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.
Is '94110,' San Francisco's Techie TV Drama, Just Performance Art?
San Francisco Supervisors Debate Proposed Market-Rate Housing Moratorium
Pro Arts’ Executive Director Steps Down, Latest in Wave of Recent Art World Departures
Leno Shelves Ellis Act Change; Doesn't Have Votes in Senate Committee
Hey, San Francisco, Meet Your New In-Laws
Can One Oakland Law Slow Gentrification?
S.F. Supes Gear up for Battle Over Mission Housing Construction
A Building of Mission Luminaries Faces Displacement
San Francisco Joins Oakland With Highest Minimum Wage in U.S.
San Francisco Moves to Tighten Airbnb Law
Poetry Priced Out: Rent Hike Forces Emeryville Laureate to Move
Hard Row to Hoe: Japanese Farming in the Santa Clara Valley
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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of San Francisco residents live in small dwelling spaces popularly known as \u003ca href=\"http://homeguides.sfgate.com/inlaw-apartment-45307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in-law units. \u003c/a>Until recently, most of these converted garages, attics and basements were technically illegal. But the current housing crunch has prompted city leaders to not only bring them out of the shadows, but also find ways to create new in-law apartments in underused spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really just at the infancy of this movement,” says building contractor Kurt Beale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beale and his team are currently giving an apartment building in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood its first big makeover since the 1967 “Summer of Love.” It’s a boxy three-story, painted a muddy harvest gold. For the ultimate 1960s throwback, Beale says, look at all the space. There’s a parking lot out back, plus additional parking and storage on the ground floor, and only six apartments to share it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204986059″ 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>“In the ’60s when all the kids came out, they were affordable. They were these huge flats and you could get all these people in,” Beale says. “There’s a lot of space underneath these buildings that could be accessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beale’s renovation project includes converting an old first-floor laundry room into an in-law apartment. The city now allows this as a bonus for property owners who strengthen their buildings for earthquake safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retrofits are pricy, and Beale says the promise of the extra rental income should take some of the sting out of it for property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once people start seeing that they can get an asset out of this, I think that property owners will jump to it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfdbi.org/legalize-your-illegal-units-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent moves to legalize in-law units\u003c/a> mark a major policy shift. For years, concerns about neighborhood density, parking and public transit kept the units in the shadows. But the housing crunch has softened those attitudes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener says his pilot program allowing new in-law units in the Castro district and the seismic retrofit legislation, which he also authored, both passed with little pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the situation that we are in today in San Francisco, people are open to a lot of housing ideas, including in-law units, that they may have been skeptical of, even a few years ago,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many architects and designers are eager to get in on the new wave and overthrow, once and for all, the image of a dark and cramped basement with a Murphy bed and a hot plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young housing professionals and students swarmed a recent \u003ca href=\"http://issuu.com/theurbanworksagency/docs/iu_exhibition_catalog_digital_publi\">gallery show\u003c/a> at the urban policy think tank \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR,\u003c/a> which featured a series of sleek, modern in-law unit designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a> drew many of the plans. Architecture student Blake Stevenson named his design “The Lifted Garden.” It shows a terraced garden angled over a new in-law unit, which Stevenson imagines placing in the backyard of a two-story house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you’re putting a new unit in the backyard, it’s angled in such a way that the light can get to the lower unit in front,” Stevenson explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So everybody has light access, everybody has garden space or green space and, hopefully, everybody’s happy,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg\" alt='\"Thickened Wall\" by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos ' width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Thickened Wall” by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A design called “The Public Interface” depicts garages converted into live-work spaces for artists, with large windows to showcase artwork to people passing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another one, “The Thickened Wall,” depicts a light-filled attic in an old Victorian with a private, staircase entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Architect and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia, also a CCA professor, asked students to think about who would live in each space and consider what it would feel like to call it home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make someone feel that they’re not living in a hidden area of the city that they’re not supposed to be in?” Bhatia says. “How do they feel proud of where they are and how do they carve out their space within a city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answers came naturally to many students. Bhatia says many live in the city’s once-illegal law units or have been priced out of San Francisco’s housing market altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing by Jared Clifton. \" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Jared Clifton. \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beale’s renovation project includes converting an old first-floor laundry room into an in-law apartment. The city now allows this as a bonus for property owners who strengthen their buildings for earthquake safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retrofits are pricy, and Beale says the promise of the extra rental income should take some of the sting out