years ago, we had sit-down meetings with them asking for their engagement,\" Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says developers asked the EPA to resolve the jurisdiction question three years ago, but the agency declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've done nothing but sit on the sidelines,\" Smith adds. \"We just want an answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10461559\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10461559\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14554_Harvest.Cargill_RWC_1204-008-qut-400x261.jpg\" alt='Cargill and the developer DMB want to develop 1,478 acres of salt ponds along the waterfront of Redwood City. 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The US EPA claims jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, but a representative for the developer argues the land \"has been completely severed from the bay and any tidal interaction since 1940.\" \u003ccite>(Cargill, Inc.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The website for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rcsaltworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Redwood City Saltworks\u003c/a>, as the project is known, notes the plan has been adjusted to reflect feedback from the community so far:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Our revised approach will confine development to less than half the acreage of the earlier “50/50 Balanced Plan” and focus on areas where industrial uses have long occurred and where the land is already highly engineered and has been subject to the greatest industrial use and historic disturbance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the plan see property strategically located near Facebook and Oracle in a region hungry for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others see an area better suited to wetland restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Save the Bay couldn't be happier\" with the EPA's latest move, said the group's communications director, Cyril Manning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The EPA has taken a good step in asserting its authority in the case. Ultimately, that site should be part of the national refuge,\" Manning says, referring to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/refuge/don_edwards_san_francisco_bay/\" target=\"_blank\">Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfei.org/sites/default/files/sfbaygoals031799.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Estuary Institute\u003c/a>, there used to be 190,000 acres of tidal marsh around the bay. Currently, there are 40,000 acres of restored and historic tidal marsh, and 31,000 acres more slated for restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manning adds, \"There are plenty of places to develop housing that are appropriate. Developing on the bay is something we did in the past that we don't intend to do anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern over the proposal extends beyond environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Ponti, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.rcnu.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Redwood City Neighbors United\u003c/a> said Friday, \"Our group has maintained that this is really a dumb place to build, and a really dumb place to put people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes the site would need levees to protect it from flooding, both from storms in the short term and rising sea levels in the long terms. Limited access points for traffic would increase congestion, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city, Ponti says, has a growth plan in place that is attempting to concentrate development around transit corridors. \"And what this (Cargill/DMB) plan represents is really the antithesis of that vision.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's foreclosure rate is very low relative to the rest of the nation, and has dropped considerably since the height of the mortgage default crisis. But foreclosure rates in the city's southern and southeastern neighborhoods remain higher than the citywide average, according to a report issued by the San Francisco Controller's Office in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3662608&GUID=5ECCE7E6-D3BB-4216-B014-D01378C549C3\">resolution\u003c/a> in support of an innovative strategy for stabilizing neighborhoods where homeowners face a higher risk of foreclosure. Typically, pools of delinquent mortgages are sold off to private equity firms and hedge funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution calls for joining with other cities to encourage owners of at-risk mortgages, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to sell off the distressed mortgages to nonprofits and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Bayview-Hunters Point has a foreclosure rate over four times the citywide average.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>These national organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalcommunitycapital.org\">National Community Capital\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://hogarhispanoinc.org\">Hogar Hispano\u003c/a>, aim to acquire the at-risk mortgages for the purpose of preventing foreclosure and stabilizing low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When mortgages are in trouble ... the speculators swoop in,” said Amy Schur, campaign director at the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, who worked with Supervisor John Avalos to draft the San Francisco resolution. \"We need to get these troubled mortgages into the hands of of what we call 'good actors,' ” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofits and CDFIs have raised private capital to purchase pooled distressed mortgages at fair-market value, and hope to leverage unspent federal funding allocated to California under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to reduce the loan principals and prevent foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s money sitting there that’s meant for housing assistance,” Schur explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/259192213/content?start_page=28&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-6lYxavrXhQ7jUnIBz25h&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_5921\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sobel, executive director of the San Francisco Housing Development Corp., said Bayview-Hunter’s Point, where his office is based, has a higher rate of owner-occupied units than most San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's also a comparatively low-income area, and people can easily become vulnerable to foreclosure: “If somebody’s hours are cut on their job, if they lose their job … if there’s a disability,” it's easy to fall behind on payments, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Partnership With Other Cities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos noted that San Francisco is joining with the cities of Newark, New Jersey, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201308080900\">Richmond\u003c/a> in the East Bay in the bid to encourage major lenders to sell off at-risk loans to nonprofits and CDFIs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee indicated to Avalos' office that he's \"generally supportive” of the concept, according to Jeremy Pollock, Avalos' legislative aide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Avalos acknowledged that even with a group of municipal leaders on board, there’s still no guarantee that the strategy will actually