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.
The Family Dispute Behind Infamous Bernal Heights Rent Hike
Renters Struggle to Keep Up in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven Neighborhood
Mobile Home Parks: A Vanishing Source of Affordable Housing
S.F. Supervisor: Latest Mission Fire Shows New Danger in Housing Crisis
2014 Mission Bay Fire: A Threat Remembered, and Lessons Learned
Young Oakland Entrepreneurs Redefine the Startup With a Local Twist
$142,448.33: What You Need to Earn to Buy 'Median' Home in Bay Area
Boomtown Memories: The Nob Hill Fence That Spite Built
At 95, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Recounts More Than Six Decades of Life in San Francisco
More and More Businesses Relying on Gig Economy to Find Short-Term Labor
Customers Save a San Francisco Sci-Fi Bookstore, at Least for Now
Fast Bus Service a Tough Sell in Car-Centric Silicon Valley
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She says the higher rent would include more space -- specifically, a downstairs area from which an apparently illegal in-law apartment was recently removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rent increase that has generated this controversy is actually an offer by the owner to rent a substantially larger home than was originally rented,\" Leadbetter said in an email statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cited the fact that Follingstad has listed a guest room on Airbnb and says the tenant would be free to use the additional space \"to offset the rent increase through her existing Airbnb business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.debfollingstadacupuncture.com/\" target=\"_blank\">an acupuncturist\u003c/a> who treats cancer patients at \u003ca href=\"http://smithintegrative.com/\">a San Francisco oncology practice\u003c/a>, acknowledges that she's listed a guest room on Airbnb to occasionally help cover her rent. But she also says the landlord's original notice of a rent increase made no mention of Airbnb. Furthermore, she says the letter stated the vacant space in question is not to be used as a living area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The in-law unit that Lama removed earlier this year had been in place since the early 1990s. City property records do not show a building permit for the recent work on the space that Leadbetter suggests can now be used as part of an Airbnb rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public records suggest that Nadia Lama made plans to evict Follingstad several months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 31, 2014, document filed in San Francisco Superior Court outlines the distribution of a number of Bernal Heights properties among Lama, her three brothers and two sisters. As her share of assets acquired by her late parents, Lama was to receive the Bocana Street residence and more than $750,000 in cash. The distribution also earmarked $7,500 \"to attorney of Nadia's choosing for eviction of tenant or tenants\" at Follingstad's address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To unravel how Deb Follingstad and Nadia Lama became the leading players in San Francisco's latest drama of tenant displacement, you need to go back a little further -- to revisit a little bit of the history of the building that Follingstad has called home since 2004 and to dip briefly into the saga of the Lama family, which has owned the building since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City property records list the Bocana Street address as a one-unit residence. 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But Superior Court filings show that Nina Gelfant and Gayle Worrell alleged they were forced from their one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 720-square-foot Cortland Avenue apartment after the Lamas raised the rent from $1,650 to $4,250 -- 157 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit argued that the rent increase was far above market rate and designed to get Gelfant and Worrell to leave so that the Lamas could sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sale, Tobener suggested in a trial brief that outlined more than $1 million in potential damages, was triggered by a battle among Shukry Lama's heirs over the property he'd left behind when he died in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chuck Lama's heirs were fighting over their share of the inheritance which demanded selling properties or having the heirs occupy them as residences,\" Tobener's brief says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alleged squabble also appears to have played a role in Nadia Lama's dramatic increase of Deb Follingstad's rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2013, she filed a probate petition in Superior Court seeking to compel her sister, Claudia, the overseer of several family trusts set up by Chuck Lama, to account for the family's assets. Assets named in the petition and exhibits include a small Cortland Avenue market, Chuck's Store, the store's liquor license, eight residential properties in San Francisco, one in Burlingame and unspecified real estate in Chile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court proceeding resulted in an agreement last Dec. 31 in which the three Lama sisters and their three brothers, along with some of their children, agreed to close the family trusts and distribute their assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property Nadia Lama was to receive includes a 2006 Toyota Avalon; $25,000 to pay the legal bills she'd incurred; a little more than $750,000 in cash due upon the sale of two of the family's properties; and finally, the Bocana Street residence occupied by Deb Follingstad and the $7,500 to hire a lawyer to evict her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires Nadia Lama to vacate her current home, a couple of doors up from Follingstad and still owned by her siblings, by the end of April. If she doesn't, the document says, she'll have to pay $4,000 a month rent to four of her siblings who will continue as owners; and if she does anything to interfere with their renting out the home she's supposed to vacate, she'll owe her siblings $10,000 in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With City's Tenant Protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement defending Nadia Lama's rent hike, attorney Leadbetter suggests that her client is caught in a bind because of the widely acknowledged housing crisis in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She faults the city's rent controls and says \"this kind of dramatic increase\" would be unnecessary if landlords were allowed modest hikes over time. She says rent control \"unfairly burdens small property owners with a societal problem that should be shared by all residents\" and that the city needs an \"economically sound housing policy\" to deal with the current crisis in rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Tobener, Follingstad's attorney, is focused on the issue at hand. Addressing the possibility that Nadia Lama may want to move into the property his client occupies, he says, \"She needs to handle it in a principled way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't endeavor to remove a tenant from a unit by raising the rent way above market rate with the intent of moving in,\" Tobener says. \"You have to go through the proper owner move-in eviction proceeding\" -- a process he says would give Follingstad a minimum $8,700 moving allowance, among other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad herself says she posted Lama's rent-increase letter not to create a furor but to give friends a heads-up that she's looking for a new place to live. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Deborah Follingstad says she knows she's had a good deal as a tenant, living in a rent-controlled apartment in a San Francisco neighborhood she loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that one day something was going to happen,\" Follingstad says. \"I understand that. I just wasn't expecting this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By \"this,\" Follingstad is referring to the Rent Hike Heard 'Round the City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The week before last, her Bernal Heights landlord sent her a letter telling her the rent on her two-plus bedroom flat on Bocana Street would be rising from $2,145 a month to $8,900 a month. The landlord, Nadia Lama, said Follingstad's security deposit would be going up, too, from $1,500 to $12,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10459637\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-400x542.jpg\" alt=\"A page from the landlord's letter informing Bernal Heights tenant Deb Follingstad her rent was rising from $2,145 to $8,900 a month. \" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-400x542.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-800x1085.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-1180x1600.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-768x1041.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o-320x434.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/10648869_10153190864139878_1399330562280311331_o.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from the landlord's letter informing Bernal Heights tenant Deb Follingstad her rent was rising from $2,145 to $8,900 a month.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even in a place that's gotten kind of used to stratospheric prices for all sorts of housing, Follingstad's fourfold rent increase and the circumstances surrounding it have struck a nerve. Her situation, which she publicized in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153190864139878\" target=\"_blank\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> last Saturday, has triggered a fevered debate on social media, in her neighborhood and even from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By raising the rent 400 percent and demanding a five-figure security deposit, the landlord is effectively evicting this tenant,\" Supervisor David Campos, who represents Bernal Heights, said at Tuesday's board meeting. He said he's asking the city attorney's office whether there's any way to stop Follingstad's de facto eviction, which would circumvent ordinances requiring formal notice and relocation payments when an owner wishes to occupy or change the rental status of a property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attorney: Landlord Offering More Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadia Lama did not respond to a call seeking comment, but her attorney, Denise Leadbetter, says the outrage from Campos and others is misdirected. She says the higher rent would include more space -- specifically, a downstairs area from which an apparently illegal in-law apartment was recently removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rent increase that has generated this controversy is actually an offer by the owner to rent a substantially larger home than was originally rented,\" Leadbetter said in an email statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cited the fact that Follingstad has listed a guest room on Airbnb and says the tenant would be free to use the additional space \"to offset the rent increase through her existing Airbnb business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.debfollingstadacupuncture.com/\" target=\"_blank\">an acupuncturist\u003c/a> who treats cancer patients at \u003ca href=\"http://smithintegrative.com/\">a San Francisco oncology practice\u003c/a>, acknowledges that she's listed a guest room on Airbnb to occasionally help cover her rent. But she also says the landlord's original notice