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"content": "\u003cp>A 1901 brown-shingle duplex that sat on Berkeley Way for 116 years got a new home Sunday -- about eight blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-story house was moved south on Walnut Street starting around 7 a.m., then west on University Avenue and south on Martin Luther King Jr. Way until it was set on a narrow lot at 2214 MLK, right across the street from Berkeley High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the mammoth structure was towed, people came out of stores and exercise facilities to gawk, exclaim, photograph and video the procession. A number of people said they had personal connections to the duplex, which may not be that surprising considering the building’s long history in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so exciting, “said Joan Sprinson. “Here’s this beautiful old neglected house that’s getting moved to a new life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-160x93.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-240x139.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-375x217.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-520x301.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The house stood on Berkeley Way for 116 years, Here Phil Joy’s company is starting the move down Walnut Street. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The house made its way past numerous Berkeley landmarks, including the UC Theatre. \u003ccite>(Photo: Ted Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trundling past Trader Joe’s on University Avenue. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-240x158.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-375x247.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-520x343.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The house was pulled by the police station. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move was part of a complicated orchestration of events involving big development in Berkeley, affordable housing, and preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duplex, and a similar one still on Berkeley Way, sat on land that Equity Residential acquired as part of its plan to construct the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/search_gcse/?q=Acheson%20Way\">205-unit Acheson Way complex\u003c/a> that will be located on University and Shattuck avenues. While the brown-shingle buildings have not been occupied for a long time, they were once rent-controlled units. The Berkeley City Council was loath to lose those units, so, as part of the permit, the city required that the developer either move and refurbish the buildings, or put six rent-controlled apartments in the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential sold the two brown-shingle homes for $1 each to Dmitri Belser and Tom White, who have made a small business out of moving and refurbishing homes. Both Equity and Mill Creek Residential Trust, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/09/26/equity-residential-sells-downtown-berkeley-acheson-commons-property-to-texas-firm/\">which acquired the entitled project in 2016\u003c/a>, donated some money for the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was another historic building that had to be moved off 2214 MLK Jr.Way before the duplex could be moved onto the lot. This 1916 building has housed a number of organizations. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belser and White bought the houses in 2010 but did not find the land on which to place one of them until 2013. The lot they bought on Martin Luther King Jr. Way had another historical property on it, a 1916 structure that originally housed a store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450593\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-160x92.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-240x138.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-375x215.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-520x298.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2214 MLK in the 1960s. \u003ccite>(Steve Wasserman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, it was the campaign headquarters for Robert Scheer, the Ramparts editor who ran for Congress, and then was the headquarters of the Berkeley High School Radical Student Union, according to Steve Wasserman, the publisher of Heyday who was the BHS student body president in 1969. It was last used for a bail bond company. (The Berkeley jail is about two blocks away). That smaller building was moved to an adjoining lot on Saturday to allow the duplex to be set in the back. It will be moved back to its original spot at the front of the lot on Monday, said Belser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belser and White plan to fix up both buildings. The duplex will be affordable, meaning it will rent for 50 percent of the AMI. The apartments will be rent-controlled. The smaller building is grandfathered in for a commercial use, said Belser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh49ggoOgLQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Joy of Phil Joy Housemoving and Leveling oversaw the move and it was delicately done. The house was put on a trailer hitched to a big truck. The house was remarkably agile: When it got too close to trees, the driver adjusted the house’s position. When a car was unexpectedly parked on University Avenue (despite dozens of “no parking” signs that had been up for days), the truck was able to pull the house closer to the center of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the house on to its final resting place was more difficult. The soil on the lot was soft, so Joy’s workers had to lay metal planks of the ground to prevent the wheels of the trailer from sinking into the ground. And the truck pulling the house had little room to maneuver and it appeared difficult at times to keep the house on the right track. But it was finally set down, more than three hours after it left its old home on Berkeley Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835.jpeg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dmitri Belser (r) with his partner Tom White (c) and their son Sebastian Belser as the house makes its way through Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel/Berkelyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belser said moving the house was “insanity,” but it is clear he and White are hooked on the experience. They are currently talking to Berkeley about another spot for the second brown-shingle house. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/02/24/house-on-the-move/\">The pair also moved the Cheney Cottage\u003c/a> from 2241 and 2243 College Avenue to 62nd Street in 2011\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love old houses,” said Belser. “When we moved the Cheney Cottage we realized we could. We thought it was a great way of saving houses that are at risk, that are endangered. It is the ultimate in recycling, keeping all of this (and he swung his arm around to indicate the duplex) out of the landfill is a really big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the house being moved into place — as well as interviews with its owners, Dmitri Belser and Tom White, Berkeleyside contributing photographer Ted Friedman and various observers — on our Facebook Live video:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fberkeleyside%2Fvideos%2F10155188018257456%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A 1901 brown-shingle duplex that sat on Berkeley Way for 116 years got a new home Sunday -- about eight blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-story house was moved south on Walnut Street starting around 7 a.m., then west on University Avenue and south on Martin Luther King Jr. Way until it was set on a narrow lot at 2214 MLK, right across the street from Berkeley High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the mammoth structure was towed, people came out of stores and exercise facilities to gawk, exclaim, photograph and video the procession. A number of people said they had personal connections to the duplex, which may not be that surprising considering the building’s long history in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so exciting, “said Joan Sprinson. “Here’s this beautiful old neglected house that’s getting moved to a new life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-160x93.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-240x139.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-375x217.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4479-520x301.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The house stood on Berkeley Way for 116 years, Here Phil Joy’s company is starting the move down Walnut Street. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4522-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The house made its way past numerous Berkeley landmarks, including the UC Theatre. \u003ccite>(Photo: Ted Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_4550-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trundling past Trader Joe’s on University Avenue. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-240x158.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-375x247.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1630-520x343.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The house was pulled by the police station. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move was part of a complicated orchestration of events involving big development in Berkeley, affordable housing, and preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duplex, and a similar one still on Berkeley Way, sat on land that Equity Residential acquired as part of its plan to construct the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/search_gcse/?q=Acheson%20Way\">205-unit Acheson Way complex\u003c/a> that will be located on University and Shattuck avenues. While the brown-shingle buildings have not been occupied for a long time, they were once rent-controlled units. The Berkeley City Council was loath to lose those units, so, as part of the permit, the city required that the developer either move and refurbish the buildings, or put six rent-controlled apartments in the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential sold the two brown-shingle homes for $1 each to Dmitri Belser and Tom White, who have made a small business out of moving and refurbishing homes. Both Equity and Mill Creek Residential Trust, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/09/26/equity-residential-sells-downtown-berkeley-acheson-commons-property-to-texas-firm/\">which acquired the entitled project in 2016\u003c/a>, donated some money for the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/DSCF1647-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was another historic building that had to be moved off 2214 MLK Jr.Way before the duplex could be moved onto the lot. This 1916 building has housed a number of organizations. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belser and White bought the houses in 2010 but did not find the land on which to place one of them until 2013. The lot they bought on Martin Luther King Jr. Way had another historical property on it, a 1916 structure that originally housed a store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450593\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-160x92.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-240x138.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-375x215.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/2214-MLK-768x440-520x298.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2214 MLK in the 1960s. \u003ccite>(Steve Wasserman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, it was the campaign headquarters for Robert Scheer, the Ramparts editor who ran for Congress, and then was the headquarters of the Berkeley High School Radical Student Union, according to Steve Wasserman, the publisher of Heyday who was the BHS student body president in 1969. It was last used for a bail bond company. (The Berkeley jail is about two blocks away). That smaller building was moved to an adjoining lot on Saturday to allow the duplex to be set in the back. It will be moved back to its original spot at the front of the lot on Monday, said Belser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belser and White plan to fix up both buildings. The duplex will be affordable, meaning it will rent for 50 percent of the AMI. The apartments will be rent-controlled. The smaller building is grandfathered in for a commercial use, said Belser.