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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EPA Steps Into Redwood City's Salt Pond Development Battle
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S.F. Backs New Strategy for Preventing Foreclosure in Low-Income Neighborhoods
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.studio17artists.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studio 17\u003c/a>, a group of over 70 artists in San Francisco’s historic Redlick Building, is facing displacement because their landlord is currently not taking any steps to allow them to renew their lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a different story than the eviction tale we’re used to, a bit quieter than an invocation of the Ellis Act or suddenly quadrupled rents. The story of Studio 17 involves a lease’s looming end without explicit discussions of renewal. Artists who have worked in the building for years must now choose between leaving for new spaces (if they can find them), or counting down the days till June 30 and facing a sudden – and potentially final – exit from the premises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redlick Building at the corner of 17th and Mission, which houses Thrift Town, Fabric Outlet and a number of small businesses in addition to artist studios, was purchased by Rick Holman, Managing Partner of Asher Insights, Inc., in 2013. Initial fears that the building (once known for its enigmatic “17 Reasons Why!” sign) would turn into condos or evict its tenants were temporarily assuaged by \u003ca href=\"//www.missionmission.org/2013/05/02/owner-of-the-redlick-building-responds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an open letter from Holman\u003c/a> in May 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no intention to tear down the building, convert the building to lofts or condos, or otherwise change its fundamental character or use,” he wrote. He pointed to the building’s seismic issues and his desire to make the building safe for its tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567056\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10567056\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors during an open studios event at Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063-320x214.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors during an open studios event at Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 15, Studio 17, which occupies most of the building’s fourth floor and some of the third, issued a press release to publicize \u003ca href=\"http://www.studio17artists.com/#!displacement/ck0q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their state of limbo\u003c/a>. “With no word of a lease renewal and no word of our fate in the existing space, I am assuming that we will be displaced at the expiration of our lease,” says artist and Studio 17 member Truong Tran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other leases within the building have been renewed, leaving questions as to why Studio 17 is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holman asserts his plans for the building have not changed. “We continue to be committed to provide substantial space to artists in the Mission at a discount to the going market rates. We have recently renewed leases with existing artists in ~6,000 square feet at a substantial discount to market spaces. In May, we plan to meet with and directly negotiate additional new leases with artists for a total of ~20,000 square feet in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent local photographer Jim Goldberg, one of the “existing artists” with a renewed lease on his Redlick Building studio, says he feels the stress of the Studio 17 situation “all around me.” He also says the changing atmosphere is also palpable: while the top floors of the building were always artists, “everything around them and below them has changed,” he recalls, even down to the smells. Instead of homemade Chinese food in sewing factories, there is now the scent of neighbors’ catered lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his initial lease, Goldberg’s rent has increased over 250 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford to move or slow down,” he says, acknowledging he has more space and stability than most of the artists in the building. “I feel lucky for that… but I don’t know how long I can afford to hold out as the rents go up. I am grateful to be able to stay, at least for now. I think about it every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is complicated by differing claims with regards to zoning issues. An original 2003 Conditional Use Authorization allowed “trade shop” use of 10,000 square feet of the building’s top floor, the San Francisco Planning Department’s designation for “art activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567057\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10567057\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2-400x221.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2-320x177.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Studio 17 currently occupies approximately 21,000 square feet of the Redlick Building. According to Gina Simi, the Planning Department’s Communications Manager, Studio 17 is now part of an active Conditional Use case “to legalize the expansion of the trade shop and also add an Administrative Services Use to this tenant space, as well as the others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrative Services use is defined as “a non-retail use which provides executive, management, administrative, clerical and other services exclusively to the business community and not to the general public.” This designation would allow greater flexibility for uses within the space beyond art studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holman points out that Robert Donald, master leaseholder of the Studio 17 spaces, already rents some of his space to “not only to artists, but also entrepreneurs, tech firms and other office uses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald, in turn, has levied a zoning violation claim against Holman that the Planning Department is now investigating. The Homeless Children’s Network (a nonprofit that did not respond to a request for a comment), once occupied a fourth floor space within the Redlick Building that is now rented to PlanGrid, a blueprint app for contractors and architects, bringing the pejorative “tech” into the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became aware of the Plangrid.com lease yesterday,” says