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.
San Francisco's Housing Boom Repeats an Old Story
'Mill Valley' Songwriter Rita Abrams Looking for New Home
As Policing Technology in California Advances, So Do Privacy Concerns
San Francisco's Meridian Gallery Faces Eviction, Owners Say
East Palo Alto City Council Passes New Tenant Protections
In San Francisco, Rooms for $1,000/Month Are Now Scarce
Report: You Need to Earn $29.83 an Hour to Afford a 1-Bedroom in San Francisco
Housing Projects Underway Already Meet San Francisco Mayor’s 'Ambitious' Goal
San Francisco Artists Struggle to Stay in City as Housing Costs Skyrocket
Did the End of California's Redevelopment Agencies Hurt Affordable Housing?
Lawmakers Push to Limit Ellis Act Evictions in San Francisco
San Francisco: Ground Zero for Widening Income Gap
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston, \u003cstrong> The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/WomanArrest.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132115 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/WomanArrest-640x358.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Rob Halverson of the Chula Vista police verifies the identity of a woman just arrest for possession of narcotics with facial recognition software. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Rob Halverson of the Chula Vista police verifies the identity of a woman just arrested for possession of narcotics with facial recognition software. 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In the past, to verify her identity, Halverson would have had to drive her to the police station, take her picture, and run it through a San Diego County database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, the facial recognition software on Halverson’s tablet allows him to verify the woman’s identity as he stands on her front lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I look at her booking photos, and that's her,” said Halverson, pointing at the tablet. “So I’m able to verify that she’s the right person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"91eed1a1b9b0c9f24048ef99f1464aa9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The software on Halverson’s tablet is made by \u003ca href=\"http://www.facefirst.com/\" target=\"_blank\">FaceFirst\u003c/a>, a Camarillo-based company. In an interview, CEO Joe Rosenkrantz said his firm uses an algorithm to analyze facial images by comparing the distance between key points on a person’s face, like from chin to ear or between the eyes. He said the error rate is minimal – he claims it’s less than 1 percent of images scanned – and law-abiding people shouldn't feel threatened by the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not in a database or somebody who's legitimately being sought out, whether it's a criminal database or some type of watch list, you really have nothing to worry about,” Rosenkrantz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition is only part of a wider technological shift in policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies around the state are creating databases of information gathered from license-plate readers, which are mounted on police cars or fixed objects and use high-resolution cameras to take pictures of vehicles. Police say license-plate databases help them track criminals and identify stolen cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law Enforcement Data Collection Leads to Privacy Concerns\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor many, the rapid changes in law enforcement technology – and the huge amount of data now collected and stored by local police, private companies and governments – raise troubling questions. Peter Biebring, senior staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclusocal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a> of Southern California, said the devices let police gather data about the personal lives of law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not just obviously where they live and work, but if they go to a psychiatrist, if they go to AA meetings, if they go to political meetings – potentially, if they have a mistress or any manner of details about their personal life,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California law has no strict limits for how long police can keep such data. There also are few regulations governing the use of so-called stingray devices, which mimic cellphone towers and allow police to gather information from all wireless devices in the area. Police in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego and Los Angeles have purchased such equipment, documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say they are concerned not just about individual rights, but also about what happens when police are able to mine data from all these technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern that technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause and is reason to scrutinize these technologies closely and ask if the technologies are really compatible with the kind of society we want to live in,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Convergence of Surveillance Technologies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest trend in policing is to merge all of these technologies into one location where police can monitor and analyze the data using sophisticated software. Oakland's proposed Domain Awareness Center was scaled back in March after sustained protests. The Los Angeles Police Department has been running a similar center since 2009 called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the facility, police watch data from camera feeds, license-plate readers, crime reports and GPS ankle monitors worn by paroled sex offenders and gang members. The center also has access to the regional license-plate database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly trying to keep a pulse on the city,” said Capt. John Romero, who runs the division. He describes it as a digital command post that enhances the department's “ready war-making capability” – or how they deploy officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Muniz, a researcher with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youth4justice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Justice Coalition\u003c/a> in Inglewood, said the use of technology and tactics once reserved for the military has migrated from gang policing to entire police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132142 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance-640x357.jpg\" alt=\"In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"322\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who haven't normally been targeted for surveillance are now starting to experience some portion of what poor communities of color have been experiencing their whole lives,” Muniz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials say that in a technology-centric world, they need to collect and monitor far more information than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sena, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ncric.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California Regional Intelligence Center\u003c/a>, said such technologies need strict guidelines – and the public’s trust. Sena’s operation is one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/what-fusion-center-2951\" target=\"_blank\">78 fusion centers\u003c/a> that were set up around the country after 9/11. While the center doesn't monitor cameras, it maintains a database of license-plate reader information and coordinates the use of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/129328/\" target=\"_blank\">stingrays\u003c/a> by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the trust of the public in what we do – information-sharing and intelligence – then we can't do information-sharing and intelligence,” Sena said. “The Constitution is in place for a reason, and the Bill of Rights is in place for a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sena has his own concerns with the privacy challenges brought about by technological advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants an Orwellian society where people are under constant surveillance,” he said. “I still have issues with – and many people do – with the fact that privacy has kind of been redefined in the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-132136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/cirlogo-640x267.jpg\" alt=\"cirlogo\" width=\"230\" height=\"96\">\u003c/a>This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, the country’s largest investigative reporting team, in collaboration with KQED. 