It seems that almost everyone in the Bay Area has a housing horror story to tell. Anecdotes abound of renters spending months looking for a new place, and the pound of flesh extracted when they do find one. Equally scary are the stories from aspiring, seemingly qualified homeowners who are turned away by banks.
Throughout 2014, KQED brought out the facts and stories behind the Bay Area housing crisis as part of our series called ‘Priced Out.’ We told the stories of people struggling and surviving amidst the increasing cost of living. We examined the changing neighborhoods and cities in the Bay Area, looked at who is getting evicted and why, as well as the potential solutions that have emerged.
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/18/albany-bulb-homeless/albanybulb-11sept2013-640/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112193\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-112193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/albanybulb-11sept2013-640.jpg\" alt=\"Recycled metal sculpture by Osha Neumann, an advocate for the residents living on the Albany Bulb, can be found on the north shore of the small peninsula. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recycled metal sculpture by Osha Neumann, an advocate for the residents living on the Albany Bulb, can be found on the north shore of the small peninsula. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127574333\" 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>Much of the attention over the housing crisis in the Bay Area falls on the most visual stories in larger cities, like the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\" target=\"_blank\">tech employee buses \u003c/a>that have become icons for displacement in San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities on the outskirts of the metropolis are also running into conflicts over affordable housing, homelessness and the responsibilities of governments with smaller budgets. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Much of the attention over the housing crisis in the Bay Area falls on the most visual stories in larger cities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing and homelessness are the subjects of two lawsuits against the City of Albany, a town at the northern tip of Alameda County with a population of less than 20,000. The city has been working for six months to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/18/albany-bulb-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">evict a longstanding tent village\u003c/a> on a chunk of land sticking into the East Bay called the Albany Bulb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land was formed as a construction materials dump, but since the early 1990s, it’s housed a camp of people who would otherwise be homeless. The Bulb is also the capstone in a three-decade effort to create the McLaughlin East Shore State Park, which would finally transfer control of the land from Albany to the state parks system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city contracted with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://bfhp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Food and Housing Project\u003c/a> in May to connect Bulb residents with services and help them find a place to live. The city hired Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://operationdignity.org/services-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Dignity\u003c/a> to open a temporary 30-bed shelter near the Bulb in late November. That part of the city’s park transition plan is costing more than $300,000 for six months of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t live in the best of all possible worlds,” City Councilman Michael Barnes said when the council voted to finally approve Albany’s park transition plan in October. “I think the plan we have is a good one. People will move a few hundred yards off the Bulb into trailers. They will be warm. They will be dry. There will be showers. They will have food supplied to them. They will have toiletries supplied to them. Their dogs will be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the shelters have not caught on with the Bulb residents. Only three to four people have been using them per night, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Food and Housing Project’s outreach has had some success, however. The nonprofit has connected four people with permanent housing since summer, although none of their apartments are in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional cook Bradley Anthony was the first Bulb resident to move into a permanent home though the effort. He had been living at the camp for about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I was employed, I knew it would be much easier for me,” he said outside his new home, a room in West Oakland. “It was pretty simple I guess, I mean comparatively speaking to what other people are going to be going through, I’m very lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. Another job he had lined up took longer to come through than expected, and he couldn’t pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he got in touch with his sister, April Anthony, who has lived at the Bulb for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love it here, and I’m grateful for having been able to stay here,” April Anthony said. “As a single female homeless person, it beats the streets, there’s no doubt about it, and we have developed a community here, which is the last thing I thought I’d see. You know, but we’re all like a big family now. It’s kind of messed up that they’re going to break us apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anthony siblings are two examples of the Bulb’s heterogeneous population. Bradley Anthony said he had never been homeless except for those recent six months. He said the process of getting into housing was pretty easy once outreach workers realized he had a full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the few people that fit the criteria,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>April Anthony, however, meets the federal definition of chronic homelessness. She has a physical disability that makes it difficult for her to walk, and bi-polar disorder, and she’s lived outdoors for more than a year. Like many of the people living on the Bulb, she makes a few hundred dollars a month selling art and doing odd jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have guaranteed monthly income, and that’s been a major killer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming to Grips\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany realtor Francesco Papalia seems a little sheepish when he claims to have started the whole controversy, or at least the most recent round of it. He used his position as chair of Albany’s Waterfront Committee to form a homelessness task force in the city about a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone was homeless and fell down on the street or was sleeping in someone’s backyard, there was absolutely no one in the city whose job it was to help them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city council directed the task force to study the issue and present options for addressing homelessness in Albany, which is mostly concentrated at the Bulb. The task force delivered \u003ca href=\"http://albanyca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?meta_id=65499&view=&showpdf=1\" target=\"_blank\">several options\u003c/a> to the city in May, and the city council voted to pursue eviction under Albany’s “no-camping” ordinance with limited support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the same meeting, the council recommended task force members form an advocacy group, essentially dissolving it as a part of the city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were shocked,” Papalia said. “It was like, what just happened?