Simi, “and are pursuing further enforcement action, as it would have required Planning Department review and approval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redlick Building is located in the Mission Street Neighborhood Commercial Transit Zoning District, which encourages neighborhood-serving commercial development at street level, allowing “offices and general retail sales at the second story, and in some cases at the third floor and above,” explains Simi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To compound matters further, the 99-year-old building is due for a major seismic upgrade, which Holman confirmed is “moving forward.” Donald and the other members of Studio 17 are unsure as to whether such upgrades will necessitate their evacuation from the building. A general confusion and lack of definitive dates or answers drives their frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to know what Mr. Holman’s intentions are as it pertains to the existing studio space,” Tran says. “Will it stay as artists’ studio spaces upon completion of the seismic retrofits? Or will it become high end office spaces?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the math in his plans for the building’s future, it appears Holman will sign leases for 14,000 square feet of studio space in the coming month. The question of what discounted market rates really look like and just how affordable they are remains. If the members of Studio 17 are able to stay, their space will be cut by one third, their unified lease will likely dissolve and their location within the building may change altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing our best,” Holman writes, “but understand we cannot satisfy everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the studio have already moved out. Those who remain are organizing to make their situation as visible as possible, enlisting the help of Rahel Marsie-Hazen, a PR professional. “Too many artist studios, small businesses, working class people are being ousted from this city and they are leaving silently,” Marsie-Hazen wrote in an email. “In order for the community and policy makers to realize this is an issue, they need to be aware of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 20 members of Studio 17 will participate in \u003ca href=\"//www.missionartistsunited.org/open_studios%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Artists United’s Spring Open Studios\u003c/a> on Apr. 18 and 19 in what they are already saying “could be the last opportunity” for the public to visit their collective spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us came to San Francisco to be part of a community, a community that was open to ideas and diverse ways of thinking,” says Tran. For him, the open studios is a rallying cry and an opportunity for others to show their support: “Support the community and the culture that makes this city so unique and welcoming.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.studio17artists.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studio 17\u003c/a>, a group of over 70 artists in San Francisco’s historic Redlick Building, is facing displacement because their landlord is currently not taking any steps to allow them to renew their lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a different story than the eviction tale we’re used to, a bit quieter than an invocation of the Ellis Act or suddenly quadrupled rents. The story of Studio 17 involves a lease’s looming end without explicit discussions of renewal. Artists who have worked in the building for years must now choose between leaving for new spaces (if they can find them), or counting down the days till June 30 and facing a sudden – and potentially final – exit from the premises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redlick Building at the corner of 17th and Mission, which houses Thrift Town, Fabric Outlet and a number of small businesses in addition to artist studios, was purchased by Rick Holman, Managing Partner of Asher Insights, Inc., in 2013. Initial fears that the building (once known for its enigmatic “17 Reasons Why!” sign) would turn into condos or evict its tenants were temporarily assuaged by \u003ca href=\"//www.missionmission.org/2013/05/02/owner-of-the-redlick-building-responds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an open letter from Holman\u003c/a> in May 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no intention to tear down the building, convert the building to lofts or condos, or otherwise change its fundamental character or use,” he wrote. He pointed to the building’s seismic issues and his desire to make the building safe for its tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567056\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10567056\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors during an open studios event at Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/People_at_Open_Studio-063-320x214.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors during an open studios event at Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 15, Studio 17, which occupies most of the building’s fourth floor and some of the third, issued a press release to publicize \u003ca href=\"http://www.studio17artists.com/#!displacement/ck0q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their state of limbo\u003c/a>. “With no word of a lease renewal and no word of our fate in the existing space, I am assuming that we will be displaced at the expiration of our lease,” says artist and Studio 17 member Truong Tran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other leases within the building have been renewed, leaving questions as to why Studio 17 is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holman asserts his plans for the building have not changed. “We continue to be committed to provide substantial space to artists in the Mission at a discount to the going market rates. We have recently renewed leases with existing artists in ~6,000 square feet at a substantial discount to market spaces. In May, we plan to meet with and directly negotiate additional new leases with artists for a total of ~20,000 square feet in the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent local photographer Jim Goldberg, one of the “existing artists” with a renewed lease on his Redlick Building studio, says he feels the stress of the Studio 17 situation “all around me.” He also says the changing atmosphere is also palpable: while the top floors of the building were always artists, “everything around them and below them has