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That sets it apart from the typical soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perhaps [that model] is a little bit more efficient, but I find we gain more than we lose by taking it a little slower and taking the time to sit down at the table and cooking a little extra food so that volunteers can eat with the residents at the SROs,” Lobban says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Troy Adams. The night after the cooking party, Adams is at the Crosby Hotel helping ferry 21 trays of food inside on a small gray cart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just like to help out a little bit,” Adams says. “Get it done neat and organized. I like neat and I like organized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Crosby’s residents include the formerly homeless subsidized by social programs, while others on limited incomes pay out of pocket. The average rent is $500 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight, about 70 residents crowd into the front lobby around tables decorated with small flower arrangements in plastic cups. Some write notes about what they’re thankful for as volunteers plate the food and start bringing it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one table, Lobban asks participants: “What’s the most interesting thing that happened to you this week?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man named Gideon Borrou chimes in. “I think the most interesting for me was rain, finally, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borrou is a regular at the meals. He attends classes at City College of San Francisco and has lived at the Crosby ever since lodging with a relative fell through three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they have dinners like this, you get an hour to an hour and a half to sit down and discuss things and generally get an idea where people are,” Borrou says. “I’m the type of person who likes a community, it makes me happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the next table over, Jathaporn Chaloeitheep is scooping up forkfuls of turkey and yams. She says she was homeless for 10 years until she came here a month ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time, this transition, trying to see if it works or not,” Chaloeitheep says. “You know, I’m trying to get back to the swing of things… like, part of the society versus being an outcast or being out there in the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the two meals she’s eaten from Dinner with Grace beat the hot dogs she’d usually just heat up in her room. Plus, there’s the camaraderie among residents — and with volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next to her a volunteer and two long-time residents, including Kate Rabbit, are debating the merits of running for exercise. Soon the conversation turns to food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like having the one Thanksgiving meal, or that one Christmas meal. You know I’m OK with one. This was the one,” Rabbit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before long everyone is headed off to their rooms. The volunteers remain around the pile of notes where the diners had written their thanks and started reading them aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the notes spoke of joys: “I’m thankful for health and life.” “Having a granddaughter on the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some were playful. Like the slip of paper that made everyone chuckle: “I’m thankful for soft toilet tissue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many were poignant. “I am thankful for human kindness,” read one. And “Thank you Lord for a place to lay my head after two years of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the volunteers gather to say goodbye, Sroka says so many pieces come together to make the meals happen. There are all of the volunteers who shop, those who cook. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Emilie Raguso, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/11/21/zoning-board-denies-berkeley-micro-unit-proposal/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119011\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-119011\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/micro-640x375.png\" alt=\"micro\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley’s zoning board ruled last week that a new building at 2701 Shattuck Ave. is too big for the neighborhood. Image: Lowney Architecture\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley zoning board members voted 6-3 last week to reject an application from a San Francisco-based development firm that hopes to build the city’s first micro-unit housing project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, many zoning board commissioners told Axis Development Group that the proposal, at 2701 Shattuck Ave., was \u003ca title=\"Zoning board asks micro-unit developer to shrink proposal\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/09/27/zoning-board-asks-micro-unit-developer-to-shrink-proposal/\">too large and too dense for the neighborhood\u003c/a>. They asked Axis to consider a four-story alternative, and to make more room on the northeast corner of the site, which is close to an adjacent single-family home. City staff had earlier suggested the removal of up to 12 units from the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday night, Axis presented its \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/11/13/berkeley-staffer-recommends-rejection-of-micro-unit-plans/\">latest version of the five-story project\u003c/a>, currently set to include 67 units that range in size from 269 to 344 square feet, as well as a roughly 2,000-square-foot full service restaurant with valet parking, and a small parking garage. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/11/13/berkeley-staffer-recommends-rejection-of-micro-unit-plans/\">Read more about the latest plans here\u003c/a>.) Following the September zoning board meeting, Axis removed three units from the project’s fifth story. Company representatives said they felt this change addressed the board’s concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners who voted against the project Thursday criticized Axis for failing to take their \u003ca title=\"Zoning board asks micro-unit developer to shrink proposal\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/09/27/zoning-board-asks-micro-unit-developer-to-shrink-proposal/\">feedback in September\u003c/a> seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m astonished at how fully the applicant has ignored our very clear suggestions. Very clear,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/shoshana-okeefe/\">Commissioner Shoshana O’Keefe\u003c/a> said. “From staff, from us. I was at the last meeting, I know what was said. I can’t believe you would come up here with a straight face and say you were confused as to what we were asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/deborah-matthews/\">Commissioner Deborah Matthews\u003c/a>: “One of the things that really hit a dissonant, not very friendly note for me was that we did give direction to the applicant about what we wanted to see,” she said. “We worked really hard and stayed very late to make sure that we provided a direction that was really good and sound so that you had the tools to work with, and I felt like we were ignored.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Axis presented a plan that removed three units from the top floor, increased the setback at the northeast corner, and enlarged a community room to include space for a dining area and a gym. Axis reps told commissioners that they would be willing to remove another three units from the project’s fourth floor if they would be allowed to drop eight parking “pits” from a garage currently set to include room for 32 vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had it been approved, the project would have been the highest density, largest micro-unit project in the country, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/prakash-pinto/\">Commissioner Prakash Pinto\u003c/a>, with roughly 243 dwelling units to the acre. Pinto noted that, for comparison, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/acheson-commons/\">Acheson Commons\u003c/a>, which is slated to be built in the heart of downtown Berkeley, within sight of BART, will have less than 200 dwelling units per acre. He said it’s not density that’s the problem, but the degree of density and where it’s located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/micro2-640x405.png\" alt=\"micro2\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the project, five of whom spoke during public comment period, said it would bring a much-needed transit-oriented, environmentally conscious housing option to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoning board members and other members of the public who spoke against the project — more than 20 of them — said they too believe in those philosophies, but ultimately found the plans for 2701 Shattuck to be too much density in the wrong place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a single one of us that doesn’t believe in walkable, bikeable, safe communities, but context matters a lot,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/igor-tregub/\">Commissioner Igor Tregub\u003c/a>. “This is the most opposition I have seen for any project that has been before us. It’s also the first time that I’ve seen staff recommend a denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors who spoke in opposition to the project said the developer had failed to listen to their concerns or suggestions — or those from the zoning board or city staff — or compromise in any significant way. Some said a “high-end restaurant” with valet parking wouldn’t be a good fit in the neighborhood. Others said, as commissioners also noted, that the project was too dense for the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We favor smart growth, but not all growth is smart growth,” said Berkeley resident Ellen Langer. “Some growth is cancerous growth. Some growth diminishes the quality of the life of all surrounding tissue. That’s what this would do. And it would do terrible things to the people who live in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-100002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">Louise Rosencrantz noted the neighborhood’s history of supporting past development projects such as Berkeley Bowl, the opening of Any Mountain, and businesses like Reel Video, which is now DaVita dialysis center. And she said many neighbors really would like to see a smaller development on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have tried to work cooperatively with the developer, but very little has changed,” she said. “We still have a project that is too dense, too high, and incompatible with the neighborhood. We want to move forward and work on an appropriate development for this site. Our neighborhood has shown that we know how to do this. All we need is a cooperative partner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of the units themselves was much less of an issue Thursday night than the overall size and density of the proposed building. Some commissioners said the apartments should simply be called studios, and noted that they had lived in similarly-sized units themselves when they were younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived in apartments that big way after college for a long time,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/steven-donaldson/\">Commissioner Steven Donaldson\u003c/a>. “I think we have to look at the positive aspects [of the project] for the environment. We do have to take into account more density near transit.… There’s a lifestyle of people who will look at that and like to live that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three commissioners — Donaldson, Bob Allen and David Stoloff (who was sitting in for George Williams) — voted to approve the project if the applicant would remove an additional three units on the fourth floor, a suggestion made by staff. But the rest of the board voted against that proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is a dynamic city. It’s growing, it’s changing,” observed Stoloff. “We don’t want to, nor can we, make it stay still.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Commissioner Sophie Hahn moved to deny the 2701 Shattuck application. Her motion carried, with Donaldson, Allen and Stoloff voting against it, and the rest of the board in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad Nadhiri, managing partner at Axis Development Group, declined to comment this week on whether Axis plans to appeal the decision or what he made of the zoning board’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re waiting for the official Staff report before we take any next steps,” he said via email, ”but we do have a clear plan forward.