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the task force did reorganize into an advocacy group, the Albany Housing Advocates, which is now suing the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Federal Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albany Housing Advocates, April Anthony and 28 other Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. The plaintiffs say physical or mental disabilities prevent them from using the city’s temporary shelter that opened in late November, and they should have more time to find permanent housing, preferably in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit argues the city’s plan violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and the 14\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment right to due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says Albany plans to remove people from relative safety at the camp even though the city “does not have a single permanent shelter, transitional house, or available unit of subsidized housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The Albany Housing Advocates and 29 Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is the dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. She gets a little frustrated when she hears cities are addressing homelessness through temporary means, whether it be short-term housing or portable shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kinds of solutions simply kick the can down the road,” she said. “That was the dominant solution in 1985 – build shelter beds. They don’t work very well. They keep people on this kind of cycle – street to shelter to jail to hospital that’s terrible for people and very expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch has studied homelessness since the 1980s, and she has published research on homeless encampments in southern California. She said cities can best address homelessness through supportive housing, which combines an affordable, permanent place to live with on-site case workers and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Albany doesn’t have any supportive housing units. Alameda County has more than 2,000 units. Berkeley, Albany’s larger neighbor to the south, has more than 100 units of supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Cheasty was mayor of Albany in 1999, when the city last grappled with the camp at the Bulb. Now he advocates for the state park transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a small city, you can’t have every possible service,” he said. “It’s just not feasible. So you rely on the county, you contribute to the county, or you partner with another city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, services for the homeless work better when they aren’t giant, centralized projects, according to Wolch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Albany would acknowledge that they had about 50 people at any one time who needed services and needed shelter and needed long-term support, then there’s no reason that they couldn’t address that need,” she said. “And in fact, homelessness and homeless service provision and supportive housing is much better done on a small scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Housing Element\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing is the subject of another lawsuit concerning Albany’s obligations to the poor and homeless. This one is in Alameda County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires all California cities and counties to plan for housing at all income levels. It’s called the housing element of the general plan, and their due approximately every seven years. Albany’s last approved plan was filed in 1992. The city turned in an updated draft for the 2007 to 2014 period in October – more than a little late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process has already spurred the city to remove restrictions on building a permanent emergency shelter, and the draft recommends doing something similar for transitional and supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deja Vu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time the city has grappled with its homeless population. In fact, the present saga is a near duplicate of one in 1999, when Albany used the same contractor to build a temporary shelter near the Bulb and evicted the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Human Welfare Commissioner Dan McMullan lived at the camp in 1999. He lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident and spent about a decade homeless in Berkeley and Albany. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The present saga is a near duplicate of one at the Bulb back in 1999. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The reason I was homeless was because I was disabled,” he said. “People that work with homeless people know, scratch any homeless person and you’ll find a disability. And they do nothing in Albany for people with disabilities who are homeless. And it’s amazing to me that after all these years, they’re going to try to pull the same move again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany Mayor Peggy Thomsen declined interview requests from KQED. Albany’s mayor is part of the city council, and she is the only current member who was also a councilmember 15 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did, I believe, have a humane relocation of the people at that time,” she said at a public meeting. “I personally went out to the Bulb to where the food was delivered into the portables. I would be happy to have lived in one myself. They were very, very clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMullan said his ideal solution would be to improve the lot of people at the Bulb, maybe with a transitional shelter there, including fresh water and working plumbing. 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They will have food supplied to them. They will have toiletries supplied to them. Their dogs will be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the shelters have not caught on with the Bulb residents. Only three to four people have been using them per night, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Food and Housing Project’s outreach has had some success, however. The nonprofit has connected four people with permanent housing since summer, although none of their apartments are in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional cook Bradley Anthony was the first Bulb resident to move into a permanent home though the effort. He had been living at the camp for about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I was employed, I knew it would be much easier for me,” he said outside his new home, a room in West Oakland. “It was pretty simple I guess, I mean comparatively speaking to what other people are going to be going through, I’m very lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. Another job he had lined up took longer to come through than expected, and he couldn’t pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he got in touch with his sister, April Anthony, who has lived at the Bulb for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love it here, and I’m grateful for having been able to stay here,” April Anthony said. “As a single female homeless person, it beats the streets, there’s no doubt about it, and we have developed a community here, which is the last thing I thought I’d see. You know, but we’re all like a big family now. It’s kind of messed up that they’re going to break us apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anthony siblings are two examples of the Bulb’s heterogeneous population. Bradley Anthony said he had never been homeless except for those recent six months. He said the process of getting into housing was pretty easy once outreach workers realized he had a full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the few people that fit the criteria,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Anthony said he moved to the Bulb last spring after he got laid off. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>April Anthony, however, meets the federal definition of chronic homelessness. She has a physical disability that makes it difficult for her to walk, and bi-polar disorder, and she’s lived outdoors for more than a year. 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The task force delivered \u003ca href=\"http://albanyca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?meta_id=65499&view=&showpdf=1\" target=\"_blank\">several options\u003c/a> to the city in May, and the city council voted to pursue eviction under Albany’s “no-camping” ordinance with limited support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the same meeting, the council recommended task force members form an advocacy group, essentially dissolving it as a part of the city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were shocked,” Papalia said. “It was like, what just happened?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the task force did reorganize into an advocacy group, the Albany Housing Advocates, which is now suing the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Federal Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Albany Housing Advocates, April Anthony and 28 other Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. The plaintiffs say physical or mental disabilities prevent them from using the city’s temporary shelter that opened in late November, and they should have more time to find permanent housing, preferably in Albany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit argues the city’s plan violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and the 14\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Amendment right to due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says Albany plans to remove people from relative safety at the camp even though the city “does not have a single permanent shelter, transitional house, or available unit of subsidized housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The Albany Housing Advocates and 29 Bulb residents are suing the city to delay the eviction. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is the dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. She gets a little frustrated when she hears cities are addressing homelessness through temporary means, whether it be short-term housing or portable shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kinds of solutions simply kick the can down the road,” she said. “That was the dominant solution in 1985 – build shelter beds. They don’t work very well. They keep people on this kind of cycle – street to shelter to jail to hospital that’s terrible for people and very expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch has studied homelessness since the 1980s, and she has published research on homeless encampments in southern California. She said cities can best address homelessness through supportive housing, which combines an affordable, permanent place to live with on-site case workers and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Albany doesn’t have any supportive housing units. Alameda County has more than 2,000 units. Berkeley, Albany’s larger neighbor to the south, has more than 100 units of supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Cheasty was mayor of Albany in 1999, when the city last grappled with the camp at the Bulb. Now he advocates for the state park transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a small city, you can’t have every possible service,” he said. “It’s just not feasible. So you rely on the county, you contribute to the county, or you partner with another city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, services for the homeless work better when they aren’t giant, centralized projects, according to Wolch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Albany would acknowledge that they had about 50 people at any one time who needed services and needed shelter and needed long-term support, then there’s no reason that they couldn’t address that need,” she said. “And in fact, homelessness and homeless service provision and supportive housing is much better done on a small scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Housing Element\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing is the subject of another lawsuit concerning Albany’s obligations to the poor and homeless. This one is in Alameda County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires all California cities and counties to plan for housing at all income levels. It’s called the housing element of the general plan, and their due approximately every seven years. Albany’s last approved plan was filed in 1992. The city turned in an updated draft for the 2007 to 2014 period in October – more than a little late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process has already spurred the city to remove restrictions on building a permanent emergency shelter, and the draft recommends doing something similar for transitional and supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deja Vu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time the city has grappled with its homeless population. In fact, the present saga is a near duplicate of one in 1999, when Albany used the same contractor to build a temporary shelter near the Bulb and evicted the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Human Welfare Commissioner Dan McMullan lived at the camp in 1999. He lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident and spent about a decade homeless in Berkeley and Albany. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The present saga is a near duplicate of one at the Bulb back in 1999. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The reason I was homeless was because I was disabled,” he said. “People that work with homeless people know, scratch any homeless person and you’ll find a disability. And they do nothing in Albany for people with disabilities who are homeless. And it’s amazing to me that after all these years, they’re going to try to pull the same move again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany Mayor Peggy Thomsen declined interview requests from KQED. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/homelessyouthalliance-light.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-121564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/homelessyouthalliance-light-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless youth rest and watch television at the Homeless Youth Alliance on Dec. 18, 2013, seven days before the organization has to close its doors to prepare to move everything into storage. 