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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Amy Julia Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/12/financial-abuse-mismanagement-leave-housing-agency-on-verge-of-takeover/richmondproject_832_la-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126781\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/richmondproject_832_la1-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The Hacienda public housing complex in Richmond. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle) \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hacienda public housing complex in Richmond. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each Saturday morning, a handyman is supposed to unlock a recreation room at the Richmond public housing complex called Friendship Manor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one December day last year, Jeffery Likely said it was his job. He told his bosses he opened the rec room at 8 a.m. and closed it at 5 p.m. He charged \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155141-likelyopeningfriendship.html#document/p1/a156452\">six hours of overtime\u003c/a> for locking and unlocking one door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Allen Wheeler said he did the simple task of unlocking and locking that door \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155127-wheeler-opening-friendship.html#document/p1/a156450\">at nearly the same times\u003c/a> on the same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t an isolated incident. The Richmond Housing Authority has paid tens of thousands of dollars in questionable overtime over the last four years to its two maintenance workers, a review of overtime records by The Center of Investigative Reporting has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They double-billed for the same job, charged overtime during normal work hours and regularly invoked a union clause to get paid triple for hours worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Likely billed the agency for hundreds of overtime hours for driving an agency vehicle despite not having a valid driver’s license. His license has been suspended on and off since September 2012, once for drunken driving after registering a blood alcohol level of 0.22, nearly three times the legal limit. It is still suspended. His aunt, Kathleen Jones, bailed him out of jail, records show. She’s the No. 2 official at the housing agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 30 percent of the 2,800 hours of overtime that Wheeler billed in the last four years occurred during his normal work hours. Wheeler and Likely both charged overtime for opening or closing the rec room at nearly the same time on 10 occasions in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Richmond Housing Authority officials signed off on all the time sheets, some of which contain glaring problems. For example, nearly every day in March 2012, Wheeler \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155142-ot-during-normal-work-hours.html\">charged six hours of overtime\u003c/a> for six hours of work helping with maintenance work — his job description — from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. His regular shift runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last four years, the Housing Authority paid Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. Wheeler received more than $58,000. They each make a base annual salary of $23,000 a year and live in Housing Authority apartments rent-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The totals are a sliver of the agency’s $26 million annual budget, but they highlight the persistent management troubles that have led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to label Richmond as one of the worst-run housing agencies in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Nadler, a government ethics specialist, said that in the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, she said, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it is taxpayer money, every dollar, every penny counts,” Nadler said. “They can’t afford to have this lack of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is about $7 million in debt and has \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/residents-live-filth-fear-mismanaged-bay-area-public-housing-5902\">failed to provide basic maintenance\u003c/a> to residents, who have lived among mice, mold and cockroaches. A lack of financial controls, meanwhile, allowed one top Housing Authority official to \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/financial-abuse-mismanagement-leave-housing-agency-verge-takeover-5904\">steer contracts to his brother\u003c/a> and others to abuse agency credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials have said the authority is getting its act together, the overtime problems underscore that the agency remains susceptible to abuse. Time sheets and other agency records show the overtime problems persisted into this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Comment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler and Likely declined to comment. The Housing Authority has forbidden its employees to talk to CIR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Lindsay, Richmond’s city manager, said the overtime was billed incorrectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it has shown is that they’re pretty sloppy with how they’re filling out their time sheets,” Lindsay said. “We’re having meetings to sort all this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority changed its overtime policy after CIR brought the billing problems to Lindsay's attention. In an April 23 memo, Executive Director Tim Jones banned Wheeler and Likely from receiving extra pay during their normal shifts and limited the amount of money they can charge for being called back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Expert: In the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Likely clocked 27 hours of overtime \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155143-likely-driving-all-sites.html#document/p1/a156456\">specifically for driving\u003c/a> between the agency’s apartment complexes while his license was suspended. Most of the 500-plus hours of overtime he has billed since his license was revoked require driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A valid driver’s license is one of the few job requirements for a Housing Authority maintenance worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135407\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/likely.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135407\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/likely-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In the last four years, the Richmond Housing Authority paid maintenance worker Jeffery Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the last four years, the Richmond Housing Authority paid maintenance worker Jeffery Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From 5 to 6 p.m., Likely often finished the workday by sweeping and cleaning up around one of the five public housing complexes he maintains, according to his time sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time, he got paid for three hours of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, workers at the Richmond Housing Authority receive time and a half for each hour of overtime. But if they’re called back to work after going home, they get a minimum of three hours per call — a clause known as call-back pay.The rules apply even if workers live on-site, as Likely does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Stephenson, Richmond’s human resources director, used a street flood to illustrate why the benefit exists. “Call-back pay is when public works folks have gone home and then need to come back to respond to the flooding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likely and Wheeler frequently used this union rule to bill for routine maintenance. Lindsay said call-back pay should not apply to regular maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every week in the last four years, Likely charged three hours of overtime for cleaning the agency office for one hour. He also regularly charged triple the time he put in for sweeping the housing project where he lives, emptying dumpsters and assisting the agency with routine housing inspections after his normal shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Likely’s overtime was done at Nevin Plaza\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>the housing complex where he lives, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler, who lives at Triangle Court, appeared to regularly invoke call-back pay when he continued working after his shift ended. He stayed at work an extra half-hour and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">charged three\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">hours\u003c/a> of call-back time for maintenance work. It should have been billed as regular overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there were other questionable charges, like billing overtime for performing maintenance at different places at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 17, 2012, Likely said he was inspecting an apartment while also responding to a call from 5 to 6 p.m. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155180-jeff-likely.html#document/p1/a156461\">charged three hours of overtime\u003c/a> for each job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 27, 2013, Likely double-billed the Housing Authority for cleaning the same apartment complex from 6 to 7 p.m., charging six hours of overtime for working one hour, according to agency records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo, Tim Jones said Wheeler and Likely now are limited to charging three hours of call-back pay when they receive multiple calls in the same three-hour window after hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime charges violate the city’s policies, but it’s unclear whether they break any laws. That would likely depend on whether the men knowingly deceived the Housing Authority or simply misunderstood union rules, current and former prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said there could be an explanation for Wheeler billing during his regular work hours. It's possible, he said, that Wheeler could at times have been entitled to a 5 percent pay bump per day for doing work outside his normal job description. But Wheeler was instead billing the government for full extra hours and sometimes triple the time put in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of the three top officials at the Housing Authority signed off on all the overtime: Tim Jones, Kathleen Jones or William Bounthon, a manager in the Section 8 department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/projects/subsidized-squalor\">a CIR investigation\u003c/a> revealed a history of leadership problems at the agency and squalid living conditions for residents of its two largest housing complexes. Since then, Kathleen Jones, who is not related to Tim Jones, has been on paid leave. Likely has been out on sick leave for several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has asked HUD for permission to relocate the residents of its largest and worst complex, Hacienda. Private attorneys are working with residents to file claims for health problems and property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Andrew Donohue. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em> \u003cem>It was produced by an independent nonprofit, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>. Harris can be reached at aharris@cironline.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Wheeler and Likely both charged overtime for opening or closing the rec room at nearly the same time on 10 occasions in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Richmond Housing Authority officials signed off on all the time sheets, some of which contain glaring problems. For example, nearly every day in March 2012, Wheeler \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155142-ot-during-normal-work-hours.html\">charged six hours of overtime\u003c/a> for six hours of work helping with maintenance work — his job description — from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. His regular shift runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last four years, the Housing Authority paid Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. Wheeler received more than $58,000. They each make a base annual salary of $23,000 a year and live in Housing Authority apartments rent-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The totals are a sliver of the agency’s $26 million annual budget, but they highlight the persistent management troubles that have led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to label Richmond as one of the worst-run housing agencies in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Nadler, a government ethics specialist, said that in the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, she said, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it is taxpayer money, every dollar, every penny counts,” Nadler said. “They can’t afford to have this lack of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is about $7 million in debt and has \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/residents-live-filth-fear-mismanaged-bay-area-public-housing-5902\">failed to provide basic maintenance\u003c/a> to residents, who have lived among mice, mold and cockroaches. A lack of financial controls, meanwhile, allowed one top Housing Authority official to \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/financial-abuse-mismanagement-leave-housing-agency-verge-takeover-5904\">steer contracts to his brother\u003c/a> and others to abuse agency credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials have said the authority is getting its act together, the overtime problems underscore that the agency remains susceptible to abuse. Time sheets and other agency records show the overtime problems persisted into this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Comment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler and Likely declined to comment. The Housing Authority has forbidden its employees to talk to CIR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Lindsay, Richmond’s city manager, said the overtime was billed incorrectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it has shown is that they’re pretty sloppy with how they’re filling out their time sheets,” Lindsay said. “We’re having meetings to sort all this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority changed its overtime policy after CIR brought the billing problems to Lindsay's attention. In an April 23 memo, Executive Director Tim Jones banned Wheeler and Likely from receiving extra pay during their normal shifts and limited the amount of money they can charge for being called back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Expert: In the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Likely clocked 27 hours of overtime \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155143-likely-driving-all-sites.html#document/p1/a156456\">specifically for driving\u003c/a> between the agency’s apartment complexes while his license was suspended. Most of the 500-plus hours of overtime he has billed since his license was revoked require driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A valid driver’s license is one of the few job requirements for a Housing Authority maintenance worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135407\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/likely.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135407\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/likely-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In the last four years, the Richmond Housing Authority paid maintenance worker Jeffery Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the last four years, the Richmond Housing Authority paid maintenance worker Jeffery Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From 5 to 6 p.m., Likely often finished the workday by sweeping and cleaning up around one of the five public housing complexes he maintains, according to his time sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time, he got paid for three hours of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, workers at the Richmond Housing Authority receive time and a half for each hour of overtime. But if they’re called back to work after going home, they get a minimum of three hours per call — a clause known as call-back pay.The rules apply even if workers live on-site, as Likely does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Stephenson, Richmond’s human resources director, used a street flood to illustrate why the benefit exists. “Call-back pay is when public works folks have gone home and then need to come back to respond to the flooding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likely and Wheeler frequently used this union rule to bill for routine maintenance. Lindsay said call-back pay should not apply to regular maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every week in the last four years, Likely charged three hours of overtime for cleaning the agency office for one hour. He also regularly charged triple the time he put in for sweeping the housing project where he lives, emptying dumpsters and assisting the agency with routine housing inspections after his normal shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Likely’s overtime was done at Nevin Plaza\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>the housing complex where he lives, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler, who lives at Triangle Court, appeared to regularly invoke call-back pay when he continued working after his shift ended. He stayed at work an extra half-hour and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">charged three\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">hours\u003c/a> of call-back time for maintenance work. It should have been billed as regular overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there were other questionable charges, like billing overtime for performing maintenance at different places at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 17, 2012, Likely said he was inspecting an apartment while also responding to a call from 5 to 6 p.m. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155180-jeff-likely.html#document/p1/a156461\">charged three hours of overtime\u003c/a> for each job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 27, 2013, Likely double-billed the Housing Authority for cleaning the same apartment complex from 6 to 7 p.m., charging six hours of overtime for working one hour, according to agency records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo, Tim Jones said Wheeler and Likely now are limited to charging three hours of call-back pay when they receive multiple calls in the same three-hour window after hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime charges violate the city’s policies, but it’s unclear whether they break any laws. That would likely depend on whether the men knowingly deceived the Housing Authority or simply misunderstood union rules, current and former prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said there could be an explanation for Wheeler billing during his regular work hours. It's possible, he said, that Wheeler could at times have been entitled to a 5 percent pay bump per day for doing work outside his normal job description. But Wheeler was instead billing the government for full extra hours and sometimes triple the time put in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of the three top officials at the Housing Authority signed off on all the overtime: Tim Jones, Kathleen Jones or William Bounthon, a manager in the Section 8 department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/projects/subsidized-squalor\">a CIR investigation\u003c/a> revealed a history of leadership problems at the agency and squalid living conditions for residents of its two largest housing complexes. Since then, Kathleen Jones, who is not related to Tim Jones, has been on paid leave. Likely has been out on sick leave for several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has asked HUD for permission to relocate the residents of its largest and worst complex, Hacienda. Private attorneys are working with residents to file claims for health problems and property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103801\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/for-rent-think-stock-1024x1024.