changed,” he recalls, even down to the smells. Instead of homemade Chinese food in sewing factories, there is now the scent of neighbors’ catered lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his initial lease, Goldberg’s rent has increased over 250 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t afford to move or slow down,” he says, acknowledging he has more space and stability than most of the artists in the building. “I feel lucky for that… but I don’t know how long I can afford to hold out as the rents go up. I am grateful to be able to stay, at least for now. I think about it every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is complicated by differing claims with regards to zoning issues. An original 2003 Conditional Use Authorization allowed “trade shop” use of 10,000 square feet of the building’s top floor, the San Francisco Planning Department’s designation for “art activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567057\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10567057\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2-400x221.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/STUDIO17_artists-2-320x177.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Studio 17. (Courtesy of Studio 17)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Studio 17 currently occupies approximately 21,000 square feet of the Redlick Building. According to Gina Simi, the Planning Department’s Communications Manager, Studio 17 is now part of an active Conditional Use case “to legalize the expansion of the trade shop and also add an Administrative Services Use to this tenant space, as well as the others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrative Services use is defined as “a non-retail use which provides executive, management, administrative, clerical and other services exclusively to the business community and not to the general public.” This designation would allow greater flexibility for uses within the space beyond art studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holman points out that Robert Donald, master leaseholder of the Studio 17 spaces, already rents some of his space to “not only to artists, but also entrepreneurs, tech firms and other office uses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald, in turn, has levied a zoning violation claim against Holman that the Planning Department is now investigating. The Homeless Children’s Network (a nonprofit that did not respond to a request for a comment), once occupied a fourth floor space within the Redlick Building that is now rented to PlanGrid, a blueprint app for contractors and architects, bringing the pejorative “tech” into the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became aware of the Plangrid.com lease yesterday,” says Simi, “and are pursuing further enforcement action, as it would have required Planning Department review and approval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redlick Building is located in the Mission Street Neighborhood Commercial Transit Zoning District, which encourages neighborhood-serving commercial development at street level, allowing “offices and general retail sales at the second story, and in some cases at the third floor and above,” explains Simi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To compound matters further, the 99-year-old building is due for a major seismic upgrade, which Holman confirmed is “moving forward.” Donald and the other members of Studio 17 are unsure as to whether such upgrades will necessitate their evacuation from the building. A general confusion and lack of definitive dates or answers drives their frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to know what Mr. Holman’s intentions are as it pertains to the existing studio space,” Tran says. “Will it stay as artists’ studio spaces upon completion of the seismic retrofits? Or will it become high end office spaces?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the math in his plans for the building’s future, it appears Holman will sign leases for 14,000 square feet of studio space in the coming month. The question of what discounted market rates really look like and just how affordable they are remains. If the members of Studio 17 are able to stay, their space will be cut by one third, their unified lease will likely dissolve and their location within the building may change altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing our best,” Holman writes, “but understand we cannot satisfy everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the studio have already moved out. 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"content": "\u003cp>Who is Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the question the \u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/exhibit/who-is-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Museum of California\u003c/a> put to 10 artists, all residents of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their answers, including portraits of residents and neighborhoods from the hills to the flatlands are the basis for a new show called \"Who is Oakland?\" that opened last weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chrisjohnsonphotographer.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Johnson\u003c/a> is the show's co-curator and lead artist. He says the museum came to him last fall with the idea for the exhibit and a short timetable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was a little crazy, because we know that a show of this magnitude would usually take a year,\" Johnson says. \"But they said they wanted it to be an experiment in how responsive the museum could be to the issues that are really on the street in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Johnson, a long time Oakland resident and professor of photography at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">California College of the Arts,\u003c/a> turned to his colleagues and former students to fill the gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not so hard,” he says, “if you’re basing the project on the lived experiences of real people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201288315\" 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>For instance \u003ca href=\"http://adiamillett.