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So, you’re seeing rents for property both residential and commercial go up dramatically, and it’s been really impossible to this point to secure a location to move into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, Howe estimates thousands of kids ages 13 to 29 have been welcomed at the organization’s drop-in center in a gray, Edwardian-era building at 1696 Haight Street, just a few blocks from Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, they can get a hot meal, a shower, medical treatment and even a clean needle. About 50 to 100 kids pack the center on a typical day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are not really ready to make life changes and move beyond the street if they can’t eat and sleep and get medical care, and have someone to talk to and just have a space to like, be,” said Howe, who was once a homeless youth herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121553\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 346px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7977_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0359_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121553 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7977_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0359_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Howe talks to Ulysses, a homeless man who has used the services at the Homeless Youth Alliance, near Stanyan and Haight streets. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She pleaded with the property management company for an extension, and even offered to pay more rent, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manager, Paul Gaetano, said the Homeless Youth Alliance has been a great tenant, and always paid rent on time, but the building needs to be retrofitted and remodeled and it would be “easier for everyone if they vacate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Homeless Youth Alliance could return after the work, Gaetano said the space would be rented to a new commercial tenant, a decision made by the owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those owners, Dr. David Smith, is the founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, which has a similar mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has long supported our work, and donates, but he’s not the only owner in that partnership. And I think their original mission got lost along the way,” said Howe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Golden Gate Park, where many kids are forced to sleep, a 27-year-old woman with curly red hair named Shortcake said she has been coming to the alliance since she was a teen, and dreads its pending closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tragic. I don’t think everyone’s prepared for exactly how bad it’s going to get out here,” she said. “It’s just going to make things 10 times worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Howe said she’s committed to stay in the neighborhood, and has the support of merchants and neighbors. An \u003ca href=\"http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-closing-of-homeless\">online petition\u003c/a> to elected officials and the owner of the building urging them to stop the closure has garnered more than 3,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the Alliance is looking for a van to provide mobile services, and space for a new center in the Upper Haight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re definitely very committed to staying with this population,” Howe said. “The Haight will always have this influx of kids who are escaping something and looking for something better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bevan Dufty, the mayor’s point person on homelessness, described the Homeless Youth Alliance’s work as “magical,” and said he’s trying to help secure a property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121556\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 296px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/7978_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121556 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/7978_transform-549x640.jpg\" alt=\"Shortcake, 27, has been going to the Homeless Youth Alliance for 10 years. She has two dogs and doesn't know how she'll be able to feed them after the organization loses its space at the end of the month. "It's gonna be really tragic to see them to," she said. (Sara Bloomgberg/KQED)\" width=\"296\" height=\"346\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shortcake, 27, has been going to the Homeless Youth Alliance for 10 years. She has two dogs and doesn’t know how she’ll be able to feed them after the organization loses its space at the end of the month. “It’s gonna be really tragic to see them go,” she said. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at opportunities where they arise. And so I don’t know. 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But if you’re short on time and just want the highlights, this post’s for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.Work backwards\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. 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We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Show affordable housing the money\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also goes on to criticize Plan Bay Area for its lack of monetary teeth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no funding source for the affordable housing that’s necessary to make that kind of vision work,” he said. “It’s just basically a numerical game plan and then the market builds. But the market only builds for a segment of that need and without the money, what you have is a recipe for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just how much does it cost to build affordable or subsidized housing? A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably costs, depending on who you’re building for, a few hundred thousand dollars in subsidies per unit,” said Gabriel Metcalf. “And maybe a third of that [comes from local sources]. 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San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed allowing in-law units to be built in his district\u003c/a> and Board of Supervisor President David Chiu introduced legislation that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize existing secondary units\u003c/a> that were built illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think Bay Area officials should do to increase the amount of affordable housing in the region? We welcome your suggestions in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. 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There are well-known ways in economics to fix that. We could just raise taxes on people. … That’s a conversation to have. But it seems like a lot of times we’re not having these conversations because we get sort of stopped at the first step, which is ‘Do we want these people here?’ Not ‘What should we do about the fact that people are coming here?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Farhad Manjoo\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003cbr>\n“In many cases, gentrification, which I like to call ‘neo-colonialism’ is actually taking place in areas where people of color were forced to settle. West Oakland and East Oakland were the places that welcomed the black people in Oakland during the Northern Migrations that took place after emancipation and after the World War. … So we have areas where you were forced to purchase or where economics allowed you to live that are now being overwritten, and these people are going to places like Antioch, Pittsburg, Tracy, where there are no jobs. And the same basic problems that made West Oakland under-served and economically unviable exist in those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">\u003cem>— \u003cstrong>Ayodele Nzinga\u003c/strong>, artistic director for The Lower Bottom Playaz\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003cbr>\n“If a white person on my staff moves to Oakland, West Oakland, takes a unit up, are they gentry because they’re white, even if their income is only $35,000, $40,000 or $45,000? It used to be the gentry meant more affluent people, and it wasn’t a race-based analysis. 