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Oh49ggoOgLQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Oh49ggoOgLQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Phil Joy of Phil Joy Housemoving and Leveling oversaw the move and it was delicately done. The house was put on a trailer hitched to a big truck. The house was remarkably agile: When it got too close to trees, the driver adjusted the house’s position. When a car was unexpectedly parked on University Avenue (despite dozens of “no parking” signs that had been up for days), the truck was able to pull the house closer to the center of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the house on to its final resting place was more difficult. The soil on the lot was soft, so Joy’s workers had to lay metal planks of the ground to prevent the wheels of the trailer from sinking into the ground. And the truck pulling the house had little room to maneuver and it appeared difficult at times to keep the house on the right track. But it was finally set down, more than three hours after it left its old home on Berkeley Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11450600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835.jpeg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_8835-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dmitri Belser (r) with his partner Tom White (c) and their son Sebastian Belser as the house makes its way through Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel/Berkelyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Belser said moving the house was “insanity,” but it is clear he and White are hooked on the experience. They are currently talking to Berkeley about another spot for the second brown-shingle house. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/02/24/house-on-the-move/\">The pair also moved the Cheney Cottage\u003c/a> from 2241 and 2243 College Avenue to 62nd Street in 2011\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love old houses,” said Belser. “When we moved the Cheney Cottage we realized we could. We thought it was a great way of saving houses that are at risk, that are endangered. It is the ultimate in recycling, keeping all of this (and he swung his arm around to indicate the duplex) out of the landfill is a really big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the house being moved into place — as well as interviews with its owners, Dmitri Belser and Tom White, Berkeleyside contributing photographer Ted Friedman and various observers — on our Facebook Live video:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fberkeleyside%2Fvideos%2F10155188018257456%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's plan to raise millions of dollars for affordable housing by charging a new fee on real estate development looks like a foregone conclusion, says the head of the area's largest trade group for builders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This one's a freight train,\" said Randy Johnson, president of the Los Angeles/Ventura chapter of the Building Industry Association. \"The mayor really wants it and there’s no one on the City Council that is going to go against it that I know of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, who first proposed the fee in fall 2015 as a way to fund the much-needed production of below-market-rate housing, brought up his proposal again in \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/04/20/70944/la-mayor-to-deliver-city-address-budget-plan-with/\">his State of the City address\u003c/a> last week. Garcetti urged the City Council to pass the fee \"and do it now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"loiie8W8Ax5yM0dIU42ZGmwkTPBh0CYU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is reviving a debate over whether developer fees lead to more affordable housing or discourage housing development in the city. There may not be consensus on that issue, but most agree that there's an urgent need to address affordable housing in Los Angeles, where many spend over 50 percent of their income for a roof over their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Winter, the mayor’s housing policy specialist, said planners have been working to shape the proposal so council members can pass it this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s gone through the analysis, through City Planning Commission and multiple hearings,\" Winter said. \"So it’s ready to go, ready to rock 'n' roll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers have \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/10/23/55198/mayor-garcetti-seeks-developer-fee-for-affordable/\">expressed concerns\u003c/a> over the fee at hearings, but they are not the only critics. City Controller Ron Galperin said imposing another fee on builders -- $12 per square foot on residential buildings, $5 for commercial -- isn’t going to help fix the city’s housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just making it more expensive to build and charging that to those who are actually building more units is really counterintuitive,\" Galperin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"wTkEdwfW3Bj9wN18Qmn4bt32N0gtZA8J\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the fee would not generate enough money to help the low-income households who could use the affordable housing. His office estimates that more than 90 percent of low-income households in L.A. live in market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office has tried to address concerns about the fee's impact on the cost of development by exempting smaller buildings, such as homes under 1,500 square feet, buildings with five units or less and second homes in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter said developers also have the option to include a certain amount of affordable housing in their project rather than paying the fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal will go before the council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee, led by Councilman Jose Huizar, before a vote by the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement from Huizar's office, the councilman said he \"looks forward to a robust discussion\" on the new fee and that his goal is to hear it \"as part of a comprehensive affordable housing discussion related to land-use issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galperin said another initiative by the mayor and the council mentioned in Garcetti's State of the City speech will boost housing production in a way a new fee can't. The mayor reiterated a plan to update the city's planning documents, many of them decades-old, which Galperin said will streamline the approval process for projects.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Take a trip through some pivotal moments in Marin history that contributed to its demographics today. \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast\u003c/a> from KQED that answers your questions about the Bay Area. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ix years ago, Henry Ma moved to the Bay Area with his wife from New York City. They settled in San Rafael — the perfect location between both of their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they had two girls, he started to notice something about where he lived in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our daughter was the only Asian in the school of 72 kids,” Ma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It made him wonder: “The Bay Area is one of the most diverse places in the country. Within the Bay Area, why is Marin County the least diverse?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312354\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11312354\" title=\"Courtesy of Henry Ma\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-800x1106.jpg\" alt=\"attachment (8)\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-800x1106.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-1020x1410.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-1920x2655.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-1180x1632.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-960x1327.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-240x332.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-375x518.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-520x719.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Ma lives in San Rafael \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Henry Ma)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Looking at the Numbers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The data back up Henry’s experience. According to the most recent U.S. Census data, a huge majority — as in 72 percent — of people who live in Marin County identify their race as white. And that doesn’t include Hispanic/Latino folks who also identify as white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Alameda County is 33 percent white and 29 percent Asian. Asians make up just 6 percent of people in Marin County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But look back at Marin County’s history and you’ll find that it wasn’t always that way. In fact, its demographic history is not too far off from the rest of the Bay Area’s. Archives at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinlibrary.org/californiaroom/\">Anne T. Kent California Room\u003c/a> show that what is now Marin County was once almost completely occupied by tribes of the Coast Miwok Indians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1817, the Spanish established Mission San Rafael Arcangel in what is now the city of San Rafael. Between 1834-1846, significant portions of Marin were owned by people of Spanish and Mexican descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, there was a huge influx of African-Americans who came to work in the shipyards during World War II, though it wasn’t enough to change the demographics significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what explains the county’s demographics as they look today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A common guess is that it has to do with the lack of public transportation options in Marin County. BART, for example, doesn’t reach the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income residents who live in San Rafael — home to the highest percentage of Latinos in Marin County — \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111300630/a\">have reported\u003c/a> that they live there because of the public transportation options. San Rafael has the most used transit service in the county, and some residents say that better transit throughout the county would \u003ca href=\"http://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/2813\">allow them to move.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a lot more to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Conservation Efforts Took Up Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There were a few huge moments in Marin County history that played a role in changing the demographics of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first came in 1896, when a couple of business-minded conservationists built the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/learn/historyculture/upload/MtTamMUWOrrIDP.pdf\"> Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad, 1926\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/V8KlsOxpzAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The railway was an 8-mile long, open-air ride up the side of Mount Tamalpais. At the peak of the mountain was a spectacular view of the San Francisco Bay Area. There was a resort, a grand restaurant, bar and tavern where visitors could stay the night. People from the East Coast and even Europe would travel to Marin County to ride the railway in long dresses and three-piece suits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main purpose of the railway was to showcase the natural beauty of Marin so that people would want to preserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing those things inspired people to want to create the national parks they have now,” said Fred Runner, \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20170102/NEWS/170109973\">a historian\u003c/a> who wrote a book on the historic railway. “Their whole thing was to show off the lovely scenery and to try to promote wilderness conservation. Everybody who worked on the railroad believed in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11312357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-1020x650.