of a rent increase made no mention of Airbnb. Furthermore, she says the letter stated the vacant space in question is not to be used as a living area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The in-law unit that Lama removed earlier this year had been in place since the early 1990s. City property records do not show a building permit for the recent work on the space that Leadbetter suggests can now be used as part of an Airbnb rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public records suggest that Nadia Lama made plans to evict Follingstad several months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 31, 2014, document filed in San Francisco Superior Court outlines the distribution of a number of Bernal Heights properties among Lama, her three brothers and two sisters. As her share of assets acquired by her late parents, Lama was to receive the Bocana Street residence and more than $750,000 in cash. The distribution also earmarked $7,500 \"to attorney of Nadia's choosing for eviction of tenant or tenants\" at Follingstad's address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To unravel how Deb Follingstad and Nadia Lama became the leading players in San Francisco's latest drama of tenant displacement, you need to go back a little further -- to revisit a little bit of the history of the building that Follingstad has called home since 2004 and to dip briefly into the saga of the Lama family, which has owned the building since 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City property records list the Bocana Street address as a one-unit residence. But, in fact, the building contained an in-law unit that the Lamas rented for about 20 years to a painting contractor named Wayne Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an illegal apartment that they schlepped in there,\" Moore says. \"Probably no permits, no nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Family Patriarch's Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore says he initially rented from Shukry Lama, known to tenants and friends as Chuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lama was a native of the town of Bethlehem -- the one in Palestine -- and as a young man emigrated to Chile. There, he met his wife, Vera, with whom he had six children. The family left Chile in 1973, the year a military junta deposed President Salvador Allende, and came to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lama bought a store in Bernal Heights and over the years built a neighborhood real estate portfolio of about 10 properties and a dozen units. Lama eventually placed his holdings in a trust to benefit his wife and six adult children, some of whom became involved in managing the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd paint a picture that the Lamas were not the world’s greatest landlords,\" Moore says. \"They didn’t repair anything. I needed a new refrigerator and they wouldn’t buy one – I had to buy it. If a faucet leaked, I fixed it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says he wasn't happy with annual rent increases that he said exceeded those allowed under rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'd paint a picture that the Lamas were not the world’s greatest landlords. They didn’t repair anything.'\u003ccite>Wayne Moore,\u003cbr>\nformer Bernal Heights tenant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"They were raising the rent every year -– every damn year,\" Moore says. \"I didn’t have the time or energy to fight it, so I just paid it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Moore moved out, the Lamas removed the in-law unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad, too, says her flat wasn't in great shape when she moved in in 2004. She recalls doing a walk-through with Chuck Lama before signing a new lease in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was like, 'Ach, you know, it's all falling apart anyway. Don't worry about anything,' \" Follingstad recalls. The apartment's wooden window frames are in bad shape, she says, and the apartment has had a consistent mold problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she insists she's enjoyed a friendly relationship with Nadia Lama, who lives in another family-owned building two doors away, and with the rest of the Lamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've actually always had a nice relationship with all of them,\" Follingstad says. \"... Their father -- he was a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Follingstad says she's tried to be a good tenant. In addition to addressing the unit's mold problem, \"I've restored a lot of stuff, I've painted, I've taken good care of my apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Earlier Rent-Increase Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she was notified of the 315 percent rent increase, Follingstad said she was advised by friends and even by a city building inspector that she should get a lawyer. In searching for one, she contacted Joe Tobener, who runs a tenants' rights practice in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener represented tenants who in 2013 sued two of Nadia Lama's sisters -- Antoinette Lama and Claudia Lama-Parakka -- over a rent increase that appears strikingly similar to the one confronting Follingstad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener declined to discuss the case, which was settled in January. But Superior Court filings show that Nina Gelfant and Gayle Worrell alleged they were forced from their one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 720-square-foot Cortland Avenue apartment after the Lamas raised the rent from $1,650 to $4,250 -- 157 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit argued that the rent increase was far above market rate and designed to get Gelfant and Worrell to leave so that the Lamas could sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sale, Tobener suggested in a trial brief that outlined more than $1 million in potential damages, was triggered by a battle among Shukry Lama's heirs over the property he'd left behind when he died in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chuck Lama's heirs were fighting over their share of the inheritance which demanded selling properties or having the heirs occupy them as residences,\" Tobener's brief says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alleged squabble also appears to have played a role in Nadia Lama's dramatic increase of Deb Follingstad's rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2013, she filed a probate petition in Superior Court seeking to compel her sister, Claudia, the overseer of several family trusts set up by Chuck Lama, to account for the family's assets. Assets named in the petition and exhibits include a small Cortland Avenue market, Chuck's Store, the store's liquor license, eight residential properties in San Francisco, one in Burlingame and unspecified real estate in Chile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court proceeding resulted in an agreement last Dec. 31 in which the three Lama sisters and their three brothers, along with some of their children, agreed to close the family trusts and distribute their assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property Nadia Lama was to receive includes a 2006 Toyota Avalon; $25,000 to pay the legal bills she'd incurred; a little more than $750,000 in cash due upon the sale of two of the family's properties; and finally, the Bocana Street residence occupied by Deb Follingstad and the $7,500 to hire a lawyer to evict her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires Nadia Lama to vacate her current home, a couple of doors up from Follingstad and still owned by her siblings, by the end of April. If she doesn't, the document says, she'll have to pay $4,000 a month rent to four of her siblings who will continue as owners; and if she does anything to interfere with their renting out the home she's supposed to vacate, she'll owe her siblings $10,000 in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With City's Tenant Protections?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement defending Nadia Lama's rent hike, attorney Leadbetter suggests that her client is caught in a bind because of the widely acknowledged housing crisis in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She faults the city's rent controls and says \"this kind of dramatic increase\" would be unnecessary if landlords were allowed modest hikes over time. She says rent control \"unfairly burdens small property owners with a societal problem that should be shared by all residents\" and that the city needs an \"economically sound housing policy\" to deal with the current crisis in rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Tobener, Follingstad's attorney, is focused on the issue at hand. Addressing the possibility that Nadia Lama may want to move into the property his client occupies, he says, \"She needs to handle it in a principled way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't endeavor to remove a tenant from a unit by raising the rent way above market rate with the intent of moving in,\" Tobener says. \"You have to go through the proper owner move-in eviction proceeding\" -- a process he says would give Follingstad a minimum $8,700 moving allowance, among other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follingstad herself says she posted Lama's rent-increase letter not to create a furor but to give friends a heads-up that she's looking for a new place to live. So far, she says she's had offers to couch-surf until she finds a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Like many renters in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood, Maria Contreras believes Facebook’s presence here has pushed up rents, making it harder for working-class families to find decent places to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras and her husband, who works in construction, saw their rent increase by $200 last November for their three-bedroom house. To afford the $2,700 monthly rent, the couple shares a room with their children and sublets the other two bedrooms. Still, Contreras says her family’s living situation is far better than in years past, when their home was a rented garage without a kitchen or heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very hard. Children don’t have room to play, and one doesn’t have enough space either,” said Contreras, adding that she knows more local families living in similar conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most garages here are illegally converted to rentals and represent a health and fire hazard, according to city police. But demand is strong and supply is widespread. On a recent afternoon, a bulletin board at a local grocery store down the road from Facebook featured three handwritten ads in Spanish offering garages for rent. Prices go from about $400 to over $1,000, according to the ads, residents and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453772\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10453772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png\" alt=\"How much are the new jobs in the area paying? Click to launch full interactive graphic that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley.\" width=\"475\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth.png 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-400x301.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/interactive-job-growth-320x241.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How much are the new jobs in the area paying? \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/Job_growth_SV_and_nearby/Finalforpub#!