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"content": "\u003cp>Hyunjoo Albrecht runs a kimchi and hot sauce manufacturing company called \u003ca href=\"https://sintogourmet.com/\">Sinto Gourmet\u003c/a>. Over the last decade, she has had an unusually intimate vantage on “food tech” companies. That’s because she has been a landlord to many of the Silicon Valley delivery apps and other venture-backed businesses who were trying to “disrupt the food space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story of how Albrecht had to partner with these companies to build her own food business in the Bay Area, why she vowed to stop working with them and how in the pandemic she ended up partnering with a company that had burned her in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11832209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44247_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyunjoo Albrecht works in her Bayview kitchen to package kimchi on Aug. 6, 2020. Albrecht began selling the products in grocery stores and then directly to individuals. Eventually, the business grew enough that she needed a commercial kitchen \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Road to a Sustainable Business\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike food tech companies that spring to life with venture capital, it took Albrecht years to build her business. She immigrated from South Korea in 2003 and started Sinto Gourmet with some recipes from her North Korean grandmother. Then she started slowly expanding her fermented offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sells tubs of spicy napa cabbage kimchi. There is a mild version and a crunchy option. In 2014, she started selling a mixture of fermented California root vegetables: red beets, daikon, turnips, rutabaga and carrots. Alongside the kimchi, Albrecht has developed two hot sauces: tangy apple and sesame garlic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"food\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht began selling the products in grocery stores and then directly to individuals. Eventually, the business grew enough that she needed a commercial kitchen, which is hard to find in San Francisco. So she decided to take her life savings and build a large kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her kitchen is one of the larger commercial cooking facilities in the city. It's in a roughly 5,000-square-foot warehouse in the Bayview neighborhood. The walk-in freezer alone is 500 square feet. She jokes that it's bigger than most one-bedroom apartments in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht's plan was to make her kimchi there and rent out the extra space to other local cooks. But the tenants that flocked to her space were not small independent chefs, but instead venture capital-backed food companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albercht began leasing them unused space in her kitchen. Many of the companies she leased space to came with big plans and then disappeared when they ran out of venture capital. Her tenants included companies like the pizza-delivery app called Easy as Pi, a meal delivery service called Din and a ready-made meal kit company called Sprig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11832208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44254_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44254_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44254_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44254_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44254_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44254_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees at Sinto Gourmet package kimchi at the Bayview commercial kitchen on Aug. 6, 2020. Albrecht's kitchen is one of the larger commercial cooking facilities in the city. It's in a roughly 5,000-square-foot warehouse in the Bayview neighborhood. The walk-in freezer alone is 500 square feet. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Different Business Philosophy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years in the U.S., there have been over 2,000 venture capital investments made into what folks call \"food tech companies,” which includes everything from delivery to bioengineered meat. According to a report from a venture capital fund called AgFunder, there was almost $20 billion invested in 2019 alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the companies that have sprung up over the years, like Sprig and Munchery, have gone bust. At KQED, we covered how the local chefs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801762/meet-the-baker-who-got-her-money-back-from-the-venture-capitalists\">Munchery was working with had to fight for over a year\u003c/a> to get paid the debts they were owed when the business closed. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Hyunjoo Albrecht']'They just don’t listen. The only things they care about are their goals, their investors and their ‘scalability.’'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Albrecht watched these kinds of food tech companies come and go in her kitchen, she’s sometimes tried to give the young executives tips. “They just don’t listen,” Albrecht says. “The only things they care about are their goals, their investors and their ‘scalability.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht says most of the people she has met at these companies are very different from her and owners of other local food businesses. She struggled to characterize the difference, but it was more than just their corporate philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people she knows trying to make a living selling food are immigrants, women and people of color — far different than the food tech would-be entrepreneurs. “They are young, white,” she says, “the kind of people you see in a J. Crew catalog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a big difference in who they bring in to work at their companies. Albrecht hires local workers to make her kimchi, many of whom have worked preparing and handling food for years. They look very different from the workers at the food tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these people they hire are also from Silicon Valley companies who have no experience in a food manufacturing company,” Albrecht says. “Often these positions are for logistics, operations, marketing, all those people. Those are the people they hire.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One anecdote about a former tenant of hers really hits home regarding how different her business is from their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tenant with a meal kit company wanted to automate filling a container with a few ounces of sauce, so Albrecht says they bought a giant machine to squeeze sauce into cups. It came in on a big pallet, and it was a huge operation to assemble. Albrecht says they were really excited about this machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when they finally got it hooked up, it didn’t work as expected. She can’t help laughing while she tells the story. “When the sauce comes out of this machine and lands into the little saucer cup it doesn’t land 'pretty' enough. So they just stopped using it. They just left it there.” The giant machine sat hulking on a pallet, unused, for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht says she she quickly realized her tenants weren’t trying to build a sustainable business like her. They were swinging for the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to grow little by little,” Albrecht says, “and luckily I have never lost money. My business is profitable. I can pay myself. I can pay my employees. I can pay all the bills to my suppliers on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11832207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11832207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44245_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44245_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44245_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44245_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44245_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44245_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_SintoGourmet_08062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albrecht said, at the start of this year, she'd grown her business to the point where she didn’t need to rent space or sell her product to a food tech company. But then the pandemic hit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>An Uneasy Partnership\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the start of this year, Albrecht and her workers were turning 5,000 to 6,000 pounds of piles of napa cabbage into kimchi every day. She had finally grown the business to the point where she didn’t need to rent space or sell her product to a food tech company. Albrecht she was happy to be done with them. But then the pandemic hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Albrecht’s sales have declined, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/138355/the-online-grocery-marketplace-is-booming-in-the-bay-area-heres-why\">delivery apps are flush with business\u003c/a>. She has found herself working again with a company called Local Crate. Before the pandemic, she says the company was super late paying her for the products she sold them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a lot of money, but it made me really upset,” Albrecht says. “I don’t know why they run the business like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albrecht didn’t want to work with them anymore. But now with the pandemic, she welcomes any business she can get. She also convinced the company to pay her up front. She’s happy for any sales right now. Although, she looks forward to the day she can get back to selling her kimchi directly to grocery stores and customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He wasn’t able to pay his rent while he was furloughed, but San Jose and many other cities in the Bay Area have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/housing/eviction-moratorium\">eviction moratoriums\u003c/a> in place, which prohibit landlords from evicting their tenants if they can’t pay rent due to financial hardships brought on by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s moratorium ends on Aug. 31, and Gonzales’ landlord has already threatened to evict him if he doesn’t pay his back-rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s become difficult to pay it. And I have every intention [of paying the rent] because I’ve never had any problems like this,” Gonzales said. “But it’s making me worried and stressed out about … am I going to be able to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Federal Reserve released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/20200611/html/introductory_text.htm\">report\u003c/a> showing that household debt increased by almost 4% across the United States in the first quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiran Sidhu, policy counsel for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.responsiblelending.org/\">Center for Responsible Lending\u003c/a>, has been seeing debt collection cases from people who are already struggling financially, and particularly from borrowers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Debt collection cases disproportionately impact borrowers of color and we can expect these debt collection cases are going to increase because of the situation that existed before the pandemic even began,” Sidhu said. “We can imagine that debt collection cases are going to be on the rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Nowlan, Young Women's Freedom Center executive director\"]‘I have a history of poverty that I haven’t been able to climb out of. And so a hit from the IRS was pretty devastating to my family.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in April, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/4.23.20-EO-N-57-20-text.pdf\">executive order\u003c/a> to stop debt collectors from garnishing COVID-19 stimulus checks. He also provided relief for private student loan borrowers. But Sidhu doesn’t believe this relief is enough to save families struggling from debt, especially as the pandemic continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States should really be careful about how they begin to reopen and continue business as usual,” Sidhu said. “Families still have not recovered from the 2008 financial recession and this on top of that is going to exacerbate issues for folks who are already reeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Nowlan’s debt fits into that category. She lives in Oakland with her three kids and, after experiencing homelessness for several years, worked her way up to become executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youngwomenfree.org/\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that I finally felt like a grown-up. I can take care of myself. I just moved, I bought a couch,” Nowlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Jessica-Nowlan-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Nowlan lives in Oakland with her sons, Myles Green (left) and James Green (right) in Oakland. Money has been tight during the pandemic, but debt collectors are knocking on her door anyway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Jessica-Nowlan-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Jessica-Nowlan-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Jessica-Nowlan.