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Last year, Pintacsi was awarded $2.8 million in federal and state grants, meant to help the child care industry recover from the pandemic, to move into a bigger, more permanent space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi found a vacant church in Alta Heights, a hillside neighborhood of single-family homes, and outbid a few developers to buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a property that is perfect for this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20,000-square-foot church has a large parking lot, a lawn that could become a play yard and 18 rooms that could be converted into infant- and toddler-care rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15 Chapel Hill Dr., the site of a city-approved proposal to convert a Mormon church to the town’s largest childcare center in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The church also has a multipurpose room, complete with a basketball court, stage and kitchen. Pintacsi wants to rent it out for after-school care, day camps, birthday parties, puppet shows and other kid-oriented activities. The revenue would help cover child care costs for some families who receive financial aid and provide a livable wage for their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be able to have things for families to do in Napa, and we’d be able to raise money for more scholarships and teachers to be paid better so they can afford to live in Napa,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, longtime residents of Alta Heights oppose the project, saying that having such a big day care with multiple uses would increase noise and traffic, which may affect evacuations during a wildfire. They packed a planning commission meeting to voice their concerns, and after the panel approved the project, they appealed the decision to the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the council meeting, they waved signs that said, “Safety First Alta Heights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the preschool waved their own signs that declared: “Babies Over NIMBYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council rejected their appeal in May after finding that it wouldn’t significantly impact traffic and placing a limit on the types and size of events that would be allowed in the multipurpose room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, shows KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen a blueprint for 15 Chapel Hill Dr. in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the project has been held up since three neighbors filed a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, demanding the city rescind approval of the project until a more thorough environmental impact review is conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs declined to be interviewed, citing ongoing settlement talks and being the target of disparaging remarks. They were singled out in a website created by a group of parents who are supporters of both Le Petit Elephant and It Takes A Village, a nonprofit group raising funds for the preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers established CEQA in 1970 to better protect the environment from development. But in recent years, the statute has drawn criticism as it’s been used as a tool to block housing and infrastructure projects. Developers are often compelled to do costly environmental impact studies, scale back their projects or face long delays, said Chris Elmendorf, a land use and housing expert at UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got the ability to force a delay of a couple of years at an expense of a couple hundred thousand dollars onto a project, you have a lot of leverage to negotiate for any kind of side arrangement that you’d like,” Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited a lawsuit that delayed the construction of a much-needed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989237/uc-berkeley-can-start-building-on-peoples-park-california-supreme-court-rules\">student housing project at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> for three years and ignited a fierce debate over CEQA. Two neighborhood groups sought to argue under the environmental law that noise generated by future student residents would be a form of pollution and demanded that the university study the impacts on neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi hopes to reach a deal so she can begin renovating the classrooms. Already, the legal fees have drained her financial aid fund, and she’s running out of time to renovate the classrooms or find another facility before her lease ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the church is the best option she found in her yearslong search for a suitable and affordable site for her preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no buildings that I can just jump to if this neighborhood doesn’t accept us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not easy to find a facility in a high-rent and well-developed city like Napa that meets zoning and licensing requirements for child care, said Daniel Sanchez, who’s in charge of Napa County’s distribution of federal pandemic aid to child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a huge amount of buildings turning over or going for sale, much less a huge amount of appropriate buildings that could be used for child care,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Burton, a small business consultant who helped Pintacsi look for another site for Le Petit Elephant, said the only other viable location was near two cannabis businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infant care is sorely lacking in the county because it’s not financially viable: providers have to meet tougher requirements than they do for toddler care, including a ratio of one adult for every four babies and a limit of four infants per home-based day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008443\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, wipes an infant’s nose at the school in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez cited a 2022 study of the region’s child care market, which found that providers also had a hard time hiring and retaining workers. Their median salaries of $20 to $25 per hour weren’t enough to cover Napa’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are some of the reasons why larger [child care] chains won’t come here,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that after-hours child care was also badly needed for hospitality and restaurant employees who work night or weekend shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal said the full-time child care her son receives from Le Petit Elephant amounts to 25% of her salary, but she couldn’t do without it because she doesn’t have relatives close by to help her. If the preschool closes, she said she may have to move out of the region and leave behind her career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Napa would not be Napa without the labor and the livelihoods of people who need child care,” she said. “We are raising the next generation of citizens that are going to be growing up in Napa, and Milli’s school is providing this amazing foundation [for children] who are going to contribute positively when they become young adults. And you need that to sustain a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the total amount of the government grants awarded to Pintacsi, and the group behind the website that singled out plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Petit Elephant cares for 128 children out of a former Christian school in a densely packed neighborhood of apartment buildings, businesses and homes. The lease for this property will end in December 2025. Last year, Pintacsi was awarded $2.8 million in federal and state grants, meant to help the child care industry recover from the pandemic, to move into a bigger, more permanent space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintacsi found a vacant church in Alta Heights, a hillside neighborhood of single-family homes, and outbid a few developers to buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a property that is perfect for this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20,000-square-foot church has a large parking lot, a lawn that could become a play yard and 18 rooms that could be converted into infant- and toddler-care rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">15 Chapel Hill Dr., the site of a city-approved proposal to convert a Mormon church to the town’s largest childcare center in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The church also has a multipurpose room, complete with a basketball court, stage and kitchen. Pintacsi wants to rent it out for after-school care, day camps, birthday parties, puppet shows and other kid-oriented activities. The revenue would help cover child care costs for some families who receive financial aid and provide a livable wage for their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be able to have things for families to do in Napa, and we’d be able to raise money for more scholarships and teachers to be paid better so they can afford to live in Napa,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, longtime residents of Alta Heights oppose the project, saying that having such a