/publish-confirm\">Click to launch full interactive graphic\u003c/a> that shows what fraction of the new jobs will pay enough to afford housing in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Data visualization by Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s technology-fueled economy is exacerbating a regional housing deficit that is pushing low-income residents particularly to move out of the region to more affordable cities or stay put in tough living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developers, advocates and residents say a long building hiatus in Menlo Park, the city’s hot real estate market and Facebook’s expansion in Belle Haven — the city’s poorest neighborhood — put enormous pressures on Facebook’s working-class neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s Latino and African-American residents live in this part of town, east of Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are seeing their neighbors leave,” said Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Peninsula Interfaith Action, which advocates for affordable housing. “People are seeing investors buy up those properties in the hopes that a Facebook person will come and purchase them for a higher amount of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s second campus in Belle Haven is set to open this spring for 4,000 additional employees, some of them looking for housing nearby. The company is Menlo Park’s largest employer and landowner. It’s not uncommon to spot tourists posing for pictures at the company’s thumbs-up “like” sign in front of its headquarters on Bayfront Expressway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MLbkNKld363CXkQUT6dZR8HlmS8r1gQ1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s success, with a net income of $2.9 billion last year, has arguably increased nearby property values. Rentals listed on Craigslist and real estate websites frequently tout closeness to Facebook as a plus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2011 when the company moved here, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Menlo Park rose 42 percent to $3,700, according to the real estate website Zillow. The median home price is $1.6 million and the city is now among the top 10 in the nation with the fastest increasing home values, says a recent NerdWallet report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A history of inaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing tends to be located in apartment buildings rather than houses. But for over three decades beginning in the 1970s, Menlo Park did not build any large multi-family housing, said Menlo Park City Manager Alex McIntyre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Peninsula Interfaith Action and two other nonprofits sued the city for failing for two decades to comply with a state law which mandates planning for affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the lawsuit went to trial, the city would have lost its ability to approve real estate developments — including Facebook’s new campus — and Menlo Park settled, said Richard Marcantonio, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city acknowledges it fell behind in affordable housing — a combination of lack of political will and not enough resources, said City Manager McIntyre, who started the job in 2012, the same year the city was sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To build affordable housing on land that is so incredibly expensive on an economy that’s on fire here, it’s like a double whammy to actually create affordable housing,” McIntyre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, following the settlement, Menlo Park updated its housing plan to allow for the potential construction of up to 1,000 affordable units. It also has committed $8.6 million in the last fiscal year towards housing for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is reviewing plans to build 372 market-rate apartments that would set aside 5 percent — or 19 apartments — for low-income residents in Menlo Park’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really making up for lost time,” McIntyre said. “We are in a housing boom, the needs are very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still the breakdown is stark. Most of the 795 apartments under construction are market-rate units in upscale complexes, while just 96 apartments — 12 percent — are slated for low-income residents. More than a third of those affordable units are being built by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which bought an adjacent 56 acres of land in February, says it strives to be a good neighbor and listen to the concerns of the community. Facebook’s director of community engagement, Susan Gonzales, says the company has created internships for local students and donated significant funds for local schools and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also funds the salary of a city police officer dedicated to keeping youth in school and out of gangs. Last year, the company paid for the costs for remodeling and furnishing a new police substation in Belle Haven, right next to its new campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Residents Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, a lifelong resident of Belle Haven, has followed Facebook’s efforts but he isn’t impressed. Its contributions are “crumbs,” he said, noting that the company’s programs to improve public safety and education don’t tackle the main issue in his community: the fast-paced displacement of poor residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunn is quick to point that it’s not just Facebook’s fault that his neighbors are moving out to more affordable cities over 50 miles away, such as Modesto and Tracy. He also faults poor planning by elected officials and the biting wealth disparities in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the equity in terms of a multimillion dollar corporation moving to a poor area?” asked Nunn, as he stood on his front lawn down the road from Facebook’s new campus. “Where I live is probably 10 miles from some of the most prosperous corporations in the world. And some of my neighbors will not necessarily make it through college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn and advocates such as Jennifer Martinez believe that Facebook — because of its expansion in Belle Haven — could do more to tackle the negative impacts of gentrification, such as contributing to the county affordable housing fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children and grandchildren will not be able to stay in this community,” Nunn added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will most workers live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford an average two-bedroom apartment in San Mateo County, where Menlo Park sits, a family of four would have to earn about $106,000 annually, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the new jobs in the region will pay less than half of that amount. Between 51 and 62 percent of jobs created by 2020 in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin and San Benito counties will pay less than $50,000, according to state estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Franklin, former director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, sees the trend in housing affordability as disastrous for the region’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not sustainable for the new jobs created here to be commuting from Tracy or Antioch,” said Franklin, who now leads the nonprofit developer MidPen Housing. “It’s putting all sorts of pressures on the family lives of workers and their budgets, putting pressure on the transportation system and it’s fouling our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city of Menlo Park promised $3.2 million towards MidPen’s project to build 78 affordable units next year in Belle Haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our economic interest to make these investments,” said Franklin, adding that cities and landowners must increase their efforts. “This isn’t altruism. It’s more than anything an economic necessity. If we are going to have a healthy sustainable economy, we have to find a way to house our workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CLARIFICATION – Editor’s Note (4/3/2015): In this story originally published March 11, 2015, Peninsula Press misstated that Facebook “paid for the construction” of a new police substation. This updated story clarifies that Facebook specifically contributed toward the costs of a remodel and furnishings for the new police substation, not the initial construction of the building. City officials said Facebook’s costs amounted to at least $140,000.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate developers, advocates and residents say a long building hiatus in Menlo Park, the city’s hot real estate market and Facebook’s expansion in Belle Haven — the city’s poorest neighborhood — put enormous pressures on Facebook’s working-class neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s Latino and African-American residents live in this part of town, east of Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are seeing their neighbors leave,” said Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Peninsula Interfaith Action, which advocates for affordable housing. “People are seeing investors buy up those properties in the hopes that a Facebook person will come and purchase them for a higher amount of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s second campus in Belle Haven is set to open this spring for 4,000 additional employees, some of them looking for housing nearby. The company is Menlo Park’s largest employer and landowner. It’s not uncommon to spot tourists posing for pictures at the company’s thumbs-up “like” sign in front of its headquarters on Bayfront Expressway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s success, with a net income of $2.9 billion last year, has arguably increased nearby property values. Rentals listed on Craigslist and real estate websites frequently tout closeness to Facebook as a plus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-2011 when the company moved here, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Menlo Park rose 42 percent to $3,700, according to the real estate website Zillow. The median home price is $1.6 million and the city is now among the top 10 in the nation with the fastest increasing home values, says a recent NerdWallet report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A history of inaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing tends to be located in apartment buildings rather than houses. But for over three decades beginning in the 1970s, Menlo Park did not build any large multi-family housing, said Menlo Park City Manager Alex McIntyre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Peninsula Interfaith Action and two other nonprofits sued the city for failing for two decades to comply with a state law which mandates planning for affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dorsey-Nunn-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey Nunn stands in front of his house in Belle Haven on Jan. 16, 2015. Nunn’s parents purchased the property in 1968. He estimates the three-bedroom house is now worth over $570,000, in part thanks to its proximity to Facebook. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the lawsuit went to trial, the city would have lost its ability to approve real estate developments — including Facebook’s new campus — and Menlo Park settled, said Richard Marcantonio, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city acknowledges it fell behind in affordable housing — a combination of lack of political will and not enough resources, said City Manager McIntyre, who started the job in 2012, the same year the city was sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To build affordable housing on land that is so incredibly expensive on an economy that’s on fire here, it’s like a double whammy to actually create affordable housing,” McIntyre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, following the settlement, Menlo Park updated its housing plan to allow for the potential construction of up to 1,000 affordable units. It also has committed $8.6 million in the last fiscal year towards housing for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is reviewing plans to build 372 market-rate apartments that would set aside 5 percent — or 19 apartments — for low-income residents in Menlo Park’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really making up for lost time,” McIntyre said. “We are in a housing boom, the needs are very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still the breakdown is stark. Most of the 795 apartments under construction are market-rate units in upscale complexes, while just 96 apartments — 12 percent — are slated for low-income residents. More than a third of those affordable units are being built by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which bought an adjacent 56 acres of land in February, says it strives to be a good neighbor and listen to the concerns of the community. Facebook’s director of community engagement, Susan Gonzales, says the company has created internships for local students and donated significant funds for local schools and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also funds the salary of a city police officer dedicated to keeping youth in school and out of gangs. Last year, the company paid for the costs for remodeling and furnishing a new police substation in Belle Haven, right next to its new campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Residents Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey Nunn, a lifelong resident of Belle Haven, has followed Facebook’s efforts but he isn’t impressed. Its contributions are “crumbs,” he said, noting that the company’s programs to improve public safety and education don’t tackle the main issue in his community: the fast-paced displacement of poor residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10453774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10453774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Matt-Franklin-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Franklin, president of MidPen Housing Corporation, oversees an affordable housing property in Belle Haven on Jan. 20, 2015. MidPen plans to build 78 new apartments for low-income residents in Belle Haven with funding from the city. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nunn is quick to point that it’s not just Facebook’s fault that his neighbors are moving out to more affordable cities over 50 miles away, such as Modesto and Tracy. He also faults poor planning by elected officials and the biting wealth disparities in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the equity in terms of a multimillion dollar corporation moving to a poor area?” asked Nunn, as he stood on his front lawn down the road from Facebook’s new campus. “Where I live is probably 10 miles from some of the most prosperous corporations in the world. And some of my neighbors will not necessarily make it through college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunn and advocates such as Jennifer Martinez believe that Facebook — because of its expansion in Belle Haven — could do more to tackle the negative impacts of gentrification, such as contributing to the county affordable housing fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children and grandchildren will not be able to stay in this community,” Nunn added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where will most workers live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To afford an average two-bedroom apartment in San Mateo County, where Menlo Park sits, a family of four would have to earn about $106,000 annually, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the new jobs in the region will pay less than half of that amount. Between 51 and 62 percent of jobs created by 2020 in San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin and San Benito counties will pay less than $50,000, according to state estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Franklin, former director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, sees the trend in housing affordability as disastrous for the region’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not sustainable for the new jobs created here to be commuting from Tracy or Antioch,” said Franklin, who now leads the nonprofit developer MidPen Housing. “It’s putting all sorts of pressures on the family lives of workers and their budgets, putting pressure on the transportation system and it’s fouling our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city of Menlo Park promised $3.2 million towards MidPen’s project to build 78 affordable units next year in Belle Haven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in our economic interest to make these investments,” said Franklin, adding that cities and landowners must increase their efforts. “This isn’t altruism. It’s more than anything an economic necessity. If we are going to have a healthy sustainable economy, we have to find a way to house our workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The fire caused $40 million in damage and injured several firefighters. It ranks as one of the most destructive fires in the city since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and the worst construction blaze in the Bay Area since San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-153.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santana Row fire\u003c/a> in 2002, which destroyed a large section of the mixed residential-commercial development and caused $130 million in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbitt, two other firefighters and the commander who directed the battle against the blaze sat down recently to recount the challenges of that day a year ago and to talk about what they learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he first call about the fire came in at 4:57 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon. 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Murphy, injured, continued to battle the fire for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a big game so you’re not going to leave with a charley horse,” Murphy said. “You’re going to stick it out and get taken care of at the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194945598″ 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>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hat moment when the firefighting tactics changed still bothers Truck 8 firefighter Maguire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a small window to make an aggressive fire attack on that building and that window closed pretty quickly,” Maguire says. “You know, this fire, we’re kind of embarrassed to talk about it a little bit because it got so out of hand,” he said. “That’s not the way we want it to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were concerns the fire would spread. Embers from the blaze landed on the roof of a building down Fourth Street on the UC San Francisco campus. Windows in an apartment building across the street began to blow out from the intense heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fears dissipated when firefighters extinguished the nearby small blazes. It took hours for firefighters to contain the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/15/mission-bay-fire-damage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigators later determined\u003c/a> that the March 11, 2014, fire was accidental, most likely caused by welding or grinding on the building’s top floor. The city \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fined a subcontractor\u003c/a> and implemented stricter safety rules governing construction work at a time when San Francisco is in the midst of a building boom. 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"content": "\u003cp>At 21 years old, Khalil Whitaker and his business partner are already entrepreneurs. They started a business in East Oakland -- it’s official name is O.A.K. A Town Business, but Whitaker explains, “Oak Boys is our nickname.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s what most people call the local clothing company that sells shirts with the nickname scrawled across the front, \"OAKLAND BOOTY\" shorts and a stark black hat that says simply \"FUNERALS AINT NO FUN,\" among other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it sounds like Whitaker and his partner are targeting a small local niche, that isn't necessarily their goal. They aren’t techies, but they want those tech dollars. They make their shirts appeal to hipsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195202789\" 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 business started out of Whitaker's car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just doing it out the trunk on Instagram and popping up places and getting it off,” says Whitaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Oak Boys has a kiosk inside Bayfair Mall in San Leandro. When they started, they barely had enough money to buy supplies. Now, their graphic T-shirts, sweats and shorts have blown up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want it to keep up with all of their Nautica, Po lo, Burberry, you know, and it’s just a graphic tee,” says Whitaker. “You want it to feel not like your other typical graphic tees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health, Not Tech\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Oak Boys are building their business around tech newcomers, Monifa Akosua and Rashawn Moore are starting a nonprofit called A Brighter Health. They see themselves as building something completely outside of tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we’re different because we’re part of the community we serve,” says Akosua. “So us being a part of the community, it makes our students relate more to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/G0RX_BtJ338\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore adds, “We are youth. We are very young. We are African-Americans. Also, connecting one-on-one with youth and finding different ways to enhance their knowledge about health is very important. And I think that’s what really differs us from tech companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akosua is 24 and and Moore is 21. They started their business with just a $500 grant. They provide low-income youth with nutritional education. So, many afternoons you find them teaching teenagers. Akosua and Moore do workshops at nonprofits and schools. They teach kids not only how to read food labels, but also how to harvest their own food in a community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All About the Material\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Warner’s business is also focused on community -- a music community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really about providing a place for the content that’s coming out of the Bay Area and coming out of the local scene,” says Warner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner’s blog, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.thizzler.