of it for property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once people start seeing that they can get an asset out of this, I think that property owners will jump to it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfdbi.org/legalize-your-illegal-units-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent moves to legalize in-law units\u003c/a> mark a major policy shift. For years, concerns about neighborhood density, parking and public transit kept the units in the shadows. But the housing crunch has softened those attitudes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener says his pilot program allowing new in-law units in the Castro district and the seismic retrofit legislation, which he also authored, both passed with little pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the situation that we are in today in San Francisco, people are open to a lot of housing ideas, including in-law units, that they may have been skeptical of, even a few years ago,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many architects and designers are eager to get in on the new wave and overthrow, once and for all, the image of a dark and cramped basement with a Murphy bed and a hot plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young housing professionals and students swarmed a recent \u003ca href=\"http://issuu.com/theurbanworksagency/docs/iu_exhibition_catalog_digital_publi\">gallery show\u003c/a> at the urban policy think tank \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR,\u003c/a> which featured a series of sleek, modern in-law unit designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a> drew many of the plans. Architecture student Blake Stevenson named his design “The Lifted Garden.” It shows a terraced garden angled over a new in-law unit, which Stevenson imagines placing in the backyard of a two-story house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you’re putting a new unit in the backyard, it’s angled in such a way that the light can get to the lower unit in front,” Stevenson explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So everybody has light access, everybody has garden space or green space and, hopefully, everybody’s happy,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg\" alt='\"Thickened Wall\" by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos ' width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_ThickenedWall-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Thickened Wall” by Christopher Baile & Shawn Komlos \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A design called “The Public Interface” depicts garages converted into live-work spaces for artists, with large windows to showcase artwork to people passing by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another one, “The Thickened Wall,” depicts a light-filled attic in an old Victorian with a private, staircase entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Architect and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia, also a CCA professor, asked students to think about who would live in each space and consider what it would feel like to call it home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make someone feel that they’re not living in a hidden area of the city that they’re not supposed to be in?” Bhatia says. “How do they feel proud of where they are and how do they carve out their space within a city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answers came naturally to many students. Bhatia says many live in the city’s once-illegal law units or have been priced out of San Francisco’s housing market altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing by Jared Clifton. \" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Jared Clifton. \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Six years ago, Melissa Hennings scored a great deal on an apartment in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. It was $875 a month and rent-controlled. But like similar finds, her apartment was old and not in great shape. She consciously traded building quality for an apartment she could afford, in a neighborhood she liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such apartments are in high demand, despite their poor condition. And the possibility of finding one in Oakland is rapidly fading. Investors are buying up old properties, and rents increased more than 14 percent from August 2013 to August 2014, \u003ca href=\"http://www.trulia.com/trends/2014/09/trulia-price-rent-monitors-aug-2014/\">according to the real estate website Trulia\u003c/a>. So, it wasn’t a total surprise when real estate investors bought Hennings’ building last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few days later, major renovation work began -- work which has been going on ever since. The four-unit building is shrouded in black mesh and plastic from an effort to replace its siding. Work has also focused on a vacant unit, a stairwell and a balcony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, city building officials have issued several orders for work to stop, either because it wasn’t done properly or the owner lacked appropriate permits. But Hennings doesn’t think the construction is actually about restoring an old property. She thinks the new owner is using it to push her out, so that he can raise the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204584694\" 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>“It’s just wreaked havoc on my life,” says Hennings. “It does not feel like they would treat tenants who are paying more money with the same amount of disrespect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants rights advocates, as well as some city politicians, say pushing out rent-control tenants is a growing trend in Oakland. That’s because when a rent-control tenant leaves, landlords can raise rent as much as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennings and the other tenants all pay less than $1,000 each month in rent. When new landlord Marty Higgins advertised the building’s one vacant unit, he asked for twice as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Higgins, who's part owner of an investment group that purchased Hennings’ building, says he’s being completely misjudged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no intention of pushing out any of our residents whatsoever,” he says. “This is a case of a property that was in severe disrepair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins acknowledges some mistakes have been made during the building’s renovation, but says he just wants to fix up the place and make it safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Listening to your residents, hearing what they would like to have repaired and repairing that in a timely manner, that’s our main goal,\" he says. \"Making sure their life safety issues are cleared up, that’s our goal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Illegal Harassment?