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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents' attorney Richard Drury told the board there should be an environmental review first. \"You don't approve a project and then find out what are the impacts by measuring air quality, pedestrian safety risks, after the buses are already out of the gate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents are considering filing a lawsuit over the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short -- yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>--Bryan Goebel and Jon Brooks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (Bay City News and KQED) -- Google \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">played a lot of April Fools' Day jokes today\u003c/a>, but this wasn't one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhz53rWXU\" target=\"_blank\">stilts\u003c/a>, handed out fake \"Gmuni\" passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District this morning. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10007012\" target=\"_blank\">Video from KPIX here\u003c/a>.) The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly unaffordable San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing this afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they were called around 9 a.m. as a group of 20 to 30 people blocked a private shuttle bus at 24th and Valencia streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers told the group to disperse and the bus, apparently transporting Google workers, was able to move around 9:15 a.m., police said. No one was arrested or injured during the brief protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the City Collective\u003c/a>, which has been staging protests at tech commuter bus stops throughout the city since December 2013, said on its website that it organized today's action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131211\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus11-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the protesters' website, the group wrote, \"Let's take back the city!\" and included a list of demands, including the halting of private shuttles from public bus zone use and making Muni free for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called for \"tech companies (to) pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure\" and to fund affordable housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent phone poll by the Bay Area Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/poll-finds-support-for-sfs-commuter-shuttles-and-their-regulation/\" target=\"_blank\"> showed wide support for the buses\u003c/a> in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/how-do-san-franciscans-really-feel-about-google-buses\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/25/poll-says-sf-loves-tech-buses-doesnt-ask-spanish-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> this week questioned the objectivity and accuracy of the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing today on an appeal of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency pilot program concerning the shuttle buses, slated to start July 1. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's board meeting live\u003c/a> at 2 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program would charge private shuttles $1 per stop to use designated Muni stops. Some opponents have called that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1476478739231261/?ref=22\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway\u003c/a> to rich tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents appealed the planning process after the SFMTA board of directors approved the program in January with a California Environmental Quality Act exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"gbus3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appellants, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, affordable housing advocates and other community activists, are calling for an environmental review to study the impact of the new shuttle program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts the appeal, the start of the program would be delayed to include a more thorough CEQA review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning's protesters said in a statement that SFMTA and the city government \"will decide if these corporations can continue to use public bus zones for a mere $1 per stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meanwhile, underfunded Muni is considering a fare hike. Why fund Muni on the backs of poor and working class people while rich corporations use public infrastructure for pennies?\" the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/46526362@N00/8378723325/in/photolist-dLp9wZ-8qZsMQ-h32Exn-gcsqoY-gcsLCH-gcsMQn-8yRirG-8yNaVe-8yNc1H-8yNcsv-8yNfHi-8yNb6M-8yNbga-8yRf5E-8yNcZ2-8yRhBA-gLbWsN-b16nsT-jfWP5F-hmK63K-hwPhLC-ePdTEo-fbnqVw-e23G2z-e2aaZE-a88s6M-fb8JBt-fbnYxw-fbnZbG-fbnYMo-fboch5-fbnZoQ-fbnZMC-fb8HZM-9SADu5-fb9tPF-fb9tmi-fboJau-fb9ssZ-fb9sE8-fb9ty8-fb9sdx-hkZtBJ-dhxxxi-dhxxue-9x5UBm-dhxxFg-dNfgrw-dNfgLd-dNfgXU-eP2x5c\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-123982\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/airbnbsf-e1396370252786.jpg\" alt=\"An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. Photo: Effie Yang/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. 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The company is also in negotiations over collecting taxes with New York state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"b9b5cbb763e6203dc841ab0d7e5388d7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have repeatedly said that we believe our community in San Francisco should pay its fair share of taxes,\" David Hantman, the company's head of global public policy, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://publicpolicy.airbnb.com/san-francisco-taxes-airbnb-community/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a>. The move could potentially add millions to San Francisco coffers and help Airbnb avoid conflict with regulators — especially if the company seeks to go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been criticized by city officials, landlords and hotels, who say it ignores local regulations, including the hotel tax and a ban on renting residential spaces for less than 30 days. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Airbnb-other-sites-owe-city-hotel-tax-S-F-says-3457290.php\">San Francisco's treasurer ruled\u003c/a> in 2012 that the online home rental services like Airbnb are subject to the tax. At the time, the company strongly resisted. \"Laws (like San Francisco’s hotel tax) were written long before the Internet or any of these activities were conceived,\" an Airbnb spokesperson said after that ruling. \"Innovative new models that allow San Franciscans to generate additional income should be addressed by innovative laws and policies -- not stifled by 40-year-old regulations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marina Franco, an attorney at a law firm that represents property owners, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Airbnb-to-collect-hotel-taxes-for-San-Francisco-5365352.php%22%20target=%22_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that the tax alone would not satisfy landlords. \"Our concerns are the liabilities of having strangers in our buildings, the fact that (tenants) are renting rooms for more than landlords are entitled to charge and that they don't have conditional use permits to run hotels,\" Franco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle said that an Airbnb host who was briefed on the plan said the company plans to keep hosts anonymous when it remits the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Airbnb-sublets-in-S-F-land-some-renters-in-the-5326019.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco landlords have been trying to evict tenants who use their rentals to host Airbnb guests\u003c/a>. \"Landlords are pissed off that tenants are profiting off their properties,\" Delene Wolf, executive director of the San Francisco Rent Board, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Airbnb-sublets-in-S-F-land-some-renters-in-the-5326019.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> in March. \"It makes them crazy: They're rent controlled, and the tenant is making more off their property than they can make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu is working on legislation that would establish a framework for the company's operations. \"Now that they are doing the right thing and remitting taxes, I'm looking forward to moving forward on legislation to regulate shareable housing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with those other fast-growing stalwarts of the \"sharing economy,\" the ride-service firms UberX and Lyft, Airbnb has caused all manner of consternation in the well-regulated business that preceded it. Across the country, local taxi companies have adamantly opposed the ride services; and the \"hospitality industry\" has likewise gone to war with Airbnb. In New York City, the hotel industry has been especially critical of the company. Airbnb said recently it's in \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303779504579465532885246114?