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Thizzler on the Roof\u003c/a>,” highlights artists like Iamsu. His content gets more than 10 million views a month. Warner makes a living from his business. But it took years of living at home and struggling to pay for gas before it paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10451626\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10451626\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Warner started the blog Thizzler On The Roof which features Bay Area rap and hip-hop music.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-1440x809.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-320x180.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Warner started the blog \"Thizzler On The Roof,\" which features Bay Area rap and hip-hop music. \u003ccite>(Chaz Hubbard/Youth Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says he’s all about the material, not the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be the ugliest site it could be. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At 21 years old, Khalil Whitaker and his business partner are already entrepreneurs. They started a business in East Oakland -- it’s official name is O.A.K. A Town Business, but Whitaker explains, “Oak Boys is our nickname.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s what most people call the local clothing company that sells shirts with the nickname scrawled across the front, \"OAKLAND BOOTY\" shorts and a stark black hat that says simply \"FUNERALS AINT NO FUN,\" among other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it sounds like Whitaker and his partner are targeting a small local niche, that isn't necessarily their goal. They aren’t techies, but they want those tech dollars. They make their shirts appeal to hipsters.\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/195202789&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/195202789'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business started out of Whitaker's car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They see themselves as building something completely outside of tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we’re different because we’re part of the community we serve,” says Akosua. “So us being a part of the community, it makes our students relate more to us.”\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/G0RX_BtJ338'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/G0RX_BtJ338'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Moore adds, “We are youth. We are very young. We are African-Americans. Also, connecting one-on-one with youth and finding different ways to enhance their knowledge about health is very important. And I think that’s what really differs us from tech companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akosua is 24 and and Moore is 21. They started their business with just a $500 grant. They provide low-income youth with nutritional education. So, many afternoons you find them teaching teenagers. Akosua and Moore do workshops at nonprofits and schools. They teach kids not only how to read food labels, but also how to harvest their own food in a community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All About the Material\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Warner’s business is also focused on community -- a music community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really about providing a place for the content that’s coming out of the Bay Area and coming out of the local scene,” says Warner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner’s blog, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.thizzler.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Thizzler on the Roof\u003c/a>,” highlights artists like Iamsu. His content gets more than 10 million views a month. 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But it took years of living at home and struggling to pay for gas before it paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10451626\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10451626\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Warner started the blog Thizzler On The Roof which features Bay Area rap and hip-hop music.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-1440x809.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut-320x180.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14479_Matt_Warner_PhCrChazHubbard-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Warner started the blog \"Thizzler On The Roof,\" which features Bay Area rap and hip-hop music. \u003ccite>(Chaz Hubbard/Youth Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says he’s all about the material, not the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be the ugliest site it could be. 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He proposed to tear down a fence, known as Crocker's fence, which is very obnoxious to a great many people because it manifested the domineering spirit of a man of millions.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Workingmen pleaded that they had condemned the idea of destroying the fence and accused the city fathers of using the episode as a pretext for cracking down on Kearney. Sure enough, he was arrested for inciting to riot the next time he spoke publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution served to lionize Kearney, whose political star rose and set over the next few years while the fence stood unperturbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Yung moved his house to Broderick Street, but he refused to sell the now-vacant lot. The fence remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung died in 1880 and Charles Crocker in 1888, but the feud went on. Yung's widow, Rosina, declined to sell the vacant lot to Crocker's heirs, but also turned away offers to sell the property to a Chinese laundry and an advertising company. The fence stayed in place throughout the 1890s and into the new century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mrs. Yung died in January 1902, the Chronicle looked forward to the day when the fence would come down -- and served a big helping of vituperation to the Crockers for having left the \"lofty barricade\" up so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fence is the most famous memorial of malignity and malevolence in the city,\" the Chron fumed. \"... Crocker has long been dead, but his heirs have preserved this testimonial of rancor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper also called out the Crockers for their \"legacy of hatred\" and their \"inartistic monument to resentment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in 1904, the Yungs' children sold the lot, and Crocker's children tore down the fence. 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Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In late October, party supporters staged a march up Nob Hill to decry the excesses of capitalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a later pamphlet describing the protest, an unidentified Workingmen's author -- perhaps party leader Dennis Kearney himself -- explained that the march to the mansion neighborhood was merely a prank and that \"two thousand people climbed the hill to enjoy the joke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pamphlet, titled \"The Labor Agitators, or, The Battle for Bread,\" explained that not everyone in the crowd was in a jocular mood:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"At this meeting a gentleman named Pickett, commonly called Philosopher Pickett, had desired to air his eloquence, and was permitted to do so. He launched out against the railroad magnates with fanatic fury. He proposed to tear down a fence, known as Crocker's fence, which is very obnoxious to a great many people because it manifested the domineering spirit of a man of millions.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Workingmen pleaded that they had condemned the idea of destroying the fence and accused the city fathers of using the episode as a pretext for cracking down on Kearney. Sure enough, he was arrested for inciting to riot the next time he spoke publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution served to lionize Kearney, whose political star rose and set over the next few years while the fence stood unperturbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Yung moved his house to Broderick Street, but he refused to sell the now-vacant lot. The fence remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung died in 1880 and Charles Crocker in 1888, but the feud went on. 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"content": "\u003cp>The first time I met Lawrence Ferlinghetti was unforgettable: It was early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and Elizabeth Farnsworth and I were working on a story\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment-july-dec02-ferlinghetti_12-27/\"> about him for the PBS NewsHour.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As surreal news trickled in of planes crashing in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the crew and I continued to set up the lights and cameras while Ferlinghetti floated in and out of the room, offering stoic yet witty commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after that morning, he composed \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/history-airplane-2733#.VPX3Y0I-D-Y\">“History of the Airplane,”\u003c/a> a prose piece inspired by the attacks. Here’s an excerpt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>And they kept flying and flying until they flew right into the 21st\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>century and then one fine day a Third World struck back and\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>stormed the great planes and flew them straight into the beating\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>heart of Skyscraper America where there were no aviaries and no\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>parliaments of doves and in a blinding flash America became a part\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>of the scorched earth of the world\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, when KQED conceived of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\">Boomtown series, \u003c/a> which seeks to put the Bay Area’s current boom-and-bust cycle in context, I thought who better to turn to than Lawrence Ferlinghetti, to reflect on the changes that gentrification and technology have made in his beloved city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10447964\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 441px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10447964\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-800x990.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured in 1959, at the age of 40. (Courtesy of City Lights Bookstore)\" width=\"441\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-800x990.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-400x495.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-1180x1460.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-768x950.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-320x396.