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But if you’re a small business owner in a hot neighborhood, there’s not much to stop a landlord from jacking up your rent once the lease is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission District, many landlords of commercial spaces \u003cem>are\u003c/em> raising rents. They’re cashing in on the demand for new businesses that serve tech workers. But at least one pair of landlords in the neighborhood is not going that route — Bob and Marta Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When their mother passed away two years ago, Bob and his sister Marta inherited the old \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Sanchez_Foods\">Casa Sanchez\u003c/a> restaurant on 24th Street, between York and Hampshire streets. The siblings decided they didn’t want to just rent to the highest bidder. Instead, they rented to a local family of Latino restaurateurs who had been displaced from their previous restaurant, also on 24th Street, when the owner redeveloped the building. Marta Sanchez says she and her brother wanted to give them one last shot in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”2dcf7643b4fd8844333c808eacce71e7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower 24th Street, where 89-year-old Casa Sanchez sits and which still has the highest concentration of Latino-owned businesses in the city, is the heart of the Latino Mission district. It stretches from the BART station on Mission Street east to Potrero Hill. It runs perpendicular to Valencia Street, which has seen rapid gentrification and an influx of new restaurants and shops over the last decade. And it is now at the front line in the city’s growing turmoil over tech-driven gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stretch of 24th Street has had a tumultuous past. It was known in previous decades for gang violence and drug dealing. Marta Sanchez says that in the ‘80s, tortilla companies fought for turf at the street’s taco joints in what came to be called the “tortilla wars.” She says it grew so heated that tortilla delivery men were said to carry guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those years also saw a burst of Latino pride and activism on the street. Community and arts organizations sprang up, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.precitaeyes.org/\">Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitor Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/\">Galeria de la Raza\u003c/a>, a gallery that displays Latino and Chicano art. The alleyways and storefronts up and down the street are still covered with giant murals painted by graffiti artists during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/24th-street-033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118152\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118152 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/24th-street-033-e1384406845841.jpg\" alt='Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the \"death\" of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)' width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the “death” of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, upscale restaurants and cafes have popped up. On weekends, a long line forms at Wise Sons, a Jewish-inspired deli where Mark Zuckerberg has been seen dining — he is reported to have bought a house several blocks west toward Noe Valley. Tour groups now come through to see the murals, and Google employee buses stop near the BART station on their way to the tech campuses on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/10/live-anti-evictions-protest-on-24th-street/\">rally \u003c/a>last month, protesters marched down 24th Street to call attention to the impact of the Mission’s rapid gentrification. “24th Street is not for sale!” they chanted. “No more evictions!” One speaker demanded that “the city provide incentives to keep long-term businesses in the Mission.” The message was clear: This isn’t just about displaced residents, but displaced businesses. The march started by Casa Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Sanchez says the restaurant has always been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.casasanchez.com/Index.html\">family business\u003c/a>. Her grandparents made tortillas initially, but during the tortilla wars, they concentrated on chips and salsa instead. It was safer. They concocted their first batches at a table inside the restaurant. Later, the company made national headlines by offering free lunches for life to anyone who got a tattoo of the Casa Sanchez logo — a boy in a sombrero riding a corn cob rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s mother ran the restaurant for years. A neighborhood matriarch, she held sway from a chair in the corner of the room – she actually died while sitting in that chair. When she passed away in 2011, they made a shrine for her in one of the patio booths out back. Inside the restaurant, there’s a picture of her up on the wall, painted like an old Mexican fresco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Marta Sanchez says she and her brother have been flooded with offers to lease or sell the place. She says a chef from a famous San Francisco restaurant came in and offered her $200,000 up front just to sign the lease. But she and Bob decided to turn it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a family meeting,” Sanchez says, “and I just gave a lot of credit to my brother, because he was paying the mortgage after my mom passed away and he didn’t have to do that — he could have taken the $200,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, they decided to go with the Banuelos family, who opened a taqueria called Ayutla in the Casa Sanchez space in mid-2012. The family is paying far less than market rate to rent the space. But Marta Sanchez and Maria Elena Banuelos knew each other from grade school, and knew each other on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving money at you, eventually you are going to take it.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Emilia Estrada is part of the Banuelos family. She says “the owner Bob Sanchez, he’s a very nice man, and he was able to accommodate us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Banuelos have run restaurants in the Mission for almost 40 years. Their most recent was La Posta, on 24th Street. “It was so sad when they demolished La Posta,” Estrada says. “That one was really, really nice.” Now, where the restaurant used to be, are condos and new retail spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguello runs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lower24thstreet.org/english/index.html\">Lower 24th Street Merchant & Neighbors Association\u003c/a>. To illustrate the rapid gentrification, he points out two properties side by side on the street. One was left to a brother and the other to a sister. The brother’s property was turned into condos, while the sister kept her building as an independently owned boutique. All up and down the street you can see this kind of uneven development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguello says the reason 24th Street hasn’t changed entirely is because many businesses actually own their buildings — that’s how the Latino barber shops, churches and knickknack shops can afford to stay. Without them, Arguello says, this would be the Mission in name only. Maybe it would be called “Mission Viejo” (Old Mission), he says, or some other kind of made-up real estate term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchezes made an emotional decision about renting Casa Sanchez, not an economic one. They are keeping the rent low so a local business can stay in the neighborhood. But not everyone has the resources to rent