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Nowlan lives in Oakland with her sons, Myles Green (left) and James Green (right) in Oakland. Money has been tight during the pandemic, but debt collectors are knocking on her door anyway. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Jessica Nowlan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because of her low-income status, she was used to receiving tax credits every year. Since starting her role as executive director of her organization, she has instead owed money to the IRS when she filed taxes. But Nowlan didn’t realize that and now owes the IRS over $20,000 in back taxes. Two weeks ago, the IRS garnished $6,000 from her bank account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a history of poverty that I haven’t been able to climb out of. And so a hit from the IRS was pretty devastating to my family,” Nowlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now on a six-year payment plan with the IRS to pay those back taxes, but there won’t be a lot of money left in her account for extra purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Coronavirus Resources\" tag=\"resource\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Djemal, director of the Consumer Justice Clinic at the \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>, is getting calls from clients concerned about the debt they’re accumulating now, on top of the debt they already had pre-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are getting lots of calls and are very stressed about getting calls or letters regarding some of the debt they’ve accumulated over the past few months,” Djemal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it can take a year for a case to get into the court system and she expects to see a deluge of cases next year because of debt accumulated during the pandemic. The cases she handles today are related to pre-pandemic debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the legislative front, state Sen. Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, has been working on bills to reform the debt collection process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB616\">Senate Bill 616\u003c/a>, which passed in 2019, prohibits debt collectors from cleaning out bank accounts. Starting in September, collectors will have to leave at least \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/press-release-governor-signs-bill-stopping-debt-collectors-from-draining-bank-accounts/\">$1,724\u003c/a> in a family’s bank account — enough to provide a “minimum basic standard of adequate care for a family of four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wieckowski is working on another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB908\">SB 908\u003c/a>, which would expand oversight on debt collectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no regulation, there’s no licensing,” Wieckowski said. “It’s nothing new — it’s the crescendo now because there’s so many more people that are financially vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 908 passed the state Senate in late June and is now waiting for an Assembly vote.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:35 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple “emperors of the online economy” that stifle competition and hurt consumers? Not surprisingly, the tech giants’ chief executives told Congress: absolutely not. The concern that too much power is concentrated in too few companies is unfounded, they said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does Apple punish its rivals on the App Store to score more customers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia drew attention to Apple’s Screen Time app, a service allowing parents to limit their kids’ phone use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Apple introduced the app in 2018, competing parental control apps, such as OurPact, were booted from the App Store for not meeting Apple’s safety requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple CEO Tim Cook told McBath those fears were justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/RRB1-6nMcIU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were concerned, Congresswoman, about the privacy and security of kids,” Cook said, noting the app was vulnerable to third-party takeovers. “So we were worried about their safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McBath said House investigators discovered that rival parental control apps that were kicked out of the App Store were readmitted six months later without making significant privacy overhauls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, six months is truly an eternity for small businesses to be shut down, even worse if all the while a larger competitor is actually taking away customers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBath pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1288585817670201353?s=20\">an email\u003c/a> in which an Apple employee responds to a mother complaining about the removal of parental control apps. The Apple representative suggested that the mother download Apple’s Screen Time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said “there are many reasons why” an app may not meet the App Store’s guidelines, dismissing the suggestion that Apple squashed its competition to favor its own service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/tech-titans-to-dial-in-to-congressional-antitrust/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Tech Titans to Dial in to Congressional Antitrust Hearing\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBath referenced a second example involving the publisher Random House, which says Apple held back the introduction of its app as Apple pushed its own similar product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even some of the largest companies in the country fear your power. Our evidence suggests that your company has used its power to harm your rivals and boost your own business,” McBath said. “This is fundamentally unfair,” she said. “Ultimately, it reduces the competition and the choices made to consumers and that’s a great concern to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— Bobby Allyn \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CEO vows Google won’t play favorites in 2020 election\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced a barrage of questions from Rep. Jim Jordan. The Ohio Republican said he’s concerned that Google will tailor its search engine to give a leg up to presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden over President Trump in searches related to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jordan asked Pichai for a promise to Americans that Google will not favor Biden in the 2020 election, Pichai said “we don’t do any work to politically tilt anything one way or another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan persisted with the same question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pichai, eventually, agreed to make a commitment that Google will not tilt its features to help Biden and that the search engine will not be used to silence conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more big tech coverage\" tag=\"tech-companies\"]“Yeah, you have my commitment. It’s always been true and we’ll continue to conduct ourselves in a neutral way,” Pichai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a line of inquiry that is far afield from the purpose of the hearing, noted Pennsylvania Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon, saying she’d like to turn the focus back to antitrust, rather than “fringe conspiracy theories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This incited Jordan, who interrupted Scanlon, launching a screaming match between Jordan and Democratic leadership about following the rules of the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone comes after my motives for asking questions,” shouted Jordan, “I should get a chance to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— Bobby Allyn \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does Amazon use sellers’ data to help itself?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first inquiry for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos finally arrived from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., some two hours into the hearing. Jayapal zeroed in on the subcommittee’s central concern about Amazon: Does the company use the data it collects from other sellers on the platform for its benefit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t answer that questions yes or no,” Bezos said. “We have a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private label business, but I can’t guarantee you that that policy has never been violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee lawmakers have previously accused Amazon of “\u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2931\">lack of candor\u003c/a>” about how it \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015\">might be using\u003c/a> other sellers’ data to give an edge its own business, something Amazon executives have, until now, denied was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015\">made the case\u003c/a> that Amazon employees may have used such data to create the retailer’s own private-label products, which Bezos told lawmakers the company was still investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayapal noted that Amazon has access to information about consumer habits, sellers’ pricing and inventory data, a trove of details that could be ripe for abuse if used to make business decisions about Amazon’s own products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can set the rules of the game for your competitors, but not actually follow those same rules for yourself,” Jayapal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have access to data that your competitors do not have,” she continued, adding that if Amazon was “continuously monitoring” such data to make sure that other sellers “are never going to get big enough that they can compete with you — that is actually the concern that the committee has,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Alina Selyukh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Google’s Pichai is pressed on being “the gateway to the Internet”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subcommittee Chairman Cicilline spent all of his first 5-minute block of questions on Google — the company at most immediate risk of actual antitrust action. The Department of Justice is reportedly preparing to sue the company over its advertising business, and could be joined by state attorneys general who have also been investigating Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline pressed CEO Sundar Pichai on whether Google’s business model presents a conflict of interest, because it has an incentive to give search results that keep users on its own site rather than anywhere else on the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Google became the gateway to the Internet, it began to abuse its power,” Cicilline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pichai responded that Google “always focuses on providing users the most relevant information.” Cicilline appeared annoyed at Pichai’s answers, cutting him off several times to move to another question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still waiting for questions for Jeff Bezos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over an hour-and-a-half into the hearing, Jeff Bezos — appearing in Congress for the first time, whose company employs a million workers and has over 150 million paying subscribers — has yet to receive a single question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His presence was slated to become a powerful accomplishment of the House Judiciary Committee, but the questioning so far has left him muted on the live video feed, reaching for some snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing, meanwhile, is taking a 10-minute break to fix a technical problem “with one of our witnesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Alina Selyukh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did Facebook buy Instagram to neutralize a competitor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., pressed Facebook’s Zuckerberg on exactly why his company bought Instagram for $1 billion back in 2012. That’s a key part of competition questions facing the social media giant. Critics accuse Facebook of buying or copying rivals — like Instagram and WhatsApp — to squash competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler said in its investigation, the committee got documents from Facebook in which Zuckerberg discussed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1288540745637474306?s=20\">“neutralizing a competitor”\u003c/a> as a reason to pursue Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook saw Instagram as a threat that could potentially siphon business away from Facebook. And so rather than compete with it, Facebook bought