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He said the error rate is minimal – he claims it’s less than 1 percent of images scanned – and law-abiding people shouldn't feel threatened by the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not in a database or somebody who's legitimately being sought out, whether it's a criminal database or some type of watch list, you really have nothing to worry about,” Rosenkrantz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition is only part of a wider technological shift in policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies around the state are creating databases of information gathered from license-plate readers, which are mounted on police cars or fixed objects and use high-resolution cameras to take pictures of vehicles. Police say license-plate databases help them track criminals and identify stolen cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law Enforcement Data Collection Leads to Privacy Concerns\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor many, the rapid changes in law enforcement technology – and the huge amount of data now collected and stored by local police, private companies and governments – raise troubling questions. Peter Biebring, senior staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclusocal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a> of Southern California, said the devices let police gather data about the personal lives of law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not just obviously where they live and work, but if they go to a psychiatrist, if they go to AA meetings, if they go to political meetings – potentially, if they have a mistress or any manner of details about their personal life,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California law has no strict limits for how long police can keep such data. There also are few regulations governing the use of so-called stingray devices, which mimic cellphone towers and allow police to gather information from all wireless devices in the area. Police in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego and Los Angeles have purchased such equipment, documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say they are concerned not just about individual rights, but also about what happens when police are able to mine data from all these technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern that technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause and is reason to scrutinize these technologies closely and ask if the technologies are really compatible with the kind of society we want to live in,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Convergence of Surveillance Technologies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest trend in policing is to merge all of these technologies into one location where police can monitor and analyze the data using sophisticated software. Oakland's proposed Domain Awareness Center was scaled back in March after sustained protests. The Los Angeles Police Department has been running a similar center since 2009 called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the facility, police watch data from camera feeds, license-plate readers, crime reports and GPS ankle monitors worn by paroled sex offenders and gang members. The center also has access to the regional license-plate database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly trying to keep a pulse on the city,” said Capt. John Romero, who runs the division. He describes it as a digital command post that enhances the department's “ready war-making capability” – or how they deploy officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Muniz, a researcher with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youth4justice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Justice Coalition\u003c/a> in Inglewood, said the use of technology and tactics once reserved for the military has migrated from gang policing to entire police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132142 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance-640x357.jpg\" alt=\"In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"322\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who haven't normally been targeted for surveillance are now starting to experience some portion of what poor communities of color have been experiencing their whole lives,” Muniz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials say that in a technology-centric world, they need to collect and monitor far more information than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sena, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ncric.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California Regional Intelligence Center\u003c/a>, said such technologies need strict guidelines – and the public’s trust. Sena’s operation is one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/what-fusion-center-2951\" target=\"_blank\">78 fusion centers\u003c/a> that were set up around the country after 9/11. While the center doesn't monitor cameras, it maintains a database of license-plate reader information and coordinates the use of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/129328/\" target=\"_blank\">stingrays\u003c/a> by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the trust of the public in what we do – information-sharing and intelligence – then we can't do information-sharing and intelligence,” Sena said. “The Constitution is in place for a reason, and the Bill of Rights is in place for a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sena has his own concerns with the privacy challenges brought about by technological advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants an Orwellian society where people are under constant surveillance,” he said. “I still have issues with – and many people do – with the fact that privacy has kind of been redefined in the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Marianne LeVine/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, April 4\u003c/strong>: East Palo Alto's City Council unanimously passed a tenant protection ordinance Tuesday. The proposal has to pass a second vote in the coming weeks before it becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would tighten restrictions on demolitions, protect renters from landlord harassment and provide relocation benefits for tenants who are displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters turned out in force to support the measure's passage. One common theme among them: In the event of displacement, there's nowhere else to go in the Bay Area because of how expensive housing has become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/04/02/east-palo-alto-unanimously-backs-new-tenant-protection-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\">Palo Alto Online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Palo Alto's Biggest Landlord Opposes Tenant Protection Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that controls more than half of East Palo Alto's rental housing market is opposing a proposed city law that would provide relocation benefits to displaced tenants, tighten restrictions on demolishing buildings and offer protection from landlord harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.equityapartments.com/corporate/\" target=\"_blank\">Equity Residential\u003c/a>, which in 2011 bought more than 1,800 units in the city, has challenged the proposal as an “unlawful” burden on apartment owners and landlords, stirring fears among community groups and some City Council members that the company aims to force out low-income residents to make room for more affluent tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a history of offering protection for tenants because they’re vulnerable,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofepa.org/directory.aspx?EID=49\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Ruben Abrica\u003c/a>, a former East Palo Alto mayor. “(Equity) is objecting to the whole concept. They don’t see a need for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within six months of acquiring its properties from Wells Fargo in foreclosure sales, Equity raised the attention of city officials by issuing 706 three-day eviction notices from January to June 2012. Equity’s notices warned tenants who were late on rent that they had three days to pay before they would face eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e67632a7989cafa28191163425fbebcf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city Rent Stabilization Board made those figures public, Equity stopped reporting the notices. Company executive John Hyjer said it was not required by law to notify the city of three-day eviction notices, only of unlawful detainers -- eviction cases filed in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s less onerous on the city of East Palo Alto’s already stretched resources,” Hyjer, Equity’s first vice president of investments, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Gibson, a lawyer for \u003ca href=\"http://www.legalaidsmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">LegalAid San Mateo\u003c/a>, said when the city is not told of all eviction