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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Places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.westgatesanleandro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Gate\u003c/a>, a former Dodge auto plant that’s now a shopping mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Now, where cars were once built, the second story of the former plant houses more than 100 offices that can be connected to the fiber loop. This part of the building is known as The Gate\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If your ideas revolve at all around manufacturing, then San Leandro is a good place to look.’\u003ccite>— Pat Kennedy,\u003cbr>\nCreator of Lit San Leandro\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.typeamachines.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Type A Machines\u003c/a> moved into The Gate in January. The San Francisco-based company designs its 3-D printers in the city but builds them in San Leandro. Company officials say they were enticed by the broadband connection and the opportunity to grow in The Gate, and the company began renting three offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we expand, we’ll actually add additional lines in this space,” says Type A founder Andrew Rutter as he stands on the company’s production floor. “And so the idea is that we’ll be able to expand and fill this and really turn it into a really high-volume production space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all goes well, Type A could more than double its workforce in San Leandro, to around 60. And they’ll be looking for more space. “It’s really hard to find a space where you can expand that rapidly and by such a big margin,” says Rutter. “Because most places, they just don’t have the additional space lying around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro has that space. At one time, there were more than 20,000 manufacturing jobs here. In 2013, only about 6,800 of those jobs remained. Industrial-zoned land makes up nearly a quarter of the city, much of that space now used for storage, which doesn’t provide much employment. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanleandro2035.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2013-10-02_NextGenerationWorkplacDistrict_Complete-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2013 report\u003c/a> calls these areas “neither memorable nor particularly pleasant to get around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanleandro.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=13963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a presentation by City Manager Chris Zapata\u003c/a> calls broadband “a laser cheetah with explosive power accelerating economic growth.” San Leandro’s new chief innovation officer, Deborah Acosta, frames the issue another way: “how do we reenergize this industrial space to actually become alive again?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acosta tries to convince businesses like Type A to set up shop here. She’s probably the only city employee with bright red streaks running through in her hair, and she says that touch puts people on notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they see my red hair, they’re going, ‘Holy smokes, something’s different here. I think I need to pay attention,’” Acosta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that San Leandro’s economic development plan has included language about becoming a tech hub since the late ’90s. But that dream “sat there as words on the page until Lit San Leandro came along. Suddenly they realized, ‘Wait a minute, we don’t have to talk about this anymore. We’re actually there, we’re actually part of it. I mean, we have to do something with it now. But we can’t complain that we don’t have the infrastructure,’” Acosta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that infrastructure, San Leandro hopes, can bring back jobs and reorient the city’s economy. 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The blog \u003ca href=\"http://liveworkoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Work Oakland\u003c/a> has created a map showing where all these new tech companies are popping up in the city. The city’s emerging tech industry is trying to cultivate a new brand — one that’s more diverse and has a better relationship with the community. Entrepreneurs, investors and activists are hoping to avoid the “pricing out” of locals and cultural displacement happening in parts of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most of the new start-up founders in Oakland, Daniel Rodriguez and his business partner aren’t originally from the city. They came to the Bay Area from Colombia, and they expected to end up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.’\u003ccite>Mitchell Kapor,\u003cbr>\nVenture capitalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When we thought about the U.S., we thought about San Francisco, like the mecca of the Silicon Valley,” he says. “But when we got there, the price of the rent was so high. Even sharing a room was high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So instead, the pair moved into West Oakland, a place they had heard about from others in the tech world. Now, they run their start-up out of Impact Hub Oakland. It’s a new shared co-working and event space at Grand and Broadway that’s buzzing with people trying to create the next big thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Kapor, a venture capitalist also based in Oakland, thinks some of them will succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kaporcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapor Center for Social Impact\u003c/a> is just down the street from Impact Hub, says tech can have a different culture here than it does in San Francisco. He thinks it can be more diverse, socially aware and connected to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not want to be a Pollyanna. I think change is always a challenging process,” Kapor says, then adds: “We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”5tqal8nysLGHFvvZWZptXWpSCNlQZUcE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entrepreneurs and investors like Kapor are trying to grow local talent. The Hidden Genius Project and \u003ca href=\"http://www.blackgirlscode.