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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/san-francisco-tenant-activists-call-on-city-to-boost-eviction-defense-funding/9713scr_8e110a6932f744b/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132957\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/9713scr_8e110a6932f744b-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Tenants call on city officials to boost funding for eviction defense. At podium: Tyler McMillan, executive director of the Eviction Defense Collaborative. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenants rights activists call on city officials to boost funding for eviction defense. At podium: Tyler Macmillan, executive director of the Eviction Defense Collaborative. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many tenants facing eviction often fight a losing battle because they can rarely afford attorneys, and there is a scarcity of city funding available to the network of nonprofits offering legal assistance, according to tenants rights activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At City Hall Wednesday, activists were joined by the city’s public defender and Supervisor David Campos at a rally calling on the city to ramp up funding for eviction defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad fact is that many people being evicted should not be evicted and would not be evicted if they had an attorney,” said Ted Gullickson of the \u003ca href=\"http://sftu.org/\">San Francisco Tenants Union.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Campos’ request, the city’s budget and legislative analyst \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=48669\">prepared a report\u003c/a> on the number of unlawful detainers in 2012 and 2013 that sheds more light on evictions in the city. An unlawful detainer is the stage in an eviction process when a tenant is summoned to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant activists say evictions of every kind are up, but the actual numbers haven’t been clear, due in part to what landlords are required to report to the rent board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget analyst’s report says there were 3,423 unlawful detainer lawsuits filed in 2013, and 3,695 filed in 2012. Of those, only 17 percent of tenants had legal representation in 2013, and nearly 13 percent had lawyers in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen more and more people being evicted from their homes, people becoming homeless and falling into poverty, and one of the reasons is because tenants, for the most part, are unrepresented,” said Public Defender Jeff Adachi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi’s office is focused on criminal cases but he joined activists in calling on the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee to boost eviction defense funding in the next budget. The activists say attorneys who offer pro bono help are reluctant to take cases to trial. And without the threat of trial, settlements are often watered down. Increased city funding could be used to hire more attorneys to represent tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My housing was threatened, and if it had not been for legal assistance for the elderly, I would not have my home,” said artist and Hayes Valley neighborhood activist Madeline Behrens-Brigham. “I just encourage you to appreciate what attorneys can do for a tenant in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The last line of defense\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, a small nonprofit in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood, which receives the bulk of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Mayor_Lee_to_Triple_Ellis_Eviction_Defense_Funding_11911.html\">city’s eviction defense funding\u003c/a>, has been helping poor tenants fight evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded by tenant rights activist Miguel Wooding, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=9370\">died in 2011\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.evictiondefense.org/\">Eviction Defense Collaborative\u003c/a> prides itself on providing a pro bono attorney to any tenant sued by a landlord. It also offers rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not deny our services to anybody who’s being sued for eviction, ” said Tyler Macmillan, who started as a staff attorney and became executive director after Wooding’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a myth that it takes a long time to evict a renter in San Francisco, said Macmillan. The process can actually be very swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can move as fast as three weeks, from you didn’t pay your rent to you are out on the streets,” Macmillan said. “States that we consider ourselves akin to have much longer notice periods, much longer procedures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that three – or 30-day notice to pay or quit arrives on your door, panic and fear can set in. Many tenants don’t know where to turn, and some heed their landlord’s orders to leave without putting up a fight, thinking they don’t have a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there has been an uptick in the number of middle-income tenants seeking help at the EDC’s small drop-in clinic, the vast majority of clients are low-income residents, or those living 80 percent below the city’s median income of $80,000. Many are seniors, people with disabilities and single mothers. This year alone, the collaborative is expected to handle more than 2,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other nonprofits that assist tenants, the EDC lacks resources to help everyone who walks through its doors. That’s why Macmillan, who was at the rally, wants the city to take action to help undo what he calls an unfair legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think eviction defense should always be a high priority for San Francisco,” Macmillan said. “It’s one of the smartest dollars you can spend as a city legislator in terms of what you save on homeless services, emergency services, the costs in hospital visits, or shelter visits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear more about the Eviction Defense Collaborative:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/145057329&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cem>Note: A few \u003c/em>\u003cem>years ago, t\u003c/em>\u003cem>he author \u003c/em>\u003cem>received some\u003c/em>\u003cem> counseling at the Eviction Defense Collaborative as a tenant.