Boom-bust. Starting with the Gold Rush in 1849, the Bay Area has experienced dramatic up-and-down cycles that generate tremendous new wealth for some and trouble for others. Exhibit A is the current tech boom.
KQED’s “Boomtown” series seeks to identify not only what is happening in real time in this boom but drawing out the causes and possible solutions to the conflicts and pressures between the old and the new.
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"content": "\u003cp>Diane Fjelstad knew for months that her rent was going up. Her landlord had told her the increase was coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she finally read the official notice last year, she remembers feeling numb. She would have to pay $1,000 more per month for her two-bedroom apartment, a 54 percent hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was quite shocking,\" says Fjelstad, a retired psychiatric social worker. \"I just immediately went into crisis management to figure out what I could do personally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/248367332\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fjelstad ended up dipping into her Social Security benefits to pay the new rent of $2,850. She loves her immaculately kept apartment, on the edge of San Mateo's downtown and walking distance to restaurants, shops and public transit, and decided it was worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she's worried that there's nothing to stop her landlord from increasing the rent again, to a level that would force her to leave. She acknowledges that her rent had not gone up for the 13 years she had lived in the 15-unit building, but says getting hit with such a huge jump all at once was difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand that rents go up. I would not be opposed to a reasonable rent increase. But certainly anything over 8 or 10 percent is just outrageous,\" said Fjelstad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landlord: Rent Is Below Market Rate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fjelstad's landlord, Victor Baiz, says her rent is still below the going rate. He estimates that similarly sized apartments in the area are renting for up to $3,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Town Hall: Renting in San Mateo\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jackie Speier's \u003ca href=\"http://speier.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1824:town-hall-renting-in-san-mateo-county-2&catid=30&Itemid=181\" target=\"_blank\">Monday night town hall\u003c/a> on the housing affordability crisis in San Mateo is already at capacity. The event will be \u003ca href=\"http://www.pentv.tv/2016/02/watch-congresswoman-jackie-speiers-town-hall-live-this-monday-feb-22nd/\" target=\"_blank\">streamed live on PenTV.tv\u003c/a> and broadcast on San Mateo County community access channels: Comcast 26, Wave 27 and AT&T Uverse 99.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Baiz manages the property, which he says was built in the 1960s or '70s and is owned by a family trust. He took over the management from his late sister last year and refinanced the building, which was in need of extensive maintenance, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rents were increased across the board for long-term tenants that hadn’t had any rent increases for at least 13 years or so,\" said Baiz, an attorney who also lives in the building. \"I'm trying to meet a massive mortgage and also improve the building for the quality of life of residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the higher rents have helped cover the installation of security cameras, a new garage door, roof repairs and other upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The building needs a lot of work, and that costs a lot of money,\" said Baiz, who is considering additional rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most cities in the county, San Mateo does not have rent control or other tenant protections, such as \"just cause\" for eviction. San Mateo's proximity to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the region's two main employment centers, is pushing housing costs to heights unimaginable a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rents Up Nearly 70 Percent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to real estate service Zillow, the median rent in the city of San Mateo \u003ca href=\"http://www.zillow.com/san-mateo-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\">rose nearly 70 percent\u003c/a>, from $2,320 to $3,913, between November 2010 and December 2015. The median home sales price in town now tops $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live on the billion-dollar corridor of tech companies that has driven up the cost of living and the cost of housing. That is just a fact of our reality,\" said San Mateo Mayor Joe Goethals, who grew up in the city. \"Responding to that is something that we are trying to do with as much deliberation as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the City Council declined to take up a temporary just-cause-for-eviction proposal by Deputy Mayor David Lim, opting instead to form a housing task force to study how the city can help ease the housing affordability burden, particularly for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council expects those recommendations within the next three months, and could decide later this year on more incentives and financing to create affordable housing, including the adoption of fees on new commercial developments. The new measures could also include limits on rent increases and evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will consider all of our options, and everything is on the table,\" said Goethals. \"Renter protections is one of the extreme measures that we could take.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of tenant protections has come up elsewhere, too. The Alameda City Council voted last month to extend its moratorium on rent increases, and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo told \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201602170900\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> that his city will probably tighten its 1979 rent-control ordinance, which allows landlords to raise rents by up to 8 percent a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor: Rent Measures Are 'Imperfect Tools'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goethals says he considers rent control and just cause for eviction \"imperfect tools.