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m astonished at how fully the applicant has ignored our very clear suggestions. Very clear,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/shoshana-okeefe/\">Commissioner Shoshana O’Keefe\u003c/a> said. “From staff, from us. I was at the last meeting, I know what was said. I can’t believe you would come up here with a straight face and say you were confused as to what we were asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/deborah-matthews/\">Commissioner Deborah Matthews\u003c/a>: “One of the things that really hit a dissonant, not very friendly note for me was that we did give direction to the applicant about what we wanted to see,” she said. “We worked really hard and stayed very late to make sure that we provided a direction that was really good and sound so that you had the tools to work with, and I felt like we were ignored.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Axis presented a plan that removed three units from the top floor, increased the setback at the northeast corner, and enlarged a community room to include space for a dining area and a gym. Axis reps told commissioners that they would be willing to remove another three units from the project’s fourth floor if they would be allowed to drop eight parking “pits” from a garage currently set to include room for 32 vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had it been approved, the project would have been the highest density, largest micro-unit project in the country, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/prakash-pinto/\">Commissioner Prakash Pinto\u003c/a>, with roughly 243 dwelling units to the acre. Pinto noted that, for comparison, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/acheson-commons/\">Acheson Commons\u003c/a>, which is slated to be built in the heart of downtown Berkeley, within sight of BART, will have less than 200 dwelling units per acre. He said it’s not density that’s the problem, but the degree of density and where it’s located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/micro2-640x405.png\" alt=\"micro2\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the project, five of whom spoke during public comment period, said it would bring a much-needed transit-oriented, environmentally conscious housing option to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoning board members and other members of the public who spoke against the project — more than 20 of them — said they too believe in those philosophies, but ultimately found the plans for 2701 Shattuck to be too much density in the wrong place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a single one of us that doesn’t believe in walkable, bikeable, safe communities, but context matters a lot,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/igor-tregub/\">Commissioner Igor Tregub\u003c/a>. “This is the most opposition I have seen for any project that has been before us. It’s also the first time that I’ve seen staff recommend a denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors who spoke in opposition to the project said the developer had failed to listen to their concerns or suggestions — or those from the zoning board or city staff — or compromise in any significant way. Some said a “high-end restaurant” with valet parking wouldn’t be a good fit in the neighborhood. Others said, as commissioners also noted, that the project was too dense for the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We favor smart growth, but not all growth is smart growth,” said Berkeley resident Ellen Langer. “Some growth is cancerous growth. Some growth diminishes the quality of the life of all surrounding tissue. That’s what this would do. And it would do terrible things to the people who live in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-100002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">Louise Rosencrantz noted the neighborhood’s history of supporting past development projects such as Berkeley Bowl, the opening of Any Mountain, and businesses like Reel Video, which is now DaVita dialysis center. And she said many neighbors really would like to see a smaller development on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have tried to work cooperatively with the developer, but very little has changed,” she said. “We still have a project that is too dense, too high, and incompatible with the neighborhood. We want to move forward and work on an appropriate development for this site. Our neighborhood has shown that we know how to do this. 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(Sara Bloomberg / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/13/starting-from-scratch-cooks-form-cooperative-business/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/PhotoWeek131115cooks.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek131115cooks\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nA group of immigrant women in Richmond (from left to right: Lucracia Martinez, Alejandra Escobedo, Teresa Palafox and Julissa Gutierrez) formed a \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/13/starting-from-scratch-cooks-form-cooperative-business/\">worker cooperative\u003c/a> serving Latin fusion food around the East Bay. The women say starting a business is challenging, but working for themselves is empowering. 