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks and Lisa Pickoff-White\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123982\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/airbnbsf-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. Photo: Effie Yang/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. (Effie Yang/Flickr) \u003ccite>(Effie Yang/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is considering regulating home rental vacation services like Airbnb in hopes of reducing illegal short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Chiu proposes to let residents rent their dwellings for a period shorter than 30 days, currently illegal for owners and tenants alike. But those who want to legally rent their residences short-term will have to comply with some stiff requirements, and landlords could still prohibit the rentals through language in a lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Chiu's proposal, tenants or landlords who want to become Airbnb \"hosts\" would need to register with the city, prove they occupy the unit 75 percent of the year and pay the same taxes as hotels. Airbnb has already agreed to pay San Francisco's 14 percent hotel tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the legislation was aimed in part at people who are contributing to the housing shortage by using their homes mostly as hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have had the worst offenders, who have been taking entire units off the marketplace,\" he said. \"Tenants who've been renting multiple units in order to turn most of them into de facto hotels, and owners and landlords who've been evicting tenants to do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Rules for Short-Term Rentals and Hosting Services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules the Department of Building Inspection would create and maintain a registry of permitted hosts. Residents would have to apply and pay a fee to the department to obtain a permit. To qualify, residents need to meet several requirements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>residents need to have lived in their unit for at least 60 days,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>be able to prove that they live in the unit for at least 275 days a year,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts who live in units with rent control could not charge short-term visitors more than they are paying to their landlord,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts would have to pay San Francisco's hotel tax,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>and hosts would have to maintain rental or homeowners insurance for at least $150,000 worth of property damage.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The legislation also regulates \"hosting platforms,\" like Airbnb or VRBO. Those companies would have to notify hosts about the city's regulations, and remove listings that do not have a permit for up to a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evictions on the Rise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.'\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>--Time magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle has been reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-cracks-down-on-Airbnb-rentals-5381237.php\" target=\"_blank\">evictions of San Francisco tenants\u003c/a> who have been renting out their residences short-term through Airbnb are increasing. \"Since 2012, the Planning Department has witnessed a surge in complaints about short-term rentals, normally from neighbors,\" the paper wrote last week. \"The agency is now actively investigating about 85 people offering their spaces on Airbnb, VRBO and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report quotes a tenants attorney who said eviction notices in the city were \"reaching epidemic levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://time.com/63810/san-francisco-airbnb-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">Time reports\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation offers some protection for tenants who find themselves on the wrong side of city regulations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The legislation ... protects tenants from being evicted right away for listing their apartment on a site like Airbnb. Currently, the law gives a landlord the authority to evict someone if the renter is violating the city’s prohibition against short-term rentals, no questions asked. The new law says that tenants who meet all the criteria and registered with the city would be protected from such evictions. Tenants who hadn’t registered would also get a chance to remedy their behavior (i.e. stop renting out their apartment) on the first offense, assuming their lease is silent on the issue.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But if their lease is not silent on the issue, then they're out of luck. Any legalization of short-term rentals in Chiu's legislation would not override restrictions against them stated on a lease. \"(S)o if a resident has signed papers agreeing not to rent out their apartment to anyone else, the new law would likely not protect them from eviction,\" Time wrote. \"As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb, which is based in San Francisco, said in a statement that it was reviewing the proposal and looked forward to working with policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups applauded Chiu's bill, while advocates for property owners said it does not adequately address their concern that short-term renters could pose a safety and health risk to other tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People that are using a unit for transient use typically aren't as careful as they are when it's their primary residence,\" Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, told the Chronicle. \"We would prefer the status quo to anything else - and we are not in support of creating another dysfunctional bureaucracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Planning Director John Rahaim says he supports the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it's great for the city, we think it's great for sustainable development,\" he said. \"The primary concern, and both from our standpoint and the standpoint of the complaints we hear, is almost exclusively around owners and tenants who are vacating their units entirely and using them as hotel rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Jose City Council committee will discuss imposing a hotel tax on short-term rentals Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, including New York, have similar prohibitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York's attorney general has demanded that Airbnb turn over data about New York City residents who have put listings on the site as part of an investigation into whether they are breaking a state law barring sublets for fewer than 30 days if the occupants are not