Boom-bust. Starting with the Gold Rush in 1849, the Bay Area has experienced dramatic up-and-down cycles that generate tremendous new wealth for some and trouble for others. Exhibit A is the current tech boom.
KQED’s “Boomtown” series seeks to identify not only what is happening in real time in this boom but drawing out the causes and possible solutions to the conflicts and pressures between the old and the new.
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Blood and Brotherhood on the Ice in San Jose
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"content": "\u003cp>If you want to see Silicon Valley take a break from business, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better place than the hockey rink: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharksiceatsanjose.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharks Ice\u003c/a>, to be specific. The \u003ca href=\"http://sharks.nhl.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Sharks\u003c/a> run the biggest amateur hockey league west of the Mississippi, with more than 3,000 players and more than 160 teams in Oakland, Fremont and, of course, San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday night in San Jose, the Southsiders took to the ice to play the Senior Sharks. Referee Aaron Godwin offered up some basic context. These two teams are in a category called Quadruple C. “It’s a little bit more intermediate level,” Godwin says. “We’ve got levels all the way up to Single A, which is like the elite college players, former pro guys, stuff like that. 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"content": "\u003cp>When we think of Silicon Valley, a lot of us think of hard-working people living high on the corporate hog: high-end restaurants on campus, on-site gyms, concierge services, et cetera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this fabulous work world full of people dreaming up new ways of doing business sits on a base of people doing business the Old-Fashioned Way. Many of those service workers, the ones chopping carrots and mowing lawns, are working for subcontractors, and those workers are struggling to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Joint Venture Silicon Valley has tracked local economic trends for the last 20 years. This year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointventure.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157&Itemid=182%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Index\u003c/a> reported the income gap is wider than ever, and wider in Silicon Valley than elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area or California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joint Venture divides the workforce into three different “tiers.” For high-skilled, high-wage jobs, Tier 1 in Silicon Valley, the median wage is $119,000 a year. For low-skilled, low-wage jobs, or Tier 3, the median is $27,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thirty percent of our population is living below the self-sufficiency standard,” says Joint Venture Vice President Rachel Massaro. “That means they can’t survive without public or informal private assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Thirty percent of our population is living below the self-sufficiency standard. That means they can’t survive without public or informal, private assistance.’\u003ccite> Rachel Massaro,\u003cbr>\nVP, Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing Costs a Major Strain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Hugg, with the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County, says what many economic analysts do, that the \u003cem>housing\u003c/em> boom that has come along with the latest tech boom has made it much harder for anybody making a modest salary to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of our chronic underproduction [of housing] for decades now, we are in such a huge hole that even that addition of affordable housing, that addition of market rate housing, is not enough to move the needle here,” Hugg says. “When you have two to three, some say four to five, service-level jobs being created for every tech job, that’s a burden and a responsibility that the community has to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But aside from some government mandates requiring developers to set aside a small percentage of new units for affordable housing, individuals are largely left to their own devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massaro at Joint Venture says, “One of the definitions of informal private assistance is living with a relative or a friend. That’s what a lot of people are doing here to get by.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting By in One Room\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would describe how Michael Johnson is getting by. He rents a room in the San Jose apartment of a friend he used to be in a band with years ago. In between boxes stuffed to the gills with his belongings, there’s just enough room for Johnson’s bed, desk, chair and three bass guitars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10436818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10436818 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Johnson was an engineer once. Since he was laid off in the dot.com bust, he has been unable to get back into tech. 'It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Johnson worked as an engineer until he was laid off in the dot.com bust. He has been unable to get back into tech. ‘It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.’ \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a security guard making less than $20 an hour, this is all he can afford. “There’s no place to go except to move out of the valley, and a lot of us have families here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is 52 years old, divorced, with three kids, two of them in local colleges, the other just graduated. He’s working full time, but unless he finds a more lucrative line of work, it’s hard to see how his life is going to improve soon. Or for that matter, the lives of people like him working in service jobs across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once We Were Young, And Engineers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn up Tuesday mornings at 7:30 outside a certain tech office in Santa Clara, and you’ll spot Johnson waiting for a weekly delivery from his buddy, Norman Meeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are famous for lavish food at catered events and campus restaurants. There are a lot of leftovers. No use in that food going to waste, Meeks thinks. So, with permission, he distributes it to other security guards and janitors. Today, Meeks has chicken wings and bok choy, a kind of Chinese cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s in a situation, you know, hey, pitch in and try to help,” Meeks says. Both men work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Protection Service\u003c/a>, a major security subcontractor. That’s where they met. But that’s not where either of them started. Johnson says both men know what it is to be on the sunny side of Silicon Valley’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at two black engineers,” Johnson says. “I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘You’re looking at two black engineers. I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.’\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Remember the dot.com bust about 15 years ago? Both men got laid off, and neither man recovered, not fully. Meeks was a field engineer. “It took me almost a year to find something, and then I got laid off again. I had a friend that said ‘Why don’t you try security?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security guard gigs were supposed to be temporary, but that’s not how it’s worked out. “Once you get out of the workforce, it’s hard to get back in,” Meeks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says human resources people who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> call him about his job applications ask why he’s looking for something in tech when he’s been in security for 10 years. He suspects it doesn’t help that he’s 52 and black, even though Silicon Valley companies are under pressure to diversify their employee base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk of a Union\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is doing better than many in security. He works \u003cem>full\u003c/em> time, and his company provides benefits, although the package is a lot thinner than it used to be. “You know, when I started in security in 2004, we used to have better medical benefits. We had paid time off. Yeah, my benefit package was really comparable. The big difference was stock. When I was an IT person, I had stock options and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before security firms started cutting costs to compete during the Great Recession, about seven years back. Universal Protection Service does offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/documents/2010BenefitGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health coverage\u003c/a>, but Johnson can’t afford it. It would cost him 40 percent of his take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson doesn’t blame his employer or security contractors in general. He blames their customers, the tech companies. “The truth of the matter is, they determine how much we earn. They determine our benefits. They determine the whole thing. Our contract agencies will do whatever they say do.”\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best,” he adds, referring to the liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts. “She said, ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best. ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ “\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But security guards will never make what engineers do. I press him to make an elevator pitch to a CEO worried about defending himself before shareholders who want to know why he would pay security guards a penny more than he has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these companies are now setting record profits!” Johnson says. “When is that going to trickle down to the rest of us? That were in the boat with you. That tightened up our belts along with you. That have participated in your success. Why can’t we participate in your prosperity? When are you going to open the door for the rest of us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s still shopping his IT resume on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-johnson/6/218/202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, but whether he breaks out of security or not, he’s now involved in an effort to unionize security officers in Silicon Valley. Security officers are unionized in San Francisco and the East Bay, but not in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Field is executive officer of the South Bay Labor Council, which represents 93 local unions. Field says Johnson’s comment about losing ground in the recession applies more broadly. “I think that’s been the case not just in security, but in service work generally. The wages and benefits haven’t recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a union contract for janitorial services in Silicon Valley, but Field and his cohorts are still working on trying to organize security officers, bus drivers and cafeteria workers. Once there are contracts, the next challenge is getting one tech firm after another to agree to play ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field muses, “You know, it seems like such a revolutionary idea that workers should be paid enough to live on.”