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, the Oakland City Council passed a Tenant Protection Ordinance, which is intended to protect tenants from harassing behavior aimed at pushing them out. The law has 16 provisions defining harassment, including work that doesn’t meet code. It also guarantees tenants the right to quiet enjoyment of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s building inspection manager, Timothy Low, says the number of mistakes he has found in Hennings' building -- largely as a result of her phone calls -- is more than average. “It’s a lot of mistakes,” Low says, stretching out the word \"lot.\" More than the average number of mistakes, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn't necessarily violate the Tenant Protection Ordinance, though. And even if it did, it's hard for tenants to prove a landlord is harassing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocate James Vann of the Oakland Tenants Union says the law has “no teeth at all.” Vann’s group advocated for a law that would allow tenants to file a simple complaint to the city. But in the end, the City Council pulled that provision from the ordinance. Instead, tenants must file a claim against a landlord in civil court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Dan Kalb authored the law, and believes that with time it will help deter harassing landlords. But he acknowledges, “It might take one or two court cases to filter things out and get the message across.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vann says tenants call him all the time about their landlords harassing them. He often tells them they have a case. But he says, “Many of them, even educated people, will say, ‘It’s just too much hassle. I don’t want to go through it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Headed to Court\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDuring her standoff with the landlord, Melissa Hennings has changed as a tenant. Until the building sold, she says, she was laid-back and rarely contacted the previous owner. Now she’s a hawk, constantly scouring the building for code violations, firing off emails to her landlord and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins has offered to put Hennings and other building residents in an extended stay hotel while the work is going on. Two tenants have taken him up on the offer. But they both said it’s stressful not knowing when they’ll be allowed to come back to the apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tenant, who didn’t want to be named, recently decided to leave the extended stay and find a new place. She says she believes that’s exactly what Higgins wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, Higgins says no. “I’ve dealt with hundreds of landlords over the course of my career,\" he says, \"and I haven’t heard of too many cases of landlords offering extended stay during rather extreme renovations. We just think it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennings is determined to be the exception to the trend of tenants walking away from fights with their landlords. She has hired a lawyer and is expecting to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows most people don’t have the time, energy or money to mount such a campaign. “I’m just doing as much as I can, because I know I’m in a better position that than they are,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever happens in her own case, Hennings has no illusions that one law can temper the market forces bearing down on Temescal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I give this neighborhood only so long before investors come through and purchase more of these small apartments that a lot of my friends live in,\" she says, \"before we’ll all get forced out of here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>**Update: Since this story was reported, Oakland building inspectors declared Hennings' building \"unsafe to occupy.\" They were routinely monitoring the renovation and found extensive dry rot beneath its outdoor siding. After that, Hennings terminated her tenancy and is still considering pursuing legal action. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Housing and neighborhood activists have dubbed the development “\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/the-monster-in-the-mission-makes-its-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Monster in the Mission\u003c/a>” because it consists mostly of market-rate condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To sweeten the project, Maximus Real Estate Partners recently proposed building nearly double the number of below-market-rate units, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/03/16th-and-mission-sf-maximus-affordable-housing.html?page=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Business Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its introduction, Campos’ ordinance had four co-sponsors, bringing the likely grand total of supervisors supporting it to five. Campos needs to scare up a total of nine votes for the measure to pass when it’s heard by the full board. On a rushed schedule, that could happen by late May or early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moderate supervisors Scott Wiener and Mark Farrell voiced early criticism for the proposal Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s bananas,” Farrell said. “It’s exactly these kinds of policies that have led us to the housing crisis that we have today, and I don’t think the answer is to stop building more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the measure would result in unintended consequences, crippling funding for affordable housing production because the bulk of that money comes from what the city requires market-rate developers to pay into an affordable housing fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will result in less affordable housing being produced,” Wiener said. “It won’t stop people from coming to San Francisco, but what it will mean is there will be more pressure and competition for our limited existing housing stock, which will create more displacement and more evictions. 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"content": "\u003cp>This year marks the 125th anniversary of Japantown in San Jose. To celebrate, the neighborhood will host a festival called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nikkeimatsuri.