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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_143267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Stephanies-dog.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-143267\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Stephanies-dog-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Bella stands on the back porch of Stephanie Martin Taylor's Noe Valley apartment. Neither dog nor human wanted to relocate. (Stephanie Martin Taylor/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bella stands on the back porch of Stephanie Martin Taylor's Noe Valley apartment. Neither dog nor human wanted to relocate. 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Under the agreement, I would receive the money as soon as my landlord sold the two-unit building, which I assumed would happen quickly in Noe Valley's red-hot real estate market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was mistaken -- but more on that later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant rights groups report that for every eviction in the city right now, there are as many as seven buyouts. But it's hard to say for sure how accurate that estimate is because the city doesn't keep track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos says if San Francisco is serious about understanding the scope of tenant displacement, it needs to regulate buyouts, just as it does evictions. Furthermore, he says, tenants who agree to buyouts should be aware of their rights so that no one moves out unnecessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's really an effort on the part of the city to regulate something that is completely unregulated right now,\" Campos says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos says the legislation he's proposing would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Require landlords offering buyouts to give their tenants information about their rights well before negotiations begin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require landlords to submit any written agreement or material terms of an oral agreement to the city's rent board.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grant the rent board power to initiate administrative action against landlords who fail to comply with either of the above regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Give tenants the right to initiate civil action against landlords who begin buyout negotiations without first informing the tenant of his or her rights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require the rent board to post buyout agreements on its website.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Impose the same condo conversion prohibitions that are already in place for no-fault evictions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaa.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Apartment Association,\u003c/a> which advocates on behalf of landlords, opposes the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just believe that two individuals have a right to make a contract between one another,\" says Janan New, the association's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the legislation does pass, our biggest concern is paying member dollars to sue the city under the First Amendment. And the unfortunate ramification for taxpayers in San Francisco is that they're going to have to pay for another lawsuit,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, stay tuned for what could shape up to be a big battle over buyouts at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, back to my own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mentioned earlier that I believed that my landlord's property would sell quickly, and that I would receive the promised payout within months of my move. Perhaps because my downstairs neighbors refused to budge, perhaps because the property itself was a fixer-upper, there were no acceptable offers. He gave up and took the property off the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yikes, I thought. My buyout contract hinged on the assumption that the house would sell. My landlord, an attorney, had no legal reason to cough up the promised payout. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant rights groups report that for every eviction in the city right now, there are as many as seven buyouts. But it's hard to say for sure how accurate that estimate is because the city doesn't keep track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos says if San Francisco is serious about understanding the scope of tenant displacement, it needs to regulate buyouts, just as it does evictions. Furthermore, he says, tenants who agree to buyouts should be aware of their rights so that no one moves out unnecessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's really an effort on the part of the city to regulate something that is completely unregulated right now,\" Campos says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos says the legislation he's proposing would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Require landlords offering buyouts to give their tenants information about their rights well before negotiations begin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require landlords to submit any written agreement or material terms of an oral agreement to the city's rent board.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grant the rent board power to initiate administrative action against landlords who fail to comply with either of the above regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Give tenants the right to initiate civil action against landlords who begin buyout negotiations without first informing the tenant of his or her rights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require the rent board to post buyout agreements on its website.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Impose the same condo conversion prohibitions that are already in place for no-fault evictions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaa.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Apartment Association,\u003c/a> which advocates on behalf of landlords, opposes the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just believe that two individuals have a right to make a contract between one another,\" says Janan New, the association's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the legislation does pass, our biggest concern is paying member dollars to sue the city under the First Amendment. And the unfortunate ramification for taxpayers in San Francisco is that they're going to have to pay for another lawsuit,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, stay tuned for what could shape up to be a big battle over buyouts at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, back to my own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mentioned earlier that I believed that my landlord's property would sell quickly, and that I would receive the promised payout within months of my move. Perhaps because my downstairs neighbors refused to budge, perhaps because the property itself was a fixer-upper, there were no acceptable offers. He gave up and took the property off the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yikes, I thought. My buyout contract hinged on the assumption that the house would sell. My landlord, an attorney, had no legal reason to cough up the promised payout. For all I knew, it could be generations before the property changed hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky for me, the landlord had a heart -- not to mention a big infusion of market rate rent from my old apartment's new tenants. About two months ago, he left a message on my cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a check for you,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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And it’s also sometimes hard to tell when to call for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Mission Local’s Jennifer Quinn \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2014/07/death-of-a-homeless-man-on-16th-and-valencia/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote about her experience\u003c/a> watching Frankie Bizo, 67, die at the corner of 16th and Valencia streets in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today, I watched a homeless man die on 16th and Valencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was eating a salad, 15 feet away. He was lying on a cardboard mat, with his head sliding off a makeshift pillow made of some clothes in a plastic produce bag. I sat and watched him for a minute, wondering if I should call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hot, and he was shirtless. At the least, he’d wake up with a nasty sunburn, I and another onlooker thought. I decided he was probably really tired, and as he wasn’t in anyone’s way, I figured I should just let him sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I didn’t even consider was that he was most likely dehydrated. Severely. And, as it turns out, fatally so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His arm was bouncing around spasmodically. I thought he might be doing it on purpose, maybe he was listening to some imaginary drum beat in his head. Turns out, I was watching him convulse. Probably at the very moment that his life was leaving his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone did finally call the police. Not sure who. Several people walked by, seeing him, and shrugging their shoulders. I did the very same thing, even though I did not think of him as a scourge the Mission would be better off without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I truly believe that most people walking by would have stopped to help if any of us had thought he was in real, immediate trouble. The truth is, I didn’t know what to do, and I doubt most people do. Calling the cops or 911 seems extreme.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Daily Dilemma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn’s account raises the dilemma that many of us face on a nearly daily basis in our communities — not just San Francisco, but in San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley and elsewhere. Those folks we see huddled on the streets, oblivious to what’s going on around them — are they really OK? And how can you tell? How far should you go to intervene?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone is unresponsive and not breathing it’s important to call 911 right away, says Jason Albertson, a clinical social worker and part of San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team. “If there’s any question, please call 911,” he says. “They will walk you through attempts to rouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To check on whether someone is responsive, you can kneel down near the person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t stand over someone who is sleeping or supine. We kneel down next to them and say, ‘Hey, are you alright.’ We don’t put hands on people,” Albertson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘One [call] in 20 saves someone’s life.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the threat seems less urgent, you can call 311 in most cities. Your call will be referred to emergency respondents or, in some cities, to local groups including the Outreach Team. However, 311 operators are not always in the best position to take detailed descriptions or answer questions, Albertson says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can call San Francisco’s Homeless Team at any time at (415) 734-4233 to report on someone who may be in distress, homeless or intoxicated. Please include a physical description of the person, so that the mobile team can look for the person if he or she moves. You can also call the San Francisco Mobile Crisis Treatment Team at (415) 970-4000 for people who appear to need mental help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizens are in a great position to be the eyes and ears,” Albertson says. “Maybe only one in ten times will someone accept help. But one time in 20 saves someone’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homeless Outreach Team eulogized 118 people who passed away in 2013. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Emilie Raguso\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/18/rodents-trash-prompt-city-of-berkeley-clean-up-of-homeless-camp-on-gilman-residents-scattered/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/gilman2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-142343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/gilman2-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police have been visiting the homeless camp on Gilman Street — pictured here in early July — to provide outreach. (Drew Jaffe/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police have been visiting the homeless camp on Gilman Street — pictured here in early July — to provide outreach. (Drew Jaffe/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Citing concerns about garbage and rodents, both dead and alive, the city of Berkeley sent in a team to clean up Gilman Street beneath Interstate 80, where homeless people have been living in recent months, city staff said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one advocate for the homeless criticized the effort, saying no one was told in advance about the operation, which dispersed residents and will make it harder to provide important services to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Matthai Chakko said Friday shortly before noon that the operation to address ongoing sanitation problems on Gilman under the freeway had gone smoothly. He estimated that perhaps a dozen people were on the site when the city arrived Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We removed debris, garbage and other things that had made it a place that was harboring a lot of rodents,” said Chakko. “There were rodents running around … and evidence of dead ones. There are concerns that arise from that kind of environment, so it was important to clean it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There was no warning at all, despite the fact we'd been working with the city.