work, since it’s entirely up to the lenders to decide who to sell the distressed mortgages to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of investors,\" he said, \"are just out there for the bottom line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controller's report noted that foreclosure rates still remain comparatively high in certain low-income neighborhoods. \"Bayview-Hunters Point has a foreclosure rate over four times the citywide average,\" it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that 3,002 loans in San Francisco are currently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/uc-berkeley-report-calls-for-action-on-underwater-homes\">underwater or nearly underwater\u003c/a>, with almost half concentrated in Ingleside-Excelsior/Crocker-Amazon, Bayview-Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley/Sunnydale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 94124 and 94134 Zip codes, which represent Bayview-Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley/Sunnydale, make up the highest proportion of the at-risk borrowers, each with 17 percent of the at-risk population,” the report noted.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco's foreclosure rate is very low relative to the rest of the nation, and has dropped considerably since the height of the mortgage default crisis. But foreclosure rates in the city's southern and southeastern neighborhoods remain higher than the citywide average, according to a report issued by the San Francisco Controller's Office in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3662608&GUID=5ECCE7E6-D3BB-4216-B014-D01378C549C3\">resolution\u003c/a> in support of an innovative strategy for stabilizing neighborhoods where homeowners face a higher risk of foreclosure. Typically, pools of delinquent mortgages are sold off to private equity firms and hedge funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution calls for joining with other cities to encourage owners of at-risk mortgages, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to sell off the distressed mortgages to nonprofits and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Bayview-Hunters Point has a foreclosure rate over four times the citywide average.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>These national organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalcommunitycapital.org\">National Community Capital\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://hogarhispanoinc.org\">Hogar Hispano\u003c/a>, aim to acquire the at-risk mortgages for the purpose of preventing foreclosure and stabilizing low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When mortgages are in trouble ... the speculators swoop in,” said Amy Schur, campaign director at the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, who worked with Supervisor John Avalos to draft the San Francisco resolution. \"We need to get these troubled mortgages into the hands of of what we call 'good actors,' ” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Deborah Follingstad says she knows she's had a good deal as a tenant, living in a rent-controlled apartment in a San Francisco neighborhood she loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that one day something was going to happen,\" Follingstad says. \"I understand that. I just wasn't expecting this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By \"this,\" Follingstad is referring to the Rent Hike Heard 'Round the City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The week before last, her Bernal Heights landlord sent her a letter telling her the rent on her two-plus bedroom flat on Bocana Street would be rising from $2,145 a month to $8,900 a month. The landlord, Nadia Lama, said Follingstad's security deposit would be going up, too, from $1,500 to $12,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10459637\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-400x542.jpg\" alt=\"A page from the landlord's letter informing Bernal Heights tenant Deb Follingstad her rent was rising from $2,145 to $8,900 a month. \" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-400x542.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-800x1085.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-1180x1600.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-768x1041.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-320x434.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from the landlord's letter informing Bernal Heights tenant Deb Follingstad her rent was rising from $2,145 to $8,900 a month.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even in a place that's gotten kind of used to stratospheric prices for all sorts of housing, Follingstad's fourfold rent increase and the circumstances surrounding it have struck a nerve. Her situation, which she publicized in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153190864139878\" target=\"_blank\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> last Saturday, has triggered a fevered debate on social media, in her neighborhood and even from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By raising the rent 400 percent and demanding a five-figure security deposit, the landlord is effectively evicting this tenant,\" Supervisor David Campos, who represents Bernal Heights, said at Tuesday's board meeting. He said he's asking the city attorney's office whether there's any way to stop Follingstad's de facto eviction, which would circumvent ordinances requiring formal notice and relocation payments when an owner wishes to occupy or change the rental status of a property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attorney: Landlord Offering More Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadia Lama did not respond to a call seeking comment, but her attorney, Denise Leadbetter, says the outrage from Campos and others is misdirected. She says the higher rent would include more space -- specifically, a downstairs area from which an apparently illegal in-law apartment was recently removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rent increase that has generated this controversy is actually an offer by the owner to rent a substantially larger home than was originally rented,\" Leadbetter said in an email statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cited the fact that Follingstad has listed a guest room on Airbnb and says the tenant would be free to use the additional space \"to offset the rent increase through her existing Airbnb business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.debfollingstadacupuncture.com/\" target=\"_blank\">an acupuncturist\u003c/a> who treats cancer patients at \u003ca href=\"http://smithintegrative.com/\">a San Francisco oncology practice\u003c/a>, acknowledges that she's listed a guest room on Airbnb to occasionally help cover her rent. But she also says the landlord's original notice of a rent increase made no mention of Airbnb. Furthermore, she says the letter stated the vacant space in question is not to be used as a living area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The in-law unit that Lama removed earlier this year had been in place since the early 1990s. City property records do not show a building permit for the recent work on the space that Leadbetter suggests can now be used as part of an Airbnb rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public records suggest that Nadia Lama made plans to evict Follingstad several months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 31, 2014, document filed in San Francisco Superior Court outlines the distribution of a number of Bernal Heights