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Runner stands in front of the Book Depot in Mill Valley, where the Mt. Tam Science Railway trains would board passengers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-960x612.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-520x332.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149.jpg 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Runner stands in front of the Book Depot in Mill Valley, where the Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway trains would board passengers. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The railway was just the start of fruitful conservation efforts in Marin County — efforts that today leave around \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/main/county-press-releases/press-releases/2016/deeper-affordablehousing-071416\">80 percent\u003c/a> of the county undeveloped because of long-standing commitments to land preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2012/05/22/bay-area-open-space-75-percent-is-being-protected-but-300000-acres-are-still-at-risk/\">the most\u003c/a> land set aside for preservation of any Bay Area county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the battles that raged early on was to try and stop building homes,” said Runner. “There were a number of legal battles around that — just by the skin of their teeth — being able to stop housing developments and create preserved wilderness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11315553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11315553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/21046960594_a078496170_k-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"The Mt. Tamalpais Watershed\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mount Tamalpais Watershed \u003ccite>( \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jesse/21046960594/in/photolist-2kcPC3-2kcPAu-2kcPxq-2kcPxG-2kcPBG-2kcPAm-7HgJCy-gPaXKd-9Doaub-q1GG9S-q1GGFJ-p71GvU-pLpPow-aMxGi6-p74km2-aMxEbZ-7UCwmZ-p71HHU-2k8UNr-aomb5K-aooWsG-aokUfH-wBdWNn-p74k4t-jWF2Ao-pLpPrs-6Cetsq-q3Cwbr-pLpPBh-dtbMoy-6qaEXZ-aMxFHc-aMxC2R-5FY3DA-6CerH9-6CesJ9-6nsL7e-6CaiW2-aMxDQB-E93ukJ-aMxBXF-4nr8vF-xtUmm-6CetkY-aomxxK-aokU6B-Gk5gcg-B6unam-y4Rb7W-dtbzLK/\">Jesse Wagstaff\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A combination of limited land, zoning laws and Marin County’s proximity to San Francisco created a scenario in which the demand for housing far outweighed supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes that were built were very expensive. Who doesn’t want to live next to a giant park, right? Today, the median household income is nearly $94,000 a year, according to census data. This, over time, began to limit who was able to move into Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11312513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3364-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Runner shows historic photos of the Mount Tam Scenic Railway from his book.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Runner shows historic photos of the Mount Tam Scenic Railway from his book. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Fights Over Affordable Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marin’s skewed demographics caught the attention of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2011, and it conducted \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111300630/a\">an audit\u003c/a> on the county. It sought to answer: Was the county working hard enough to include people of color in its housing plans?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HUD identified Marin as a county of interest because Marin County is primarily white,” said Jessica Tankersley Sparks, who co-wrote a report called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/~/media/files/departments/cd/federal-grants/analysis_of_impediments_to_fair_housing_choice.pdf\">“Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice”\u003c/a> for Marin County. “In comparison to surrounding counties, those demographics are strikingly different from the demographics in Marin County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11315486\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11315486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/26672489733_ae180a6d9e_k-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"The median household income in Marin County is almost $94,000 a year. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The median household income in Marin County is almost $94,000 a year. \u003ccite>( \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/elchode/26672489733/in/photolist-GCXtWD-Hsjcj4-dvCB1v-dvCzUF-dvCERa-dvCFAR-dvCA1T-dvCDf8-dvJcz3-dvJdZC-dvCBpR-dvCAAe-dvJbnW-dvJfL1-dvCGfv-dvCDCp-dvCF3z-dvCE4x-dvCGtx-dvJcMw-dvCG2H-dvCEEM-dvJf1w-dvCFqa-dvCAo8-dvCBdc-dvCAd8-dvCCra-bo1BCA-Mdhpkp-8PGSn4-aZMCSn-bmMDpE-bnbqaY-62BHuv-62FYHJ-dayJcL-di1JFY-di1Js5-LAPshW-Lufx11-LAPktL-LufF45-fiEDBv-fiEFip-fiEBHM-fiUPBj-fiUNZ9-fiEFZB-fiUV9L\">Garden State Hiker\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county’s demographics looked a lot like Westchester County in New York, which became the site of a famous fair housing lawsuit related to patterns of residential segregation. Officials suspected the same thing might be happening in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about Marin County, you really have to look at the history of segregation,” said Caroline Peattie, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairhousingnorcal.org/\">Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California \u003c/a>and another co-author of the audit. “In some ways it’s not atypical. It just played out in slightly different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11319043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-1020x651.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline Peattie, executive director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, sits in her office in San Rafael.\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-960x613.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-520x332.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroline Peattie, executive director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, sits in her office in San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The audit found that the county had \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111300630/a\">failed to comply\u003c/a> with fair housing and civil rights laws, agreeing that it had built only a fraction of the low-income housing mandated by the Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By failing to comply with these laws, the audit found, Marin County had failed to take active steps to welcome the people those laws sought to protect — including people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]“What we saw by and large was that the effective opposition to affordable housing had a corollary effect of creating impediments to housing choice to people in protected classes,” said Sparks. “[That includes] people of color, people with children, people with disabilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County isn’t the only place with some history of opposition to affordable housing. But other factors — namely, all of the land set aside for conservation — made it that much more difficult to find suitable places to build affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11319045 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3289-1020x589.jpg\" alt='A painting that reads \"Good neighbors come in all colors\" hangs in the office at Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, which was formerly known as Fair Housing of Marin. ' width=\"640\" height=\"370\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A painting that reads “good neighbors come in all colors” hangs in the office of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, which was formerly known as Fair Housing of Marin. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Marin is very wealthy and the houses here cost quite a bit,” said Peattie. “It’s hard to own property here [and it’s] easy to say, ‘Oh, it’s just a question about money, it’s not about race at all.’ But it’s not that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Role of Reputation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the lack of affordable housing answers why low-income people of color might not move into Marin, why aren’t high-income people of color moving there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/research-publication/drought-continues-mortgage-credit-runs-dry-californians-color\">A report \u003c/a>from the Center for Responsible Lending found that people of color in California who can afford to move into expensive neighborhoods typically choose not to. Instead, they mostly still choose to live in low-income, majority-minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”rIdDhGSTpcv7i0SqEAzWbFQegR0YIq4O”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are quick to turn to a “self-segregation” argument, says professor Maria Krysan, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://soc.uic.edu/\">sociology department\u003c/a> at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She thinks that argument doesn’t hold up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The desire to avoid those settings is not driven by an affinity to live with their own kind, but a desire to avoid negative treatment by their neighbors,” says Krysan. “Certainly a perception or reputation of a community, and its openness to people of your own race and ethnicity, is something that comes up more often for African-Americans and Latinos than it does for whites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This anticipation for hostility, she says, has historical precedence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] comes from a history of discrimination and discriminatory treatment. It comes from a long history of that for African-Americans moving into white neighborhoods,” she said. “People trying to move into these communities were met with a great deal of hostility and violence, and I think that the memory of that and the repeat performance of that over time, creates a dynamic of anticipated discrimination that can make it an unpleasant prospect to move into an all-white neighborhood — especially if that neighborhood has been making the news or has reinforced that reputation of not being welcoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“It’s hard to own property here, and it’s easy to say, ‘Oh, it’s just a question about money, it’s not about race at all.’ But it’s not that simple.”\u003ccite>Caroline Peattie, Executive Director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>Fighting Perception\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I met a guy named John Young, who was born and raised in Marin City. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s African-American and he says he knows people of color who have floated around this idea of Marin as a place just for white people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s why a lot of people of color stay away,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Young hoped to change that. He became executive director of a group called Marin Grassroots, which was all about empowering people of color in local politics in Marin — a task he says was a challenging one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11319047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3375-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"John Young sits in his Vallejo home, where he's lived for 17 years now. He was born and raised in Marin City.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Young sits in his Vallejo home, where he’s lived for 17 years now. He was born and raised in Marin City. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was no baseline for social justice anywhere there,” he said. “Even the language of social justice, social equity … there was none of that present in Marin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young admits that he had his fair share of encounters with cops because of “driving while black.” But he also says he loves Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t really have whites on this side, blacks on [that side],” he said. “I didn’t walk outside saying, ‘Oh, this is a racist place where I live at.