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The application includes proof of residency, liability insurance and a $50 fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That biennial fee could be going up in the future because there are already concerns that the Planning Department won't have enough resources to be the city's Airbnb detective force, investigating complaints against hosts and cracking down on those who break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we’ve always known that the $50 fee would not cover all of the costs,\" says Scott Sanchez, who is overseeing enforcement for the department. \"The idea was to have a fee that would be low to encourage people to come in and then register. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In six months, if the Planning Department finds that the cost of the program requires more funding, the city controller can raise the application fee without further debate at the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Sanchez says the department will also rely on other sources of funding, including the thousands of dollars in penalties that hosts could face for breaking the law, by either not registering or turning a full unit into a permanent rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enforcement Help on the Way? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Department could soon have assistance in bringing penalties against law-breaking hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Six Supervisor Jane Kim, who voted for the ordinance, is sponsoring an amendment that would allow affordable housing nonprofits to directly sue hosts who break the law. That measure could get a final vote at the Board of Supervisors in March. She says her concern is that the ordinance lacks \"enough teeth\" to ensure effective enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city has too many cases, and nonprofits have been really helpful in helping us to assist and making sure laws are being followed,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight at the Ballot Box Looming \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to amend the ordinance could be upended by a measure that could make its way onto the November ballot. The initiative, from the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Share Better San Francisco\u003c/a>, is expected to be completed in March and circulated for signature-gathering in April and May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Share Better SF co-founder Dale Carlson says the existing legislation still leaves too much of the city's scarce housing stock at risk of permanently being pulled off the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they want to [rent out a room] for 90 days, 180 days, then you’re talking about somebody who really needs to be in the business of running a bed and breakfast,\" Carlson says, \"And they should have a permit for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would include many proposals that failed to gain passage at the Board of Supervisors during the debate over the bill last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One would require hosting platforms to pay back taxes before any of the short-term rentals are legalized. Estimates for Airbnb's back taxes run as high as $25 million, but the company says it's already \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/travel/airbnb-hosts-will-need-to-register-with-city-of-san-francisco/493848/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city treasurer's office\u003c/a> to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece would cap all rentals at 90 days a year, regardless of whether the host remains in the home during the guest's stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, enforcement is also on the mind of Carlson and the measure's proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit \"private right-of-action\" provision would be included in the ballot item, and the city attorney will be given the power to go after hosts who violate the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her shared concerns over enforcement, Kim hopes a ballot battle can be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the legislation probably went 60 to 70 percent of the way to ensure [enforcement] is going to happen,\" she says, \"it's not going to be able to enforce against all of the bad behavior that’s being spurred by this lucrative market. I’m looking forward to seeing if there are legislative opportunities that we can put in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As San Francisco begins formal regulation of the burgeoning short-term rental industry, questions remain over how the city can regulate the thousands of listings available on sites like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting today (Monday, Feb. 2), San Franciscans \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=2719&recordid=290&returnURL=%2findex.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">will be allowed\u003c/a> to put their homes on vacation rental platforms for up to 90 days a year. There will be no limit on \"hosted\" rentals -- that is, when the host stays in the house or apartment while guests are visiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation that led to the new law was debated in months of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/08/home-rental-airbnb-san-francisco-law/\" target=\"_blank\">city hearings\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/chiu-leads-campos-in-s.f.-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\">hotly contested state Assembly race\u003c/a> that sent the bill's author, David Chiu, to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu and other proponents argued that the city had to get ahead of the unregulated industry and fill city coffers with taxes and fees from the thousands of listings posted in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If they want to [rent out a room] for 90 days, 180 days, then you’re talking about somebody who really needs to be in the business of running a bed and breakfast. And they should have a permit for that.'\u003ccite>Dale Carlson,\u003cbr>\nShare Better San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Opponents countered that the city should focus on stopping, not legalizing, the illegal short-term rentals at a time when permanent rental stock in the city is so scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation that Mayor Ed Lee signed in October establishes a process for residents to become legal hosts. They must apply every two years through the city's Planning Department, the agency now charged with implementing and enforcing the new law. The application includes proof of residency, liability insurance and a $50 fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That biennial fee could be going up in the future because there are already concerns that the Planning Department won't have enough resources to be the city's Airbnb detective force, investigating complaints against hosts and cracking down on those who break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we’ve always known that the $50 fee would not cover all of the costs,\" says Scott Sanchez, who is overseeing enforcement for the department. \"The idea was to have a fee that would be low to encourage people to come in and then register. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In six months, if the Planning Department finds that the cost of the program requires more funding, the city controller can raise the application fee without further debate at the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Sanchez says the department will also rely on other sources of funding, including the thousands of dollars in penalties that hosts could face for breaking the law, by either not registering or turning a full unit into a permanent rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enforcement Help on the Way? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Department could soon have assistance in bringing penalties against law-breaking hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Six Supervisor Jane Kim, who voted for the ordinance, is sponsoring an amendment that would allow affordable housing nonprofits to directly sue hosts who break the law. That measure could get a final vote at the Board of Supervisors in March. She says her concern is that the ordinance lacks \"enough teeth\" to ensure effective enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city has too many cases, and nonprofits have been really helpful in helping us to assist and making sure laws are being followed,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight at the Ballot Box Looming \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to amend the ordinance could be upended by a measure that could make its way onto the November ballot. The initiative, from the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Share Better San Francisco\u003c/a>, is expected to be completed in March and circulated for signature-gathering in April and May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Share Better SF co-founder Dale Carlson says the existing legislation still leaves too much of the city's scarce housing stock at risk of permanently being pulled off the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they want to [rent out a room] for 90 days, 180 days, then you’re talking about somebody who really needs to be in the business of running a bed and breakfast,\" Carlson says, \"And they should have a permit for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would include many proposals that failed to gain passage at the Board of Supervisors during the debate over the bill last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One would require hosting platforms to pay