notices, it becomes difficult for organizations like hers to direct tenants toward programs that assist with rent payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If we have to fight, we will fight'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2010, East Palo Alto voters passed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=469\" target=\"_blank\">Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance\u003c/a>, designed to protect tenants from “unreasonable rent increases” and “arbitrary, discriminatory or retaliatory evictions,” and to guarantee landlords the “right to fair return.” The proposed law, known as the Tenant Protection Ordinance, would expand tenant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The landlord also has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential objected to the proposed ordinance, city officials have been working with landlord and tenant representatives to make revisions. Equity views the proposed changes as a violation of local and state laws. Larisa Bowman, a lawyer for Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, called such concerns “unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential has opposed other tenant protection efforts in California. Sam Zell, the company chairman, donated $50,000 to Proposition 98, a ballot measure that would have phased out rent control throughout California had it passed in June 2008. He is also the chairman of Equity Lifestyle Properties, which has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. Both companies are real estate investment trusts and are publicly traded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential’s purchase of its East Palo Alto properties, some tenants have complained about difficulty paying rent -- one type of complaint is that a person will be told by a rent collector to come back the next day and then will be informed the rent is late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, the community legal representative, said some of the confusion over rent payments is because of the portfolio’s change in ownership, from Page Mill Properties to Wells Fargo to Equity Residential. However, she still remains concerned. “The amount of rent a person is being evicted over is $47,” she said. “Are you after $47 or are you after this unit? 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The average market rate per room on new leases has now gone well above $1,000 per month. Spots in shared-living situations with rent-controlled leases that make prices lower are few and coveted. And even some privately run single-room-occupancies (SRO), often a last resort before homelessness, are now charging $1,000 in rent for a room that doesn’t even have its own bathroom or kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedrooms for under $1,000 a month can still be found on the fringes of some less popular neighborhoods or with students near San Francisco State. But the only way to get a spot in one of the city’s trendier neighborhoods for that price is to convince a master tenant with a rent-controlled lease to let you move in. For these spots, applicants compete against dozens or, in some cases, hundreds of other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting selected to sublet a room in a shared-living situation depends on the whims of the leaseholders. Applicants send tailored cover letters, fight to win attention at open houses, and attempt to impress potential housemates during one-on-one interviews. The whole thing is a subjective process with little protection against prejudices like ageism, sexism or racism. If the master tenant doesn’t like you, you won’t get picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To beat the competition and get a hotly coveted room, applicants are trying anything they can. Some advertise themselves on Craigslist as great roommates. Others send LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Francesco Mursia made a video introducing himself and describing his favorite pastimes. He is not getting many responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mursia thinks part of the problem is his age. Many of the other applicants are 20-somethings in a period of transition. Mursia is 39. He would like to live alone, but with his budget ($1,000/month) that’s not possible in San Francisco. He’s been looking for a room since September. He checks Craigslist every day, sends out emails and goes to open houses. During this process, he said, “You ask yourself, why don’t I stand out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even expensive rooms are highly contested. Eun-Joung Lee lives in a three-bedroom on the border between the Mission and Noe Valley. She recently put a room on Craigslist for $1,500 a month. That may sound like a lot, but according to Tracy Ballard from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarearentaladvisors.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Rental Advisors\u003c/a>, the average asking rate for a three-bedroom in San Francisco is around $5,000/month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, $1,500 for a room in a hot neighborhood isn’t that bad. Lee got 20 responses to her post, which suggests she could have probably priced the room even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard financial advice is to not spend more than a third of your income on rent. 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One such post was titled “the good life 2.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reads: “We all went to top schools and work at the companies you read about.” Scanlon doesn’t fit that profile. She is 42 years old, transgender and a veteran. She works in the city and wants to know why there isn’t a place for her here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Harrigan is on the other side of the equation. He is on the lease of an iconic four-bedroom Victorian in the Lower Haight. He could probably rent the rooms out for as much as $1,500 each, but he doesn’t want to be greedy. At the same time, he said, “If I was to rent it out at like $500 I would have hundreds of emails. You would get everyone applying for it, and it wouldn’t be manageable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrigan recently had a room open up in the apartment and he decided to put it up at $1,000 — about double the rent-controlled rate and $500 below what he could have charged. 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"content": "\u003cp>To afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, you need to earn $29.83 an hour, or $62,046 annually, according to a new \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>out this month from the \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>. Add a second bedroom and your household hourly wage needs to hit $37.62 ($78,249 annually), the highest for any metro region in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things don’t get better in other parts of the Bay Area: San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin join San Francisco atop the charts as four of the six most expensive counties in America. Oakland-Fremont, Santa Cruz-Watsonville and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara join San Francisco in the top 10 most expensive metro regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130734 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/most-expensive-jurisdictions-640x226.jpg\" alt=\"Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"226\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This report also contains dismal news for minimum-wage workers in California. Those earning the state minimum wage of $8 an hour would need to work 130 hours a week (there are 168 hours in a week total) to afford a market-rate two-bedroom in California based on the statewide real estate average. Though the minimum wage is higher in many California cities, including San Francisco and San Jose, there is still a wide gap between what minimum-wage workers earn and what they need for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign to raise the state minimum wage to $12 an hour \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/17/ron-unz-minimum-wage-measure-unlikely-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">failed to gather enough financial support\u003c/a> to get on this year’s ballot. KQED’s Do Now project recently asked people across the country \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2014/03/22/minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">how much they think minimum wage should be. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 628px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/local-min-wage-rates.jpg\" alt=\"Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"628\" height=\"340\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you look at what people in the Bay Area are actually earning, the picture is a\u003cem> bit\u003c/em> less grim. The average renter in San Francisco, for example, earned $31.45 an hour – well above the $10.74 minimum wage. At that rate, it would take 1.2 full-time jobs to afford a two-bedroom in the city. Factor in a roommate or partner to split the rent with, and things look a bit more manageable – at least for those at or above the average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Jose metro region, the average renter is even better off, earning $32.99 an hour, but only $31.71 is needed for a market-rate two-bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, if all of these wage levels seem out of reach, we’ll leave you with a glimpse of all the cheaper places you could live. Hint: Can anybody give us a ride to Idaho?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-27-at-11.00.00-AM-640x516.png\" alt=\"A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Noah Arroyo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-03/mission-accomplished-currently-planned-housing-already-meets-sf-mayors-ambitious-6-year-goal\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/peek-a-boo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129473\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/peek-a-boo.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Quick, an author and screenwriter who purchased his condo in the Bayview 15 years ago, said he looks forward to the changes as thousands of new homes rise in his neighborhood. 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In combination with the planned refurbishing of 4,000 homes, projects now in the planning process would more than meet the mayor’s goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current overheated real estate market, developers will continue to build as long as the local economy remains strong. They are likely to use all the permits they can in a race to cash in on skyrocketing rents. In which case Lee might be able to sit back and watch the housing roll in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Dennis-Phillips, a planner and program manager at the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, characterized Lee’s goal as “ambitious yet realistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By design, it is based on projects that have a very real possibility of moving forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s quarterly \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=9245\" target=\"_blank\">Development Pipeline report\u003c/a>, which tracks housing projects on their way to completion, predicts that the housing construction rebound will last for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planners say increasing density in the Bay Area’s urban hubs will help keep housing affordable and prevent uncontrolled suburban sprawl. The Association of Bay Area Governments recommends San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/pdf/final_supplemental_reports/Final_Bay_Area_2014-2022_RHNA_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">build at least 28,800 housing units by 2022\u003c/a>, which Lee’s goal would exceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his January \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=983\" target=\"_blank\">State of the City address\u003c/a>, Lee said that builders needed to quicken the pace to keep up with demand. Adding supply overall, he said, would bring down housing costs across the price spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the speech, Lee’s staff did some quick math, counting up the apartments included in housing projects now on the books citywide. They “assumed” that between 27,094 and 28,494 housing units would be built by 2020. In response to a public records request by the Public Press, the mayor’s office shared these estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,920 housing units now under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,574 units for which permits are filed or granted, but not yet under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2,500 units in the Hunters Point Shipyard housing project’s first phase.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>3,100–4,500 units in other large projects, including Parkmerced, the old Schlage Lock site in Visitacion Valley, Pier 70 and Mission Rock near Pier 48.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Housing construction cannot happen overnight. Indeed, many of these have been on the drawing board for years. So Lee cannot precisely claim credit for all of them, since many of the permit applications were filed long before he became mayor, in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sources would likely put San Francisco’s housing production over the top of the 30,000 goal. City staff estimated that up to 4,000 units of “rehabilitated” public housing could be built by 2020, and that additional units not now in the pipeline could be completed. And city staff did even not factor in contributions from the massive development planned at Treasure Island, which would add roughly 2,900 units by the 2020 deadline, said Robert Beck, the project’s development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city may also have lowballed its estimate for the Hunters Point Shipyard. The developer there said it would produce 3,400 new homes by 2019, or almost 1,000 units more than the city predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020. That is more than three times the annual average over the last two decades, said John Rahaim, the city’s planning director. The closest the city came to that level of production was in \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/O3RpuD\" target=\"_blank\">2009, when it built 3,454 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s goal is “very doable,” Rahaim said. He based his assessment on the large number of active projects citywide where developers have filed or received building permit applications or begun construction. The Development Pipeline lists 857 housing projects. If all of them get built, they would create more than 50,000 units of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hurdles ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, having permits or construction plans is not the same as producing finished housing. Major projects will contribute large numbers of residential units in the long term, making them central to the city’s housing goals, said Olson Lee, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing. But these will take years, and in some cases decades to complete, due in part to financial, legal and regulatory obstacles. The Hunters Point project is the only large development that has broken ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction at Parkmerced, in the city’s southwest corner, has been held up in litigation over its environmental impact report. Stuart Flashman, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the Parkmerced Action Coalition, said it could take years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasure Island development can progress only as quickly as the U.S. Navy remediates toxic soil — necessarily a slow and deliberate process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission Rock and Schlage Lock projects are in the design phase, awaiting city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing planner Dennis-Phillips said the city has approved only about half of the 30,000 units, and these projects must still overcome “permitting, constructability, financing or market challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing task force established by the mayor in December will attempt to streamline the construction entitlement process. Lee has charged the panel with recommending these changes by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A number of process, policy and funding improvements are necessary to make sure these units go from an idea on paper to actual homes that can meet the needs of San Franciscans,” Dennis-Phillips said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But City Hall cannot control all the forces that converged to create the economic boom and resulting housing crisis. As the 2008 recession made clear, housing in San Francisco will continue to rise only as long as local developers see the payoff in rapid construction to meet the demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The building will occur if the economy remains strong,” Olson Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>, a News Associate of KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Association of Bay Area Governments recommends San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/pdf/final_supplemental_reports/Final_Bay_Area_2014-2022_RHNA_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">build at least 28,800 housing units by 2022\u003c/a>, which Lee’s goal would exceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his January \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=983\" target=\"_blank\">State of the City address\u003c/a>, Lee said that builders needed to quicken the pace to keep up with demand. Adding supply overall, he said, would bring down housing costs across the price spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the speech, Lee’s staff did some quick math, counting up the apartments included in housing projects now on the books citywide. They “assumed” that between 27,094 and 28,494 housing units would be built by 2020. In response to a public records request by the Public Press, the mayor’s office shared these estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,920 housing units now under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,574 units for which permits are filed or granted, but not yet under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2,500 units in the Hunters Point Shipyard housing project’s first phase.