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John lives in Vallejo now because he couldn’t afford to stay. But if he could move back, he would. He says there are people in Marin County who recognize the lack of diversity, and who are working to change it — including white people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Setting That ‘Represents Society’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marin has made some changes that some say are steps in the right direction. County supervisors are trying to get landlords to rent to more Section 8 voucher holders, for example. They’ve also taken \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20151119/NEWS/151119763\">some measures\u003c/a> to begin making up for their shortage of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Henry Ma why he asked us this question, it was personal — especially when it came to his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want them to think that they are such a rare occurrence — that being Asian is such a rare situation,” said Ma. “We don’t know how it’s going to shape their view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s important to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just think that when they get out to society that the representation is not going to be like this,” he said. “We want to expose them to a setting that represents society. That’s all that we want to ask for.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Take a trip through some pivotal moments in Marin history that contributed to its demographics today. \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast\u003c/a> from KQED that answers your questions about the Bay Area. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ix years ago, Henry Ma moved to the Bay Area with his wife from New York City. They settled in San Rafael — the perfect location between both of their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they had two girls, he started to notice something about where he lived in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our daughter was the only Asian in the school of 72 kids,” Ma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It made him wonder: “The Bay Area is one of the most diverse places in the country. Within the Bay Area, why is Marin County the least diverse?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312354\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11312354\" title=\"Courtesy of Henry Ma\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-800x1106.jpg\" alt=\"attachment (8)\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-800x1106.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-1020x1410.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-1920x2655.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-1180x1632.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-960x1327.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-240x332.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-375x518.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/attachment-8-e1486850618807-520x719.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Ma lives in San Rafael \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Henry Ma)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Looking at the Numbers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The data back up Henry’s experience. According to the most recent U.S. Census data, a huge majority — as in 72 percent — of people who live in Marin County identify their race as white. And that doesn’t include Hispanic/Latino folks who also identify as white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Alameda County is 33 percent white and 29 percent Asian. Asians make up just 6 percent of people in Marin County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But look back at Marin County’s history and you’ll find that it wasn’t always that way. In fact, its demographic history is not too far off from the rest of the Bay Area’s. Archives at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinlibrary.org/californiaroom/\">Anne T. Kent California Room\u003c/a> show that what is now Marin County was once almost completely occupied by tribes of the Coast Miwok Indians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1817, the Spanish established Mission San Rafael Arcangel in what is now the city of San Rafael. Between 1834-1846, significant portions of Marin were owned by people of Spanish and Mexican descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, there was a huge influx of African-Americans who came to work in the shipyards during World War II, though it wasn’t enough to change the demographics significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what explains the county’s demographics as they look today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A common guess is that it has to do with the lack of public transportation options in Marin County. BART, for example, doesn’t reach the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income residents who live in San Rafael — home to the highest percentage of Latinos in Marin County — \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111300630/a\">have reported\u003c/a> that they live there because of the public transportation options. San Rafael has the most used transit service in the county, and some residents say that better transit throughout the county would \u003ca href=\"http://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/2813\">allow them to move.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a lot more to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Conservation Efforts Took Up Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There were a few huge moments in Marin County history that played a role in changing the demographics of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first came in 1896, when a couple of business-minded conservationists built the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/learn/historyculture/upload/MtTamMUWOrrIDP.pdf\"> Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad, 1926\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/V8KlsOxpzAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The railway was an 8-mile long, open-air ride up the side of Mount Tamalpais. At the peak of the mountain was a spectacular view of the San Francisco Bay Area. There was a resort, a grand restaurant, bar and tavern where visitors could stay the night. People from the East Coast and even Europe would travel to Marin County to ride the railway in long dresses and three-piece suits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main purpose of the railway was to showcase the natural beauty of Marin so that people would want to preserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing those things inspired people to want to create the national parks they have now,” said Fred Runner, \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20170102/NEWS/170109973\">a historian\u003c/a> who wrote a book on the historic railway. “Their whole thing was to show off the lovely scenery and to try to promote wilderness conservation. Everybody who worked on the railroad believed in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11312357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-1020x650.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Runner stands in front of the Book Depot in Mill Valley, where the Mt. Tam Science Railway trains would board passengers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-960x612.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149-520x332.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3351-e1486850814149.jpg 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Runner stands in front of the Book Depot in Mill Valley, where the Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway trains would board passengers. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The railway was just the start of fruitful conservation efforts in Marin County — efforts that today leave around \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/main/county-press-releases/press-releases/2016/deeper-affordablehousing-071416\">80 percent\u003c/a> of the county undeveloped because of long-standing commitments to land preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2012/05/22/bay-area-open-space-75-percent-is-being-protected-but-300000-acres-are-still-at-risk/\">the most\u003c/a> land set aside for preservation of any Bay Area county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the battles that raged early on was to try and stop building homes,” said Runner. “There were a number of legal battles around that — just by the skin of their teeth — being able to stop housing developments and create preserved wilderness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11315553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11315553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/21046960594_a078496170_k-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"The Mt. Tamalpais Watershed\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mount Tamalpais Watershed \u003ccite>( \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jesse/21046960594/in/photolist-2kcPC3-2kcPAu-2kcPxq-2kcPxG-2kcPBG-2kcPAm-7HgJCy-gPaXKd-9Doaub-q1GG9S-q1GGFJ-p71GvU-pLpPow-aMxGi6-p74km2-aMxEbZ-7UCwmZ-p71HHU-2k8UNr-aomb5K-aooWsG-aokUfH-wBdWNn-p74k4t-jWF2Ao-pLpPrs-6Cetsq-q3Cwbr-pLpPBh-dtbMoy-6qaEXZ-aMxFHc-aMxC2R-5FY3DA-6CerH9-6CesJ9-6nsL7e-6CaiW2-aMxDQB-E93ukJ-aMxBXF-4nr8vF-xtUmm-6CetkY-aomxxK-aokU6B-Gk5gcg-B6unam-y4Rb7W-dtbzLK/\">Jesse Wagstaff\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A combination of limited land, zoning laws and Marin County’s proximity to San Francisco created a scenario in which the demand for housing far outweighed supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes that were built were very expensive. Who doesn’t want to live next to a giant park, right? Today, the median household income is nearly $94,000 a year, according to census data. This, over time, began to limit who was able to move into Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11312513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3364-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Runner shows historic photos of the Mount Tam Scenic Railway from his book.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Runner shows historic photos of the Mount Tam Scenic Railway from his book. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Fights Over Affordable Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marin’s skewed demographics caught the attention of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2011, and it conducted \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111300630/a\">an audit\u003c/a> on the county. It sought to answer: Was the county working hard enough to include people of color in its housing plans?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HUD identified Marin as a county of interest because Marin County is primarily white,” said Jessica Tankersley Sparks, who co-wrote a report called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/~/media/files/departments/cd/federal-grants/analysis_of_impediments_to_fair_housing_choice.pdf\">“Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice”\u003c/a> for Marin County. “In comparison to surrounding counties, those demographics are strikingly different from the demographics in Marin County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11315486\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11315486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/26672489733_ae180a6d9e_k-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"The median household income in Marin County is almost $94,000 a year. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The median household income in Marin County is almost $94,000 a year. \u003ccite>( \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/elchode/26672489733/in/photolist-GCXtWD-Hsjcj4-dvCB1v-dvCzUF-dvCERa-dvCFAR-dvCA1T-dvCDf8-dvJcz3-dvJdZC-dvCBpR-dvCAAe-dvJbnW-dvJfL1-dvCGfv-dvCDCp-dvCF3z-dvCE4x-dvCGtx-dvJcMw-dvCG2H-dvCEEM-dvJf1w-dvCFqa-dvCAo8-dvCBdc-dvCAd8-dvCCra-bo1BCA-Mdhpkp-8PGSn4-aZMCSn-bmMDpE-bnbqaY-62BHuv-62FYHJ-dayJcL-di1JFY-di1Js5-LAPshW-Lufx11-LAPktL-LufF45-fiEDBv-fiEFip-fiEBHM-fiUPBj-fiUNZ9-fiEFZB-fiUV9L\">Garden State Hiker\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county’s demographics looked a lot like Westchester County in New York, which became the site of a famous fair housing lawsuit related to patterns of residential segregation. Officials suspected the same thing might be happening in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you talk about Marin County, you really have to look at the history of segregation,” said Caroline Peattie, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairhousingnorcal.org/\">Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California \u003c/a>and another co-author of the audit. “In some ways it’s not atypical. It just played out in slightly different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11319043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-1020x651.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline Peattie, executive director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, sits in her office in San Rafael.\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-960x613.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215-520x332.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3271-e1487232694215.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroline Peattie, executive director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, sits in her office in San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The audit found that the county had \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111300630/a\">failed to comply\u003c/a> with fair housing and civil rights laws, agreeing that it had built only a fraction of the low-income housing mandated by the Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By failing to comply with these laws, the audit found, Marin County had failed to take active steps to welcome the people those laws sought to protect — including people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“What we saw by and large was that the effective opposition to affordable housing had a corollary effect of creating impediments to housing choice to people in protected classes,” said Sparks. “[That includes] people of color, people with children, people with disabilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County isn’t the only place with some history of opposition to affordable housing. But other factors — namely, all of the land set aside for conservation — made it that much more difficult to find suitable places to build affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11319045 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3289-1020x589.jpg\" alt='A painting that reads \"Good neighbors come in all colors\" hangs in the office at Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, which was formerly known as Fair Housing of Marin. ' width=\"640\" height=\"370\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A painting that reads “good neighbors come in all colors” hangs in the office of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, which was formerly known as Fair Housing of Marin. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Marin is very wealthy and the houses here cost quite a bit,” said Peattie. “It’s hard to own property here [and it’s] easy to say, ‘Oh, it’s just a question about money, it’s not about race at all.’ But it’s not that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Role of Reputation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the lack of affordable housing answers why low-income people of color might not move into Marin, why aren’t high-income people of color moving there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/research-publication/drought-continues-mortgage-credit-runs-dry-californians-color\">A report \u003c/a>from the Center for Responsible Lending found that people of color in California who can afford to move into expensive neighborhoods typically choose not to. Instead, they mostly still choose to live in low-income, majority-minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are quick to turn to a “self-segregation” argument, says professor Maria Krysan, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://soc.uic.edu/\">sociology department\u003c/a> at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She thinks that argument doesn’t hold up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The desire to avoid those settings is not driven by an affinity to live with their own kind, but a desire to avoid negative treatment by their neighbors,” says Krysan. “Certainly a perception or reputation of a community, and its openness to people of your own race and ethnicity, is something that comes up more often for African-Americans and Latinos than it does for whites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This anticipation for hostility, she says, has historical precedence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] comes from a history of discrimination and discriminatory treatment. It comes from a long history of that for African-Americans moving into white neighborhoods,” she said. “People trying to move into these communities were met with a great deal of hostility and violence, and I think that the memory of that and the repeat performance of that over time, creates a dynamic of anticipated discrimination that can make it an unpleasant prospect to move into an all-white neighborhood — especially if that neighborhood has been making the news or has reinforced that reputation of not being welcoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“It’s hard to own property here, and it’s easy to say, ‘Oh, it’s just a question about money, it’s not about race at all.’ But it’s not that simple.”\u003ccite>Caroline Peattie, Executive Director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>Fighting Perception\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I met a guy named John Young, who was born and raised in Marin City. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s African-American and he says he knows people of color who have floated around this idea of Marin as a place just for white people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s why a lot of people of color stay away,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Young hoped to change that. He became executive director of a group called Marin Grassroots, which was all about empowering people of color in local politics in Marin — a task he says was a challenging one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11319047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_3375-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"John Young sits in his Vallejo home, where he's lived for 17 years now. He was born and raised in Marin City.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Young sits in his Vallejo home, where he’s lived for 17 years now. He was born and raised in Marin City. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was no baseline for social justice anywhere there,” he said. “Even the language of social justice, social equity … there was none of that present in Marin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young admits that he had his fair share of encounters with cops because of “driving while black.” But he also says he loves Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t really have whites on this side, blacks on [that side],” he said. “I didn’t walk outside saying, ‘Oh, this is a racist place where I live at.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John lives in Vallejo now because he couldn’t afford to stay. But if he could move back, he would. He says there are people in Marin County who recognize the lack of diversity, and who are working to change it — including white people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Setting That ‘Represents Society’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marin has made some changes that some say are steps in the right direction. County supervisors are trying to get landlords to rent to more Section 8 voucher holders, for example. They’ve also taken \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20151119/NEWS/151119763\">some measures\u003c/a> to begin making up for their shortage of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Henry Ma why he asked us this question, it was personal — especially when it came to his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want them to think that they are such a rare occurrence — that being Asian is such a rare situation,” said Ma. “We don’t know how it’s going to shape their view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s important to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California is producing less than half the new homes it needs to meet demand in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its first comprehensive analysis since the year 2000, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California's Department of Housing and Community Development\u003c/a> paints a bleak picture of the state’s housing landscape. While it points to some hopeful developments, the report suggests lawmakers will need to consider serious policy changes if California is going to build the projected 1.8 million new homes needed by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/docs/California's-Housing-Future-Full-Public-Draft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Statewide Housing Assessment Report\u003c/a> is still in draft form, and its authors are gathering public input at workshops around the state. On Monday a small group of mostly local government representatives and advocates met in Fresno to hear the report's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/305518746\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About a third of all California renters today are paying more than 50 percent of their income in rent,\" California Department of Housing and Community Development Director Ben Metcalf told the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those paying the largest share of their income for rent and transportation aren’t concentrated in expensive cities like San Francisco -- they're largely living in rural Northern California counties and in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing home ownership rates at the lowest level they’ve been since World War II,\" Metcalf said. And, he added, while just 12 percent of Americans live in California, 22 percent of America’s homeless live here, more than in any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the challenges driving the lack of affordable housing is unstable funding, the report finds. \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/affordablehousing/programs/home/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal allocations for affordable housing\u003c/a> declined in California from 2003 to 2015. There just aren’t enough affordable rentals, and even for those who get assistance, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8 vouchers\u003c/a> can’t keep pace with soaring rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">When you factor housing in, California has the highest poverty rate in the country.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The authors also point to regulatory hurdles and land use policies that jack up development costs and delay building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the upside, the report finds some positive impact from state and local bonds for affordable housing and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">permanent housing for the homeless\u003c/a>, along with revenue from the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sgc.ca.gov/Grant-Programs/AHSC-Program.html\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade program.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the report suggests there are big consequences resulting from the failure to meet housing needs. When you factor housing in, California has the highest poverty rate in the country. Housing instability affects people’s health and kids’ academic performance. And as people move farther from jobs, long commutes increase pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the report concludes the lack of housing costs the California economy almost $240 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they’d heard the findings, the group in Fresno offered input. They discussed special barriers facing disabled communities and highlighted housing issues unique to vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Werner, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leadershipcounsel.