back taxes before any of the short-term rentals are legalized. Estimates for Airbnb's back taxes run as high as $25 million, but the company says it's already \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/travel/airbnb-hosts-will-need-to-register-with-city-of-san-francisco/493848/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city treasurer's office\u003c/a> to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece would cap all rentals at 90 days a year, regardless of whether the host remains in the home during the guest's stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, enforcement is also on the mind of Carlson and the measure's proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit \"private right-of-action\" provision would be included in the ballot item, and the city attorney will be given the power to go after hosts who violate the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her shared concerns over enforcement, Kim hopes a ballot battle can be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the legislation probably went 60 to 70 percent of the way to ensure [enforcement] is going to happen,\" she says, \"it's not going to be able to enforce against all of the bad behavior that’s being spurred by this lucrative market. I’m looking forward to seeing if there are legislative opportunities that we can put in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”FxneX50LRxZTF4LMF4Mu3ZaqNztK5jG4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. So, I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397523 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg\" alt='Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. \"I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s something else most development boosters here tonight will tell you. The tech boom is much bigger than Redwood City. The markets for housing and jobs are regional — even international.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Bill Ekern says Redwood City can’t fully control its destiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t know how all the pieces fit together till you get enough of the pieces in place,” he says. “That’s where we are now, is, we’re building the first of the pieces. We’ll get to the next phase and we’ll say, ‘OK.’ Cause the economy’s going to slow enough that we all get to take a breath. We’ll go, ‘OK, we’ll built this. Now what happens? We like this. We don’t like that. Now we can fix it going forward.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This boom will end, Ekern says, and Redwood City will have the chance to assess whether it took the best advantage of tech money while it was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our Boomtown series: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. 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"content": "\u003cp>Volunteers fanned out in cities across California and the U.S. this week for a head count of the nation’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, the three-day effort involved thousands of people searching hundreds of square miles from downtown L.A.’s Skid Row to the semi-rural desert towns of the Antelope Valley. How many people are counted helps determine where federal dollars are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first night of the count in West Covina south of Los Angeles, Angel Espinoza and three other volunteers slowly prowled a dark riverside access road in a minivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it looks like an entrance. And I’ll open it up with a key and then we can go up in there,” said Espinoza, spotting a locked gate at the top of the access road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188481384\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the night’s search went like this, slowly cruising streets and back alleys by car with the occasional hike through a park or secluded river bottom. Street maps and flashlights helped guide the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, OK, let me get out and see,” said Espinoza, climbing out of the van with a jumble of keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got the key to every gate along every creek and river in the county,” he laughed. “I’m very familiar with riverbeds. I’m in ‘em all day long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Espinoza is on the streets a lot as an outreach worker with the \u003ca title=\"LAHSA\" href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">L.A. Homeless Services Authority’s \u003c/a>emergency response team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in West Covina but hasn’t been back in a long time. So it’s a good thing Frederick Sykes happened to be riding shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes directed the van’s driver where to go to find homeless hot spots in parks or outside liquor stores and 7-Elevens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a white hoodie and munching on sunflower seeds, Sykes said he’s lived here since the late '70s. He also happens to be the mayor of \u003ca title=\"City of West Covina\" href=\"http://www.westcovina.org/\">West Covina\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the mayor of the city, you’re constantly trying to make life better for everybody. And that includes the homeless because they’re a resource,” said Sykes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8mO5t15CAzABkqd7HP1421Os7xM7cznR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a matter of how do we get so they can function better. We know we need a place to house them, something that’s humane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guidelines for the homeless count are precise. You stay within a pre-assigned “zone.” If you see someone you think is homeless, you jot down the basics; male, female, adult, child and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same thing goes for a car or RV that looks like it is being lived in. We spotted several of those. There are telltale signs like belongings piled to a car’s ceiling, or windshields blocked with dirty linens or cardboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers are discouraged from talking to or disturbing a person they believe is homeless. That means volunteer counters can’t actually be sure if a person is homeless or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an imperfect science, but part of a national effort that nonetheless gives federal authorities a better snapshot of where people are and how they’re living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Palmquist, from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sgvconsortium.net/\">San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness\u003c/a>, said L.A. County will delve a little deeper with a face-to-face survey next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And at that point they will actually interview individuals and talk to them,” said Palmquist. “You ask a lot more about living conditions, and if they are a veteran and those kinds of things. This one tonight is just strictly a count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results from this week’s three-day count and the upcoming L.A. County homeless survey should be available by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>At 6 a.m. Tuesday, the teams receive their marching orders at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityteam.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityTeam\u003c/a> in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alum Rock!\" calls out a representative with Applied Survey Research, the San Jose nonprofit that's coordinating this \"Point-in-Time\" homeless census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up step social workers Jen Sandhu and Pauline Bayati of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homefirstscc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeFirst\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Santa Clara County. They're teamed up with Nick, a formerly homeless guide, before they set off for Alum Rock and Eastside San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might imagine they'll travel by foot, but the trip is mostly by car, slowly cruising down individual streets, looking for what can be spotted without disturbing people living rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the back side of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olgparishsj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Guadalupe Church\u003c/a>, we spot the first encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right there,\" says Nick, pointing at a clutch of sleeping bags and tents huddled against a fence at the end of a cul-de-sac. A neighborhood cat prowls around as the folks inside sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, wow,\" says Sandhu, counting \"one, two, three, four, five, six tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick says many homeless people choose to stay near places where food is distributed or other services are provided. Shelters report their numbers to HUD independent of this street survey. While it's possible this team will double-count some people, the hope is the early hour means there won't be redundancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway off-ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway offramp. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick points out the telltale signs: holes cut into fences, makeshift sheds, shopping carts packed with possessions. We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. Bayati, who studied psychology at San Jose State, says: \"A lot of it is mental illness or drug abuse.