properties among Lama, her three brothers and two sisters. As her share of assets acquired by her late parents, Lama was to receive the Bocana Street residence and more than $750,000 in cash. The distribution also earmarked $7,500 \"to attorney of Nadia's choosing for eviction of tenant or tenants\" at Follingstad's address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To unravel how Deb Follingstad and Nadia Lama became the leading players in San Francisco's latest drama of tenant displacement, you need to go back a little further -- to revisit a little bit of the history of the building that Follingstad has called home since 2004 and to dip briefly into the saga of the Lama family, which has owned the building since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City property records list the Bocana Street address as a one-unit residence. But, in fact, the building contained an in-law unit that the Lamas rented for about 20 years to a painting contractor named Wayne Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an illegal apartment that they schlepped in there,\" Moore says. \"Probably no permits, no nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Family Patriarch's Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore says he initially rented from Shukry Lama, known to tenants and friends as Chuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lama was a native of the town of Bethlehem -- the one in Palestine -- and as a young man emigrated to Chile. There, he met his wife, Vera, with whom he had six children. The family left Chile in 1973, the year a military junta deposed President Salvador Allende, and came to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lama bought a store in Bernal Heights and over the years built a neighborhood real estate portfolio of about 10 properties and a dozen units. Lama eventually placed his holdings in a trust to benefit his wife and six adult children, some of whom became involved in managing the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd paint a picture that the Lamas were not the world’s greatest landlords,\" Moore says. \"They didn’t repair anything. I needed a new refrigerator and they wouldn’t buy one – I had to buy it. If a faucet leaked, I fixed it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says he wasn't happy with annual rent increases that he said exceeded those allowed under rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'd paint a picture that the Lamas were not the world’s greatest landlords. They didn’t repair anything.'\u003ccite>Wayne Moore,\u003cbr>\nformer Bernal Heights tenant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"They were raising the rent every year -– every damn year,\" Moore says. \"I didn’t have the time or energy to fight it, so I just paid it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Moore moved out, the Lamas removed the in-law unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad, too, says her flat wasn't in great shape when she moved in in 2004. She recalls doing a walk-through with Chuck Lama before signing a new lease in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was like, 'Ach, you know, it's all falling apart anyway. Don't worry about anything,' \" Follingstad recalls. The apartment's wooden window frames are in bad shape, she says, and the apartment has had a consistent mold problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she insists she's enjoyed a friendly relationship with Nadia Lama, who lives in another family-owned building two doors away, and with the rest of the Lamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've actually always had a nice relationship with all of them,\" Follingstad says. \"... Their father -- he was a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Follingstad says she's tried to be a good tenant. In addition to addressing the unit's mold problem, \"I've restored a lot of stuff, I've painted, I've taken good care of my apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Earlier Rent-Increase Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she was notified of the 315 percent rent increase, Follingstad said she was advised by friends and even by a city building inspector that she should get a lawyer. In searching for one, she contacted Joe Tobener, who runs a tenants' rights practice in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener represented tenants who in 2013 sued two of Nadia Lama's sisters -- Antoinette Lama and Claudia Lama-Parakka -- over a rent increase that appears strikingly similar to the one confronting Follingstad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener declined to discuss the case, which was settled in January. But Superior Court filings show that Nina Gelfant and Gayle Worrell alleged they were forced from their one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 720-square-foot Cortland Avenue apartment after the Lamas raised the rent from $1,650 to $4,250 -- 157 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit argued that the rent increase was far above market rate and designed to get Gelfant and Worrell to leave so that the Lamas could sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sale, Tobener suggested in a trial brief that outlined more than $1 million in potential damages, was triggered by a battle among Shukry Lama's heirs over the property he'd left behind when he died in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chuck Lama's heirs were fighting over their share of the inheritance which demanded selling properties or having the heirs occupy them as residences,\" Tobener's brief says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alleged squabble also appears to have played a role in Nadia Lama's dramatic increase of Deb Follingstad's rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2013, she filed a probate petition in Superior Court seeking to compel her sister, Claudia, the overseer of several family trusts set up by Chuck Lama, to account for the family's assets. Assets named in the petition and exhibits include a small Cortland Avenue market, Chuck's Store, the store's liquor license, eight residential properties in San Francisco, one in Burlingame and unspecified real estate in Chile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court proceeding resulted in an agreement last Dec. 31 in which the three Lama sisters and their three brothers, along with some of their children, agreed to close the family trusts and distribute their assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property Nadia Lama was to receive includes a 2006 Toyota Avalon; $25,000 to pay the legal bills she'd incurred; a little more than $750,000 in cash due upon the sale of two of the family's properties; and finally, the Bocana Street residence occupied by Deb Follingstad and the $7,500 to hire a lawyer to evict her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires Nadia Lama to vacate her current home, a couple of doors up from Follingstad and still owned by her siblings, by the end of April. If she doesn't, the document says, she'll have to pay $4,000 a month rent to four of her siblings who will continue as owners; and if she does anything to interfere with their renting out the home she's supposed to vacate, she'll owe her siblings $10,000 in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With City's Tenant Protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement defending Nadia Lama's rent hike, attorney Leadbetter suggests that her client is caught in a bind because of the widely acknowledged housing crisis in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She