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(Janice Rombeck/\u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborwebsj.com/\">NeighborWebSJ\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78190\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>A man sleeps behind a parking lot in Berkeley. 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(Tawanda Kanhema/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SJbridge.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78188\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012SJbridge\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SJbridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>A 315-foot bridge provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborwebsj.com/xanders-crossing-opens-in-memory-of-toddler-who-died-on-tracks-in-2005/\">safe passage for pedestrians and bicyclists \u003c/a>on their way to the nearby shopping center or school. In 2005, a toddler was hit by a train, helping to spur funding for the $10.5 million project. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:21 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has delayed until at least November a vote on a building code change that could reduce the minimum size of apartments in San Francisco. The board had been set to vote on the change today, but delayed action until Nov. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learn more about the proposed change below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apartments the size of living rooms could be among the residential options for San Francisco renters if the city's board of supervisors approves a building code change Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 220 square feet - including kitchen, bathroom, closet and a 150-square-foot living room - the new \"micro-units\" could be as small as the minimum space currently required in a San Francisco living room. They also could be among the smallest apartments in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are slated to consider approving a building code change to reduce the square footage required in efficiency apartments and allow the smaller residences during their \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/agendas/2012/bag092512.pdf\">meeting\u003c/a> at 2 p.m. (You can \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">watch it live here.\u003c/a>) They've been discussing the issue since at least June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist's renderings and floor plans from the development firm Panoramic Interests, a key proponent of a move to legalize tiny apartments, show that the apartments are similar in size and layout to camping trailers or RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Interior_TableBed_QueenBedUp.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76779\" title=\"Courtesy of Panoramic Interests\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Interior_TableBed_QueenBedUp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Panoramic Interests\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Interior_QueenBed_LookingIn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76778\" title=\"Courtesy of Panoramic Interests\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Interior_QueenBed_LookingIn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Panoramic Interests\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Interior_TwinBeds_LookingOut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76777\" title=\"Courtesy of Panoramic Interests\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Interior_TwinBeds_LookingOut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Panoramic Interests\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Overhead_TableBed_-QueenBedDown.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76781\" title=\"SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Overhead_TableBed_-QueenBedDown\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Overhead_TableBed_-QueenBedDown.jpg\" alt=\"Floor plans with a queen bed that folds into a table. Courtesy of Panoramic Interests.\" width=\"640\" height=\"989\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floor plan with a queen bed that folds into a table. Courtesy of Panoramic Interests.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Overhead_TwinBeds.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76782\" title=\"SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Overhead_TwinBeds\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/SMARTSPACE-SoMa_Overhead_TwinBeds.jpg\" alt=\"Floor plan with a twin beds. Courtesy of Panoramic Interests.\" width=\"640\" height=\"989\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floor plan with twin beds. 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Wiener drafted the legislation for the smaller apartments.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The legislation has its opponents. From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-micro-apartments-20120924,0,5210788.story\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...some critics worry that the swank model units getting kudos from officials might not be the norm. What's to stop other developers, tenants' rights advocates ask, from building grimmer versions, with low ceilings and poor light?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I say no shoe box legislation,\" Carmelita Perez, 67, told demonstrators at a recent news conference, where a small child sat inside a mock unit taped to the sidewalk in front of City Hall. \"We are humans, not spiders.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Some have compared the smaller living rooms that would be allowed under the revised code to parking spaces. 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"content": "\u003cp>Although foreclosures in the state have hit a \u003ca href=\"http://dqnews.com/Articles/2012/News/California/CA-Foreclosures/RRFor120723.aspx\">five-year low\u003c/a>, real estate experts say millions of Californians who owe more on their homes than they are worth might not see their situation improve for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo4.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71705\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>“It’s a huge drain on the economy,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cepr.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Economic and Policy Research\u003c/a>, a liberal think tank. “All these people will be approaching retirement with very little money. Ordinarily, you’d expect to have money in your home. But a lot of folks will be lucky to have half their home paid off because they lost so much equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the real estate tracking firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.dataquick.