\" There are also unstable families, as well as work that doesn’t pay enough to cover rent. And even though there are programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hacsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8\u003c/a>, Bayati says a one-bedroom apartment in a rough part of San Jose can run $1,700 a month or more. All this explains the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the survey every two years to figure out where to spend its money. \"Using an actual head count and having statistically figured multipliers to assess the issue is much better than an educated guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s census won’t include everybody. Counters invariably miss people on the streets, especially those living in cars and RVs. It’s also impossible to count the people living on the edge in somebody else’s home, staying indoors thanks to the kindness of friends or family.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At 6 a.m. Tuesday, the teams receive their marching orders at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityteam.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityTeam\u003c/a> in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alum Rock!\" calls out a representative with Applied Survey Research, the San Jose nonprofit that's coordinating this \"Point-in-Time\" homeless census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up step social workers Jen Sandhu and Pauline Bayati of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homefirstscc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeFirst\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Santa Clara County. They're teamed up with Nick, a formerly homeless guide, before they set off for Alum Rock and Eastside San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might imagine they'll travel by foot, but the trip is mostly by car, slowly cruising down individual streets, looking for what can be spotted without disturbing people living rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the back side of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olgparishsj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Guadalupe Church\u003c/a>, we spot the first encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right there,\" says Nick, pointing at a clutch of sleeping bags and tents huddled against a fence at the end of a cul-de-sac. A neighborhood cat prowls around as the folks inside sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, wow,\" says Sandhu, counting \"one, two, three, four, five, six tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick says many homeless people choose to stay near places where food is distributed or other services are provided. Shelters report their numbers to HUD independent of this street survey. While it's possible this team will double-count some people, the hope is the early hour means there won't be redundancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway off-ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway offramp. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick points out the telltale signs: holes cut into fences, makeshift sheds, shopping carts packed with possessions. We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. 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We certainly are thrilled to be able to see more and more employers in North San Jose and downtown. We're seeing vacancy rates drop considerably. All that is great. The other city, of course, is really characterized by the homelessness we see in San Jose. We know this is a huge challenge in cities throughout California, but it's seen no more acutely than in Silicon Valley where, obviously, the disparities are so grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is displacement inevitable? Is that just something that we have to accept as a price of progress in a city like San Jose?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are policies that we can put in place to soften the blow for those that have been left behind in the boom. The reality is, there are much larger market forces at work here. And while I think big-city mayors have the best opportunity to have an impact in the great challenges we face -- poverty, crime and so many other challenges -- the reality is that those larger market forces are more powerful than City Hall. And the best we can do is try to implement the tools that will help a few hundred here and a few hundred there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You had tried to get developers to chip in more toward affordable housing previously. That got tied up in litigation. What's your next big idea to improve the housing stock in San Jose?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're moving forward now with an impact fee that will require developers to pay a fee that will enable nonprofit builders to build more affordable housing. The reality is, it's really just a drop in the bucket compared to the need. We know at the lowest end of the scale, we need to be doing a lot of things to help get homeless people off the street and out of the creeks. And so this spring we'll be pushing forward with an effort to convert underutilized hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope we'll be able to move forward this year on a microhousing proposal: that is, building very small units. For the workforce, we recognize we need to get more higher-density housing in places like downtown, along our transit corridors, that will enable teachers, nurses, police officers who can't afford the home prices here in our valley, to be able to have a safe place to live. You're going to see very aggressive efforts, particularly in downtown, where we've got 2,000 units that will be under construction or finished by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You are a native San Josean. Your family has deep roots in the area, and you have a deep love of the city. What is the main thing that you're asking San Joseans to do, right now, to help the city adapt for the future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the next several months you'll see me out there encouraging folks to get engaged in helping us close this gap between the rich and the poor in our valley. It seems to me that the long-term solution is fundamentally in education. We've got a skills gap right now, and an awful lot of folks who are not taking advantage of the prosperity of this valley are not able to do so simple because they don't have the skills that employers want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so with initiatives like \"1,000 Hearts for 1,000 Minds,\" we're trying to engage people to get involved in tutoring and mentoring public school students who are struggling in math, science and reading to really get engaged to help. You're gonna see efforts from the Silicon Valley Talent Partnership and others to develop a smartphone app that can really help folks get more directly engaged. We have to recognize that this is a challenge we all face collectively. We can't continue to persist as a society where so many people are falling behind and struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know we've got a community that wants to help. We have to make it easy for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. Two-bedroom units here are going for $900,000. Ultimately, housing, like traffic, is dependent on regional and international economic pressures far beyond the control of the city of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. Two-bedroom units here are going for $900,000. Ultimately, housing, like traffic, is dependent on regional and international economic pressures far beyond the control of the city of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's Tuesday afternoon, and a couple dozen people are standing in a circle holding hands on what looks like a traffic median in North Oakland, saying grace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frances Michelle Moore, locally known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/auntifrances\">Aunti Frances\u003c/a>, asks for silence so the group can say a blessing. She's serving up a free hot meal, as she's done every week for the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd is mostly older black men. And most of them come here every Tuesday. They're also here at Driver Plaza -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@37.845785,-122.272705,3a,75y,327.42h,81.15t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOYCZCQPlkN7JN0xt9ydQZQ!2e0\">a tiny wedge of a park\u003c/a> between Stanford Avenue and Adeline Street, at 61st Street -- throughout the week. That’s why Moore decided to serve meals here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186982292&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has always been a gathering point,\" she says. \"It is a mixture of people. Some people are homeless, some people are indoors, but we’re all low income. So hey, we got to eat and what better way to show community but by breaking bread?