faults the city's rent controls and says \"this kind of dramatic increase\" would be unnecessary if landlords were allowed modest hikes over time. She says rent control \"unfairly burdens small property owners with a societal problem that should be shared by all residents\" and that the city needs an \"economically sound housing policy\" to deal with the current crisis in rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Tobener, Follingstad's attorney, is focused on the issue at hand. Addressing the possibility that Nadia Lama may want to move into the property his client occupies, he says, \"She needs to handle it in a principled way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't endeavor to remove a tenant from a unit by raising the rent way above market rate with the intent of moving in,\" Tobener says. \"You have to go through the proper owner move-in eviction proceeding\" -- a process he says would give Follingstad a minimum $8,700 moving allowance, among other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad herself says she posted Lama's rent-increase letter not to create a furor but to give friends a heads-up that she's looking for a new place to live. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By raising the rent 400 percent and demanding a five-figure security deposit, the landlord is effectively evicting this tenant,\" Supervisor David Campos, who represents Bernal Heights, said at Tuesday's board meeting. He said he's asking the city attorney's office whether there's any way to stop Follingstad's de facto eviction, which would circumvent ordinances requiring formal notice and relocation payments when an owner wishes to occupy or change the rental status of a property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attorney: Landlord Offering More Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadia Lama did not respond to a call seeking comment, but her attorney, Denise Leadbetter, says the outrage from Campos and others is misdirected. She says the higher rent would include more space -- specifically, a downstairs area from which an apparently illegal in-law apartment was recently removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rent increase that has generated this controversy is actually an offer by the owner to rent a substantially larger home than was originally rented,\" Leadbetter said in an email statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cited the fact that Follingstad has listed a guest room on Airbnb and says the tenant would be free to use the additional space \"to offset the rent increase through her existing Airbnb business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.debfollingstadacupuncture.com/\" target=\"_blank\">an acupuncturist\u003c/a> who treats cancer patients at \u003ca href=\"http://smithintegrative.com/\">a San Francisco oncology practice\u003c/a>, acknowledges that she's listed a guest room on Airbnb to occasionally help cover her rent. But she also says the landlord's original notice of a rent increase made no mention of Airbnb. Furthermore, she says the letter stated the vacant space in question is not to be used as a living area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The in-law unit that Lama removed earlier this year had been in place since the early 1990s. City property records do not show a building permit for the recent work on the space that Leadbetter suggests can now be used as part of an Airbnb rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public records suggest that Nadia Lama made plans to evict Follingstad several months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 31, 2014, document filed in San Francisco Superior Court outlines the distribution of a number of Bernal Heights properties among Lama, her three brothers and two sisters. As her share of assets acquired by her late parents, Lama was to receive the Bocana Street residence and more than $750,000 in cash. The distribution also earmarked $7,500 \"to attorney of Nadia's choosing for eviction of tenant or tenants\" at Follingstad's address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To unravel how Deb Follingstad and Nadia Lama became the leading players in San Francisco's latest drama of tenant displacement, you need to go back a little further -- to revisit a little bit of the history of the building that Follingstad has called home since 2004 and to dip briefly into the saga of the Lama family, which has owned the building since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City property records list the Bocana Street address as a one-unit residence. But, in fact, the building contained an in-law unit that the Lamas rented for about 20 years to a painting contractor named Wayne Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an illegal apartment that they schlepped in there,\" Moore says. \"Probably no permits, no nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Family Patriarch's Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore says he initially rented from Shukry Lama, known to tenants and friends as Chuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lama was a native of the town of Bethlehem -- the one in Palestine -- and as a young man emigrated to Chile. There, he met his wife, Vera, with whom he had six children. The family left Chile in 1973, the year a military junta deposed President Salvador Allende, and came to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lama bought a store in Bernal Heights and over the years built a neighborhood real estate portfolio of about 10 properties and a dozen units. Lama eventually placed his holdings in a trust to benefit his wife and six adult children, some of whom became involved in managing the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd paint a picture that the Lamas were not the world’s greatest landlords,\" Moore says. \"They didn’t repair anything. I needed a new refrigerator and they wouldn’t buy one – I had to buy it. If a faucet leaked, I fixed it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says he wasn't happy with annual rent increases that he said exceeded those allowed under rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'd paint a picture that the Lamas were not the world’s greatest landlords. They didn’t repair anything.'\u003ccite>Wayne Moore,\u003cbr>\nformer Bernal Heights tenant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"They were raising the rent every year -– every damn year,\" Moore says. \"I didn’t have the time or energy to fight it, so I just paid it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Moore moved out, the Lamas removed the in-law unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad, too, says her flat wasn't in great shape when she moved in in 2004. She recalls doing a walk-through with Chuck Lama before signing a new lease in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was like, 'Ach, you know, it's all falling apart anyway. Don't worry about anything,' \" Follingstad recalls. The apartment's wooden window frames are in bad shape, she says, and the apartment has had a consistent mold problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she insists she's enjoyed a friendly relationship with Nadia Lama, who lives in another family-owned building two doors away, and with the rest of the Lamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've actually always had a nice relationship with all of them,\" Follingstad says. \"... Their father -- he was a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Follingstad says she's tried to be a good tenant. In addition to addressing the unit's mold problem, \"I've