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikkei Matsuri\u003c/a> this coming Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is one of only three historic Japantowns still thriving in the United States, and the only one rooted in the history of California agriculture. In a time before semiconductor chips and suburban housing, the region in and around San Jose was largely farmland, much of it farmed by Japanese-American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Japantown was the heart of the community, and that’s where you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamsj.org/japanese-american-history-museum-san-jose/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese American Museum of San Jose\u003c/a>. Jimi Yamaichi, 92, is one of the curators of the museum’s exhibition on Japanese farming. But more than that, he himself used to work the fields northeast of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459646 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. \"It was hard living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. ‘It was hard living.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi vividly remembers what it was like to grow up on his dad’s row crop farm in Berryessa during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beans, cucumbers and squash and other bell peppers, and tomatoes, and other things. But the beans and cucumber, that’s what he was known for,” Yamaichi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supplying local markets, the Yamaichis sent 200 boxes to Los Angeles on Tuesdays, and another 200 on Saturdays. They shipped produce as far as Denver and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimi was the fourth child out of 10. It was a working childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d get up early in the morning, at 6 o’clock, and we’d cut lettuce for about two hours,” he recalls. “Around 8:30, my dad says, ‘Well, go and clean up.’ ” You can listen to him tell his story \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rmyrow/japaneseag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dad drove them to elementary school in time for the 9 o’clock bell, then picked them up when school was out at 3 to return to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones doing it,” Yamaichi says. “Everybody else was doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not everyone. The non-Japanese farmers, he admits, didn’t work quite so hard, and they didn’t necessarily take kindly to the Japanese-Americans who did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459648 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A produce crate from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A produce crate from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, there are just a handful of Japanese-owned farms and nurseries in the region. But at one time, before World War II, the area around San Jose was dotted with hundreds of Japanese farms growing vegetables for local and regional markets. The story of why they were here, and how they were here, is one of sorrow and suffering, but also success against the odds and the weight of fierce prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime around 1890, Japanese laborers escaping the grim plantation work of Hawaii began to settle around San Jose. Especially after the \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=10459596&action=edit&message=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>, white farmers were eager for alternative sources of cheap labor to pick crops. Some Japanese immigrants saved enough money to buy their own farmland, but California changed the law, several times, to make it close to impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University Professor \u003ca href=\"https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/gary-okihiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Gary Okihiro\u003c/a> co-wrote a history of Japanese farming in the Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land laws were called \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alien land laws\u003c/a>,” he says, “because they were directed at aliens ineligible for citizenship, which meant only Asian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese had no choice but to work as sharecroppers. Others set up land trusts, or began to have American-born children in the hopes that the first to reach maturity would be able to own the farm for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the farmers were farming on land that did not belong to them, in fact, but to some other person, a white landowner,” Okihiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Jimi Yamaichi’s father, Kaneichi Yamaichi, found a way around California law: a white man willing to own 21 acres for him — in exchange for a “royalty,” which today would amount to more than $27,000 a year, staked on nothing more than a handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of World War II, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/asc/projects/sanjose/Part_of_San_Jose_History.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly 4,000\u003c/a> Japanese lived in the Santa Clara Valley. They were just beginning to bounce back from the Great Depression when the federal government forced them into internment camps away from the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyIa11ZtAE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This short film from the United States Office Of War Information — produced as part of the government effort to justify uprooting 120,000 people of Japanese descent — puts a somewhat sunny spin on \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Executive Order 9066\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Japanese sent to camps in 1942 had to liquidate everything they couldn’t carry with them, and at fire-sale prices: farms, homes, cars, businesses. Japanese-Americans left $22 million of crops in the ground across California. The government saw to it that those crops were harvested, but not that the farmers were compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the war was over, many of them returned home destitute and demoralized. They converted buildings in San Jose’s Japantown into makeshift barracks while they figured out what to do next. KTEH broadcast a compelling documentary about that period in history, called “Return to the Valley.” Jimi Yamaichi is one of the people featured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvqPCy1j_0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi’s family spent the war years in the internment camps at \u003ca href=\"http://www.heartmountain.