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Girls Code\u003c/a> are initiatives in Oakland that help African American youth get involved in tech. Google just gave $500,000 to a charity that teaches low-income kids coding and business skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizer Olis Simmons says it’s nice if a few local kids get to learn coding, but that’s not nearly enough if Oakland wants to head off the kind of displacement happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tokenism,” she says. “It’s marketing. It’s public relations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons heads \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth Uprising\u003c/a>, a neighborhood center in East Oakland, far from downtown. Unemployment there hovers around 20 percent, and the school next door doesn’t have reliable high-speed internet. In order for real change to happen, she says, Oakland needs money for social programs and improving public schools—real investments that would help stabilize her neighborhood. She points out that Google and other big tech companies send billions of dollars in profits overseas to avoid taxes that fund services and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, if you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new,” Simmons says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says if that happens in Oakland, there will be conflict, and it will be more severe than the clash over tech in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to say this. It breaks my heart to say this,” Simmons says. “San Francisco had a very long ramp of displacement and gentrification, that by the time things exploded, the vast majority of the poor people and the people of color were long gone. That’s not true in Oakland. It will happen much more rapidly and it will be a much grittier experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new.’\u003ccite>Ollis Simmons,\u003cbr>\nYouth Uprisings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Economist Carol Zabin thinks that distributing the wealth generated by tech could ease the tensions. Zabin is the research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. One of the quickest ways to do that, she says, would be raising minimum wage. Higher pay would ensure that when the cost of living increases, regular folks could afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about getting into the tech jobs.” Zabin says. “It’s also about improving the jobs that tech creates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabin’s colleague Enrico Moretti calculates that each tech job eventually creates five additional jobs outside of the innovation sector. The wealth that tech generates leads to the employment of more people in areas like food service and construction. That’s why Zabin says other tech hubs should follow Seattle’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle is increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour. San Francisco has a similar measure on this November’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are the economic costs of that?” Zabin asks. “It means those wealthy tech workers have to pay more for their restaurant meals and their retail expenditures, and their services, and not very much more — 1 or 2 or 3 percentage points more when we get a wage jump of 50 or 60 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start-up scene is relatively new in Oakland, but the city is already grappling with wage inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Oakland will ask voters to decide whether to increase minimum wage to $12.25 an hour, and in West Oakland, there are protests against two new redevelopment zones that community members fear will speed up gentrification. As more start-ups move in, locals are wondering what roll tech companies will play in these issues.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Marianne LeVine,\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/06/11/east-palo-alto-gang-crime/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/EPA-gangs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/EPA-gangs.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Santuario is an organizer for Peninsula Interfaith Action working to stop gang violence. (Marianne LeVine/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Santuario is an organizer for Peninsula Interfaith Action working to stop gang violence. (Marianne LeVine/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least five people shot around the Bay Area in recent years have been traced by gang investigators to turf feuds and drug vendettas in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It began on a bright Sunday afternoon in late September 2012. Armed with two handguns, a trio of young men drove a silver Toyota 4Runner up Highway 101. Near a Belmont neighborhood off the Holly Street exit, they spotted their rival, Chariece Chew, in a Dodge Charger. At least a dozen shots were fired as the vehicle carrying Chew, its doors pierced by bullets, screeched onto the freeway, swerving through lanes before crashing into a construction fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Christopher Baker, 21, was shot several times and bled to death on Terra Villa Street in East Palo Alto. Two nights after that, four young men with handguns waited for Stoney Gipson outside the Impala nightclub in San Francisco. The 27-year-old’s lifeless body was found in the early-morning darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skies were clear on a Monday afternoon in January 2013 when bullets hailed on Illinois Street in East Palo Alto, killing 24-year-old Jonathan Alcazar. On a Saturday evening two weeks later, 21-year-old Lamont Coleman died of gunshot wounds on the city’s Capitol Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempted murder of Chew and the killings of Baker, Gipson, Alcazar and Coleman led the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office to launch an 18-month investigation that officials consider the county’s most extensive crackdown on gang activity. Investigators nicknamed their operation “Sunny Day,” a reference to the code words that gang members occasionally used to signal a successful hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closely monitoring cellular and GPS data, along with youthful boasts on social media, the investigators uncovered an ongoing series of gang retaliations that extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into cities from Menlo Park to San Francisco. The electronic trail led to the March 2013 indictments of 16 people, 11 of whom were from East Palo Alto. None have yet to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials continue to pursue leads, according to East Palo Alto Police Chief Lee Violett, who noted that this year the city has experienced a decrease in shootings and other types of violent crime. During the first half of 2013, East Palo Alto had seven homicides. Since last August there have been two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, believes Operation Sunny Day served to warn gang members of the severe consequences of their violent activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a person from [East Palo Alto] come in last week and said she’s lived in EPA for over 20 years,” Wagstaffe said in April. “The shocking thing is that since this all went public … she had not heard a gunshot or a police siren.