\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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Since he was laid off in the dot.com bust, he has been unable to get back into tech. 'It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Johnson worked as an engineer until he was laid off in the dot.com bust. He has been unable to get back into tech. ‘It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.’ \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a security guard making less than $20 an hour, this is all he can afford. “There’s no place to go except to move out of the valley, and a lot of us have families here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is 52 years old, divorced, with three kids, two of them in local colleges, the other just graduated. He’s working full time, but unless he finds a more lucrative line of work, it’s hard to see how his life is going to improve soon. Or for that matter, the lives of people like him working in service jobs across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once We Were Young, And Engineers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn up Tuesday mornings at 7:30 outside a certain tech office in Santa Clara, and you’ll spot Johnson waiting for a weekly delivery from his buddy, Norman Meeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are famous for lavish food at catered events and campus restaurants. There are a lot of leftovers. No use in that food going to waste, Meeks thinks. So, with permission, he distributes it to other security guards and janitors. Today, Meeks has chicken wings and bok choy, a kind of Chinese cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s in a situation, you know, hey, pitch in and try to help,” Meeks says. Both men work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Protection Service\u003c/a>, a major security subcontractor. That’s where they met. But that’s not where either of them started. Johnson says both men know what it is to be on the sunny side of Silicon Valley’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at two black engineers,” Johnson says. “I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘You’re looking at two black engineers. I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.’\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Remember the dot.com bust about 15 years ago? Both men got laid off, and neither man recovered, not fully. Meeks was a field engineer. “It took me almost a year to find something, and then I got laid off again. I had a friend that said ‘Why don’t you try security?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security guard gigs were supposed to be temporary, but that’s not how it’s worked out. “Once you get out of the workforce, it’s hard to get back in,” Meeks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says human resources people who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> call him about his job applications ask why he’s looking for something in tech when he’s been in security for 10 years. He suspects it doesn’t help that he’s 52 and black, even though Silicon Valley companies are under pressure to diversify their employee base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk of a Union\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is doing better than many in security. He works \u003cem>full\u003c/em> time, and his company provides benefits, although the package is a lot thinner than it used to be. “You know, when I started in security in 2004, we used to have better medical benefits. We had paid time off. Yeah, my benefit package was really comparable. The big difference was stock. When I was an IT person, I had stock options and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before security firms started cutting costs to compete during the Great Recession, about seven years back. Universal Protection Service does offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/documents/2010BenefitGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health coverage\u003c/a>, but Johnson can’t afford it. It would cost him 40 percent of his take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson doesn’t blame his employer or security contractors in general. He blames their customers, the tech companies. “The truth of the matter is, they determine how much we earn. They determine our benefits. They determine the whole thing. Our contract agencies will do whatever they say do.”\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best,” he adds, referring to the liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts. “She said, ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best. ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ “\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But security guards will never make what engineers do. I press him to make an elevator pitch to a CEO worried about defending himself before shareholders who want to know why he would pay security guards a penny more than he has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these companies are now setting record profits!” Johnson says. “When is that going to trickle down to the rest of us? That were in the boat with you. That tightened up our belts along with you. That have participated in your success. Why can’t we participate in your prosperity? When are you going to open the door for the rest of us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s still shopping his IT resume on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-johnson/6/218/202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, but whether he breaks out of security or not, he’s now involved in an effort to unionize security officers in Silicon Valley. Security officers are unionized in San Francisco and the East Bay, but not in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Field is executive officer of the South Bay Labor Council, which represents 93 local unions. Field says Johnson’s comment about losing ground in the recession applies more broadly. “I think that’s been the case not just in security, but in service work generally. 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"content": "\u003cp>For years the tech boom largely bypassed one part of Silicon Valley: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">East Palo Alto\u003c/a>. It's just across Highway 101 from Stanford University and all the venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road. But until recently, East Palo Alto was a relatively affordable enclave for working-class Latinos and African-Americans. But that's quickly changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192651222\" 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>Jane Jones knows all about it. She was born and raised in East Palo Alto and now works as a Coldwell Banker real estate agent. After a freshly painted \"For Sale\" sign was pounded into the front lawn of her latest offering, Jones walked me around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2881 Drew Court in East Palo Alto is a modest, three-bedroom house on a quiet little cul de-sac. At 1,200 square feet, it's certainly not big for Silicon Valley. But it comes with a 12,700-square-foot lot where a larger home could be built. Asking price: $985,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they say in real estate -- location, location, location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can get all the way to Google if you want,\" Jones says while standing in the backyard. \"Or you can bike all the way up to Stanford if you need to. And definitely you can just jog up to Facebook if that's what you need to do. So yeah, this is a great location.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says these days houses listed in EPA don't stay on the market too long and they attract multiple offers, often from out-of-town or even international investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Silicon Valley, the economy, I think, of Silicon Valley is going to swallow this place,\" Robert Hoover tells me. \"And you can see the changes taking place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoover moved here as a young man to attend Stanford, one of the very few African-Americans studying there then. He graduated in 1961.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto,\" Hoover remembers. \"We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in front of the house he owned until a year ago, I asked him what he paid for it back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"$13,500,\" he says, laughing. \"And it seemed like a lot of money then.\" Hoover sold it recently for $368,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover was born in North Carolina 83 years ago, but to meet him you'd swear he was no more than 65 or 70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived in East Palo Alto, it was about half African-American. It wasn't officially a city then. And Hoover got involved in a two-year political battle that led to it finally becoming a chartered city in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, East Palo Alto went through some very tough times. Failing schools. Crime and drugs. In 1992 it was called the \"murder capital of the United States.\" Hoover helped organize neighbors to confront the drug dealers and take back their streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, says Hoover, East Palo Alto was a tight-knit kind of place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew every kid, every family on this block. And all the kids played together, and our house was one of the gathering places where the kids came and played.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we're standing in the driveway of his old house, a woman living there comes out to say hi. \"How are you?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto. We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.'\u003ccite>Bob Hoover\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"She was my tenant until I sold my house last year,\" Hoover says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Brown says that if it weren't for Hoover, she couldn't afford to still rent this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the things he made sure about,\" Brown says. \"He made sure that I was able to stay in the house, whoever bought the house. And I've been able to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the conditions of sale,\" Hoover confirms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, East Palo Alto is about 65 percent Latino. Hoover still lives here. But he says a lot of his black friends cashed out years ago and moved to places like Tracy, Stockton and Fresno. Many of them, he says, wish they had never left. But they can't afford to come back now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of this population that lives here does not have the kind of income that will allow them to stay here,\" Hoover says. \"Almost every house that's been on the market in the last 2½ years has been bought by someone outside the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, East Palo Alto has left behind its troubled past. Like any city, it has crime -- but nothing like it used to. Big-box stores like Ikea moved in. There's even an upscale Four Seasons Hotel here now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can see a lot more white people in the community now,\" Hoover says. \"And for the first time in -- God, I don't know, 15 years -- we had a white who ran for the City Council. They didn't win, but they were close. They were close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this his ninth decade of life, Bob Hoover is still \u003cem>really\u003c/em> active. He teaches golf to underprivileged kids. And he helps former prisoners get work. He seems to identify with the underdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who are not in the mainstream of the American economy, they need to have a place to live.