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured in 1959, at the age of 40. (Courtesy of City Lights Bookstore)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever since the iconic poet, painter and publisher helped spark a literary renaissance in the 1950s with the “Beat” movement, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=14613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferlinghetti\u003c/a> has served as a conscience for San Franciscans, especially when times are tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ferlinghetti arrived in the city in 1951 from New York, he settled into a $65/month apartment in the Italian working-class neighborhood of North Beach. That was the beginning of his journey to put San Francisco on the world’s countercultural map by publishing the work of beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With $29/month rent for a massive art studio, “it seemed as ideal as any city could be for an artist or writer … a city small enough for human conviviality and large enough for intense creative ferment, with a metropolitan sensibility,” he wrote in a 2001 prose piece titled “The Poetic City That Was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 64 years after arriving in San Francisco, despite his status as a literary legend, the 95-year-old co-owner of the renowned City Lights bookshop and publishing house says he doesn’t feel so at home in the city by the bay anymore. He complains of a “soulless group of people” too busy with their phones to “be here” in the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A new brand of dot.com millionaires and generally Silicon Valley money moved into San Francisco with bags full of cash and no manners and very little education in the great culture of Western civilization,” he told us when we went to visit him at his North Beach apartment last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10447924\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10447924\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-1440x874.jpg\" alt=\"Beat poet and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti will turn 96 in March. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-1440x874.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-400x243.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-320x194.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beat poet and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti will turn 96 in March. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In 1951 I had the feeling walking up Market Street … that the general attitude was that San Francisco really wasn’t part of the United States. They were sort of an offshore republic. … But that’s not the case anymore,” he told us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s like the rest of the country. Our city is like all the other cities. We’ve lost that feeling of being a unique place. I think the electronic revolution has caused that. So with the Internet it becomes flat earth. We’re living in the flat earth now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://georgekrevskygallery.com\">George Krevsky Gallery\u003c/a> in downtown San Francisco, which had shown Ferlinghetti’s work for two decades, was forced out of its building to make way for a cloud computing startup called MuleSoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krevsky now sells most of his artwork online — out of his home in the Oakland Hills. Some of Ferlinghetti’s works can be seen at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sflivewormsgallery.com\">Live Worms\u003c/a>, a gallery on upper Grant Avenue, one of the few parts of North Beach that still feels bohemian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its “Legends of the Bay Area” series, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinmoca.org/See/CurrentExhibitions.aspx\">Marin Museum of Contemporary Art\u003c/a> in Novato is hosting a retrospective exhibition of Ferlinghetti’s art work through April 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Saturday, at an opening night reception, Ferlinghetti thanked the museum director for the exhibit and noted that it was “nicely hung.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that has a connotation,” he told the crowd, “and I’ll leave it at that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after our interview, Ferlinghetti left me a voicemail expressing concern that he struck too negative a tone and invited us back to his apartment for a second take. He wanted me and our audience to know that he still has hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always hope in love. Love and hate are viruses. Love can make a civilization bloom and hate can kill a civilization,” he told us when we returned. Then he read this poem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>“Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One grand boulevard with trees\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>with one grand cafe in sun\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>with strong black coffee in very small cups.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One not necessarily very beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>man or woman who loves you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One fine day.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The first time I met Lawrence Ferlinghetti was unforgettable: It was early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and Elizabeth Farnsworth and I were working on a story\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment-july-dec02-ferlinghetti_12-27/\"> about him for the PBS NewsHour.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As surreal news trickled in of planes crashing in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the crew and I continued to set up the lights and cameras while Ferlinghetti floated in and out of the room, offering stoic yet witty commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after that morning, he composed \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/history-airplane-2733#.VPX3Y0I-D-Y\">“History of the Airplane,”\u003c/a> a prose piece inspired by the attacks. Here’s an excerpt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>And they kept flying and flying until they flew right into the 21st\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>century and then one fine day a Third World struck back and\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>stormed the great planes and flew them straight into the beating\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>heart of Skyscraper America where there were no aviaries and no\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>parliaments of doves and in a blinding flash America became a part\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>of the scorched earth of the world\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, when KQED conceived of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\">Boomtown series, \u003c/a> which seeks to put the Bay Area’s current boom-and-bust cycle in context, I thought who better to turn to than Lawrence Ferlinghetti, to reflect on the changes that gentrification and technology have made in his beloved city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10447964\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 441px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10447964\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-800x990.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured in 1959, at the age of 40. (Courtesy of City Lights Bookstore)\" width=\"441\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-800x990.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-400x495.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-1180x1460.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-768x950.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959-320x396.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lawrence1959.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured in 1959, at the age of 40. (Courtesy of City Lights Bookstore)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever since the iconic poet, painter and publisher helped spark a literary renaissance in the 1950s with the “Beat” movement, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=14613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferlinghetti\u003c/a> has served as a conscience for San Franciscans, especially when times are tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ferlinghetti arrived in the city in 1951 from New York, he settled into a $65/month apartment in the Italian working-class neighborhood of North Beach. That was the beginning of his journey to put San Francisco on the world’s countercultural map by publishing the work of beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With $29/month rent for a massive art studio, “it seemed as ideal as any city could be for an artist or writer … a city small enough for human conviviality and large enough for intense creative ferment, with a metropolitan sensibility,” he wrote in a 2001 prose piece titled “The Poetic City That Was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 64 years after arriving in San Francisco, despite his status as a literary legend, the 95-year-old co-owner of the renowned City Lights bookshop and publishing house says he doesn’t feel so at home in the city by the bay anymore. He complains of a “soulless group of people” too busy with their phones to “be here” in the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A new brand of dot.com millionaires and generally Silicon Valley money moved into San Francisco with bags full of cash and no manners and very little education in the great culture of Western civilization,” he told us when we went to visit him at his North Beach apartment last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10447924\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10447924\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-1440x874.jpg\" alt=\"Beat poet and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti will turn 96 in March. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-1440x874.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-400x243.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2-320x194.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/ferlinghetti-reading_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beat poet and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti will turn 96 in March. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In 1951 I had the feeling walking up Market Street … that the general attitude was that San Francisco really wasn’t part of the United States. They were sort of an offshore republic. … But that’s not the case anymore,” he told us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s like the rest of the country. Our city is like all the other cities. We’ve lost that feeling of being a unique place. I think the electronic revolution has caused that. So with the Internet it becomes flat earth. We’re living in the flat earth now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://georgekrevskygallery.com\">George Krevsky Gallery\u003c/a> in downtown San Francisco, which had shown Ferlinghetti’s work for two decades, was forced out of its building to make way for a cloud computing startup called MuleSoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krevsky now sells most of his artwork online — out of his home in the Oakland Hills. Some of Ferlinghetti’s works can be seen at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sflivewormsgallery.com\">Live Worms\u003c/a>, a gallery on upper Grant Avenue, one of the few parts of North Beach that still feels bohemian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its “Legends of the Bay Area” series, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinmoca.org/See/CurrentExhibitions.aspx\">Marin Museum of Contemporary Art\u003c/a> in Novato is hosting a retrospective exhibition of Ferlinghetti’s art work through April 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Saturday, at an opening night reception, Ferlinghetti thanked the museum director for the exhibit and noted that it was “nicely hung.