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City in Transition\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the few places in Silicon Valley where housing costs are still within reach for low-income families, East Palo Alto has seen dramatic change in recent decades. Latinos make up the majority in the once-predominantly black city, and even this demographic shift might be fleeting. The latest tech boom has caused home prices to begin to soar, as startups and behemoths like Facebook encroach along the city’s edges, pricing out longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for housing among skilled tech workers would have been unfathomable in 1992, when the city boasted the country’s highest murder rate. Since then, East Palo Alto has seen a dramatic drop in crime, including 345 fewer homicides, rapes, armed assaults and robberies in 2012 than in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the problems that persists is the city's reputation as a center for gang activity in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the situation became particularly acute for residents, some of who found themselves living in a war zone. The number of assaults involving a weapon jumped from 129 to 230 between 2011 and 2012, and again remained high last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, gangs do not target innocent people, but bystanders are sometimes caught in the crossfire. On an early Sunday morning in 2011, shots on Wisteria Drive fatally wounded 3-month-old Izak Jesus. Law enforcement officials often refer to the “baby Izak” case to illustrate the community-wide toll of gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s fatal shooting of 16-year-old Jose Luis Quinones led then-East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis to declare a “crime emergency,” requiring officers to work overtime and canceling days off. Despite that declaration, gang warfare continued to rattle the city in the months that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gang members also contributed to a rise in burglaries within the county, according to officials from the San Mateo County Gang Task Force and the East Palo Alto Police Department. In addition to stealing firearms, gang members tapped into the statewide prescription drug epidemic by breaking into expensive homes in the middle of the day. They’d often head straight for the medicine cabinet, investigators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gotten so bad that if you have an open house and you’re selling your home, your Realtor will tell you to remove all prescription pills,” said Sgt. Leo Capovilla of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Gang Investigative Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Gang Violence\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence in East Palo Alto often takes the form of shootings, and intergang disputes nearly always involve “turf,” or areas in the city where gangs can sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gangs have changed over time, however, based on generational and demographic shifts. In the 1980s, East Palo Alto was home to the Midtown Hogs, a predominantly African-American gang whose primary source of income was crack cocaine. The Midtown Hogs are partly blamed for the city’s crack epidemic of the late '80s and early '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Midtown Hogs evolved into the Taliban, which most recently fought Da Vill, another predominantly African-American gang, and Sac Street, a Norteño subset, according to members of the San Mateo County Gang Task Force, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they often work undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto’s demographic shifts have helped determine which gangs flourish in the city. In recent years, African-American gangs spread to other parts of the Bay Area, while Latino gangs have proliferated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most gangs are divided along racial lines, some, like “Sac Street,” have involved both African-Americans and Latinos who live on Sacramento Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs — namely marijuana — are the gangs’ primary financial pipeline, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force members said a handful of families living in East Palo Alto have connections to Mexican cartels, which smuggle drugs across the border and give them to gang members to sell on city streets. Most of the clientele is not from East Palo Alto, the task force explained. Located along Highway 101, the city is a convenient stopping point for outsiders to make a quick purchase and then speed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Norteños funnel some drug funds to Nuestra Familia, a Mexican-American gang operating from state and federal prisons, much of the money is spent on accessories that promote their image. One task force member recalls finding a closet filled with Air Jordans, each pair worth around $100. Angel Santuario, a community organizer for the nonprofit Peninsula Interfaith Action, said “bling” gives gang members status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of it may be about liberation and freedom,” he said. “There’s a huge need in our communities to feel respected, to feel like we have dignity. For some of those folks, that’s why they go out and buy brand-new Nikes. It’s to be respected in their world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8I0M1snrGs?