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he wants that place to be East Palo Alto. Bob Hoover is not the kind of guy who thinks all change is bad. He sees the upside of it every day. He did, after all, sell his house for more than 27 times what he paid for it. But he worries about what will become of the folks who live here now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the people who are going to probably occupy East Palo Alto could live other places. They don't have to live here,\" Hoover reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And since this is really the only place people who are living here (now) can live, it's just a disruption of people's lives and their families. It's like so many other things in this country: If you're not part of the economically well-to-do, you just get the short end of everything.\"\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://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can get all the way to Google if you want,\" Jones says while standing in the backyard. \"Or you can bike all the way up to Stanford if you need to. And definitely you can just jog up to Facebook if that's what you need to do. So yeah, this is a great location.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says these days houses listed in EPA don't stay on the market too long and they attract multiple offers, often from out-of-town or even international investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Silicon Valley, the economy, I think, of Silicon Valley is going to swallow this place,\" Robert Hoover tells me. \"And you can see the changes taking place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoover moved here as a young man to attend Stanford, one of the very few African-Americans studying there then. He graduated in 1961.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto,\" Hoover remembers. \"We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in front of the house he owned until a year ago, I asked him what he paid for it back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"$13,500,\" he says, laughing. \"And it seemed like a lot of money then.\" Hoover sold it recently for $368,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover was born in North Carolina 83 years ago, but to meet him you'd swear he was no more than 65 or 70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived in East Palo Alto, it was about half African-American. It wasn't officially a city then. And Hoover got involved in a two-year political battle that led to it finally becoming a chartered city in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, East Palo Alto went through some very tough times. Failing schools. Crime and drugs. In 1992 it was called the \"murder capital of the United States.\" Hoover helped organize neighbors to confront the drug dealers and take back their streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, says Hoover, East Palo Alto was a tight-knit kind of place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew every kid, every family on this block. And all the kids played together, and our house was one of the gathering places where the kids came and played.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we're standing in the driveway of his old house, a woman living there comes out to say hi. \"How are you?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto. We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.'\u003ccite>Bob Hoover\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"She was my tenant until I sold my house last year,\" Hoover says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Brown says that if it weren't for Hoover, she couldn't afford to still rent this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the things he made sure about,\" Brown says. \"He made sure that I was able to stay in the house, whoever bought the house. And I've been able to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the conditions of sale,\" Hoover confirms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, East Palo Alto is about 65 percent Latino. Hoover still lives here. But he says a lot of his black friends cashed out years ago and moved to places like Tracy, Stockton and Fresno. Many of them, he says, wish they had never left. But they can't afford to come back now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of this population that lives here does not have the kind of income that will allow them to stay here,\" Hoover says. \"Almost every house that's been on the market in the last 2½ years has been bought by someone outside the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, East Palo Alto has left behind its troubled past. Like any city, it has crime -- but nothing like it used to. Big-box stores like Ikea moved in. There's even an upscale Four Seasons Hotel here now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can see a lot more white people in the community now,\" Hoover says. \"And for the first time in -- God, I don't know, 15 years -- we had a white who ran for the City Council. They didn't win, but they were close. They were close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this his ninth decade of life, Bob Hoover is still \u003cem>really\u003c/em> active. He teaches golf to underprivileged kids. And he helps former prisoners get work. 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So far, he's banked $300,000, and he's working to perfect his pitch because he plans to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're actually going to focus on the U.S. market, ignore the Norwegian market and go directly to the Bay area,\" Almnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438074\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438074\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Techpear CEO Sebastian Almnes of Norway works on his pitch to investors with a 500 Startups mentor\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Techpear CEO Sebastian Almnes of Norway works on his pitch to investors with a mentor, Marvin Liao, a 500 Startups partner. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's what San Jose startup investors like Rick Rasmussen want to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As an investor, I like to touch and feel and work with the companies that I invest in,\" Rasmussen says. \"At a minimum, they have to have some kind of presence here, whether it's a sales office or actually move headquarters to the Silicon Valley.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ElSammaa plans to open an office in Silicon Valley in two years and will tailor his digital memory product to fit this market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First of all, we have a lot of Middle Eastern people living in the U.S. market who would use the same service,\" ElSammaa says. \"And then you have other people who don't have the same culture or habits, yet they still have the same needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many new immigrant entrepreneurs, ElSammaa says the key to his success will be to operate simultaneously in America and his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? 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That includes $100,000 in seed money from 500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We try to help them figure out their business model, work on product design and eventually try to help them raise capital,\" McClure says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438035\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438035\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dave McClure, founding partner of the tech incubator 500 Startups talks with staff members after a new batch of entrepreneurs arrive in his San Francisco office. 500 Startups has offices in Mountain View, San Francisco and Mexico City.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave McClure, founding partner of the tech incubator 500 Startups, talks with staff members after a new batch of entrepreneurs arrives in his San Francisco office. 500 Startups has offices in Mountain View, San Francisco and Mexico City. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McClure brings in new foreign-tech talent to the Bay Area every four months. 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"content": "\u003cp>Early last year, the 15 tenants of a two-story Victorian in San Francisco's Mission District thought they would face an Ellis Act eviction. The real estate market was hot, and their landlord wanted to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the help of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfclt.org/\">San Francisco Community Land Trust\u003c/a> and their landlord, they were able to purchase the building. Now the land trust is helping the residents convert the property into a cooperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/191775272\" 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 14-bedroom blue-and-white house on 23rd Street is affectionately known as the \"Merry-Go-Round House.\" The 114-year-old building was an international travel hostel for almost 30 years before BSGS Guesthouse purchased it in 2006, at the height of the housing bubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we bought it, we immediately changed the purpose from a travelers' hostel into renting rooms, one by one, hoping that [a] community would develop.” says Brian Streiffer, former managing member of the BSGS Guesthouse and the primary owner of the house before he sold it in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10435889\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14287_Mission-Coop_JRaff-3-of-7-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10435889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14287_Mission-Coop_JRaff-3-of-7-scr-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Shalaco Shing, a photographer, has lived at the Merry-Go-Round House; since 2009. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14287_Mission-Coop_JRaff-3-of-7-scr-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14287_Mission-Coop_JRaff-3-of-7-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14287_Mission-Coop_JRaff-3-of-7-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shalaco Shing, a photographer, has lived at the Merry-Go-Round House since 2009. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A community of artists and creative types did develop. Praveen Sinha is the only tech worker in the house, and he loves his living situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just all felt that this house has had such a long history, first this international youth hostel and then this artists’ house, that we want to just preserve it,” Sinha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streiffer's company hit a financial rough patch in 2012 and 2013. When he expressed interest in selling the house, the tenants worried an investor would purchase it, evict all the residents and flip the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Hernandez has been living in the house for 12 years. He was the hostel's last manager and is now a math and English tutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would have been hard. I live on a low income, so it would have been really hard for me to find a place,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinha and Hernandez learned about the the San Francisco Community Land Trust through a friend who put them in touch with Tracy Parent, the organization's director.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It feels nice to just be able to live here and not worry about getting bought out or buying or selling. We can live here as artists and still afford a bedroom and afford to do our work.'\u003ccite>Ben Turner,\u003cbr>\nMerry-Go-Round House resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The land trust is a small nonprofit that buys property to ensure permanently affordable, resident-controlled housing -- especially for immigrants, artists and low- to moderate-income workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really comes down to money. And we need money from private lenders, the city and other private individuals to help make this happen,” says Parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinha and Hernandez decided they would try emailing Streiffer to ask if they could work out a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As soon as I saw it, I thought, 'OK, let's do it. This is something worth my time,' \" says Streiffer, “There were some bumps in the road in the negotiations and financing and everything, as typical with real estate, but I always felt like it was a slam-dunk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land trust purchased the Merry-Go-Round House last May for $1.7 million. Streiffer provided a short-term loan of $390,000, and the rest of the financing came from the Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, a community development lender in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10435883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14285_Mission-Coop_JRaff-1-of-7-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10435883\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14285_Mission-Coop_JRaff-1-of-7-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The San Francisco Community Land Trust will help the Merry-Go-Round House residents function as a co-op . (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14285_Mission-Coop_JRaff-1-of-7-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14285_Mission-Coop_JRaff-1-of-7-scr-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14285_Mission-Coop_JRaff-1-of-7-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Community Land Trust will help the Merry-Go-Round House residents function as a co-op. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, how does ownership of the the Merry-Go-Round House actually work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land trust owns the building and will grant a 99-year lease to a nonprofit cooperative formed by house residents. Residents pay rent, an average of $800 a month per room, to the land trust. The land trust, in turn, is helping the residents get set up to manage the co-op's budget and take care of all the details that a property management company might typically handle, such as bookkeeping, landscaping and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land trust stewardship coordinator Val Zekas says that because of the land trust's success with the Merry-Go-Round House, \"We’re getting a lot of phone calls from people that are getting Ellis Act-evicted, probably three or four a week. So, we’re trying to see how many properties we can help purchase -- or at least help the residents figure out what their options are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's really helpful when tenants come to them after doing some of their own research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10435877\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS13951_20141117_housing_jt-4-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10435877 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS13951_20141117_housing_jt-4-scr-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Turner, a performer and set designer, says he moved into the house about a year after it changed from a hostel to apartments. 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And a lot of them are hiring lawyers, too, so they kind of know how they can either work with their current owner or find out how to purchase the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merry-Go-Round House resident Ben Turner says he's grateful for the skills he’s learned from the land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels nice to just be able to live here and not worry about getting bought out or buying or selling,\" he says. \"We can live here as artists and still afford a bedroom and afford to do our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner says he’s been watching the Mission District change, and now his house feels to him like a small island of community in a sea of tech money. He just hopes others can do what the Merry-Go-Round House did.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So, we’re trying to see how many properties we can help purchase -- or at least help the residents figure out what their options are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's really helpful when tenants come to them after doing some of their own research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10435877\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS13951_20141117_housing_jt-4-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10435877 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS13951_20141117_housing_jt-4-scr-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Turner, a performer and set designer, says he moved into the house about a year after it changed from a hostel to apartments. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown\u003c/a>, we’re \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/questions\" target=\"_blank\">answering questions\u003c/a> from KQED listeners and readers. Our third one comes from N’Jeri Eaton, a documentary filmmaker based in Oakland, who asks\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10435669\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/NJeri-Portrait.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10435669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/NJeri-Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"N'Jeri Eaton (Courtesy of Kaleb Welch)\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">N'Jeri Eaton (Courtesy of Kaleb Welch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we in a bubble? Is it going to burst? 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She’s in her 30s, with a full-time job in documentary film. Her life can stay the way it is only if absolutely nothing changes -- not her job, not her rent, not the number of people living in her apartment. And, of course, that’s not realistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel vulnerable,” says Eaton, who grew up outside Chicago and has lived many places in the Midwest and on the East Coast. “And I want control of my own space. I want to have kids someday soon, and I can’t have a kid in this apartment and have a healthy semblance of a life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So Is It a Bubble?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“This is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a bubble,” says \u003ca href=\"https://beaconecon.com/people/bio/christopher_thornberg\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Thornberg\u003c/a>, an economist in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he’s just one guy, we called him because he has the dubious distinction of having predicted the 2008 market crash. His colleagues used to call him “\u003cem>Dr. Doom\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that the money flooding the Bay Area isn’t built on speculation like the last boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people with real money, with real incomes,” he says. \"They have enough money to live in whatever cities and neighborhoods they want, so if there’s not enough high-end housing, they’ll just gentrify lower-income neighborhoods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/191622601\" 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>And while the growth may slow, it won’t stop, Thornberg predicts. He believes the solution is a matter of adding to the housing supply. 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That’s great advice for someone who has a lot of equity and doesn’t work in nonprofits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eaton reached a troubling conclusion: “It’s time for me to leave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is that really her only hope?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.saffo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Saffo\u003c/a> is a technology forecaster who thinks about the future of the Bay Area for a living. He said he’d understand if someone like Eaton chose to leave, but he thinks we should try really, really hard to keep her here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m less concerned about your caller’s problem than the region’s problem,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ouN5IsBQmUqEimpNI7mwjC181P36H1iz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and denser housing alone isn’t going to keep people like Eaton here, says Saffo. We also have to build better transit, bend outdated rules and think creatively about how the region works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some work on this front is already underway. 