restored a lot of stuff, I've painted, I've taken good care of my apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Earlier Rent-Increase Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she was notified of the 315 percent rent increase, Follingstad said she was advised by friends and even by a city building inspector that she should get a lawyer. In searching for one, she contacted Joe Tobener, who runs a tenants' rights practice in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener represented tenants who in 2013 sued two of Nadia Lama's sisters -- Antoinette Lama and Claudia Lama-Parakka -- over a rent increase that appears strikingly similar to the one confronting Follingstad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener declined to discuss the case, which was settled in January. But Superior Court filings show that Nina Gelfant and Gayle Worrell alleged they were forced from their one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 720-square-foot Cortland Avenue apartment after the Lamas raised the rent from $1,650 to $4,250 -- 157 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit argued that the rent increase was far above market rate and designed to get Gelfant and Worrell to leave so that the Lamas could sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sale, Tobener suggested in a trial brief that outlined more than $1 million in potential damages, was triggered by a battle among Shukry Lama's heirs over the property he'd left behind when he died in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chuck Lama's heirs were fighting over their share of the inheritance which demanded selling properties or having the heirs occupy them as residences,\" Tobener's brief says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alleged squabble also appears to have played a role in Nadia Lama's dramatic increase of Deb Follingstad's rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2013, she filed a probate petition in Superior Court seeking to compel her sister, Claudia, the overseer of several family trusts set up by Chuck Lama, to account for the family's assets. Assets named in the petition and exhibits include a small Cortland Avenue market, Chuck's Store, the store's liquor license, eight residential properties in San Francisco, one in Burlingame and unspecified real estate in Chile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court proceeding resulted in an agreement last Dec. 31 in which the three Lama sisters and their three brothers, along with some of their children, agreed to close the family trusts and distribute their assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property Nadia Lama was to receive includes a 2006 Toyota Avalon; $25,000 to pay the legal bills she'd incurred; a little more than $750,000 in cash due upon the sale of two of the family's properties; and finally, the Bocana Street residence occupied by Deb Follingstad and the $7,500 to hire a lawyer to evict her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires Nadia Lama to vacate her current home, a couple of doors up from Follingstad and still owned by her siblings, by the end of April. If she doesn't, the document says, she'll have to pay $4,000 a month rent to four of her siblings who will continue as owners; and if she does anything to interfere with their renting out the home she's supposed to vacate, she'll owe her siblings $10,000 in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With City's Tenant Protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement defending Nadia Lama's rent hike, attorney Leadbetter suggests that her client is caught in a bind because of the widely acknowledged housing crisis in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She faults the city's rent controls and says \"this kind of dramatic increase\" would be unnecessary if landlords were allowed modest hikes over time. She says rent control \"unfairly burdens small property owners with a societal problem that should be shared by all residents\" and that the city needs an \"economically sound housing policy\" to deal with the current crisis in rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Tobener, Follingstad's attorney, is focused on the issue at hand. Addressing the possibility that Nadia Lama may want to move into the property his client occupies, he says, \"She needs to handle it in a principled way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't endeavor to remove a tenant from a unit by raising the rent way above market rate with the intent of moving in,\" Tobener says. \"You have to go through the proper owner move-in eviction proceeding\" -- a process he says would give Follingstad a minimum $8,700 moving allowance, among other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad herself says she posted Lama's rent-increase letter not to create a furor but to give friends a heads-up that she's looking for a new place to live. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like many renters in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood, Maria Contreras believes Facebook’s presence here has pushed up rents, making it harder for working-class families to find decent places to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras and her husband, who works in construction, saw their rent increase by $200 last November for their three-bedroom house. To afford the $2,700 monthly rent, the couple shares a room with their children and sublets the other two bedrooms. Still, Contreras says her family’s living situation is far better than in years past, when their home was a rented garage without a kitchen or heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very hard. Children don’t have room to play, and one doesn’t have enough space either,” said Contreras, adding that she knows more local families living in similar conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most garages here are illegally converted to rentals and represent a health and fire hazard, according to city police. But demand is strong and supply is widespread. On a recent afternoon, a bulletin board at a local grocery store down the road from Facebook featured three handwritten ads in Spanish offering garages for rent. Prices go from about $400 to over $1,000, according to the ads, residents and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453772\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10453772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\" alt=\"How much are the new jobs in the area paying? Click to launch full interactive graphic that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley.\" width=\"475\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-400x301.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-320x241.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How much are the new jobs in the area paying? \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/Job_growth_SV_and_nearby/Finalforpub#!