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often divided along racial and ethnic lines, the gangs capitalize on the vulnerability of youth in search of identity and community. Many gang members show their allegiance through the colors they wear and the tattoos they sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sac Street gang uses the Stanford University logo as its symbol — the S stands for its street name, the red for the gang’s color and the tree for marijuana, a primary source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Norteños operate along the border between Menlo Park and East Palo Alto. In late 2012, a generational struggle for leadership triggered a significant increase in shootings and assaults in East Palo Alto, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The younger generation of the gang members are hanging out separately,” one task force member said. “They started feuding with each other … they’re part of the same gang [but] killing each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Operation Sunny Day\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four murders and attempted murder in 2012 and early 2013 sent San Mateo County officials on a manhunt that would unravel a long-standing gang war between Da Vill, Sac Street and the Taliban. The war extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into Menlo Park, Belmont, Redwood City and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following months, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office partnered with every police agency in the county and three federal agencies — Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Detectives obtained warrants to monitor GPS and cellular data, as well as recorded telephone conversations from inside jail cells to understand the inner workings of gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe, the district attorney, emphasized that investigators based their case entirely on electronic surveillance. “They were right down to the same area where [crime] was located,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detectives listened in on conversations, one phrase stood out: “It’s a sunny day in East Palo Alto.” Based on the timing, they concluded the phrase could mean only one thing. The killings were being planned and carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also helped connect the dots. According to the task force, the notion of “respect” — or instilling fear — and an obsession with “image” motivate gang members to use social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to brag about their activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, social media desensitizes the severity of crime, according to a task force member, who said gang members sometimes post videos of a violent act, evoking a “mentality that it’s funny to shoot someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 18, 2013, Wagstaffe announced the indictments. The 16 suspects were charged with murder, attempted murder, coercion of witnesses, drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police and Community Outreach\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Da Vill and Sac Street are based in East Palo Alto and the Taliban has reached across the border into eastern Menlo Park, Operation Sunny Day required little involvement from the city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said the multi-agency probe served to offset East Palo Alto’s “finite resources,” allowing his department to assign just one detective to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight gangs in recent years, the police department also has enlisted the help of neighboring departments and promoted community-policing programs, often funded by state and federal grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2011, East Palo Alto implemented Operation Ceasefire, a federally funded initiative designed to target and motivate youth with violent pasts to reshape their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Smith, the former director of Operation Ceasefire, managed the program’s law enforcement side and served as an intermediary between the city and the county. One of the program’s initial challenges was to relieve tension between the need to promote community relations and the need to crack down on gang violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community was very sensitive to having a lot of people all of a sudden being labeled as gang members,” Smith said. “That created pushback and resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters is that the city’s Latino population — about 65 percent — is deeply distrustful of the police, said Angel Santuario of Peninsula Interfaith Action. Santuario has heard complaints that the department makes it difficult for citizens to report suspected criminal activity anonymously. Because residents fear retribution, they are reluctant to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Ruben Abrica believes community-policing programs have helped improve those relations. In March, after rumors circulated that the city might outsource police services to the county sheriff’s office, hundreds showed up at a council meeting to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not every day the community comes out to defend the police,” Abrica said. “Even young people were saying that the Police Department is not perfect, but we can work with the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups, notably members of the clergy and youth organizations, helped close gaps between the community and the police, according to Smith and Melvin Gaines, the department’s special projects manager. Gaines said community policing reflects a change in a past mentality that police officers could “arrest [their] way out of a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operation Ceasefire approached 83 potential participants, many with gang backgrounds. Forty-eight agreed to take part and 18 remain active. Two of the suspects arrested in Operation Sunny Day were Ceasefire candidates, according to Gaines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grant money for Operation Ceasefire ran out in December 2013. Although the city reapplied, the application was not approved because “other agencies had more compelling proposals,” Gaines said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliance on such money poses its own challenges, he added. While grants allow for East Palo Alto to experiment with a range of community initiatives, the city is also under constant pressure to find a steady source of funding. Sarah Lawrence, the director of UC Berkeley’s School of Law’s Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation, sees little alternative, saying this is the “nature of federal, local and state dynamics of funding streams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Smith thinks Operation Ceasefire could have been more successful had law enforcement been more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole message of Ceasefire is that ‘we hope you guys get some assistance, [but] if you call our bluff we’re coming after you,’” she said. “And we never went after anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she does not advocate for a “police state,” Smith said, having a greater number of police officers on the street is an inherent deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said he could not speak to Operation Ceasefire’s effectiveness because the program was implemented under Davis, but he acknowledged that a key component to any community-policing program is to “back up what you say you’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines believes Operation Ceasefire’s future will depend on whether community groups, once a financial incentive is removed, will continue to work with the police or shift resources to other initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Operation Sunny Day is credited with helping to curb gang violence, this state of peace is likely temporary, according to the task force. Gang members may just be taking a step back to try to anticipate what law enforcement will do next, all while leaving a lingering power vacuum.