present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, Airbnb warns hosts to be aware of the laws in their city, noting that some restrict people's ability to host paying guests for short periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very happy to see a move toward creating a regulatory infrastructure of Airbnb hosting at all,\" said Arun Sundararajan, a New York University professor who studies the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sundararajan said the CPUC's regulation of ride services like UberX and Lyft sets a good precedent for balancing regulation and innovation for the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It represents a new kind of partnership where the government lays out some guidelines and delegates the responsibility for regulation to the platform,\" he said. \"EBay is not responsible for monitoring actively, but eBay is responsible for stopping the sale of something if it's pointed out that counterfeit or illegal activity is taking place. The challenge for holding the sharing economy platforms to the same standard is we haven't had clear guidelines for what is and isn't illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read Chiu's proposal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Mina Kim and The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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To qualify, residents need to meet several requirements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>residents need to have lived in their unit for at least 60 days,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>be able to prove that they live in the unit for at least 275 days a year,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts who live in units with rent control could not charge short-term visitors more than they are paying to their landlord,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts would have to pay San Francisco's hotel tax,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>and hosts would have to maintain rental or homeowners insurance for at least $150,000 worth of property damage.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The legislation also regulates \"hosting platforms,\" like Airbnb or VRBO. Those companies would have to notify hosts about the city's regulations, and remove listings that do not have a permit for up to a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evictions on the Rise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.'\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>--Time magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle has been reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-cracks-down-on-Airbnb-rentals-5381237.php\" target=\"_blank\">evictions of San Francisco tenants\u003c/a> who have been renting out their residences short-term through Airbnb are increasing. \"Since 2012, the Planning Department has witnessed a surge in complaints about short-term rentals, normally from neighbors,\" the paper wrote last week. \"The agency is now actively investigating about 85 people offering their spaces on Airbnb, VRBO and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report quotes a tenants attorney who said eviction notices in the city were \"reaching epidemic levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://time.com/63810/san-francisco-airbnb-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">Time reports\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation offers some protection for tenants who find themselves on the wrong side of city regulations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The legislation ... protects tenants from being evicted right away for listing their apartment on a site like Airbnb. Currently, the law gives a landlord the authority to evict someone if the renter is violating the city’s prohibition against short-term rentals, no questions asked. The new law says that tenants who meet all the criteria and registered with the city would be protected from such evictions. Tenants who hadn’t registered would also get a chance to remedy their behavior (i.e. stop renting out their apartment) on the first offense, assuming their lease is silent on the issue.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But if their lease is not silent on the issue, then they're out of luck. 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From the late 1970s and well through the ’80s, developers worked with Dianne Feinstein, then the mayor of San Francisco, to build high-rise offices and condominiums serving white-collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>“And people who had lived in the Haight 10, 15, or 20 years felt like they were losing their neighborhood to these interlopers coming in with all their money,” Carlsson adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144847527&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime activist Calvin Welch was, and still is, one of those frustrated residents. 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In 1986, during the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-03/news/mn-6786_1_downtown-office-space\">office boom\u003c/a>, he ran a successful campaign to limit high-rise development and preserve affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What those of us who are concerned about growth control, and go to the ballots with ballot measures, bank on: Everybody who lives here doesn’t want it to change,” Welch says. “They don’t want it to be different from the first day they came.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other activists also had their work cut out for them as economy surged in the 1990s. Dot-com entrepreneurs flooded into San Francisco looking for cheap office space, places to live — not to mention luxuries, such as upscale coffee bars and sushi restaurants. They moved into the former warehouse district south of Market Street and, increasingly, the Mission neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’m hoping that 10 or 20 years from now, we’re doing a piece on all the great solutions to the housing crisis that San Francisco was able to put forward.