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DataQuick\u003c/a>, more than a third of California homes with mortgages were underwater in February. That includes homeowners who bought at the peak of the housing boom and those who used their home as equity to borrow more money than it is now worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71702\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/home-for-sale.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-71702\" title=\"home for sale\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/home-for-sale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Home for sale (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Locally, the proportion of borrowers whose mortgages are worth more than their homes ranged from 28 percent in Santa Clara County to 42 percent in Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the real estate tracking firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.dataquick.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DataQuick\u003c/a>, more than a third of California homes with mortgages were underwater in February. That includes homeowners who bought at the peak of the housing boom and those who used their home as equity to borrow more money than it is now worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, the proportion of borrowers whose mortgages are worth more than their homes ranged from 28 percent in Santa Clara County to 42 percent in Solano County.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before the recession, during the housing boom, what fueled the economy in general was the concept that your home was your piggy bank, to do your vacation, remodel your house or make a major purchase,” said Ed Martinez, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Martinez said, consumer spending is down, in part because many of those homeowners cannot afford to shop for anything but the necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, government efforts aimed at helping struggling homeowners have stalled as financial institutions have balked at writing down debt for large numbers of consumers. In February, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a settlement with the nation’s five largest banks that is expected to bring \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-secures-18-billion-california-commitment\" target=\"_blank\">$12 billion in principal reduction\u003c/a> to California borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the relief will come over three years and is broadly seen as addressing only a small portion of the debt accrued by homeowners who are underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, Bay Area home prices fell 1 percent from May 2011 to April 2012 and remained 40 percent below their May 2006 peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anybody in the industry who talks about anything getting back to their peak for anything like 10 years,” said DataQuick analyst Andrew LePage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, LePage said, many homeowners are unable to sell their homes without ruining their credit and therefore are unlikely to move – even for a better job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of people are stuck, and lots of people will be stuck for years in most of the state,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71167\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 111px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/24877924@N00/100249301/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-71167\" title=\"Willie_Brown_in_2006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/Willie_Brown_in_2006-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Brown in 2006 (sftreasurehunt/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to film criticism, Willie Brown is of a less-is-more mindset. His complete take on Wes Anderson's \u003cem>Moonrise Kingdom\u003c/em>, for instance, from one of his recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Governor-on-right-track-with-high-speed-rail-push-3690625.php\">San Francisco Chronicle columns\u003c/a>: \"This movie has been playing for a while, and for a very good reason. It's a winner.\" Mick LaSalle, you can give up your day job now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/23/willie-brown-washington-monthly/#interviews\">\u003cstrong>How powerful is Willie Brown? Interviews w/ Scott Shafer, Corey Cook\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lack of movie-reviewing chops, however, may be the only incompetency with which Brown is afflicted. The latest issue of The Washington Monthly makes this plain in an article called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust_2012/features/the_power_broker038423.php\">\u003cstrong>The Power Broker\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>,\" which has been \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/sf-cognoscenti-buzz-over-article-about-willie-browns-influence.html\">making the local insider rounds\u003c/a>. The article's deck reads this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco’s ex-mayor Willie Brown has pioneered a new way to control a city without breaking a sweat—or running for office, or getting elected, or disclosing his clients, or making anyone particularly mad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown...is possibly more powerful and certainly less controversial now than when he held public office. The ethics and criminal investigations that dogged his entire political career (no charges were ever filed) have been largely forgotten...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is now a private attorney under no obligation to disclose the identity of his clients or his interactions with the legion of public officials and others who owe their careers to him. (The most promising of these may be California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Brown’s onetime girlfriend.) Brown operates in a post-partisan, post-paper trail world in which he reaps the benefits of power while bearing none of the unpleasant culpability or scrutiny that typically comes with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no scandal here. Brown helped create the system that allows him to flourish now. And he plays that system like a born musician who rarely if ever hits a wrong note...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Brown’s power springs from his web of relationships and his intricate and strategic understanding, cultivated over six decades, of how politics in San Francisco and California is played.