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303779504579465532885246114.html\" target=\"_blank\">discussion with New York state\u003c/a> over a subpoena of information on 15,000 Airbnb hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky wrote, in a \u003ca href=\"http://blog.airbnb.com/who-we-are/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a> on the New York battle, that he believed hosts should pay tax. \"Our hosts are not hotels,\" he wrote, \"but we believe that it makes sense for our community to pay occupancy tax, with limited exemptions for those who earn under certain thresholds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco agreement comes on the heels of a recently launched Airbnb initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/life-learning/db9746750a3a\" target=\"_blank\">Shared City\u003c/a>, intended to \"help civic leaders and our community create more shareable, more livable cities through relevant, concrete actions and partnerships.\" \u003ca href=\"http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/26/airbnb-shared-city/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune\u003c/a> described the plan as \"somewhere between \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=jane+jacob\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Jacobs\u003c/a> meets \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Florida\u003c/a> with a 2014, shareable-economy twist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303802104579451022670668410\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal reported\u003c/a> last month reported that Airbnb is \"close to becoming one of the world's most valuable startups\" after engaging in \"advanced talks\" for another round of financing worth $400-$500 million. 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"content": "\u003cp>To afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, you need to earn $29.83 an hour, or $62,046 annually, according to a new \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>out this month from the \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>. Add a second bedroom and your household hourly wage needs to hit $37.62 ($78,249 annually), the highest for any metro region in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things don’t get better in other parts of the Bay Area: San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin join San Francisco atop the charts as four of the six most expensive counties in America. Oakland-Fremont, Santa Cruz-Watsonville and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara join San Francisco in the top 10 most expensive metro regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130734 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/most-expensive-jurisdictions-640x226.jpg\" alt=\"Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"226\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This report also contains dismal news for minimum-wage workers in California. Those earning the state minimum wage of $8 an hour would need to work 130 hours a week (there are 168 hours in a week total) to afford a market-rate two-bedroom in California based on the statewide real estate average. Though the minimum wage is higher in many California cities, including San Francisco and San Jose, there is still a wide gap between what minimum-wage workers earn and what they need for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign to raise the state minimum wage to $12 an hour \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/17/ron-unz-minimum-wage-measure-unlikely-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">failed to gather enough financial support\u003c/a> to get on this year’s ballot. KQED’s Do Now project recently asked people across the country \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2014/03/22/minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">how much they think minimum wage should be. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 628px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/local-min-wage-rates.jpg\" alt=\"Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"628\" height=\"340\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you look at what people in the Bay Area are actually earning, the picture is a\u003cem> bit\u003c/em> less grim. The average renter in San Francisco, for example, earned $31.45 an hour – well above the $10.74 minimum wage. At that rate, it would take 1.2 full-time jobs to afford a two-bedroom in the city. Factor in a roommate or partner to split the rent with, and things look a bit more manageable – at least for those at or above the average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Jose metro region, the average renter is even better off, earning $32.99 an hour, but only $31.71 is needed for a market-rate two-bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, if all of these wage levels seem out of reach, we’ll leave you with a glimpse of all the cheaper places you could live. Hint: Can anybody give us a ride to Idaho?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-27-at-11.00.00-AM-640x516.png\" alt=\"A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/99278508@N00/2131642205/in/photolist-4fndXP-4jTdrv-4HbpG8-4HbpSK-4KoyW6-5av5je-6i2wbL-78JYXx-7jSRgn-7xqqqa-7xqtzR-7xqvGT-7xqHhK-7xqNop-7xqNGK-7xraQH-7xrcNt-7xuCTU-7xuY5j-7xv1Pu-7xvn55-7xvuUG-kY9yti-9HjRYz-9mA9Bp-awUjwp-dYdFzb-aEgHnF-8srUJT-9xXeHU-8ugbDu-9rjSq7-8ugbG1-frDxSB-8vs62d-8vp2oR-8vs5Xj-8vs61E-8vp2tB-8vp2qx-8vp2rZ-8vp2re-8vp2zT-8vp2vi-8vs677-8vp2w6-8vs65u-8vs63j-8vs69A-8vs67C-8vs6au\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130404\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/2131642205_17df736ffa_z.jpg\" alt=\"In-law units are common throughout San Francisco. Photo: Jon Starbuck/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In-law units are common throughout San Francisco. Photo: Jon Starbuck/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors have begun considering a proposal that would allow landlords to voluntarily legalize in-law units, or secondary apartments, that make up a shadow housing market where some of the city’s most vulnerable tenants live, sometimes in substandard conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure by Supervisor David Chiu is an effort to preserve one of the city’s largest stocks of affordable housing. City officials estimate there are up to 40,000 in-laws, often in the garages or basements of single-family homes, which make up about 10 percent of the housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public hearing on the proposal Monday before the supervisors’ Land Use and Economic Committee was dominated by questions about how it would affect property owners, who would pay for potentially expensive upgrades to bring the units up to code, and complaints from residents in the city’s western neighborhoods who fear increased density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/16/120916/in-law-units-San-Francisco\">we reported in December\u003c/a>, low-income families and seniors, including many recent immigrants, are often in-law tenants. Some don’t have signed leases and can be kicked out without any repercussions for landlords, who can easily put units back on the market and raise the rent. Some units lack basics, such as kitchens and stoves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, according to Chiu, could bring thousands of illegal units up to code, protect tenants and “help homeowners make a long-term investment in affordable housing.” Landlords would be allowed to legalize one unit per lot, which would be rent controlled. It would prohibit them from legalizing if they have issued a no-fault eviction within 10 years. After a unit is upgraded, a property owner would be prohibited from converting it into a condo for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, some property owners testified that landlords shouldn’t have to shoulder the entire costs of bringing a unit up to code. Under the legislation, those costs could not be passed on to tenants, whom Chiu said are often struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some homeowners are elderly and “really depend on the rent from the tenants, who tend to be younger and better employed, to keep up the property,” real estate agent Dena Aslanian-Williams testified. “Not letting that homeowner pass on the cost of legalizing that unit is punitive and it’s actually regressive politics because it’s punishing the elderly homeowner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu countered that sort of landlord is exactly the kind of homeowner the legislation is meant to target.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure, according to Chiu, could bring thousands of illegal units up to code, protect tenants and “help homeowners make a long-term investment in affordable housing.