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A documentary called “\u003ca href=\"http://boomthemovie.org/preview.html\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>” shows \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/21/news/mn-48707\">anti-yuppie graffiti\u003c/a> scrawled on apartment lofts and offices and numerous street demonstrations against rising housing costs and soaring evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one scene, a young woman stands on an outdoor stage in the Mission, clutching a small child, and says goodbye to the place she calls her “barrio”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We probably won’t be here,” she says, her voice quivering. “But we’ll always come back to make sure that everybody that’s left here can stay, at least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, Willie Brown, \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=McFrisco\">took a lot of the blame\u003c/a>. He welcomed the dot-com boom and defended \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/How-S-F-s-live-work-development-boom-began-3272818.php\">the real estate developers\u003c/a> who were cashing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Boom documentary, Brown argued displacement had an upside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People moving into the Mission are replacing Latinos,” Brown admits to the interviewer. But, he says, “Latinos have taken in many cases money from those old rundown structures that they live in, and they’re buying in Daly City or they’re buying a better structure some other place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also pointed out that San Francisco neighborhoods have changed hands many times over the years. He said it’s a natural process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mission was not always Latino,” Brown says. “The Mission, at one time, was Irish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the bubble \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Wide-open-spaces-Dot-com-demise-sends-2922863.php\">burst\u003c/a>, a new generation of activists had earned its stripes on the streets of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author James Tracy co-founded San Francisco’s Eviction Defense Network and worked with many similar groups. He’s finishing a book about the dot-com period. He says activists had many “small” triumphs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”a37d6559416a7ac7f0449a6bf75f4655″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing organizers in San Francisco have pulled many amazing rabbits out of our hats,” says Tracy. “We’ve stopped evictions, we’ve stopped homelessness from happening. We’ve created much better planning policies than were in place before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it’s not like all has been lost,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tracy says it’s humbling to realize that, after all the sit-ins, trips to jail and meetings with city leaders, San Francisco remains one of the least affordable cities in the U.S. There were no \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/google-buses/\">Google buses\u003c/a> to block back in 1999, but he says what’s happening now is essentially the same story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>little bit too familiar,’ Tracy says. “I’m hoping that 10 or 20 years from now, we’re doing a piece on all the great solutions to the housing crisis that San Francisco was able to put forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists say it does \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> somewhat different this time around. 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She spends her days roaming the library’s six floors, keeping an eye out for regulars who look like they could use her help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 313px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/ClarissaEat.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/ClarissaEat-313x450.jpg\" alt=\"Clarissa Eat waits for the San Francisco Public Library to open. Her suitcase and two bags contain everything she owns. She's been helped by the library's social worker. (Scott Shafer/KQED)\" width=\"313\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141090\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarissa Eat waits for the San Francisco Public Library to open. Her suitcase and two bags contain everything she owns. She’s been helped by the library’s social worker. 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(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Coming at somebody with compassion for having been through that sort of thing, you know their walls kind of fall down,” says Bank. “Because they realize I’m not trying to make them do anything they don’t want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting his act together with help from Leah Esguerra and her outreach team, Bank is now part of that team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I’m 32 years old and I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life until I started doing this work,” says Bank. “Then I realized, this is it. This is what I’m supposed to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a city as liberal as San Francisco has its limits. Some library users complain about the homeless using the library bathroom for things like shaving or bathing. And after one patron was caught urinating on bookshelves not once, but twice, Sen. and former Mayor Dianne Feinstein urged the city to toughen rules and punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, says Chief Librarian Luis Herrera, the Library Commission will discuss new regulations aimed at some of the worst, most offensive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s drug use or physical assault, we’re not going to tolerate that,” says Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as he tries to strike that balance — creating a safe, secure library where everyone, including the homeless, feels welcome — Herrera says the social worker is here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Initially there were some questions about whether this was a good idea,” he says. “But it’s taken off. And I think, in fact, we would look at the idea of expanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s catching on. Other California cities, including San Jose and Sacramento, now have social workers at their libraries.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Like other homeless people in the area, he stays at Mother Brown’s because there are few alternatives. “It swells your feet up,” he said of sleeping upright. “I’ve been up all night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132094\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2821-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132094\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2821-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Robinson, owner of Dollar Store and More on 3rd Street, sees both sides of the issue (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Robinson, owner of Dollar Store and More on Third Street, sees both sides of the issue (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t have a homeless shelter out here,” said Marvin Robinson, owner of the Dollar Store and More on Third Street. Robinson said that neighbors are concerned that the shelter would attract homeless from outside the neighborhood, and that it would result in more loitering and noise late at night. “I see the issue of being a property owner,” Robinson said. “But some of the homeless are stakeholders — they grew up in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131967\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter. 