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong words, but not such a surprise to those who remember Brown, now 78, for his 15 years running roughshod over opponents as Speaker of the California Assembly, then his two terms as San Francisco mayor. The original Slick Willie, Brown's mastery of Assembly rules combined with a street fighter's will to win resulted in political victories that have now passed into \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-08/news/mn-6560_1_willie-brown\">political lore\u003c/a>. Brown made a habit, for instance, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/electoral-50653-states-bill.html\">stopping the Assembly clock before midnight\u003c/a> at the end of a legislative session so bills could continue to be passed. And in 1994, when it seemed certain his speakership would come to an end along with the Democrats' majority, he pulled a big fat rabbit out of one of his \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24137_1_willie-brown\">fashionable hats\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">coaxing one independent and one disgruntled Republican to switch sides\u003c/a>, cutting a deal with GOP Assemblywoman Doris Allen that resulted in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-06/news/mn-9978_1_speaker-emeritus\">her election as a sort of puppet Speaker\u003c/a> (she was soon recalled by angry GOP voters), with Brown receiving the title \"Speaker emeritus.\" After the coup, Brown lorded it over his nemesis, GOP Assembly Leader Jim Brulte, as reported in the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Mr. Brulte, he hasn't hit the wall. He still thinks he can win the speakership,\" Brown said, clearly delighted at the recent turn of events. \"Apparently, the month of promising the world that he was going to be Speaker raised the level of expectations among Republicans so much so that they are irrational. . . . They really thought their time had come and when it became apparent their time had not come, they became really angry.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the surface [he appears] to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\n--The California Report's Scott Shafer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the enactment of term limits, Brown moved on to become mayor of San Francisco, promptly setting off a war with city progressives over his pro-development agenda, as well as drawing scrutiny for his particular brand of insider politics. From a 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/THE-MAYOR-S-LEGACY-WILLIE-BROWN-Da-Mayor-2832960.php\">Chronicle retrospective piece\u003c/a> on Brown's mayoral legacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown's controversial pro-development policies turned traditional blue- collar neighborhoods into yuppie enclaves with pricey loft developments, setting off a political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his tenure, he was dogged by allegations of corruption and cronyism in the awarding of city jobs and contracts. Even though FBI investigations never unearthed any wrongdoing by Brown, wary voters approved several measures to limit the mayor's powers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After being termed out of the mayor's job, Brown continued to wield influence, furthering Gavin Newsom's political career by appointing him to the Board of Supervisors, then pulling a technocrat named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/edlee-vs-willie-brown/\">Ed Lee out of the chorus of obscure municipal officials\u003c/a> to become a star as interim mayor of San Francisco when Newsom won election as Lieutenant Governor. Lee had a sort of avuncular, anti-charisma that played palatably after the Brown and Newsom years, and the two of them, along with \u003ca>string-puller-in-arms Rose Pak\u003c/a>, somehow managed to squeeze him past a progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors that included anti-Lee diehard Chris Daly, who famously called Lee's accession the \"\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/01/interim_mayor_selected.php\">biggest fumble in the history of progressive politics\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's promise to not seek the job permanently was a big factor among some supervisors who helped install him, and who had mayoral aspirations of their own. Later, of course, Lee pulled the Big Switcheroo, reportedly under pressure from Brown, running for and handily winning a term as mayor. And while Lee's mayoral opponents \u003ca>tried to make his relationship with his benefactor a major issue\u003c/a> during the campaign, the public yawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I asked two observers of the San Francisco political scene, Scott Shafer and Corey Cook, to assess Brown's influence on what goes on in the city today. Shafer, a reporter and host for The California Report, is also a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/01/what-are-politicians-really-like-scott-shafer-our-own-ex-insider-illuminates/\">former insider\u003c/a> who worked for Art Agnos and Gray Davis. Cook teaches political science at USF and has been an elections analyst for KQED. Both agreed that Willie is still a force to be reckoned with. Says Shafer: \"There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\" And from Cook: \"I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\" When I asked Cook if Ed Lee was a mayor who is simply simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown, or if he's actually carrying out a specific Brown agenda, Cook said, \"I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interviews\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Scott Shafer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what are your thoughts on Willie Brown's influence over the political system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED'S SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown holds a unique place in California and San Francisco political history, and in fact currently. He's part Herb Caen, part Boss Tweed, part Wizard of Oz. He's someone who has always understood power, wielded power, and loved power. So eight years after leaving office, he still has an enormous amount of influence not just in San Francisco but in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has the ear of a lot of people, he has a knack for collecting chits and knowing when to spend them and how to spend them and doing it in a way that on the surface makes him appear to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering. There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: He wields influence, but he has not broken any laws, at least that we know of...