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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/25/salesforce-hack-scandal/rs7387_marc-benioff5-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119309\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119309\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7387_marc-benioff5-scr-e1385427801530.jpg\" alt=\"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (Don Clyde / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (Don Clyde / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:45 a.m. Dec. 3: \u003c/strong>The Great Salesforce Hackathon Uproar has taken a new turn. The company says it has completed a review of its $1 million hackathon after charges of favoritism, cheating and shady judging. The result: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.developerforce.com/developer-relations/2013/12/update-on-salesforce1-hackathon-feedback-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The company says\u003c/a> the original winning team met all the contest rules and was eligible to compete. But it has also decided to award a second $1 million prize to a team that lost out in the original judging. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some contestants had come forward with a long list of complaints about the outcome of the hackathon, in which Salesforce awarded the cash prize to a startup called \u003ca href=\"http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions/18475-upshot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upshot\u003c/a>. The Upshot app allows users to create and edit new Salesforce reports on mobile devices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, critics said the Upshot team included a former Salesforce employee, had been working on its winning app long before the hackathon began and used lots of pre-existing code in its software. Some competitors also questioned whether judges for the hackathon, put on as part of the company’s Dreamforce conference, even looked at some of the apps that had been submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blog post yesterday, Adam Seligman, the Salesforce vice president for developer relations, said Upshot had met all requirements — that the former Salesforce employee had left the company by the deadline specified in the rules and that its app didn’t make improper use of code developed before the contest. But Seligman went on to say that Salesforce had been too vague in instructing judges about the use of pre-existing code guidelines, which he said were designed to exclude apps that had been developed for purposes other than the hackathon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, the company was declaring a tie in the contest and awarding a second $1 million to Healthcare.love. That team developed \u003ca href=\"http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions/18552-healthcare-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an app\u003c/a> designed to simplify the process of choosing medical insurance under the new federal health care law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligman also said the company did judge all submissions in the contest, including three submitted after the deadline (none of those apps were among the winners). But he added the contest organizers made a series of mistakes — failing to be transparent about the judging process, falling short of giving specific feedback and by not staging a public demo of all the apps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/22/119198/Salesforce-hackathon\">uproar\u003c/a> over the \u003ca href=\"http://events.developerforce.com/dreamforce/hackathon\">Salesforce Hackathon\u003c/a> continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers have complained that the judging was \u003ca href=\"http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/forum_topics/2647\">biased\u003c/a> toward a former Salesforce employee, and that the grand prize-winners cheated by using pre-existing code. Some participants say that \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778546\">no one looked\u003c/a> at the work they submitted. Now the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/11/salesforce-hackathon-dreamforce-taptera.html\">San Francisco Business Times\u003c/a> is reporting that the second-place winners, who built an app called Healthcare.love, work for San Francisco-based Taptera — Salesforce invested $2 million into Taptera in August 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweeted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote lang=\"en\">\u003cp>We are doing a full review of the Salesforce1 Hackathon, & will address every issue raised by the community. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/shXgeJzvDe\">http://t.co/shXgeJzvDe\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Benioff/statuses/404128608496529409\">November 23, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Adam Seligman, Salesforce’s VP of developer marketing, issued a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.developerforce.com/developer-relations/2013/11/addressing-questions-about-the-salesforce-1-million-hackathon.html\">response \u003c/a>to the brouhaha, saying that “Every eligible app entry was reviewed at least twice.” Regarding the use of pre-existing code, he referred to a Salesforce \u003ca href=\"http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/Salesforce-1-Million-Hackathon/developed-solely-as-part-of-this-Hackathon/td-p/702029\">discussion board\u003c/a>, where the official hackathon rule is clarified:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Reusing code you may have written before is fine, provided that you were the author of that code, it doesn’t comprise the majority of your app and its use does not violate any third party’s rights. You could modify an existing product to integrate with Salesforce and submit that, however you’d be judged on just that component, not the pre-existing product.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Alicia Liu entered the Hackathon challenge with a partner. A senior software engineer at Lift Worldwide, based in San Francisco, she was so upset about the outcome that she \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/b839268fb82d\">wrote\u003c/a> about it. In “The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon,” Liu wrote that she initially dismissed the challenge as “just another marketing gimmick, like so many corporate-sponsored hackathons before it, to trick otherwise sane developers into working for free — with copious amounts of junk food and caffeine and the lure of dubious prizes — to develop apps on top of APIs and platforms they otherwise wouldn’t bother with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she changed her mind, and after many long hours, she and her partner built and submitted \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4Ere4eyjA\">SalesRun\u003c/a>, an app for salespeople that automatically generates trip itineraries to visit their most valuable customers. Then, she writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We went by the Developer Zone at Dreamforce a half hour after the 6pm deadline to see if we could see the judging, but event staff were shutting things down and starting to kick people out! We thought that was weird, there wasn’t even anywhere to see all the submissions. At typical hackathons, this is usually the most exciting period. You get a chance to see what everyone else came up with, and hear what the judges think of the submissions, and get feedback about your app from judges and other participants.