it,” Nadler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg points out that the Federal Trade Commission okayed the merger at the time. “With hindsight it probably looks obvious that Instagram would have reached the scale that it has today, but at the time it was far from obvious,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline interjected to say that the “failures” of the FTC in 2012 do not mean it was not a violation of antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Panel chairman: Under coronavirus, big tech “likely to emerge stronger and more powerful” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up first is Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, chairman of the antitrust subcommittee that’s holding this hearing. He is the driving force behind the year-long investigation of big tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3200\">opening remarks\u003c/a>, he describes the dominance of each company: Amazon in online shopping, Apple in smartphones and apps, Facebook in social media and Google in search and ads. And he points out that thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, all four “are likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As American families shift more of their work, shopping, and communication online, these giants stand to profit. Locally owned businesses, meanwhile —mom and pop stores on Main Street — face an economic crisis unlike any in recent history,” Cicilline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s investigation has turned up a pattern among the tech giants, he said. They control access to information and marketplaces, use that control to “surveil” rivals and protect their power, and favor their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put: They have too much power,” Cicilline said. For consumers, he said, this is reminiscent of previous American monopolies: railroads, oil and telephone companies, and even another tech giant — Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This investigation also goes to the heart of whether we, as a people, govern ourselves, or whether we let ourselves be governed by private monopolies,” he said. “Our founders would not bow before a king. Nor should we bow before the emperors of the online economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Republican Jim Jordan: “Big Tech is out to get conservatives”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s hearing is supposed to be about Big Tech’s power and market dominance. But Republicans are already trying to make it about something else: accusations that online platforms are biased against conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Tech is out to get conservatives,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in his fiery opening statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan then rapidly read aloud headlines making claims that conservative-leaning publications and voices have been suppressed or censored on Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also mentioned Twitter, even though it is not part of the hearing. Jordan said conservative members of Congress were “shadow banned” on Twitter. He said Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey said it was a glitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had a nickel for every time I heard it was just a glitch, I wouldn’t be as wealthy as our witnesses, but I’d be doing right,” Jordan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all think the free market is great. We think competition is great. We love the fact that these are American companies. But what’s not great is censoring people, censoring conservatives and trying to impact election,” Jordan said. “”If it doesn’t end, there has to be consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Jordan’s remarks, Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner also mentioned the belief, strongly contested by large tech companies, that conservatives do not get a fair shake by the online platforms, calling reports of conservative censorship troubling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservatives are consumers, too, and they need the protection of antitrust laws,” Sensenbrenner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing erupted in chaos after Jordan asked that Rep. Mike Johnson of the House Judiciary’s Constitution subcommittee be allowed to participate in the hearing. The request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan then repeatedly interrupted antitrust subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, who was attempting to introduce Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about peoples’ liberties here,” Jordan said over Cicilline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put your mask on,” Jordan was told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Bobby Allyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump tweets: ‘Bring fairness to Big Tech’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing has gotten underway, after an hour-long delay. First up, we will get opening statements from the top members of the committee and the four CEOs. Then lawmakers will each get five minutes to question Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg. All four will be joining remotely, via video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus of the hearing, and the committee’s investigation, is competition — but expect lawmakers to be unable to resist bringing up other complaints about tech companies, from election security and the spread of misinformation to alleged anti-conservative bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s also the message coming from the White House, where President Trump has repeatedly accused tech companies of treating him unfairly. Shortly after noon, he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288506554585505793\">tweeted\u003c/a>: “If Congress doesn’t bring fairness to Big Tech, which they should have done years ago, I will do it myself with Executive Orders. 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It was only by focusing on supporting sellers and giving them the best tools we could invent that we were able to succeed and eventually surpass eBay,” Bezos says in his \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009139/Jeff-Bezos-Written-Testimony.pdf\">released testimony\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google’s Sundar Pichai will steer attention to the other ways people navigate the online world, even though 90% of Internet searches happen on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have more ways to search for information than ever before — and increasingly this is happening outside the context of only a search engine,” Pichai \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009142/Sundar-Pichai-Written-Testimony.pdf\">plans to tell\u003c/a> the House panel. “You can ask Alexa a question from your kitchen; read your news on Twitter; ask friends for information via WhatsApp; and get recommendations on Snapchat or Pinterest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s Tim Cook will echo the appeals to patriotism raised among the other tech CEOs by touting how Apple’s strength, becoming the most valuable company in the world, represents success “only possible in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will also join the other tech leaders by arguing that Apple has plenty of competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The smartphone market is fiercely competitive, and companies like Samsung, LG, Huawei and Google have built very successful smartphone businesses offering different approaches,” Cook will say in \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009148/Tim-Cook-Written-Testimony.pdf\">his opening statement\u003c/a> to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether members of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee buy these arguments over the course of what is set to be an hourslong spectacle is another matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it remains to be seen if the public will gain new insight into the tech companies, and whether lawmakers can pin down answers from the typically cautious technology executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CEOs will be testifying via video at the same time, rather than one by one, a format seen as taking the heat off any individual executive and something the companies requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/894834512/big-tech-in-washingtons-hot-seat-what-you-need-to-know\">the hearing\u003c/a> centers on questions around market dominance, lawmakers are free to pepper the executives with questions about any topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anything-goes format will likely divert the hearing away from antitrust and delve into issues like perceived anti-conservative bias on social media platforms, a common Republican refrain. And Democrats, often raising concern about foreign election meddling, may inquire about possible efforts to influence the vote online ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More on-topic probing could involve issues like acquisitions that have grown the reach of Big Tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.crunchbase.com/search/acquisitions/field/organizations/num_acquisitions/facebook\">has acquired\u003c/a> nearly 90 companies, including Instagram, WhatsApp and more recently, Giphy, a tool for creating animated images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How ever it goes, one thing is certain: It will be a day for the history books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is the first time all four technology leaders have testified together, as scrutiny over the companies’ nearly $5 trillion market power draws intensifying scrutiny in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CEOs will be on the defensive as House lawmakers grill them about whether the business empire each company has created has resulted in monopoly-like dominance that distorts the marketplace in their favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After enjoying more than a decade virtually free of federal regulation, House lawmakers are expected to make the case that it’s time for the technology behemoths to be held to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing caps a more than year-long House investigation into the Big Tech companies, which has probed whether the industry leaders box out competition, discourage innovation and pose larger threats to society and American democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Washington can keep the bipartisan focus on Silicon Valley, the hearing could set the stage for historic regulations, but the tech CEOs will be making the case to lawmakers that laws aimed at reining in the scale and power of each company are not necessary, contending that competition among rivals has not been squashed and that consumers have benefited from the technology sector’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You earn trust slowly, over time, by doing hard things well — delivering on time; offering everyday low prices; making promises and keeping them; making principled decisions, even when they’re unpopular,” Bezos will tell the subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unpopular among the four tech giants: the argument that the power each company has amassed over the years is being abused and needs to be held accountable by Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. 