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He said the city had been hearing from local residents who expressed worry about unsafe and unclean conditions and had asked the city to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko was unable to provide the time the city arrived on-site, but Berkeleyside readers saw the cleanup effort underway at 6:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who had been camping on Gilman “packed up their stuff and left,” Chakko said. “It was a very calm situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said no one was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Public Works staff handled the cleanup, and Berkeley police officers were on-site for traffic control purposes, Chakko said. He noted that the effort took place early in the morning to try to limit the traffic impacts in an area that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/02/22/whats-happening-with-the-gilman-street-interchange/\" target=\"_blank\">complex circulation patterns\u003c/a>. “It’s a complicated intersection without people getting in the way, so it was important to have police directing traffic there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other city staff, including people from the Health, Housing & Community Services Department, were also in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city has been working since the beginning of May to try to secure housing for people camping beneath the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Offers have been made to move them into housing, with subsidies to pay for it,” he said. “Case managers, housing folks, mental health folks, all sorts of people have been involved to try to find a way to help them transition out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said people were not told to stay away, and that no barriers had been installed to keep them from returning. No new notices were posted either. But Chakko said notices that had been hung previously — after a recent decision by the city \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">not to pursue nuisance abatement actions\u003c/a> beneath the freeway — remained in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to that notice, “The camp activity and accumulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GilmanOfficialNotice7-10-14-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">continue to contribute to rodent harborage and create a public nuisance\u003c/a>. The City will monitor the situation and may without further notice take appropriate action to abate public nuisance conditions, up to and including the removal of personal property pursuant to Chapter 11.40 BMC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city hauled away “a lot of garbage” but noted that “anything that appeared to have value was bagged and stored, which is following our standard protocols.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone looking for property that was removed can call 510-981-4665 for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeless advocate: So-called cleanup “just a sad subterfuge”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osha Neumann, a local attorney and advocate for the homeless for the East Bay Community Law Center, denounced Friday’s operation. He said that contrary to statements from the city, what occurred was much more than a cleanup. “It meant everybody is kicked out of there, everybody,\" he said. \"People are really upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said when he arrived at Gilman Street on Friday around 9:30 a.m., he found one man he’d been working with sitting dejectedly on the curb, unsure of where to go next. The Law Center was able to arrange a ride for him to a place he could stay for several days, but the man was still depressed and rattled, Neumann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the city should have at least let people know in advance about the plan. “They came in at 5:30 without notice,” he said. “They just came in with a ton of cops and trucks and hauled people’s stuff away. People are scattered around now. And there was no warning at all, despite the fact we’d been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the Law Center has also been working with residents beneath the freeway to find them housing, and has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">successful in those efforts\u003c/a>. The seven-10 people who were still living in the area included those with significant mental and physical disabilities, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said he had appreciated it when the city terminated its \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">nuisance abatement plans \u003c/a>for Gilman Street earlier this month. He acknowledged that the city had clearly reserved the right to return to the area for safety or public health reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do that. But you have to give them notice,” said Neumann. “That’s basic constitutional stuff. They just rousted people while they were sleeping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said he asked a police lieutenant and city staff on-site why no one had been warned that the so-called cleanup would take place; the city employees he asked told him they hadn’t known in advance about the plans either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody there said: ‘No, we didn’t know, we didn’t know. This was not our idea,’ ” said Neumann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Chakko declined to respond to this assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the rodents, Neumann said they are prevalent in the area due primarily to the straw and manure from the nearby Golden Gate Fields racetrack, and said it would have been easy enough to bring in garbage receptacles to collect trash if that had been the city’s main goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the city’s rationale about what took place Friday “ridiculous,” adding, “That was just a sad subterfuge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the operation makes it much harder to provide vital services to the people who need them most and runs counter to providing the stability or building the relationships that help get people off the streets. He called it “the leaf-blower approach” to homelessness. “You bring in the cops and blow them into some other place. It ain’t right,” he said. “We’re left trying to pick up the pieces, find people, reconnect with them and find out what their condition is, what their health is. It’s really difficult now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The removal of people’s property from beneath the freeway will also likely prompt more work, Neumann said. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/07/berkeley-dumps-possessions-of-8-homeless-people/\" target=\"_blank\">city ultimately decides what constitutes trash\u003c/a>, and what seems to be belongings, and there can be a lot of ambiguity in those decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People look at what homeless people have, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/07/berkeley-dumps-possessions-of-8-homeless-people/\" target=\"_blank\">they often consider it trash\u003c/a>,” he said. “We don’t know how much people were able to take, how much got taken by the city and how much gets thrown away. We have no idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Law Center will continue to do outreach to those who had been living under the freeway and connect them with services and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City spokesman Chakko said the city will continue to do the same. Friday morning, staff handed out contact information to the people who had been camping when authorities arrived, to make sure they know who to call if they want help. “A lot of cards were given out today to people,” he said. “It’s not a safe place to live. And the conditions that were developing were certainly not safe. … The goal today was to clean up all of the very serious conditions there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate Berkeleyside is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko was unable to provide the time the city arrived on-site, but Berkeleyside readers saw the cleanup effort underway at 6:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who had been camping on Gilman “packed up their stuff and left,” Chakko said. “It was a very calm situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said no one was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Public Works staff handled the cleanup, and Berkeley police officers were on-site for traffic control purposes, Chakko said. He noted that the effort took place early in the morning to try to limit the traffic impacts in an area that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/02/22/whats-happening-with-the-gilman-street-interchange/\" target=\"_blank\">complex circulation patterns\u003c/a>. “It’s a complicated intersection without people getting in the way, so it was important to have police directing traffic there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other city staff, including people from the Health, Housing & Community Services Department, were also in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city has been working since the beginning of May to try to secure housing for people camping beneath the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Offers have been made to move them into housing, with subsidies to pay for it,” he said. “Case managers, housing folks, mental health folks, all sorts of people have been involved to try to find a way to help them transition out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said people were not told to stay away, and that no barriers had been installed to keep them from returning. No new notices were posted either. But Chakko said notices that had been hung previously — after a recent decision by the city \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">not to pursue nuisance abatement actions\u003c/a> beneath the freeway — remained in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to that notice, “The camp activity and accumulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GilmanOfficialNotice7-10-14-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">continue to contribute to rodent harborage and create a public nuisance\u003c/a>. The City will monitor the situation and may without further notice take appropriate action to abate public nuisance conditions, up to and including the removal of personal property pursuant to Chapter 11.40 BMC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakko said the city hauled away “a lot of garbage” but noted that “anything that appeared to have value was bagged and stored, which is following our standard protocols.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone looking for property that was removed can call 510-981-4665 for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeless advocate: So-called cleanup “just a sad subterfuge”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osha Neumann, a local attorney and advocate for the homeless for the East Bay Community Law Center, denounced Friday’s operation. 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And there was no warning at all, despite the fact we’d been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the Law Center has also been working with residents beneath the freeway to find them housing, and has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">successful in those efforts\u003c/a>. The seven-10 people who were still living in the area included those with significant mental and physical disabilities, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said he had appreciated it when the city terminated its \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/10/berkeley-gives-gilman-street-homeless-a-reprieve/\" target=\"_blank\">nuisance abatement plans \u003c/a>for Gilman Street earlier this month. 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Phillips says the current demographic change is just the final stage after decades of disinvestment in the area: “We understand gentrification to be pretty long-term, long-evolving historic process that is actually very systematic in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141922\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 340px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/10thWood-640x570.jpg\" alt=\"10th and Wood\" width=\"340\" height=\"302\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10th and Wood, a new sandwich shop near the Zephyr Gate condo complex. (Photo: Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ron Lindsey can tell you first-hand how the long-term process played out in West Oakland, where he grew up. His father and uncle worked at the Navy shipyard. He saw that get shut down and the factory jobs shipped overseas. Then the businesses on Seventh Street started closing. He can still point out where they all were — a clothing store, a shoe shine parlor, barber shops, candy shops and night clubs. “All of these were black businesses,” Lindsey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After companies outsourced the neighborhood’s factory jobs, the tax base eroded and social services were cut. Unemployment and violence spiked. Lindsey watched as highways and train lines carved up the neighborhood. The elevated BART rails got built right over Seventh Street. Now where there was once music, there is the screech of trains, drowning out everything below. People left. Eventually, so did Lindsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips says gentrification is this whole progression, from job loss to neighborhood decay to redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danita Robinson says even though things are changing, there is no way for her to move up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be low-rent,” Robinson says. “I don’t want to be low-income. 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