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Moore isn’t around, the scene can be a little different. How different? That’s a matter of whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pick up the garbage every day when I go out there. Today, there was four pint bottles. I picked up some broken glass and things like that,” says Fiona Wilmot, who moved to the neighborhood last year. Wilmot is part of a wave of new arrivals. Many came as the mortgage meltdown made homes more affordable in Oakland, especially compared with San Francisco's high prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often see people drinking with open containers,\" says Wilmot, who lives only a few houses away from the plaza. \"After about an hour and a half, two hours, things get very loud. ... It may calm down sometimes after dark, sometimes not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Public Works has received almost two dozen complaints about the plaza in the past year and a half, and that doesn’t include complaints handled by other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address some of those issues, Moore and some supporters paid to have a portable toilet installed at the plaza. But they didn’t have a permit. In fact, the city doesn't grant permits for permanent portable toilets, according to Joe Devries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator. So, the city has forced the toilet's removal on two occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Short of having not filled out a permit or going through any of the right procedures even for a temporary Porta-Potty ... we kinda need to see that before we could even entertain something long term,\" Devries said. \"And based on the neighbors' concerns, I don’t know that they would get it granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10380979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10380979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, Moore and others protested outside City Hall, chanting, \"We want the Porta-Potty back!\" and holding signs saying, \"Where can we pee?\" The group has met with city officials, but thus far there are no plans for a temporary or permanent toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For plaza regulars like Dwight Hill, the toilet isn't really the issue. It’s about the continued existence of their longtime cultural space, in a neighborhood that dropped from 53 percent African-American in 2000 to 36 percent in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a losing thing. We’re gonna lose,“ said Hill, while digging into some of Moore's roasted potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would anyone want a Porta-Potty out in front of their apartment complex, or their condo? Why would anyone want someone who ain’t got a job, ain’t generating no money, ain’t contributing nothing to society, just hanging around?” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people out here on Driver Plaza feel that the newer, often non-black, residents have a vision for the neighborhood that doesn’t include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuck somewhere in the middle is Nate Williams, director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/genoastreet/?ref=br_tf\">Santa Fe CAN\u003c/a>, the local neighborhood association. He would like to see the space improved for the whole community, with trees, benches and tables. But when he looked into the permits and legal requirements, he put those plans on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sometimes feels inevitable about gentrification, and there’s always gonna be tension between the newer and the older residents that are around,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I think those issues are much bigger than we, as residents or volunteers, can handle,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy afternoon, Kedar Akbar was one of at least a half-dozen men sitting on benches and rolling office chairs. He said that when he was in fifth grade, there were some barbecues and a play structure out here. Now he comes to learn from his elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of wisdom that is also here that you can’t get in books or you can’t Google it. Because racism isn’t just social, it’s structural. So we don’t have these things intact for us, and this is one of the ways, unfortunately, that it’s preserved, is through the oratory things and them telling stories. A lot of these people are from Mississippi, they’ve gone through the '60s. This is a \u003ca href=\"http://creosotejournal.com/2011/07/black-panthers-guide-to-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther\u003c/a> neighborhood, Nation of Islam and all of these -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/\" target=\"_blank\">SNCC\u003c/a> and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akbar said the city could at least install a water fountain to make it feel like a park. But even that would take a while to get permitted and built. Meanwhile, the porta-potty is gone and the neighborhood continues to change. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's Tuesday afternoon, and a couple dozen people are standing in a circle holding hands on what looks like a traffic median in North Oakland, saying grace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frances Michelle Moore, locally known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/auntifrances\">Aunti Frances\u003c/a>, asks for silence so the group can say a blessing. She's serving up a free hot meal, as she's done every week for the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd is mostly older black men. And most of them come here every Tuesday. They're also here at Driver Plaza -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@37.845785,-122.272705,3a,75y,327.42h,81.15t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOYCZCQPlkN7JN0xt9ydQZQ!2e0\">a tiny wedge of a park\u003c/a> between Stanford Avenue and Adeline Street, at 61st Street -- throughout the week. That’s why Moore decided to serve meals here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186982292&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has always been a gathering point,\" she says. \"It is a mixture of people. Some people are homeless, some people are indoors, but we’re all low income. So hey, we got to eat and what better way to show community but by breaking bread?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Moore isn’t around, the scene can be a little different. How different? That’s a matter of whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pick up the garbage every day when I go out there. Today, there was four pint bottles. I picked up some broken glass and things like that,” says Fiona Wilmot, who moved to the neighborhood last year. Wilmot is part of a wave of new arrivals. Many came as the mortgage meltdown made homes more affordable in Oakland, especially compared with San Francisco's high prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often see people drinking with open containers,\" says Wilmot, who lives only a few houses away from the plaza. \"After about an hour and a half, two hours, things get very loud. ... It may calm down sometimes after dark, sometimes not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Public Works has received almost two dozen complaints about the plaza in the past year and a half, and that doesn’t include complaints handled by other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address some of those issues, Moore and some supporters paid to have a portable toilet installed at the plaza. But they didn’t have a permit. In fact, the city doesn't grant permits for permanent portable toilets, according to Joe Devries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator. So, the city has forced the toilet's removal on two occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Short of having not filled out a permit or going through any of the right procedures even for a temporary Porta-Potty ... we kinda need to see that before we could even entertain something long term,\" Devries said. \"And based on the neighbors' concerns, I don’t know that they would get it granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10380979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10380979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13336_Francis-barks-bullhorn-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aunti Frances Moore led a City Hall protest last fall demanding a portable toilet at Driver Plaza. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, Moore and others protested outside City Hall, chanting, \"We want the Porta-Potty back!\" and holding signs saying, \"Where can we pee?\" The group has met with city officials, but thus far there are no plans for a temporary or permanent toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For plaza regulars like Dwight Hill, the toilet isn't really the issue. It’s about the continued existence of their longtime cultural space, in a neighborhood that dropped from 53 percent African-American in 2000 to 36 percent in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a losing thing. We’re gonna lose,“ said Hill, while digging into some of Moore's roasted potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would anyone want a Porta-Potty out in front of their apartment complex, or their condo? Why would anyone want someone who ain’t got a job, ain’t generating no money, ain’t contributing nothing to society, just hanging around?” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people out here on Driver Plaza feel that the newer, often non-black, residents have a vision for the neighborhood that doesn’t include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuck somewhere in the middle is Nate Williams, director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/genoastreet/?ref=br_tf\">Santa Fe CAN\u003c/a>, the local neighborhood association. He would like to see the space improved for the whole community, with trees, benches and tables. But when he looked into the permits and legal requirements, he put those plans on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sometimes feels inevitable about gentrification, and there’s always gonna be tension between the newer and the older residents that are around,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I think those issues are much bigger than we, as residents or volunteers, can handle,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy afternoon, Kedar Akbar was one of at least a half-dozen men sitting on benches and rolling office chairs. He said that when he was in fifth grade, there were some barbecues and a play structure out here. Now he comes to learn from his elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of wisdom that is also here that you can’t get in books or you can’t Google it. Because racism isn’t just social, it’s structural. So we don’t have these things intact for us, and this is one of the ways, unfortunately, that it’s preserved, is through the oratory things and them telling stories. A lot of these people are from Mississippi, they’ve gone through the '60s. This is a \u003ca href=\"http://creosotejournal.com/2011/07/black-panthers-guide-to-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther\u003c/a> neighborhood, Nation of Islam and all of these -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/\" target=\"_blank\">SNCC\u003c/a> and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akbar said the city could at least install a water fountain to make it feel like a park. But even that would take a while to get permitted and built. Meanwhile, the porta-potty is gone and the neighborhood continues to change. A three-bedroom home is listed for sale up the street \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/94608/real-estate\">for $700,000.