\" He mentions concerns that rent control may decrease the availability of affordable units on the market because tenants tend to stay even after they can afford to live elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m very concerned that some of the policies we want to implement would actually make housing more difficult and decrease the number of affordable units,\" said Goethals. \"If it decreases the number of affordable units, it doesn’t help the city of San Mateo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city already requires new developments of 11 units of more to include 10 to 15 percent of that housing for low-income owners or renters. But Goethals said that to really make a dent in the housing crisis, the city must significantly ramp up its production of market-rate and affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A project Goethals wants the council to approve this year would build 400 units or more near downtown for city employees who make less than the \u003ca href=\"http://housing.smcgov.org/sites/housing.smcgov.org/files/AFFORD2014%2003%2020%202014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">area's median income\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elsewhere in the Bay Area region, demand for housing in San Mateo County far outweighs supply. From 2010 through 2015, state statistics show, the county labor force grew by about 78,000 while the number of housing units increased by just 3,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That imbalance is drawing the attention of county officials, who are studying whether to implement renter protections and other strategies on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve had town hall meetings where a hundred people came and shared stories about evictions, but we wanted real data on rent increases and the real experience of people,\" said Warren Slocum, a member of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slocum is also co-chair of the Closing the Jobs/Housing Gap task force, made up of elected officials, developers, nonprofits and business representatives, which plans to survey renters who live in pre-1995 buildings that are eligible for rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the county were to adopt rent control or just-cause-for-eviction ordinances, the measure would apply only to unincorporated areas such as North Fair Oaks, adjacent to Redwood City, Atherton and Menlo Park. Housing advocates say the county action could set a precedent for cities considering similar measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overcrowding in Working-Class District\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertha Sanchez, 78, has lived in San Mateo since 1946 and says she's sympathetic to the plight of residents who are increasingly unable to afford rents. She has noticed overcrowding of homes on her street in the North Central neighborhood, traditionally a working-class area -- eight to 10 people living in a two-bedroom unit, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes, they even rent out mattress spaces for ... $200, even $300 a month\" said Sanchez, referring to other ways she's heard people can afford to live in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, whose family owns a couple of rentals in the city, says they try to keep some of their rents under market rate. 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Jackie Speier's \u003ca href=\"http://speier.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1824:town-hall-renting-in-san-mateo-county-2&catid=30&Itemid=181\" target=\"_blank\">Monday night town hall\u003c/a> on the housing affordability crisis in San Mateo is already at capacity. The event will be \u003ca href=\"http://www.pentv.tv/2016/02/watch-congresswoman-jackie-speiers-town-hall-live-this-monday-feb-22nd/\" target=\"_blank\">streamed live on PenTV.tv\u003c/a> and broadcast on San Mateo County community access channels: Comcast 26, Wave 27 and AT&T Uverse 99.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Baiz manages the property, which he says was built in the 1960s or '70s and is owned by a family trust. He took over the management from his late sister last year and refinanced the building, which was in need of extensive maintenance, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rents were increased across the board for long-term tenants that hadn’t had any rent increases for at least 13 years or so,\" said Baiz, an attorney who also lives in the building. \"I'm trying to meet a massive mortgage and also improve the building for the quality of life of residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the higher rents have helped cover the installation of security cameras, a new garage door, roof repairs and other upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The building needs a lot of work, and that costs a lot of money,\" said Baiz, who is considering additional rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most cities in the county, San Mateo does not have rent control or other tenant protections, such as \"just cause\" for eviction. San Mateo's proximity to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the region's two main employment centers, is pushing housing costs to heights unimaginable a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rents Up Nearly 70 Percent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to real estate service Zillow, the median rent in the city of San Mateo \u003ca href=\"http://www.zillow.com/san-mateo-ca/home-values/\" target=\"_blank\">rose nearly 70 percent\u003c/a>, from $2,320 to $3,913, between November 2010 and December 2015. The median home sales price in town now tops $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live on the billion-dollar corridor of tech companies that has driven up the cost of living and the cost of housing. That is just a fact of our reality,\" said San Mateo Mayor Joe Goethals, who grew up in the city. \"Responding to that is something that we are trying to do with as much deliberation as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the City Council declined to take up a temporary just-cause-for-eviction proposal by Deputy Mayor David Lim, opting instead to form a housing task force to study how the city can help ease the housing affordability burden, particularly for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council expects those recommendations within the next three months, and could decide later this year on more incentives and financing to create affordable housing, including the adoption of fees on new commercial developments. The new measures could also include limits on rent increases and evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will consider all of our options, and everything is on the table,\" said Goethals. \"Renter protections is one of the extreme measures that we could take.