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Adia Millet\u003c/a> scattered a murder of crows around the gallery as a metaphor for gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crows thrive in a disrupted and changing environment -- a situation that’s tough, Johnson says, on the artists themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My students really struggle to find a way to like continue living here,\" Johnson says. \"On the other hand it’s such a vibrant place, there’s so much going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gentrification is also on the mind of artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.favianna.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Favianna Rodriguez\u003c/a>, whose work often focuses on social justice and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of pain,” Rodriguez says. “There’s a lot of anger because of the rising housing costs, because of how people are being displaced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still Rodriguez' \"Who is Oakland?\" piece focuses not on the city’s problems but on the survival of what’s here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, people think that the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,_Oakland,_California\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio\u003c/a> is an Asian community,” she says. “Well there’s Cambodians, there’s Filipinos, there’s Chinese. There’s now Jamaicans. There's newcomers every single year, and that’s a beautiful complexity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez shopped corner groceries in San Antonio and its neighbor, the mostly Latino Fruitvale district, to assemble her own tiny international grocery, featuring items like a can of Café Bustelo, Hup Seng cream crackers and bags of rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the chicken bouillon there,” she says, pointing to the packets, “you see it in three different languages. It was not uncommon to go into the supermarket and see the same exact item marketed to three different constituents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez also visited a piñata maker to see how cultures blend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have a Japanese icon,” said Rodriguez, “Hello Kitty, created in a piñata and sold in East Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>It is 3:10 a.m. when Ronnie Thomas rolls out of bed in his Stockton apartment. He brushes his teeth, takes his vitamins, throws on a bright orange reflective jacket, kisses his sleeping wife and 6-month-old son and hops on his bike. This is the beginning of Thomas’s 80-mile commute to Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, 55, is a Stanford University Dining employee. To get to and from Stanford, Thomas has to take a bike, a train and a bus. Monday through Friday, Thomas spends 16 hours away from home and treks a total commute of nearly six hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every weekday, Thomas rides his bike for 30 minutes and 5 miles to the Stockton train station. He lifts his bike onto the train and sits in the same seat of the same car on the 4:20 a.m. Altamont Commuter Express. Thomas keeps himself awake in fear of missing his stop at the Fremont station at 6:00 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I do what I have to do, I have a family to take care of. It is my responsibility to take care of them. If that means sacrificing a few spare hours a day to give them a better life, I’ll do it.’\u003ccite>Ronnie Thomas, Stanford University employee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>From the train station, Thomas grabs his bike and rushes to catch the 6:04 a.m. AC Transit U-Line bus, a line created to accommodate Stanford commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun has just started to peak over the horizon as Thomas arrives at Stanford’s campus at 6:40 a.m., just in time for him to clock in at 6:45 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every commute is mentally and physically draining for Thomas and requires a great sense of humor and patience. That he is able to do it is a testament to his commitment to provide for his family, his respect for his supervisors and his fondness of his co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do what I have to do, I have a family to take care of. It is my responsibility to take care of them. If that means sacrificing a few spare hours a day to give them a better life, I’ll do it,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas’s exceptionally long commute isn’t unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In regards to my commute, it’s not like I am isolated,” he said. “I am not doing anything special. There are hundreds and hundreds of other people doing the same thing I do, every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas’ commute is representative of the challenges a growing number of low-income workers face in the Bay Area as rents rise and affordable housing options continue to vanish, especially in Silicon Valley where the bulk of the employment opportunities are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/tQzoNTC1DOw\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose held the number one and two spots on a list of the highest rent increases in the United States, according to the real estate website Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is as bad as I have ever remembered it,” said Joe Simitian, former California state senator and current Santa Clara County supervisor, about the rental prices in the Palo Alto area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s tech boom has increased employment opportunities for low-income service workers even more than for programmers in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, compounding an already punishing shortage of affordable housing in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”uXRffK2XQ83esYKyaxCIiqe5KlHuROs1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One tech job creates approximately five service jobs,” said Candace Gonzalez, executive director of the Palo Alto Housing Corp. “The pace of jobs has outpaced housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto Housing Corp.’s 20 properties of affordable housing units have thousands of people on the waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our waitlist will take five years or more to get off it, and by the time the people get off the waitlist, they have already moved out of town,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas moved from one of the Bay Area’s last havens for affordable housing — East Palo Alto — to Stockton last year, increasing his square footage and reducing his rent by $1,039 a month. On a $43,000 yearly salary, this option was attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend of workers moving further away from Stanford is growing. Last year, Thomas told his friend and co-worker, Henry Jackson, about the monetary benefits of moving to Stockton. By Thanksgiving, Jackson decided to pack his bags, save some money and move there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10467113\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10467113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas waits for the Stanford commuter bus at Fremont train station.