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"content": "\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsJ4uR08VvE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial \u003cem>8 Washington Street\u003c/em> condominium development that is now the subject of a fierce political campaign in San Francisco boils down to this question: What’s the best thing to do with the 3.2 acres of waterfront land now occupied by a parking lot and a private fitness club with tennis courts and a pool?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Propositions B and C say the 8 Washington Street developers held more than a hundred public meetings and got public approvals from the Port and Planning Commissions and the Board of Supervisors. 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Agnos sees the No on Props B and C campaign as a battle to build more middle class housing (8 Washington will be luxury condos) and also to protect a fight he waged more than two decades ago – to tear down the double decked Embarcadero Freeway and open up the waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lookup Your Polling Place\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cocovote.us/current-election/where-do-i-vote/#Search\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Co.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/voting-information/polling-places/find-your-polling-place/find-your-polling-place-app\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Co.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfelections.org/tools/pollsite/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Co.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shapethefuture.org/apps/voterlookup/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">San Mateo Co.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://eservices.sccgov.org/rov/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara Co.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/ca/sn/\" target=\"_blank\">Sonoma Co.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I remember that battle well. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/_mg_1258/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113667\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113667\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/MG_1258-e1380834965940.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Oviatt was forced to live in his car for more than eight months. (Myleen Hollero/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Oviatt was forced to live in his car for more than eight months. (Myleen Hollero/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 28 years, Peter Greene lived in a rent-controlled Victorian flat above a travel agency he co-founded in San Francisco’s Castro District. Originally from New York City, he hitchhiked here in the mid-’70s from Colorado, where he went to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe when I walked down Castro Street there was just freedom,” Greene recalled. “I just never felt like I could be harmed again in any way. It was a sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the 1980s the AIDS crisis hit “and the Castro became a sad place for many years.” Greene helped run\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nowvoyager.com/\">Now, Voyager\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, the gay and lesbian travel service, for a decade until he found out he had AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The thing with these buyouts is where to do you go? You’re just essentially being told to get out of town. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of his life since then, he said, has been spent fighting illness. One thing he didn’t have to worry about, until recently, was his apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been under rent control, which has made so much possible for me to live in the city and I just never really considered what it would be like without this apartment,” said Greene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the owner decided to sell and the new owner opted to move in. After months of what Greene calls “lawyering,” he agreed to a buyout and left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing with these buyouts is where to do you go? People say well, you got ‘blah, blah, blah amount of dollars,’ but it doesn’t create a new life here in San Francisco. You’re just essentially just being told to get out of town, and here’s a few bucks to try and figure it out.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/img_0112/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113671\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/IMG_0112-e1380906845136.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Greene was evicted from his home in the Castro. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Greene was forced to leave his home above the travel shop earlier this year. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No place like San Francisco for those with AIDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greene said for people living with HIV and AIDS, leaving San Francisco is a daunting prospect, because it has been at the forefront of research and care. Greene has participated in more than 20 clinical trials. He has been rooted in his beloved Castro neighborhood, even though it’s changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re scared because you feel like you’ve been kept alive by this thing that you’ve set in place that has taken many, many years,” said Greene. “By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have been especially hard since April when Jonathan Klein, the longtime owner of Now, Voyager, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68685\">committed suicide\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> six months after he took a buyout and was forced to leave his apartment. Klein had been staying with Greene, and when the building’s owner decided to sell, Klein’s travel shop was in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were told to leave, it was another blow. It was just a trifecta when one day he got up and went out to the Golden Gate Bridge and jumped,” said Greene. “I’ve lived through the AIDS crisis and lost a lot of friends, but there’s something about suicide. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Greene, who’s almost 60, said he’s been lucky because he’s been able to couch-surf with friends. He plans to move to Palm Springs to help care for a friend with cancer. “I still have the opportunity to make something of myself. It just gets harder as you get older and wake up with more of this and that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to. \u003c/aside>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>LGBT seniors at risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and tenant rights advocates say evictions are happening all over the city at an alarming rate, and driving some LGBT people into homelessness. The city’s most recent homeless count found that 29 percent are LGBT, and 9.2 percent said they were homeless because of an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a 12-year high for evictions in San Francisco, fueled by real estate speculation,” said Brian Basinger, the executive director of the \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ahasf.org/\">AIDS Housing Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent report by the city’s budget analyst found that the highest rates of no-fault evictions in the city were in the Castro and Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the historically gay male and lesbian women communities,” he said. “We are the most disproportionate community targeted for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basinger said disabled LGBT seniors are among the most vulnerable. A recent \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-hrc.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2363\">report\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by the city’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force found that 40 percent of LGBT seniors surveyed did not have the minimum income to meet their basic needs. Fifteen percent have contemplated suicide in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113672\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/now-voyager-window/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113672\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Now-Voyager-Window--e1380907671564.jpg\" alt=\"A tribute to Jonathan Klein, the late owner of Now Voyager. It opened as the first gay travel agency in the Castro in 1984. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tribute to Jonathan Klein, the late owner of Now Voyager. It opened as the first gay travel agency in the Castro in 1984. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F113878216\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\u003cstrong>All-American boy\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Oviatt, 64, had a tough time getting into low-income housing after he was kicked out of his apartment. He has a job at a local retail store. When I interviewed him, he took me to the store’s parking lot, where he was living in his Chrysler convertible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have blankets and pillows in the trunk and just put the seat down as low as it’ll go and just cocoon up in there. It doesn’t make for a great night’s sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 26 years, Oviatt, who moved to San Francisco in the 1970s from Detroit, owned a boutique store in the heart of the Castro known as All American Boy. When the recession hit, a string of calamitous events began. He lost his shop, made some bad business decisions, couldn’t pay his mortgage and his partner died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street because you have no place to cook. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oviatt, also living with AIDS, said his feet swell up when he sleeps in the car, and it’s been broken into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It truly has worn me down. I mean, I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street, because you have no place to cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oviatt said his co-workers were supportive for the eight months he was forced to live in his car. Since our interview in July, he’s found housing, thanks to the AIDS Housing Alliance, which in recent years has helped more than 1,000 LGBT people avoid becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t have a good safety net in this society,” said Oviatt. “I don’t know what the solution is but there has to be a better way then there is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More elected officials are paying attention to the problem, according to Basinger, and he’s urging the city to direct more money into preventing and getting LGBT people out of homelessness. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bevan Dufty, the former Castro District supervisor who is Mayor Ed Lee’s point person on homelessness, said he was alarmed to find out that 29 percent of homeless are LGBT, and he would like to see the number reduced by 50 percent within three or four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in discussions with some of the key city departments such as the Human Services Agency and our public health department to really look at strategies we can collaborate on that really focus in on LGBT homelessness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> We’ve been going out to a lot of different locations recognizing that LGBT homeless individuals are in our shelter system, they are sleeping in Golden Gate Park, they are on Castro Street. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those strategies would include addressing “the insecurity and the lack of housing stability that people can feel in this very changing and heated rental market in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LGBTQ Connect \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way city officials and housing and tenant advocates are collaborating to address LGBT homelessness is bringing together organizations that serve the LGBT community with organizations that have typically served the general homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the LGBT Community Center will host a first-of-its-kind event for those LGBT people who are homeless or at risk. Called LGBTQ Connect, it’s modeled after \u003ca href=\"http://www.projecthomelessconnect.com/\">Project Homeless Connect\u003c/a>. Dufty said that program has helped more than 2,000 homeless individuals get access to services, such as dental care, over