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that has a connotation,” he told the crowd, “and I’ll leave it at that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after our interview, Ferlinghetti left me a voicemail expressing concern that he struck too negative a tone and invited us back to his apartment for a second take. He wanted me and our audience to know that he still has hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always hope in love. Love and hate are viruses. Love can make a civilization bloom and hate can kill a civilization,” he told us when we returned. Then he read this poem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>“Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One grand boulevard with trees\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>with one grand cafe in sun\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>with strong black coffee in very small cups.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One not necessarily very beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>man or woman who loves you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>One fine day.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Feb. 26: \u003c/strong>The Sunnyvale City Council has voted against a crucial component of a plan to create a bus rapid transit system in the heart of Silicon Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four hours of public comment and debate Tuesday night, the council voted against a plan for dedicated bus lanes on El Camino Real through the city. Under a proposal from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, the bus-only lanes would allow dramatically speeded-up transit service along El Camino from Palo Alto to downtown San Jose. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 4-3 vote, the council passed a resolution backing an alternative idea: having the VTA’s enhanced bus service travel in “mixed flow” lanes along a corridor that would include improved “bulbout” bus stops. The new stops would allow buses to pick up and drop off passengers without pulling to the curb, which would improve travel times somewhat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday night’s vote was advisory, and Sunnyvale is just one of five cities along the proposed bus rapid transit route that must ultimately decide whether they support the effort or not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA is expected to decide on the details of the project later this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post:\u003c/strong> U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27445216/u-s-transportation-chief-visits-google-unveil-30\">came to Silicon Valley \u003c/a>earlier this month to announce the administration’s transportation vision for the next three decades. That future includes faster public transit, and Foxx’s 2016 budget recommends \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-foxx-recommends-32-billion-expand-transit-options-improve\">a chunk of federal dollars \u003c/a>to help cities build bus rapid transit systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This speedier form of bus travel, set to debut in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco over the next few years, is becoming popular in cities all over the world. Buses have their own dedicated lanes, priority at traffic signals, low floors for easy boarding, prepaid ticketing, Wi-Fi and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Valley Transportation Authority would \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/projects-and-programs/brt-el-camino-real-brt-project\">like to build such a system\u003c/a> — tentatively called Breeze — along El Camino Real, Silicon Valley’s busiest bus corridor, to better serve its thousands of daily riders and attract newcomers who will be part of a projected population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SaAEyhX08cJtupWdjzmuU53TBQ0tkDHO”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA is in line to receive $75 million in federal funds as part of a $233 million bus rapid transit project that would make the buses run faster than cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the cities that run along the corridor, other than San Jose, have embraced it over fears it will make traffic worse, according to transportation officials and transit advocates. The center of tech innovation is also a region where the car is king, and having a fast public bus system is a tough political sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192825592″ 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>“There are very entrenched interests that don’t want to see this project happen, or want to see it watered down,” says Chris Lepe, a senior community planner for the transit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\">TransForm.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto is backing an alternative to dedicated lanes: a mixed-flow proposal that VTA officials say falls short of true bus rapid transit. Tonight, the Sunnyvale City Council is expected to take an official position, and there is pressure to oppose dedicated lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials fear the lesser alternatives will put the project’s federal funding at risk because it won’t be a competitive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10442130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\" alt='The new bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called \"Breeze.\" ' width=\"788\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png 788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM-400x176.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called Breeze. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 17-mile rapid bus route from San Jose to Palo Alto would run in dedicated lanes along the current 522 rapid bus route, starting at Diridon station in San Jose, and then onto El Camino Real through Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This busy bus corridor currently accounts for 20,000 daily trips. Under bus rapid transit, VTA officials estimate more than 10,000 additional riders would hop aboard by 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year on El Camino Real, because of worsening traffic congestion, the buses slow down by an average of two minutes. That means today the buses are 30 minutes slower than they were in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under bus rapid transit, a ride from San Jose to Palo Alto is expected to take 40 minutes. Right now, it’s a 90-minute ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line with these buses is to make them fast, frequent and reliable,” says John Ristow, the senior planner on the project for the VTA. “In order to do that, we’ve got to actually find ways to allow them to move rapidly because they have to make stops and pick people up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new low-floor buses would have more comfortable seating and Wi-Fi, and people of all abilities would be able to board quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Riders \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10442133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A survey of 500 bus riders found they most are low-income working families and people of color who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent rider surveys found most are low-income, working families and people of color under the age of 35 who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sneha Rajkumar is a software engineering student who lives in Sunnyvale and takes the bus to school in San Jose. Her husband takes their car because there is no transit connection to his job. It’s the bus ride home that pains her the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stops at each and every signal, then at each and every stop,” Rajkumar says. “You lose patience when it’s already 9:45 p.m. and you gotta get home, cook dinner and see your family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her experience is similar to 500 bus riders along the corridor who were recently surveyed by the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.wpusa.org/\">Working Partnerships USA\u003c/a>. Their average travel time on the bus is 50 minutes, but some had commutes as long as two hours, says Charisse Ma Lebron, the group’s director of health policy and community development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research showed that bus riders are predominantly working families, people of color, students and people from other underserved populations. VTA’s 2013 on-board survey found riders’ average household income was $38,000, says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Carmageddon’ Fears \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials say Sunnyvale residents and businesses have sent the most letters opposing dedicated bus lanes. Over the weekend, a group called the El Camino Coalition took out \u003ca href=\"http://ads.mercurynews.com/san-jose-ca/communication/newspaper/san-jose-mercury-news/2015-02-22-1603722-the-vta-s-ill-conceived-dedicated-lane-bus-rapid-transit-proposal-for-el-camino-real-due-to-an-insufficient-and-one-sided-public-awareness-campaign-most-santa-clara-county-residents-are-unclear-of-the-ramifications-or-unaware-entirely-of\">a one-page ad in the Mercury News\u003c/a> decrying the “ill-conceived” lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the opposition is being organized by car dealerships along El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not opposed to transit,” says Ryan Hopkins, the general manager of the Honda dealership. “We feel that if you block off a lane on El Camino … it’s just going to create more traffic and congestion, and it’s going to divert traffic to the other streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But VTA officials say they studied the potential traffic impact at more than 80 intersections along El Camino, and concluded it would not worsen traffic. And Lepe of TransForm says fears about traffic congestion have not materialized from bus rapid transit projects in cities like Cleveland and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“The kind of carmageddon that folks fear might happen hasn’t manifested with these projects,” says Lepe. “Why? Because you have a mode shift that takes place. When people start seeing the bus traveling faster than cars, they say ‘Hey, maybe I should jump on that.’