/publish-confirm\">Click to launch full interactive graphic\u003c/a> that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Data visualization by Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s technology-fueled economy is exacerbating a regional housing deficit that is pushing low-income residents particularly to move out of the region to more affordable cities or stay put in tough living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developers, advocates and residents say a long building hiatus in Menlo Park, the city’s hot real estate market and Facebook’s expansion in Belle Haven — the city’s poorest neighborhood — put enormous pressures on Facebook’s working-class neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s Latino and African-American residents live in this part of town, east of Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are seeing their neighbors leave,” said Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Peninsula Interfaith Action, which advocates for affordable housing. “People are seeing investors buy up those properties in the hopes that a Facebook person will come and purchase them for a higher amount of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s second campus in Belle Haven is set to open this spring for 4,000 additional employees, some of them looking for housing nearby. The company is Menlo Park’s largest employer and landowner. It’s not uncommon to spot tourists posing for pictures at the company’s thumbs-up “like” sign in front of its headquarters on Bayfront Expressway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MLbkNKld363CXkQUT6dZR8HlmS8r1gQ1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s success, with a net income of $2.9 billion last year, has arguably increased nearby property values. Rentals listed on Craigslist and real estate websites frequently tout closeness to Facebook as a plus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2011 when the company moved here, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Menlo Park rose 42 percent to $3,700, according to the real estate website Zillow. The median home price is $1.6 million and the city is now among the top 10 in the nation with the fastest increasing home values, says a recent NerdWallet report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A history of inaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing tends to be located in apartment buildings rather than houses. But for over three decades beginning in the 1970s, Menlo Park did not build any large multi-family housing, said Menlo Park City Manager Alex McIntyre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Peninsula Interfaith Action and two other nonprofits sued the city for failing for two decades to comply with a state law which mandates planning for affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the lawsuit went to trial, the city would have lost its ability to approve real estate developments — including Facebook’s new campus — and Menlo Park settled, said Richard Marcantonio, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city acknowledges it fell behind in affordable housing — a combination of lack of political will and not enough resources, said City Manager McIntyre, who started the job in 2012, the same year the city was sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To build affordable housing on land that is so incredibly expensive on an economy that’s on fire here, it’s like a double whammy to actually create affordable housing,” McIntyre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, following the settlement, Menlo Park updated its housing plan to allow for the potential construction of up to 1,000 affordable units. It also has committed $8.6 million in the last fiscal year towards housing for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is reviewing plans to build 372 market-rate apartments that would set aside 5 percent — or 19 apartments — for low-income residents in Menlo Park’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really making up for lost time,” McIntyre said. “We are in a housing boom, the needs are very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still the breakdown is stark. Most of the 795 apartments under construction are market-rate units in upscale complexes, while just 96 apartments — 12 percent — are slated for low-income residents. More than a third of those affordable units are being built by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which bought an adjacent 56 acres of land in February, says it strives to be a good neighbor and listen to the concerns of the community. Facebook’s director of community engagement, Susan Gonzales, says the company has created internships for local students and donated significant funds for local schools and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also funds the salary of a city police officer dedicated to keeping youth in school and out of gangs. Last year, the company paid for the costs for remodeling and furnishing a new police substation in Belle Haven, right next to its new campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Residents Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, a lifelong resident of Belle Haven, has followed Facebook’s efforts but he isn’t impressed. Its contributions are “crumbs,” he said, noting that the company’s programs to improve public safety and education don’t tackle the main issue in his community: the fast-paced displacement of poor residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunn is quick to point that it’s not just Facebook’s fault that his neighbors are moving out to more affordable cities over 50 miles away, such as Modesto and Tracy. He also faults poor planning by elected officials and the biting wealth disparities in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the equity in terms of a multimillion dollar corporation moving to a poor area?” asked Nunn, as he stood on his front lawn down the road from Facebook’s new campus. “Where I live is probably 10 miles from some of the most prosperous corporations in the world. And some of my neighbors will not necessarily make it through college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn and advocates such as Jennifer Martinez believe that Facebook — because of its expansion in Belle Haven — could do more to tackle the negative impacts of gentrification, such as contributing to the county affordable housing fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children and grandchildren will not be able to stay in this community,” Nunn added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will most workers live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford an average two-bedroom apartment in San Mateo County, where Menlo Park sits, a family of four would have to earn about $106,000 annually, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the new jobs in the region will pay less than half of that amount. Between 51 and 62 percent of jobs created by 2020 in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin and San Benito counties will pay less than $50,000, according to state estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Franklin, former director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, sees the trend in housing affordability as disastrous for the region’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not sustainable for the new jobs created here to be commuting from Tracy or Antioch,” said Franklin, who now leads the nonprofit developer MidPen Housing. “It’s putting all sorts of pressures on the family lives of workers and their budgets, putting pressure on the transportation system and it’s fouling our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city of Menlo Park promised $3.2 million towards MidPen’s project to build 78 affordable units next year in Belle Haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our economic interest to make these investments,” said Franklin, adding that cities and landowners must increase their efforts. “This isn’t altruism. It’s more than anything an economic necessity. If we are going to have a healthy sustainable economy, we have to find a way to house our workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CLARIFICATION – Editor’s Note (4/3/2015): In this story originally published March 11, 2015, Peninsula Press misstated that Facebook “paid for the construction” of a new police substation. This updated story clarifies that Facebook specifically contributed toward the costs of a remodel and furnishings for the new police substation, not the initial construction of the building. City officials said Facebook’s costs amounted to at least $140,000.