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If DBI (Department of Building Inspection) were to send out an inspector, they could shut that down and that elderly homeowner wouldn’t have access to that rent income,” said Chiu. “I’m trying to help protect the status of the tenant to live there, but also the ability for that elderly homeowner to have a legal stream of rental income so they can live in your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the measure had been carefully crafted after more than a year of input from tenants rights groups, property owners, neighborhood groups and others. It passed the San Francisco Planning Commission on a 6-1 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, San Francisco officials have tried but failed to pass legislation addressing in-law units, but with the city’s worsening economic inequality and housing displacement, Chiu argues the time is right to finally tackle the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really tried to strike a balance here by making this voluntary. We’re allowing owners that have the ability to make the life safety changes that they need to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some homeowners who live in the city’s more suburban neighborhoods were worried the measure would change zoning codes, allowing more density in areas with mostly single-family homes. They also complained the measure would not allow a homeowner to convert back to a single-family home after an in-law is legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you prevent the proliferation of rental units in our neighborhoods, cherished for friendly family dwellings and the safe community it fosters from known neighbors, who have a stake in the property as well as respect for the values of the district?” said resident George Wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu has stressed the legislation covers only existing units. “The unit must have been built prior to this year, so we do not encourage homeowners to add more units without going through the required planning and building process,” Chiu wrote in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fighting-to-preserve-affordable-housing-in-san-francisco/Content?oid=2680212\">a San Francisco Examiner op-ed\u003c/a> earlier this year. “The legalization program includes a pre-screening phase to allow a homeowner to gather information about the legalization process without fear of automatic enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Supervisor Jane Kim agreed the legislation is important, she was concerned about how many landlords would actually take advantage of the program. She questioned what incentive there would be for homeowners to legalize. “It’s unclear to me what impact this legislation is going to have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to take care of a good percentage of secondary units that really need very minimal changes done in order to be legalized,” Omar Calimbas of the Asian Law Caucus responded. His organization was part of a working group that helped fashion the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the program would be reevaluated every six months, and suggested that in a few years officials could consider whether the city or other lenders might help homeowners pay for the costs of upgrading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Colen, executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said the problem has persisted for far too long and urged supervisors to pass the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe it only has a modest effect, and there’s not going to be a flood of people running to the front to have them legalized, but from the city’s perspective, I don’t understand what interest is served by keeping something illegal and having a rule that’s widely flouted or ignored, ” Colen said. “I think this is a very sensible step forward in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless there are complaints, city building inspectors don’t go after illegal units. 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Under the legislation, those costs could not be passed on to tenants, whom Chiu said are often struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some homeowners are elderly and “really depend on the rent from the tenants, who tend to be younger and better employed, to keep up the property,” real estate agent Dena Aslanian-Williams testified. “Not letting that homeowner pass on the cost of legalizing that unit is punitive and it’s actually regressive politics because it’s punishing the elderly homeowner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu countered that sort of landlord is exactly the kind of homeowner the legislation is meant to target.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure, according to Chiu, could bring thousands of illegal units up to code, protect tenants and “help homeowners make a long-term investment in affordable housing.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If DBI (Department of Building Inspection) were to send out an inspector, they could shut that down and that elderly homeowner wouldn’t have access to that rent income,” said Chiu. “I’m trying to help protect the status of the tenant to live there, but also the ability for that elderly homeowner to have a legal stream of rental income so they can live in your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the measure had been carefully crafted after more than a year of input from tenants rights groups, property owners, neighborhood groups and others. 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Unable to perceive glass and enticed by plants and food inside buildings, birds often fly headfirst into windows and die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This issue is being addressed by some of the largest tech companies, many of which line the bay’s sloughs and marshes. Companies such as Intuit, Facebook, Apple and Google have been working and talking with local Audubon societies and other environmental organizations to come up with building and landscape plans that are not only aimed at preventing bird deaths but also providing habitat with landscaping and green roofs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Bird Conservancy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/collisions/\">hundreds of millions\u003c/a> of birds die in North America in collisions with man-made structures, mostly plate-glass-covered office buildings. Recent studies have shown that these deaths from window crashes may account for 1 to 5 percent of all bird deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers don’t include other urban threats to birds, including air pollution, habitat loss, artificial lights (which confuse birds), traffic and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no doubt that birds colliding with buildings is a concern,” said Alicia King, a spokeswoman for U.S. Fish and Wildlife. “In urban areas, it’s an issue, especially ones considered flyways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Going to the Birds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 400 bird species can be found at times in the Bay Area, which falls along the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Flyway\">Pacific Flyway\u003c/a>, a migratory path for birds stretching from Alaska to Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, a few Bay Area cities have implemented bird-friendly building policies. San Francisco started strict regulations in 2011, followed by Oakland last year and Sunnyvale this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The focus on birds is part of a shift within the sustainability movement, which emphasizes revamping consumption and energy to include nature – something Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scvas.org/index.php\">Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/a>, hopes will catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An emphasis on birds would really bring back a lot of other elements of natural ecosystems, like the plants that the birds like,” she said. “If you have birds, you have a really healthy ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Birds eat insects, help pollinate plants and disperse seeds in a mutualistic relationship. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, birds are a bellwether of environmental health — for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. There is bird nest monitoring for egrets at Google in Mountain View, for example, and one for bluebirds at Intuit, as well as full-grown trees and a living roof at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social network giant, which implemented many of San Francisco’s standards for bird-safe buildings, plans to minimize light pollution and turn off unnecessary lighting at night during spring and fall migrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook has a commitment to protecting the environment, which is particularly important since the campus is situated adjacent to protected marshland,” said John Tenanes, Facebook’s director of real estate. “Our employees also enjoy spending time outdoors. When we were planning our new building and grounds, we wanted the new facility to fit these values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, which has headquarters in Menlo Park, wants its new campuses to have an innovative workspace design that inspires creativity in its products, Tenanes said. The idea is that hard-working employees won’t have to go away to get away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple is proud of its new headquarters design, a futuristic doughnut surrounded by a man-made forest, and reached out to environmental groups with concerns on its heavy glass usage. The serene environment in Cupertino is meant to reflect Apple’s principles of “innovation, ease of use and beauty,” Apple said in a project description filed for approval by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birds and Corporate Values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By integrating nature within their Silicon Valley campuses, the companies are also creating brick-and-mortar monuments that represent what they say are their company values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t call it restoration because it really is a different creation,” Kleinhaus said. “It’s ‘how do we bring nature into our campuses to create a more harmonious campus?