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The second was in the northern part of San Francisco, as well as Marin County and the southwestern part of Sonoma County, with a 6.6 percent rate of vaccine refusal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_27350529/kaiser-study-clusters-unvaccinated-children-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge’s history of trouble: How a landmark became a debacle\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sometime in the next few weeks, the lead contractor for the Bay Bridge’s new eastern span will finally declare that the most complex public works project in California history is done — and state and local authorities will be solely responsible for a landmark beset by problems that trace back more than 16 years, to the day a handful of experts picked a design that bordered on the experimental. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-s-troubles-How-a-landmark-became-a-6021955.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Facebook report: Users have $227 billion global economic impact\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Venture Beat)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If you thought Facebook was just one giant time-suck vortex where your life disappears while sharing cat videos and finding quizzes to discover which character on “Friends” you most resemble, then here’s some good news: The company says you are actually doing your part to boost the world’s economy. \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/facebook-report-says-its-1-35-billion-users-have-227-billion-global-economic-impact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County gearing up for annual homeless census\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When Francisca Garcia canvasses Santa Clara County later this month to help gauge the size of the local homeless population, she will know exactly where to look for young people living on the streets. Not long ago, she was one of them. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_27356130/santa-clara-county-gearing-up-count-that-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>One face of the Great Recession — and of a recovery that’s leaving many behind\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(NPR)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ed Neufeldt, 68, was laid off from his job in the RV industry in Elkhart County, Indiana, when the economy crashed. His story was so emblematic of hard times in Middle America that he was chosen to introduce President Obama at a rally. Now, he’s employed again, working three jobs 50 hours a week — and making less than he did when he was on unemployment. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2015/01/20/154343/working_3_jobs_in_a_time_of_recovery?source=npr&category=economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Trying to get a look inside Uber’s ‘black box’\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We’re fascinated by Uber. It’s a hugely successful service that’s reshaping urban transportation. But it’s also kind of a black box. With your help — a quick survey to gather your Uber rating and some anonymous demographic data — we want to take a look inside. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/whats-your-uber-score-find-out-and-help-us-see-how-ub-1679896144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Children of the drought\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(New America Media)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Californians have continued to more or less live their lives—washing their cars, taking showers, running through their sprinklers on a hot summer day—it is the land itself that, at least visually, has borne the brunt of the drought. While water continues to flow for most of us, the land, as these photographs testify, is hurting. \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2015/01/children-of-the-drought-new-generation-looks-at-california.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Model killed by train during video shoot on tracks \u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Associated Press)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friends of a fitness model and actor who was hit by a train and killed while making a video said Monday that he was a bold and fearless person who just made a rare mistake. “It was just a freaky moment where something got out of control,” said Warren Coulter, who had been friends for 15 years with 37-year-old George Gregory Plitt Jr., who went by “Greg.” Plitt, among the more recognizable faces and physiques in the fitness industry, was shooting a video for his website with two crew members when the Metrolink commuter train hit him Saturday afternoon in Burbank, authorities and friends said. \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f1747c8e65c14d0ca2fe0ac8f182dd8e/fitness-model-was-filming-when-killed-train-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SpaceX releases video of rocket crash-landing on barge\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>(Associated Press)\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SpaceX has released dramatic footage of its booster rocket trying to land on a floating ocean barge after a launch — an unprecedented attempt that ended in a fiery explosion. The video released Friday shows the 14-story rocket hitting the football field-sized barge at an angle, lighting up the night sky off the Florida coast. \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/46e09fea037e49889b74fc3f58f83ba0/spacex-releases-video-rocket-crash-landing-ocean-barge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to San Francisco\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(SF Weekly)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Maybe it’s a sweatshirt or a book or coffee mug — no matter what the inanimate object is, you’ve just been unable to get rid of it because it carries the weight of a broken relationship. 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The second was in the northern part of San Francisco, as well as Marin County and the southwestern part of Sonoma County, with a 6.6 percent rate of vaccine refusal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_27350529/kaiser-study-clusters-unvaccinated-children-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge’s history of trouble: How a landmark became a debacle\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sometime in the next few weeks, the lead contractor for the Bay Bridge’s new eastern span will finally declare that the most complex public works project in California history is done — and state and local authorities will be solely responsible for a landmark beset by problems that trace back more than 16 years, to the day a handful of experts picked a design that bordered on the experimental. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-s-troubles-How-a-landmark-became-a-6021955.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Facebook report: Users have $227 billion global economic impact\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Venture Beat)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If you thought Facebook was just one giant time-suck vortex where your life disappears while sharing cat videos and finding quizzes to discover which character on “Friends” you most resemble, then here’s some good news: The company says you are actually doing your part to boost the world’s economy. \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/facebook-report-says-its-1-35-billion-users-have-227-billion-global-economic-impact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County gearing up for annual homeless census\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When Francisca Garcia canvasses Santa Clara County later this month to help gauge the size of the local homeless population, she will know exactly where to look for young people living on the streets. 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Now, he’s employed again, working three jobs 50 hours a week — and making less than he did when he was on unemployment. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2015/01/20/154343/working_3_jobs_in_a_time_of_recovery?source=npr&category=economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Trying to get a look inside Uber’s ‘black box’\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We’re fascinated by Uber. It’s a hugely successful service that’s reshaping urban transportation. But it’s also kind of a black box. With your help — a quick survey to gather your Uber rating and some anonymous demographic data — we want to take a look inside. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/whats-your-uber-score-find-out-and-help-us-see-how-ub-1679896144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Children of the drought\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(New America Media)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Californians have continued to more or less live their lives—washing their cars, taking showers, running through their sprinklers on a hot summer day—it is the land itself that, at least visually, has borne the brunt of the drought. While water continues to flow for most of us, the land, as these photographs testify, is hurting. \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2015/01/children-of-the-drought-new-generation-looks-at-california.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Model killed by train during video shoot on tracks \u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Associated Press)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friends of a fitness model and actor who was hit by a train and killed while making a video said Monday that he was a bold and fearless person who just made a rare mistake. “It was just a freaky moment where something got out of control,” said Warren Coulter, who had been friends for 15 years with 37-year-old George Gregory Plitt Jr., who went by “Greg.” Plitt, among the more recognizable faces and physiques in the fitness industry, was shooting a video for his website with two crew members when the Metrolink commuter train hit him Saturday afternoon in Burbank, authorities and friends said. \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f1747c8e65c14d0ca2fe0ac8f182dd8e/fitness-model-was-filming-when-killed-train-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>SpaceX releases video of rocket crash-landing on barge\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>(Associated Press)\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SpaceX has released dramatic footage of its booster rocket trying to land on a floating ocean barge after a launch — an unprecedented attempt that ended in a fiery explosion. 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"content": "\u003cp>About a dozen volunteers -- mostly in their 20s and 30s -- are gathered around a dining table in a sleek high-rise apartment near downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those eating pizza and settling in for the evening's meeting are recent college graduates, a business executive and a few real estate professionals. Several had parents who were public school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us are teachers, but everybody in this room -- a teacher has touched their life,\" explained Azalea\u003cbr>\nRenfield, 32. \"That's the common thing that keeps us all together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186030402\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfield is the leader of this fledgling nonprofit, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ueaah.org/\">United Educators Association for Affordable Housing (UEAAH)\u003c/a>. She said she started it because she believes teachers deserve to live in or near the communities they serve, even if it's pricy San Francisco or Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH members ultimately want to develop and oversee several teacher housing programs. For example, one would help find low-interest home loans; another would connect teachers with landlords willing to give educators a break on rent. Right now, their primary concern is boosting their tiny budget. Ready or not, though, the group is already hearing from teachers who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cindy's Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Lundberg said she was feeling pretty panicked when she first contacted UEAAH this fall. Lundberg is the mother of three girls, is separated from her husband and works at \u003ca href=\"http://graham.mvwsd.org/\">Graham Middle School\u003c/a> in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5iICCFdvmNNpNGuAO5HEU2HmLd0JQLhL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average teacher salary in this district is $65,000 -- not bad in many parts of the country. But in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountainview.gov/\">Google's hometown\u003c/a>, the median home value is $1 million and the average rent is just under $3,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no rent control in Mountain View either. Lundberg said she learned that the hard way, when her apartment complex posted a note on her door informing her that her monthly rent was going up -- by about 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just made me cry, because I was like, 'How can someone do this to me? How can they just raise the rent that dramatically and put a little note on your door?' It just felt really cold,\" Lundberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apartment managers wouldn't negotiate, she said. But the receptionist was sympathetic and passed along a business card from Renfield's organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was starting to get panicked because I knew I had a month to get out,\" Lundberg said. \"And I was like, 'I can't find a place and maybe these guys can help me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UEAAH volunteer Olivia Casey spoke with Lundberg about where she wanted to look and then jumped in with the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was mainly looking at Craigslist, and I helped her look at some other places and some other websites I knew about in Mountain View,\" Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran into roadblock after roadblock: Rents were too high, landlords wouldn't negotiate and the competition for rental properties was intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10405309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10405309\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13975_2014-11-24-21.20.44-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rising rents in Mountain View pushed school teacher Cindy Lundberg out of her apartment complex. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Martin Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lundberg worried that she might have to move out of the area altogether. Graham Middle School Principal Kim Thompson said, unfortunately, that's not unusual in Mountain View. A special education teacher recently left for Sacramento because she wanted to buy a house and couldn't find anything nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was a solid, solid special ed, which are hard to come by,\" Thompson said. \"It's hard on me, it's hard on kids when you find someone of top quality and they're wanting a house,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Lundberg met a landlord in nearby Cupertino who agreed to negotiate a lower rent. She found the place herself but, she said, she's still really grateful for the extra help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was really neat that there was an organization out there that wanted to reach out to teachers like that,\" Lundberg said. \"I thought that was really, really powerful and great to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group admits it doesn't yet have the power to help every teacher -- it still needs a lot of money and support to make its work sustainable. Renfield said their most ambitious goal reaches far beyond the Bay Area: They want to convince Congress to give every public school teacher a basic housing stipend,\u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/pay/bah/index.html\"> just as it does with the military\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Texas Boomtown Tries Teacher Stipends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, public school teachers in Midland, Texas, were facing a similar housing crunch -- although it was the booming oil and gas industry, not technology, pushing apartment rents out of reach. Unable to recruit enough new teachers, especially in math and science, the superintendent called on a group of local business and nonprofit leaders to come up with a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sat around a table and, almost like a poker game, the people who could make those decisions anted up,\" said Jami Owen, executive director of the Midland Education Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a successful fundraising campaign, Midland's new teachers are now offered a choice between a $10,000 signing bonus or a one-year housing allowance of $500 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The plan is working,\" Owen said. \"We needed 400 teachers at the beginning of last year, and we had 2,500 candidates apply. We don't have to fight over math and science teachers anymore for the high schools and the secondary level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three San Francisco government departments and the local office for a state agency are scrambling to hire staff to keep up with the city’s steady increase in construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, several thousand buildings have been put up or substantially renovated throughout the city, leading San Francisco’s Planning Department, Department of Building Inspection and Fire Department along with California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to fill positions, add jobs and recruit talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere is busier than the \u003ca href=\"http://sfdbi.