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-103801\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/for-rent-think-stock-1024x1024-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"(File photo/iStock)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(File photo/iStock)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland renters will soon have greater protection against major rent increases.\u003cbr>\nUnder an ordinance approved by the City Council on Tuesday night, annual increases related to capital improvements will be capped at 10 percent, and 30 percent over a five-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new regulations, which go into effect Aug. 1, also stipulate that landlords will be able to pass through only 70 percent of the cost of improving their buildings, and will have to issue a notice for rent hikes used to cover those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates spent several years lobbying the council members for what organizer Robbie Clark of the activist group \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjjc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Just Cause\u003c/a> called “their most pro-tenant action in years.” The rapid increase in the cost of housing in Oakland likely helped move the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The external conditions were also really ripe for the council to take action because they do want to do something to address gentrification and displacement,” said Clark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners argued against the new regulations. They say that restricting the recovery of costs for building improvements will remove the financial incentive for landlords to maintain tens of thousands of apartments throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday night’s meeting, Adams Point resident Clifton Harrison thanked the council for the new regulations. He said his landlord recently informed him of \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25300092/oakland-rent-law-under-fire-one-couple-faces\" target=\"_blank\">a more than 100 percent rent increase\u003c/a> attributed to capital improvements in his building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in my place for 27 years,\" Harrison said. \"... I live in a beautiful place in a beautiful neighborhood, and I might lose that.” He added that due to rising rents and displacement of longtime residents, he can “see the neighborhood is changing before my eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ordinance is not retroactive, so it won't help Harrison fight his rent increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m happy about is that no other resident of Oakland will have to go through what I’m going through and my family is going through right now,\" Harrison said. \"That’s a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Frances Dinkelspiel\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/05/05/initiative-aims-to-tighten-green-parts-of-downtown-plan/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/downtown.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-135200\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/downtown-640x424.jpg\" alt=\"Four years after voters adopted a new vision for downtown Berkeley, they may be asked to refine it. (Tracey Taylor/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four years after voters adopted a new vision for downtown Berkeley, they may be asked to refine it. (Tracey Taylor/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Jesse Arreguín, some members of the environmental community, the labor community and preservationists are circulating \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Title-and-Summary-of-Downtown-Zoning-Provisions-4-22-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a ballot initiative\u003c/a> that would drastically overhaul elements of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/?s=Downtown+Plan&x=0&y=0\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Downtown Area Plan\u003c/a> endorsed by voters in 2010 and codified by the City Council in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"If you want to go higher and make an incredible amount of profit by going higher, you should give more.\" - Jesse Arreguín\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The initiative would restore the “green” in the “Green Vision” part of the plan, according to Arreguín.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would essentially mandate that all buildings in the downtown core taller than 60 feet high follow the more stringent “Green Pathways” provision of the Downtown Area Plan, rather than making that an optional track for developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative would require all buildings over 75 feet high to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/leed\" target=\"_blank\">LEED Platinum\u003c/a> (they now have to be LEED Gold) and to have 30 percent of the units be affordable (up from 20 percent). It would remove the possibility of paying into an housing fund as an alternative to building the affordable housing, would require there be apartments big enough for families, and require there be parking for electric vehicles and the disabled. Buildings over 60 feet would have proportionally similar requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to go higher and make an incredible amount of profit by going higher, you should give more,” said Arreguín.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative would also require developers to pay construction workers prevailing wages, make sure that half the workers reside in Berkeley or in East Bay Green Corridor cities (up from 30 percent), and use 16 percent apprentice labor, if possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, in a move that Arreguín termed as “historic,” once the buildings are constructed, all maintenance, security officers and hotel employees must get a prevailing wage as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tall buildings would also have to have restrooms available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also remove the expedited review of potentially historic structures by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135204\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Post-office-protest-by-Daniel-Parks.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Post-office-protest-by-Daniel-Parks-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"An initiative now circulating would apply an “historic overlay” in the Civic Center that might impact the future of the downtown Berkeley Post Office. (Daniel Parks/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An initiative now circulating would apply a “historic overlay” in the Civic Center that might impact the future of the downtown Berkeley Post Office. (Daniel Parks/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The initiative would also create a historic overlay over the Civic Center area. That would make it impossible, for example, for a private developer to take over Berkeley’s Main Post Office and convert it to a private commercial use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backers of the initiative started collecting signatures on May 2. If they want to be guaranteed a place on this November's ballot, they must turn in 2,638 signatures by Thursday. The groups involved with collecting signatures include Save Our Post Office, which is trying to stop the U.S. Postal Service from selling the Main Post Office on Allston Way, and the Council of Neighborhood Associations, which unsuccessfully sued Berkeley over the environmental impact of the Downtown Area Plan, among other groups, said Arreguín.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín said he decided to push for the ballot initiative because he is frustrated with Berkeley’s inaction on demanding well-articulated community benefits from developers. One intention of the Downtown Area Plan (which was endorsed by voters as Measure R in 2010) was to give developers the opportunity to build taller structures in exchange for “substantial environmental and community benefits.” If developers chose to go through the expedited “Green Pathways” review process, they would have to provide “extraordinary public benefits that could not otherwise be obtained,” according to Measure R. No developer has yet pursued this option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While developers are offering some benefits, in Arreguín’s opinion they are not substantial enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the development community disagree with Arreguín’s point of view. They say the initiative, if adopted by voters, could slow down or even stop what they see as the revitalization of the downtown core. Measure R allowed for the construction of three 180-foot buildings, about 15 stories tall, within one block of the downtown BART station and the construction of two 120-foot buildings, about 10 stories high, elsewhere downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, developers have plans to build three high-rise structures, one aimed at apartments for urban professionals, one aimed at families and empty-nesters, and one \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/19/16-story-hotel-proposed-for-center-and-shattuck-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">hotel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a series of poison pills,” said architect Jim Novosel, who is designing a 120-foot building on Shattuck Avenue and Berkeley Way for the Nasser family. He is also a member of the Planning Commission and ran for the council against Arreguín in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135206\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/mock-up.