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of tenant protections has come up elsewhere, too. The Alameda City Council voted last month to extend its moratorium on rent increases, and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo told \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201602170900\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> that his city will probably tighten its 1979 rent-control ordinance, which allows landlords to raise rents by up to 8 percent a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor: Rent Measures Are 'Imperfect Tools'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goethals says he considers rent control and just cause for eviction \"imperfect tools.\" He mentions concerns that rent control may decrease the availability of affordable units on the market because tenants tend to stay even after they can afford to live elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m very concerned that some of the policies we want to implement would actually make housing more difficult and decrease the number of affordable units,\" said Goethals. \"If it decreases the number of affordable units, it doesn’t help the city of San Mateo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city already requires new developments of 11 units of more to include 10 to 15 percent of that housing for low-income owners or renters. But Goethals said that to really make a dent in the housing crisis, the city must significantly ramp up its production of market-rate and affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A project Goethals wants the council to approve this year would build 400 units or more near downtown for city employees who make less than the \u003ca href=\"http://housing.smcgov.org/sites/housing.smcgov.org/files/AFFORD2014%2003%2020%202014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">area's median income\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elsewhere in the Bay Area region, demand for housing in San Mateo County far outweighs supply. From 2010 through 2015, state statistics show, the county labor force grew by about 78,000 while the number of housing units increased by just 3,600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That imbalance is drawing the attention of county officials, who are studying whether to implement renter protections and other strategies on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve had town hall meetings where a hundred people came and shared stories about evictions, but we wanted real data on rent increases and the real experience of people,\" said Warren Slocum, a member of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slocum is also co-chair of the Closing the Jobs/Housing Gap task force, made up of elected officials, developers, nonprofits and business representatives, which plans to survey renters who live in pre-1995 buildings that are eligible for rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the county were to adopt rent control or just-cause-for-eviction ordinances, the measure would apply only to unincorporated areas such as North Fair Oaks, adjacent to Redwood City, Atherton and Menlo Park. Housing advocates say the county action could set a precedent for cities considering similar measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overcrowding in Working-Class District\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertha Sanchez, 78, has lived in San Mateo since 1946 and says she's sympathetic to the plight of residents who are increasingly unable to afford rents. She has noticed overcrowding of homes on her street in the North Central neighborhood, traditionally a working-class area -- eight to 10 people living in a two-bedroom unit, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes, they even rent out mattress spaces for ... $200, even $300 a month\" said Sanchez, referring to other ways she's heard people can afford to live in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, whose family owns a couple of rentals in the city, says they try to keep some of their rents under market rate. She would not be opposed to some sort of city regulation of rent increases, but believes any legislation should apply only to landlords who own more than 25 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not agree with a blanket rent control,\" says Sanchez, co-president of the Home Association of North Central San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Fjeslstad, on the other hand, believes the city and county governments are failing residents because they are not addressing rent increases fast enough. Her personal experience was so shocking that it jolted her into working with groups pushing for rent control and just cause for eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you're not convinced yet of the desperate demand for affordable housing in the Bay Area, consider San Leandro's Marea Alta development: Roughly 18,000 prospective tenants say they'd like one of the building's 115 affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That works out to 156 people vying for each apartment being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just speaks volumes to the extent of the affordability crisis in the Bay Area,” says Adhi Nagraj, director of development for BRIDGE Housing, which is behind the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just BRIDGE Housing that is seeing more people who want affordable apartments but can't get them. Throughout the Bay Area, waitlists are thousands of people long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10858579\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10858579 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Marea Alta affordable housing development in San Leandro is a modular construction, meaning the units are built off site and then assembled together with a large crane on site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_6467.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marea Alta affordable housing development in San Leandro is a modular construction, meaning the units are built off-site and then assembled together with a large crane on-site. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bridge Housing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, around 40 people were vying for every affordable unit built by MidPen Housing at one of its developments in Fremont in 2011, says communications specialist Kim Ish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of people expected to apply for the nonprofit's most recent Fremont building would blow that out of the water. Roughly 7,000 names are on the \"interest list\" for 64 affordable apartments, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Cerrito, Resources for Community Development received 1,088 applications for 57 units in its recently completed Ohlone Gardens building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10,000 people expressed interest for affordable apartment buildings near MacArthur BART Station and Lake Merritt, according to BRIDGE Housing officials. When the time came to apply, each received roughly 5,000 applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an affordable housing development is leased up, waitlists can still have thousands of people on them. That's the case for East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. properties. A spokesperson for the nonprofit says waitlists often range between 2,000 and 3,000 applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for affordable housing doesn't leave much room for optimism when your name is pitted against thousands of others. In many instances it comes down to a lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was true for DeJana Curry, 26, who just received the keys to her new affordable apartment near Oakland's Lake Merritt. She told KQED recently that she believes having her own place will improve her relationship with her mother and with her own 5-year-old girl, Londyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245690436\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the roughly 18,000 people who have expressed interest in BRIDGE Housing's Marea Alta building near San Leandro BART will have a chance to apply for an apartment this spring, says Nagraj.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marea Alta will have studios and apartments with one, two or three bedrooms with monthly rents ranging between $493 and $1,155, depending on income and apartment size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preference will be given to individuals or families who live or work in San Leandro. There will be a lottery to determine which applications get viewed first, Nagraj says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 115 families will get a spot. Most people will have to wait.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener says the city needs to find a prompt and \"humane\" way to eliminate tent encampments that house a growing number of homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing presence of tent camps in San Francisco \"represents our city's failure to provide adequate housing/shelter and assistance for those who want help, as well as a failure to make clear to those who refuse help that tents on our sidewalks and in our public spaces are unacceptable\" Wiener wrote in a letter last week (\u003ca href=\"#wienerletter\">embedded below\u003c/a>) to the heads of six city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These tents are a public safety and a public health problem for the people living in them and for our neighborhoods,\" Wiener added in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His remarks provoked outrage from one of the city's leading homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My chin dropped,\" said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xV8J32tslxHUmn5TxTbqPm5e9UppY3gz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was in particular bad taste given how much people are suffering,\" Friedenbach said. \"He's talking about ripping those tents from people who have no other choice but to sleep on the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tents give the homeless cover from the rain, Friedenbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking away people's tents right now in the middle of these storms, that's about as mean-spirited as you can get,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other requests, Wiener is asking city agencies for an estimate of how many tents are on the streets and the number of people living in them. While tents have appeared on city streets for decades, city officials say the number has grown in recent years and the onset of this winter's rains has expanded their presence even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission alone, tent encampments have grown along parts of Division, Cesar Chavez, Vermont, 13th and 16th streets, as well as San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has increased the visibility of San Francisco's homeless but does not necessarily mean a large increase in the population of people living on the streets. There were 6,686 homeless people in San Francisco at the beginning of 2015, according to \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">last year's count\u003c/a>. That's up 250 from two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who as director of Mayor Ed Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=907\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement\u003c/a> is the city's point man on homeless issues, says his counterparts in Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle have noticed similar growth in tent encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener says he's not talking about bulldozing the tents. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ack in October, a crowd of about 80 people marched along busy El Camino Real, near Redwood City’s downtown. The marchers, many of them parents with young children, were demanding that the City Council do something to limit steep rent increases and stop evictions. Among the signs they waved was one reading, \"A healthy community welcomes all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estefania Camacho, a nanny and college student, led the protesters through intersections of halted traffic. Camacho had recently received an eviction notice and she, her mother and husband had to vacate their two-bedroom apartment in less than two months. But the search for another home was not going well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really worried. We are counting the days,” Camacho said at the time. “We haven’t found a place. We cannot afford a place with minimum wage in Redwood City or any place in the Bay Area. Everything is so overpriced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799541 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marchers get ready to cross El Camino Real in Redwood City on October 1, 2015. They ask the City Council limits evictions and rent hikes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marchers get ready to cross El Camino Real in Redwood City on Oct. 1, 2015. The cost of housing is transforming the city, once known for its affordability compared with neighboring cities in San Mateo County.