below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/marta/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118153\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118153 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Marta-e1384406454610.jpg\" alt=\"Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy,” Marta Sanchez says, “because if you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving that amount of money at you, eventually you are going to take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be blamed for it,” she says, “because there is only so much you can do on behalf of your values with the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, Berkeley became one of the few U.S. cities \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Quotaorigin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ever attempt to impose commercial rent control\u003c/a> in the late 1970s and 1980s. But its laws, which denied landlords the right to occupy their own property when leases expired, were \u003ca href=\"http://www.leagle.com/decision/19871475655FSupp820_11339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down\u003c/a> in federal court for violating the U.S. Constitution’s \u003ca href=\"http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_10_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract clause\u003c/a>. Berkeley amended its ordinances to satisfy that shortcoming, but the state then enacted a law pre-empting further local attempts at commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Ammiano-Wants-to-End-Ban-on-Commercial-Rent-2951202.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact of the law\u003c/a> is that in San Francisco, as elsewhere, businesses live or die at the whim of their landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casa Sanchez has been hosting punk music and other live music events at nights, free for patrons of Ayutla, and partly to help make ends meet. Marta Sanchez says what the Banuelos family pays in rent barely covers the mortgage. 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The alleyways and storefronts up and down the street are still covered with giant murals painted by graffiti artists during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/24th-street-033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118152\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118152 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/24th-street-033-e1384406845841.jpg\" alt='Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the \"death\" of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)' width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the “death” of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, upscale restaurants and cafes have popped up. On weekends, a long line forms at Wise Sons, a Jewish-inspired deli where Mark Zuckerberg has been seen dining — he is reported to have bought a house several blocks west toward Noe Valley. Tour groups now come through to see the murals, and Google employee buses stop near the BART station on their way to the tech campuses on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/10/live-anti-evictions-protest-on-24th-street/\">rally \u003c/a>last month, protesters marched down 24th Street to call attention to the impact of the Mission’s rapid gentrification. “24th Street is not for sale!” they chanted. “No more evictions!” One speaker demanded that “the city provide incentives to keep long-term businesses in the Mission.” The message was clear: This isn’t just about displaced residents, but displaced businesses. The march started by Casa Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Sanchez says the restaurant has always been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.casasanchez.com/Index.html\">family business\u003c/a>. Her grandparents made tortillas initially, but during the tortilla wars, they concentrated on chips and salsa instead. It was safer. They concocted their first batches at a table inside the restaurant. Later, the company made national headlines by offering free lunches for life to anyone who got a tattoo of the Casa Sanchez logo — a boy in a sombrero riding a corn cob rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s mother ran the restaurant for years. A neighborhood matriarch, she held sway from a chair in the corner of the room – she actually died while sitting in that chair. When she passed away in 2011, they made a shrine for her in one of the patio booths out back. Inside the restaurant, there’s a picture of her up on the wall, painted like an old Mexican fresco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Marta Sanchez says she and her brother have been flooded with offers to lease or sell the place. She says a chef from a famous San Francisco restaurant came in and offered her $200,000 up front just to sign the lease. But she and Bob decided to turn it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a family meeting,” Sanchez says, “and I just gave a lot of credit to my brother, because he was paying the mortgage after my mom passed away and he didn’t have to do that — he could have taken the $200,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, they decided to go with the Banuelos family, who opened a taqueria called Ayutla in the Casa Sanchez space in mid-2012. The family is paying far less than market rate to rent the space. But Marta Sanchez and Maria Elena Banuelos knew each other from grade school, and knew each other on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving money at you, eventually you are going to take it.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Emilia Estrada is part of the Banuelos family. She says “the owner Bob Sanchez, he’s a very nice man, and he was able to accommodate us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Banuelos have run restaurants in the Mission for almost 40 years. Their most recent was La Posta, on 24th Street. “It was so sad when they demolished La Posta,” Estrada says. “That one was really, really nice.” Now, where the restaurant used to be, are condos and new retail spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguello runs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lower24thstreet.org/english/index.html\">Lower 24th Street Merchant & Neighbors Association\u003c/a>. To illustrate the rapid gentrification, he points out two properties side by side on the street. One was left to a brother and the other to a sister. The brother’s property was turned into condos, while the sister kept her building as an independently owned boutique. All up and down the street you can see this kind of uneven development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguello says the reason 24th Street hasn’t changed entirely is because many businesses actually own their buildings — that’s how the Latino barber shops, churches and knickknack shops can afford to stay. Without them, Arguello says, this would be the Mission in name only. Maybe it would be called “Mission Viejo” (Old Mission), he says, or some other kind of made-up real estate term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchezes made an emotional decision about renting Casa Sanchez, not an economic one. They are keeping the rent low so a local business can stay in the neighborhood. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/1049market/\">group of tenants\u003c/a> fighting orders to leave their affordable artist live/work lofts in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood say the landlord has not withdrawn the eviction notices, despite pressure from Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants held a noon protest Tuesday outside the 83-unit building at 1049 Market St., calling on owners John Gall and Amy Bogart to stop the evictions by Thanksgiving. The tenants are mostly artists, and include seniors and people with disabilities. Their 60-day eviction notices would take effect just before the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of human being evicts people during the holidays?” said Tommi Avicolli Mecca of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hrcsf.org/\">Housing Rights Committee\u003c/a> of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven-story building, built in 1907 as a furniture store, is zoned for commercial use. The owners had been trying to bring the units up to code for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Landlords say city rules have forced them to evict tenants. The city and housing activists insist that's not the case.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It has long been our belief that this was achievable and we would be able to keep this unique and affordable community,\" stated a Sept. 13 memo to tenants from the landlord. But it went on to inform them that \"we were not able to overcome the city of San Francisco's overly restrictive building code requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Per these city orders, the building must currently be vacated,\" the memo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners obtained permits to convert the building into offices and began issuing eviction orders in late September. Tenants quickly organized, and got housing activists involved. They persuaded Mayor Lee, Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the neighborhood, and the Department of Building Inspection to intervene. The city subsequently withdrew the permits and offered to work with Gall and his partners to grandfather in residential code violations, namely units that don't have windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contrary to owner Gall’s claims, the Department of Building Inspection has never pushed him or any prior owner to evict the tenants of 1049 Market,\" Randy Shaw, the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Mayor_Lee_Supervisor_Kim_DBI_Director_Hui_Unite_to_Stop_Market_Street_Evictions_11960.html\">wrote on Beyond Chron\u003c/a>. \"In fact, since DBI and its public commission was created through a 1994 ballot initiative that I authored (Proposition G), it has not pushed for the eviction of any tenants (a sharp break from its predecessor Bureau of Building Inspection, which prioritized closing down in-law apartments).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"613f376ea31a6b96b3b6b8e989ea54bb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing activists lauded the intervention as a model that could be used to prevent evictions in other commercial buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has provided the landlord with everything he needs to legalize these units and there’s nothing stopping him from doing that, nothing,” said Avicolli Mecca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants say they've had no direct line of communication with Gall and no indication he's backing down. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/11/12/mid-market-landlord-appeals-tenants-face-holiday-evictions\">Bay Guardian reports\u003c/a> Gall has appealed the city's permit suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're dying to hear from him and what he has to say,\" said tenant Jonathan Stoker. \"We want to keep our homes. It shouldn't be up to the highest bidder, because if that happens it'll change the face of this whole city, and where are we going to go?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gall, a Stanford grad and former major league baseball player, did not return KQED's phone calls but recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-intercedes-in-mid-market-eviction-fight/Content?oid=2618959\">told the San Francisco Examiner's Chris Roberts \u003c/a> that he was \"still trying to figure out the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, the city supervisor, has asked Gall to rescind the eviction notices. Last week, she said \"he is committed to exploring a no-eviction pathway with his investors to preserve the affordable units at 1049 Market Street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/market-street-building-evictions-could-be-largest-san-francisco-ouster-in-decades/Content?oid=2599843\">first reported\u003c/a>, the eviction would be one of the largest in the city’s history. Housing activists say it's part of a wave of evictions hitting San Francisco, brought on by the hot housing market and tech boom. The Mid-Market building is just a few blocks from Twitter headquarters in an area Mayor Lee has prioritized for revitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all really on edge,\" said Naomi Cooper, a 65-year-old public school teacher who's lived in the building for 13 years and will be forced to leave just before Christmas if the eviction notices stand. \"I feel like there should be a place for me here. I've given a lot to this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfofficelofts.com/LiveWork.html\">live/work lofts\u003c/a>, which vary in size from 200 to 500 square feet, rent for between $900 and $1,000 a month, and include kitchens and shared bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a great blessing,\" said Melissa Bracero, a part-time accountant and clothing designer, who invited reporters into her loft overlooking Market Street. \"We hope to be here in a year and not saying, 'Oh, we've left this city for good.'\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/15/103615/84000-family-four-san-francisco/forrent/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103809\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/forrent.jpg\" alt=\"(iStock image)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(iStock image)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want a crowd to turn against you, then just tell people you’re a landlord. In some circles, those who own property and rent to others rank near the top of regional public enemies, alongside tech workers, Dodger fans, and oh, I don’t know, people who kick puppies for fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are landlords really to blame for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Rents-soaring-across-region-4924282.php\" target=\"_blank\">soaring rents\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">increased evictions\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/how-much-tech-can-one-city-take\" target=\"_blank\">the much-bemoaned changing culture\u003c/a> of the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, they’re one of the big players at the table when we talk about increasing rents and evictions. But as a number of “Forum” commenters have pointed out, there are many factors that add to the problem of scarce, expensive housing, including the relatively small slice of land available for development in the inner Bay Area and the increased competition for housing as the regional economy improves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED’s “Priced Out” series continues, we’re hearing a whole spectrum of views on housing prices and evictions. Here’s a brief list of reasons landlords say they’re not responsible for the current rental housing crunch. The quotes below are from KQED’s “Forum” last Friday: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">Evictions on the Rise in San Francisco\u003c/a>. You can listen to the show in its entirety by \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Not All Landlords Are Created Equal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Forum” hour featured lots of complaints about big real-estate firms and corporate-style landlords raising rents and evicting tenants. But the Bay Area has plenty of small landlords who have a completely different way of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One property owner, referred to only as “Jeanne” at her request, said she was a “mom-and-pop landlord” running a business “not any different than owning a bakery.” Jeanne’s family has been in San Francisco “for over a hundred years,” and her mother bought a building 40 years ago. “That’s what supported our family. We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of the one-bedroom apartment in this building.” Jeanne said her family has developed relationships with their tenants, helping to take care of them as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of my one-bedroom apartment.