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135206\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/mock-up-300x300.png\" alt=\"A 16-story hotel has been proposed on Center Street at Shattuck Avenue. Image: JRDV Urban International\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 16-story hotel has been proposed on Center Street at Shattuck Avenue. Image: JRDV Urban International\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Minority politics is trying to control majority politics. It sends out a message to people who want to come into Berkeley that … it’s going to be friggin hard. You are going to have to work much harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative “will set into stone” the community benefits, said Matthew Taecker, a former Berkeley city planner who is now helping Jim Didion and Center Street Partners LLC get entitlements for a 16-story hotel at the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street. Right now, the shape and scope of each project determines what the community benefits look like, he said. That flexibility is critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the prospect of the initiative throws a chill on things,” said Taecker. “It will test the commitment of developers who haven’t yet received their entitlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Donaldson, a member of the Zoning Adjustments Board, said that the community benefits process is working. For example, the developer of The Residences at Berkeley Plaza, a 180-foot, 17-story tower with 298 residences slated for Harold Way, originally planned to eliminate the Shattuck Cinemas. The ZAB board thought that was a bad idea and got the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/06/26/developers-put-theaters-back-into-berkeley-high-rise-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">developer to agree to retain them\u003c/a>, said Donaldson. 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(Daniel Parks/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An initiative now circulating would apply a “historic overlay” in the Civic Center that might impact the future of the downtown Berkeley Post Office. (Daniel Parks/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The initiative would also create a historic overlay over the Civic Center area. That would make it impossible, for example, for a private developer to take over Berkeley’s Main Post Office and convert it to a private commercial use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backers of the initiative started collecting signatures on May 2. If they want to be guaranteed a place on this November's ballot, they must turn in 2,638 signatures by Thursday. The groups involved with collecting signatures include Save Our Post Office, which is trying to stop the U.S. Postal Service from selling the Main Post Office on Allston Way, and the Council of Neighborhood Associations, which unsuccessfully sued Berkeley over the environmental impact of the Downtown Area Plan, among other groups, said Arreguín.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín said he decided to push for the ballot initiative because he is frustrated with Berkeley’s inaction on demanding well-articulated community benefits from developers. One intention of the Downtown Area Plan (which was endorsed by voters as Measure R in 2010) was to give developers the opportunity to build taller structures in exchange for “substantial environmental and community benefits.” If developers chose to go through the expedited “Green Pathways” review process, they would have to provide “extraordinary public benefits that could not otherwise be obtained,” according to Measure R. No developer has yet pursued this option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While developers are offering some benefits, in Arreguín’s opinion they are not substantial enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the development community disagree with Arreguín’s point of view. They say the initiative, if adopted by voters, could slow down or even stop what they see as the revitalization of the downtown core. Measure R allowed for the construction of three 180-foot buildings, about 15 stories tall, within one block of the downtown BART station and the construction of two 120-foot buildings, about 10 stories high, elsewhere downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, developers have plans to build three high-rise structures, one aimed at apartments for urban professionals, one aimed at families and empty-nesters, and one \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/19/16-story-hotel-proposed-for-center-and-shattuck-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">hotel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a series of poison pills,” said architect Jim Novosel, who is designing a 120-foot building on Shattuck Avenue and Berkeley Way for the Nasser family. He is also a member of the Planning Commission and ran for the council against Arreguín in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135206\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/mock-up.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135206\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/mock-up-300x300.png\" alt=\"A 16-story hotel has been proposed on Center Street at Shattuck Avenue. Image: JRDV Urban International\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 16-story hotel has been proposed on Center Street at Shattuck Avenue. Image: JRDV Urban International\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Minority politics is trying to control majority politics. It sends out a message to people who want to come into Berkeley that … it’s going to be friggin hard. You are going to have to work much harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative “will set into stone” the community benefits, said Matthew Taecker, a former Berkeley city planner who is now helping Jim Didion and Center Street Partners LLC get entitlements for a 16-story hotel at the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street. Right now, the shape and scope of each project determines what the community benefits look like, he said. That flexibility is critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the prospect of the initiative throws a chill on things,” said Taecker. “It will test the commitment of developers who haven’t yet received their entitlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Donaldson, a member of the Zoning Adjustments Board, said that the community benefits process is working. For example, the developer of The Residences at Berkeley Plaza, a 180-foot, 17-story tower with 298 residences slated for Harold Way, originally planned to eliminate the Shattuck Cinemas. The ZAB board thought that was a bad idea and got the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/06/26/developers-put-theaters-back-into-berkeley-high-rise-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">developer to agree to retain them\u003c/a>, said Donaldson. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 533px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/eviction-garage-sale.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-135178\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/eviction-garage-sale.jpg\" alt=\"The sticker on each item for sale at the garage sale held by longtime Mission District artists Yolanda Lopez and her son Rio Yañez. (Lydia Chávez/Mission Local)\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sticker on each item at the garage sale held by longtime Mission District artists Yolanda Lopez and her son, Rio Yañez. (Lydia Chávez/Mission Local)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's no secret that San Francisco's booming real estate market has made it challenging for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\">anyone living on the margin\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/24/art-galleries-displaced-amid-san-francisco-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\">Art galleries \u003c/a>near Union Square are being forced to leave and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/04/san-francisco-artists-struggle-to-stay-in-city-as-housing-costs-skyrocket\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland is luring working artists across the Bay\u003c/a>, where cheaper rent is a huge draw. And then there are the local eviction tragedies, like that of two longtime \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/10/royalty-of-the-mission-art-scene-faces-eviction/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission artists\u003c/a>, Yolanda Lopez and her son, Rio Yañez, who are being forced to leave their duplex on San Jose Avenue after more than 30 years. This weekend the mother-son duo put on an \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/05/eviction-garage-sale-a-sense-of-place/\" target=\"_blank\">eviction garage sale to help pay for the move\u003c/a>. Mission Local has been covering the eviction saga of these highly esteemed Mission artists since the beginning, including a collaboration piece Lopez created with her lawyer, Adriana Camarena, transforming the mass of eviction paperwork into \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/03/artist-yolanda-lopez-turns-eviction-into-art/\" target=\"_blank\">protest art\u003c/a>. Mission Local editor Lydia Chávez checked in with Camarena about the garage sale:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Garage