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Like many renters in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood, Maria Contreras believes Facebook’s presence here has pushed up rents, making it harder for working-class families to find decent places to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras and her husband, who works in construction, saw their rent increase by $200 last November for their three-bedroom house. To afford the $2,700 monthly rent, the couple shares a room with their children and sublets the other two bedrooms. Still, Contreras says her family’s living situation is far better than in years past, when their home was a rented garage without a kitchen or heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very hard. Children don’t have room to play, and one doesn’t have enough space either,” said Contreras, adding that she knows more local families living in similar conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most garages here are illegally converted to rentals and represent a health and fire hazard, according to city police. But demand is strong and supply is widespread. On a recent afternoon, a bulletin board at a local grocery store down the road from Facebook featured three handwritten ads in Spanish offering garages for rent. Prices go from about $400 to over $1,000, according to the ads, residents and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453772\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10453772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\" alt=\"How much are the new jobs in the area paying? Click to launch full interactive graphic that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley.\" width=\"475\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-400x301.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-320x241.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How much are the new jobs in the area paying? \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/Job_growth_SV_and_nearby/Finalforpub#!/publish-confirm\">Click to launch full interactive graphic\u003c/a> that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Data visualization by Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s technology-fueled economy is exacerbating a regional housing deficit that is pushing low-income residents particularly to move out of the region to more affordable cities or stay put in tough living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developers, advocates and residents say a long building hiatus in Menlo Park, the city’s hot real estate market and Facebook’s expansion in Belle Haven — the city’s poorest neighborhood — put enormous pressures on Facebook’s working-class neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s Latino and African-American residents live in this part of town, east of Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are seeing their neighbors leave,” said Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Peninsula Interfaith Action, which advocates for affordable housing. “People are seeing investors buy up those properties in the hopes that a Facebook person will come and purchase them for a higher amount of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s second campus in Belle Haven is set to open this spring for 4,000 additional employees, some of them looking for housing nearby. The company is Menlo Park’s largest employer and landowner. It’s not uncommon to spot tourists posing for pictures at the company’s thumbs-up “like” sign in front of its headquarters on Bayfront Expressway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s success, with a net income of $2.9 billion last year, has arguably increased nearby property values. Rentals listed on Craigslist and real estate websites frequently tout closeness to Facebook as a plus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2011 when the company moved here, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Menlo Park rose 42 percent to $3,700, according to the real estate website Zillow. The median home price is $1.6 million and the city is now among the top 10 in the nation with the fastest increasing home values, says a recent NerdWallet report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A history of inaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing tends to be located in apartment buildings rather than houses. But for over three decades beginning in the 1970s, Menlo Park did not build any large multi-family housing, said Menlo Park City Manager Alex McIntyre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Peninsula Interfaith Action and two other nonprofits sued the city for failing for two decades to comply with a state law which mandates planning for affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the lawsuit went to trial, the city would have lost its ability to approve real estate developments — including Facebook’s new campus — and Menlo Park settled, said Richard Marcantonio, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city acknowledges it fell behind in affordable housing — a combination of lack of political will and not enough resources, said City Manager McIntyre, who started the job in 2012, the same year the city was sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To build affordable housing on land that is so incredibly expensive on an economy that’s on fire here, it’s like a double whammy to actually create affordable housing,” McIntyre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, following the settlement, Menlo Park updated its housing plan to allow for the potential construction of up to 1,000 affordable units. It also has committed $8.6 million in the last fiscal year towards housing for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is reviewing plans to build 372 market-rate apartments that would set aside 5 percent — or 19 apartments — for low-income residents in Menlo Park’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really making up for lost time,” McIntyre said. “We are in a housing boom, the needs are very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still the breakdown is stark. Most of the 795 apartments under construction are market-rate units in upscale complexes, while just 96 apartments — 12 percent — are slated for low-income residents. More than a third of those affordable units are being built by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which bought an adjacent 56 acres of land in February, says it strives to be a good neighbor and listen to the concerns of the community. Facebook’s director of community engagement, Susan Gonzales, says the company has created internships for local students and donated significant funds for local schools and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also funds the salary of a city police officer dedicated to keeping youth in school and out of gangs. Last year, the company paid for the costs for remodeling and furnishing a new police substation in Belle Haven, right next to its new campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Residents Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, a lifelong resident of Belle Haven, has followed Facebook’s efforts but he isn’t impressed. Its contributions are “crumbs,” he said, noting that the