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The number was highest in the Bayview, Excelsior and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods, where 57 percent of households are considered rent burdened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fear is real and it’s based on facts that we now have,” said Supervisor Eric Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a translator, Anna Gutierrez with the housing justice and immigrant rights nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjjc.org/\">Just Cause\u003c/a>, described in Spanish how she is facing an imminent eviction from her Mission home, where she has lived for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This injustice has to end now,” she said. “I have seen too many of my neighbors evicted and it doesn’t seem to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beverly Upton, who has helped women find shelter and housing in her role as director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, said she and her neighbor are facing Ellis Act evictions from her building on Gough Street, where she has lived for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never been late on our rent. We’ve never asked for any big improvements,” she said. “Once the advocates and the organizers and the artists are gone, who will be left to care about our city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony included a lone landlord, Andrew Long, who argued that small property owners are also hurting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your rent laws need to be more even-handed for landlords,” he said. “You’re driving landlords, especially small landlords, out of business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exploring ways to curb evictions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said it’s important for the city “to have a united front to tackle this crisis.” He’s exploring a number of measures to curb evictions, including a moratorium on all Ellis Act evictions. That would require state legislation, which Campos said he is working on with Assemblymember Tom Ammiano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos has also introduced legislation to create a mechanism for tenants to file complaints when they are harassed by landlords. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/1049market/\">group of tenants\u003c/a> fighting orders to leave their affordable artist live/work lofts in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood say the landlord has not withdrawn the eviction notices, despite pressure from Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants held a noon protest Tuesday outside the 83-unit building at 1049 Market St., calling on owners John Gall and Amy Bogart to stop the evictions by Thanksgiving. The tenants are mostly artists, and include seniors and people with disabilities. Their 60-day eviction notices would take effect just before the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of human being evicts people during the holidays?” said Tommi Avicolli Mecca of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hrcsf.org/\">Housing Rights Committee\u003c/a> of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven-story building, built in 1907 as a furniture store, is zoned for commercial use. The owners had been trying to bring the units up to code for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Landlords say city rules have forced them to evict tenants. The city and housing activists insist that's not the case.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It has long been our belief that this was achievable and we would be able to keep this unique and affordable community,\" stated a Sept. 13 memo to tenants from the landlord. But it went on to inform them that \"we were not able to overcome the city of San Francisco's overly restrictive building code requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Per these city orders, the building must currently be vacated,\" the memo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners obtained permits to convert the building into offices and began issuing eviction orders in late September. Tenants quickly organized, and got housing activists involved. They persuaded Mayor Lee, Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the neighborhood, and the Department of Building Inspection to intervene. The city subsequently withdrew the permits and offered to work with Gall and his partners to grandfather in residential code violations, namely units that don't have windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contrary to owner Gall’s claims, the Department of Building Inspection has never pushed him or any prior owner to evict the tenants of 1049 Market,\" Randy Shaw, the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Mayor_Lee_Supervisor_Kim_DBI_Director_Hui_Unite_to_Stop_Market_Street_Evictions_11960.html\">wrote on Beyond Chron\u003c/a>. \"In fact, since DBI and its public commission was created through a 1994 ballot initiative that I authored (Proposition G), it has not pushed for the eviction of any tenants (a sharp break from its predecessor Bureau of Building Inspection, which prioritized closing down in-law apartments).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"613f376ea31a6b96b3b6b8e989ea54bb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing activists lauded the intervention as a model that could be used to prevent evictions in other commercial buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has provided the landlord with everything he needs to legalize these units and there’s nothing stopping him from doing that, nothing,” said Avicolli Mecca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants say they've had no direct line of communication with Gall and no indication he's backing down. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/11/12/mid-market-landlord-appeals-tenants-face-holiday-evictions\">Bay Guardian reports\u003c/a> Gall has appealed the city's permit suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're dying to hear from him and what he has to say,\" said tenant Jonathan Stoker. \"We want to keep our homes. It shouldn't be up to the highest bidder, because if that happens it'll change the face of this whole city, and where are we going to go?