the past 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been going out to a lot of different locations recognizing that LGBT homeless individuals are in our shelter system, they are sleeping in Golden Gate Park, they are on Castro Street, and we’re reaching far and wide to bring people in,” said Dufty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event will take place Monday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcenter.org/\">LGBT Community Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the owner decided to sell and the new owner opted to move in. After months of what Greene calls “lawyering,” he agreed to a buyout and left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing with these buyouts is where to do you go? People say well, you got ‘blah, blah, blah amount of dollars,’ but it doesn’t create a new life here in San Francisco. You’re just essentially just being told to get out of town, and here’s a few bucks to try and figure it out.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/img_0112/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113671\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/IMG_0112-e1380906845136.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Greene was evicted from his home in the Castro. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Greene was forced to leave his home above the travel shop earlier this year. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No place like San Francisco for those with AIDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greene said for people living with HIV and AIDS, leaving San Francisco is a daunting prospect, because it has been at the forefront of research and care. Greene has participated in more than 20 clinical trials. He has been rooted in his beloved Castro neighborhood, even though it’s changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re scared because you feel like you’ve been kept alive by this thing that you’ve set in place that has taken many, many years,” said Greene. “By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have been especially hard since April when Jonathan Klein, the longtime owner of Now, Voyager, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68685\">committed suicide\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> six months after he took a buyout and was forced to leave his apartment. Klein had been staying with Greene, and when the building’s owner decided to sell, Klein’s travel shop was in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were told to leave, it was another blow. It was just a trifecta when one day he got up and went out to the Golden Gate Bridge and jumped,” said Greene. “I’ve lived through the AIDS crisis and lost a lot of friends, but there’s something about suicide. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Greene, who’s almost 60, said he’s been lucky because he’s been able to couch-surf with friends. He plans to move to Palm Springs to help care for a friend with cancer. “I still have the opportunity to make something of myself. It just gets harder as you get older and wake up with more of this and that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to. \u003c/aside>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>LGBT seniors at risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and tenant rights advocates say evictions are happening all over the city at an alarming rate, and driving some LGBT people into homelessness. The city’s most recent homeless count found that 29 percent are LGBT, and 9.2 percent said they were homeless because of an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a 12-year high for evictions in San Francisco, fueled by real estate speculation,” said Brian Basinger, the executive director of the \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ahasf.org/\">AIDS Housing Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent report by the city’s budget analyst found that the highest rates of no-fault evictions in the city were in the Castro and Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the historically gay male and lesbian women communities,” he said. “We are the most disproportionate community targeted for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basinger said disabled LGBT seniors are among the most vulnerable. A recent \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-hrc.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2363\">report\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by the city’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force found that 40 percent of LGBT seniors surveyed did not have the minimum income to meet their basic needs. Fifteen percent have contemplated suicide in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113672\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/now-voyager-window/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113672\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Now-Voyager-Window--e1380907671564.jpg\" alt=\"A tribute to Jonathan Klein, the late owner of Now Voyager. It opened as the first gay travel agency in the Castro in 1984. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tribute to Jonathan Klein, the late owner of Now Voyager. It opened as the first gay travel agency in the Castro in 1984. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F113878216\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\u003cstrong>All-American boy\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Oviatt, 64, had a tough time getting into low-income housing after he was kicked out of his apartment. He has a job at a local retail store. When I interviewed him, he took me to the store’s parking lot, where he was living in his Chrysler convertible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have blankets and pillows in the trunk and just put the seat down as low as it’ll go and just cocoon up in there. It doesn’t make for a great night’s sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 26 years, Oviatt, who moved to San Francisco in the 1970s from Detroit, owned a boutique store in the heart of the Castro known as All American Boy. When the recession hit, a string of calamitous events began. He lost his shop, made some bad business decisions, couldn’t pay his mortgage and his partner died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street because you have no place to cook. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oviatt, also living with AIDS, said his feet swell up when he sleeps in the car, and it’s been broken into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It truly has worn me down. I mean, I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street, because you have no place to cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oviatt said his co-workers were supportive for the eight months he was forced to live in his car. Since our interview in July, he’s found housing, thanks to the AIDS Housing Alliance, which in recent years has helped more than 1,000 LGBT people avoid becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t have a good safety net in this society,” said Oviatt. “I don’t know what the solution is but there has to be a better way then there is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More elected officials are paying attention to the problem, according to Basinger, and he’s urging the city to direct more money into preventing and getting LGBT people out of homelessness. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bevan Dufty, the former Castro District supervisor who is Mayor Ed Lee’s point person on homelessness, said he was alarmed to find out that 29 percent of homeless are LGBT, and he would like to see the number reduced by 50 percent within three or four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in discussions with some of the key city departments such as the Human Services Agency and our public health department to really look at strategies we can collaborate on that really focus in on LGBT homelessness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> We’ve been going out to a lot of different locations recognizing that LGBT homeless individuals are in our shelter system, they are sleeping in Golden Gate Park, they are on Castro Street. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those strategies would include addressing “the insecurity and the lack of housing stability that people can feel in this very changing and heated rental market in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LGBTQ Connect \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way city officials and housing and tenant advocates are collaborating to address LGBT homelessness is bringing together organizations that serve the LGBT community with organizations that have typically served the general homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the LGBT Community Center will host a first-of-its-kind event for those LGBT people who are homeless or at risk. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/albanybulb-11sept2013-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-112193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/albanybulb-11sept2013-640.jpg\" alt=\"Recylced metal sculptures by Osha Neumann, an advocate for the residents living on the Albany Bulb, can be found on the north shore of the small peninsula. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recycled metal sculptures by Osha Neumann, an advocate for the residents living on the Albany Bulb, can be found on the north shore of the small peninsula. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An encampment of about 60 people at the Albany Bulb could be evicted in October as the city of Albany moves to turn it into part of the surrounding state park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albany Bulb, an old landfill that juts out into the bay, has been called one of the Bay Area's \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2007/02/21/albany-bulb-a-different-kind-of-wilderness/\" target=\"_blank\">quirkiest destinations\u003c/a> because of the artwork dotting its landscape of rebar and concrete. After the city stopped using the Bulb as a dump in the mid-1980s, homeless people moved onto the bulging peninsula, which features spectacular panoramic views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park advocates say incorporating the Albany Bulb into \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/parks/eastshore\" target=\"_blank\">McLaughlin Eastshore State Park\u003c/a> has been a nearly 30-year effort with wide public support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hundreds of thousands of people have voted for it,\" said Robert Cheasty, a former Albany mayor and president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastshorepark.org/index.php\">Citizens for East Shore Parks --\u003c/a> an umbrella organization pushing for the eviction and state park stewardship of the Bulb. \"And millions have supported it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Albany City Council reaffirmed its May 6 decision to enforce the no-camping ordinance, starting in October. The city plans to transfer the land to the oversight of the East Bay Regional Park District, where it will become the centerpiece of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for the encampment on the Bulb argue it is part of the local community, and that there should be better plans in place for the homeless after they are evicted.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Apart from the incredible loss to the people who are living there and the threat to them and the fact that they're going to lose their home, what all of us are going to lose is that model of coexistence, of an ecology that includes humanity in it,\" said Osha Neumann, an East Bay attorney who has represented some Bulb residents. He doesn't want the city to clear the camp without making sure the homeless have somewhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The camp's population has ebbed and flowed over the years. It reached a high point of around 60 in the late 1990s, when Albany enacted a no-camping ordinance and evicted Bulb residents in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, concerns about landfill-tainted drainage, or leachate, stalled the transfer to the park district. At some point, Albany stopped enforcing the no-camping ordinance, and tents and shacks again sprouted in the bushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/albany-bulb/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who live on the Bulb don't consider themselves homeless. Some claim to have resided there for more than 10 years, and the ones who say they've lived there for years consider it their home. Many say police found them