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Jayapal zeroed in on the subcommittee’s central concern about Amazon: Does the company use the data it collects from other sellers on the platform for its benefit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t answer that questions yes or no,” Bezos said. “We have a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private label business, but I can’t guarantee you that that policy has never been violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee lawmakers have previously accused Amazon of “\u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2931\">lack of candor\u003c/a>” about how it \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015\">might be using\u003c/a> other sellers’ data to give an edge its own business, something Amazon executives have, until now, denied was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015\">made the case\u003c/a> that Amazon employees may have used such data to create the retailer’s own private-label products, which Bezos told lawmakers the company was still investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayapal noted that Amazon has access to information about consumer habits, sellers’ pricing and inventory data, a trove of details that could be ripe for abuse if used to make business decisions about Amazon’s own products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can set the rules of the game for your competitors, but not actually follow those same rules for yourself,” Jayapal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have access to data that your competitors do not have,” she continued, adding that if Amazon was “continuously monitoring” such data to make sure that other sellers “are never going to get big enough that they can compete with you — that is actually the concern that the committee has,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Alina Selyukh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Google’s Pichai is pressed on being “the gateway to the Internet”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subcommittee Chairman Cicilline spent all of his first 5-minute block of questions on Google — the company at most immediate risk of actual antitrust action. The Department of Justice is reportedly preparing to sue the company over its advertising business, and could be joined by state attorneys general who have also been investigating Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline pressed CEO Sundar Pichai on whether Google’s business model presents a conflict of interest, because it has an incentive to give search results that keep users on its own site rather than anywhere else on the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Google became the gateway to the Internet, it began to abuse its power,” Cicilline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pichai responded that Google “always focuses on providing users the most relevant information.” Cicilline appeared annoyed at Pichai’s answers, cutting him off several times to move to another question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still waiting for questions for Jeff Bezos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over an hour-and-a-half into the hearing, Jeff Bezos — appearing in Congress for the first time, whose company employs a million workers and has over 150 million paying subscribers — has yet to receive a single question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His presence was slated to become a powerful accomplishment of the House Judiciary Committee, but the questioning so far has left him muted on the live video feed, reaching for some snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing, meanwhile, is taking a 10-minute break to fix a technical problem “with one of our witnesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Alina Selyukh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did Facebook buy Instagram to neutralize a competitor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., pressed Facebook’s Zuckerberg on exactly why his company bought Instagram for $1 billion back in 2012. That’s a key part of competition questions facing the social media giant. Critics accuse Facebook of buying or copying rivals — like Instagram and WhatsApp — to squash competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler said in its investigation, the committee got documents from Facebook in which Zuckerberg discussed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1288540745637474306?s=20\">“neutralizing a competitor”\u003c/a> as a reason to pursue Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook saw Instagram as a threat that could potentially siphon business away from Facebook. And so rather than compete with it, Facebook bought it,” Nadler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg points out that the Federal Trade Commission okayed the merger at the time. “With hindsight it probably looks obvious that Instagram would have reached the scale that it has today, but at the time it was far from obvious,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline interjected to say that the “failures” of the FTC in 2012 do not mean it was not a violation of antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Panel chairman: Under coronavirus, big tech “likely to emerge stronger and more powerful” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up first is Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, chairman of the antitrust subcommittee that’s holding this hearing. He is the driving force behind the year-long investigation of big tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3200\">opening remarks\u003c/a>, he describes the dominance of each company: Amazon in online shopping, Apple in smartphones and apps, Facebook in social media and Google in search and ads. And he points out that thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, all four “are likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As American families shift more of their work, shopping, and communication online, these giants stand to profit. Locally owned businesses, meanwhile —mom and pop stores on Main Street — face an economic crisis unlike any in recent history,” Cicilline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s investigation has turned up a pattern among the tech giants, he said. They control access to information and marketplaces, use that control to “surveil” rivals and protect their power, and favor their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put: They have too much power,” Cicilline said. For consumers, he said, this is reminiscent of previous American monopolies: railroads, oil and telephone companies, and even another tech giant — Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This investigation also goes to the heart of whether we, as a people, govern ourselves, or whether we let ourselves be governed by private monopolies,” he said. “Our founders would not bow before a king. Nor should we bow before the emperors of the online economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Republican Jim Jordan: “Big Tech is out to get conservatives”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s hearing is supposed to be about Big Tech’s power and market dominance. But Republicans are already trying to make it about something else: accusations that online platforms are biased against conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Tech is out to get conservatives,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in his fiery opening statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan then rapidly read aloud headlines making claims that conservative-leaning publications and voices have been suppressed or censored on Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also mentioned Twitter, even though it is not part of the hearing. Jordan said conservative members of Congress were “shadow banned” on Twitter. He said Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey said it was a glitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had a nickel for every time I heard it was just a glitch, I wouldn’t be as wealthy as our witnesses, but I’d be doing right,” Jordan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all think the free market is great. We think competition is great. We love the fact that these are American companies. But what’s not great is censoring people, censoring conservatives and trying to impact election,” Jordan said. “”If it doesn’t end, there has to be consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Jordan’s remarks, Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner also mentioned the belief, strongly contested by large tech companies, that conservatives do not get a fair shake by the online platforms, calling reports of conservative censorship troubling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservatives are consumers, too, and they need the protection of antitrust laws,” Sensenbrenner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing erupted in chaos after Jordan asked that Rep. Mike Johnson of the House Judiciary’s Constitution subcommittee be allowed to participate in the hearing. The request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan then repeatedly interrupted antitrust subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, who was attempting to introduce Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about peoples’ liberties here,” Jordan said over Cicilline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put your mask on,” Jordan was told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Bobby Allyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump tweets: ‘Bring fairness to Big Tech’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing has gotten underway, after an hour-long delay. First up, we will get opening statements from the top members of the committee and the four CEOs. Then lawmakers will each get five minutes to question Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg. All four will be joining remotely, via video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus of the hearing, and the committee’s investigation, is competition — but expect lawmakers to be unable to resist bringing up other complaints about tech companies, from election security and the spread of misinformation to alleged anti-conservative bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s also the message coming from the White House, where President Trump has repeatedly accused tech companies of treating him unfairly. Shortly after noon, he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288506554585505793\">tweeted\u003c/a>: “If Congress doesn’t bring fairness to Big Tech, which they should have done years ago, I will do it myself with Executive Orders. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 40,000 tenants in Santa Clara County could be at risk of eviction after August, when local emergency rental protections expire, a new report warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfoundation.org/news/eviction-time-bomb\">the report\u003c/a> identifies over 43,000 renter households in the county at highest risk of eviction. They primarily consist of undocumented workers and other low-income residents who have lost substantial income during the COVID-19 pandemic, and have not been eligible for unemployment assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at an eviction time bomb,” said Michael Trujillo, an attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley (LFSV), the nonprofit group that co-authored the report, in collaboration with Working Partnerships USA. That potential wave of evictions — roughly 16 times the average number filed in the county in an entire year — would have devastating, widespread impacts, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michael Trujillo, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley\"]‘We’re just really concerned about the disparate impact this would have on Black and Latinx households and folks who may be undocumented as well.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge risk of a surge in homelessness, which could be over a 200% increase,” Trujillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those at greatest risk of eviction in the county, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/santa-clara-county/santa-clara/\">average rent\u003c/a> is nearly $3,000, are disproportionately people of color, households headed by women and families of young children, according to the group’s analysis of unemployment insurance claims and census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 212,000 Santa Clara County workers — or one in every five workers in the county — filed unemployment claims between March 15 and May 30, the report found. The majority of those claims covered fields that include a large number of low-wage jobs, where Black and Latinx workers are disproportionately represented. Not included in that number, the report notes, are the estimated 95,000 undocumented workers in the county who are ineligible for unemployment benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just really concerned about the disparate impact this would have on Black and Latinx households and folks who may be undocumented as well,” Trujillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report’s dire warning comes just over a month before the county’s eviction moratorium is set to expire. Enacted soon after shelter-in-place restrictions went into effect in late March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/EvictionMoratorium/Pages/home.aspx\">the countywide order\u003c/a> bars landlords from evicting tenants for non-payment of rent due to significant pandemic-related income loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants have up to six months after the moratorium expires on Aug. 31 — which officials already extended from May 31 — to repay at least 50% of past-due rent, and up to a year to repay the full amount. That repayment, however, is on top of whatever rent those tenants will continue to owe on a monthly basis, a particularly daunting challenge amid ongoing economic fallout as the coronavirus cases continue to surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency protections are similar to those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">enacted in most other Bay Area counties\u003c/a> — and much of the rest of the state — where low-income people of color have been hit hardest by the pandemic, both physically and financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really going to devastate Black and Latinx renters who, of course, are most likely to be working in industries that have been affected by COVID and also most likely to be highly rent burdened in the first place,” Trujillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 46% of Latinx renters and more than half of Black renters said they had no or only slight confidence they would be able to pay July rent, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp9.html\">U.S. Census Bureau survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trujillo notes that while Santa Clara County is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country, the risk to