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown never breaks the law. He knows where the line is, and he may walk right up to it and he may even kind of look over it, but he rarely crosses it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I interviewed Willie Brown before he left office, he laughingly said one of his greatest accomplishments was not getting indicted. He was joking. But in the legislature when he was speaker, there were people all around him that had FBI wires, legislators that were investigated, some that were in the middle of scandal. Willie's rarely been in the middle of a scandal, but he's often at the periphery of it, at least publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's shown an uncanny ability to develop relationships with people in a way that accumulates power for him, and then he uses that power in ways that are not obviously apparent. A lot of things happen because of Willie Brown, but he doesn't really leave fingerprints. And by that I don't mean to suggest at all that everything he's doing is illegal. But he's just very smart about strategy and power and politics and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So he knows where the levers are...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Oh, He owns the levers. He is a political Houdini. There was a time in the legislature when the republicans actually had a majority, and he managed to maintain his speakership. He is a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> During the Newsom years, how influential was Brown, and how much was Newsom a creature of Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown gave Gavin Newsom his first political appointment, then put him on the Board of Supervisors, and then endorsed him for mayor and campaigned for him. And while I think Gavin Newsom publicly tried and perhaps privately tried to distance himself from Willie brown once he became mayor, and to deliberately be more transparent in his dealings than Willie Brown was, there's no question Willie Brown maintained a close relationship and a very probably influential relationship with Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> How do you think Ed lee has done regarding his relationship with Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's incumbent on the mayor to distinguish himself from Brown and Pak. I don't know the things he's done that were strongly opposed by Brown and Pak, and just because Pak makes a lot of noise publicly, it doesn't mean she really cares. The same is true of Willie Brown. These are two of the shrewdest political operators in the state, and so they know that sometimes it's beneficial to Ed lee to have them campaign and criticise him publicly; that can be helpful to their guy. They're not above doing that to help him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Now here's my interview with Corey Cook\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So how powerful is Willie Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>USF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't see the way it works today as a political machine in the classic sense; it's a different animal than that. Historically, oftentimes the power of the machine wasn't the mayor, it was the informal power of the boss. In some cities, the mayor and the boss were one and the same, like in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's not a patronage machine in the same way, but certainly what he's been able to do is leverage the informal power that he has, which is considerable. It's partly term limits and it's partly the incapacity of local government generally, but there's a clear vacuum in terms of having a leadership structure, and Willie Brown remains one of the great strategic thinkers of his generation, and he remains super well- connected in the public and private sectors, so he's uniquely capable of filling the role he does. And that's being facilitated by the weakness of our institutional actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of talk right now that whether you like Willie and his politics or not, there's a clear sense that this is a return in many ways to the Willie Brown era. There's a tech bubble emerging, increasing pressures like a housing crisis and gentrification in the Mission district...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years or so, this fight between the progressives and moderates has splintered into the fight over things like the plastic bag ban and the Happy Meal ban and ranked-choice voting and a variety of other issues. But the big fights right now are over development, the same fights that were around when Willie was mayor. And he's in a unique position to build a pro-development coalition. The power he brings is around how do you get these big deals done, which is his expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's the Warriors stadium or the 8 Washington project or other big deals on the horizon, it takes these extra-institutional players to play a role, and there's a re-emergence of interest in this Willie Brown machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your view is that the city needs to be able to get these big projects done, then Willie Brown becomes an essential power broker. If your perspective is this is going to drive up housing prices and gentrify neighborhoods and fundamentally change the character of the city, then your perspective is oh my gosh, Willie Brown. Progressives are certainly concerned; they don't read the Washington Monthly piece through a positive lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Willie was mayor, his mayoralty spawned this progressive revolt that resulted in a super-majority of the Board of Supervisors being progressive. The Newsom term was these two big ideological camps – progressives and moderates – fighting over land use, which was really a response to Willie's time as mayor. At the end of the Newsom term, there was a stalemate where things sort of got blocked generally. The progressives didn't do well in the 2010 election, and then Ed Lee was elected, sort of this consensus mayor, and right now progressives are on their heels again saying this looks an awful lot like the dotcom boom and the politics of the 90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks who like these development politics are saying thank goodness Willie's back. Because he's able to break that gridlock that Newsom was never able to break through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How much of an extension of Willie Brown is Ed lee? Is Lee just a mayor that's simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown when he was mayor, or is he tied up with Brown and carrying out Brown's agenda?