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>3,100–4,500 units in other large projects, including Parkmerced, the old Schlage Lock site in Visitacion Valley, Pier 70 and Mission Rock near Pier 48.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Housing construction cannot happen overnight. Indeed, many of these have been on the drawing board for years. So Lee cannot precisely claim credit for all of them, since many of the permit applications were filed long before he became mayor, in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sources would likely put San Francisco’s housing production over the top of the 30,000 goal. City staff estimated that up to 4,000 units of “rehabilitated” public housing could be built by 2020, and that additional units not now in the pipeline could be completed. And city staff did even not factor in contributions from the massive development planned at Treasure Island, which would add roughly 2,900 units by the 2020 deadline, said Robert Beck, the project’s development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city may also have lowballed its estimate for the Hunters Point Shipyard. The developer there said it would produce 3,400 new homes by 2019, or almost 1,000 units more than the city predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020. That is more than three times the annual average over the last two decades, said John Rahaim, the city’s planning director. The closest the city came to that level of production was in \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/O3RpuD\" target=\"_blank\">2009, when it built 3,454 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s goal is “very doable,” Rahaim said. He based his assessment on the large number of active projects citywide where developers have filed or received building permit applications or begun construction. The Development Pipeline lists 857 housing projects. If all of them get built, they would create more than 50,000 units of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hurdles ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, having permits or construction plans is not the same as producing finished housing. Major projects will contribute large numbers of residential units in the long term, making them central to the city’s housing goals, said Olson Lee, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing. But these will take years, and in some cases decades to complete, due in part to financial, legal and regulatory obstacles. The Hunters Point project is the only large development that has broken ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction at Parkmerced, in the city’s southwest corner, has been held up in litigation over its environmental impact report. Stuart Flashman, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the Parkmerced Action Coalition, said it could take years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasure Island development can progress only as quickly as the U.S. Navy remediates toxic soil — necessarily a slow and deliberate process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission Rock and Schlage Lock projects are in the design phase, awaiting city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing planner Dennis-Phillips said the city has approved only about half of the 30,000 units, and these projects must still overcome “permitting, constructability, financing or market challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing task force established by the mayor in December will attempt to streamline the construction entitlement process. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9092_2014-01-17-07.45.23-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9092_2014-01-17-07.45.23-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt='A man toasts marshmallows for the crowd gathered to hear \"Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors.\" (Stephanie Martin/KQED)' width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man toasts marshmallows for the crowd gathered to hear “Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors.” (Stephanie Martin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For almost two decades, LisaRuth Elliott has lived a colorful, bohemian life in San Francisco — painting murals, making collages and working as a community historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also lived in Seattle, Southern California and Europe, but she says it was San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene that energized her life and her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not now, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when artists would get together and say, ‘Hey, what are you working on?’ ‘Well, I’m really inspired by Pluto!’ or, ‘I’m really inspired by this technological creation!’ Whatever that topic might be,” Elliott says. “Now, it’s, ‘Ugh, how long am I going to be able to stay in the city?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing is a major issue for artists in San Francisco. The city does well compared with others around the nation when it comes to \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">funding artists’ work\u003c/a>. But the city’s efforts to create affordable live/work spaces for artists haven’t panned out. Many local artists are now worrying the high cost of housing will force them to leave the city and abandon their creative community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott is one of dozens of artists and community activists who cram into a small courtyard behind a coffee house in San Francisco’s Mission District. A campfire burns before a makeshift stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She steps up to the microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Floating, drifting — I have been living as a sort of ghost for the last five months,” she says. The event is called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/730582570300323/?ref=22\"> “Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors”.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Elliott talks about her eviction from her home in the Haight, a man sitting next to the fire toasts marshmallows and passes out s’mores to the crowd. The event is supposed to be campy, but the storytellers strain to contain their emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s anyone who wants to prevent artists from leaving, it’s Tom DeCaigny, cultural affairs director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfartscommission.org/\">San Francisco Arts Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a couple of artists who are personal friends in the city who have faced eviction and a couple of them have had to leave the city. And on a personal level that’s hard,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s DeCaigny’s job to promote and preserve the city’s arts and culture industry, which pumps roughly $1.4 billion a year into the local economy. He remembers the last artist exodus, spurred by the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. He’s asking city leaders to study that era to see what worked and what went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back at ’99 and 2000, the city did make some financial contributions to specific shared-space initiatives,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those investments gave San Francisco dancers a \u003ca href=\"http://www.odcdance.org/\">state-of-the-art performance and training complex\u003c/a> in the Mission. Independent filmmakers got a new place to screen their work at a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninthstreet.org/building\">facility in the mid-Market area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we know there are solutions by which the city can make investments, and private philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, to foster new innovations in both shared nonprofit space but also developments around artists’ housing,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco artist and activist LisaRuth Elliott tells her eviction horror story at an event in the Mission. (Stepha\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco artist and activist LisaRuth Elliott tells her eviction horror story at an event in the Mission. (Stephanie Martin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the last dot-com boom also hurt rezoning efforts designed to create affordable housing for artists. The new live-work spaces attracted an affluent crowd, and artists were priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is part of the brand for San Francisco,” says Randy Cohen, who researches and promotes sustainable arts policies at \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">Americans for the Arts\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know San Francisco has many positive attributes, but, globally, it’s thought of as a great cultural city,” he says. “If your artists are leaving town, you’re putting a key component of your brand at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says that while San Francisco searches for solutions to its housing crunch, less expensive cities like Seattle, Baltimore and Detroit are jumping on the opportunity to cultivate their own cultural brand, and they’re offering artists some enticing housing incentives. In Detroit, for example, homesteading is all the rage, says Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know: Live here, move here, work here for five years, and you get the deed,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, economic factors have long dictated where artists live and work: Artists priced out of Manhattan have moved to Brooklyn. Boston artists have moved to Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Oakland is luring artists from San Francisco and beyond, says Kelley Kahn, Oakland’s economic development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a sense here that you can come here and actually have a really high quality of life and, at the same time, be able to make a living in fine arts or the industrial art,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some artists hope Oakland won’t get too popular. Housing costs here are also on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The event is supposed to be campy, but the storytellers strain to contain their emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s anyone who wants to prevent artists from leaving, it’s Tom DeCaigny, cultural affairs director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfartscommission.org/\">San Francisco Arts Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a couple of artists who are personal friends in the city who have faced eviction and a couple of them have had to leave the city. And on a personal level that’s hard,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s DeCaigny’s job to promote and preserve the city’s arts and culture industry, which pumps roughly $1.4 billion a year into the local economy. He remembers the last artist exodus, spurred by the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. He’s asking city leaders to study that era to see what worked and what went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back at ’99 and 2000, the city did make some financial contributions to specific shared-space initiatives,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those investments gave San Francisco dancers a \u003ca href=\"http://www.odcdance.org/\">state-of-the-art performance and training complex\u003c/a> in the Mission. Independent filmmakers got a new place to screen their work at a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninthstreet.org/building\">facility in the mid-Market area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we know there are solutions by which the city can make investments, and private philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, to foster new innovations in both shared nonprofit space but also developments around artists’ housing,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco artist and activist LisaRuth Elliott tells her eviction horror story at an event in the Mission. 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The new live-work spaces attracted an affluent crowd, and artists were priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is part of the brand for San Francisco,” says Randy Cohen, who researches and promotes sustainable arts policies at \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">Americans for the Arts\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know San Francisco has many positive attributes, but, globally, it’s thought of as a great cultural city,” he says. “If your artists are leaving town, you’re putting a key component of your brand at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says that while San Francisco searches for solutions to its housing crunch, less expensive cities like Seattle, Baltimore and Detroit are jumping on the opportunity to cultivate their own cultural brand, and they’re offering artists some enticing housing incentives. In Detroit, for example, homesteading is all the rage, says Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know: Live here, move here, work here for five years, and you get the deed,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, economic factors have long dictated where artists live and work: Artists priced out of Manhattan have moved to Brooklyn. Boston artists have moved to Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Oakland is luring artists from San Francisco and beyond, says Kelley Kahn, Oakland’s economic development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a sense here that you can come here and actually have a really high quality of life and, at the same time, be able to make a living in fine arts or the industrial art,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some artists hope Oakland won’t get too popular. Housing costs here are also on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/8971_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-127684\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/8971_transform-640x383.jpg\" alt=\"Timothy and Tiffanie Keighran with daughter Leilani and son TJ. (Cy Musiker/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy and Tiffanie Keighran with daughter Leilani and son TJ. (Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s new evidence every day of the Bay Area’s brutal housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a lot of housing experts think the short supply of affordable rentals is likely to get worse, at least partly because the state did away with redevelopment agencies two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all their faults, the agencies were legally required to devote a fifth of their revenue to affordable housing -- about $1 billion a year. And even as housing advocates mourn the loss of redevelopment, they’re hoping lawmakers will provide some alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, nonprofit developers are still breaking ground on some new projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tiny tractor was zipping back and forth a few days ago in Hayward readying the ground for work on 22 new apartments. They’ll be part of a complex for seniors on limited incomes, at the site of a former cannery, built and managed by Eden Housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cannery that we’re standing in,” said Eden Housing President Linda Mandolini, watching the tractor work, “the whole area happened because of redevelopment, and made it possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mandolini said Eden had to tap federal funds for this new construction, after California lawmakers did away with redevelopment agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state wiped out a billion dollars a year, statewide, for affordable housing, and they’ve replaced it with nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Mandolini said the need for affordable housing is urgent. “I can foresee significantly longer lines for affordable housing.” she told me. “The last property that we leased, we had 10 applications for every apartment that we had available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I sat in her office, she detailed how affordable housing subsidies are drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll give you an example.” Mandolini said, “Oakland used to have an RFP (bureaucrat speak for a request for proposals) that was $20 million a year to develop new affordable housing. This year the RFP is $3 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that 85 percent decline, she said, is due to the end of redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Jose has also taken a hit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds are withering away as well in San Jose, the country’s fourth-most-expensive housing market (San Francisco is first). San Jose Housing Director Leslye Corsiglia told me recently that redevelopment used to subsidize close to 1,000 units a year of below-market-rate