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across Redwood City, the median rent price for two-bedroom apartments increased from $2,500 to $3,800 since 2012, according to the real estate website Zillow. Minimum wage and other full-time workers are unable to afford those rents. They end up having to move out of the area and sometimes quitting their local jobs. Anecdotes abound of “Help wanted” signs up longer than usual in Redwood City’s downtown businesses, while some local employers worry about retaining workers that can’t afford housing nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We haven’t found a place. We cannot afford a place with minimum wage in Redwood City or any place in the Bay Area. Everything is so overpriced.'\u003ccite>Estefania Camacho,\u003cbr>\nRedwood City renter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The issue is prompting a wide array of residents to call for measures such as rent control and “just cause” requirements for eviction, which don't exist in Redwood City or most of San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of evictions in Redwood City and much of the Bay Area is hard to track, as only cases that make it to court tend to be recorded. Residents and housing advocates say some landlords are getting rid of low-income tenants -- often through “no fault” evictions -- so they can charge higher rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower-income and heavily Latino census tracts surrounding Redwood City's downtown are at risk of or already undergoing displacement, according to UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the area where Estefania Camacho lives. Last summer, Palo Alto-based Spieker Companies Inc. bought the 85-unit apartment complex that includes Camacho's home and, according to residents, began sending eviction letters to tenants. Spieker did not return requests for comment, but Camacho's eviction notice says the company needs her to vacate her unit so it can be remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238190822&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238191076&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and other tenants banded together and got help from attorneys at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. They were able to negotiate with the new owners for more time to move out and a gradual, rather than immediate, increase in rent. Tenants will still be forced to leave -- but not until next July. In the meantime, tenants said rent on two-bedroom units, currently $1,600 a month, will increase by $300 next month, with an additional $300 increase coming in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and her family are moving after Christmas to Tracy, about 50 miles to the east in San Joaquin County. They will be renting a three-bedroom house there for $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho is quitting her nanny jobs for two families in San Carlos and San Mateo because commuting from Tracy would be too taxing. Her mother is also quitting her work at a Peninsula restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be challenging because we have to find jobs there,\" said Camacho. \"But that's all we can afford for now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tories like Camacho’s -- of working residents leaving their jobs and simply moving -- are becoming more common, says Charleen White, a lifelong resident of Redwood City who runs her own interior design and remodeling business. She says her contractor of 15 years got fed up of living in a crammed one-bedroom apartment with his family and he is moving to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me very unhappy because we are going to lose our dear friends. We are going to lose our diversity in our community,\" said White. She added that every Sunday at church she hears more news of families struggling to hang on to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila is the pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Roman Catholic parish and school that serves over 1,700 families, including White's. Some families have been coming here for generations, while others are new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Aquila says the lack of affordable housing is a source of anxiety for an overwhelming number of his parishioners, including children who sense their parents' stress when they can't afford to pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I think it's a big crisis. And I think it's an economic crisis exteriorly and I think interiorly it's a deep moral crisis, that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here,\" said D'Aquila. He says he supports rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long ago, Redwood City had a reputation as being more affordable than its neighbors. Unlike other communities in San Mateo County, the town produced nearly \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/planning/housing/datasets.html#reports\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 housing units\u003c/a> for low-income residents from 1988 to 1998, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments. But that supply was dwarfed by demand long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799542 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 per cent of all the new construction since 2012 was housing for low and moderate incomes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 percent of all the new construction since 2012 has been housing for low and moderate incomes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the big new buildings under construction downtown are mostly for offices and market-rate housing. Only about 5 percent of all new construction since 2012 has been housing for people with low and moderate incomes, according to Diana O'Dell, Redwood City's principal planner. Moderate incomes, according to county figures, include families of four earning up to $120,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Britschgi, who grew up in Redwood City and raised her kids there, says the loss of cultural and economic diversity in the city hurts upper-income families as well, even if they are not struggling directly with displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To have quality of life we are called to all live together, and this is where we learn and grow from each other,\" said Britschgi, a member of the city's Senior Affairs Commission. \"So if we lose that sense of diversity, we're losing a little bit of our quality of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t the root of the housing crunch is a huge imbalance between the number of jobs and housing created. Between 2010 and 2014, San Mateo County gained 54,600 jobs but only 2,500 new homes, according to the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/labor-market-data-library.html\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Development Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-5/2011-20/view.php\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County recently created a task force to study that imbalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll see growth taper off as companies decide they can no longer locate in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the lack of workforce housing,\" said Michael Lane, from the \u003ca href=\"http://nonprofithousing.