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer. I think that was the question when Ed lee got in the race. I thought the best argument against Ed Lee – the one criticism that sort of stung him – was a quote from City Attorney Dennis Herrera, where he said I'm worried about him being his own man, basically. That Ed Lee said he wasn't interested in running, and now he's being compelled to run. So who's' compelling him? That was potentially the most biting criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does Mayor Lee think the Twitter tax break was a good idea and so did Willie, and there's a commonality? Or is the mayor just carrying the water? I don't know. That's the question that people have had since he was the interim. And that's always the tough question when you talk about these things. It's hard sorting out cause and effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my sense is that Ed Lee has changed his style the last couple of months. He's gone from being more consensus-based, and Willie's encouraged that in his column. So Ed Lee's style has changed, but on substantive issues it's tough to judge. He hasn't done anything so far that he didn't say he'd do in the campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71167\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 111px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/24877924@N00/100249301/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-71167\" title=\"Willie_Brown_in_2006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/Willie_Brown_in_2006-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Brown in 2006 (sftreasurehunt/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to film criticism, Willie Brown is of a less-is-more mindset. His complete take on Wes Anderson's \u003cem>Moonrise Kingdom\u003c/em>, for instance, from one of his recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Governor-on-right-track-with-high-speed-rail-push-3690625.php\">San Francisco Chronicle columns\u003c/a>: \"This movie has been playing for a while, and for a very good reason. It's a winner.\" Mick LaSalle, you can give up your day job now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/23/willie-brown-washington-monthly/#interviews\">\u003cstrong>How powerful is Willie Brown? Interviews w/ Scott Shafer, Corey Cook\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lack of movie-reviewing chops, however, may be the only incompetency with which Brown is afflicted. The latest issue of The Washington Monthly makes this plain in an article called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust_2012/features/the_power_broker038423.php\">\u003cstrong>The Power Broker\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>,\" which has been \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/sf-cognoscenti-buzz-over-article-about-willie-browns-influence.html\">making the local insider rounds\u003c/a>. The article's deck reads this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco’s ex-mayor Willie Brown has pioneered a new way to control a city without breaking a sweat—or running for office, or getting elected, or disclosing his clients, or making anyone particularly mad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown...is possibly more powerful and certainly less controversial now than when he held public office. The ethics and criminal investigations that dogged his entire political career (no charges were ever filed) have been largely forgotten...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is now a private attorney under no obligation to disclose the identity of his clients or his interactions with the legion of public officials and others who owe their careers to him. (The most promising of these may be California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Brown’s onetime girlfriend.) Brown operates in a post-partisan, post-paper trail world in which he reaps the benefits of power while bearing none of the unpleasant culpability or scrutiny that typically comes with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no scandal here. Brown helped create the system that allows him to flourish now. And he plays that system like a born musician who rarely if ever hits a wrong note...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Brown’s power springs from his web of relationships and his intricate and strategic understanding, cultivated over six decades, of how politics in San Francisco and California is played.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong words, but not such a surprise to those who remember Brown, now 78, for his 15 years running roughshod over opponents as Speaker of the California Assembly, then his two terms as San Francisco mayor. The original Slick Willie, Brown's mastery of Assembly rules combined with a street fighter's will to win resulted in political victories that have now passed into \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-08/news/mn-6560_1_willie-brown\">political lore\u003c/a>. Brown made a habit, for instance, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/electoral-50653-states-bill.html\">stopping the Assembly clock before midnight\u003c/a> at the end of a legislative session so bills could continue to be passed. And in 1994, when it seemed certain his speakership would come to an end along with the Democrats' majority, he pulled a big fat rabbit out of one of his \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24137_1_willie-brown\">fashionable hats\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">coaxing one independent and one disgruntled Republican to switch sides\u003c/a>, cutting a deal with GOP Assemblywoman Doris Allen that resulted in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-06/news/mn-9978_1_speaker-emeritus\">her election as a sort of puppet Speaker\u003c/a> (she was soon recalled by angry GOP voters), with Brown receiving the title \"Speaker emeritus.\" After the coup, Brown lorded it over his nemesis, GOP Assembly Leader Jim Brulte, as reported in the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Mr. Brulte, he hasn't hit the wall. He still thinks he can win the speakership,\" Brown said, clearly delighted at the recent turn of events. \"Apparently, the month of promising the world that he was going to be Speaker raised the level of expectations among Republicans so much so that they are irrational. . . . They really thought their time had come and when it became apparent their time had not come, they became really angry.