Sale this weekend, wrote Camarena in an e-mail, was deliberately carried out in an art gallery as an art and political statement. “Probably the most valuable piece in the Garage Sale,” Camarena wrote, ”is the price sticker that reminds people that this is the eviction of two lifelong Mission artists: ‘Yolanda López and Río Yañez’s Eviction Garage Sale [$price]‘”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The garage sale protest was held at \u003ca href=\"http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Galeria de la Raza\u003c/a>, itself a historic San Francisco art establishment, showing works by artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The Galeria's former director and Yolanda Lopez' ex-husband, Rene Yanez, is also being evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest salvo in San Francisco’s continuing Google Bus War: A coalition of community and housing activists and a union representing public employees filed suit Thursday to stop San Francisco officials from going ahead with a pilot project to regulate private commuter buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, says the pilot project violates both the California Vehicle Code and state environmental law and seeks court orders to halt the program until it’s brought into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The buses carry thousands of workers to high-tech campuses from San Francisco to Silicon Valley as well as to sites around the city. Over the past year, the shuttles have become the object of repeated protests as the booming tech economy draws workers to the Bay Area, a trend that in turn has played a part in rising rents and an increasing number of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hundreds of buses plying San Francisco streets have also been unpopular because they freely use Municipal Railway bus stops. Under state law, that curb space is reserved for public transportation, and private vehicles of any sort are subject to fines of at least $100 for stopping there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot bus project, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/21/yet-another-protest-against-tech-buses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency in January\u003c/a>, would allow the private shuttles to use about 200 Muni bus stops for a fee of $1 for every stop each bus makes on its daily rounds. City officials say that fee would raise about $1.5 million over the 18 months of the pilot, enough to defray the cost of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community and housing activists were quick to criticize the tech bus pilot project. They \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/20/activists-appeal-san-francisco-tech-bus-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed to the Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> to block the program, a request\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/01/google-bus-San-Francisco-Supervisors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the board rejected\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s suit argues that the scope of private commuter bus service in San Francisco, estimated at 35,000 boardings a day on 350 or so buses, requires that the city’s pilot shuttle program undergo a formal review under the California Environmental Quality Act. The complaint also says the pilot program should be blocked because it improperly allows the use of public bus stops for private purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit warns that the pilot project could have a wide range of negative effects, including air pollution, increased cancer risks, displacement of low- and moderate-income workers and impacts on pedestrian and cyclist safety. Tech companies and other proponents of the shuttles say that by giving workers an alternative to driving, the buses reduce traffic congestion and pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs include a group calling itself the Coalition for Fair, Legal and Environmental Transit, SEIU Local 1021, and two individuals: Elizabeth “Alysabeth” Alexander, a vice president of Local 1021, and Sara Shortt of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco. 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Airbnb, \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/morning-agenda-airbnbs-10-billion-valuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently valued at $10 billion\u003c/a> based on a recent round of venture financing, has operated in a legal gray area until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, a coalition of landlords and housing advocates condemned home-sharing, arguing that vacation and short-term rentals are squeezing affordable housing out of the city. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Supervisor \u003c/span>David Chiu has proposed legislation that would require Airbnb hosts to pay San Francisco\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘s hotel tax and create a public registry of hosts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”30d63dfeca72c1c4e94c8536d6660eb6″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But opponents says Chiu’s proposal doesn’t go far enough. A group that includes housing activist Calvin Welch, former planning commissioner Doug Engmann and PR executive Dale Carlson is calling for placing much tougher restrictions on short-term rentals. Their proposal would restrict Airbnb rentals to neighborhoods with commercial zoning, and it would require hosts to show proof of insurance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday afternoon, Airbnb backers held a rally of their own in response to the proposed rule changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134707\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3413-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3413-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Schaller and Tish Kronen attended an Airbnb rally in front of San Francisco City Hall (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Schaller, left, and Tish Kronen attended an Airbnb rally in front of San Francisco City Hall. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Victoria \u003cspan style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">Schaller came to the rally with her dog, Princess. Schaller has done some cleaning for Airbnb hosts. “I support it because it helps people make a little extra money,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">She was joined by Tish Kronen, who rents out her home through Airbnb. “I’m going through a divorce, and if I didn’t have this, I don’t know if I’d make it through.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134711\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing. 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A group that includes housing activist Calvin Welch, former planning commissioner Doug Engmann and PR executive Dale Carlson is calling for placing much tougher restrictions on short-term rentals. 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Schaller has done some cleaning for Airbnb hosts. “I support it because it helps people make a little extra money,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">She was joined by Tish Kronen, who rents out her home through Airbnb. “I’m going through a divorce, and if I didn’t have this, I don’t know if I’d make it through.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134711\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some people living in campsites on the Albany Bulb will get $3,000 each to leave as part of a settlement between the East Bay City of Albany and 28 residents of the persistent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who signed the settlement must leave the Bulb by Friday, April 25, and they have agreed to stay away from public open spaces in Albany, including the Bulb and Albany Hill, for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the plaintiffs announced the settlement of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/122424/albany-homnelessness-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> today. East Bay Community Law Center attorney Osha Neumann told KQED’s Sara Hossaini that he has mixed feelings about the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those that are getting the money, that’s going to help, and they are so unused to getting anything when they’re kicked from one place to another,” Neumann said. “I am sad that what we were not able to get is, for all the people who are out here, an alternative place where they could stay. I’m really worried that a lot of the people who were out here are going to end up back on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the lawsuit was in large part an attempt to force Albany to provide homeless transition services for all of the people at the Bulb as the city inched closer in its decades-long effort to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/18/albany-bulb-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convert the land into a state park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133678\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6699_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0180_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-133678 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6699_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0180_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Osha Neumann works with another volunteer to help collect statements from the residents of the Albany Bulb in their legal battle to fight eviction.\" width=\"338\" height=\"226\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osha Neumann works with another volunteer to help collect statements from the residents of the Albany Bulb in their legal battle to fight eviction. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s happened, and for many of them, that’s very, very sad,” Neumann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany spokeswoman Nicole Almaguer said the settlement is a positive step and shows the city and the people living on the Bulb are working collaboratively. In addition to the $84,000 settlement announced today, Albany contracted the nonprofit Berkeley Food and Housing Project for more than $60,000 to help the city’s homeless population find permanent housing — not an easy task in the Bay Area. The city then expanded its park transition plan to $500,000, which included funding for temporary shelter buildings near the Bulb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That transition plan spurred the lawsuit. More than half the people living on the Bulb said the city had failed to accommodate their disabilities and was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and threatening a violation of Fourth and 14th Amendment protections. But as the court battles dragged on, police issued more and more tickets for violating the waterfront park’s curfew, and the Bulb’s population dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about a year of outreach, Almaguer said 14 people from the Bulb, including one infant, had moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the housing outreach effectiveness is disputed by some of the Bulb residents, especially those with little or no documented income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almaguer said no one had relocated within Albany, which has no transitional housing or permanent emergency homeless shelter. Many people living on the Bulb consider themselves residents of the city, and some are even registered to vote there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133686\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6704_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0379_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-133686 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6704_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0379_web-426x640.jpg\" alt='Bob Anderson, or “Boxing Bobby,\" has lived at the Albany Bulb for about two years, and he signed the settlement agreement. His home on the Bulb, pictured here, was demolished in March.' width=\"301\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Anderson, or “Boxing Bobby,” has lived at the Albany Bulb for about two years, and he signed the settlement agreement. His home on the Bulb, pictured here, was demolished in March. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristopher Sullivan signed the settlement and is currently carting his belongings to a friend’s house in Berkeley. He said he hopes to fix his bike with the money, and then head north to Portland or Seattle. He said he’s been living at the Bulb for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge said we have a 99 percent chance of losing, and the cops are going to come and force people out, and they’re going to start ticketing and start arresting,” Sullivan said. “Once you’re in jail they take all your stuff anyway. So it was either going to be that or nothing at all, and possibly some days in jail, and court costs, and community service, and it would end up costing me money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn’t sound like someone who had just won a fist-full of money. His voice had a defeated sadness, like he’d lost something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before, I always had the security of being able to keep my stuff somewhere, being able to go somewhere at night, somewhere I could cook dinner, a feeling of security,” Sullivan said. “Now that’s stripped away. It’s gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone signed the settlement agreement. Amber Whitson, who has lived at the Bulb for about eight years, says she and about seven other people plan to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest fight right now is trying to save the art,” she said, adding that she did not accept the $3,000 and refuses to sign anything keeping her away from the Bulb for a year. “Once the last people that live here are gone, the art is going to get torn down, the castle, the sculptures, all of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitson said the tent village supporters are hosting an art exhibition event on May 3 at the Bulb, starting at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the settlement agreement below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Albany Bulb - Cody et al. v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany spokeswoman Nicole Almaguer said the settlement is a positive step and shows the city and the people living on the Bulb are working collaboratively. In addition to the $84,000 settlement announced today, Albany contracted the nonprofit Berkeley Food and Housing Project for more than $60,000 to help the city’s homeless population find permanent housing — not an easy task in the Bay Area. The city then expanded its park transition plan to $500,000, which included funding for temporary shelter buildings near the Bulb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That transition plan spurred the lawsuit. More than half the people living on the Bulb said the city had failed to accommodate their disabilities and was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and threatening a violation of Fourth and 14th Amendment protections. But as the court battles dragged on, police issued more and more tickets for violating the waterfront park’s curfew, and the Bulb’s population dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about a year of outreach, Almaguer said 14 people from the Bulb, including one infant, had moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the housing outreach effectiveness is disputed by some of the Bulb residents, especially those with little or no documented income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almaguer said no one had relocated within Albany, which has no transitional housing or permanent emergency homeless shelter. Many people living on the Bulb consider themselves residents of the city, and some are even registered to vote there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133686\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6704_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0379_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-133686 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6704_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0379_web-426x640.jpg\" alt='Bob Anderson, or “Boxing Bobby,\" has lived at the Albany Bulb for about two years, and he signed the settlement agreement. His home on the Bulb, pictured here, was demolished in March.' width=\"301\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Anderson, or “Boxing Bobby,” has lived at the Albany Bulb for about two years, and he signed the settlement agreement. His home on the Bulb, pictured here, was demolished in March. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristopher Sullivan signed the settlement and is currently carting his belongings to a friend’s house in Berkeley. He said he hopes to fix his bike with the money, and then head north to Portland or Seattle. He said he’s been living at the Bulb for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge said we have a 99 percent chance of losing, and the cops are going to come and force people out, and they’re going to start ticketing and start arresting,” Sullivan said. “Once you’re in jail they take all your stuff anyway. So it was either going to be that or nothing at all, and possibly some days in jail, and court costs, and community service, and it would end up costing me money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn’t sound like someone who had just won a fist-full of money. His voice had a defeated sadness, like he’d lost something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before, I always had the security of being able to keep my stuff somewhere, being able to go somewhere at night, somewhere I could cook dinner, a feeling of security,” Sullivan said. “Now that’s stripped away. It’s gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone signed the settlement agreement. Amber Whitson, who has lived at the Bulb for about eight years, says she and about seven other people plan to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest fight right now is trying to save the art,” she said, adding that she did not accept the $3,000 and refuses to sign anything keeping her away from the Bulb for a year. “Once the last people that live here are gone, the art is going to get torn down, the castle, the sculptures, all of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitson said the tent village supporters are hosting an art exhibition event on May 3 at the Bulb, starting at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the settlement agreement below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Albany Bulb - Cody et al. v. City of Albany et al Final Settlement Agreement on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/219939859/Albany-Bulb-Cody-et-al-v-City-of-Albany-et-al-Final-Settlement-Agreement\">Albany Bulb – Cody et al. v. City of Albany et al Final Settlement Agreement\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Welts said Salesforce offered up the land near Third and 16th streets just last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a very intense six weeks, and we actually finally signed the purchase agreement just this last Saturday,\" Welts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous plan would have had to overcome a local ballot measure, Proposition B, that would limit the height of San Francisco waterfront developments. Campaign co-chair Jon Golinger said the Warriors knew that would be a tough fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Warriors saw the vote on 8 Washington last year, which was a resounding rejection of height limit increases for luxury condos. They saw how quickly we qualified this measure with overwhelming support,\" Golinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 6:40 p.m. April 21\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Edwin M. Lee today issued the following statement on the Warriors’ new arena in Mission Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome the Golden State Warriors back home to San Francisco with a brand-new, privately-financed arena in Mission Bay. This new site on privately-owned land in Mission Bay will provide a spectacular location and a more certain path to bring a transit-rich, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment arena to San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State Warriors today moved closer to a new arena in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/04/warriors_salesforce.php\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Warriors-ditch-Piers-30-32-for-Mission-Bay-arena-5418579.