sleeping on the street in Albany or Berkeley and encouraged them to move to the camp, but the cities dispute that would ever happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Albany contracted nonprofit Berkeley Food and Housing Project for $60,000 -- or about $1,000 per camp resident -- to connect the people on the Bulb with services and, hopefully, new housing. The campers say they've talked to the outreach workers, but those with a little income from Social Security or other sources worry they won't be able to afford a place to live that is as safe as the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's Steve Courie's situation. The 63-year-old blues musician says he's getting too old to camp, and he's too tired for a political fight. But he marched to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_24008859/eviction-imminent-albanys-shoreline-shantytown-residents-plead-be\" target=\"_blank\">Albany City Council meeting\u003c/a> on Sept. 3 with about 20 other Bulb residents anyway, hoping to convince council members to reverse their eviction plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we lose this, the ones that don't make it into a house or whatever are going to end up sleeping in business doorways and stuff like that,\" Courie said. \"It's not a pretty picture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted 4-1 to have police begin enforcement of the no-camping ordinance sometime in October. Council members say letting the camp continue will only make the problem worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This situation is not going to get better -- it's only going to get worse,\" said Cheasty. \"We can't require that we solve all problems in our society before we have a park. It just doesn't work that way. We have a shoreline park. No one's allowed to privatize it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Albany residents say they're afraid to go to the Bulb as long as the camp is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm actually one of those people who used to go down there,\" said Patricia Jones, executive director of Citizens for East Shore Parks, \"but I wouldn't go down there alone right now. We're really looking for this to be a positive change -- that these people will be helped and that the park will be returned to the rest of the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann doesn't think Albany's $60,000 effort will actually result in housing anybody and said the Bulb campers likely will be kicked to the streets in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't have a shelter, they don't have a transitional house, they don't have a single unit of low-income subsidized housing,\" he said. \"It's taken years to create this situation. You can't unravel it in three or six months at the beginning of winter, and they know that. And they don't care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing in Albany is an additional layer to the controversy. The city is \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/hpd/hrc/plan/he/status.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overdue\u003c/a> in submitting an acceptable housing element of its general plan to the California Department of Housing and Community Development. State law now requires jurisdictions to have at least one zone allowing \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/hpd/sb2_memo050708.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">emergency shelters without a conditional use permit\u003c/a>, and Albany's current zoning only allows for conditional use. Conditional use means a prospective emergency shelter would have to go through an additional approval process, which is forbidden by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany could contract with a neighboring city to fulfill its obligation. City officials say they are working on the plan. 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It reached a high point of around 60 in the late 1990s, when Albany enacted a no-camping ordinance and evicted Bulb residents in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, concerns about landfill-tainted drainage, or leachate, stalled the transfer to the park district. At some point, Albany stopped enforcing the no-camping ordinance, and tents and shacks again sprouted in the bushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/albany-bulb/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who live on the Bulb don't consider themselves homeless. Some claim to have resided there for more than 10 years, and the ones who say they've lived there for years consider it their home. Many say police found them sleeping on the street in Albany or Berkeley and encouraged them to move to the camp, but the cities dispute that would ever happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Albany contracted nonprofit Berkeley Food and Housing Project for $60,000 -- or about $1,000 per camp resident -- to connect the people on the Bulb with services and, hopefully, new housing. The campers say they've talked to the outreach workers, but those with a little income from Social Security or other sources worry they won't be able to afford a place to live that is as safe as the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's Steve Courie's situation. The 63-year-old blues musician says he's getting too old to camp, and he's too tired for a political fight. 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(Courtesy Oakland Local)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tanya Dennis, The Oakland Post\u003c/strong> (cross-posted with\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/09/effort-to-revive-oaklands-stalled-project-to-sell-affordable-homes-analysis/\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned housing activists are meeting with the city about how to revive a stalled community land trust designed to create hundreds of affordable houses in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>Created with great fanfare in 2009, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakclt.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Community Land Trust (OakCLT)\u003c/a> was formed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbanstrategies.org/\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a> and other Oakland community-based organizations to provide affordable housing in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OakCLT was awarded $5.025 million in Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding from Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Cy Musiker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Conservatory Theater plans to break ground Oct. 2 on the restoration of San Francisco's Strand Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111716\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111716\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/strand.jpg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"strand.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The American Conservatory Theater is set to break ground Oct. 2 at the site of the old Strand Theatre between Seventh and Eighth streets in San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The $30 million project will be a dramatic moment for arts companies that have been trying to remake Mid-Market – one of the city’s funkiest neighborhoods – into a theater and arts district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Market Street at night was once ablaze with the marquees of vaudeville houses, movie theaters and dancehalls like the Gaiety, the Hub, the Odeon and the Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This street used to be like the Great White Way in the '50s, lit up with theaters up and down Market Street,\" says Carey Perloff, artistic director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The abandoned Strand Theatre, at 1127 Market between Seventh and Eighth streets, was built under the name The Jewel in 1917.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a single-screen movie theater, and then it did repertory, and then it did bingo, then it did 'Rocky Horror Show,' then it did a lot of porn,\" Perloff said. \"And then it was sealed up in 2003 by the police. And when we first walked in, it was just covered by dead birds and other things.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, the theater is filled with rubble. The air is thick with plaster dust, and you can smell the mold from the groaty, old green seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perloff points out graffiti of a hypodermic needle and the words “junkies for life” painted on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111740\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111740\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/midmarket.jpg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A future retail space at 950 market street is under construction. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A future retail space at 950 Market Street under construction. 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Lorraine Hansberry Theatre lost its stage a few years ago, and now its artistic director, Steven Anthony Jones, looks to share in plans by a developer and a number of foundations to convert a pair of rundown properties at 950 Market Street into an arts and education center. The center, where Mid-Market meets the Tenderloin, would include four small theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones thinks the tech companies and arts producers can make good neighbors. \"Those people have to do something in the evening and on the weekends. This has to be more than just a place where people come to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The literacy group Youth Speaks and others arts groups are looking to move in, seeking shelter from rising rents – afraid they'll be priced right out of San Francisco. A.C.T.'s Executive Director Ellen Richard says that's even true for her company, which wants to move its offices to 950 Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just lost 12,000 square feet because the rental prices went up 50 percent. The market in San Francisco has just kind of gone berserk the last couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elvin Padilla has helped make 950 Market and the Strand projects happen, as the former executive director, and now consultant, for the Tenderloin Economic Development Project. One goal is to avoid a polarized landscape of haves and have-nots: well-paid techies versus the immigrant families that populate the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The arts are a way for us to all have a place where we can meet,\" Padilla said. \"And where we can share human experiences like music and dance and literacy. And we think that is vital for a healthy neighborhood and a healthy city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla applauds efforts by Mayor Ed Lee and other city leaders to lobby for the arts in Mid-Market. But he notes A.C.T. is raising the $30 million it needs for the Strand on its own, and that even the 950 Market project could fail without city support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we want to see something different, a diversity of uses beyond a generic office mall that the free market will be most happy to supply, we have to intervene. All cities either provide land or provide funding, or in some instances both. There’s been no funding and there’s been no land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new owners of 950 Market, for instance, are facing millions of dollars in city fees. A few officials are listening, though. Supervisor Jane Kim represents Mid-Market, and she’s working on a measure to create an arts special-use district that would reduce developer fees on space reserved for nonprofits arts. 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Lorraine Hansberry Theatre lost its stage a few years ago, and now its artistic director, Steven Anthony Jones, looks to share in plans by a developer and a number of foundations to convert a pair of rundown properties at 950 Market Street into an arts and education center. The center, where Mid-Market meets the Tenderloin, would include four small theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones thinks the tech companies and arts producers can make good neighbors. \"Those people have to do something in the evening and on the weekends. This has to be more than just a place where people come to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The literacy group Youth Speaks and others arts groups are looking to move in, seeking shelter from rising rents – afraid they'll be priced right out of San Francisco. 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