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gall, a Stanford grad and former major league baseball player, did not return KQED's phone calls but recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-intercedes-in-mid-market-eviction-fight/Content?oid=2618959\">told the San Francisco Examiner's Chris Roberts \u003c/a> that he was \"still trying to figure out the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, the city supervisor, has asked Gall to rescind the eviction notices. Last week, she said \"he is committed to exploring a no-eviction pathway with his investors to preserve the affordable units at 1049 Market Street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/market-street-building-evictions-could-be-largest-san-francisco-ouster-in-decades/Content?oid=2599843\">first reported\u003c/a>, the eviction would be one of the largest in the city’s history. Housing activists say it's part of a wave of evictions hitting San Francisco, brought on by the hot housing market and tech boom. The Mid-Market building is just a few blocks from Twitter headquarters in an area Mayor Lee has prioritized for revitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all really on edge,\" said Naomi Cooper, a 65-year-old public school teacher who's lived in the building for 13 years and will be forced to leave just before Christmas if the eviction notices stand. \"I feel like there should be a place for me here. I've given a lot to this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfofficelofts.com/LiveWork.html\">live/work lofts\u003c/a>, which vary in size from 200 to 500 square feet, rent for between $900 and $1,000 a month, and include kitchens and shared bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a great blessing,\" said Melissa Bracero, a part-time accountant and clothing designer, who invited reporters into her loft overlooking Market Street. \"We hope to be here in a year and not saying, 'Oh, we've left this city for good.'\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In some circles, those who own property and rent to others rank near the top of regional public enemies, alongside tech workers, Dodger fans, and oh, I don’t know, people who kick puppies for fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are landlords really to blame for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Rents-soaring-across-region-4924282.php\" target=\"_blank\">soaring rents\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">increased evictions\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/how-much-tech-can-one-city-take\" target=\"_blank\">the much-bemoaned changing culture\u003c/a> of the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, they’re one of the big players at the table when we talk about increasing rents and evictions. But as a number of “Forum” commenters have pointed out, there are many factors that add to the problem of scarce, expensive housing, including the relatively small slice of land available for development in the inner Bay Area and the increased competition for housing as the regional economy improves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED’s “Priced Out” series continues, we’re hearing a whole spectrum of views on housing prices and evictions. Here’s a brief list of reasons landlords say they’re not responsible for the current rental housing crunch. The quotes below are from KQED’s “Forum” last Friday: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">Evictions on the Rise in San Francisco\u003c/a>. You can listen to the show in its entirety by \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Not All Landlords Are Created Equal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Forum” hour featured lots of complaints about big real-estate firms and corporate-style landlords raising rents and evicting tenants. But the Bay Area has plenty of small landlords who have a completely different way of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One property owner, referred to only as “Jeanne” at her request, said she was a “mom-and-pop landlord” running a business “not any different than owning a bakery.” Jeanne’s family has been in San Francisco “for over a hundred years,” and her mother bought a building 40 years ago. “That’s what supported our family. We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of the one-bedroom apartment in this building.” Jeanne said her family has developed relationships with their tenants, helping to take care of them as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of my one-bedroom apartment.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Landlords Get Screwed, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are that at some point, your landlord has suffered at the hands of bad tenants or life circumstances. Mike in San Francisco called in during the show to share the story of what sounds like a generous landlord who found himself needing money because of health problems:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My wife’s uncle had two tenants in a building in the Marina and for 30 plus years he never raised the rent. He was a wonderful landlord. And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/priced-out/\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>KQED’s series on the Bay Area housing crisis.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matthew Green\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117654\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction/rs7468_72898270-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117654\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7468_72898270-scr-e1383878709870.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Inner Mission area had the highest number of Ellis Act evictions in the past five years. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Inner Mission has had the most Ellis Act evictions in the past five years. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the books since 1986, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=07001-08000&file=7060-7060.7\">Ellis Act\u003c/a> allows California landlords to evict tenants in order to go out of business and remove units from the rental market, usually with the intent of selling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”dc7d51e2e6959b724809370455955423″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law prohibits local governments from forcing rental property owners to continue offering their housing for rent. However, it does allow local governments to impose a variety of requirements on such property owners, which can include providing tenant relocation assistance, giving specific notice periods and having deed restrictions on future use of the property. For example, a city could require an owner who re-rents “Ellised” property within a certain period of time to first offer it to any displaced former tenants, at the original rental rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is little comprehensive data on Ellis Act evictions statewide. But in cities like San Francisco, with high rents and strict local rent control laws, Ellis Act evictions often go up during periods when home sales