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-400x341.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-800x682.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-1440x1228.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-1180x1006.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-768x655.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Thomas2-320x273.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas waits for the Stanford commuter bus at Fremont train station. \u003ccite>(Sabrina Greenway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the workers who live near Stanford are struggling, living from paycheck to paycheck. After paying the rent and the rest of their bills, they are broke. Living in Stockton is a lot better. I can save money, spend it on other things and even look forward to buying a house,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income workers used to be able to afford housing near Palo Alto in low-income areas such as East Palo Alto. But in recent years, East Palo Alto’s rents have risen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other place in the Peninsula where rents are cheaper than EPA. But now we have seen huge increases in rent, as tenants are moving out of the area. So lower-income workers will no longer be able to afford housing nearby,” said Victor Ramirez, EPA rent control administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas explained that one of the most difficult parts of his commute is the risk of train or bus delays that can make him late for work or arrive at home at an unreasonable time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long day at work and commuting, he can use the rest. Thomas’ job as a storekeeper requires an immense amount of physical labor. He lifts anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds per day, sorting all the produce, proteins and canned goods that supply Stanford’s dining halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford works to provide housing for thousands of students and offers housing assistance to faculty it tries to recruit in the form of rental assistance, specialized loans and a cash allowance, according to Jan Thompson, the Faculty Staff Housing director at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, the low-income workers — those that serve food, clean up after residents, maintain grounds and make Stanford’s campus work — are often forced to move far away, to cities like Manteca, Tracy and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more housing opportunities and we need people to be more supportive of it,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building more affordable housing has been a tough sell in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community has openly resisted high-density development,” said Simitian, in reference to the Palo Alto area. “An indicator of this was the community’s rejection of building a senior affordable housing project in Maybell.” In November 2013, over 56 percent of Santa Clara County voters voted against the building of a 60-unit apartment complex on Maybell Avenue for seniors who make less than the area median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez warns: “There needs to be a focus on mixed-income housing or else we will lose all diversity (social, economical and cultural). 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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has stepped into one of the most contentious development battles along the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27747719/san-francisco-bay-huge-development-project-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> reports the agency has asserted its authority to review a major bayfront development in Redwood City under terms of the federal \u003ca href=\"http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act\" target=\"_blank\">Clean Water Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, Arizona-based developer DMB has been seeking permission to \u003ca href=\"http://www.rcsaltworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">develop 1,478 acres\u003c/a> with up to 12,000 homes on a site owned by food and agricultural products company Cargill. There’s a long history of salt ponds in San Francisco Bay, stemming back to the 19th century, but in recent decades the EPA and state and local agencies have been engaged in a multimillion-dollar \u003ca href=\"http://www.southbayrestoration.org/\" target=\"_blank\">effort to restore\u003c/a> the ponds to their previous incarnation: tidal wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"512\" height=\"376\" src=\"http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365343054\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Cargill \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Salt-ponds-on-way-to-becoming-wetlands-Cargill-2816609.php\" target=\"_blank\">sold 16,500 acres\u003c/a> of its salt ponds to the public for $100 million, but the company still has substantial holdings in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Army Corps of Engineers determined the property was not subject to the Clean Water Act. But 11 members of the Bay Area's congressional delegation protested, and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who brokered the original 2003 deal, also expressed concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Blumenfeld, the local regional EPA administrator, says his office has been working with the Corps from the beginning. He says his office will launch \"an extensive investigation,\" and should reach a decision by early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10461557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10461557\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14555_Saltworks2-qut-400x271.jpg\" alt=\"Cargill and the developer DMB want to develop 1,478 acres of salt ponds along the waterfront of Redwood City. 