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuit has this core value of owning your responsibilities,” said Michael Gulasch, real estate director of Intuit, based in Mountain View. “We are part of this community, we need to be good citizens, it’s our responsibility to own the habitat concerns and wildlife concerns because we (abut) right adjacent to the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bird element is a natural extension of Intuit’s ideas about sustainability and community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, you might ask, what about that well-known local tech company that has a bird as its icon? 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San Francisco started strict regulations in 2011, followed by Oakland last year and Sunnyvale this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The focus on birds is part of a shift within the sustainability movement, which emphasizes revamping consumption and energy to include nature – something Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scvas.org/index.php\">Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/a>, hopes will catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An emphasis on birds would really bring back a lot of other elements of natural ecosystems, like the plants that the birds like,” she said. “If you have birds, you have a really healthy ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Birds eat insects, help pollinate plants and disperse seeds in a mutualistic relationship. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, birds are a bellwether of environmental health — for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. There is bird nest monitoring for egrets at Google in Mountain View, for example, and one for bluebirds at Intuit, as well as full-grown trees and a living roof at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social network giant, which implemented many of San Francisco’s standards for bird-safe buildings, plans to minimize light pollution and turn off unnecessary lighting at night during spring and fall migrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook has a commitment to protecting the environment, which is particularly important since the campus is situated adjacent to protected marshland,” said John Tenanes, Facebook’s director of real estate. “Our employees also enjoy spending time outdoors. When we were planning our new building and grounds, we wanted the new facility to fit these values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, which has headquarters in Menlo Park, wants its new campuses to have an innovative workspace design that inspires creativity in its products, Tenanes said. The idea is that hard-working employees won’t have to go away to get away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple is proud of its new headquarters design, a futuristic doughnut surrounded by a man-made forest, and reached out to environmental groups with concerns on its heavy glass usage. The serene environment in Cupertino is meant to reflect Apple’s principles of “innovation, ease of use and beauty,” Apple said in a project description filed for approval by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birds and Corporate Values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By integrating nature within their Silicon Valley campuses, the companies are also creating brick-and-mortar monuments that represent what they say are their company values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t call it restoration because it really is a different creation,” Kleinhaus said. “It’s ‘how do we bring nature into our campuses to create a more harmonious campus?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuit has this core value of owning your responsibilities,” said Michael Gulasch, real estate director of Intuit, based in Mountain View. “We are part of this community, we need to be good citizens, it’s our responsibility to own the habitat concerns and wildlife concerns because we (abut) right adjacent to the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bird element is a natural extension of Intuit’s ideas about sustainability and community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, you might ask, what about that well-known local tech company that has a bird as its icon? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Noah Arroyo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-03/mission-accomplished-currently-planned-housing-already-meets-sf-mayors-ambitious-6-year-goal\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/peek-a-boo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129473\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/peek-a-boo.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Quick, an author and screenwriter who purchased his condo in the Bayview 15 years ago, said he looks forward to the changes as thousands of new homes rise in his neighborhood. (Teresa Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Quick, an author and screenwriter who purchased his condo in the Bayview 15 years ago, said he looks forward to the changes as thousands of new homes rise in his neighborhood. (Teresa Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s goal of adding 30,000 units to the housing market by 2020 may not be as “ambitious” or “aggressive” as he claims. Records show that the city could hit that goal just with existing development projects and those currently under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An assessment by the mayor’s office shows that at least 27,000 housing units are already in the pipeline for construction. In combination with the planned refurbishing of 4,000 homes, projects now in the planning process would more than meet the mayor’s goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current overheated real estate market, developers will continue to build as long as the local economy remains strong. They are likely to use all the permits they can in a race to cash in on skyrocketing rents. In which case Lee might be able to sit back and watch the housing roll in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Dennis-Phillips, a planner and program manager at the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, characterized Lee’s goal as “ambitious yet realistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By design, it is based on projects that have a very real possibility of moving forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s quarterly \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=9245\" target=\"_blank\">Development Pipeline report\u003c/a>, which tracks housing projects on their way to completion, predicts that the housing construction rebound will last for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planners say increasing density in the Bay Area’s urban hubs will help keep housing affordable and prevent uncontrolled suburban sprawl. The Association of Bay Area Governments recommends San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/pdf/final_supplemental_reports/Final_Bay_Area_2014-2022_RHNA_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">build at least 28,800 housing units by 2022\u003c/a>, which Lee’s goal would exceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his January \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=983\" target=\"_blank\">State of the City address\u003c/a>, Lee said that builders needed to quicken the pace to keep up with demand. Adding supply overall, he said, would bring down housing costs across the price spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the speech, Lee’s staff did some quick math, counting up the apartments included in housing projects now on the books citywide. They “assumed” that between 27,094 and 28,494 housing units would be built by 2020. In response to a public records request by the Public Press, the mayor’s office shared these estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,920 housing units now under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,574 units for which permits are filed or granted, but not yet under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2,500 units in the Hunters Point Shipyard housing project’s first phase.