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Investigators nicknamed their operation “Sunny Day,” a reference to the code words that gang members occasionally used to signal a successful hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closely monitoring cellular and GPS data, along with youthful boasts on social media, the investigators uncovered an ongoing series of gang retaliations that extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into cities from Menlo Park to San Francisco. The electronic trail led to the March 2013 indictments of 16 people, 11 of whom were from East Palo Alto. None have yet to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials continue to pursue leads, according to East Palo Alto Police Chief Lee Violett, who noted that this year the city has experienced a decrease in shootings and other types of violent crime. During the first half of 2013, East Palo Alto had seven homicides. Since last August there have been two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, believes Operation Sunny Day served to warn gang members of the severe consequences of their violent activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a person from [East Palo Alto] come in last week and said she’s lived in EPA for over 20 years,” Wagstaffe said in April. “The shocking thing is that since this all went public … she had not heard a gunshot or a police siren.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City in Transition\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the few places in Silicon Valley where housing costs are still within reach for low-income families, East Palo Alto has seen dramatic change in recent decades. Latinos make up the majority in the once-predominantly black city, and even this demographic shift might be fleeting. The latest tech boom has caused home prices to begin to soar, as startups and behemoths like Facebook encroach along the city’s edges, pricing out longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for housing among skilled tech workers would have been unfathomable in 1992, when the city boasted the country’s highest murder rate. Since then, East Palo Alto has seen a dramatic drop in crime, including 345 fewer homicides, rapes, armed assaults and robberies in 2012 than in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the problems that persists is the city's reputation as a center for gang activity in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the situation became particularly acute for residents, some of who found themselves living in a war zone. The number of assaults involving a weapon jumped from 129 to 230 between 2011 and 2012, and again remained high last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, gangs do not target innocent people, but bystanders are sometimes caught in the crossfire. On an early Sunday morning in 2011, shots on Wisteria Drive fatally wounded 3-month-old Izak Jesus. Law enforcement officials often refer to the “baby Izak” case to illustrate the community-wide toll of gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s fatal shooting of 16-year-old Jose Luis Quinones led then-East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis to declare a “crime emergency,” requiring officers to work overtime and canceling days off. Despite that declaration, gang warfare continued to rattle the city in the months that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gang members also contributed to a rise in burglaries within the county, according to officials from the San Mateo County Gang Task Force and the East Palo Alto Police Department. In addition to stealing firearms, gang members tapped into the statewide prescription drug epidemic by breaking into expensive homes in the middle of the day. They’d often head straight for the medicine cabinet, investigators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gotten so bad that if you have an open house and you’re selling your home, your Realtor will tell you to remove all prescription pills,” said Sgt. Leo Capovilla of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Gang Investigative Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Gang Violence\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence in East Palo Alto often takes the form of shootings, and intergang disputes nearly always involve “turf,” or areas in the city where gangs can sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gangs have changed over time, however, based on generational and demographic shifts. In the 1980s, East Palo Alto was home to the Midtown Hogs, a predominantly African-American gang whose primary source of income was crack cocaine. The Midtown Hogs are partly blamed for the city’s crack epidemic of the late '80s and early '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Midtown Hogs evolved into the Taliban, which most recently fought Da Vill, another predominantly African-American gang, and Sac Street, a Norteño subset, according to members of the San Mateo County Gang Task Force, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they often work undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto’s demographic shifts have helped determine which gangs flourish in the city. In recent years, African-American gangs spread to other parts of the Bay Area, while Latino gangs have proliferated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most gangs are divided along racial lines, some, like “Sac Street,” have involved both African-Americans and Latinos who live on Sacramento Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs — namely marijuana — are the gangs’ primary financial pipeline, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force