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In a region starved for housing, some welcome the prospect, but environmentalists and a number of locals worry about the potential impacts. \u003ccite>(Matt Leddy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blumenfeld says, \"Really, the question before us today is: Should it be afforded Clean Water Act protection or not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is the EPA considering this question now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a long time for us to work out exactly what was happening in terms of the jurisdictional determination,\" Blumenfeld says, \"and whether it would indeed benefit from additional scrutiny and oversight by the EPA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say EPA is moving to stop development, but rather, to determine how much if any of the property falls under the protection of the Clean Water Act. If so, and if the development involves fill or dredged material in those areas, Cargill would have to apply to the Army Corps of Engineers for a special permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has not yet responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney David Smith, who has been representing the project, said he is \u003cspan class=\"st\">\"disappointed and confused.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"EPA has been involved with this since Day One. 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If so, and if the development involves fill or dredged material in those areas, Cargill would have to apply to the Army Corps of Engineers for a special permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has not yet responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney David Smith, who has been representing the project, said he is \u003cspan class=\"st\">\"disappointed and confused.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"EPA has been involved with this since Day One. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's foreclosure rate is very low relative to the rest of the nation, and has dropped considerably since the height of the mortgage default crisis. But foreclosure rates in the city's southern and southeastern neighborhoods remain higher than the citywide average, according to a report issued by the San Francisco Controller's Office in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3662608&GUID=5ECCE7E6-D3BB-4216-B014-D01378C549C3\">resolution\u003c/a> in support of an innovative strategy for stabilizing neighborhoods where homeowners face a higher risk of foreclosure. Typically, pools of delinquent mortgages are sold off to private equity firms and hedge funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution calls for joining with other cities to encourage owners of at-risk mortgages, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to sell off the distressed mortgages to nonprofits and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Bayview-Hunters Point has a foreclosure rate over four times the citywide average.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>These national organizations, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalcommunitycapital.org\">National Community Capital\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://hogarhispanoinc.org\">Hogar Hispano\u003c/a>, aim to acquire the at-risk mortgages for the purpose of preventing foreclosure and stabilizing low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When mortgages are in trouble ... the speculators swoop in,” said Amy Schur, campaign director at the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, who worked with Supervisor John Avalos to draft the San Francisco resolution. \"We need to get these troubled mortgages into the hands of of what we call 'good actors,' ” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofits and CDFIs have raised private capital to purchase pooled distressed mortgages at fair-market value, and hope to leverage unspent federal funding allocated to California under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to reduce the loan principals and prevent foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s money sitting there that’s meant for housing assistance,” Schur explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/259192213/content?start_page=28&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-6lYxavrXhQ7jUnIBz25h&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_5921\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sobel, executive director of the San Francisco Housing Development Corp., said Bayview-Hunter’s Point, where his office is based, has a higher rate of owner-occupied units than most San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's also a comparatively low-income area, and people can easily become vulnerable to foreclosure: “If somebody’s hours are cut on their job, if they lose their job … if there’s a disability,” it's easy to fall behind on payments, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Partnership With Other Cities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos noted that San Francisco is joining with the cities of Newark, New Jersey, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201308080900\">Richmond\u003c/a> in the East Bay in the bid to encourage major lenders to sell off at-risk loans to nonprofits and CDFIs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee indicated to Avalos' office that he's \"generally supportive” of the concept, according to Jeremy Pollock, Avalos' legislative aide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Avalos acknowledged that even with a group of municipal leaders on board, there’s still no guarantee that the strategy will actually work, since it’s entirely up to the lenders to decide who to sell the distressed mortgages to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of investors,\" he said, \"are just out there for the bottom line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controller's report noted that foreclosure rates still remain comparatively high in certain low-income neighborhoods. \"Bayview-Hunters Point has a foreclosure rate over four times the citywide average,\" it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that 3,002 loans in San Francisco are currently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/uc-berkeley-report-calls-for-action-on-underwater-homes\">underwater or nearly underwater\u003c/a>, with almost half concentrated in Ingleside-Excelsior/Crocker-Amazon, Bayview-Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley/Sunnydale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 94124 and 94134 Zip codes, which represent Bayview-Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley/Sunnydale, make up the highest proportion of the at-risk borrowers, each with 17 percent of the at-risk population,” the report noted.