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Robinson said that neighbors are concerned that the shelter would attract homeless from outside the neighborhood, and that it would result in more loitering and noise late at night. “I see the issue of being a property owner,” Robinson said. “But some of the homeless are stakeholders — they grew up in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131967\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_2490-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bayview resident Larry Williams supports opening a new homeless shelter. 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He co-chairs Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment, an organization that promotes neighborhood rejuvenation efforts. Mayer thinks the Bayview is an up-and-coming neighborhood, but he’s worried that adding beds to Mother Brown’s would attract more homeless people. “My position is that we should have supportive housing for them — not an emergency shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9592_IMG_2570-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9592_IMG_2570-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Evaristo Morales Crúz regularly eats at Mother Brown's (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evaristo Morales Crúz regularly eats at Mother Brown’s. 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One common theme among them: In the event of displacement, there's nowhere else to go in the Bay Area because of how expensive housing has become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/04/02/east-palo-alto-unanimously-backs-new-tenant-protection-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\">Palo Alto Online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Palo Alto's Biggest Landlord Opposes Tenant Protection Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that controls more than half of East Palo Alto's rental housing market is opposing a proposed city law that would provide relocation benefits to displaced tenants, tighten restrictions on demolishing buildings and offer protection from landlord harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.equityapartments.com/corporate/\" target=\"_blank\">Equity Residential\u003c/a>, which in 2011 bought more than 1,800 units in the city, has challenged the proposal as an “unlawful” burden on apartment owners and landlords, stirring fears among community groups and some City Council members that the company aims to force out low-income residents to make room for more affluent tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a history of offering protection for tenants because they’re vulnerable,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofepa.org/directory.aspx?EID=49\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Ruben Abrica\u003c/a>, a former East Palo Alto mayor. “(Equity) is objecting to the whole concept. They don’t see a need for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within six months of acquiring its properties from Wells Fargo in foreclosure sales, Equity raised the attention of city officials by issuing 706 three-day eviction notices from January to June 2012. Equity’s notices warned tenants who were late on rent that they had three days to pay before they would face eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e67632a7989cafa28191163425fbebcf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city Rent Stabilization Board made those figures public, Equity stopped reporting the notices. Company executive John Hyjer said it was not required by law to notify the city of three-day eviction notices, only of unlawful detainers -- eviction cases filed in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s less onerous on the city of East Palo Alto’s already stretched resources,” Hyjer, Equity’s first vice president of investments, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Gibson, a lawyer for \u003ca href=\"http://www.legalaidsmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">LegalAid San Mateo\u003c/a>, said when the city is not told of all eviction notices, it becomes difficult for organizations like hers to direct tenants toward programs that assist with rent payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If we have to fight, we will fight'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2010, East Palo Alto voters passed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=469\" target=\"_blank\">Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance\u003c/a>, designed to protect tenants from “unreasonable rent increases” and “arbitrary, discriminatory or retaliatory evictions,” and to guarantee landlords the “right to fair return.” The proposed law, known as the Tenant Protection Ordinance, would expand tenant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The landlord also has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential objected to the proposed ordinance, city officials have been working with landlord and tenant representatives to make revisions. Equity views the proposed changes as a violation of local and state laws. Larisa Bowman, a lawyer for Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, called such concerns “unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential has opposed other tenant protection efforts in California. Sam Zell, the company chairman, donated $50,000 to Proposition 98, a ballot measure that would have phased out rent control throughout California had it passed in June 2008. He is also the chairman of Equity Lifestyle Properties, which has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. Both companies are real estate investment trusts and are publicly traded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential’s purchase of its East Palo Alto properties, some tenants have complained about difficulty paying rent -- one type of complaint is that a person will be told by a rent collector to come back the next day and then will be informed the rent is late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, the community legal representative, said some of the confusion over rent payments is because of the portfolio’s change in ownership, from Page Mill Properties to Wells Fargo to Equity Residential. However, she still remains concerned. “The amount of rent a person is being evicted over is $47,” she said. “Are you after $47 or are you after this unit? 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