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Sunnyvale City Councilman David Whittum, who also sits on the VTA Board of Directors, says businesses along El Camino Real, which pull in 20 percent of city tax revenue, are concerned it will affect their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Whittum: “If somebody comes and says, ‘Hey, I’m going to take away two lanes, but don’t worry, everything will be fine,’ my question would be: So what is your experience in doing that in some of these business communities, and can you show me examples of where everything is fine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says merchants are also concerned about disruptions that would be caused during construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cb> A Safer Street\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">El Camino Real is Sunnyvale’s most dangerous street for cyclists and pedestrians. When I visited the corridor, I found more than a few people biking and walking, especially transit riders on their way to and from bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“I have to ride as if people don’t see me, and I have no rights,” Tony McToy explains. I had spotted him pedaling slowly down El Camino, dressed casually, with a Popeyes bag hanging from his handlebars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“There’s no bike lane. So, whenever I can, and there’s no pedestrians on the sidewalk, I get on the sidewalk. Then if I see a pedestrian, I yield, but I have to watch my back,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The bus rapid transit plan calls for protected green bike lanes on El Camino Real, which transportation officials say would make the street safer for people like McToy. Officials would also install them along other parts of the corridor, along with pedestrian safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cstrong>Political Will\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It will be up to the board of the Valley Transportation Authority to decide whether to implement bus rapid transit, but if the cities don’t support the project it will likely die, say transit advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that population and job growth are inevitable in Silicon Valley, and doing nothing is not an option,” says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that many of the bus riders who would benefit from the project don’t always have time to attend meetings and voice their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not uncommon that the needs of traditionally underserved, underrepresented populations are excluded from the policymaking process,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, says Lepe, it’s a question of political will. Whether Silicon Valley elected officials will get behind bus rapid transit remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Buses have their own dedicated lanes, priority at traffic signals, low floors for easy boarding, prepaid ticketing, Wi-Fi and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Valley Transportation Authority would \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/projects-and-programs/brt-el-camino-real-brt-project\">like to build such a system\u003c/a> — tentatively called Breeze — along El Camino Real, Silicon Valley’s busiest bus corridor, to better serve its thousands of daily riders and attract newcomers who will be part of a projected population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA is in line to receive $75 million in federal funds as part of a $233 million bus rapid transit project that would make the buses run faster than cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the cities that run along the corridor, other than San Jose, have embraced it over fears it will make traffic worse, according to transportation officials and transit advocates. The center of tech innovation is also a region where the car is king, and having a fast public bus system is a tough political sell.\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/192825592″&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/192825592″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very entrenched interests that don’t want to see this project happen, or want to see it watered down,” says Chris Lepe, a senior community planner for the transit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\">TransForm.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto is backing an alternative to dedicated lanes: a mixed-flow proposal that VTA officials say falls short of true bus rapid transit. Tonight, the Sunnyvale City Council is expected to take an official position, and there is pressure to oppose dedicated lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials fear the lesser alternatives will put the project’s federal funding at risk because it won’t be a competitive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10442130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\" alt='The new bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called \"Breeze.\" ' width=\"788\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png 788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM-400x176.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called Breeze. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 17-mile rapid bus route from San Jose to Palo Alto would run in dedicated lanes along the current 522 rapid bus route, starting at Diridon station in San Jose, and then onto El Camino Real through Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This busy bus corridor currently accounts for 20,000 daily trips. Under bus rapid transit, VTA officials estimate more than 10,000 additional riders would hop aboard by 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year on El Camino Real, because of worsening traffic congestion, the buses slow down by an average of two minutes. That means today the buses are 30 minutes slower than they were in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under bus rapid transit, a ride from San Jose to Palo Alto is expected to take 40 minutes. Right now, it’s a 90-minute ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line with these buses is to make them fast, frequent and reliable,” says John Ristow, the senior planner on the project for the VTA. “In order to do that, we’ve got to actually find ways to allow them to move rapidly because they have to make stops and pick people up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new low-floor buses would have more comfortable seating and Wi-Fi, and people of all abilities would be able to board quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Riders \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10442133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A survey of 500 bus riders found they most are low-income working families and people of color who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent rider surveys found most are low-income, working families and people of color under the age of 35 who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sneha Rajkumar is a software engineering student who lives in Sunnyvale and takes the bus to school in San Jose. Her husband takes their car because there is no transit connection to his job. It’s the bus ride home that pains her the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stops at each and every signal, then at each and every stop,” Rajkumar says. “You lose patience when it’s already 9:45 p.m. and you gotta get home, cook dinner and see your family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her experience is similar to 500 bus riders along the corridor who were recently surveyed by the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.wpusa.org/\">Working Partnerships USA\u003c/a>. Their average travel time on the bus is 50 minutes, but some had commutes as long as two hours, says Charisse Ma Lebron, the group’s director of health policy and community development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research showed that bus riders are predominantly working families, people of color, students and people from other underserved populations. VTA’s 2013 on-board survey found riders’ average household income was $38,000, says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Carmageddon’ Fears \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials say Sunnyvale residents and businesses have sent the most letters opposing dedicated bus lanes. Over the weekend, a group called the El Camino Coalition took out \u003ca href=\"http://ads.mercurynews.com/san-jose-ca/communication/newspaper/san-jose-mercury-news/2015-02-22-1603722-the-vta-s-ill-conceived-dedicated-lane-bus-rapid-transit-proposal-for-el-camino-real-due-to-an-insufficient-and-one-sided-public-awareness-campaign-most-santa-clara-county-residents-are-unclear-of-the-ramifications-or-unaware-entirely-of\">a one-page ad in the Mercury News\u003c/a> decrying the “ill-conceived” lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the opposition is being organized by car dealerships along El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not opposed to transit,” says Ryan Hopkins, the general manager of the Honda dealership. “We feel that if you block off a lane on El Camino … it’s just going to create more traffic and congestion, and it’s going to divert traffic to the other streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But VTA officials say they studied the potential traffic impact at more than 80 intersections along El Camino, and concluded it would not worsen traffic. And Lepe of TransForm says fears about traffic congestion have not materialized from bus rapid transit projects in cities like Cleveland and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“The kind of carmageddon that folks fear might happen hasn’t manifested with these projects,” says Lepe. “Why? Because you have a mode shift that takes place. When people start seeing the bus traveling faster than cars, they say ‘Hey, maybe I should jump on that.’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Sunnyvale City Councilman David Whittum, who also sits on the VTA Board of Directors, says businesses along El Camino Real, which pull in 20 percent of city tax revenue, are concerned it will affect their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Whittum: “If somebody comes and says, ‘Hey, I’m going to take away two lanes, but don’t worry, everything will be fine,’ my question would be: So what is your experience in doing that in some of these business communities, and can you show me examples of where everything is fine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says merchants are also concerned about disruptions that would be caused during construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cb> A Safer Street\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">El Camino Real is Sunnyvale’s most dangerous street for cyclists and pedestrians. When I visited the corridor, I found more than a few people biking and walking, especially transit riders on their way to and from bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“I have to ride as if people don’t see me, and I have no rights,” Tony McToy explains. I had spotted him pedaling slowly down El Camino, dressed casually, with a Popeyes bag hanging from his handlebars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“There’s no bike lane. So, whenever I can, and there’s no pedestrians on the sidewalk, I get on the sidewalk. Then if I see a pedestrian, I yield, but I have to watch my back,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The bus rapid transit plan calls for protected green bike lanes on El Camino Real, which transportation officials say would make the street safer for people like McToy. Officials would also install them along other parts of the corridor, along with pedestrian safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cstrong>Political Will\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It will be up to the board of the Valley Transportation Authority to decide whether to implement bus rapid transit, but if the cities don’t support the project it will likely die, say transit advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that population and job growth are inevitable in Silicon Valley, and doing nothing is not an option,” says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that many of the bus riders who would benefit from the project don’t always have time to attend meetings and voice their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not uncommon that the needs of traditionally underserved, underrepresented populations are excluded from the policymaking process,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, says Lepe, it’s a question of political will. 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