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"content": "\u003cp>Startups fail for a lot of reasons: bad product, wrong timing. But sometimes, it’s just \u003cem>you\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relationship problems between co-founders are one of the biggest reasons companies don’t make it. Increasingly in Silicon Valley, business partners are looking for help before things go downhill — they’re signing up for couples counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/191028116″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like a marriage,” Jon Chintanaroad says of his business partnership with his friend, Mike Prestano. They launched a tech recruiting startup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/aspire-recruiting-llc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspire Recruiting\u003c/a>, in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My joke was, during the day, Mike was my wife No. 1 and my girlfriend was my wife No. 2,” Chintanaroad says. “I would see her at night, and I see him all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two were friends for four years before they went into business together. Chintanaroad says their work styles really complemented one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Fod694NB9icpYf75ZqZ4ygMJNfKOTTzs”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very transactional-based, I’m kind of a Type-A personality, I just want to get it done,” Chintanaroad says. “Whereas Mike will listen to their whole life story and really cultivate that relationship. When we had both, we started to win over new clients and things went from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business took off right away, and the money came rolling in. But a year into it, they hit some rough patches. They missed some key customer acquisitions. Revenues dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s when their differences became less complementary and more problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like any sports team. If you lose — you should have scored this touchdown, you should have scored that basket. You should have passed to here instead of there,” Prestano says. “Those aren’t easy conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started fighting a lot. Mike thought Jon spent too much money. Jon thought Mike wasn’t pulling his weight. Mike says they worried the business problems were starting to threaten their friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we both agree upon, no matter what happens with the business, if we keep doing it, or it stops, we still keep our friendship,” Prestano says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to try couples counseling — though most therapists who work with co-founders call it “partnership coaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something more and more startup founders are doing. Jonathan Horowitz is a psychologist with offices in San Francisco and San Mateo. He says the requests he’s gotten for co-founder counseling have doubled in the last year. A lot of times, people call when things have already gotten really ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company’s dead, something went horribly wrong in the relationship and they’re picking up the pieces afterwards,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s good to do this work while it’s actually unfolding in the organizations, and set these things right before they go horribly wrong.’\u003ccite>Jonathan Horowitz, psychologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Many startups, especially in the tech industry, are founded by young guys — friends who met in college, got an apartment together and started working on their laptops around the clock to get a business off the ground. When things go well, co-founders can suddenly find themselves in complicated business situations with a lot of money — and power — on the line. They have to decide who’s going to be CEO. They have to answer to investors. These pressures test the relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time, it’s usually lawyers getting called in to mediate heated disputes or to force one of the founders out of the company. Or to declare bankruptcy if the business failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to do this work while it’s actually unfolding in the organizations, and set these things right before they go horribly wrong,” Horowitz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says in a lot of business partnerships, there’s often one founder who is more dominant, even domineering, “and you have the other founder who might not feel like they’re being heard or respected. An imbalance like that can be insidious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cases like that, good ideas get dismissed, opportunities are lost. Horowitz says his job is to help build trust, communication and empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All those things are important if you’re going to run a business with someone for years and years, just like a marriage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just startups that have picked up on the idea. Couples counselors say larger companies like Cisco and Google have hired them to work with managers who aren’t getting along. Stanford Business School offers a group therapy course, where required reading includes “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.” The students call it the “touchy-feely” class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jon Chintanaroad and Mike Prestano, a few sessions with a therapist made them both feel like they had permission to talk about their feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think overall it resulted in both of us being more aware, as people, and balanced,” Chintanaroad says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chintanaroad worked on listening more. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Second of two parts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Part 1:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/boomtown-1870s-decade-of-bonanza-bust-and-unbridled-racism/\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown, 1870s: A Decade of Bonanza, Bust and Unbridled Racism\u003c/a>\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\">I\u003c/span>n July 1877, the nation's attention was focused on \u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3189\">a railroad strike\u003c/a> that spread through much of the East and led to bloody clashes between workers and troops in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 23, 1877, leaders of San Francisco's unions called a mass meeting to support the Eastern strikers, who were fighting for measures like an eight-hour workday. A huge crowd descended on the meeting place, a vacant lot at the corner of Grove and Larkin streets, the site of today's San Francisco Public Library. Many in the throng soon showed they had more local complaints on their mind than what was happening in Pittsburgh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James D'Arcy, who had helped create a national Workingmen's Party, was elected to run the meeting. The Daily Alta California gives the flavor of the gathering as it got underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mr. D'Arcy threw a damper on the meeting by stating that this was no anti-Coolie meeting, and that they were not there for the purpose of discussing the Chinese question. He put on another blanket by saying that they had met, not for the purpose of encouraging riot and incendiarism, but to give their brother workmen in the East their moral support. He then took up the eight-hour question, but did not speak long, as the crowd were impatient for novelty. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Talk about the Chinamen;\" \"Give us the Coolie business,\" and other shouts from all over the ground put an end to his discourse.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Soon, hundreds of people broke away from the crowd, led by what the Alta called \"the hoodlum element\" -- hoodlum being a term coined in San Francisco in 1866 that had come, by 1877, to denote gangs that frequently attacked Chinese residents of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Talk about the Chinamen! Give us the Coolie business!'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The mob charged through the center of the city, attacking more than a dozen Chinese homes and businesses, mostly laundries. The violence continued for three nights and spread south of Market to the waterfront, into the Mission and out to the Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rioters targeted more Chinese homes and businesses and threatened establishments that employed Chinese workers. Leaders of the mob warned they would burn down a woolen mill and wharves owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., a line that carried thousands of immigrants from China to San Francisco. Rioters succeeded in burning down another wharf, as well as nearby lumberyards and outbuildings, and skirmished with the city's small police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unrest, which threatened to spread to the East Bay, was alarming enough to local officials that Gov. William Irwin called for military help, which came in the form of two square-rigged warships, the USS Pensacola and USS Lackawanna, which stood offshore in case they were needed to put down the riots. The Army also issued 2,000 rifles and ammunition to be used by a civilian Committee of Safety that had been hastily formed to help contain the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The climax of the July riots was a battle on the slopes of Rincon Hill between rock-throwing rioters and members of the committee, many armed with pick handles. Several people died over the course of the disturbances and dozens were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this spasm of violence had a more lasting impact than the psychic and physical toll taken on the city. It created a movement determined to settle \"the Chinese question\" once and for all, on the one hand, and to redress workers' grievances with the wealthy, on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement, which took the name the Workingmen's Party of California, gained momentum immediately after the July unrest, thanks largely to an Irish immigrant freight hauler who proved to be a compelling street orator.\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\">D\u003c/span>enis Kearney, a native of County Cork, had a successful draying business and in the mid-1870s had become an avid member of a local debating society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430595\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10430595\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Kearney, Irish immigrant, street orator and leader of the Workingmen's Party of California. \" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Kearney, Irish immigrant, street orator and leader of the Workingmen's Party of California. \u003ccite>(Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco journalist and political economist Henry George \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/hgeorge3.html\" target=\"_blank\">recalled Kearney\u003c/a> as \"a man of strict temperance in all except speech.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the troubles of July 1877, George said, Kearney \"was noticeable not merely for the bitter vulgarity of his attacks upon all forms of religion ... but for the venom with which he abused the working classes, and took on every occasion what passed for the capitalistic side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradoxically, too, given his soon-to-become-familiar habit of suggesting mob violence as a social cure-all and his tireless vilification of California's Chinese, Kearney had joined the Committee of Safety and taken to the street to help quell the anti-Chinese riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was July. By early October, Kearney had reversed his course and rhetoric, had taken control of the Workingmen's Party -- and had begun attracting thousands to regular Sunday rallies at the sandlot across the street from City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Kearney's leadership, the party adopted a platform that certainly sounded radical: Throw the rich and powerful out of office, break up monopoly land holdings, redistribute wealth through heavy taxes, and \"provide decently for the poor and unfortunate, the weak, the helpless, and especially the young , because the country is rich enough to do so, and religion, humanity, and patriotism demand that we should do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just as important, the party was bent on throwing the Chinese out of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More attention-getting than the Workingmen's principles was Kearney's style in calling for immediate drastic action to attain the party's goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His rallying cry was, \"The Chinese must go!