increase. That was the case during the dot-com boom that ended in 2000 and again during the housing bubble that peaked in 2005. Ellis Act evictions are up again now as the city’s real estate market recovers from the recession and as the tech boom spurs demand for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chart below, by San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://dangrover.com/about\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Grover\u003c/a>, shows Ellis Act evictions in the city since 1998, comparing rates with all no-fault evictions (including Ellis but also those due to capital improvements, demolition, owner move-in or substantial rehabilitation) during the same period. The chart also shows all for-cause evictions, in which tenants violated rental agreements. The chart (also available in \u003ca href=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/\" target=\"_blank\">a larger version\u003c/a>) is overlaid with San Francisco median home price rates. Use the drop-down menus to change the variables, and mouse over the bars to see eviction numbers by year.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/embeddable.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s budget analyst issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\">report\u003c/a> on the number of Ellis Act evictions in the city by neighborhood (among other housing displacement issues). The report found that “while Ellis Act evictions have occurred in many neighborhoods over the last five years, approximately 64.1 percent of them occurred in” seven neighborhoods, which also saw increases in assessed property values and home prices: Inner Mission, Russian Hill/Polk Gulch, Castro/Eureka Valley, Outer Richmond, Inner Richmond, North Beach, Haight Ashbury/Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following map uses data from the report on Ellis Act evictions in most (but not all) San Francisco neighborhoods from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col12%3E%3E2+from+1aInieSxglQz1f4vabFhrqI9045FxPS_gSy8FEB4&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.74408720928566&lng=-122.40319834631345&t=1&z=12&l=col12%3E%3E2&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopted in direct response to a 1984 California Supreme Court decision, the Ellis Act was a backlash to strict local rent control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, following a wave of condominium conversions in Santa Monica that removed many rental units from the market, voters adopted a measure meant to preserve the city’s remaining rental housing stock. It required that landlords who sought to exit the rental market first obtain a permit that could only be issued if a strict set of conditions were met. Among them, landlords were required to prove that the unit in question was not occupied by a person of low or moderate income and to demonstrate that the unit’s removal from the rental market would not adversely affect the city’s housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Nash, a 17-year-old student whose mother had bought him a $260,000 rental property in Santa Monica before the ordinance was adopted, sought to get out of the rental business and demolish the building. He initially applied for a permit to do so, but ended up suing the city to circumvent the process. In \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/nash-v-city-santa-monica-28399\">court documents\u003c/a>, he’s quoted as stating:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one thing I want to do, and that is to evict the group of ingrates inhabiting my units, tear down the building, and hold on to the land until I can sell it at a price which will not mean a ruinous loss on my investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nash prevailed in trial court and on appeal. But his case was ultimately dismissed by California’s Supreme Court in 1984, which ruled in \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/nash-v-city-santa-monica-28399\">\u003cem>Nash v. City of Santa Monica\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the burdens imposed on Nash’s rights as a landlord were minimal and that they necessarily served the city’s greater goal in protecting its scarce stock of rental housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, however, the state Legislature stepped in. Responding to the Nash decision, Sen. 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The chart also shows all for-cause evictions, in which tenants violated rental agreements. The chart (also available in \u003ca href=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/\" target=\"_blank\">a larger version\u003c/a>) is overlaid with San Francisco median home price rates. Use the drop-down menus to change the variables, and mouse over the bars to see eviction numbers by year.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/embeddable.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s budget analyst issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\">report\u003c/a> on the number of Ellis Act evictions in the city by neighborhood (among other housing displacement issues). The report found that “while Ellis Act evictions have occurred in many neighborhoods over the last five years, approximately 64.1 percent of them occurred in” seven neighborhoods, which also saw increases in assessed property values and home prices: Inner Mission, Russian Hill/Polk Gulch, Castro/Eureka Valley, Outer Richmond, Inner Richmond, North Beach, Haight Ashbury/Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following map uses data from the report on Ellis Act evictions in most (but not all) San Francisco neighborhoods from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col12%3E%3E2+from+1aInieSxglQz1f4vabFhrqI9045FxPS_gSy8FEB4&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.74408720928566&lng=-122.40319834631345&t=1&z=12&l=col12%3E%3E2&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopted in direct response to a 1984 California Supreme Court decision, the Ellis Act was a backlash to strict local rent control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, following a wave of condominium conversions in Santa Monica that removed many rental units from the market, voters adopted a measure meant to preserve the city’s remaining rental housing stock. 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