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the surface [he appears] to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\n--The California Report's Scott Shafer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the enactment of term limits, Brown moved on to become mayor of San Francisco, promptly setting off a war with city progressives over his pro-development agenda, as well as drawing scrutiny for his particular brand of insider politics. From a 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/THE-MAYOR-S-LEGACY-WILLIE-BROWN-Da-Mayor-2832960.php\">Chronicle retrospective piece\u003c/a> on Brown's mayoral legacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown's controversial pro-development policies turned traditional blue- collar neighborhoods into yuppie enclaves with pricey loft developments, setting off a political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his tenure, he was dogged by allegations of corruption and cronyism in the awarding of city jobs and contracts. Even though FBI investigations never unearthed any wrongdoing by Brown, wary voters approved several measures to limit the mayor's powers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After being termed out of the mayor's job, Brown continued to wield influence, furthering Gavin Newsom's political career by appointing him to the Board of Supervisors, then pulling a technocrat named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/edlee-vs-willie-brown/\">Ed Lee out of the chorus of obscure municipal officials\u003c/a> to become a star as interim mayor of San Francisco when Newsom won election as Lieutenant Governor. Lee had a sort of avuncular, anti-charisma that played palatably after the Brown and Newsom years, and the two of them, along with \u003ca>string-puller-in-arms Rose Pak\u003c/a>, somehow managed to squeeze him past a progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors that included anti-Lee diehard Chris Daly, who famously called Lee's accession the \"\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/01/interim_mayor_selected.php\">biggest fumble in the history of progressive politics\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's promise to not seek the job permanently was a big factor among some supervisors who helped install him, and who had mayoral aspirations of their own. Later, of course, Lee pulled the Big Switcheroo, reportedly under pressure from Brown, running for and handily winning a term as mayor. And while Lee's mayoral opponents \u003ca>tried to make his relationship with his benefactor a major issue\u003c/a> during the campaign, the public yawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I asked two observers of the San Francisco political scene, Scott Shafer and Corey Cook, to assess Brown's influence on what goes on in the city today. Shafer, a reporter and host for The California Report, is also a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/01/what-are-politicians-really-like-scott-shafer-our-own-ex-insider-illuminates/\">former insider\u003c/a> who worked for Art Agnos and Gray Davis. Cook teaches political science at USF and has been an elections analyst for KQED. Both agreed that Willie is still a force to be reckoned with. Says Shafer: \"There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\" And from Cook: \"I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\" When I asked Cook if Ed Lee was a mayor who is simply simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown, or if he's actually carrying out a specific Brown agenda, Cook said, \"I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interviews\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Scott Shafer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what are your thoughts on Willie Brown's influence over the political system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED'S SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown holds a unique place in California and San Francisco political history, and in fact currently. He's part Herb Caen, part Boss Tweed, part Wizard of Oz. He's someone who has always understood power, wielded power, and loved power. So eight years after leaving office, he still has an enormous amount of influence not just in San Francisco but in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has the ear of a lot of people, he has a knack for collecting chits and knowing when to spend them and how to spend them and doing it in a way that on the surface makes him appear to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering. There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: He wields influence, but he has not broken any laws, at least that we know of...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown never breaks the law. He knows where the line is, and he may walk right up to it and he may even kind of look over it, but he rarely crosses it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I interviewed Willie Brown before he left office, he laughingly said one of his greatest accomplishments was not getting indicted. He was joking. But in the legislature when he was speaker, there were people all around him that had FBI wires, legislators that were investigated, some that were in the middle of scandal. Willie's rarely been in the middle of a scandal, but he's often at the periphery of it, at least publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's shown an uncanny ability to develop relationships with people in a way that accumulates power for him, and then he uses that power in ways that are not obviously apparent. A lot of things happen because of Willie Brown, but he doesn't really leave fingerprints. And by that I don't mean to suggest at all that everything he's doing is illegal. But he's just very smart about strategy and power and politics and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So he knows where the levers are...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Oh, He owns the levers. He is a political Houdini. There was a time in the legislature when the republicans actually had a majority, and he managed to maintain his speakership. He is a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> During the Newsom years, how influential was Brown, and how much was Newsom a creature of Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown gave Gavin Newsom his first political appointment, then put him on the Board of Supervisors, and then endorsed him for mayor and campaigned for him. And while I think Gavin Newsom publicly tried and perhaps privately tried to distance himself from Willie brown once he became mayor, and to deliberately be more transparent in his dealings than Willie Brown was, there's no question Willie Brown maintained a close relationship and a very probably influential relationship with Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> How do you think Ed lee has done regarding his relationship with Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's incumbent on the mayor to distinguish himself from Brown and Pak. I don't know the things he's done that were strongly opposed by Brown and Pak, and just because Pak makes a lot of noise publicly, it doesn't mean she really cares. The same is true of Willie Brown. These are two of the shrewdest political operators in the state, and so they know that sometimes it's beneficial to Ed lee to have them campaign and criticise him publicly; that can be helpful to their guy. They're not above doing that to help him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Now here's my interview with Corey Cook\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So how powerful is