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Building Inspection\u003c/a>. In the 2012-13 fiscal year, the 12 months through June 30, 2013, the agency issued a record 61,000 permits for projects that ranged from new housing and office developments to plumbing and electrical upgrades. That number jumped to 65,000 in 2013-14 and is expected to hit 80,000 for the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a far cry from how things looked during the economic downturn when construction growth dropped in San Francisco and DBI laid off 30 percent of its staff then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the economic turnaround began, the agency started restaffing and that process continues to accelerate. The department has brought on nearly 50 people in the last six months, according to DBI spokesman, William Strawn. The agency plans to hire about 20 more inspectors, engineers, clerks and IT workers between now and the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tough Building Codes Fuel Demand for Inspectors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco happens to be in one of the world’s highest at-risk seismic zones,” Strawn says. “Our building codes are a whole lot more strict than just about any place else in the world. We keep adding people because the demand for these building projects, especially over the last couple of years, has been pretty intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There's a lot of building happening, and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe.'\u003ccite>Supervisor London Breed\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Part of that uptick stems from the increased number of big multimillion-dollar projects in the city, including massive residential and office towers downtown. There were nearly 60 major projects in the city several years ago, city officials say, and more than 250 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with prompting a need for more extensive inspections, those large projects are changing San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DBI needs to get permission from several of the city's departments to make staffing changes. Funds to pay for the added positions will come from the fees it charges construction companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in building permits also has prompted San Francisco’s fire marshal to ask for more staff to focus on preventing blazes at construction sites. Assistant Deputy Chief Michie Wong says she wants to add 12 people to handle inspections, review fire safety plans that construction crews develop before they build and conduct arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspectors and investigators who currently work in that part of the Fire Department were the central players in handling \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">the aftermath of two major construction fires in San Francisco this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze in the city’s Mission Bay neighborhood last March prompted the city to implement stricter safety rules governing construction work. That fire and another at the old Renoir Hotel in the Mid-Market area in August led to citations against contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the new inspectors Wong wants would specifically deal with high-rise developments. Some of the money to pay for those new employees would come from permit fees the Fire Department receives, and some would come from the department’s budget, Wong said. Chief Joanne Hayes-White will consider a request for funding that staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning Department Also Staffs Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the city agency that helps to shape growth and development in San Francisco recently added dozens of staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Planning Department\u003c/a> has been increasing its workforce incrementally over the past few years, according to Gina Simi, the agency’s spokeswoman. The agency added three dozen positions over the last year and a half and plans to unveil its staffing proposal for the upcoming budget cycle at a Planning Commission meeting on Jan. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\">Division of Occupational Safety and Health\u003c/a> is also actively recruiting inspectors in San Francisco, according to Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Julia Bernstein. The agency is trying to fill a number of vacant positions in the region and throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2014/2014-48.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Cal/OSHA announced in late May that it was targeting Bay Area construction sites to make sure they complied with state safety rules\u003c/a>. In fact, the agency launched investigations into several of the contractors involved in the Mission Bay and Renoir Hotel fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the local staffing discussions for DBI and the Planning and Fire departments will take place at City Hall in the coming months. Mayor Ed Lee's administration and the Board of Supervisors are set to start hammering out a spending plan in March. The Board of Supervisor’s Budget and Finance Committee is expected to initiate hearings then on how much to fund each city department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president of the Board of Supervisors is receptive to the idea of adding staff to handle San Francisco’s construction boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of building happening and we certainly need to make sure we have all the resources in place to ensure they're safe,” said Supervisor London Breed, elected last week to lead the board.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you live in Oakland, you probably know someone who has faced or is facing eviction, legally or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because in the last fiscal year alone, 10,910 eviction cases were filed through the City of Oakland, according to Connie Taylor of Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Section. To put some perspective on it, that’s 2.6 percent of the population, and the continuation of a fast-growing trend: from 2007 to 2013, the number of evictions in Oakland has incrementally increased by 51 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've seen eviction, harassment and repair issues go up at a rapid, rapid pace,” says Princess Beverly, lead organizer in Oakland for \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjjc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Causa Justa/Just Cause\u003c/a>, a tenants rights advocacy and educational organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All numbers aside, it is safe to say that eviction is a useful tool for landlords attempting to push out old tenants to usher in new, higher-paying ones. And as we all fear for the fate of our homes, the best thing we can do is educate ourselves on when eviction is legal, and how to fight it if it isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">From 2007 to 2013, the number of evictions in Oakland has incrementally increased by 51 percent.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legal Evictions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is a just-cause city, which prohibits a landlord from evicting tenants without good or just cause. This ordinance was established under the guiding notion that “Oakland’s prolonged affordable housing crisis disproportionately impacts low-income and working-class households, senior citizens, people of color and people with disabilities,” as stated in Section 8.22.300 of the Oakland Municipal Code. As such, there are only 11 just causes for eviction:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Failure to pay rent.\u003c/strong> If you fail to pay rent that is legally due, the landlord must first issue a written request for you to pay and give you a period of no less than three days to do so. However, if you are withholding rent in compliance with an applicable law, you’re in the clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Breach of the lease.\u003c/strong> It is important to note here that any terms in your lease that are contrary to the law are unenforceable and void. So if there’s a clause in your lease that says you must vacate the unit whenever your landlord says so, this is illegal and will not hold up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Failure to sign a lease extension\u003c/strong> that is materially the same as the original lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Willful and substantial damage beyond normal wear and tear.\u003c/strong> If this is the case, you still have the right to live there. You will be evicted only if you don’t cease the damage, repair it yourself or pay for repairs after receiving written instructions from your landlord to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Disorderly conduct that destroys the peace and quiet \u003c/strong>of other tenants and continues after written notice to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Use of the premises for an illegal purpose,\u003c/strong> including the manufacture, sale or use of illegal drugs. Recently, sex work was controversially added to this list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Continued denial of landlord access to the premises\u003c/strong> in accordance with state law, \u003ca href=\"http://housing.ucsc.edu/cro/pdf/CCC_privacy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Code Section 1954\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. The owner wants to repossess the house to live there.\u003c/strong> This is a tricky one, and there are many clauses that go along with it, including rights to tenants over the age of 60, those with serious illness and longtime residents. If you find yourself in this situation, \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca/groups/ceda/documents/policy/dowd008116.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">be sure to read this section carefully\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. The owner wants to repossess the house for his or her spouse, domestic partner, child, parent or grandparent to live there.