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California\u003c/a> and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a regional business group, identified workforce housing, traffic congestion and the growing difficulty employers face in finding workers as the region’s top \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/category/housing-and-sustainable-development/\">challenges\u003c/a> for 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think it's a big crisis. ... It's a deep moral crisis that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here.'\u003ccite>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila,\u003cbr>\nPastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing costs are impacting more and more people, and cities across the region are struggling to figure out what to do about it, said Lane. That conversation often includes rent control. Pacifica, Alameda and the city of San Mateo are debating whether to regulate rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have jurisdictions that probably five or 10 years ago would never consider rent stabilization ordinances, and now that’s on the table and residents are demanding that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, which currently allows rent hikes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2313\" target=\"_blank\">under 8 percent\u003c/a> in a year, is considering tightening its rent ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a senior affairs commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as resident's quality of life.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a Senior Affairs Commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as residents' quality of life. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has not formally considered rent control, but residents have raised the issue before the City Council. At a recent meeting, children told council members their parents are unable to afford rent increases, and their families will have to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of rent control contend these ordinances have unintended consequences, such as keeping the most affordable units off market. Tenants in rent-controlled units in San Francisco tend to stay there even if they can afford to move somewhere more expensive, says Michael Verdone, president of the San Mateo County Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it does is it creates a stagnant housing market,\" said Verdone, former chair of Redwood City's Planning Commission and a resident of the city since the 1980s. \"Normally if there was no rent control, tenants with means would purchase a home, and that unit would become available on the open market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee, whose mayoral term ended this month, is also opposed to any rent regulation by the city. Gee, an architect who works full time managing construction projects, says he’s seen that owners of rent-controlled buildings don't spend as much to upgrade and maintain them. Sometimes that means the buildings don't comply with current safety codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent control doesn’t address the investment that is needed to maintain a property at quality level,” said Gee, adding that a large portion of the city’s rental stock is old and lacking earthquake retrofits and fire sprinklers. “That’s why we need to find new tools to moderate rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>o tackle the issue, Gee and the rest of the City Council approved Fire Safety First, a program aimed at improving safety and stabilizing rents at the same time. The initiative gives property owners low-interest loans to pay for sprinkler installations, and if the owners agree to limit rent increases, the city forgives the loan. It's still unclear how many renters the program might help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has also taken other steps to ease the housing crisis, such as approving plans to build as many as 137 homes for low-income residents on city land. Developers working on new projects will now also have to pay a fee to fund affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates supporting rent control, such as Aracely Mondragon from Peninsula Interfaith Action, say Redwood City's affordable housing measures may bear fruit years from now, but do little for people who are desperate for help now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just not going to help that family who received a 60-day notice last week and is thinking about moving to Oregon and taking their kids off the school district here,\" said Mondragon, who also leads her organization's countywide campaign for renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee says the problem is a regional one, and the solutions need to be worked on by governments in the entire region as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get it, I see the 'help wanted' signs. ... Living here on minimum wage is a challenge,\" he said. \"But it’s not just my responsibility. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of evictions in Redwood City and much of the Bay Area is hard to track, as only cases that make it to court tend to be recorded. Residents and housing advocates say some landlords are getting rid of low-income tenants -- often through “no fault” evictions -- so they can charge higher rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower-income and heavily Latino census tracts surrounding Redwood City's downtown are at risk of or already undergoing displacement, according to UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the area where Estefania Camacho lives. Last summer, Palo Alto-based Spieker Companies Inc. bought the 85-unit apartment complex that includes Camacho's home and, according to residents, began sending eviction letters to tenants. Spieker did not return requests for comment, but Camacho's eviction notice says the company needs her to vacate her unit so it can be remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238190822&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238191076&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and other tenants banded together and got help from attorneys at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. They were able to negotiate with the new owners for more time to move out and a gradual, rather than immediate, increase in rent. Tenants will still be forced to leave -- but not until next July. In the meantime, tenants said rent on two-bedroom units, currently $1,600 a month, will increase by $300 next month, with an additional $300 increase coming in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and her family are moving after Christmas to Tracy, about 50 miles to the east in San Joaquin County. They will be renting a three-bedroom house there for $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho is quitting her nanny jobs for two families in San Carlos and San Mateo because commuting from Tracy would be too taxing. Her mother is also quitting her work at a Peninsula restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be challenging because we have to find jobs there,\" said Camacho. \"But that's all we can afford for now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tories like Camacho’s -- of working residents leaving their jobs and simply moving -- are becoming more common, says Charleen White, a lifelong resident of Redwood City who runs her own interior design and remodeling business. She says her contractor of 15 years got fed up of living in a crammed one-bedroom apartment with his family and he is moving to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me very unhappy because we are going to lose our dear friends. We are going to lose our diversity in our community,\" said White. She added that every Sunday at church she hears more news of families struggling to hang on to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila is the pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Roman Catholic parish and school that serves over 1,700 families, including White's. Some families have been coming here for generations, while others are new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Aquila says the lack of affordable housing is a source of anxiety for an overwhelming number of his parishioners, including children who sense their parents' stress when they can't afford to pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I think it's a big crisis. And I think it's an economic crisis exteriorly and I think interiorly it's a deep moral crisis, that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here,\" said D'Aquila. He says he supports rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long ago, Redwood City had a reputation as being more affordable than its neighbors. Unlike other communities in San Mateo County, the town produced nearly \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/planning/housing/datasets.html#reports\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 housing units\u003c/a> for low-income residents from 1988 to 1998, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments. But that supply was dwarfed by demand long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799542 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 per cent of all the new construction since 2012 was housing for low and moderate incomes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 percent of all the new construction since 2012 has been housing for low and moderate incomes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the big new buildings under construction downtown are mostly for offices and market-rate housing. Only about 5 percent of all new construction since 2012 has been housing for people with low and moderate incomes, according to Diana O'Dell, Redwood City's principal planner. Moderate incomes, according to county figures, include families of four earning up to $120,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Britschgi, who grew up in Redwood City and raised her kids there, says the loss of cultural and economic diversity in the city hurts upper-income families as well, even if they are not struggling directly with displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To have quality of life we are called to all live together, and this is where we learn and grow from each other,\" said Britschgi, a member of the city's Senior Affairs Commission. \"So if we lose that sense of diversity, we're losing a little bit of our quality of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t the root of the housing crunch is a huge imbalance between the number of jobs and housing created. Between 2010 and 2014, San Mateo County gained 54,600 jobs but only 2,500 new homes, according to the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/labor-market-data-library.html\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Development Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-5/2011-20/view.php\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County recently created a task force to study that imbalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll see growth taper off as companies decide they can no longer locate in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the lack of workforce housing,\" said Michael Lane, from the \u003ca href=\"http://nonprofithousing.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California\u003c/a> and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a regional business group, identified workforce housing, traffic congestion and the growing difficulty employers face in finding workers as the region’s top \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/category/housing-and-sustainable-development/\">challenges\u003c/a> for 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think it's a big crisis. ... It's a deep moral crisis that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here.'\u003ccite>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila,\u003cbr>\nPastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing costs are impacting more and more people, and cities across the region are struggling to figure out what to do about it, said Lane. That conversation often includes rent control. Pacifica, Alameda and the city of San Mateo are debating whether to regulate rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have jurisdictions that probably five or 10 years ago would never consider rent stabilization ordinances, and now that’s on the table and residents are demanding that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, which currently allows rent hikes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2313\" target=\"_blank\">under 8 percent\u003c/a> in a year, is considering tightening its rent ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a senior affairs commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as resident's quality of life.