housing\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect this year with the funds we’ll have to produce about a quarter of that amount.” Corsiglia said. “And even at 1,000 units a year, that wasn’t enough to meet the need. So we’re falling farther and farther behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a regional housing plan for the Bay Area under which San Jose is supposed to build about 2,500 affordable units a year. Corsiglia said the city can subsidize only one-tenth that many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t expect salaries to keep up with the high cost of rentals, even with the booming tech economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corsiglia said firefighters and teachers are struggling to pay soaring rents or to buy a home. And she points to a recent study from the Silicon Valley Housing Trust that predicted more than half the new jobs in Santa Clara County in the next five years will pay $11 an hour or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want to have a high-quality community, we need to provide housing for all, and that includes people who mow your lawn and clean your house,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or ring up your groceries in San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been living paycheck to paycheck for a couple of years now, and it only got harder after we had a kid,” said Timothy Keighran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keighran, a former Marine, is a retail clerk at Whole Foods. He said for years he worked two jobs and still fell behind on the rent for a small, dirty apartment in San Mateo that cost almost $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, the two jobs didn’t take a toll on me,\" he said. \"It was the fact that I was missing whole days in the life of my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keighran shared the one-bedroom apartment with his 3-year old son, T-J, 7-month-old daughter, Leilani, and wife, Tiffanie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"There was no way of getting out'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt we were in a black hole,” Tiffanie Keighran told me recently, “and going deeper and deeper and deeper. There was no way of getting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Keighrans now pay less than $1,000 a month for a clean, well-lit, brand-new apartment with two bedrooms and two baths. MidPen Housing, a nonprofit developer like Eden Housing, finished building the apartment complex in San Mateo late last year, partly with redevelopment funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’ve been living paycheck to paycheck for a couple of years now, and it only got harder after we had a kid.'\u003ccite>Timothy Keighran\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It really took a toll on you, but as you see now, it’s so worth it,\" Tim Keighran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Keighrans were one of 60 lucky families, out of 2,800 who applied. Thousands of qualified renters remain on the waiting list for just this building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing shortfall is bad not just for working stiffs but for the whole Bay Area, said demographer Hans Johnson at the Public Policy Institute of California, because it’s bad for the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians spend a higher share of their income on housing than in any other state,\" he said. \"And so that means you have less money to spend on other activities,” whether that’s health care or food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is big enough, Johnson said, to accommodate a few cities like Atherton and Hillsborough, or Piedmont and Kensington, where only the rich can afford housing. But housing costs today are soaring from San Jose up the Peninsula to San Francisco, with Oakland not far behind. That means longer commutes for some from lower-cost areas, polluting the air and making roadways more congested for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson said he’s troubled by a new survey he oversaw that found the state isn’t building enough housing of any sort -- affordable or market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the boom times we were producing 150,000 to 200,000 new housing units each year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the state is building barely half that number, Johnson said, “so we clearly have a problem with building new supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson said that shortfall is driving prices up, no matter how much cities or the state subsidizes housing that is below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone I talked to for this story said they’re looking to one bill in the state Legislature, “The California Homes and Jobs Act,” from state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, to help California fill the funding gap left by the end of redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would make a big difference in starting to deal with our crisis in affordable housing in California,\" DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposed fee could raise up to $750 million\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His measure, SB391, would impose a $75 fee on real estate documents for refinancing and produce, DeSaulnier said, up to $750 million in new revenue for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get out of that a restoration of a significant portion of the old housing set-aside we had with redevelopment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing costs are going through the roof in urban areas in California,” DeSaulnier said in a recent interview, “and are a major contributor to higher poverty rates in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier also has co-sponsored a bill that would allow cities to create a kind of \"redevelopment lite.\" They could designate certain neighborhoods for housing and infrastructure improvements, and then use some of the same financing tools that were key to redevelopment agencies becoming a $5 billion-a-year industry in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One difference from the old system is that the new districts would have to win approval from the county, school district and other tax entities that would be shortchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has also proposed making it easier to form Infrastructure Improvement Districts, another way to finance affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the California Department of Finance, said “the ability to expand those infrastructure districts would be contingent on the continued winding down or dissolution of redevelopment districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that process is hung up in the courts, with billions of dollars still at stake as cities battle to hold onto redevelopment funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, people like Timothy Keighran say they’d welcome any policy change that produced more affordable housing. Keighran said he grew up in San Francisco and his wife Tiffanie in South San Francisco. 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This year the RFP is $3 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that 85 percent decline, she said, is due to the end of redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Jose has also taken a hit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds are withering away as well in San Jose, the country’s fourth-most-expensive housing market (San Francisco is first). San Jose Housing Director Leslye Corsiglia told me recently that redevelopment used to subsidize close to 1,000 units a year of below-market-rate housing\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect this year with the funds we’ll have to produce about a quarter of that amount.” Corsiglia said. “And even at 1,000 units a year, that wasn’t enough to meet the need. So we’re falling farther and farther behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a regional housing plan for the Bay Area under which San Jose is supposed to build about 2,500 affordable units a year. Corsiglia said the city can subsidize only one-tenth that many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t expect salaries to keep up with the high cost of rentals, even with the booming tech economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corsiglia said firefighters and teachers are struggling to pay soaring rents or to buy a home. And she points to a recent study from the Silicon Valley Housing Trust that predicted more than half the new jobs in Santa Clara County in the next five years will pay $11 an hour or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want to have a high-quality community, we need to provide housing for all, and that includes people who mow your lawn and clean your house,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or ring up your groceries in