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps low-income communities, raised concerns about undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there’s a lot of different policy solutions we can put in place to protect them, and protect our whole population,” Werner said. “I think that’s especially important right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/index.shtml#annual\" target=\"_blank\">Public comment continues in cities around the state until March 4\u003c/a>. A final housing assessment is expected to be ready for policymakers to consider this summer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California is producing less than half the new homes it needs to meet demand in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its first comprehensive analysis since the year 2000, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California's Department of Housing and Community Development\u003c/a> paints a bleak picture of the state’s housing landscape. While it points to some hopeful developments, the report suggests lawmakers will need to consider serious policy changes if California is going to build the projected 1.8 million new homes needed by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/docs/California's-Housing-Future-Full-Public-Draft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Statewide Housing Assessment Report\u003c/a> is still in draft form, and its authors are gathering public input at workshops around the state. On Monday a small group of mostly local government representatives and advocates met in Fresno to hear the report's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/305518746&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/305518746'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About a third of all California renters today are paying more than 50 percent of their income in rent,\" California Department of Housing and Community Development Director Ben Metcalf told the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those paying the largest share of their income for rent and transportation aren’t concentrated in expensive cities like San Francisco -- they're largely living in rural Northern California counties and in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing home ownership rates at the lowest level they’ve been since World War II,\" Metcalf said. And, he added, while just 12 percent of Americans live in California, 22 percent of America’s homeless live here, more than in any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the challenges driving the lack of affordable housing is unstable funding, the report finds. \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/affordablehousing/programs/home/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal allocations for affordable housing\u003c/a> declined in California from 2003 to 2015. There just aren’t enough affordable rentals, and even for those who get assistance, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8 vouchers\u003c/a> can’t keep pace with soaring rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">When you factor housing in, California has the highest poverty rate in the country.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The authors also point to regulatory hurdles and land use policies that jack up development costs and delay building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the upside, the report finds some positive impact from state and local bonds for affordable housing and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">permanent housing for the homeless\u003c/a>, along with revenue from the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sgc.ca.gov/Grant-Programs/AHSC-Program.html\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade program.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the report suggests there are big consequences resulting from the failure to meet housing needs. When you factor housing in, California has the highest poverty rate in the country. Housing instability affects people’s health and kids’ academic performance. And as people move farther from jobs, long commutes increase pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the report concludes the lack of housing costs the California economy almost $240 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they’d heard the findings, the group in Fresno offered input. They discussed special barriers facing disabled communities and highlighted housing issues unique to vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Werner, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leadershipcounsel.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps low-income communities, raised concerns about undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there’s a lot of different policy solutions we can put in place to protect them, and protect our whole population,” Werner said. “I think that’s especially important right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/index.shtml#annual\" target=\"_blank\">Public comment continues in cities around the state until March 4\u003c/a>. A final housing assessment is expected to be ready for policymakers to consider this summer.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As a San Francisco supervisor, Scott Wiener has made housing one of his top priorities. That's not going to change now that he's a state senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of being sworn in this week, Wiener\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35\"> introduced legislation\u003c/a> aimed at encouraging -- and in some cases forcing -- cities around California to approve more housing development, especially affordable projects. It's modeled in part on a law he pushed in San Francisco and in part on a controversial failed \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/06/15/61693/5-things-to-know-about-governor-brown-s-proposed-h/\">proposal by Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297104035\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento must be part of the solution to California's housing shortage, said Wiener, whose Senate bid received significant support from real estate interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The housing crisis is not just about it being hard for people today to find housing -- that is a huge problem, and the housing crisis fuels evictions, displacement and makes it hard for families to grow,\" he said. \"B\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ut the housing crisis is also threatening our economic growth in California. I\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">f an employer believes its workers will not be able to find housing near the workplace, that employer is going to decide to locate elsewhere or to grow its workforce in another state.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Housing is no longer a city-by-city, siloed issue. It is a statewide need and the state has a role to play.'\u003ccite>Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he's learned some important lessons from Brown's failure and his time in San Francisco. The governor's proposal -- which sought to speed up the local approval process for projects that included some low-income housing -- was opposed by labor, environmental and affordable housing groups as well as cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I give the governor enormous credit for calling the question,\" Wiener said. \"It didn't work out ... my hope is we can avoid some of those flare-ups by working collaboratively with some of the stakeholders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of Wiener's proposal are still being crafted, but in general it has two prongs: The first is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Affordable-housing-legislation-goes-to-Supes-6504387.php\">based on legislation he successfully pushed in San Francisco\u003c/a>, and would exempt 100 percent affordable housing developments around the state from some local development requirements. The second part would punish cities that don't meet their \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/housing-policy-development/housing-element/hn_phn_regional.php\">building goals, which are set through a state process\u003c/a>. The bill calls for the streamlining of developments in cities that don't meet those goals -- essentially, builders would be able to skip some local requirements if they are constructing homes in places that haven't built aggressively enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said it's not fair for some communities to shoulder the burden of housing expansion while others refuse to add affordable or even market rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing is no longer a city-by-city, siloed issue. It is a statewide need and the state has a role to play,\" he said. \"We want to maintain local control -- communities should have a strong voice in their own future -- but there have to be boundaries, and it’s not acceptable for cities or towns to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Brisbane-pushes-huge-development-without-housing-9237957.php\">simply opt out of creating housing\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11211754\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"A luxury apartment building under construction in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A luxury apartment building under construction in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said currently there's no accountability or enforcement of housing goals, and \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">there are communities that fall way behind or blow it off entirely.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he's not interested in alienating some of the powerful interest groups that derailed Brown's proposal. For one, he is looking to head off labor opposition by including language in the bill that would guarantee a prevailing wage for construction workers on any new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the building trades, these discretionary processes and appeals are the only way in many parts of the state that they have leverage to actually get a prevailing wage so that their workers can have a middle-class existence,\" he said. \"So this legislation is entirely conditioned on paying prevailing wages. We do not want to start creating poverty jobs for our construction trades workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pledged to work with environmentalists to make sure that any streamlining of regulations is done in an \"environmentally appropriate way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think there’s some common ground. ... But we keep hearing policy proposals surface about expediting luxury and market rate housing, and that makes us very nervous.'