\" He warned that San Francisco would burn if conditions for workers did not improve. He called on his followers to arm themselves with muskets and ammunition. His regular prescription for enemies, either opponents within the party or class enemies like millionaires, judges or government officials, was hanging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with the likelihood that state lawmakers might pass a bill aimed at curbing incitement to riot, Kearney responded, \"If the members of the Legislature overstep the limits of decency, then I say, 'Hemp! Hemp! Hemp!' This is the battle cry of freedom!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If the members of the Legislature overstep the limits of decency, then I say, Hemp! Hemp! Hemp!'\u003ccite>Denis Kearney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In late October 1877, Kearney led a march to Nob Hill where, as we've seen, some of the city's wealthiest men had built their mansions. The procession's specific destination was the home of Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four who had built and profited immensely from the Central Pacific Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crocker had built his mansion on a block bounded by California, Sacramento, Taylor and Jones street. He wanted to own the entire block, but one neighbor, an undertaker named Nicholas Yung, held out for a higher price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The undertaker wanted more than the nabob was willing to give,\" Henry George wrote, \"and the latter cut short the negotiation by inclosing the undertaker’s house on three sides with an immense board fence, probably the highest on the Pacific coast, if not in the world. This veritable coffin ... is one of the most striking features of the hill.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 365px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Labor1kearny-on-nob-hill-1877.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10430598\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Labor1kearny-on-nob-hill-1877.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Kearney addresses crowd on Nob Hill, October 1877. \" width=\"365\" height=\"446\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Kearney addresses crowd on Nob Hill, October 1877. \u003ccite>(FoundSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 marchers accompanied Kearney to the heights, where they set a bonfire in the street as he inveighed against the wealthy and warned about the consequences to the railroad millionaires if they did not fire their Chinese workers. He and others declared they'd give Crocker a month to take down the 30-foot-high fence around Yung's home or they'd be back to tear it down themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gathering was enough to spur demands for the arrest of Kearney and other Workingmen's Party leaders for using incendiary language. And Kearney and others \u003cem>were\u003c/em> arrested, not just once, but several times. The charges didn't stick, and, far from suppressing Kearney, the arrests provoked outrage and won his movement wider sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Workingmen became a force in Bay Area politics, winning a seat in the state Senate in early 1878 and electing officials in San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda. The party's rise coincided with a statewide election for delegates to a convention called to write a new state constitution. The Kearneyites won virtually all the seats contested in San Francisco. But in the Sacramento convention, outnumbered by Republicans and Democrats who had joined forces against them, the Workingmen's Party failed to effect any of the reforms in taxes, lands or employment conditions that their movement had promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party's delegates did, however, get a chance to enshrine the demands of the anti-Chinese movement in a new section of the state Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> committee appointed to consider \"the Chinese question\" returned with a nine-point proposal that would give the Legislature the power to bar further Chinese immigration to California and to eject any Chinese it found undesirable. The proposal would bar Chinese from all public employment, make them ineligible to receive licenses for any trade or business, and strip corporations of their state charters if they employed Chinese workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430600\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10430600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385-400x307.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese residents of Sierra County, California, 1894. \" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385-400x307.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385-800x614.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese residents of Sierra County, California, 1894. \u003ccite>(Courtesy, California HIstorical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese would be prohibited from owning or leasing real estate, would be barred from fishing in state waters and would no longer have the right to bring lawsuits in state courts. The committee also suggested denying anyone who hired a Chinese worker the right to vote, disqualifying anyone who hired a Chinese worker from holding public office and disbarring any lawyer who represented a Chinese client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As historian Charles McClain remarks, even though most delegates were all for some sort of anti-Chinese language in the new constitution, they thought the committee's proposal went too far. By a vote of 104-17, the convention adopted a toned-down version, incorporated into the state's highest charter as Article XIX when the document was approved by voters in 1879.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Article XIX, titled simply \"Chinese,\" preserved two of the major provisions put forward in the convention: that no private corporation could employ Chinese workers and the ban on public employment for the Chinese. The laws enacting these provisions were swiftly struck down in federal courts that ruled they violated the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection, infringed on rights due to Chinese immigrants under treaty and trampled upon corporate rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new constitution marked the zenith of what had been dubbed Kearneyism. A convention resolution to thank Kearney for his service to the anti-Chinese cause was voted down. By 1881, Kearney was described in San Francisco as \"a spent rocket\" and had left the city for a brief, unremarkable career in New York City politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That did not end the era of anti-Chinese activism or legislation, of course. State and local governments continued to pass new laws to harass and hinder Chinese residents, many of which were unenforceable or were found to violate the U.S. Constitution. And then Congress weighed in, responding to the continuing anti-Asian agitation by passing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Exclusion Act\u003c/a> in 1882.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It is understood by the civilized world that the United States of America is a free country. But I fear there is a backward step being taken by the government.'\u003ccite>Wong Ar Chong\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The measure succeeded, at least in the short run, in achieving what decades of California's hostility, bluster and unconstitutional lawmaking could not: Although it never stopped immigration from China entirely, it slowed it down dramatically and, for the first time since the Gold Rush, led to a decline in the Chinese population in both San Francisco and the entire state by 1900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a cause of celebration, of course, for those who had tried for decades to keep Chinese immigrants out of California. Soon, though, they were complaining the law wasn't tough enough -- that its exemptions were too lax and that it was too easy for those seeking to emigrate from China to \u003ca href=\"http://ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flipomatic/cic/images@ViewHiRes?img=brk00001710_16a\">cross into\u003c/a> the United States from Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Chinese in the United States, the law was an occasion to question the loudly propounded ideals of their adopted country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In your Declaration of Independence it is asserted that all men are born free and equal, and it is understood by the civilized world that the United States of America is a free country,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/05/28/chinese_exclusion_act_letter_from_chinese_american_merchant_to_william_lloyd.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote Boston tea merchant Wong Ar Chong\u003c/a> during congressional debates over exclusion. \"But I fear there is a backward step being taken by the government.\"\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 epilogue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Crocker's fence, on Sacramento Street, near the summit of Nob Hill, stood until 1904, long after both the railroad baron and his stubborn neighbor were dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denis Kearney died in 1907, having long since vanished from the political scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite having been essentially ruled unconstitutional, Article XIX was part of the California Constitution until 1952, when voters repealed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chinese Exclusion Act remained in force until 1943, when it was repealed in the interest of making amends to China, a U.S. ally in World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Comstock bonanzas turned into a popular TV western that somehow left out all the nasty details of mining skulduggery and stock manipulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city went on, of course, recovering its prosperity, growing relentlessly, moving toward its reckoning with calamity, and unfolding decade by decade into this place we think we know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Chinese in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, there's someone named Mayor Lee at City Hall, a short stroll from where Kearney and his ilk bawled, \"The Chinese must go!