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heart Mountain\u003c/a> in Wyoming and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/tule/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tule Lake\u003c/a> in California. Jimi’s dad was better off than most. A sympathetic insurance agent he’d worked with offered to guard his farm. But that doesn’t mean it was easy to start all over again when the war was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ’Course, he was quite a heavy drinker,” Yamaichi says. “They were all drinkers, you know. Got to the point where it pickled him to death, I think!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Japan-born generation known as \u003cem>issei\u003c/em>, Kaneichi Yamaichi kept a lot of feelings about his life bottled up inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sake was his drink of choice, and when the war broke out, couldn’t get no more,” Jimi Yamaichi says. “He turned to whiskey. One fifth a day. That’s a lot of whiskey to drink, hunh?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the war, American farming was growing increasingly mechanized, moving from horses to tractors, requiring bigger farms to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the American-born \u003cem>nisei,\u003c/em> like Jimi Yamaichi, wanted out of farming. But younger children followed their parents onto new fields, raising labor-intensive crops they could produce on small plots of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459653 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Today, there's almost no evidence how prevalent Japanese farms once were in and around San Jose. A map from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese American farms in the area around 1958.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese-American farms in the area around 1958.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon Kimura was one of those children, back in the 1950s. “I picked 10 crates of strawberries to get money to buy my first Timex watch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where did Kimura go to get the watch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to here to Japantown to Jackson Jewelers [now defunct],” Kimura says. “There always was a feeling that this was home for the JA community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as the rise of Silicon Valley made land more expensive, the strawberry industry moved south to Watsonville and Salinas. The flower business \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpnmag.com/california-cut-flower-industry-still-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved overseas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing generation, it became easier for Japanese-Americans to find work outside of agriculture — and to buy homes in neighborhoods previously closed to them. More and more of the community in the Santa Clara Valley dispersed across the Bay Area, California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japantown San Jose is still a cultural center, with churches, restaurants, shops and, of course, the museum. But it doesn’t have quite the vibrancy that Kimura remembers from his childhood. “Maybe it’s a function of, if you will, at becoming too successful integrating into mainstream America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the love cuts both ways now. Japantown San Jose has become a fond focal point for the whole city, one locals proudly point to as part of their collective heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"On April 26th, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-400x290.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-320x232.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On April 26, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary \u003ccite>(Takahiro Kitamura)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This year marks the 125th anniversary of Japantown in San Jose. To celebrate, the neighborhood will host a festival called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nikkeimatsuri.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikkei Matsuri\u003c/a> this coming Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is one of only three historic Japantowns still thriving in the United States, and the only one rooted in the history of California agriculture. In a time before semiconductor chips and suburban housing, the region in and around San Jose was largely farmland, much of it farmed by Japanese-American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Japantown was the heart of the community, and that’s where you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamsj.org/japanese-american-history-museum-san-jose/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese American Museum of San Jose\u003c/a>. Jimi Yamaichi, 92, is one of the curators of the museum’s exhibition on Japanese farming. But more than that, he himself used to work the fields northeast of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459646 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. \"It was hard living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. ‘It was hard living.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi vividly remembers what it was like to grow up on his dad’s row crop farm in Berryessa during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beans, cucumbers and squash and other bell peppers, and tomatoes, and other things. But the beans and cucumber, that’s what he was known for,” Yamaichi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supplying local markets, the Yamaichis sent 200 boxes to Los Angeles on Tuesdays, and another 200 on Saturdays. They shipped produce as far as Denver and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimi was the fourth child out of 10. It was a working childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d get up early in the morning, at 6 o’clock, and we’d cut lettuce for about two hours,” he recalls. “Around 8:30, my dad says, ‘Well, go and clean up.’ ” You can listen to him tell his story \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rmyrow/japaneseag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dad drove them to elementary school in time for the 9 o’clock bell, then picked them up when school was out at 3 to return to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones doing it,” Yamaichi says. “Everybody else was doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not everyone. The non-Japanese farmers, he admits, didn’t work quite so hard, and they didn’t necessarily take kindly to the Japanese-Americans who did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459648 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A produce crate from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A produce crate from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, there are just a handful of Japanese-owned farms and nurseries in the region. But at one time, before World War II, the area around San Jose was dotted with hundreds of Japanese farms growing vegetables for local and regional markets. The story of why they were here, and how they were here, is one of sorrow and suffering, but also success against the odds and the weight of fierce prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime around 1890, Japanese laborers escaping the grim plantation work of Hawaii began to settle around San Jose. Especially after the \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=10459596&action=edit&message=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>, white farmers were eager for alternative sources of cheap labor to pick crops. Some Japanese immigrants saved enough money to buy their own farmland, but California changed the law, several times, to make it close to impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University Professor \u003ca href=\"https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/gary-okihiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Gary Okihiro\u003c/a> co-wrote a history of Japanese farming in the Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land laws were called \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alien land laws\u003c/a>,” he says, “because they were directed at aliens ineligible for citizenship, which meant only Asian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese had no choice but to work as sharecroppers. Others set up land trusts, or began to have American-born children in the hopes that the first to reach maturity would be able to own the farm for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the farmers were farming on land that did not belong to them, in fact, but to some other person, a white landowner,” Okihiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Jimi Yamaichi’s father, Kaneichi Yamaichi, found a way around California law: a white man willing to own 21 acres for him — in exchange for a “royalty,” which today would amount to more than $27,000 a year, staked on nothing more than a handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of World War II, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/asc/projects/sanjose/Part_of_San_Jose_History.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly 4,000\u003c/a> Japanese lived in the Santa Clara Valley. They were just beginning to bounce back from the Great Depression when the federal government forced them into internment camps away from the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yVyIa11ZtAE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yVyIa11ZtAE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This short film from the United States Office Of War Information — produced as part of the government effort to justify uprooting 120,000 people of Japanese descent — puts a somewhat sunny spin on \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Executive Order 9066\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Japanese sent to camps in 1942 had to liquidate everything they couldn’t carry with them, and at fire-sale prices: farms, homes, cars, businesses. Japanese-Americans left $22 million of crops in the ground across California. The government saw to it that those crops were harvested, but not that the farmers were compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the war was over, many of them returned home destitute and demoralized. They converted buildings in San Jose’s Japantown into makeshift barracks while they figured out what to do next. 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Jimi’s dad was better off than most. A sympathetic insurance agent he’d worked with offered to guard his farm. But that doesn’t mean it was easy to start all over again when the war was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ’Course, he was quite a heavy drinker,” Yamaichi says. “They were all drinkers, you know. Got to the point where it pickled him to death, I think!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Japan-born generation known as \u003cem>issei\u003c/em>, Kaneichi Yamaichi kept a lot of feelings about his life bottled up inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sake was his drink of choice, and when the war broke out, couldn’t get no more,” Jimi Yamaichi says. “He turned to whiskey. One fifth a day. That’s a lot of whiskey to drink, hunh?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the war, American farming was growing increasingly mechanized, moving from horses to tractors, requiring bigger farms to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the American-born \u003cem>nisei,\u003c/em> like Jimi Yamaichi, wanted out of farming. But younger children followed their parents onto new fields, raising labor-intensive crops they could produce on small plots of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459653 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Today, there's almost no evidence how prevalent Japanese farms once were in and around San Jose. A map from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese American farms in the area around 1958.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese-American farms in the area around 1958.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon Kimura was one of those children, back in the 1950s. “I picked 10 crates of strawberries to get money to buy my first Timex watch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where did Kimura go to get the watch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to here to Japantown to Jackson Jewelers [now defunct],” Kimura says. “There always was a feeling that this was home for the JA community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as the rise of Silicon Valley made land more expensive, the strawberry industry moved south to Watsonville and Salinas. The flower business \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpnmag.com/california-cut-flower-industry-still-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved overseas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing generation, it became easier for Japanese-Americans to find work outside of agriculture — and to buy homes in neighborhoods previously closed to them. More and more of the community in the Santa Clara Valley dispersed across the Bay Area, California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japantown San Jose is still a cultural center, with churches, restaurants, shops and, of course, the museum. But it doesn’t have quite the vibrancy that Kimura remembers from his childhood. “Maybe it’s a function of, if you will, at becoming too successful integrating into mainstream America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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