renters here is hardly unique. Low-income residents in most nearby counties are facing a similar threat, he said, noting another \u003ca href=\"https://www.policylink.org/resources-tools/COVID-19%20Evictions-fact-sheet\">recent analysis\u003c/a> that identified some 12,000 Contra Costa County households — including 10,400 children — at risk of imminent eviction if that county’s moratorium ends. His group’s report, he added, is based on methodology from a \u003ca href=\"https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2020/05/28/ud-day-report/\">UCLA study\u003c/a> of Los Angeles County, which found more than 130,000 households to be at risk of eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more eviction coverage\" tag=\"eviction\"]LFSV’s report urges Santa Clara County officials to again extend the eviction moratorium through the state of emergency and permanently prohibit landlords from evicting tenants who are unable to repay rent due to loss of income from COVID-19. Landlords, it suggests, should instead file civil lawsuits seeking back rent, which could lead to wage garnishment, downgraded credit scores or liens, but at least keep tenants from being pushed out of their homes. Additionally, the report encourages state and federal lawmakers to provide financial relief to the most at-risk tenants to cover insurmountable rental debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends that local officials ensure that all tenants have access to legal assistance to better understand their rights, fight unfair evictions and negotiate agreements with landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike our neighbors up north in San Francisco, there’s no guaranteed access (here) to legal assistance if you’re facing eviction in Santa Clara County” Trujillo said. “And so, in fact, vanishingly few tenants are represented. The reality is that we’re one of the few organizations that provides legal defense in the county and we simply just don’t have enough capacity to represent everyone who needs defense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measures implemented by county officials have so far been effective in preventing widespread evictions during the pandemic, Trujillo said. But he stressed that much more needs to be done to avert a major displacement crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those families that are most at risk right now are families that are living in neighborhoods that been disadvantaged for a long time, in terms of investment, in terms of housing development, in terms of displacement protection,” he said. “And so this crisis is really compounding what was already a severe housing crisis. And as we move forward and start to address these problems, I hope that the solutions also go to addressing the drivers of that underlying housing crisis.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s one of the most iconic pieces of domestic architecture in the Bay Area — the Flintstone House! You may have noticed the bright orange and purple structure while driving northbound on 280 in Hillsborough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first visited this place a few years ago for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11350365/whats-that-thing-off-280-the-flintstone-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious podcast episode\u003c/a> that remains one of their most-popular episodes of all time. But back then, the architect wasn’t available. So when the chance came to tour the house with its architect, I pounced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s some of our conversation, edited for coherency and aesthetic enjoyment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: My name’s William Nicholson, but people call me Nick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Which do you prefer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Nick. Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: How do you feel about your creation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: This was a big failure. You know, I was going to revolutionize architecture when I got out of school and I didn’t. People like the places, especially once they get inside. But nobody bought them. So I felt like such a failure. But I’ve talked to so many people driving along (280, and they say the sight of the Flintstone House) brings a smile to your face. Now, why shouldn’t a house be fun? I mean, that’s fantastic. So many people drive by and at least subconsciously realize that, ‘Hey, there’s something other than a box!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828960 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793.jpeg\" alt=\"The current owner Florence Fang didn't come up with the nickname "Flintstone House," but she's run with it, installing all kinds of cartoonish tchotchkes inside and out. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The current owner Florence Fang didn’t come up with the nickname “Flintstone House,” but she’s run with it, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854843/flintstone-house-owner-hires-lawyers-to-fight-hillsborough-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismay of local officials\u003c/a>, installing all kinds of cartoon-inspired touches inside and out.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Take us back to the very first conversation you had with the original owners. What was the culture like then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: They were into computer programming. I’d built the first house out in Apple Valley, Calif., and they came and went through that house. That was an era that was a little hippie. You know? Everyone was looking at accepting something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: When you said you really wanted to revolutionize architecture, what was it you had in mind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Well, I had this idea of blowing up balloons. I developed a material that was plaster with fiberglass in it. There was this machine that you could spray that on and it would hydrate at the nozzle. So you sprayed (the plaster/fiberglass mix) on these balloons and then let the air out, and you’d have this dome structure. Then I would put the electrical elements, spray it with foam and then put wire and and steel on and then gunite it, like a swimming pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came up with the original thought in Istanbul. I went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyyxHkCvm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Mosque\u003c/a>. There was hardly anybody in there at the time, so I laid down on the floor, and I looked up at the (domed) ceiling. That was the germination of the thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828963 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6.jpeg\" alt=\"So many people drive by and at least subconsciously realize that, 'Hey, there's something other than a box!' - Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">So many people drive by and at least subconsciously realize that, ‘Hey, there’s something other than a box!’ – Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: How many of these (homes) did you build?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Four. The last one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.palmspringslife.com/palm-springs-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palm Springs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Now that one looks a little bit like an elf’s home, or a hobbit’s home. Does it have a nickname like the Flintstone House?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Yeah. This was the Santorini, because it’s kind of like the Greek island Santorini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Do you want to show me some of your favorite parts of the Flintstone House?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: My favorite room is this room here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828955 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171.jpeg\" alt=\"KQED's Rachael Myrow interviews Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson as they stare upwards in the tubular lounge.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Rachael Myrow interviews Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson as they stare upwards in the tubular lounge. \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: It’s almost like being on the the inside of cotton candy. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: That’s a great line I’ve never heard that before. May I use that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Absolutely! You know, I can’t get over the fact that, if you’re standing outside the house, the (280) freeway is roaring. It’s really loud. But in here, you hear nothing.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Yeah, right, and it saves about 30 percent on heating and cooling: a function of how thick the walls are, and the fact they don’t have any seams like a square house has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just kind of lean back. This is very much like the feeling I had in the mosque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: You’ve been an architect for many years now. How come only four houses of this type?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Burned me out. I spent several years developing the material and everything. It became a passion. I was beating this tambourine. You know, we’ve only lived in boxes for about three or four thousand years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of years before that, we lived in soft structures. Our psychological, our cellular makeup, is that we’re a little more comfortable in soft structures than we are in a box. But also, we have this tribal instinct. The reason we survive is that we follow the tribe, and so we want to live in something like the rest of the tribe lives in. The rest of the tribe lives in boxes now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11350460 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Wherever you stand or sit in the Flintstone House, you’re looking into other rooms.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23951_170127_FlintstonesHouse_bhs14-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wherever you stand or sit in the Flintstone House, you’re looking into other rooms. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: You’re supposed to build a box!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: People are really afraid to be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: So you decided to build more conventional homes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: No. I went into land development. I made back all the money that I lost over eight years in a year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: So I have to ask you about one of the many controversies surrounding this home. Some people likes the outdoor paint being a kind of neutral cream (like it was in the past). Others prefer the purple and orange. What about you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: I was shocked the first time I saw it. Then I got into the fact that, hey, it’s got to be fun! Anybody should be able to paint their house any color they want. Frankly, I was shocked when they nicknamed this the Flintstone House. And now it’s a landmark!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s one of the most iconic pieces of domestic architecture in the Bay Area — the Flintstone House! You may have noticed the bright orange and purple structure while driving northbound on 280 in Hillsborough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first visited this place a few years ago for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11350365/whats-that-thing-off-280-the-flintstone-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious podcast episode\u003c/a> that remains one of their most-popular episodes of all time. But back then, the architect wasn’t available. So when the chance came to tour the house with its architect, I pounced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s some of our conversation, edited for coherency and aesthetic enjoyment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: My name’s William Nicholson, but people call me Nick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Which do you prefer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Nick. Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: How do you feel about your creation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: This was a big failure. You know, I was going to revolutionize architecture when I got out of school and I didn’t. People like the places, especially once they get inside. But nobody bought them. So I felt like such a failure. But I’ve talked to so many people driving along (280, and they say the sight of the Flintstone House) brings a smile to your face. Now, why shouldn’t a house be fun? I mean, that’s fantastic. So many people drive by and at least subconsciously realize that, ‘Hey, there’s something other than a box!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828960 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793.jpeg\" alt=\"The current owner Florence Fang didn't come up with the nickname "Flintstone House," but she's run with it, installing all kinds of cartoonish tchotchkes inside and out. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/50f3db7f-b285-4c7a-a196-d82c2b2dd793-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The current owner Florence Fang didn’t come up with the nickname “Flintstone House,” but she’s run with it, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854843/flintstone-house-owner-hires-lawyers-to-fight-hillsborough-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismay of local officials\u003c/a>, installing all kinds of cartoon-inspired touches inside and out.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Take us back to the very first conversation you had with the original owners. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came up with the original thought in Istanbul. I went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyyxHkCvm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Mosque\u003c/a>. There was hardly anybody in there at the time, so I laid down on the floor, and I looked up at the (domed) ceiling. That was the germination of the thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828963 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6.jpeg\" alt=\"So many people drive by and at least subconsciously realize that, 'Hey, there's something other than a box!' - Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/59c0e338-876f-43f7-ae35-d3458c38aeb6-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">So many people drive by and at least subconsciously realize that, ‘Hey, there’s something other than a box!’ – Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: How many of these (homes) did you build?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Four. The last one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.palmspringslife.com/palm-springs-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palm Springs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Now that one looks a little bit like an elf’s home, or a hobbit’s home. Does it have a nickname like the Flintstone House?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Yeah. This was the Santorini, because it’s kind of like the Greek island Santorini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Do you want to show me some of your favorite parts of the Flintstone House?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: My favorite room is this room here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828955 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171.jpeg\" alt=\"KQED's Rachael Myrow interviews Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson as they stare upwards in the tubular lounge.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/803f779b-27ac-44ee-8902-e7458c7ca171-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Rachael Myrow interviews Flintstone House architect Nick Nicholson as they stare upwards in the tubular lounge. \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: It’s almost like being on the the inside of cotton candy. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: That’s a great line I’ve never heard that before. May I use that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: Absolutely! You know, I can’t get over the fact that, if you’re standing outside the house, the (280) freeway is roaring. It’s really loud. But in here, you hear nothing.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Yeah, right, and it saves about 30 percent on heating and cooling: a function of how thick the walls are, and the fact they don’t have any seams like a square house has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just kind of lean back. This is very much like the feeling I had in the mosque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM: You’ve been an architect for many years now. How come only four houses of this type?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NN: Burned me out. I spent several years developing the material and everything. It became a passion. I was beating this tambourine. You know, we’ve only lived in boxes for about three or four thousand years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of years before that, we lived in soft structures. 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"content": "\u003cp>When I give money to a worthy cause — my alma mater, my local food bank, et cetera — I typically do so directly. Wealthy donors, especially these days, are typically steered into something else: a financial vehicle called a donor-advised fund (DAF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nptrust.org/reports/daf-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Philanthropic Trust\u003c/a>, the national pool of assets parked in DAFs clocked in at a whopping $121.42 billion in 2018. Charitable grants issued from that stash last year? Just $23.42 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between those two numbers has led to heated public debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If donors get the tax benefit of a charitable donation to a DAF in the tax year they donate, shouldn’t they be directing the organizations that manage their DAFs to give all that money away in the same year? Or much of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opinions vary, but in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession — and a nationwide reckoning over racism and social justice in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd — the DAF world has been under increased pressure to deliver more now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Buffy Wicks, East Bay assemblywoman\"]‘If you look at the challenges our communities are facing, if you look at the health impacts of COVID-19 to communities of color in particular, if you look at what is happening to our society, today is the day to spend the money.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Was Overwhelmed’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David and Jennifer Risher of San Francisco made their money with Amazon and Microsoft, and they readily admit they got into to a donor advised fund years before they gave much thought to how they wanted to use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we opened the first DAF in 2002,” said Jennifer Risher. “I was overwhelmed. Like, what do I do? How do I do it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When David Risher founded a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldreader.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Worldreader\u003c/a>, aimed at getting 1 billion children reading digitally, they got to see the world of nonprofit funding from the other side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In an era when there is enormous potential for nonprofits to address the world’s biggest problems, DAFs are keeping funds from getting to the people who need them the most,” he wrote in an editorial on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/youve-given-donor-advised-fund-great-now-finish-job-david-risher/?articleId=6625843233681354752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, called “You’ve Given to a Donor Advised Fund. Great! Now, Finish the Job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Giving Tuesday last May, the couple launched an initiative designed to challenge other DAF holders to finish the job. They called it \u003ca href=\"https://www.halfmydaf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HalfMyDAF\u003c/a>. The Rishers promised to match up to $1 million, through their personal DAF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You give money to your nonprofits, you let us know, and then, as many as we can, we’re going to give to match,” David Risher said. “So the first round is July 15. The second round is September 30.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June 12, they got 72 people and couples to commit to giving, and a few others to commit to matching those grants. Total so far? Roughly $2.9 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why are the Rishers doing this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rainy day is here,” said Jennifer Risher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also been reading the news articles and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/zombie-philanthropy-the-rich-have-stashed-billions-in-donor-advised-charities--but-its-not-reaching-those-in-need/2020/06/23/6a1b397a-af3a-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opinion pieces\u003c/a> in recent years that argue DAFs have become a form of “zombie philanthropy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DAFs are easy to set up with sponsoring organizations ranging from Wall Street giants like \u003ca href=\"https://www.fidelitycharitable.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fidelity Charitable\u003c/a> to community foundations and universities. You can park unconventional assets like pre-IPO stock or cryptocurrencies in them, which explains why DAFs are popular among Silicon Valley’s elite. You get the tax break in the year you move your money into the DAF, but you don’t have to tell your DAF manager right away where you want the money to go: schools, food banks, whatever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no legal deadline, which troubles East Bay Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the people unemployed right now, if you look at the evictions that are going to be taking place, if you look at the challenges that our communities are facing, if you look at the health impacts of COVID-19 to communities of color in particular, if you look at what is happening to our society, today is the day to spend the money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Coronavirus Coverage' tag='coronavirus']She is pushing a bill co-sponsored by \u003ca href=\"https://calnonprofits.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalNonprofits\u003c/a>, among others, that would codify the legal definition of a DAF and require the state attorney general’s office to establish a classification for sponsoring organizations. That’s it: just to lay the groundwork for future regulation, that might be the inspiration or impetus for change at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But modest as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 2936\u003c/a> is, the \u003ca href=\"https://lccf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">League of California Community Foundations\u003c/a> is opposed. The group’s 30 members have just over 7,200 donor-advised funds under management with about $10 billion in assets, though not evenly distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One community foundation in particular dominates that scene. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Valley Community Foundation\u003c/a> reports $8.74 billion in advised funds in 2019, in large part because of its donor base in Silicon Valley. Marquee donors include Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SVCF has policies in place to nudge donors who are letting their DAFs lie dormant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If fund advisors do not recommend grants for two years, we contact them to request that they do so. If the fund remains dormant, SVCF can absorb the fund into our endowment and the money will be deployed to our community,” wrote Communications Director Chau Vuong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fidelity Charitable, arguably the big fish in the industry with 140,000 DAFs \u003ca href=\"https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/insights/2020-giving-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2019\u003c/a>, follows a similar \u003ca href=\"http://fidelitycharitable.org/content/dam/fc-public/docs/programs/fidelity-charitable-program-guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protocol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After two years in which no grants are distributed from a Giving Account, Fidelity Charitable will make grants from the Giving Account to IRS-qualified public charities approved by the Trustees of Fidelity Charitable,” wrote the company’s Director of Media Relations Nabil Ashour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Long Is Too Long?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vuong argues SVCF is delivering to the nonprofits that depend on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general we have a payout rate of 9‐15% each year, which is significantly higher than the 5% required of private foundations,” Vuong said. “This year, with the onset of COVID‐19, CEO Nicole Taylor initially put out an urgent call to action in which she encouraged fundholders to deploy an additional 1‐5% more from their accounts, on top of what they were already giving or planning to give this year, to support COVID‐19-related causes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is convinced donors should feel compelled to empty their DAFs as fast as they fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Head, CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebcf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Community Foundation\u003c/a> and chair of the League, argues the vast majority of DAFs are not set up by Silicon Valley bigwigs, but smaller operators keen to make a difference over the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we have COVID-19 today. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a couple of weeks to chew on San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo’s nine-point \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1480/4959\">proposal\u003c/a> to reform the city’s police department, the verdict from many community activists is… \u003cem>meh\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Rev. Jethroe Moore II, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjosenaacp.org/\">San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP\u003c/a>, who described the plan as, “inadequate at best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It falls short of the expectations and the desire of many, I would say, most of the community members,” he added. “We want change. We want substantial change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo’s proposal, which he released in late June amid ongoing protests against police brutality, included the following measures:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Expand public transparency for arbitration over termination and disciplinary decisions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Conduct Independent investigation of police misconduct\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand authority of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/independent-police-auditor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent police auditor\u003c/a> over “use of force” allegations\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grant college scholarships to local youth who agree to join the San Jose Police Department following graduation\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Direct $100,000 for a community engagement process to reimagine how the city might rely more on civilian responses for a variety of non-criminal calls for service\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ban the use of rubber bullets ban and conduct a full review of SJPD’s use-of-force policy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Make police subject to direction of elected leadership\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leverage data to improve recruiting, training and early intervention\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Audit police expenditures\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office said some proposals will take years to properly formulate, even as the City Council begins addressing some items, such as an expansive rubber bullet ban, which it’ll consider in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Raj Jayadev, Silicon Valley De-Bug\"]‘What the people in San Jose have been saying is that this isn’t an issue of just a few rogue actors. This is a system issue’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are several very substantive changes which are proposed for how we will ensure that San Jose continues to be at the forefront of police accountability,” Liccardo said in a press conference unveiling the plan. In an interview with KQED, he noted that he had consulted with faith leaders and members of civil rights organizations in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was on that list, but said his organization wasn’t very involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a group of community meetings that were held and I think a member from my organization attended,” Moore said. “But we did not give a thumbs up to any policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore’s organization wants the SJPD to stop using carotid chokeholds and no longer apply for federally provided military equipment, among other reforms. But he isn’t waiting on these changes to come from the local level, he said, because some may soon be addressed in state or \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html\">national legislation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we get it passed statewide, they’ll have to fall in,” Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1196\">AB 1196\u003c/a>, for example, would ban police from using chokeholds. Another, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB66\">AB 66\u003c/a>, would ban police from not only firing rubber bullets into a crowd, but also using tear gas and pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes local governments can be more nimble,” said state Assemblyman Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, who introduced AB 66. “But I would say that on an issue of this nature, it makes sense to have a statewide standard so you don’t have one police department or one city responding in one manner and then you go a few miles over to another city and they’re handling protests in a different nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jack Glaser, a UC Berkeley criminal justice professor, disagrees. “Policing is largely regulated at the local level anyway,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glaser is most excited about Liccardo’s plan to expand the Police Department’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjpd.org/bfo/community/cso/\">Community Service Officer\u003c/a> program, he said. The program now consists of 62 unarmed officers who respond to low-level crimes like burglary, vandalism and road hazards. Under the mayor’s proposal, mental and behavioral health care workers would also begin responding to most mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal sets aside $100,000 to set up conversations with the public on what the new program would look like. But Glaser says he wants to see a much bigger budget bolster the promise of the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that you can just shift resources over from a police department and there would be this one-to-one substitution is probably naive,” he said. “There should be an expectation of at least initial investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glaser said he expects opposition from police unions on every proposal in the nine-point plan. “Police unions have a lot of influence over how these structures get put into place and what they look like,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the San Jose Police Officers Association, the union representing SJPD officers, said it’s \u003ca href=\"https://mcusercontent.com/6a0707887484bfcead01dcf9d/files/2d22b0f5-f07e-4f24-b2e3-340157b97944/BAN0006491356_01_hr_1_.pdf\">on board\u003c/a> with these reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also interested in how we can improve police-community outcomes,” said Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the union. “If that’s the goal, the POA is going to be in lockstep with people who have reasonable proposals, ideas and suggestions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-reform\"]Saggau emphasized, however, that the POA does not support calls to “defund the SJPD”, like those coming from Silicon Valley De-Bug, a civil rights organization based out of San Jose that recently circulated a \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/stories/to-the-city-of-san-jose-divest-from-police-and-invest-in-community\">petition\u003c/a> signed by 2,600 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the people in San Jose have been saying is that this isn’t an issue of just a few rogue actors. This is a system issue,” said Raj Jayadev, the group’s cofounder. “This is about systemic racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosie Chavez also helped craft the petition, which called to dismantle policing units such as the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force and the Covert Response and Street Crimes Units that she believes target young Black and brown men. Her nephew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/18/san-jose-police-deadly-shooting-of-unarmed-robbery-drive-by-suspect-capped-lengthy-cat-and-mouse-pursuit/\">Jacob Dominguez,\u003c/a> was killed by San Jose police in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like (Liccardo) didn’t listen or even read what we were asking of him divesting (from the SJPD) and investing in the community,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge LaDoris Cordell, a former SJPD watchdog, is also skeptical of these proposals. “I have no quarrel with the proposed reforms,” she said. “They just don’t go far enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell pointed to Liccardo’s proposal to expand the role of the city’s independent police auditor, which the city of San Jose will vote on in November. Before then, the City Council is holding a special meeting on July 28 to vote on the language that will appear on the ballot. Even still, that position merely reviews the department’s internal investigations and lacks any real enforcement power, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The IPA has no authority to make findings that are binding on the department,” Cordell said, adding that amending the city’s charter would be the only way to effectively change the position. “While reforms of the SJPD will help keep the public safe from the police use of excessive force, the culture of the department is so infected with systemic racism that reforms are inefficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>CORRECTIONS\u003c/strong>: The original version of this story misstated the following details: \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>There are 62 community service officers on the SJPD, not 72. Ten more will soon be added to the department through a reallocation of $1.4 million from the police overtime budget.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>One of the policing units that activists want to dismantle is the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force, not the Mayor’s Youth Gang Task Force, as previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The City Council will vote on the language for the independent police auditor ballot measure in late July, not November. The public will vote on the measure in November.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Saggau emphasized, however, that the POA does not support calls to “defund the SJPD”, like those coming from Silicon Valley De-Bug, a civil rights organization based out of San Jose that recently circulated a \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/stories/to-the-city-of-san-jose-divest-from-police-and-invest-in-community\">petition\u003c/a> signed by 2,600 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the people in San Jose have been saying is that this isn’t an issue of just a few rogue actors. This is a system issue,” said Raj Jayadev, the group’s cofounder. “This is about systemic racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosie Chavez also helped craft the petition, which called to dismantle policing units such as the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force and the Covert Response and Street Crimes Units that she believes target young Black and brown men. Her nephew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/18/san-jose-police-deadly-shooting-of-unarmed-robbery-drive-by-suspect-capped-lengthy-cat-and-mouse-pursuit/\">Jacob Dominguez,\u003c/a> was killed by San Jose police in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like (Liccardo) didn’t listen or even read what we were asking of him divesting (from the SJPD) and investing in the community,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge LaDoris Cordell, a former SJPD watchdog, is also skeptical of these proposals. “I have no quarrel with the proposed reforms,” she said. “They just don’t go far enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell pointed to Liccardo’s proposal to expand the role of the city’s independent police auditor, which the city of San Jose will vote on in November. Before then, the City Council is holding a special meeting on July 28 to vote on the language that will appear on the ballot. Even still, that position merely reviews the department’s internal investigations and lacks any real enforcement power, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The IPA has no authority to make findings that are binding on the department,” Cordell said, adding that amending the city’s charter would be the only way to effectively change the position. “While reforms of the SJPD will help keep the public safe from the police use of excessive force, the culture of the department is so infected with systemic racism that reforms are inefficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>CORRECTIONS\u003c/strong>: The original version of this story misstated the following details: \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>There are 62 community service officers on the SJPD, not 72. Ten more will soon be added to the department through a reallocation of $1.4 million from the police overtime budget.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>One of the policing units that activists want to dismantle is the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force, not the Mayor’s Youth Gang Task Force, as previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The City Council will vote on the language for the independent police auditor ballot measure in late July, not November. The public will vote on the measure in November.