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>3,100–4,500 units in other large projects, including Parkmerced, the old Schlage Lock site in Visitacion Valley, Pier 70 and Mission Rock near Pier 48.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Housing construction cannot happen overnight. Indeed, many of these have been on the drawing board for years. So Lee cannot precisely claim credit for all of them, since many of the permit applications were filed long before he became mayor, in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sources would likely put San Francisco’s housing production over the top of the 30,000 goal. City staff estimated that up to 4,000 units of “rehabilitated” public housing could be built by 2020, and that additional units not now in the pipeline could be completed. And city staff did even not factor in contributions from the massive development planned at Treasure Island, which would add roughly 2,900 units by the 2020 deadline, said Robert Beck, the project’s development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city may also have lowballed its estimate for the Hunters Point Shipyard. The developer there said it would produce 3,400 new homes by 2019, or almost 1,000 units more than the city predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020. That is more than three times the annual average over the last two decades, said John Rahaim, the city’s planning director. The closest the city came to that level of production was in \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/O3RpuD\" target=\"_blank\">2009, when it built 3,454 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s goal is “very doable,” Rahaim said. He based his assessment on the large number of active projects citywide where developers have filed or received building permit applications or begun construction. The Development Pipeline lists 857 housing projects. If all of them get built, they would create more than 50,000 units of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hurdles ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, having permits or construction plans is not the same as producing finished housing. Major projects will contribute large numbers of residential units in the long term, making them central to the city’s housing goals, said Olson Lee, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing. But these will take years, and in some cases decades to complete, due in part to financial, legal and regulatory obstacles. The Hunters Point project is the only large development that has broken ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction at Parkmerced, in the city’s southwest corner, has been held up in litigation over its environmental impact report. Stuart Flashman, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the Parkmerced Action Coalition, said it could take years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasure Island development can progress only as quickly as the U.S. Navy remediates toxic soil — necessarily a slow and deliberate process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission Rock and Schlage Lock projects are in the design phase, awaiting city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing planner Dennis-Phillips said the city has approved only about half of the 30,000 units, and these projects must still overcome “permitting, constructability, financing or market challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing task force established by the mayor in December will attempt to streamline the construction entitlement process. Lee has charged the panel with recommending these changes by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A number of process, policy and funding improvements are necessary to make sure these units go from an idea on paper to actual homes that can meet the needs of San Franciscans,” Dennis-Phillips said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But City Hall cannot control all the forces that converged to create the economic boom and resulting housing crisis. As the 2008 recession made clear, housing in San Francisco will continue to rise only as long as local developers see the payoff in rapid construction to meet the demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The building will occur if the economy remains strong,” Olson Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>, a News Associate of KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So Lee cannot precisely claim credit for all of them, since many of the permit applications were filed long before he became mayor, in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sources would likely put San Francisco’s housing production over the top of the 30,000 goal. City staff estimated that up to 4,000 units of “rehabilitated” public housing could be built by 2020, and that additional units not now in the pipeline could be completed. And city staff did even not factor in contributions from the massive development planned at Treasure Island, which would add roughly 2,900 units by the 2020 deadline, said Robert Beck, the project’s development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city may also have lowballed its estimate for the Hunters Point Shipyard. 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"disqusTitle": "Photo Essay: Seniors Fight Eviction From Affordable San Jose Homes",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4298-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4298-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"David Tripp and his neighbors printed signs to protest the closure of the Winchester Ranch mobile home park (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Tripp and his neighbors printed signs to protest the closure of Winchester Ranch mobile home park. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When David Tripp moved to the Winchester Ranch mobile home community in the mid-1970s, it was only dirt. In the decades that followed, he watched it develop into one of San Jose's most popular senior communities, with lush gardens, manicured yards and rows of small, colorful homes. But now Tripp and Winchester Ranch's other 145 residents are fighting to stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West San Jose has become one of the city's hottest real estate markets, and rising property values have developers eyeing Winchester Ranch. \"What you see in the area there is just an increase in property values,\" said City Councilman Pete Constant. \"That creates an environment where you have a piece of land that has appreciated at a far higher rate than any other mobile home park in the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141754655&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowner, Cali-Arioto Properties, revealed last year that it wants to sell the land to developer Pulte Homes. Residents of the park don't want to leave, but they might not have a choice. Even though they own their homes, Winchester Ranch residents rent the land on which they stand. That puts them in a vulnerable position, but they haven't given up hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4576-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4576-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Winchester Ranch is no trailer park, said Phyllis Tripp. "They're very different. If you went from one to the other, they would look completely different inside." (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winchester Ranch is no trailer park, said Phyllis Tripp. \"They're very different. If you went from one to the other, they would look completely different inside.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose contains almost 60 mobile home communities, and the city has a mobile-home-park conversion ordinance on the books that governs how landowners can close and redevelop them. The ordinance has never been used, but it requires landowners to compensate residents if they close the park. The owners would also have to provide relocation and rental assistance to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Winchester Ranch residents learned about Cali-Arioto's plan to sell, they formed a homeowners association in hopes of buying the property themselves. That, too, is covered by the ordinance: The law says that residents must be given an opportunity to make an offer on the property and negotiate with the owner. But Cali-Arioto will not be required to sell the property to the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Zahradka, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lawfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Law Foundation of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a community legal services agency, notes that more than 185 mobile home parks across California have converted to residential ownership in the past 40 years. But he acknowledges none of them was located a stone's throw from one of the state's hottest retail markets and that Winchester Ranch residents probably won't be able to match Pulte's offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540-640x426.jpg\" alt='\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)' width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margaret Ecker Nanda, an attorney representing Cali-Arioto, said she sympathizes with the residents and that they will be adequately compensated for being relocated. \"I totally understand the reluctance and frustration of people that they have to move. But the ordinance provides protections for the residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if residents are compensated for their homes, shutting down Winchester Ranch could have lasting impacts. \"This type of housing is one of the only non-subsidized forms of affordable housing that's out there, particularly where the residents have an ownership interest of any kind,\" the Law Foundation's Zahradka says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that there are intangible costs associated with evicting more than 100 seniors from their homes. \"I don't know if you can value reputational risk, but if I’m Pulte Homes, I don't know if I want to be seen as a company that's relocating hundreds of seniors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Cali, co-founder and resident of Winchester Ranch, stands on the lift at the entrance of her home. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Cali, co-founder and resident of Winchester Ranch, stands on the lift at the entrance of her home. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For his part, Constant sounds pretty certain that Winchester Ranch will be sold. The city can't do anything about that, but it does have a say on whether the property is rezoned for a higher-density development. \"(The residents) have been begging me to stop the sale,\" said Constant. \"But legally and morally, that's not the city's role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowner hasn't filed a development application with the city yet, and for now residents and city officials are waiting to see what happens next. \"San Jose has a lot of mobile homes, so we're not only being vigilant about this park, but it may have implications for other mobile home parks,\" said Laurel Prevetti, the city's assistant director of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what makes Winchester Ranch so appealing to seniors is that residents are able to modify their homes for special needs. David Tripp, like several of his neighbors, is disabled. He suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, and he's in remission from lupus, leukemia, fibromyalgia and neuropathy. He isn't very steady on his feet, and after falling down several times, he and his wife decided to modify the front steps to to their home last year. Finding comparable replacement housing in the area will be a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the grace of God, we're not going to end up in the poorhouse, but we're not going to have anything near as nice as this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128457\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4362-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128457\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4362-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\""I own this house and rent the space," said David Tripp. "It's way less than it would be to live someplace else, and do you see what I have here?" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Winchester Ranch residents learned about Cali-Arioto's plan to sell, they formed a homeowners association in hopes of buying the property themselves. That, too, is covered by the ordinance: The law says that residents must be given an opportunity to make an offer on the property and negotiate with the owner. But Cali-Arioto will not be required to sell the property to the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Zahradka, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lawfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Law Foundation of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a community legal services agency, notes that more than 185 mobile home parks across California have converted to residential ownership in the past 40 years. But he acknowledges none of them was located a stone's throw from one of the state's hottest retail markets and that Winchester Ranch residents probably won't be able to match Pulte's offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540-640x426.jpg\" alt='\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)' width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margaret Ecker Nanda, an attorney representing Cali-Arioto, said she sympathizes with the residents and that they will be adequately compensated for being relocated. \"I totally understand the reluctance and frustration of people that they have to move. But the ordinance provides protections for the residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if residents are compensated for their homes, shutting down Winchester Ranch could have lasting impacts. \"This type of housing is one of the only non-subsidized forms of affordable housing that's out there, particularly where the residents have an ownership interest of any kind,\" the Law Foundation's Zahradka says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that there are intangible costs associated with evicting more than 100 seniors from their homes. \"I don't know if you can value reputational risk, but if I’m Pulte Homes, I don't know if I want to be seen as a company that's relocating hundreds of seniors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Cali, co-founder and resident of Winchester Ranch, stands on the lift at the entrance of her home. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Cali, co-founder and resident of Winchester Ranch, stands on the lift at the entrance of her home. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For his part, Constant sounds pretty certain that Winchester Ranch will be sold. The city can't do anything about that, but it does have a say on whether the property is rezoned for a higher-density development. \"(The residents) have been begging me to stop the sale,\" said Constant. \"But legally and morally, that's not the city's role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowner hasn't filed a development application with the city yet, and for now residents and city officials are waiting to see what happens next. \"San Jose has a lot of mobile homes, so we're not only being vigilant about this park, but it may have implications for other mobile home parks,\" said Laurel Prevetti, the city's assistant director of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what makes Winchester Ranch so appealing to seniors is that residents are able to modify their homes for special needs. David Tripp, like several of his neighbors, is disabled. He suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, and he's in remission from lupus, leukemia, fibromyalgia and neuropathy. He isn't very steady on his feet, and after falling down several times, he and his wife decided to modify the front steps to to their home last year. Finding comparable replacement housing in the area will be a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the grace of God, we're not going to end up in the poorhouse, but we're not going to have anything near as nice as this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128457\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4362-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128457\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4362-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\""I own this house and rent the space," said David Tripp. "It's way less than it would be to live someplace else, and do you see what I have here?" 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9092_2014-01-17-07.45.23-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9092_2014-01-17-07.45.23-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt='A man toasts marshmallows for the crowd gathered to hear \"Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors.\" (Stephanie Martin/KQED)' width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man toasts marshmallows for the crowd gathered to hear “Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors.” (Stephanie Martin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For almost two decades, LisaRuth Elliott has lived a colorful, bohemian life in San Francisco — painting murals, making collages and working as a community historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also lived in Seattle, Southern California and Europe, but she says it was San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene that energized her life and her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not now, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when artists would get together and say, ‘Hey, what are you working on?’ ‘Well, I’m really inspired by Pluto!’ or, ‘I’m really inspired by this technological creation!’ Whatever that topic might be,” Elliott says. “Now, it’s, ‘Ugh, how long am I going to be able to stay in the city?