\" Just across the bay in Berkeley, there is little doubt which of the state's diverse ethnic groups is most successful at the nation's premier public university. Immigrants from China still seek a California dream and contribute in ways that couldn't have been imagined in the 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you think all those developments say about the Bay Area we live in today, whether you see this place as booming or busted, you can't help but take at least a little delight in how this piece of history has turned out.\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\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Second of two parts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Part 1:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/boomtown-1870s-decade-of-bonanza-bust-and-unbridled-racism/\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown, 1870s: A Decade of Bonanza, Bust and Unbridled Racism\u003c/a>\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\">I\u003c/span>n July 1877, the nation's attention was focused on \u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3189\">a railroad strike\u003c/a> that spread through much of the East and led to bloody clashes between workers and troops in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 23, 1877, leaders of San Francisco's unions called a mass meeting to support the Eastern strikers, who were fighting for measures like an eight-hour workday. A huge crowd descended on the meeting place, a vacant lot at the corner of Grove and Larkin streets, the site of today's San Francisco Public Library. Many in the throng soon showed they had more local complaints on their mind than what was happening in Pittsburgh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James D'Arcy, who had helped create a national Workingmen's Party, was elected to run the meeting. The Daily Alta California gives the flavor of the gathering as it got underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mr. D'Arcy threw a damper on the meeting by stating that this was no anti-Coolie meeting, and that they were not there for the purpose of discussing the Chinese question. He put on another blanket by saying that they had met, not for the purpose of encouraging riot and incendiarism, but to give their brother workmen in the East their moral support. He then took up the eight-hour question, but did not speak long, as the crowd were impatient for novelty. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Talk about the Chinamen;\" \"Give us the Coolie business,\" and other shouts from all over the ground put an end to his discourse.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Soon, hundreds of people broke away from the crowd, led by what the Alta called \"the hoodlum element\" -- hoodlum being a term coined in San Francisco in 1866 that had come, by 1877, to denote gangs that frequently attacked Chinese residents of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Talk about the Chinamen! Give us the Coolie business!'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The mob charged through the center of the city, attacking more than a dozen Chinese homes and businesses, mostly laundries. The violence continued for three nights and spread south of Market to the waterfront, into the Mission and out to the Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rioters targeted more Chinese homes and businesses and threatened establishments that employed Chinese workers. Leaders of the mob warned they would burn down a woolen mill and wharves owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., a line that carried thousands of immigrants from China to San Francisco. Rioters succeeded in burning down another wharf, as well as nearby lumberyards and outbuildings, and skirmished with the city's small police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unrest, which threatened to spread to the East Bay, was alarming enough to local officials that Gov. William Irwin called for military help, which came in the form of two square-rigged warships, the USS Pensacola and USS Lackawanna, which stood offshore in case they were needed to put down the riots. The Army also issued 2,000 rifles and ammunition to be used by a civilian Committee of Safety that had been hastily formed to help contain the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The climax of the July riots was a battle on the slopes of Rincon Hill between rock-throwing rioters and members of the committee, many armed with pick handles. Several people died over the course of the disturbances and dozens were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this spasm of violence had a more lasting impact than the psychic and physical toll taken on the city. It created a movement determined to settle \"the Chinese question\" once and for all, on the one hand, and to redress workers' grievances with the wealthy, on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement, which took the name the Workingmen's Party of California, gained momentum immediately after the July unrest, thanks largely to an Irish immigrant freight hauler who proved to be a compelling street orator.\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\">D\u003c/span>enis Kearney, a native of County Cork, had a successful draying business and in the mid-1870s had become an avid member of a local debating society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430595\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10430595\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Kearney, Irish immigrant, street orator and leader of the Workingmen's Party of California. \" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14212_deniskearney-scr.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Kearney, Irish immigrant, street orator and leader of the Workingmen's Party of California. \u003ccite>(Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco journalist and political economist Henry George \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/hgeorge3.html\" target=\"_blank\">recalled Kearney\u003c/a> as \"a man of strict temperance in all except speech.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the troubles of July 1877, George said, Kearney \"was noticeable not merely for the bitter vulgarity of his attacks upon all forms of religion ... but for the venom with which he abused the working classes, and took on every occasion what passed for the capitalistic side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradoxically, too, given his soon-to-become-familiar habit of suggesting mob violence as a social cure-all and his tireless vilification of California's Chinese, Kearney had joined the Committee of Safety and taken to the street to help quell the anti-Chinese riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was July. By early October, Kearney had reversed his course and rhetoric, had taken control of the Workingmen's Party -- and had begun attracting thousands to regular Sunday rallies at the sandlot across the street from City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Kearney's leadership, the party adopted a platform that certainly sounded radical: Throw the rich and powerful out of office, break up monopoly land holdings, redistribute wealth through heavy taxes, and \"provide decently for the poor and unfortunate, the weak, the helpless, and especially the young , because the country is rich enough to do so, and religion, humanity, and patriotism demand that we should do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just as important, the party was bent on throwing the Chinese out of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More attention-getting than the Workingmen's principles was Kearney's style in calling for immediate drastic action to attain the party's goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His rallying cry was, \"The Chinese must go!\" He warned that San Francisco would burn if conditions for workers did not improve. He called on his followers to arm themselves with muskets and ammunition. His regular prescription for enemies, either opponents within the party or class enemies like millionaires, judges or government officials, was hanging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with the likelihood that state lawmakers might pass a bill aimed at curbing incitement to riot, Kearney responded, \"If the members of the Legislature overstep the limits of decency, then I say, 'Hemp! Hemp! Hemp!' This is the battle cry of freedom!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If the members of the Legislature overstep the limits of decency, then I say, Hemp! Hemp! Hemp!'\u003ccite>Denis Kearney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In late October 1877, Kearney led a march to Nob Hill where, as we've seen, some of the city's wealthiest men had built their mansions. The procession's specific destination was the home of Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four who had built and profited immensely from the Central Pacific Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crocker had built his mansion on a block bounded by California, Sacramento, Taylor and Jones street. He wanted to own the entire block, but one neighbor, an undertaker named Nicholas Yung, held out for a higher price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The undertaker wanted more than the nabob was willing to give,\" Henry George wrote, \"and the latter cut short the negotiation by inclosing the undertaker’s house on three sides with an immense board fence, probably the highest on the Pacific coast, if not in the world. This veritable coffin ... is one of the most striking features of the hill.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 365px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Labor1kearny-on-nob-hill-1877.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10430598\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Labor1kearny-on-nob-hill-1877.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Kearney addresses crowd on Nob Hill, October 1877. \" width=\"365\" height=\"446\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Kearney addresses crowd on Nob Hill, October 1877. \u003ccite>(FoundSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 marchers accompanied Kearney to the heights, where they set a bonfire in the street as he inveighed against the wealthy and warned about the consequences to the railroad millionaires if they did not fire their Chinese workers. He and others declared they'd give Crocker a month to take down the 30-foot-high fence around Yung's home or they'd be back to tear it down themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gathering was enough to spur demands for the arrest of Kearney and other Workingmen's Party leaders for using incendiary language. And Kearney and others \u003cem>were\u003c/em> arrested, not just once, but several times. The charges didn't stick, and, far from suppressing Kearney, the arrests provoked outrage and won his movement wider sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Workingmen became a force in Bay Area politics, winning a seat in the state Senate in early 1878 and electing officials in San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda. The party's rise coincided with a statewide election for delegates to a convention called to write a new state constitution. The Kearneyites won virtually all the seats contested in San Francisco. But in the Sacramento convention, outnumbered by Republicans and Democrats who had joined forces against them, the Workingmen's Party failed to effect any of the reforms in taxes, lands or employment conditions that their movement had promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party's delegates did, however, get a chance to enshrine the demands of the anti-Chinese movement in a new section of the state Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> committee appointed to consider \"the Chinese question\" returned with a nine-point proposal that would give the Legislature the power to bar further Chinese immigration to California and to eject any Chinese it found undesirable. The proposal would bar Chinese from all public employment, make them ineligible to receive licenses for any trade or business, and strip corporations of their state charters if they employed Chinese workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430600\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10430600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385-400x307.