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>I’ve lived in San Francisco’s Mission District for 15 years. So, while I’m still a relative newcomer, I’ve also witnessed massive change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a video of a group of tech workers sparring with Latino youths over the use of a public soccer field went viral last fall, it hit close to home -- literally a block away. I remember the old concrete yard that preceded it. My kids learned to ride their bikes on it. Now, with a fresh layer of AstroTurf, the field is in hot demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awPVY1DcupE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been inundated with stories about battles over gentrification. A mounting list of people and businesses being priced out of the neighborhood has left many Mission residents lamenting the dizzying pace of change, while tech workers -- many of whom were drawn to the neighborhood for its multicultural and creative spirit -- often feel unfairly blamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to learn about the survivors -- those longtime residents who have managed to thrive through the Mission’s many boom-and-bust cycles. To find out, I headed to the 24th Street corridor, generally regarded as the heart of the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459913\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10459913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"La Victoria Bakery has thrived by catering to the diverse tastes of residents in the neighborhood. (Joanne Elgart Jennings/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Victoria Bakery has thrived by catering to the diverse tastes of residents in the neighborhood. (Joanne Elgart Jennings/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you stand at the corner of 24th and Alabama streets, you’ll see two Mexican bakeries. Dominguez is shuttered, closed for more than a year. La Victoria, across the street, remains open after 64 years in business. Step inside and you’ll immediately be drawn in by the scent of fresh-baked pan dulce. But this is not your typical panaderia. Here, you’ll find vegan cookies and organic coffee next to the more standard fare, like conchas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gabriel Maldonado opened La Victoria in 1951, it was the first Latino-owned business on 24th Street. The Mission was predominantly Irish and Italian at the time. Jaime Maldonado, who took the reins from his dad in 1992, refers to his father as“the original gentrifier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've always said that tongue-in-cheek, meaning that there was space, people didn't want to be here. All those damn Mexicans were moving in, so who wants to be around them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196664501\" 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>The younger Maldonado has taken a lot of flak for some of the changes he’s made to La Victoria since he took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the first shop on the strip to have an espresso machine, and my dad nearly bit my head off,” he tells me over a frothy and delicious double latte. “I told him flat-out, right then and there, ‘You just don't understand the nature of the people that are living here.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10460212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Inside La Victoria, vibrant decor and freshly made pastries await for customers. (Joanne Elgart Jennings/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside La Victoria, vibrant decor and freshly made pastries await for customers. (Joanne Elgart Jennings/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaime Maldonado has tried to keep his finger on the pulse of the people living here as pivotal moments in history have left their mark on the Mission. Take, for example: the influx of refugees fleeing war in Central America and financial instability in South America; gang turf wars; the economic fallout from 9/11; the first dot.com bust; and now, the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“My business model was changing every four to five years, depending on who was here,” Maldonado explains. “So, we had to retool, re-recipe, redo whatever we needed to do, in order to get this going.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Maldonado is catering to newcomers, including “lipsters” or “Latin hipsters,” a label he affectionately gives his own daughter, whom he credits with helping him transform his menu to meet the changing tastes of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d have to explain to her, ‘Well that's stuff that Grandpa really liked to eat, and all of the neighbors around Grandpa ate.’ She looked at me in the eye and she said, ‘Oh, so you're making stuff for dead people?’ I'm like, ‘I kind of am.’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, he and his pastry chef came up with new recipes like dulce de leche croissants, beignets with a Mexican twist and rompopa scones.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1.jpg\" alt=\"pastrychallenge\" width=\"350\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10460252\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1-320x97.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nCan you match the pastry with its most-likely customer? Take the \u003ca href=\"#quiz\">quiz!\u003c/a>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the old days, La Victoria used to bake and sell tens of thousands of traditional Latin pastries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five-cent buns were wonderful when we were selling 30-40,000 of them, but when you're only selling a few hundred of them, what do you do then?\" Maldonado asks rhetorically. \"I think that's the change that most of the Mission didn't really understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, he says, the equation is flipped with the specialized pastries bringing in the majority of his income. “It's hard to believe that 10 percent of your product can drive 80 percent of your income, but it did. But, on the flip side, it created 90 percent anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anger emanated from other Latinos determined to hold onto traditions they see as endangered -- and who also resent price increases that range from 30 percent to 300 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoria_Pastries_2666.