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“The judging was not out in the open,” Liu told KQED. “They did not list all submissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret judging also \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/2e571b97018e\">grates on\u003c/a> Seth Piezas and other developers, who say galleries with all entries are routinely posted at hackathons, allowing participants to connect and learn from each other. ChallengePost, which handled Salesforce Hackathon submissions, only shows the\u003ca href=\"http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions\"> top five\u003c/a> and not the reported 149 entries. There is now a \u003ca href=\"http://list.ly/list/BOb-salesforce-1m-hackathon-the-real-winner#item_330601\">move \u003c/a>to gather together the full list of entries for the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> ‘The judging was not out in the open. They did not list all submissions.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Piezas, in fact, think the hackathon should be barred in the future, at least as it’s currently set up. “They set expectations that they were looking for serious apps, serious work, serious time,” he says. “Don’t pull the wool over our eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu was also put off by the contest requirements asking for developers’ source code. “Typically, no, they don’t ask for your source code,” she told KQED. “Most hackathons are shorter — a weekend or a day, and sometimes they’ll ask to see your source code to see if you wrote it or for purposes of verification. In a normal hackathon, not one that is corporate-sponsored, you own everything. 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You could modify an existing product to integrate with Salesforce and submit that, however you’d be judged on just that component, not the pre-existing product.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Alicia Liu entered the Hackathon challenge with a partner. A senior software engineer at Lift Worldwide, based in San Francisco, she was so upset about the outcome that she \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/b839268fb82d\">wrote\u003c/a> about it. In “The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon,” Liu wrote that she initially dismissed the challenge as “just another marketing gimmick, like so many corporate-sponsored hackathons before it, to trick otherwise sane developers into working for free — with copious amounts of junk food and caffeine and the lure of dubious prizes — to develop apps on top of APIs and platforms they otherwise wouldn’t bother with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she changed her mind, and after many long hours, she and her partner built and submitted \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4Ere4eyjA\">SalesRun\u003c/a>, an app for salespeople that automatically generates trip itineraries to visit their most valuable customers. Then, she writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We went by the Developer Zone at Dreamforce a half hour after the 6pm deadline to see if we could see the judging, but event staff were shutting things down and starting to kick people out! We thought that was weird, there wasn’t even anywhere to see all the submissions. At typical hackathons, this is usually the most exciting period. You get a chance to see what everyone else came up with, and hear what the judges think of the submissions, and get feedback about your app from judges and other participants.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“The judging was not out in the open,” Liu told KQED. “They did not list all submissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret judging also \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/2e571b97018e\">grates on\u003c/a> Seth Piezas and other developers, who say galleries with all entries are routinely posted at hackathons, allowing participants to connect and learn from each other. ChallengePost, which handled Salesforce Hackathon submissions, only shows the\u003ca href=\"http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions\"> top five\u003c/a> and not the reported 149 entries. There is now a \u003ca href=\"http://list.ly/list/BOb-salesforce-1m-hackathon-the-real-winner#item_330601\">move \u003c/a>to gather together the full list of entries for the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> ‘The judging was not out in the open. They did not list all submissions.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Piezas, in fact, think the hackathon should be barred in the future, at least as it’s currently set up. “They set expectations that they were looking for serious apps, serious work, serious time,” he says. “Don’t pull the wool over our eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu was also put off by the contest requirements asking for developers’ source code. “Typically, no, they don’t ask for your source code,” she told KQED. “Most hackathons are shorter — a weekend or a day, and sometimes they’ll ask to see your source code to see if you wrote it or for purposes of verification. In a normal hackathon, not one that is corporate-sponsored, you own everything. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118632\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/15/listeners-weigh-in-gentricication-is-_____________/attachment/93075709/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118632\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118632 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/93075709.jpg\" alt=\"Thinkstock Image\" width=\"442\" height=\"386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinkstock Image\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In nearly every \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum\u003c/a> show on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, KQED’s series on affordable housing in the Bay Area, many listeners and commenters opine, to paraphrase, “Build Baby Build.” That is to say, San Francisco simply needs to accept its popularity and booming economy and build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Forum decided to take up the question, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the Bay Area build its way out of a lack of affordable housing?\u003c/a>” The answer, to paraphrase again, is “It’s complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Forum guests agreed that building needs to be part of the solution, they also agreed that creating housing is a complex problem, requiring a multi-pronged, nuanced approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a person who enjoys listening, the full Forum show is online \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. But if you’re short on time and just want the highlights, this post’s for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.Work backwards\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Show affordable housing the money\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also goes on to criticize Plan Bay Area for its lack of monetary teeth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no funding source for the affordable housing that’s necessary to make that kind of vision work,” he said. “It’s just basically a numerical game plan and then the market builds. But the market only builds for a segment of that need and without the money, what you have is a recipe for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just how much does it cost to build affordable or subsidized housing? A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably costs, depending on who you’re building for, a few hundred thousand dollars in subsidies per unit,” said Gabriel Metcalf. “And maybe a third of that [comes from local sources]. So call it a $100,000 in subsidy, locally, per unit. You can kind of multiply that by how many people you want to help, and you can help thousands of people, but there will still be hundreds of thousands of people who are not going to get one of those units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Think beyond the single-family unit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a study on the East Bay of the potential for building in-law units, and compared it to the potential for building multi-family buildings, and we found that about half of our in-field developments should be coming from in-law units,” said Karen Chapple. “In many of our larger lots it’s very hard to assemble, it’s very expensive. It can cost one quarter the amount to build an in-law unit in the back of a single-family home. That said, it does need to be price controlled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials are starting to recognize the role that secondary units can play in easing the housing crunch. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed allowing in-law units to be built in his district\u003c/a> and Board of Supervisor President David Chiu introduced legislation that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize existing secondary units\u003c/a> that were built illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think Bay Area officials should do to increase the amount of affordable housing in the region? We welcome your suggestions in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/15/news-pix-san-francisco-valentines-day-protest-riverside-police-vigil-berkeley-library-showcases-flying-books/photoweek130215flyingbooks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89425\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-89425\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130215flyingbooks.gif\" alt=\"(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Google won an important \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-google-books-idUSBRE9AD0TT20131114\">victory\u003c/a> today in its long-standing legal battle with some publishers and authors over the search giant’s book-scanning project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York granted Google’s motion for summary judgment dismissing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/google-book-scanning-fair-use\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> brought by the Author’s Guild, among others, including several authors, one of whom is former Yankees’ pitcher Jim Bouton, author of “Ball Four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, who say they will appeal the decision, argued that Google infringed upon their copyrights by scanning these books without their permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world's valuable, copyright-protected literature and profits from displaying those works,\" Author’s Guild Executive Director Paul Aiken told ars technica. \"In our view, such mass digitization and exploitation far exceeds the bounds of the fair use defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has not only scanned the books, which now number over 20 million titles, according to court documents, but has converted the scanned copies into searchable documents, including “snippets” that are displayed under the company’s assertion of “fair use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge: Five Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this interpretation of fair use that the court affirmed in today’s decision. 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Indeed, Google Books has become such an important tool for researchers and librarians that it has been integrated into the educational system — it is taught as part of the information literacy curriculum to students at all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Second, in addition to being an important reference tool, Google Books greatly promotes a type of research referred to as \"data mining\" or \"text mining.\" Google Books permits humanities scholars to analyze massive amounts of data — the literary record created by a collection of tens of millions of books. Researchers can examine word frequencies, syntactic patterns, and thematic markers to consider how literary style has changed over time…. The ability to determine how often different words or phrases appear in books at different times \"can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, Google Books expands access to books. In particular, traditionally underserved populations will benefit as they gain knowledge of and access to far more books. Google Books provides print-disabled individuals with the potential to search for books and read them in a format that is compatible with text enlargement software, text-to-speech screen access software, and Braille devices. Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth, Google Books helps to preserve books and give them new life. Older books, many of which are out-of-print books that are falling apart buried in library stacks, are being scanned and saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, by helping readers and researchers identify books, Google Books benefits authors and publishers. When a user clicks on a search result and is directed to an \"About the Book\" page, the page will offer links to sellers of the book and/or libraries listing the book as part of their collections. The About the Book page for \"Ball Four,\" for example, provides links to Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, Books-A-Million, and IndieBound.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110845\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/google-street-view-wiretapping-appeals-court-ruling/rs378_google_082411-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110845\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110845 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS378_Google_082411-scr-e1378918079421-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Google Utilizes \"Snippets\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ruling, Chin provides an extended explanation for how Google's book-scanning process works. This includes a detailed look at how Google provides numerous \"snippets\" from a book while preventing an \"attacker\" from assembling a complete book from the snippets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In scanning books…Google uses optical character recognition technology to generate machine-readable text, compiling a digital copy of each book. Google analyzes each scan and creates an overall index of all scanned books. The index links each word or phrase appearing in each book with all of the locations in all of the books in which that word or phrase is found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The index allows a search for a particular word or phrase to return a result that includes the most relevant books in which the word or phrase is found. Because the full texts of books are digitized, a user can search the full text of all the books in the Google Books corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users of Google's search engine may conduct searches, using queries of their own design. In response to inquiries, Google returns a list of books in which the search term appears. A user can click on a particular result to be directed to an \"About the Book\" page, which will provide the user with information about the book in question. The page includes links to sellers of the books and/or libraries that list the book as part of their collections. No advertisements have ever appeared on any About the Book page that is part of the Library Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For books in \"snippet view\" (in contrast to \"full view\" books), Google divides each page into eighths -- each of which is a \"snippet,\" a verbatim excerpt. Each search generates three snippets, but by performing multiple searches using different search terms, a single user may view far more than three snippets, as different searches can return different snippets. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, by making a series of consecutive, slightly different searches of the book\u003cbr>\n“Ball Four,” a single user can view many different snippets from the book. Google takes security measures to prevent users from viewing a complete copy of a snippet-view book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(A) user cannot cause the system to return different sets of snippets for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be returned in response to a query; one of the snippets on each page is \"black-listed,\" meaning it will not be shown; and at least one out of ten entire pages in each book is black-listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages. 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