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a Senior Affairs Commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as residents' quality of life. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has not formally considered rent control, but residents have raised the issue before the City Council. At a recent meeting, children told council members their parents are unable to afford rent increases, and their families will have to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of rent control contend these ordinances have unintended consequences, such as keeping the most affordable units off market. Tenants in rent-controlled units in San Francisco tend to stay there even if they can afford to move somewhere more expensive, says Michael Verdone, president of the San Mateo County Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it does is it creates a stagnant housing market,\" said Verdone, former chair of Redwood City's Planning Commission and a resident of the city since the 1980s. \"Normally if there was no rent control, tenants with means would purchase a home, and that unit would become available on the open market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee, whose mayoral term ended this month, is also opposed to any rent regulation by the city. Gee, an architect who works full time managing construction projects, says he’s seen that owners of rent-controlled buildings don't spend as much to upgrade and maintain them. Sometimes that means the buildings don't comply with current safety codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent control doesn’t address the investment that is needed to maintain a property at quality level,” said Gee, adding that a large portion of the city’s rental stock is old and lacking earthquake retrofits and fire sprinklers. “That’s why we need to find new tools to moderate rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>o tackle the issue, Gee and the rest of the City Council approved Fire Safety First, a program aimed at improving safety and stabilizing rents at the same time. The initiative gives property owners low-interest loans to pay for sprinkler installations, and if the owners agree to limit rent increases, the city forgives the loan. It's still unclear how many renters the program might help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has also taken other steps to ease the housing crisis, such as approving plans to build as many as 137 homes for low-income residents on city land. Developers working on new projects will now also have to pay a fee to fund affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates supporting rent control, such as Aracely Mondragon from Peninsula Interfaith Action, say Redwood City's affordable housing measures may bear fruit years from now, but do little for people who are desperate for help now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just not going to help that family who received a 60-day notice last week and is thinking about moving to Oregon and taking their kids off the school district here,\" said Mondragon, who also leads her organization's countywide campaign for renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee says the problem is a regional one, and the solutions need to be worked on by governments in the entire region as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get it, I see the 'help wanted' signs. ... Living here on minimum wage is a challenge,\" he said. \"But it’s not just my responsibility. 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"content": "\u003cp>An Oakland City Council committee has put off action on \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4160171&GUID=C0DF881B-F016-4710-98CF-5CD95E2503A3\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal\u003c/a> to increase relocation payments to renters displaced by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction\">Ellis Act\u003c/a> evictions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council is considering action in response to a spike in the number of such evictions in Oakland. The act, passed in the 1980s, allows evictions when landlords decide to take properties off the rental market. Ellis Act evictions have become notorious in San Francisco, where hundreds of tenants have been forced to relocate in recent years, largely due to conversion of rental properties to condominiums. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the pace of Ellis Act evictions has been slower, with a total of 47 Ellis filings covering 98 units between fiscal 2003-04 and 2014-15. But there are signs that's changing, with a dozen Ellis filings covering 15 units since July 1. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the time to bring this to you,\" Connie Taylor, manager of Oakland's Rent Adjustment Program manager, told the council's Community and Economic Development Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor offered a two-part proposal to respond to the rise in Ellis Act evictions: an expansion of relocation payments, currently available only to low-income renters, to all displace tenants; and an increase in payments, currently set at two months of a tenant's rent, to $8,000 plus $2,500 per unit for \"vulnerable residents,\" including low income, disabled and senior tenants and those with minor children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several landlords who addressed the panel said that the low number of Ellis Act evictions in Oakland doesn’t warrant such dramatic changes to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think that four cases per year out of 90,000 rental units necessarily is a good enough basis for rushing this through,” said Wayne Rowland, president of East Bay Rental Housing Association. \"If we could just have a little bit more time to review this and provide thoughtful comment, we would really appreciate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Larry Reid joined other committee members who said they want more clarity and possible adjustments made to the proposed payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just think that we're being forced in making a rushed decision,\" Reid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff will report back to the committee on Jan. 12.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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