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a decade ago, Santa Cruz was one of the first cities in the U.S. to adopt what’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201201171000/predictive-policing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predictive policing\u003c/a>.” Now it’s one of the first to enact a ban. That may be because police departments are beginning to quietly back away from the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the Santa Cruz Police Department dropped predictive policing in 2017, when Andy Mills started as police chief. From the beginning, he spoke of a more community focused approach to the job. Interviewed for a story about his first day on the job, he told local TV news station \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruzs-new-top-cop-andrew-mills/10394315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSBW\u003c/a> he wanted to focus on “tactical deescalation.” He was one of a number of California police chiefs to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SantaCruzPolice/status/1266841397497221120?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take a knee\u003c/a> with Black Lives Matter protestors this past spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SantaCruzPolice/status/1266841397497221120?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Santa Cruz city council took up a new ordinance banning predictive policing and facial recognition software on June 23, 2020, Chief Mills expressed unreserved support. “Predictive policing has been shown over time to put officers in conflict with communities rather than working with the communities,” he said. He spoke in support of the mayor to ban the technologies “until such time that it can be peer reviewed and scientifically proven.” The vote for the ban was unanimous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those watching from elsewhere in the Bay was Brian Hofer, who chairs Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/boards-commissions/privacy-advisory-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy commission\u003c/a> and heads the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://secure-justice.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secure Justice\u003c/a>. He sees the vote in Santa Cruz as the latest referendum on the effectiveness of predictive policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys told us this was going to save lives. Where’s the data?” he said, noting conversations bubbling up in Oakland and San Diego that may evolve into efforts to ban predictive policing elsewhere in California. Hofer helped craft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761849/oakland-city-council-votes-to-ban-facial-recognition-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland’s ban on facial recognition\u003c/a> technology, and consults with other cities reassessing their policing contracts and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828595\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg\" alt=\"Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1020x1304.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-160x205.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1201x1536.jpeg 1201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000.jpeg 1493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the City of Santa Cruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We fall for the marketing hype, go release this stuff out into the wild without understanding it, and then never really demand a cost benefit analysis,” Hofer said, noting a number of studies and audits in recent years have found predictive policing and other data-driven policing solutions sold by Silicon Valley companies like PredPol and Palantir have yet to deliver on their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/strategies/predictive-policing/Pages/welcome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Predictive policing\u003c/a> uses computer modeling to anticipate crime and to manage when and where police officers are deployed. Algorithms analyze historical data to predict where certain crimes may occur (aka “hotspots”) and possibly who may be involved in a future crime. That, at least, is the promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a common fallacy that police data is objective and reflects actual criminal behavior, patterns, or other indicators of concern to public safety in a given jurisdiction,” researchers from New York University wrote in a 2019 study they titled \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dirty Data, Bad Predictions\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “In reality, police data reflects the practices, policies, biases, and political and financial accounting needs of a given department,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings referenced this consensus growing among academics as well as activists when he brought the ban proposal forward in June. “If policing itself is biased, then the data that’s informing those models will be biased,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not Just Santa Cruz\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former LAPD Chief and New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was the biggest early booster of predictive policing on the national stage, starting in 1994. First, with the crime tracking system CompStat, later with a host of analytical software products and strategies, he’s championed what he describes as the “evolution of policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton was brought in first to consult and later to head the LAPD in 2002 by then-Mayor Jim Hahn. A decade later, he led an investigation into Oakland’s implementation of CompStat, and issued a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/96648/bratton-report-findings-highly-critical-of-oakland-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critique\u003c/a> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while his data-driven reforms were praised at the time, the NYPD has since been \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/court-public-deserves-know-how-nypd-uses-predictive-policing-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court-ordered\u003c/a> to produce records about testing, development, and use of predictive analytics tools, and just a few months ago, the LAPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/los-angeles-police-department-dumping-predpol-predictive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled out of two of its predictive policing contracts\u003c/a>, including one with \u003ca href=\"https://www.predpol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PredPol\u003c/a>, the same company Santa Cruz was using.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAPD publicly blamed pandemic era budget restrictions for ending the contract, but as \u003ca href=\"https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/mar/12/algorithms-lapd-predpol/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muckrock reported\u003c/a>, internal auditing couldn’t determine the programs were effective. The 48-page report from the office of Inspector General Mark Smith issued last March, found the department needs tougher standards for data collection, record keeping, and communicating its policies to the public to guard against targeting minorities and certain neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After ten years, with enough public pressure and community concern, it was an easy decision to just pull the plug,” said Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University and author of \u003cem>The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether one takes issue with data-driven policing itself or the way it’s implemented, there have been a host of issues with the way many California police departments have gathered and maintained databases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2016 state audit of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3010637-CalGang-Audit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalGang database\u003c/a>, for instance, found a multitude of errors, unsubstantiated claims of gang involvement, and hundreds of files lingering long after their legally mandated purge date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PredPol CEO Brian Macdonald took issue with the way predictive policing has been characterized in recent debates. “It should be noted that the ‘predictive’ aspect is only a small part of what we do,” Macdonald said. “PredPol is all about bringing greater transparency to patrol operations… We allow departments to set missions — crime types to focus on — so the community can see what police resources are focused on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macdonald clarified what they do by saying they never use arrest data in predictions, and “never predict for crime types that allow for the possibility of officer bias (e.g. drug crimes).” He said they only work with crimes involving “a clear victim” such as vehicle theft, break-ins, and robberies. “We never use any demographic, racial, or personally identifiable information,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if appraisals on predictive policing are popping up on city council agendas across California this summer, Andrew Ferguson at American University warns many police officers, politicians and members of the public are still fascinated with the idea that technology is the ticket to 21st century crime fighting, and he has this prediction for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next thing we’re going to see is a response to this demand for police accountability to sort of turn the surveillance gaze on police,” Ferguson said. “It’s sort of the Silicon Valley way to see an opening and try to pitch it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You guys told us this was going to save lives. Where’s the data?” he said, noting conversations bubbling up in Oakland and San Diego that may evolve into efforts to ban predictive policing elsewhere in California. Hofer helped craft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761849/oakland-city-council-votes-to-ban-facial-recognition-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland’s ban on facial recognition\u003c/a> technology, and consults with other cities reassessing their policing contracts and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828595\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11828595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg\" alt=\"Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-800x1023.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1020x1304.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-160x205.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000-1201x1536.jpeg 1201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/636833394040830000.jpeg 1493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings proposed the ban on predictive policing, unanimously approved by the city council on June 23, 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the City of Santa Cruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We fall for the marketing hype, go release this stuff out into the wild without understanding it, and then never really demand a cost benefit analysis,” Hofer said, noting a number of studies and audits in recent years have found predictive policing and other data-driven policing solutions sold by Silicon Valley companies like PredPol and Palantir have yet to deliver on their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/strategies/predictive-policing/Pages/welcome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Predictive policing\u003c/a> uses computer modeling to anticipate crime and to manage when and where police officers are deployed. Algorithms analyze historical data to predict where certain crimes may occur (aka “hotspots”) and possibly who may be involved in a future crime. That, at least, is the promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a common fallacy that police data is objective and reflects actual criminal behavior, patterns, or other indicators of concern to public safety in a given jurisdiction,” researchers from New York University wrote in a 2019 study they titled \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dirty Data, Bad Predictions\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “In reality, police data reflects the practices, policies, biases, and political and financial accounting needs of a given department,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings referenced this consensus growing among academics as well as activists when he brought the ban proposal forward in June. “If policing itself is biased, then the data that’s informing those models will be biased,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not Just Santa Cruz\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former LAPD Chief and New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was the biggest early booster of predictive policing on the national stage, starting in 1994. First, with the crime tracking system CompStat, later with a host of analytical software products and strategies, he’s championed what he describes as the “evolution of policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton was brought in first to consult and later to head the LAPD in 2002 by then-Mayor Jim Hahn. 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