\u003c/strong> Again, this is a tricky one. \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca/groups/ceda/documents/policy/dowd008116.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read closely!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. Temporary relocation for three months for substantial repairs. \u003c/strong>These repairs cannot simply be cosmetic. They must be necessary to bring the property into compliance with codes and laws affecting health and safety, and the owner must have received all permits before a notice to vacate is given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. The owner seeks to permanently remove the unit from the housing market.\u003c/strong> This is also known as an \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/hcd/s/LandlordResources/DOWD008754\" target=\"_blank\">Ellis Act eviction\u003c/a> and has its own slew of legalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eviction Process \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being evicted is not as simple as a landlord writing you a letter telling you to leave. According to the California Department of Consumer Affairs, a landlord must file an unlawful detainer lawsuit, which is just a lawsuit he or she must win before eviction is legal. The landlord cannot evict you any other way, but must go through the court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"SvaNV8xcqBKBqmMNdXquOPDstNWMrXp3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process moves fairly quickly, and is usually complete within 20 days. If you are served with a summons, you have five days (unless you have valid reason for being unable to respond in this time period) to file a written response by the correct legal document (\u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/ud105.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">available here\u003c/a>) to the court clerk in which the lawsuit was filed. Note that the filing fee here is $180, but you can apply for a fee waiver. Once the proper documents are filed, a court date will be set. If you fail to respond at all, the case automatically goes in favor of the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, both you and your landlord present your evidence and explain your case. Be prepared to be thorough here. Before the hearing, you may request “discovery,” or information/evidence known to your landlord about the case. Gather witnesses, letters, documents, photographs, video or any other evidence to support your case, and have at least five copies of all documents for all hearing parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Outcome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge decides in your favor, you not only don’t have to move, but the landlord may be ordered to pay your filing and attorney fees. Score!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the landlord wins, you will be issued a writ of possession, which orders you to move out within five days or be forcibly removed by the sheriff, who can also seize your possessions. If the dispute was over unpaid rent or damages to the property, the judge may order you to pay up. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is a just-cause city, which prohibits a landlord from evicting tenants without good or just cause. This ordinance was established under the guiding notion that “Oakland’s prolonged affordable housing crisis disproportionately impacts low-income and working-class households, senior citizens, people of color and people with disabilities,” as stated in Section 8.22.300 of the Oakland Municipal Code. As such, there are only 11 just causes for eviction:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Failure to pay rent.\u003c/strong> If you fail to pay rent that is legally due, the landlord must first issue a written request for you to pay and give you a period of no less than three days to do so. However, if you are withholding rent in compliance with an applicable law, you’re in the clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Breach of the lease.\u003c/strong> It is important to note here that any terms in your lease that are contrary to the law are unenforceable and void. So if there’s a clause in your lease that says you must vacate the unit whenever your landlord says so, this is illegal and will not hold up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Failure to sign a lease extension\u003c/strong> that is materially the same as the original lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Willful and substantial damage beyond normal wear and tear.\u003c/strong> If this is the case, you still have the right to live there. You will be evicted only if you don’t cease the damage, repair it yourself or pay for repairs after receiving written instructions from your landlord to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Disorderly conduct that destroys the peace and quiet \u003c/strong>of other tenants and continues after written notice to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Use of the premises for an illegal purpose,\u003c/strong> including the manufacture, sale or use of illegal drugs. Recently, sex work was controversially added to this list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Continued denial of landlord access to the premises\u003c/strong> in accordance with state law, \u003ca href=\"http://housing.ucsc.edu/cro/pdf/CCC_privacy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Code Section 1954\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. The owner wants to repossess the house to live there.\u003c/strong> This is a tricky one, and there are many clauses that go along with it, including rights to tenants over the age of 60, those with serious illness and longtime residents. If you find yourself in this situation, \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca/groups/ceda/documents/policy/dowd008116.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">be sure to read this section carefully\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. The owner wants to repossess the house for his or her spouse, domestic partner, child, parent or grandparent to live there.\u003c/strong> Again, this is a tricky one. \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca/groups/ceda/documents/policy/dowd008116.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read closely!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. Temporary relocation for three months for substantial repairs. \u003c/strong>These repairs cannot simply be cosmetic. They must be necessary to bring the property into compliance with codes and laws affecting health and safety, and the owner must have received all permits before a notice to vacate is given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. The owner seeks to permanently remove the unit from the housing market.\u003c/strong> This is also known as an \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/hcd/s/LandlordResources/DOWD008754\" target=\"_blank\">Ellis Act eviction\u003c/a> and has its own slew of legalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eviction Process \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being evicted is not as simple as a landlord writing you a letter telling you to leave. According to the California Department of Consumer Affairs, a landlord must file an unlawful detainer lawsuit, which is just a lawsuit he or she must win before eviction is legal. The landlord cannot evict you any other way, but must go through the court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process moves fairly quickly, and is usually complete within 20 days. If you are served with a summons, you have five days (unless you have valid reason for being unable to respond in this time period) to file a written response by the correct legal document (\u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/ud105.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">available here\u003c/a>) to the court clerk in which the lawsuit was filed. Note that the filing fee here is $180, but you can apply for a fee waiver. Once the proper documents are filed, a court date will be set. If you fail to respond at all, the case automatically goes in favor of the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, both you and your landlord present your evidence and explain your case. Be prepared to be thorough here. Before the hearing, you may request “discovery,” or information/evidence known to your landlord about the case. Gather witnesses, letters, documents, photographs, video or any other evidence to support your case, and have at least five copies of all documents for all hearing parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Outcome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge decides in your favor, you not only don’t have to move, but the landlord may be ordered to pay your filing and attorney fees. Score!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the landlord wins, you will be issued a writ of possession, which orders you to move out within five days or be forcibly removed by the sheriff, who can also seize your possessions. If the dispute was over unpaid rent or damages to the property, the judge may order you to pay up. And if the court decides that you were malicious in not giving up your unit, you can be fined up to $600 as a penalty, which will show up on your credit report for six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two ways out of leaving your home even after losing a case. The first is to obtain a relief from forfeiture from the court, which allows you stay in the unit as long as you convince the court that moving would cause severe hardship, that you will pay your owed rent, or that you will fully comply with the lease agreement. 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