big day care with multiple uses would increase noise and traffic, which may affect evacuations during a wildfire. They packed a planning commission meeting to voice their concerns, and after the panel approved the project, they appealed the decision to the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the council meeting, they waved signs that said, “Safety First Alta Heights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the preschool waved their own signs that declared: “Babies Over NIMBYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council rejected their appeal in May after finding that it wouldn’t significantly impact traffic and placing a limit on the types and size of events that would be allowed in the multipurpose room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12008440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milli Pintacsi, Founder of Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool, shows KQED reporter Daisy Nguyen a blueprint for 15 Chapel Hill Dr. in Napa on September 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the project has been held up since three neighbors filed a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, demanding the city rescind approval of the project until a more thorough environmental impact review is conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs declined to be interviewed, citing ongoing settlement talks and being the target of disparaging remarks. They were singled out in a website created by a group of parents who are supporters of both Le Petit Elephant and It Takes A Village, a nonprofit group raising funds for the preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers established CEQA in 1970 to better protect the environment from development. But in recent years, the statute has drawn criticism as it’s been used as a tool to block housing and infrastructure projects. Developers are often compelled to do costly environmental impact studies, scale back their projects or face long delays, said Chris Elmendorf, a land use and housing expert at UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got the ability to force a delay of a couple of years at an expense of a couple hundred thousand dollars onto a project, you have a lot of leverage to negotiate for any kind of side arrangement that you’d like,” Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If Californians vote to approve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007197/transcript-proposition-33-would-end-state-limits-on-rent-control\">a rent control measure on the ballot\u003c/a>, thousands of Berkeley tenants could immediately see new limits on how much their landlords can raise their rent each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who are living in units that aren’t right for them will have a chance to move without losing their affordability,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, a longtime tenant lawyer and chair of the city’s rent board. “For some people, it will keep them housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same scenario, in which the city could cap rent increases on single-family homes and apartments more than 20 years old and units with new tenants, is a nightmare for Krista Gulbransen, who heads the Berkeley Property Owners Association, representing the city’s landlords. “We would revert back to the 1980s, and it wouldn’t just be roller skates or rainbow headbands. It would be a lot worse,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008424]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 33 would repeal a state housing law limiting how cities can regulate rents, letting local governments make that decision. Most California cities wouldn’t see an immediate change. However, in a few cities like Berkeley, local laws already contain language, allowing much more sweeping regulation than current state law. In those cities and in others where left-leaning elected officials have expressed public support for expanding rent control, renters could see the soonest benefit from Proposition 33 — and landlords the soonest headaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 30 cities in California already \u003ca href=\"https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-rent-control-law.html\">place some limits on rent increases\u003c/a>, with caps ranging from 3% to 10% annually for covered units, some pegged to inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, California caps rent increases for apartments and corporate-owned houses more than 15 years old at 10% per year — a rate that tenant advocates have said can still place a significant burden on tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those local ordinances were once much stricter. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, concern about soaring housing costs led a few cities to limit rent increases even when a new tenant moves in — known as vacancy control. However, the 1995 law that Proposition 33 would repeal, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, put a stop to that, along with any rent control on single-family homes or those built after 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the ban on rent control for single-family homes that most bothers Melvin Willis, a city council member in Richmond, one of the Bay Area’s few remaining solidly working-class cities. Many families in his district rent their houses, he said, and some complain to him about steep rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a hard conversation to have with someone when they say, ‘My rent increased, but we have rent control,’ ” he said. Willis recalled explaining to one family whose rent had doubled that the city’s 3% cap on rent bumps doesn’t apply to single-family homes. “I’ve had that conversation multiple times and it doesn’t feel good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s rent ordinance leaves out any housing “exempt from rent control pursuant to the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.” Willis and other affordable housing advocates take that to mean that if Costa-Hawkins goes away, single-family homes and other dwellings that the state law excluded would automatically fall under rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolas Traylor, the executive director of Richmond’s rent program, was more cautious. The ordinance could be referring to units actually exempt under Costa-Hawkins, he said, or just the types of units, like single-family homes, that Costa-Hawkins excluded. If Proposition 33 passes, he said, the rent program’s general counsel would have to recommend how to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city supervisors avoided that ambiguity by unanimously passing legislation that would kick in if Proposition 33 passes, bringing rent control to an estimated 16,000 additional units. Mayor London Breed has said \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/15/rent-control-san-francisco-prop-33-london-breed/\">she will sign it\u003c/a> if the proposition passes, the San Francisco Standard reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco belongs to a group of cities — along with Berkeley, Oakland, Los Angeles, and the southern California cities of West Hollywood and Santa Monica — with longstanding rent control that current state law especially constrains. That’s because Costa-Hawkins grandfathered in any exemptions they had for more newly built units. So, in San Francisco, apartments built after 1979 are considered “new construction” and exempt from rent control. In Los Angeles, it’s 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california,Learn about the California Propositions' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Propositions-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely arbitrary that we can create rent control for buildings from 1978, but we can’t do it for 1980,” said Los Angeles City Council member Hugo Soto-Martínez, pointing to the city’s homelessness crisis. “Every year, we continue to lose more of our rent-stabilized housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council last week passed a resolution, authored by Soto-Martínez, endorsing Proposition 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those kinds of actions by cities trouble landlords, who point out that their costs for utilities and insurance are rising, in some cases, outpacing inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email newsletter sent to housing providers Friday, real estate firm Bornstein Law warned its clients that “there is a real possibility that Proposition 33 will pass because of the widespread belief that the rents are too damn high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm urged landlords, in preparation for the potential policy shift, “to raise the rents to market rate if landlords are able to do so” and to consider offering voluntary buyouts to tenants paying below-market rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 33 opponents have also raised concerns that cities will enact rent control so strict it will stifle new housing construction at a time when the state desperately needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has done so much to remove barriers to building housing and to incentivize affordable housing construction, but Proposition 33 would give NIMBY cities a really powerful weapon to do an end run around those rules,” said Nathan Click, a spokesperson for the No on 33 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, San Francisco shows that, given the flexibility to craft new policies, even cities with strong histories of tenant advocacy might opt for more modest changes to rent control that can win broad political support. Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin had originally proposed that the city expand rent control to cover housing built before 2024 but walked that back to 1994, an idea that won backing from both the city government’s progressive and moderate wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rent control expansion “is also going to depend on not just tenant and housing organizations but other civil society organizations in those communities,” said Shanti Singh, legislative director for Tenants Together. “Are they going to be ready to or willing to push for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California’s Equity Research Institute, said his research shows that rent stabilization without vacancy control helps prevent displacement by keeping rents more affordable while avoiding slowing new construction since there are still incentives to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If cities start capping rent increases when new tenants move in, he said, the effects become more difficult to predict. That’s in part because the last time California cities experimented with vacancy control was more than 30 years ago — back when more multifamily housing was being built and before the tech boom put unprecedented pressure on Northern California’s housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that is likely, he said: California would see geographic variation, with more progressive coastal cities putting in stricter rent caps while inland cities with moderate politics seek to lure development with looser rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the proponents of Prop. 33 think this will solve our housing crisis, they’re mistaken,” he said. “If the opponents of Prop. 33 think that this will result in housing armageddon, they’re mistaken as well.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 33 would repeal a state housing law limiting how cities can regulate rents, letting local governments make that decision. Most California cities wouldn’t see an immediate change. However, in a few cities like Berkeley, local laws already contain language, allowing much more sweeping regulation than current state law. In those cities and in others where left-leaning elected officials have expressed public support for expanding rent control, renters could see the soonest benefit from Proposition 33 — and landlords the soonest headaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely arbitrary that we can create rent control for buildings from 1978, but we can’t do it for 1980,” said Los Angeles City Council member Hugo Soto-Martínez, pointing to the city’s homelessness crisis. “Every year, we continue to lose more of our rent-stabilized housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council last week passed a resolution, authored by Soto-Martínez, endorsing Proposition 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those kinds of actions by cities trouble landlords, who point out that their costs for utilities and insurance are rising, in some cases, outpacing inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email newsletter sent to housing providers Friday, real estate firm Bornstein Law warned its clients that “there is a real possibility that Proposition 33 will pass because of the widespread belief that the rents are too damn high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm urged landlords, in preparation for the potential policy shift, “to raise the rents to market rate if landlords are able to do so” and to consider offering voluntary buyouts to tenants paying below-market rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 33 opponents have also raised concerns that cities will enact rent control so strict it will stifle new housing construction at a time when the state desperately needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has done so much to remove barriers to building housing and to incentivize affordable housing construction, but Proposition 33 would give NIMBY cities a really powerful weapon to do an end run around those rules,” said Nathan Click, a spokesperson for the No on 33 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, San Francisco shows that, given the flexibility to craft new policies, even cities with strong histories of tenant advocacy might opt for more modest changes to rent control that can win broad political support. Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin had originally proposed that the city expand rent control to cover housing built before 2024 but walked that back to 1994, an idea that won backing from both the city government’s progressive and moderate wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rent control expansion “is also going to depend on not just tenant and housing organizations but other civil society organizations in those communities,” said Shanti Singh, legislative director for Tenants Together. “Are they going to be ready to or willing to push for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California’s Equity Research Institute, said his research shows that rent stabilization without vacancy control helps prevent displacement by keeping rents more affordable while avoiding slowing new construction since there are still incentives to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If cities start capping rent increases when new tenants move in, he said, the effects become more difficult to predict. That’s in part because the last time California cities experimented with vacancy control was more than 30 years ago — back when more multifamily housing was being built and before the tech boom put unprecedented pressure on Northern California’s housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that is likely, he said: California would see geographic variation, with more progressive coastal cities putting in stricter rent caps while inland cities with moderate politics seek to lure development with looser rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/24/470710747/more-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-where-they-teach\">years\u003c/a>, Bay Area teachers have said one of their biggest concerns is finding affordable housing close to where they work. For some teachers, the fact that their salaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/better-pay-would-keep-teachers-from-quitting-but-theres-more-to-it/2022/07\">can’t keep up with the increased cost of living\u003c/a> has some considering leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more school districts across California are taking matters into their own hands by getting into the business of building housing for their teachers and staff on empty parking lots, unused office buildings and other excess land. And, in the Bay Area, two districts are turning to bond measures to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two bonds — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara/measures#measure-r\">Measure R in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanmateo/measures#measure-k\">Measure K in San Mateo County\u003c/a> — would raise $1.15 billion and $153 million, respectively, to pay for upgrades to school district facilities. Both measures include building affordable housing for teachers and staff in their descriptions for what the bond could fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures come as state leaders ask voters to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-2\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> to upgrade school facilities across California. And, as state leaders are faced with a lofty goal to plan for 2.5 million new homes statewide by 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">they are encouraging school districts to be more proactive\u003c/a> about building housing for their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a group of parents and teachers at the Cabrillo Unified School District saw other school districts develop housing for their employees and were inspired to campaign to get Measure K on the ballot. If approved by voters, most of the $153 million will be used to fix classrooms, according to members of the board. Some of the money can also be used to construct educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Unified School District’s Measure R anticipates dedicating approximately $283 million of the total $1.15 billion bond to build housing for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure supporting Measure R In San José. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renata Sanchez, president of the San José Teachers Union, said the district has seen employee vacancy rates rise, especially among instructional associates, the staff who support special education teachers, and who are often paid less than teachers. She said the bond could help keep those associates from leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody here wants to be in the business of developing land for housing,” Sanchez said. “We just feel that we’re cornered into it. We have to do something because nobody else is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of local bond measures say school districts should focus on educating their students, and that bond measures are often proposed too lightly, without thought to how they will impact future residents who have to pay back the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who owns a home is going to pay more for that home every year,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, which is opposed to both measures R and K. “And even if you’re a renter, guess where the landlord gets the money to pay these taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only a handful of school districts across the state have successfully completed construction on new workforce housing. Santa Clara Unified School District was the first district to build housing for its staff, according to the California School Board Association. The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. Another would move a magnet school to a larger campus and use the existing land to build approximately 120 apartments and townhomes. Their third site would build educator housing on what is currently a special education school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed site for educator housing on Lenzen Avenue, currently used as an employee parking lot for the San José Unified School District in San José. If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. But she said she didn’t want to wait any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are losing teachers across the state, but in this area, at an alarming rate,” she said. “Our kids will suffer if we don’t do something soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What housing questions do you have for KQED? \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\">Let us know\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures come as state leaders ask voters to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-2\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> to upgrade school facilities across California. And, as state leaders are faced with a lofty goal to plan for 2.5 million new homes statewide by 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">they are encouraging school districts to be more proactive\u003c/a> about building housing for their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a group of parents and teachers at the Cabrillo Unified School District saw other school districts develop housing for their employees and were inspired to campaign to get Measure K on the ballot. If approved by voters, most of the $153 million will be used to fix classrooms, according to members of the board. Some of the money can also be used to construct educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Unified School District’s Measure R anticipates dedicating approximately $283 million of the total $1.15 billion bond to build housing for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure supporting Measure R In San José. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renata Sanchez, president of the San José Teachers Union, said the district has seen employee vacancy rates rise, especially among instructional associates, the staff who support special education teachers, and who are often paid less than teachers. She said the bond could help keep those associates from leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody here wants to be in the business of developing land for housing,” Sanchez said. “We just feel that we’re cornered into it. We have to do something because nobody else is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of local bond measures say school districts should focus on educating their students, and that bond measures are often proposed too lightly, without thought to how they will impact future residents who have to pay back the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who owns a home is going to pay more for that home every year,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, which is opposed to both measures R and K. “And even if you’re a renter, guess where the landlord gets the money to pay these taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. 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If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. 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In April, an SUV crashed into a tent after jumping a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/video-suv-hits-pedestrians-sacramento/\">curb in Sacramento\u003c/a>, sending three people to the hospital. And last summer, a \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/family-wants-justice-for-woman-killed-in-lawn-mower-accident-in-modesto\">woman in Modesto\u003c/a> died after getting run over by a lawnmower while sleeping in tall grass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing these tragedies happen because people are living on our streets and not in housing and in safe places,” said Crystal Sanchez, founder and president of the Sacramento Homeless Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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The team trained the model to recognize not just simple keywords but also to identify a covenant even when a document scan is degraded, common strings of words and where in the document covenants are often located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask ChatGPT to detect racial covenants, it’ll do a decent job out of the box,” Surani said. “The challenge is when you are going over 5 million, 10 million, 20 million records, you need to be virtually perfect, or else you’re going to be missing something or you’re going to be buried under a pile of false positives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani and Ho said the model has so far shown itself to be nearly 100% accurate in finding covenants in the records it searched. In all, the AI-based technology was able to save about 86,000 person-hours for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racist covenants and restrictions often included racial epithets. The covenants were less often seen in the very early 20th century because it was still legal to zone by race. 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Terms such as ‘Negro,’ ‘Mongolian,’ and ‘colored’ were commonly employed to delineate the racial boundaries of acceptable property owners and tenants,” the RegLab’s research paper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1953px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1953\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png 1953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-800x251.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1020x320.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-160x50.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1536x481.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1920x602.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1953px) 100vw, 1953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of racist covenant clauses found in thousands of Santa Clara County deed records that were flagged by an AI-powered tool from Stanford University’s RegLab. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Stanford RegLab)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ho said he is optimistic the technology could be used to help governments look for other violations of California’s fair housing laws, including protections based on veteran status, family status, income and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani said that as someone who identifies as Asian American, he was struck by the bluntness and banality of how the covenants were included in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be one provision which says, you know, you have to install a sewage tank. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> County, home to many of the companies and centers of innovation that have earned Silicon Valley its name, governments often do things in an old-fashioned manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when California lawmakers handed down a mandate in 2021 that all counties in the state needed to cull their property deed records to find and redact racially restrictive covenants, Santa Clara County put two employees on the daunting task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They began in 2022 what they expected might be an up to five-year project to manually sift through tens of millions of pages of paper and digitized property deed records. They were looking for racist language that barred people of specific races or ethnicities from owning properties in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it was literally eyes on paper turning pages, then it was eyes on the computer going through those same type of pages on the reels. And they did an excellent job,” said Louis Chiaramonte, the county’s assistant clerk-recorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s team only made its way through around 100,000 records, finding about 400 of the thousands of defunct racist clauses that are tucked into documents related to ownership of homes and control of blocks and neighborhoods of the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the county and \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.stanford.edu/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>, a hub for research and development into how government agencies can perform core services more