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Landlords Get Screwed, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are that at some point, your landlord has suffered at the hands of bad tenants or life circumstances. Mike in San Francisco called in during the show to share the story of what sounds like a generous landlord who found himself needing money because of health problems:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My wife’s uncle had two tenants in a building in the Marina and for 30 plus years he never raised the rent. He was a wonderful landlord. And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Rules Have Changed for Many Landlords\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has changed for some longtime landlords in cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which have approved rent control laws over the years. Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a tenants’ group, said on the show that “landlords know what they’ve gotten into when they buy property, and they know what our laws are and they’ve decided to sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not always the case. As Jeanne and other listeners pointed out — many landlords bought their buildings before rent control was on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Landlords Have Some Decent Ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Priced Out\u003c/a> series, many listeners and readers have asked about solutions to the issues of rising rents and evictions, only to be told that under current market conditions, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\">little hope\u003c/a> things will get better soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some ideas out there. Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, said there’s a lot San Francisco could learn from New York:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“New York every year does a housing study, and they put out a book of statistics about the market and what rents are, what exists [in terms of] housing that’s available — we should be doing that here. … They have a department of housing and everything is run through there. We’re fragmentized here, where we have several different departments in housing — nobody knows what the other department is doing. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“… The other thing that New York has that’s different than San Francisco is their owner-occupied buildings are exempt from rent control. Our owner-occupied buildings were put under rent control in 1991 and they were exempt prior to that. And it worked a lot better. It allowed for flexibility for mom-and-pop owners to cut deals with their tenants, feed their tenants and not be punished for that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We created 13,000 jobs last year, and we put 120 new housing units on the market. I don’t think we can continue this way.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. It’s Not All Their Fault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of causes for the lack of housing, especially affordable housing, in the Bay Area: the economy, the physical landscape and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/12/local/la-me-affordable-housing-20120813\" target=\"_blank\">the loss of redevelopment mone\u003c/a>y that allowed cities to help get more housing built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janan New of the San Francisco Apartment Association noted there’s a basic imbalance between what’s happening in the city’s labor market and what’s happening in the housing market:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We created basically 13,000 jobs last year” said New, “and we put 120 new housing units on the market. So I don’t think we can continue this way without further cannibalization of the rental housing stock because people want to come here, people are going to continue to come here. And they need a place to live.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a rare moment of agreement, both New and Sara Shortt, of the Housing Rights Committee, acknowledged that one must look at the “broader context” of the housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Shortt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We also have the hoarding issue… We also have people who have \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-%C3%A0-terre\" target=\"_blank\">pied-à-terres\u003c/a> in the city now, it’s their second, maybe third rental unit that they have, or they have it on top of a home ownership unit. We have people who are doing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb\u003c/a> thing where they are holding the units off the market and they’re renting them out just as vacation rentals… We’re seeing more and more of those types of things.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of my one-bedroom apartment.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Landlords Get Screwed, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are that at some point, your landlord has suffered at the hands of bad tenants or life circumstances. Mike in San Francisco called in during the show to share the story of what sounds like a generous landlord who found himself needing money because of health problems:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My wife’s uncle had two tenants in a building in the Marina and for 30 plus years he never raised the rent. He was a wonderful landlord. And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Rules Have Changed for Many Landlords\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has changed for some longtime landlords in cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which have approved rent control laws over the years. Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a tenants’ group, said on the show that “landlords know what they’ve gotten into when they buy property, and they know what our laws are and they’ve decided to sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not always the case. As Jeanne and other listeners pointed out — many landlords bought their buildings before rent control was on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Landlords Have Some Decent Ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Priced Out\u003c/a> series, many listeners and readers have asked about solutions to the issues of rising rents and evictions, only to be told that under current market conditions, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\">little hope\u003c/a> things will get better soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some ideas out there. Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, said there’s a lot San Francisco could learn from New York:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“New York every year does a housing study, and they put out a book of statistics about the market and what rents are, what exists [in terms of] housing that’s available — we should be doing that here. … They have a department of housing and everything is run through there. 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