\u003ccite>Amy Schur\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's not entirely clear how his proposal will be embraced by other groups that fought Brown's attempt to change housing law. The California League of Cities, which opposed the usurping of local control proposed by the governor, declined to comment on the bill because it has not been fully crafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Amy Schur, statewide campaign director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, helped lead a coalition that successfully fought Brown's plan earlier this year. She said affordable housing advocates are concerned about any proposal that focuses on building more market rate or luxury housing -- especially in expensive coastal areas like the Bay Area or Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our cities need ... is housing that's affordable for the families that have spent decades in these communities, housing that allows people to stay in the community that they've invested in and raised their families in and not just push them out to far-flung areas that lack transportation to jobs, that lack services,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are parts of the Wiener proposal that are interesting, Schur said, including forcing cities that haven't stepped up to build housing for working-class and low-income residents to approve more projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, \"we are very interested in proposals to speed up building 100 percent affordable units\" -- but only if state leaders retain the strong environmental protections that all developments are subject to in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's some common ground,\" she said. \"But we keep hearing policy proposals surface about expediting luxury and market rate housing, and that makes us very nervous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said this bill is just one piece of a broader conversation that needs to take place in Sacramento -- including dedicating more state funds to affordable housing development in \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB2\">another bill he is co-sponsoring\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a San Francisco supervisor, Scott Wiener has made housing one of his top priorities. That's not going to change now that he's a state senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of being sworn in this week, Wiener\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35\"> introduced legislation\u003c/a> aimed at encouraging -- and in some cases forcing -- cities around California to approve more housing development, especially affordable projects. It's modeled in part on a law he pushed in San Francisco and in part on a controversial failed \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/06/15/61693/5-things-to-know-about-governor-brown-s-proposed-h/\">proposal by Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297104035&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297104035'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento must be part of the solution to California's housing shortage, said Wiener, whose Senate bid received significant support from real estate interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The housing crisis is not just about it being hard for people today to find housing -- that is a huge problem, and the housing crisis fuels evictions, displacement and makes it hard for families to grow,\" he said. \"B\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ut the housing crisis is also threatening our economic growth in California. I\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">f an employer believes its workers will not be able to find housing near the workplace, that employer is going to decide to locate elsewhere or to grow its workforce in another state.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Housing is no longer a city-by-city, siloed issue. It is a statewide need and the state has a role to play.'\u003ccite>Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he's learned some important lessons from Brown's failure and his time in San Francisco. The governor's proposal -- which sought to speed up the local approval process for projects that included some low-income housing -- was opposed by labor, environmental and affordable housing groups as well as cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I give the governor enormous credit for calling the question,\" Wiener said. \"It didn't work out ... my hope is we can avoid some of those flare-ups by working collaboratively with some of the stakeholders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of Wiener's proposal are still being crafted, but in general it has two prongs: The first is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Affordable-housing-legislation-goes-to-Supes-6504387.php\">based on legislation he successfully pushed in San Francisco\u003c/a>, and would exempt 100 percent affordable housing developments around the state from some local development requirements. The second part would punish cities that don't meet their \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcd.ca.gov/housing-policy-development/housing-element/hn_phn_regional.php\">building goals, which are set through a state process\u003c/a>. The bill calls for the streamlining of developments in cities that don't meet those goals -- essentially, builders would be able to skip some local requirements if they are constructing homes in places that haven't built aggressively enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said it's not fair for some communities to shoulder the burden of housing expansion while others refuse to add affordable or even market rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing is no longer a city-by-city, siloed issue. It is a statewide need and the state has a role to play,\" he said. \"We want to maintain local control -- communities should have a strong voice in their own future -- but there have to be boundaries, and it’s not acceptable for cities or towns to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Brisbane-pushes-huge-development-without-housing-9237957.php\">simply opt out of creating housing\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11211754\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"A luxury apartment building under construction in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LuxuryAptConst-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A luxury apartment building under construction in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said currently there's no accountability or enforcement of housing goals, and \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">there are communities that fall way behind or blow it off entirely.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he's not interested in alienating some of the powerful interest groups that derailed Brown's proposal. For one, he is looking to head off labor opposition by including language in the bill that would guarantee a prevailing wage for construction workers on any new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the building trades, these discretionary processes and appeals are the only way in many parts of the state that they have leverage to actually get a prevailing wage so that their workers can have a middle-class existence,\" he said. \"So this legislation is entirely conditioned on paying prevailing wages. We do not want to start creating poverty jobs for our construction trades workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pledged to work with environmentalists to make sure that any streamlining of regulations is done in an \"environmentally appropriate way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think there’s some common ground. ... But we keep hearing policy proposals surface about expediting luxury and market rate housing, and that makes us very nervous.'\u003ccite>Amy Schur\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's not entirely clear how his proposal will be embraced by other groups that fought Brown's attempt to change housing law. The California League of Cities, which opposed the usurping of local control proposed by the governor, declined to comment on the bill because it has not been fully crafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Amy Schur, statewide campaign director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, helped lead a coalition that successfully fought Brown's plan earlier this year. She said affordable housing advocates are concerned about any proposal that focuses on building more market rate or luxury housing -- especially in expensive coastal areas like the Bay Area or Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our cities need ... is housing that's affordable for the families that have spent decades in these communities, housing that allows people to stay in the community that they've invested in and raised their families in and not just push them out to far-flung areas that lack transportation to jobs, that lack services,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are parts of the Wiener proposal that are interesting, Schur said, including forcing cities that haven't stepped up to build housing for working-class and low-income residents to approve more projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, \"we are very interested in proposals to speed up building 100 percent affordable units\" -- but only if state leaders retain the strong environmental protections that all developments are subject to in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's some common ground,\" she said. \"But we keep hearing policy proposals surface about expediting luxury and market rate housing, and that makes us very nervous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve read your John Steinbeck and listened to your Merle Haggard, or if you grew up in a farmworker family, you know that farm laborers in California have struggled to find decent housing for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except in a few cases, growers have no legal obligation to house employees, and there’s not a lot of state and federal money earmarked for farmworker housing. In the Salinas Valley -- the fifth- least-affordable place to live in the country -- there’s just not enough decent housing for all the people needed to pick crops like lettuce and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a farmworker in the Salinas Valley, odds are, you’re living in the neighborhood of East Salinas. When I visit 18-year-old Rocio Tafoya at her apartment here, one of the first things she shows me is the bathroom. It has water damage and mold, and a tiny shower she can barely turn around in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is how we open the cold water.\" She grabs a wrench, and yanks on what’s left of the knob. “We don't have hot water right now, it's just cold.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291572885\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the only bathroom shared by the 11 people who live in this barely two-bedroom house. Her mother, also named Rocio Tafoya, walks in the door after a day working in the fields transplanting broccoli, cauliflower and radicchio. She wears a blue hardhat for safety, a bandana to protect her from both sun and cold, and carries a transistor radio in another bandana attached to her belt loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spanish she says, \"I have to have my music!\" and laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask how much she makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I usually make $500 or $600 a week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rent is $1,600 a month, for a house where she says she can hear “rats dancing.” Her teenage daughters work with her during the summer, but, I ask, how does she make that math work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, with the help of God,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her oldest daughter, Rocio, tells me this is better than their last place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That house, no lie, we used to live 34 people in total,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family of nine shared one room. She says the landlady even made bunk beds in the laundry room, which she would rent out to older men, often drug addicts and drunkards. When her mom would leave for the fields at 3 or 4 in the morning, Rocio Tafoya says sometimes they'd come knocking on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trying to make us open the door,\" she says. \"That's something scary I don't want to experience again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159786\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-960x613.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet the Tafoya family through community organizer Joel Hernandez, who gives me a tour of East Salinas, where he grew up. The housing density is claustrophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ll see just apartment complexes everywhere,” he says. “Every single piece of property is crowded with one, two, three layers of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out mobile homes and converted sheds stuffed into available yard spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some situations, garages are being rented out,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where houses stand alone, the number of vehicles overflowing from the street, parked on lawns, indicate these aren’t single-family homes. Hernandez says typically renters won’t report substandard conditions for fear of becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s Salinas Valley would be unrecognizable to those who lived here in the late 1800s, according to community historians Jim Ross Riley and Ken Dursa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Salinas Valley was just grains, hay and grains, and cattle,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When “suddenly the industrial revolution shows up in 1898, big time, big time,” Dursa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Dursa stands in front of the former “company home” he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-960x659.