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10459915\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoria_Pastries_2666-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Some customers have been upset over price increases, but they've been necessary to keep the business going, says Maldonado. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I’ve lived in San Francisco’s Mission District for 15 years. So, while I’m still a relative newcomer, I’ve also witnessed massive change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a video of a group of tech workers sparring with Latino youths over the use of a public soccer field went viral last fall, it hit close to home -- literally a block away. I remember the old concrete yard that preceded it. My kids learned to ride their bikes on it. Now, with a fresh layer of AstroTurf, the field is in hot demand.\u003c/p>\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/awPVY1DcupE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/awPVY1DcupE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>We’ve been inundated with stories about battles over gentrification. A mounting list of people and businesses being priced out of the neighborhood has left many Mission residents lamenting the dizzying pace of change, while tech workers -- many of whom were drawn to the neighborhood for its multicultural and creative spirit -- often feel unfairly blamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to learn about the survivors -- those longtime residents who have managed to thrive through the Mission’s many boom-and-bust cycles. To find out, I headed to the 24th Street corridor, generally regarded as the heart of the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459913\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10459913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"La Victoria Bakery has thrived by catering to the diverse tastes of residents in the neighborhood. (Joanne Elgart Jennings/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoriaBakery_WS_2671-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Victoria Bakery has thrived by catering to the diverse tastes of residents in the neighborhood. (Joanne Elgart Jennings/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you stand at the corner of 24th and Alabama streets, you’ll see two Mexican bakeries. Dominguez is shuttered, closed for more than a year. La Victoria, across the street, remains open after 64 years in business. Step inside and you’ll immediately be drawn in by the scent of fresh-baked pan dulce. But this is not your typical panaderia. Here, you’ll find vegan cookies and organic coffee next to the more standard fare, like conchas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gabriel Maldonado opened La Victoria in 1951, it was the first Latino-owned business on 24th Street. The Mission was predominantly Irish and Italian at the time. Jaime Maldonado, who took the reins from his dad in 1992, refers to his father as“the original gentrifier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've always said that tongue-in-cheek, meaning that there was space, people didn't want to be here. All those damn Mexicans were moving in, so who wants to be around them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196664501&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196664501'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger Maldonado has taken a lot of flak for some of the changes he’s made to La Victoria since he took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were the first shop on the strip to have an espresso machine, and my dad nearly bit my head off,” he tells me over a frothy and delicious double latte. “I told him flat-out, right then and there, ‘You just don't understand the nature of the people that are living here.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10460212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_Marcos_Angel_Jinosa2-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Inside La Victoria, vibrant decor and freshly made pastries await for customers. 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(Joanne Elgart Jennings/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jaime Maldonado has tried to keep his finger on the pulse of the people living here as pivotal moments in history have left their mark on the Mission. Take, for example: the influx of refugees fleeing war in Central America and financial instability in South America; gang turf wars; the economic fallout from 9/11; the first dot.com bust; and now, the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“My business model was changing every four to five years, depending on who was here,” Maldonado explains. “So, we had to retool, re-recipe, redo whatever we needed to do, in order to get this going.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Maldonado is catering to newcomers, including “lipsters” or “Latin hipsters,” a label he affectionately gives his own daughter, whom he credits with helping him transform his menu to meet the changing tastes of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d have to explain to her, ‘Well that's stuff that Grandpa really liked to eat, and all of the neighbors around Grandpa ate.’ She looked at me in the eye and she said, ‘Oh, so you're making stuff for dead people?’ I'm like, ‘I kind of am.’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, he and his pastry chef came up with new recipes like dulce de leche croissants, beignets with a Mexican twist and rompopa scones.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1.jpg\" alt=\"pastrychallenge\" width=\"350\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10460252\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/pastrychallenge1-320x97.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nCan you match the pastry with its most-likely customer? 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But, on the flip side, it created 90 percent anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anger emanated from other Latinos determined to hold onto traditions they see as endangered -- and who also resent price increases that range from 30 percent to 300 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoria_Pastries_2666.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10459915\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/BTMission_LaVictoria_Pastries_2666-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Some customers have been upset over price increases, but they've been necessary to keep the business going, says Maldonado. 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