efficiently, partnered to bring the power of AI language models onto the job, significantly speeding up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After curating racist covenant documents from seven counties across the nation, the RegLab researchers trained an open-source language model on those examples. They then put it to work, scanning 5.2 million Santa Clara County deed records from 1902 through 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took about a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What our project really shows is there’s a very different and compelling path forward to achieving these kinds of tasks that don’t suffer the kinds of cost overruns that have historically really plagued government technology contracting,” said Daniel Ho, a professor and the director of the RegLab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-06/l-a-county-will-remove-racist-restrictive-covenant-language-from-millions-of-documents\">outsourced the work\u003c/a> to a contractor for about $8 million in a process expected to take about seven years to finish, Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiaramonte said the RegLab model helped Santa Clara County accelerate the process of flagging and mapping about 7,500 restrictive covenants. From there, the covenants are reviewed and sent to the county’s lawyers for final approval before a new, modified version of the deed is recorded. About 4,500 have been completed, and the original deeds remain unchanged for historical reference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just amazing. I’m very thankful that this opportunity presented itself, and we’re able to work with them, Chiaramonte said. “And it appears that this language model tool that they have is extremely effective and has produced meaningful changes to how we could approach things in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county employees who started the work will shift their focus to manually culling through the remaining records from 1850 to 1901 — most of which were handwritten — and digitizing newer records from after 1981.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/static/maps/dotmap_embedded.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Map by \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faiz Surani, one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">research paper on the project\u003c/a>, noted that the curation of examples and the training of the open-source model was the bulk of the front-end work, and it needed to be precise. The team trained the model to recognize not just simple keywords but also to identify a covenant even when a document scan is degraded, common strings of words and where in the document covenants are often located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask ChatGPT to detect racial covenants, it’ll do a decent job out of the box,” Surani said. “The challenge is when you are going over 5 million, 10 million, 20 million records, you need to be virtually perfect, or else you’re going to be missing something or you’re going to be buried under a pile of false positives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani and Ho said the model has so far shown itself to be nearly 100% accurate in finding covenants in the records it searched. In all, the AI-based technology was able to save about 86,000 person-hours for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racist covenants and restrictions often included racial epithets. The covenants were less often seen in the very early 20th century because it was still legal to zone by race. After the nation outlawed that practice as unconstitutional in 1917, deed restrictions became more commonplace as a way to use private transactions to maintain segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The language in these covenants became more targeted and explicit. Deed records reveal widespread exclusion of specific ethnic groups, including African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and other non-Caucasian communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>As he walks down Jones Street in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tenderloin\">Tenderloin\u003c/a>, Russell Roberts pauses to strike up conversation with a couple leaning against a corner apartment building and hands them some fruit snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you all have housing?” he asks after a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trisha and Jay tell Roberts, who is making his rounds as a community ambassador with the San Francisco anti-poverty nonprofit GLIDE, that they signed up a couple of weeks ago and were waiting for an update. They had been on a city program that provides cash assistance to low-income residents, they say, but Jay missed his most recent check-in, so he lost his eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts invites the couple to walk with him the two blocks back to GLIDE, where there’s hot fried chicken being served — and options to sign up for a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can help get you guys assessed, get you a number to give you an idea of how long it’s going to be [to get housed]. In the meantime, I can get you guys into shelters,” Roberts tells Trisha and Jay, who are already packing the blanket they’re sitting on into a rolling cart carrying the rest of their belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want, even today, I can get you guys a place to stay. It’s up to you guys, if you come with us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They quickly agree, and Roberts is back on the move to tell them about their possible next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. They all start with a 7:30 a.m. meeting before heading out to their designated zones in pairs for morning rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We clean up everything from last night’s parties or encampments that were started,” Roberts says as he picks up littered receipts and dumps them into the quickly filling trash can he’s pushing. “We want to get the streets as clean for the community as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors are acutely aware that the Tenderloin is also home to a community of small businesses — and one of the largest child populations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be able to walk and access services too,” Gina Fromer, GLIDE’s president and CEO, said at a morning meeting full of song, prayer and friendly greetings Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rene Colorado, the executive director of the Tenderloin Merchants and Property Owners Association, said he’s seen the ambassadors out and about, doing a lot of cleaning that helps the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one above picking up some garbage; there’s no one below engaging with ‘Good morning,’ ‘How are you doing today?’” said Sam Dodge, the director of street response coordination for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has worked closely with GLIDE to get the ambassador program up and running, and said it has made real gains in the community, despite a long road ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy. It’s a marathon. It’s coming back and back,” he says to the ambassadors. “Our friend here said it’s giving people three or four chances — no, we’re in the double digits at least. That’s unconditional love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009981\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Kenneth Holloway (left) and Chaz Cobb pick up trash on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they walk along picking up trash, the ambassadors also check in with anyone sitting or lying on the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are idle,” says Kenneth Holloway, another ambassador. “By going up and engaging, saying ‘Hi,’ letting them know GLIDE has lunch, it kind of re-enlivens them. Telling them to just go around the corner and get something to eat, something to drink. And now look — do you see anybody still sitting there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After heading out of GLIDE’s headquarters on Ellis Street and up Taylor, Holloway engages with familiar faces like a man known as Smooth, whom the ambassadors see just about every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, he’s having a good day; sometimes he comes down to GLIDE and gets food. Sometimes, it’s like, he’s not,” Holloway says. “But either way, we’re here; we say, ‘I still got you,’ every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holloway has been in San Francisco for a long time, though he was in prison for about 30 years of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the front page of the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> one time. I robbed a bank and I shot some people many years ago,” he says as he walks back to GLIDE for lunch alongside clients and regulars in need of a warm meal. “I’m almost 60 now, but I didn’t want to be acting like I’m some Puritan person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors, who travel in pairs, are all considered low-threshold case managers, meaning they’re trained in “starting the process of bringing people out of marginalization back into community,” LaSala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s their focus in the afternoon, though they all have a