Willie Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>USF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't see the way it works today as a political machine in the classic sense; it's a different animal than that. Historically, oftentimes the power of the machine wasn't the mayor, it was the informal power of the boss. In some cities, the mayor and the boss were one and the same, like in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's not a patronage machine in the same way, but certainly what he's been able to do is leverage the informal power that he has, which is considerable. It's partly term limits and it's partly the incapacity of local government generally, but there's a clear vacuum in terms of having a leadership structure, and Willie Brown remains one of the great strategic thinkers of his generation, and he remains super well- connected in the public and private sectors, so he's uniquely capable of filling the role he does. And that's being facilitated by the weakness of our institutional actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of talk right now that whether you like Willie and his politics or not, there's a clear sense that this is a return in many ways to the Willie Brown era. There's a tech bubble emerging, increasing pressures like a housing crisis and gentrification in the Mission district...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years or so, this fight between the progressives and moderates has splintered into the fight over things like the plastic bag ban and the Happy Meal ban and ranked-choice voting and a variety of other issues. But the big fights right now are over development, the same fights that were around when Willie was mayor. And he's in a unique position to build a pro-development coalition. The power he brings is around how do you get these big deals done, which is his expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's the Warriors stadium or the 8 Washington project or other big deals on the horizon, it takes these extra-institutional players to play a role, and there's a re-emergence of interest in this Willie Brown machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your view is that the city needs to be able to get these big projects done, then Willie Brown becomes an essential power broker. If your perspective is this is going to drive up housing prices and gentrify neighborhoods and fundamentally change the character of the city, then your perspective is oh my gosh, Willie Brown. Progressives are certainly concerned; they don't read the Washington Monthly piece through a positive lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Willie was mayor, his mayoralty spawned this progressive revolt that resulted in a super-majority of the Board of Supervisors being progressive. The Newsom term was these two big ideological camps – progressives and moderates – fighting over land use, which was really a response to Willie's time as mayor. At the end of the Newsom term, there was a stalemate where things sort of got blocked generally. The progressives didn't do well in the 2010 election, and then Ed Lee was elected, sort of this consensus mayor, and right now progressives are on their heels again saying this looks an awful lot like the dotcom boom and the politics of the 90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks who like these development politics are saying thank goodness Willie's back. Because he's able to break that gridlock that Newsom was never able to break through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How much of an extension of Willie Brown is Ed lee? Is Lee just a mayor that's simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown when he was mayor, or is he tied up with Brown and carrying out Brown's agenda?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer. I think that was the question when Ed lee got in the race. I thought the best argument against Ed Lee – the one criticism that sort of stung him – was a quote from City Attorney Dennis Herrera, where he said I'm worried about him being his own man, basically. That Ed Lee said he wasn't interested in running, and now he's being compelled to run. So who's' compelling him? That was potentially the most biting criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does Mayor Lee think the Twitter tax break was a good idea and so did Willie, and there's a commonality? Or is the mayor just carrying the water? I don't know. That's the question that people have had since he was the interim. And that's always the tough question when you talk about these things. It's hard sorting out cause and effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my sense is that Ed Lee has changed his style the last couple of months. He's gone from being more consensus-based, and Willie's encouraged that in his column. So Ed Lee's style has changed, but on substantive issues it's tough to judge. He hasn't done anything so far that he didn't say he'd do in the campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matt Smith, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/housing/story/mortgage-bailout-proposal-san-francisco/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and a longtime business partner are among investors in a company drawing criticism for working with local government officials to take over and discount underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69874\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The plan gained impetus last month, when officials in San Bernardino County formed a joint powers authority to consider a proposal from San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://mortgageresolutionpartners.com/\">Mortgage Resolution Partners\u003c/a> for local governments to use their powers of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company would raise capital to buy the mortgages from lenders at their depressed market price, perhaps less than half their original value. It would then offer the existing homeowners a new mortgage at a value in between the two, preventing foreclosure and pocketing a profit in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy, which Berkeley real estate investor Bill Falik told The Bay Citizen he helped develop, is expected to generate profits of as much as 20 percent, according to an October pitch to potential funders. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Falik are among 12 founding investors in Mortgage Resolution Partners, according to company spokesman Peter Ragone. Though San Bernardino is the furthest along, the company hopes to partner with local governments across the country to use eminent domain as a tool in fighting blight, Ragone added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond investors, the real estate industry and the editorial pages of national newspapers have denounced the plan as a politically wired money grab, warning that lenders will shun areas where they face the threat of government seizure of their home loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New buyers would be unable to get new loans in those communities, they allege. House prices might drop further, increasing, rather than reducing, blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics also complain that their warnings are being ignored in Sacramento and Washington because the Mortgage Resolution Partners deal is backed by politically powerful individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragone characterized the criticism as the self-serving complaints of financiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the typical canard that Wall Street and its lobbyists used whenever they don’t support an innovative public policy,” he said in an email. “Loans will still be made and investors will still make returns. Capitalism will carry on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did not respond to telephone and email messages requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time Falik, with Brown as an investment partner, has pursued a strategy that hinged on controversial real estate decisions by municipal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the boom years of California’s real estate market, then-Assembly Speaker Brown was a partner in a series of Falik-run real estate partnerships that helped turn thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland into new housing developments. In that case, the key was persuading local officials to rezone Sacramento River floodplain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had some successful investments, and we had some successes involving permits in Sacramento,” Falik said, adding that Brown was only one of 140 partners in those investments. “But I’m a very careful lawyer: I never met with Willie concerning one of my projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, owners of the homes built on that land, like thousands of other California homeowners, find their houses worth less than what they owe. Falik said that the new company, Mortgage Resolution Partners, would help local governments overcome problems preventing lenders from assisting such underwater borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many U.S. loans have been resold to investors as packages of mortgage-backed securities. These arrangements often prohibit loan discounting. In theory, an eminent domain seizure could override those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to my business partners in Sacramento, and they say nothing is selling because there’s all this foreclosure overhang,” Falik said. “If you can keep people in their homes and give them a mortgage in some way where they can continue to pay, it would make a huge difference in terms of blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, a group of 18 financial services lobbying organizations, including the American Bankers Association and the Inland Valley Association of Realtors, sent a joint letter to five San Bernardino County-area officials denouncing Mortgage Resolution Partners’ eminent domain plan. The proposal raises important “constitutional issues,” the letter said, suggesting the possibility of lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the major industry players on the critical letter’s masthead, opponents have had difficulties rallying politicians to their side, said Steve Manos, president of the Inland Valley Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From our vantage point, bringing attention to this was difficult. There seemed to be a reluctance for some people to take up the fight, though this seemed to be an easy one,” Manos said. “You have serious influence coming from heavy hitters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have warned that political influence might play a role in Mortgage Resolution Partners’ strategy as well. In January, Reuters reported that Mortgage Resolution Partners had sent a letter to potential investors saying the company would use “legal and political leverage” to purchase distressed mortgage, and that its founding executive chairman, Phil Angelides, “will be front-line center stage nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, U.S. Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., sent a letter to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, expressing concern about “influence peddling” by prominent California politicians linked to Mortgage Resolution Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company spokesman Ragone, who served as communications director for former Gov. Gray Davis and press secretary for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, said in an email that Mortgage Resolution Partners’ use of the term “political leverage” has been misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The January memo was an “outdated presentation where we used that phrase to characterize the policy of using eminent domain,” Ragone wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falik said the initial sales pitch promising “legal and political leverage” has morphed into perfecting a legal strategy focused on allowing homeowners to remain in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think initially people were thinking about politics more, and obviously, Willie is politically connected and very savvy, and so is Phil,” Falik said. “But it became a reality that this is much more legal in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelides, a former California state treasurer who also headed the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, has since left the company, replaced as chairman by venture capitalist and prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Steven Gluckstern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Angelides and Gluckstern together pitched the eminent domain idea in a Jan. 31 conference call with San Bernardino County CEO Greg Devereaux, according to a copy of Devereaux’s calendar obtained by The Bay Citizen. In March, April and May Devereaux’s calendar noted scheduled phone calls with Mortgage Resolution Partners executives, including Falik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mortgage Resolution Partners representatives mentioned during their conversations with him that Brown was an investor, said San Bernardino County spokesman David Wert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Devereaux would not “be influenced by any political clout Mr. Brown or Mr. Angelides are perceived to have in the Bay Area,” Wert said. “I think it could be agreed they have no such clout outside of the Bay Area and Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/\">www.baycitizen.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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