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing is a major issue for artists in San Francisco. The city does well compared with others around the nation when it comes to \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">funding artists’ work\u003c/a>. But the city’s efforts to create affordable live/work spaces for artists haven’t panned out. Many local artists are now worrying the high cost of housing will force them to leave the city and abandon their creative community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott is one of dozens of artists and community activists who cram into a small courtyard behind a coffee house in San Francisco’s Mission District. A campfire burns before a makeshift stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She steps up to the microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Floating, drifting — I have been living as a sort of ghost for the last five months,” she says. The event is called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/730582570300323/?ref=22\"> “Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors”.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Elliott talks about her eviction from her home in the Haight, a man sitting next to the fire toasts marshmallows and passes out s’mores to the crowd. The event is supposed to be campy, but the storytellers strain to contain their emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s anyone who wants to prevent artists from leaving, it’s Tom DeCaigny, cultural affairs director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfartscommission.org/\">San Francisco Arts Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a couple of artists who are personal friends in the city who have faced eviction and a couple of them have had to leave the city. And on a personal level that’s hard,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s DeCaigny’s job to promote and preserve the city’s arts and culture industry, which pumps roughly $1.4 billion a year into the local economy. He remembers the last artist exodus, spurred by the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. He’s asking city leaders to study that era to see what worked and what went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back at ’99 and 2000, the city did make some financial contributions to specific shared-space initiatives,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those investments gave San Francisco dancers a \u003ca href=\"http://www.odcdance.org/\">state-of-the-art performance and training complex\u003c/a> in the Mission. Independent filmmakers got a new place to screen their work at a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninthstreet.org/building\">facility in the mid-Market area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we know there are solutions by which the city can make investments, and private philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, to foster new innovations in both shared nonprofit space but also developments around artists’ housing,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco artist and activist LisaRuth Elliott tells her eviction horror story at an event in the Mission. (Stepha\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco artist and activist LisaRuth Elliott tells her eviction horror story at an event in the Mission. (Stephanie Martin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the last dot-com boom also hurt rezoning efforts designed to create affordable housing for artists. The new live-work spaces attracted an affluent crowd, and artists were priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is part of the brand for San Francisco,” says Randy Cohen, who researches and promotes sustainable arts policies at \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">Americans for the Arts\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know San Francisco has many positive attributes, but, globally, it’s thought of as a great cultural city,” he says. “If your artists are leaving town, you’re putting a key component of your brand at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says that while San Francisco searches for solutions to its housing crunch, less expensive cities like Seattle, Baltimore and Detroit are jumping on the opportunity to cultivate their own cultural brand, and they’re offering artists some enticing housing incentives. In Detroit, for example, homesteading is all the rage, says Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know: Live here, move here, work here for five years, and you get the deed,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, economic factors have long dictated where artists live and work: Artists priced out of Manhattan have moved to Brooklyn. Boston artists have moved to Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Oakland is luring artists from San Francisco and beyond, says Kelley Kahn, Oakland’s economic development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a sense here that you can come here and actually have a really high quality of life and, at the same time, be able to make a living in fine arts or the industrial art,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some artists hope Oakland won’t get too popular. Housing costs here are also on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The new live-work spaces attracted an affluent crowd, and artists were priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is part of the brand for San Francisco,” says Randy Cohen, who researches and promotes sustainable arts policies at \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">Americans for the Arts\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know San Francisco has many positive attributes, but, globally, it’s thought of as a great cultural city,” he says. “If your artists are leaving town, you’re putting a key component of your brand at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says that while San Francisco searches for solutions to its housing crunch, less expensive cities like Seattle, Baltimore and Detroit are jumping on the opportunity to cultivate their own cultural brand, and they’re offering artists some enticing housing incentives. In Detroit, for example, homesteading is all the rage, says Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know: Live here, move here, work here for five years, and you get the deed,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, economic factors have long dictated where artists live and work: Artists priced out of Manhattan have moved to Brooklyn. Boston artists have moved to Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Oakland is luring artists from San Francisco and beyond, says Kelley Kahn, Oakland’s economic development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a sense here that you can come here and actually have a really high quality of life and, at the same time, be able to make a living in fine arts or the industrial art,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some artists hope Oakland won’t get too popular. Housing costs here are also on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s new evidence every day of the Bay Area’s brutal housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a lot of housing experts think the short supply of affordable rentals is likely to get worse, at least partly because the state did away with redevelopment agencies two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all their faults, the agencies were legally required to devote a fifth of their revenue to affordable housing -- about $1 billion a year. And even as housing advocates mourn the loss of redevelopment, they’re hoping lawmakers will provide some alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, nonprofit developers are still breaking ground on some new projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tiny tractor was zipping back and forth a few days ago in Hayward readying the ground for work on 22 new apartments. They’ll be part of a complex for seniors on limited incomes, at the site of a former cannery, built and managed by Eden Housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cannery that we’re standing in,” said Eden Housing President Linda Mandolini, watching the tractor work, “the whole area happened because of redevelopment, and made it possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mandolini said Eden had to tap federal funds for this new construction, after California lawmakers did away with redevelopment agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state wiped out a billion dollars a year, statewide, for affordable housing, and they’ve replaced it with nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Mandolini said the need for affordable housing is urgent. “I can foresee significantly longer lines for affordable housing.” she told me. “The last property that we leased, we had 10 applications for every apartment that we had available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I sat in her office, she detailed how affordable housing subsidies are drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll give you an example.” Mandolini said, “Oakland used to have an RFP (bureaucrat speak for a request for proposals) that was $20 million a year to develop new affordable housing. This year the RFP is $3 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that 85 percent decline, she said, is due to the end of redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Jose has also taken a hit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds are withering away as well in San Jose, the country’s fourth-most-expensive housing market (San Francisco is first). San Jose Housing Director Leslye Corsiglia told me recently that redevelopment used to subsidize close to 1,000 units a year of below-market-rate housing\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect this year with the funds we’ll have to produce about a quarter of that amount.” Corsiglia said. “And even at 1,000 units a year, that wasn’t enough to meet the need. So we’re falling farther and farther behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a regional housing plan for the Bay Area under which San Jose is supposed to build about 2,500 affordable units a year. 