company’s programs to improve public safety and education don’t tackle the main issue in his community: the fast-paced displacement of poor residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunn is quick to point that it’s not just Facebook’s fault that his neighbors are moving out to more affordable cities over 50 miles away, such as Modesto and Tracy. He also faults poor planning by elected officials and the biting wealth disparities in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the equity in terms of a multimillion dollar corporation moving to a poor area?” asked Nunn, as he stood on his front lawn down the road from Facebook’s new campus. “Where I live is probably 10 miles from some of the most prosperous corporations in the world. And some of my neighbors will not necessarily make it through college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn and advocates such as Jennifer Martinez believe that Facebook — because of its expansion in Belle Haven — could do more to tackle the negative impacts of gentrification, such as contributing to the county affordable housing fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children and grandchildren will not be able to stay in this community,” Nunn added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will most workers live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford an average two-bedroom apartment in San Mateo County, where Menlo Park sits, a family of four would have to earn about $106,000 annually, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the new jobs in the region will pay less than half of that amount. Between 51 and 62 percent of jobs created by 2020 in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin and San Benito counties will pay less than $50,000, according to state estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Franklin, former director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, sees the trend in housing affordability as disastrous for the region’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not sustainable for the new jobs created here to be commuting from Tracy or Antioch,” said Franklin, who now leads the nonprofit developer MidPen Housing. “It’s putting all sorts of pressures on the family lives of workers and their budgets, putting pressure on the transportation system and it’s fouling our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city of Menlo Park promised $3.2 million towards MidPen’s project to build 78 affordable units next year in Belle Haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our economic interest to make these investments,” said Franklin, adding that cities and landowners must increase their efforts. “This isn’t altruism. It’s more than anything an economic necessity. If we are going to have a healthy sustainable economy, we have to find a way to house our workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Affordable housing for middle- and lower-income families is drying up by the month in California. Among the hardest hit are those living in mobile home parks. In the last decade, 4,792 mobile home lots in the state have vanished from the map, according to data from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, with even more expected to disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is like the spotted owl or the tiger. If we don’t go out of our way to save what we have, then we’ll lose it forever,” said Winter Dellenbach, founder of Friends of Buena Vista, a local community group.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'California is at risk of losing 57,000 federally subsidized affordable apartments through conversion to market rate in the next five years, 35,000 in the next year.'\u003ccite>California Department of Housing and Community Development report\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Buena Vista is a case study of the challenges in saving the mobile home parks. For the last three years, the 400 residents of Palo Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, located off El Camino about a mile from the Stanford campus, have fought eviction and demolition of their homes to make way for higher-end housing for tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buena Vista has caught the attention of the Palo Alto community, as well as a community on the Stanford campus — the Buena Vista Action Committee, a branch of the Students for Education Reform group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, $16 million has been allotted to saving the park from the city and a housing fund donated by Stanford University, according to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and an announcement by City Manager James Keene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This represents a little more than half of what is required to prevent the park from being sold — about $30 million, according to student representative Molly Seligman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Statewide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of residents in Buena Vista is similar to those in affordable housing throughout the state, based on an analysis on the loss of such housing by the California Department of Housing and Community Development that was published in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is at risk of losing 57,000 federally subsidized affordable apartments through conversion to market rate in the next five years, 35,000 in the next year,” that report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County — the fifth-most-at-risk in California for losing affordable housing. In the next 15 years, another 74,000 affordable housing apartments are at risk of disappearing in the state, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has very little land, and what’s left is some of the most expensive land in the nation, Dellenbach said. Buena Vista has 4 acres, all privately owned and more profitable without the presence of the mobile home park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Buena Vista and some Palo Alto community members argue, however, that places like Buena Vista have a different kind of value. “We’ve never known a dispossession like this in our town. It’s enormous, it’s unique,” Dellenbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's Worst in Mountain View\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not unique — at least not for California, and especially for the Bay Area and greater Los Angeles area. Mountain View lost the most mobile home lots of any one city — 307 lots in the past two decades. Over 400 mobile home parks have closed in the state over the last 20 years. Laguna Beach, another notoriously expensive Zip code, lost 294 lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And much of the change is yet to occur. According to Evan Gerberding, director of external relations at the California Department of Housing and Community Development: “California’s economic recovery during the last year, while ahead of the nation, has been uneven -- with nuanced growth in coastal zones, and inland areas lagging behind,” leaving many repairs to the state of affordable housing in the Bay Area and L.A. far from complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, entire mobile home parks have been sold and then shuttered. In other instances, mobile home residents were gradually pushed out. For example, residents of Mission Valley Village in San Diego, a mobile home park for seniors, were slowly pushed out due to rising rent and decaying conditions, according to a San Diego Reader article in 2010. 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