different area of expertise. Some work on street beautification, while others, like Holloway, offer people on the streets snacks and socks, grab water from corner stores, and encourage them to come to GLIDE for meals, harm reduction tools and other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts looks for ways to connect his clients with housing. Sometimes it can take many tries to get people into a housing option that works for them. But when it happens, he says, “it’s a success story for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a couple with a dog that I’ve been working with since we started in July,” he tells KQED. “I finally got them housing on Monday for both of them in the same spot with their animals. You know, it’s very gratifying because we went through like three different shelters to get to where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s often said that people on the streets \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962388/san-francisco-will-enforce-sit-lie-laws-when-people-refuse-shelter\">refuse shelter\u003c/a>, LaSala said that the truth is more complicated than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t accept housing that feels dangerous to them,” she told KQED. “So, yes, we have folks who are afraid to go into the shelter system here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never experienced any one of our clients refusing long-term housing, but what I have experienced is people afraid to go into the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006541 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Roberts has gotten eight people into shelters and 13 into the Journey Home program, a relocation assistance service that Breed required to be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\">first offer\u003c/a> for unhoused residents starting in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts also regularly checks in on his many clients who are still on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know these people, I know them by face,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been times when he’s out on a shift and comes across one of his clients in a tense situation with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of talking to them like … somebody that’s committing crime, I come up and I talk to them like a person, and I make them remember who they are,” Roberts says. “I ask, ‘Hey, it’s me, man. What can I do for you?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ambassador says he’s helped reverse seven overdoses in his first two and a half months on the job. More than two dozen people have been referred to recovery support groups, and four have been placed in sober living environments, according to GLIDE’s early data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE “allowed my lived experience to be a viable, marketable, usable tool to help them,” Holloway said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They gave me the opportunity to really help me too — I’m employed. When I stand up and get to see you on the street, I get to stand up with a straight face and almost be on equal footing with everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. 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It was the first of five Friday movie nights scheduled for the 9th annual Fall Film Festival at PROXY, an outdoor space at Octavia Boulevard and Hayes Street that features local businesses, Sunday concerts and free events like the film festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space opened about 15 years ago as a placeholder for an affordable housing project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing is a top concern for many San Francisco voters, and the candidates for mayor and the board of supervisors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">rolled out plans\u003c/a> to tackle the housing crisis. San Francisco, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">slowest city in California to approve new housing\u003c/a>, is under pressure to build 82,000 housing units by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006973\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rashad Bagnerise (right) helps customers try on shoes at the Wildling Shoes store located in a shipping container on the Parcel K lot at 432 Octavia Blvd. in San Francisco on Sept. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">directing state officials to dismantle tent encampments\u003c/a>. On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that the number of tents on the city’s streets is at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">lowest point since before counting began in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, Japantown, Western Addition, Haight Ashbury and Hayes Valley, incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston’s housing record has been criticized by pro-development groups and his challengers. PROXY, officially known as Parcel K, has been a part of Hayes Valley for as long as many residents like Netzband have lived in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston has made developing Parcel K a priority since he took office in 2019, dividing residents who have fallen in love with the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you promise affordable housing on a site as part of land-use planning, you damn well better deliver it,” Preston said at a rally in support of Parcel K development last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After voters approved a proposition to replace the central freeway west of Market Street with Octavia Boulevard in 1999, the surrounding land was parceled off for different uses. The city planted about 400 feet of grass and trees and put in concrete tables to create Patricia’s Green, named for Patrica Walkup, one of the activists who inspired the roadway teardown. Parcel K was earmarked for low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston and Board President Aaron Peskin said that an affordable housing proposal for the space would gain the approval of the supervisors. If a developer did get the rights to build, they wouldn’t have to pay for the land. Thanks to a nearby market-rate development deal, Preston said a builder would get $1 million for the project. Still, 21 years since being designated for housing, there isn’t one rendering of what the apartment complex might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston blames Mayor London Breed, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992943/sf-mayor-london-breed-wins-key-yimby-endorsement-after-string-of-misses\">endorsed by SF YIMBY\u003c/a>, the city’s pro-development movement, in July. Before anything can happen, Breed has to issue a request for qualifications to invite bids from developers, which Preston said the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/cac/MOCAC_presentation03-032023.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a> to do last year but hasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was determined that we would not prioritize Parcel K for development in the immediate term and instead focus on advancing projects that are more competitive for State funding and located in priority equity neighborhoods,” a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993640\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin speaks during a rally to announce his campaign for mayor of San Francisco in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson said that PROXY saves the city roughly half a million dollars a year in holding costs and contributes to the neighborhood. The debate over what to do with Parcel K is just one of many policy tug-of-war between YIMBY groups and progressives in the fight to solve the housing crisis. Preston and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993629/san-francisco-developers-slam-peskins-middle-income-housing-plan-as-redundant\">Peskin\u003c/a> have been quick to point out the hypocrisy of those who label them NIMBYs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think the YIMBYs would be here,” said Peskin, who is running to replace Breed, after last month’s rally at Patricia’s Green in support of Parcel K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 people attended the rally, including members of the advocacy group Hayes Valley for All and affordable housing advocates, to celebrate the delivery of a petition signed by 1,600 people asking Breed to issue the RFQ immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, SF YIMBY volunteers published \u003ca href=\"https://nimby.report/preston\">Dean Preston’s Housing Graveyard\u003c/a>, a website chronicling more than 30,000 homes the group claims he’s opposed. GrowSF, a moderate advocacy group trying to oust Preston in November, put up a billboard near a shuttered Touchless Car Wash in the Haight that it said should be affordable homes. In June, a housing advocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992055/san-francisco-supervisor-defends-housing-record-calling-lawsuit-a-publicity-stunt\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> over Preston’s depiction of his housing record on his reelection paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997837/yimby-lawsuit-over-sf-supervisor-dean-prestons-housing-record-is-thrown-out\">suit was thrown out in July\u003c/a>, after a judge ruled Preston’s statement was not false and misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s main rival, Bilal Mahmood, who GrowSF and SF YIMBY endorse, has campaigned on meeting the 2031 requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to meet those housing goals if we follow the pattern that [Preston] does, which is pick fights in the community against single parcels and not be developing simultaneously and trying to get things done in as many spaces as possible,” said Mahmood, who has secured endorsements from Breed and San Francisco’s Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Preston, he is the only other candidate in the race who signed Hayes Valley for All’s petition — reluctantly, according to organizers. He said District 5’s supervisor should be focused on building on other sites, like the car wash at 400 Divisadero St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dean wants to continue to make this a specific personal campaign issue because he’s failed to build housing,” he told KQED. “He’s also failed to build housing in other empty lots and other parcels and we need to be building housing in as many places as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the units Preston is accused of opposing by SF YIMBY are projects requiring developers to increase the percentage of affordable units to gain his vote, including at 400 Divisadero St. and another potential development at 650 Divisadero St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006972\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saadi Halil, co-owner of Hometown Creamery, at the Hometown Creamery location on the Parcel K lot at 432 Octavia Blvd., in San Francisco on Sept. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston said that in 2022, there was a developer in contract to acquire the graffitied, fenced-off car wash lot for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-Supervisor-accuses-Mayor-Breed-of-17724203.php\">fully affordable project\u003c/a>. He blames Breed for failing to acquire the land. Now, a market-rate project with 200 units is proposed for the site. Only 23 are expected to be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been supporting housing at all levels, but when we say that, we mean that includes housing the market won’t build, which is housing that low-income and working-class people can live in,” Preston, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997233/nancy-pelosi-endorses-democratic-socialist-dean-preston-for-san-francisco-d5-supervisor\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> endorsed in July, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s also opposed projects before because of the way they could impact \u003ca href=\"https://perma.cc/WXE6-QWHK\">neighborhood character\u003c/a>. Before he was supervisor, Preston was a leader of Affordable Divis, which advocated for affordable development on the street that would “contribute to the architectural character of the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the hub of this neighborhood,” Netzband said of PROXY, adding that the neighborhood wouldn’t utilize Patricia’s Green the same way if a tall apartment building was built on Parcel K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s lived in San Francisco for 30 years and said Hayes Valley’s sense of community has kept him in the neighborhood for half of that time. Netzband said he’d vote for Preston but feels that his push to develop Parcel K is out of touch with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tae-woo Kim trains a client at LuxFit on the Parcel K lot at 432 Octavia Blvd. in San Francisco on Sept. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over the past 15 years, [Hayes Valley] has grown tremendously,” Netzband told KQED. “New housing has brought thousands of people into this neighborhood, and this park is way too small for a neighborhood that’s as dense as this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m all for public housing, but this needs to stay the hub of the community because this community will suffer if we don’t keep it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston told KQED that Parcel K development would include ground-floor retail, like most of the buildings in the Hayes Street commercial corridor. It could accommodate about 100 units and be around eight stories, compared to surrounding three- and four-story buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Laska, the former president of the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association, said a tall building would swallow Patricia’s Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that would affect the draw to Hayes Valley, generally,” Laska, who was GrowSF’s head of operations in 2022, said. During her tenure, GrowSF coalesced with SF YIMBY to sponsor \u003ca href=\"https://growsf.org/voter-guide/san-francisco-voter-guide-november-2022-election/\">Proposition D\u003c/a>, a 2022 ballot measure to streamline the city approvals needed to build housing. The organization said proposals are often denied by an “anti-housing Board of Supervisors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008424 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/018_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would greatly change the character of Hayes Valley if that went away,” Laska said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood’s idea for Parcel K is to build the affordable housing units on top of a two- to three-story, open-air atrium, which could continue to host the small businesses and community events PROXY does now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of a supervisor is to find consensus and compromise within your community to build the housing that we need there but also preserve the open space,” he said. “The proposal we came up with that we’ve been talking about since the beginning of this campaign is mixed-use development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood’s mixed-use space would require building higher and designing a more complicated structure, which “would be way more expensive to do in a seismically sound way,” Daniel Chatman, an associate professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The engineering costs would be extremely high. The materials and the construction costs will be extremely high,” Chatman, who recommends focusing on other sites fit for larger projects that are easier financially and would have a greater impact on the city’s housing shortage, continued. “If you look at what’s happening in space right now, the revenue generation aspect of it is pretty minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would never justify building an additional two stories supported by pillars. That would be an additional million dollars or so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston said he’s more focused on affordable housing than large-scale projects, declaring his policy is pro-housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand there are some critics who want me to focus more on the market-rate side of things,” he told KQED. “But I’ve been an affordable housing champion for decades. And it’s disinformation to paint me like I’m getting in the way of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netzband and Nelson, along with dozens of others, were in the park to watch \u003cem>Songs of Earth\u003c/em>, a 2023 documentary set in Norway, on the big outdoor screen. It was the first of five Friday movie nights scheduled for the 9th annual Fall Film Festival at PROXY, an outdoor space at Octavia Boulevard and Hayes Street that features local businesses, Sunday concerts and free events like the film festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space opened about 15 years ago as a placeholder for an affordable housing project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing is a top concern for many San Francisco voters, and the candidates for mayor and the board of supervisors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">rolled out plans\u003c/a> to tackle the housing crisis. San Francisco, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">slowest city in California to approve new housing\u003c/a>, is under pressure to build 82,000 housing units by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006973\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rashad Bagnerise (right) helps customers try on shoes at the Wildling Shoes store located in a shipping container on the Parcel K lot at 432 Octavia Blvd. in San Francisco on Sept. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">directing state officials to dismantle tent encampments\u003c/a>. On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that the number of tents on the city’s streets is at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">lowest point since before counting began in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, Japantown, Western Addition, Haight Ashbury and Hayes Valley, incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston’s housing record has been criticized by pro-development groups and his challengers. PROXY, officially known as Parcel K, has been a part of Hayes Valley for as long as many residents like Netzband have lived in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston has made developing Parcel K a priority since he took office in 2019, dividing residents who have fallen in love with the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you promise affordable housing on a site as part of land-use planning, you damn well better deliver it,” Preston said at a rally in support of Parcel K development last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After voters approved a proposition to replace the central freeway west of Market Street with Octavia Boulevard in 1999, the surrounding land was parceled off for different uses. The city planted about 400 feet of grass and trees and put in concrete tables to create Patricia’s Green, named for Patrica Walkup, one of the activists who inspired the roadway teardown. Parcel K was earmarked for low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston and Board President Aaron Peskin said that an affordable housing proposal for the space would gain the approval of the supervisors. If a developer did get the rights to build, they wouldn’t have to pay for the land. Thanks to a nearby market-rate development deal, Preston said a builder would get $1 million for the project. Still, 21 years since being designated for housing, there isn’t one rendering of what the apartment complex might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston blames Mayor London Breed, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992943/sf-mayor-london-breed-wins-key-yimby-endorsement-after-string-of-misses\">endorsed by SF YIMBY\u003c/a>, the city’s pro-development movement, in July. Before anything can happen, Breed has to issue a request for qualifications to invite bids from developers, which Preston said the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/cac/MOCAC_presentation03-032023.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a> to do last year but hasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was determined that we would not prioritize Parcel K for development in the immediate term and instead focus on advancing projects that are more competitive for State funding and located in priority equity neighborhoods,” a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993640\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin speaks during a rally to announce his campaign for mayor of San Francisco in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson said that PROXY saves the city roughly half a million dollars a year in holding costs and contributes to the neighborhood. The debate over what to do with Parcel K is just one of many policy tug-of-war between YIMBY groups and progressives in the fight to solve the housing crisis. Preston and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993629/san-francisco-developers-slam-peskins-middle-income-housing-plan-as-redundant\">Peskin\u003c/a> have been quick to point out the hypocrisy of those who label them NIMBYs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think the YIMBYs would be here,” said Peskin, who is running to replace Breed, after last month’s rally at Patricia’s Green in support of Parcel K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 people attended the rally, including members of the advocacy group Hayes Valley for All and affordable housing advocates, to celebrate the delivery of a petition signed by 1,600 people asking Breed to issue the RFQ immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, SF YIMBY volunteers published \u003ca href=\"https://nimby.report/preston\">Dean Preston’s Housing Graveyard\u003c/a>, a website chronicling more than 30,000 homes the group claims he’s opposed. GrowSF, a moderate advocacy group trying to oust Preston in November, put up a billboard near a shuttered Touchless Car Wash in the Haight that it said should be affordable homes. In June, a housing advocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992055/san-francisco-supervisor-defends-housing-record-calling-lawsuit-a-publicity-stunt\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> over Preston’s depiction of his housing record on his reelection paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997837/yimby-lawsuit-over-sf-supervisor-dean-prestons-housing-record-is-thrown-out\">suit was thrown out in July\u003c/a>, after a judge ruled Preston’s statement was not false and misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s main rival, Bilal Mahmood, who GrowSF and SF YIMBY endorse, has campaigned on meeting the 2031 requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to meet those housing goals if we follow the pattern that [Preston] does, which is pick fights in the community against single parcels and not be developing simultaneously and trying to get things done in as many spaces as possible,” said Mahmood, who has secured endorsements from Breed and San Francisco’s Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Preston, he is the only other candidate in the race who signed Hayes Valley for All’s petition — reluctantly, according to organizers. He said District 5’s supervisor should be focused on building on other sites, like the car wash at 400 Divisadero St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dean wants to continue to make this a specific personal campaign issue because he’s failed to build housing,” he told KQED. “He’s also failed to build housing in other empty lots and other parcels and we need to be building housing in as many places as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the units Preston is accused of opposing by SF YIMBY are projects requiring developers to increase the percentage of affordable units to gain his vote, including at 400 Divisadero St. and another potential development at 650 Divisadero St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006972\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saadi Halil, co-owner of Hometown Creamery, at the Hometown Creamery location on the Parcel K lot at 432 Octavia Blvd., in San Francisco on Sept. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston said that in 2022, there was a developer in contract to acquire the graffitied, fenced-off car wash lot for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-Supervisor-accuses-Mayor-Breed-of-17724203.php\">fully affordable project\u003c/a>. He blames Breed for failing to acquire the land. Now, a market-rate project with 200 units is proposed for the site. Only 23 are expected to be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been supporting housing at all levels, but when we say that, we mean that includes housing the market won’t build, which is housing that low-income and working-class people can live in,” Preston, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997233/nancy-pelosi-endorses-democratic-socialist-dean-preston-for-san-francisco-d5-supervisor\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> endorsed in July, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s also opposed projects before because of the way they could impact \u003ca href=\"https://perma.cc/WXE6-QWHK\">neighborhood character\u003c/a>. Before he was supervisor, Preston was a leader of Affordable Divis, which advocated for affordable development on the street that would “contribute to the architectural character of the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the hub of this neighborhood,” Netzband said of PROXY, adding that the neighborhood wouldn’t utilize Patricia’s Green the same way if a tall apartment building was built on Parcel K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s lived in San Francisco for 30 years and said Hayes Valley’s sense of community has kept him in the neighborhood for half of that time. Netzband said he’d vote for Preston but feels that his push to develop Parcel K is out of touch with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240927-PARCEL-K-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tae-woo Kim trains a client at LuxFit on the Parcel K lot at 432 Octavia Blvd. in San Francisco on Sept. 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over the past 15 years, [Hayes Valley] has grown tremendously,” Netzband told KQED. “New housing has brought thousands of people into this neighborhood, and this park is way too small for a neighborhood that’s as dense as this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m all for public housing, but this needs to stay the hub of the community because this community will suffer if we don’t keep it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston told KQED that Parcel K development would include ground-floor retail, like most of the buildings in the Hayes Street commercial corridor. It could accommodate about 100 units and be around eight stories, compared to surrounding three- and four-story buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Laska, the former president of the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association, said a tall building would swallow Patricia’s Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that would affect the draw to Hayes Valley, generally,” Laska, who was GrowSF’s head of operations in 2022, said. During her tenure, GrowSF coalesced with SF YIMBY to sponsor \u003ca href=\"https://growsf.org/voter-guide/san-francisco-voter-guide-november-2022-election/\">Proposition D\u003c/a>, a 2022 ballot measure to streamline the city approvals needed to build housing. The organization said proposals are often denied by an “anti-housing Board of Supervisors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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