members said a handful of families living in East Palo Alto have connections to Mexican cartels, which smuggle drugs across the border and give them to gang members to sell on city streets. Most of the clientele is not from East Palo Alto, the task force explained. Located along Highway 101, the city is a convenient stopping point for outsiders to make a quick purchase and then speed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Norteños funnel some drug funds to Nuestra Familia, a Mexican-American gang operating from state and federal prisons, much of the money is spent on accessories that promote their image. One task force member recalls finding a closet filled with Air Jordans, each pair worth around $100. Angel Santuario, a community organizer for the nonprofit Peninsula Interfaith Action, said “bling” gives gang members status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of it may be about liberation and freedom,” he said. “There’s a huge need in our communities to feel respected, to feel like we have dignity. For some of those folks, that’s why they go out and buy brand-new Nikes. It’s to be respected in their world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/o8I0M1snrGs?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/o8I0M1snrGs?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often divided along racial and ethnic lines, the gangs capitalize on the vulnerability of youth in search of identity and community. Many gang members show their allegiance through the colors they wear and the tattoos they sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sac Street gang uses the Stanford University logo as its symbol — the S stands for its street name, the red for the gang’s color and the tree for marijuana, a primary source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Norteños operate along the border between Menlo Park and East Palo Alto. In late 2012, a generational struggle for leadership triggered a significant increase in shootings and assaults in East Palo Alto, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The younger generation of the gang members are hanging out separately,” one task force member said. “They started feuding with each other … they’re part of the same gang [but] killing each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Operation Sunny Day\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four murders and attempted murder in 2012 and early 2013 sent San Mateo County officials on a manhunt that would unravel a long-standing gang war between Da Vill, Sac Street and the Taliban. The war extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into Menlo Park, Belmont, Redwood City and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following months, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office partnered with every police agency in the county and three federal agencies — Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Detectives obtained warrants to monitor GPS and cellular data, as well as recorded telephone conversations from inside jail cells to understand the inner workings of gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe, the district attorney, emphasized that investigators based their case entirely on electronic surveillance. “They were right down to the same area where [crime] was located,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detectives listened in on conversations, one phrase stood out: “It’s a sunny day in East Palo Alto.” Based on the timing, they concluded the phrase could mean only one thing. The killings were being planned and carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also helped connect the dots. According to the task force, the notion of “respect” — or instilling fear — and an obsession with “image” motivate gang members to use social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to brag about their activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, social media desensitizes the severity of crime, according to a task force member, who said gang members sometimes post videos of a violent act, evoking a “mentality that it’s funny to shoot someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 18, 2013, Wagstaffe announced the indictments. The 16 suspects were charged with murder, attempted murder, coercion of witnesses, drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police and Community Outreach\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Da Vill and Sac Street are based in East Palo Alto and the Taliban has reached across the border into eastern Menlo Park, Operation Sunny Day required little involvement from the city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said the multi-agency probe served to offset East Palo Alto’s “finite resources,” allowing his department to assign just one detective to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight gangs in recent years, the police department also has enlisted the help of neighboring departments and promoted community-policing programs, often funded by state and federal grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2011, East Palo Alto implemented Operation Ceasefire, a federally funded initiative designed to target and motivate youth with violent pasts to reshape their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Smith, the former director of Operation Ceasefire, managed the program’s law enforcement side and served as an intermediary between the city and the county. One of the program’s initial challenges was to relieve tension between the need to promote community relations and the need to crack down on gang violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community was very sensitive to having a lot of people all of a sudden being labeled as gang members,” Smith said. “That created pushback and resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters is that the city’s Latino population — about 65 percent — is deeply distrustful of the police, said Angel Santuario of Peninsula Interfaith Action. Santuario has heard complaints that the department makes it difficult for citizens to report suspected criminal activity anonymously. Because residents fear retribution, they are reluctant to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Ruben Abrica believes community-policing programs have helped improve those relations. In March, after rumors circulated that the city might outsource police services to the county sheriff’s office, hundreds showed up at a council meeting to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not every day the community comes out to defend the police,” Abrica