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese residents of Sierra County, California, 1894. \" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385-400x307.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385-800x614.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14199_masonbeatty-chinese1-scr-e1423695246385.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese residents of Sierra County, California, 1894. \u003ccite>(Courtesy, California HIstorical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese would be prohibited from owning or leasing real estate, would be barred from fishing in state waters and would no longer have the right to bring lawsuits in state courts. The committee also suggested denying anyone who hired a Chinese worker the right to vote, disqualifying anyone who hired a Chinese worker from holding public office and disbarring any lawyer who represented a Chinese client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As historian Charles McClain remarks, even though most delegates were all for some sort of anti-Chinese language in the new constitution, they thought the committee's proposal went too far. By a vote of 104-17, the convention adopted a toned-down version, incorporated into the state's highest charter as Article XIX when the document was approved by voters in 1879.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Article XIX, titled simply \"Chinese,\" preserved two of the major provisions put forward in the convention: that no private corporation could employ Chinese workers and the ban on public employment for the Chinese. The laws enacting these provisions were swiftly struck down in federal courts that ruled they violated the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection, infringed on rights due to Chinese immigrants under treaty and trampled upon corporate rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new constitution marked the zenith of what had been dubbed Kearneyism. A convention resolution to thank Kearney for his service to the anti-Chinese cause was voted down. By 1881, Kearney was described in San Francisco as \"a spent rocket\" and had left the city for a brief, unremarkable career in New York City politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That did not end the era of anti-Chinese activism or legislation, of course. State and local governments continued to pass new laws to harass and hinder Chinese residents, many of which were unenforceable or were found to violate the U.S. Constitution. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown\u003c/a>, we’re \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/questions\" target=\"_blank\">answering questions\u003c/a> from KQED listeners and readers. Our second one comes from Dave Taylor, who is not impressed by the new buildings going up in San Francisco. He asks:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430396\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/P1040405.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10430396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/P1040405-400x590.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Taylor. 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We won’t even go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, the brand-new NEMA apartments: “This gigantic black prison complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone has an opinion, so we asked someone who has looked at the city’s buildings for a while: San Francisco Chronicle urban design critic John King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I share the listener’s dismay,” he says. “A lot of what’s being built in S.F. right now really feels like product.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says many of the buildings going up have one particular consumer: The 29-year-old who just got the IPO and can afford a $4,500 rent payment or mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Market’s Come a Long Way\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For a long time, this area was the dumpy end of Market Street that nobody cared about, King says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10429825\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14218_1455-Market-St.-2-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10429825\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14218_1455-Market-St.-2-scr-400x600.jpg\" alt='Taylor calls 1455 Market St. a \"glorified parking structure.\" (Katie Brigham/KQED) ' width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14218_1455-Market-St.-2-scr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14218_1455-Market-St.-2-scr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14218_1455-Market-St.-2-scr.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor calls 1455 Market St. a \"glorified parking structure.\" (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in the '70s, it was essentially storage space for a lot of Financial District firms -- the place they parked their giant computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now those dumpy buildings have flashy neighbors: tech companies and luxury apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are paying attention -- and griping. King says that part at least isn’t new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of being a San Franciscan is never to like what’s happening right now,” he says. \"… to resent the fact that the city’s not exactly like it was when you moved there, and you discovered Utopia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who’s in Charge?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But Dave Taylor says his issue isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about taste -- and pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to feel a little despair when these monoliths go up, because these things are going to be there for 50 years,” he says. “It makes you wonder who’s in charge. Does anybody care anymore?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jxwC2Yrmpyj3ZLmXCFKDbzHr9QnXzzCp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few answers to this question. First: Yes, someone is in charge. Actually, a lot of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are plans aplenty,” says King. “The list of who’s responsible is endless, and it gets a little different with each building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permits and approvals can be costly and time-consuming. And behind every construction project is a complicated marriage of planners, neighborhood groups, developers and architects -- some who want to make their mark and others who just want to make a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor says these people don’t have San Francisco’s best interests at heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you see people walk by City Hall, they take pictures, they stop, they smile,” he says. “From here all the way to Powell, they look down, they don’t stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A City’s Autobiography\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“In the built environment, as one writer puts it, all our warts and our glories are there,” says Paul Groth, an architectural historian at UC Berkeley. “You can tell how we're treating our fellow humans in the built environment. It really is an autobiography.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what does Groth think our current architecture says?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10429827\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10429827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr-400x600.jpg\" alt='Fox Plaza is another offender to Taylor in his so-called \"corridor of shame.\" (Katie Brigham/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox Plaza is another offender to Taylor in his so-called corridor of shame. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Big buildings, glass boxes, dark materials, pools and plazas on the inside -- all those elements are just today’s trend in luxury living, Groth says. You can see it the most in New York, Miami and San Francisco. It speaks deliberately to a kind of \u003cem>exclusivity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s that -- as well as the design -- that makes Dave Taylor want to get away from the corner of 11th and Market as soon as he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got an artistic soul. That’s why people used to move here. It was a place, not a sanctuary, but a place where we could be and belong,” he says. “As an artist, beautiful things speak back to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other art, say, a dance performance or a painting, you can’t avoid the buildings where you live or where you work. Taylor says that when he’s walking by Western Addition Victorians or the Transamerica Pyramid, buildings he loves, he feels like he’s having an experience -- like he’s part of the city’s story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows you to go deep places and start to think and start to grow,” he says. “This isn’t a commodity, this is a way of living, that you should be surrounded by beautiful things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are new construction projects all over the city right now. And he’s hoping some of those buildings will be the kind that speak back to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/questions\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a question\u003c/a> you'd like us to answer as part of our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It really is an autobiography.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what does Groth think our current architecture says?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10429827\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10429827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr-400x600.jpg\" alt='Fox Plaza is another offender to Taylor in his so-called \"corridor of shame.\" (Katie Brigham/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14216_1390-Market-St.-2-lpr.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox Plaza is another offender to Taylor in his so-called corridor of shame. 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