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> report the basketball team is abandoning controversial plans to build an arena on the Embarcadero at Piers 30-32 near the foot of the Bay Bridge, and instead inked a deal to purchase a 12-acre plot in Mission Bay from Salesforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new location eliminates the need for voter approval of stadium plans and avoids other regulatory obstacles. The deal, reportedly agreed upon Saturday night, would be the site of a new 18,000-seat venue ready for the 2018-2019 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem was the there was too much political opposition and too many environmental hurdles that they had to go over for the original site, even though the original site is more desirable,\" Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics at Smith College, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle reports that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Mission Bay site, where Salesforce originally planned to locate its corporate campus, will have a planned waterfront park across from the arena, has a Muni T-Third stop right in front of it, and already has two adjacent parking garages that can hold a combined 2,130 cars.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not only will the Warriors own the property outright, but owner Joe Lacob says the team will privately finance construction of the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It might be the first time that there’s been a clear entire private funding of not only construction but also the land,\" Zimbalist said. \"It looks like Mr. Lacob is going the extra mile to get this deal done. And perhaps breaking new ground in terms of private financing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Warriors' new neighbor, UC San Francisco, has any concerns, a $100 million donation to the university from Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff may have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salesforce had originally planned to use the site as the location for a new corporate campus, but abruptly changed course in February 2012. It recently agreed on a $560 million lease to occupy 30 floors as anchor tenant of the Transbay Tower, which is scheduled to open in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warriors will also have another close neighbor, AT&T Park. Both teams will have to find a way to manage crowds, especially when basketball and baseball seasons overlap. The Giants have also been eyeing a waterfront development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Giants have a proposal that they're working on to build a multi-use development with housing, retail and office space,\" said Wendy Thurm, a writer who covers sports and the business of sports and tweets \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">@hangingsliders\u003c/a>. \"Whether and how these two developments will coexist or benefit each other … remains to be seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warriors routinely sell out at their current home, Oracle Arena in Oakland. But Lacob has been interested in raising the team’s national profile by moving it to San Francisco since he became the majority owner in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Mayor Ed Lee's waterfront redevelopment plan are cheering the new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art Agnos, former San Francisco mayor and supporter of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nowallonthewaterfront.com/news\" target=\"_blank\">Yes on B\u003c/a>, which would limit the height of waterfront development, thinks that political pressure may have helped the Warriors reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what Proposition B is all about — empowering the people of this city to participate in the decisions that affect the waterfront that belongs to all of us. The Warriors have shifted to a smarter alternative because the people, not just the politicians, became involved in the process,\" Agnos said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In the other is a residential neighborhood. \u003ca href=\"http://www.uchsmotherbrowns.org/dining.room.html\" target=\"_blank\">The soup kitchen\u003c/a> began as a mobile feeding center 20 years ago, but now has a permanent site at 2111 Jennings Street, where more than 7,000 people get hot breakfasts and dinners each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, San Francisco is proposing building a 100-bed homeless shelter in a warehouse next to Mother Brown’s. The Planning Commission is considering the proposal because it requires a special use permit to convert the industrial warehouse into a shelter. They will vote in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”c646989731ddb860ef36136282a9520d”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, homeless people in the area would have a bed for 90 days before rotating out. Ultimately the goal is to get homeless people into supportive housing, but sometimes it can take people a little while to adjust to living indoors after a long time on the street. A bed is a good first step. People staying at the proposed shelter would also have access to meals and services like cheap laundry and employment counseling next door at Mother Brown’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to bring the services to where the individuals are, rather than forcing long-term Bayview residents who may be homeless to come to the central city for services,” said Trent Rhorer, executive director of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhsa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Services Agency\u003c/a>. His staff first applied for grant money to build the shelter in 2011 and has been working ever since to win over community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a tough sell. A vocal group of residents say that putting a homeless shelter in the Bayview follows a pattern of the city pushing problems from the center of the city out to its farther-flung neighborhoods. They say if Bayview was a wealthier neighborhood the city wouldn’t be trying to get away with something like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’m not opposed to these beds because a lot of the people who lived in this neighborhood cannot stay in this neighborhood.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Bayview has too often been a dumping ground for the city,” said Shane Mayer, who co-chairs the neighborhood group \u003ca href=\"http://www.britesf.org/BRITE/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment (BRITE)\u003c/a>. “Whether to be putting a waste facility out here, an electric plant out here, services for people who’ve been through the criminal justice system and now another homeless shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer’s group is trying hard to change the image of Bayview, which has long been associated with crime and poverty. They hold workdays to clean up public parks and are trying to lure new businesses to the area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we bring in something like a homeless shelter that doesn’t necessarily help us in that cause,” Mayer said. “It hurts it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10’s Supervisor, Malia Cohen, has thrown her support behind the opposition. She says the city didn’t get enough community input before siting the shelter. That’s a complaint of many residents as well. They say they knew nothing about the proposed shelter until it was up for a vote before the Board of Supervisors. Trent Rhorer admits that the city applied for the initial grant to support the shelter quickly because of a late deadline, but says the city has held several community meetings and public hearings since then. He also says he has personally communicated with many of those expressing concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the byproduct of all this is that we’re seeing really fierce, what I would call, nimbyism [Not In My Back Yard],” Rhorer said. “Folks simply don’t want a homeless shelter near where their places of business are. Well, the reality is there are homeless individuals in the Bayview and they are currently being served, I would argue, inadequately with a resource center and a temporary shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other members of the Bayview community view BRITE’s position on the homeless shelter as aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are just very mean people, who don’t really have a plan, but just don’t want to help other people get one up,” said Gwendolyn Westbrook, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uchsmotherbrowns.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Council for Human Services\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that runs Mother Brown’s Dining Room. “And that’s all it really boils down to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133133\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers serve breakfast to those in need at Mother Brown's Dining Room. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers serve breakfast to those in need at Mother Brown’s Dining Room. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many, but not all, of the homeless people that Westbrook serves each day grew up in the Bayview. The recent economic downturn hit this part of the city hard, and many people lost their homes. Westbrook and other members of the African-American community in the neighborhood see the homeless shelter as one of the last ways to fight gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re natives of this neighborhood,” said Marvin Robinson, owner of the Dollar and More on 3rd Street. “I’m not opposed to these beds because a lot of the people who lived in this neighborhood cannot stay in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Bayview business owner, Robinson wants to see a more vibrant neighborhood, just as much as BRITE. He \u003ca href=\"http://bayviewmagic.org/files/2010/02/History-of-BVHP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">remembers when 3rd Street was a bustling commercial corridor\u003c/a> with theaters, shops and restaurants. He’d like to see it bustle that way again, but he wants other long-term residents of Bayview who he grew up with to be part of that revitalization. He fears that without serious efforts by the city to provide housing to extremely low-income people, the historic African-American community in Bayview will be completely pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s black population was at its peak in the 1970s, but has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/21/at-usf-panelists-lament-the-state-of-black-san-francisco-full-audio/\" target=\"_blank\">slowly dwindling\u003c/a> since the Hunter’s Point shipyard closed. In 1990, African-Americans made up 10.5 percent of San Francisco’s population. Twenty years later the census puts that number below 6 percent today. The African-American population in the Bayview over the same time frame was cut in half and is now around 32.2 percent. Asians now hold a slight majority in the district with 32.6 percent of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know all these neighbors around here,” said Larry Williams, a client at Mother Brown’s Dining Room who has lived in the Bayview since 1967. “All the newer neighbors around here, they came up in here acting like they’re so community-minded, trying to push us out because they don’t want no shelters. But if you ain’t never been homeless, you ain’t got no business even speakin’ on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the homeless who visit Mother Brown’s for services sleep sitting upright in chairs in a room above the dining room. They complain of poor sleep and swollen ankles from being unable to recline. Bayview does have another homeless shelter run by \u003ca href=\"http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Providence_Church_Shelter\" target=\"_blank\">Providence Baptist Church\u003c/a>, but people can only come in after 10 p.m. and have to leave at 7 a.m. They sleep on mats on the ground and have to take their belongings with them during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\" target=\"_blank\">last count\u003c/a>, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in District 10, where Bayview is the largest neighborhood. They sleep on the street and in cars, in lieu of a permanent home. That’s the second-largest number concentration of homeless in the city, after the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the homeless aren’t respectful of neighbor’s property when they pass by on their way to Mother Brown’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ninety-five percent of the people who come to eat there are fantastic; they’re quiet, they’re respectful, they’re just neighbors, they’re just folks,” said Amy Clark, whose house sits kitty-corner to Mother Brown’s. “And then there’s some people who aren’t as good neighbors. There’s a lot of noise. There’s domestic violence. There’s screaming. There’s being woken up late at night and early in the morning. There’s people urinating and defecating on our property. There’s extra trash. I’ve had to kick drunk people off of my step. 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They say if Bayview was a wealthier neighborhood the city wouldn’t be trying to get away with something like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I’m not opposed to these beds because a lot of the people who lived in this neighborhood cannot stay in this neighborhood.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Bayview has too often been a dumping ground for the city,” said Shane Mayer, who co-chairs the neighborhood group \u003ca href=\"http://www.britesf.org/BRITE/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bayview Residents Improving Their Environment (BRITE)\u003c/a>. “Whether to be putting a waste facility out here, an electric plant out here, services for people who’ve been through the criminal justice system and now another homeless shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer’s group is trying hard to change the image of Bayview, which has long been associated with crime and poverty. They hold workdays to clean up public parks and are trying to lure new businesses to the area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we bring in something like a homeless shelter that doesn’t necessarily help us in that cause,” Mayer said. “It hurts it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 10’s Supervisor, Malia Cohen, has thrown her support behind the opposition. She says the city didn’t get enough community input before siting the shelter. That’s a complaint of many residents as well. They say they knew nothing about the proposed shelter until it was up for a vote before the Board of Supervisors. Trent Rhorer admits that the city applied for the initial grant to support the shelter quickly because of a late deadline, but says the city has held several community meetings and public hearings since then. He also says he has personally communicated with many of those expressing concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the byproduct of all this is that we’re seeing really fierce, what I would call, nimbyism [Not In My Back Yard],” Rhorer said. “Folks simply don’t want a homeless shelter near where their places of business are. Well, the reality is there are homeless individuals in the Bayview and they are currently being served, I would argue, inadequately with a resource center and a temporary shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other members of the Bayview community view BRITE’s position on the homeless shelter as aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are just very mean people, who don’t really have a plan, but just don’t want to help other people get one up,” said Gwendolyn Westbrook, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uchsmotherbrowns.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Council for Human Services\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that runs Mother Brown’s Dining Room. “And that’s all it really boils down to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133133\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9594_IMG_2441-copy-hpf-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers serve breakfast to those in need at Mother Brown's Dining Room. 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He \u003ca href=\"http://bayviewmagic.org/files/2010/02/History-of-BVHP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">remembers when 3rd Street was a bustling commercial corridor\u003c/a> with theaters, shops and restaurants. He’d like to see it bustle that way again, but he wants other long-term residents of Bayview who he grew up with to be part of that revitalization. He fears that without serious efforts by the city to provide housing to extremely low-income people, the historic African-American community in Bayview will be completely pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s black population was at its peak in the 1970s, but has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/21/at-usf-panelists-lament-the-state-of-black-san-francisco-full-audio/\" target=\"_blank\">slowly dwindling\u003c/a> since the Hunter’s Point shipyard closed. In 1990, African-Americans made up 10.5 percent of San Francisco’s population. Twenty years later the census puts that number below 6 percent today. The African-American population in the Bayview over the same time frame was cut in half and is now around 32.2 percent. Asians now hold a slight majority in the district with 32.6 percent of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know all these neighbors around here,” said Larry Williams, a client at Mother Brown’s Dining Room who has lived in the Bayview since 1967. “All the newer neighbors around here, they came up in here acting like they’re so community-minded, trying to push us out because they don’t want no shelters. But if you ain’t never been homeless, you ain’t got no business even speakin’ on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the homeless who visit Mother Brown’s for services sleep sitting upright in chairs in a room above the dining room. They complain of poor sleep and swollen ankles from being unable to recline. Bayview does have another homeless shelter run by \u003ca href=\"http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Providence_Church_Shelter\" target=\"_blank\">Providence Baptist Church\u003c/a>, but people can only come in after 10 p.m. and have to leave at 7 a.m. They sleep on mats on the ground and have to take their belongings with them during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\" target=\"_blank\">last count\u003c/a>, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in District 10, where Bayview is the largest neighborhood. They sleep on the street and in cars, in lieu of a permanent home. 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(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>[ad fullwidth]\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",
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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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