said. “Even young people were saying that the Police Department is not perfect, but we can work with the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups, notably members of the clergy and youth organizations, helped close gaps between the community and the police, according to Smith and Melvin Gaines, the department’s special projects manager. Gaines said community policing reflects a change in a past mentality that police officers could “arrest [their] way out of a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operation Ceasefire approached 83 potential participants, many with gang backgrounds. Forty-eight agreed to take part and 18 remain active. Two of the suspects arrested in Operation Sunny Day were Ceasefire candidates, according to Gaines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grant money for Operation Ceasefire ran out in December 2013. Although the city reapplied, the application was not approved because “other agencies had more compelling proposals,” Gaines said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliance on such money poses its own challenges, he added. While grants allow for East Palo Alto to experiment with a range of community initiatives, the city is also under constant pressure to find a steady source of funding. Sarah Lawrence, the director of UC Berkeley’s School of Law’s Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation, sees little alternative, saying this is the “nature of federal, local and state dynamics of funding streams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Smith thinks Operation Ceasefire could have been more successful had law enforcement been more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole message of Ceasefire is that ‘we hope you guys get some assistance, [but] if you call our bluff we’re coming after you,’” she said. “And we never went after anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she does not advocate for a “police state,” Smith said, having a greater number of police officers on the street is an inherent deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said he could not speak to Operation Ceasefire’s effectiveness because the program was implemented under Davis, but he acknowledged that a key component to any community-policing program is to “back up what you say you’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines believes Operation Ceasefire’s future will depend on whether community groups, once a financial incentive is removed, will continue to work with the police or shift resources to other initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8141_005-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8141_005-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-gentrification protesters welcomed in 2014 with a march through San Francisco's Mission district. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-gentrification protesters welcomed in 2014 with a march through San Francisco's Mission district. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>By Jane Solomon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Alongside \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Siri\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">artisanal \u003c/span>and \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">mixologist\u003c/span>, the term \u003ca href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gentrification?s=t\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">gentrification\u003c/span>\u003c/a> has become a permanent part of the Bay Area vernacular. 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But when Glass coined \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">gentrification\u003c/span>, she was tapping into a specific British class sense of \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">gentry\u003c/span>: the class below the nobility. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">The members of this class, sometimes called the \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">landed gentry\u003c/span>, were generally wealthy landowners who supported themselves with the rent of their tenants and cuts of their tenant farmers’ earnings. The gentry were also expected to govern over their land, acting as local magistrates and general caretakers of their tenants.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Long before Glass described this phenomenon, class struggles conflicted with population movement in and around London. Issues arose in the early 18th century because a population boom in London changed the culture of the surrounding rural communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Higher demand for crops required farmers to increase productivity if they wanted to stay competitive. In this economic landscape, the farmers with larger operations reigned supreme, pushing out their poorer counterparts. The prosperity of the gentry was, in many ways, directly related to that of their tenants.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Many centuries later and thousands of miles away, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">gentrification\u003c/span> is still a mutating part of a growing city. This ubiquitous phenomenon has since spun off other related terms, including \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">hyper-gentrification\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">super-gentrification\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">third-wave gentrification\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">yuppification\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">West Egg-ification\u003c/span>, the playful \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic;color: #1155cc\">\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=388f12d5ebf24db49086ecb2cc9a15f9&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theonion.com%2farticles%2freport-nations-gentrified-neighborhoods-threatened%2c2419%2f\" target=\"_blank\">aristocratization\u003c/a> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">and the more neutral \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">regeneration\u003c/span>. With no resolution in sight, the term \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">gentrification\u003c/span> is unlikely to fall into obscurity anytime soon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.dictionary.com/author/jane-solomon/\">Jane Solomon\u003c/a> is a lexicographer at \u003ca href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/\">Dictionary.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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