San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been living paycheck to paycheck for a couple of years now, and it only got harder after we had a kid,” said Timothy Keighran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keighran, a former Marine, is a retail clerk at Whole Foods. He said for years he worked two jobs and still fell behind on the rent for a small, dirty apartment in San Mateo that cost almost $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, the two jobs didn’t take a toll on me,\" he said. \"It was the fact that I was missing whole days in the life of my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keighran shared the one-bedroom apartment with his 3-year old son, T-J, 7-month-old daughter, Leilani, and wife, Tiffanie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"There was no way of getting out'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt we were in a black hole,” Tiffanie Keighran told me recently, “and going deeper and deeper and deeper. There was no way of getting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Keighrans now pay less than $1,000 a month for a clean, well-lit, brand-new apartment with two bedrooms and two baths. MidPen Housing, a nonprofit developer like Eden Housing, finished building the apartment complex in San Mateo late last year, partly with redevelopment funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’ve been living paycheck to paycheck for a couple of years now, and it only got harder after we had a kid.'\u003ccite>Timothy Keighran\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It really took a toll on you, but as you see now, it’s so worth it,\" Tim Keighran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Keighrans were one of 60 lucky families, out of 2,800 who applied. Thousands of qualified renters remain on the waiting list for just this building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing shortfall is bad not just for working stiffs but for the whole Bay Area, said demographer Hans Johnson at the Public Policy Institute of California, because it’s bad for the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians spend a higher share of their income on housing than in any other state,\" he said. \"And so that means you have less money to spend on other activities,” whether that’s health care or food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is big enough, Johnson said, to accommodate a few cities like Atherton and Hillsborough, or Piedmont and Kensington, where only the rich can afford housing. But housing costs today are soaring from San Jose up the Peninsula to San Francisco, with Oakland not far behind. That means longer commutes for some from lower-cost areas, polluting the air and making roadways more congested for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson said he’s troubled by a new survey he oversaw that found the state isn’t building enough housing of any sort -- affordable or market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the boom times we were producing 150,000 to 200,000 new housing units each year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the state is building barely half that number, Johnson said, “so we clearly have a problem with building new supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson said that shortfall is driving prices up, no matter how much cities or the state subsidizes housing that is below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone I talked to for this story said they’re looking to one bill in the state Legislature, “The California Homes and Jobs Act,” from state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127502\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Workers board a private bus at 24th and Valencia streets. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers board a private bus at 24th and Valencia streets. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’d prefer that our city by the bay be known as the home of brilliant tech innovation, counterculture trends and culinary delights. But a \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/02/cities-unequal-berube\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Brookings Institution confirms that San Francisco also is earning its other, less desirable reputation as a kind of ground zero for rising income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings: When it comes to income, San Francisco is the second-most-unequal among American cities, after Atlanta. And in no other city has the rich-poor divide widened more in recent years. (Oakland, meanwhile, is not so far behind, ranking seventh on the list nationally. But the gap has not widened appreciably in recent years. San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, ranks far down \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/02/city%20inequality/appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the complete list\u003c/a>, No. 36; the rich/poor gap also grew far slower there than in San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the report’s author, Alan Berube, senior fellow and deputy director in Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program, decided to run the numbers on income inequality nationwide, he was inspired in part by coverage of the tech bus protests in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berube tapped U.S. Census data for his analysis, and he chose a particular measure to compare the haves and have-nots: the “95/20 ratio.” It’s a comparison between the income that puts a household in the 95th percentile, or the top 5 percent, and the income that puts one in the bottom 20 percent. Berube explained that comparing those extremes helps us gauge the severity of the distance in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The picture he found was stark. In the most unequal cities — Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami and Boston, in that order — residents at the top earned at least 15 times the income of those at the bottom. In San Francisco, for instance, the top 5 percent of households earned more than $353,000 per year, whereas the bottom 20 percent of households mostly earned less than $21,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, when Berube compared the income gap from 2007 (just before the recession) with 2012, he found that the disparity in this city has grown more dramatically than in any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco stood out not only in being one of the most unequal cities — and I think you might have guessed that even before you ran the data — but the data also confirmed that San Francisco has experienced the most pronounced recent increase in disparity between its rich and poor households,” Berube said. “There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 547px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"547\" height=\"557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only did typical earnings drop by $4,000 for San Franciscans in the lowest income bracket during that time, but the gains among households at the top soared by $28,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidden in those numbers might be yet another distressing trend, Berube said. Even the bottom 20 percent in San Francisco earns more than the poorest people in most other cities, and that might, at first glance, appear encouraging. But Berube underscored that it may not mean that San Francisco’s poor are paid better — it may simply mean that the poorest of the poor are just leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re at an income of $15,000, there’s no longer any place to live in San Francisco,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 588px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"588\" height=\"579\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, Berube’s number-crunching showed that big cities in general are more unequal than other places. In other words, compared with the national average, the urban rich are a little bit richer, and the urban poor are a little poorer. Why? Cities increasingly house the industries with the highest-paid knowledge workers, Berube said. Yet at the same time, the public housing, social services and public transportation found in urban centers also make them a likely home for low-income people. Thus, the extremes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So which cities showed up on the more equal end of the spectrum? Most, Berube wrote, “are Southern and Western cities with expansive borders, and either include many ‘suburban’ neighborhoods alongside a traditional urban core, or are themselves overgrown suburbs like Mesa, Ariz., and Arlington, Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprise: Seattle. Berube expected to see it neck-and-neck with San Francisco for income disparity. But it ranked only 31st of 50 cities. It turns out that “Seattle is a much less unequal place than San Francisco is,” according to Berube. 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