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He said for years he worked two jobs and still fell behind on the rent for a small, dirty apartment in San Mateo that cost almost $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, the two jobs didn’t take a toll on me,\" he said. \"It was the fact that I was missing whole days in the life of my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keighran shared the one-bedroom apartment with his 3-year old son, T-J, 7-month-old daughter, Leilani, and wife, Tiffanie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"There was no way of getting out'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt we were in a black hole,” Tiffanie Keighran told me recently, “and going deeper and deeper and deeper. There was no way of getting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Keighrans now pay less than $1,000 a month for a clean, well-lit, brand-new apartment with two bedrooms and two baths. MidPen Housing, a nonprofit developer like Eden Housing, finished building the apartment complex in San Mateo late last year, partly with redevelopment funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’ve been living paycheck to paycheck for a couple of years now, and it only got harder after we had a kid.'\u003ccite>Timothy Keighran\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It really took a toll on you, but as you see now, it’s so worth it,\" Tim Keighran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Keighrans were one of 60 lucky families, out of 2,800 who applied. Thousands of qualified renters remain on the waiting list for just this building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing shortfall is bad not just for working stiffs but for the whole Bay Area, said demographer Hans Johnson at the Public Policy Institute of California, because it’s bad for the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians spend a higher share of their income on housing than in any other state,\" he said. \"And so that means you have less money to spend on other activities,” whether that’s health care or food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is big enough, Johnson said, to accommodate a few cities like Atherton and Hillsborough, or Piedmont and Kensington, where only the rich can afford housing. But housing costs today are soaring from San Jose up the Peninsula to San Francisco, with Oakland not far behind. That means longer commutes for some from lower-cost areas, polluting the air and making roadways more congested for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson said he’s troubled by a new survey he oversaw that found the state isn’t building enough housing of any sort -- affordable or market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the boom times we were producing 150,000 to 200,000 new housing units each year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the state is building barely half that number, Johnson said, “so we clearly have a problem with building new supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson said that shortfall is driving prices up, no matter how much cities or the state subsidizes housing that is below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone I talked to for this story said they’re looking to one bill in the state Legislature, “The California Homes and Jobs Act,” from state Sen. 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But a \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/02/cities-unequal-berube\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Brookings Institution confirms that San Francisco also is earning its other, less desirable reputation as a kind of ground zero for rising income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings: When it comes to income, San Francisco is the second-most-unequal among American cities, after Atlanta. And in no other city has the rich-poor divide widened more in recent years. (Oakland, meanwhile, is not so far behind, ranking seventh on the list nationally. But the gap has not widened appreciably in recent years. San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, ranks far down \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/02/city%20inequality/appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the complete list\u003c/a>, No. 36; the rich/poor gap also grew far slower there than in San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the report’s author, Alan Berube, senior fellow and deputy director in Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program, decided to run the numbers on income inequality nationwide, he was inspired in part by coverage of the tech bus protests in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berube tapped U.S. Census data for his analysis, and he chose a particular measure to compare the haves and have-nots: the “95/20 ratio.” It’s a comparison between the income that puts a household in the 95th percentile, or the top 5 percent, and the income that puts one in the bottom 20 percent. Berube explained that comparing those extremes helps us gauge the severity of the distance in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The picture he found was stark. In the most unequal cities — Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami and Boston, in that order — residents at the top earned at least 15 times the income of those at the bottom. In San Francisco, for instance, the top 5 percent of households earned more than $353,000 per year, whereas the bottom 20 percent of households mostly earned less than $21,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, when Berube compared the income gap from 2007 (just before the recession) with 2012, he found that the disparity in this city has grown more dramatically than in any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco stood out not only in being one of the most unequal cities — and I think you might have guessed that even before you ran the data — but the data also confirmed that San Francisco has experienced the most pronounced recent increase in disparity between its rich and poor households,” Berube said. “There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 547px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"547\" height=\"557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only did typical earnings drop by $4,000 for San Franciscans in the lowest income bracket during that time, but the gains among households at the top soared by $28,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidden in those numbers might be yet another distressing trend, Berube said. Even the bottom 20 percent in San Francisco earns more than the poorest people in most other cities, and that might, at first glance, appear encouraging. But Berube underscored that it may not mean that San Francisco’s poor are paid better — it may simply mean that the poorest of the poor are just leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re at an income of $15,000, there’s no longer any place to live in San Francisco,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 588px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"588\" height=\"579\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, Berube’s number-crunching showed that big cities in general are more unequal than other places. In other words, compared with the national average, the urban rich are a little bit richer, and the urban poor are a little poorer. Why? Cities increasingly house the industries with the highest-paid knowledge workers, Berube said. Yet at the same time, the public housing, social services and public transportation found in urban centers also make them a likely home for low-income people. Thus, the extremes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So which cities showed up on the more equal end of the spectrum? Most, Berube wrote, “are Southern and Western cities with expansive borders, and either include many ‘suburban’ neighborhoods alongside a traditional urban core, or are themselves overgrown suburbs like Mesa, Ariz., and Arlington, Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprise: Seattle. Berube expected to see it neck-and-neck with San Francisco for income disparity. But it ranked only 31st of 50 cities. It turns out that “Seattle is a much less unequal place than San Francisco is,” according to Berube. 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