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-375x257.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Dursa stands in front of the former 'company home' he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>International sugar production magnate Claus Spreckels \u003ca href=\"http://www.spreckelssugar.com/history.aspx\">convinced local farmers to grow sugar beets\u003c/a>, and he built a state-of-the-art factory, the biggest in the world, just outside Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his trademark,” says Dursa. “The biggest and the best. The most modern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around his factory, Spreckels built a town he named after himself, with simple, four-room houses for some workers, grander homes around the park for supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had to work for Spreckels Sugar to live in the town,” says Riley, who still lives in the house his grandfather got to rent, dirt cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YOjvu1TH7VzqHtrRahIKuzMMuMFGvad5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Dursa worked in the warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whistle went day and night like an air raid siren,” he says. “They even ran it at midnight,” for folks working graveyard shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa rifles through memorabilia, showing me the time cards of one John Steinbeck. He tells me, during the big sugar processing campaigns, “If you were anybody you worked at the factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Steinbeck may have made agriculture in this valley famous, but Claus Spreckels made it possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He introduced modern row crop agriculture to the entire Salinas Valley,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa adds, “The main impact was irrigation. He built the ditches, built the pumps, laid out fields, brought in agronomists. No irrigation, no sugar beets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels sugar factory site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels Sugar factory site. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those innovations had unintended consequences down the line. Crops like lettuce flourished (people referred to iceberg as “green gold”) and became more profitable than sugar beets. Local farmers stopped growing them, and transportation of beets from other parts of the state became too expensive. The factory stopped all operations in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s gone now,” says Ken Dursa, tearing up. “The factory’s what fed us. Fed us and supported us. A lot of good people worked there and it’s just gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later the site was purchased by agriculture giant \u003ca href=\"http://www.taproduce.com/\">Tanimura and Antle\u003c/a> -- which probably grew the lettuce in your last salad. This past spring, the company built new housing for workers where the factory once stood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight hours packing artisan romaine lettuce, Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams show me the apartment they share with three other women. Two bedroom/bathroom suites open onto a common living room and kitchen. It’s like a suite at a really spacious dorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Maricela Williams and Lucia Jacquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-960x648.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maricela Williams and Lucia Jaquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They invite me to stay for dinner -- chicken mole and rice. Both women are based near Yuma, Arizona, and work for Tanimura and Antle there. But last year, Jaquez decided to come up to work for the company for the Salinas Valley’s longer, more profitable season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All she could afford to rent was a single, windowless room on a tough East Salinas street. With no access to a kitchen, she had to eat out, and some days she could afford only one meal. She says she felt so uncomfortable and unsafe, she swore she’d never return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this new worker housing called \u003ca href=\"http://www.avilaconst.com/Avila/Agriculture/Pages/Spreckels_Crossing,_Spreckles.html\">Spreckels Crossing\u003c/a>, she has private security and low rent and lots of amenities like laundry and a convenience store, even sports fields and ESL classes. That seems great, except to a number of residents of modern-day Spreckels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159824\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The town is a quiet, peaceful enclave, only four blocks square with just over 700 residents. It has one park, one church, one general store without much on its shelves. The surprise announcement that Tanimura and Antle wanted to house up to 800 single workers in apartments on the edge of town made some residents worry their quality of life was in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public meetings, they raised concerns about the well-being of the farmworkers, especially citing the isolation they might feel so far from shopping and activities in Salinas. They also worried about infrastructure like water and sewage and traffic, about potential drops in housing prices. Some feared the project could draw prostitution, drug use, cockfights. Lifelong resident Jim Ross Riley collected and presented many of his neighbors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some news media said that we were racist,\" Riley says. \"I don’t care what church, or race or nationality they are, they are single males in their 20s and 30s and they don’t stay home and knit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It got pretty heated. But nothing compared to what happened in the town of Nipomo, two hours south. Seven farmworker houses under construction were burned to the ground. Everyone I talked to in Spreckels says that would never happen here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not against farmworkers coming to the area,\" says Riley. “They are needed. I’m very concerned about their living conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Ross Riley is a life-long resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1020x600.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1180x694.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-960x565.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Ross Riley is a lifelong resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some Spreckels residents say Tanimura and Antle isn’t paying enough attention to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's what upsets people is they get to do whatever they want,\" Riley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tanimura and Antle wanted worker housing. Let’s be really clear. This was a business decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President and CEO Rick Antle says the company never had a problem attracting workers in the Salinas Valley, “but in April of 2015, we actually depleted all of our lists of people looking for jobs, and we ended up about 200, 300 workers short,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's about 15 percent of their workforce. He says crops rotted in the field. “What it told us was that the situation was only going to get worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he’d heard the stories of 20 workers sharing two-bedroom homes, and people living in garages -- but the company hadn’t made the connection between the housing shortage and the labor shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tanimura and Antle started planning to hire temporary guest workers on what’s called H2A visas. California is bringing them in at a faster rate than the rest of the country, and the Salinas Valley is driving that surge. Employers must provide housing for temporary workers. Some growers and labor contractors rented out whole hotels, but Antle says the company decided to build their own, at a cost of $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the company’s surprise, their domestic workers based in the San Joaquin Valley and Arizona -- people like Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams -- said, \"If you build affordable housing in Spreckels, we’ll come.\" Nearly 300 employees did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that we’ve been about to fully staff our crews,” Antle says. “We’ve had no losses in crops this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-sized room in their East Salinas apartment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-size room in their East Salinas apartment. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For much of the last century, workers in the Salinas Valley and across California often lived in worker housing: labor camps, close to the fields on growers’ land. Historians and housing advocates told me that, in the 1970s, after victories in the farmworker movement, the state enacted laws regulating employee housing. Many growers started tearing down substandard camps. Now, many workers have to find their own housing, and nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates are holding up Tanimura and Antle’s project as a model, but most growers can’t afford such an investment. Plus, this housing’s not a fix for year-round Salinas Valley workers. And even though it’s estimated that 80 percent of California farmworkers have home bases and families, Tanimura and Antle’s housing is only for employees: no kids allowed. I ask Antle: Isn’t the real need for farmworker family housing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes,\" he says. “And we’ll be addressing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he wouldn’t give me more details, he later pointed out two huge storage sheds right next to the new housing he says will be Phase Two. Meanwhile, one nearby grower is getting permits to build similar apartments, and local governments are investing in a farmworker housing study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t change life for the Tafoya family in that cramped East Salinas house. That study won’t address their immediate needs, and, as a family, they wouldn’t qualify for worker-only housing. I ask: Who’s responsible for making sure there’s affordable housing for farmworkers? Mom says local politicians are. She and her daughter, Rocio Tafoya, both say growers should chip in. Then the younger Tafoya points out the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is the one that produces the lettuce for everyone in the United States and probably it's something the state should do, too,\" Tafoya says, \"because we're the workers. I don't want to say we feed you, but ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they deserve better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Morehouse reported this story as part of the UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship. California Foodways is supported in part by California Humanities. She received research help from Meradith Hoddinott.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve read your John Steinbeck and listened to your Merle Haggard, or if you grew up in a farmworker family, you know that farm laborers in California have struggled to find decent housing for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except in a few cases, growers have no legal obligation to house employees, and there’s not a lot of state and federal money earmarked for farmworker housing. In the Salinas Valley -- the fifth- least-affordable place to live in the country -- there’s just not enough decent housing for all the people needed to pick crops like lettuce and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a farmworker in the Salinas Valley, odds are, you’re living in the neighborhood of East Salinas. When I visit 18-year-old Rocio Tafoya at her apartment here, one of the first things she shows me is the bathroom. It has water damage and mold, and a tiny shower she can barely turn around in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is how we open the cold water.\" She grabs a wrench, and yanks on what’s left of the knob. “We don't have hot water right now, it's just cold.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291572885&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291572885'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the only bathroom shared by the 11 people who live in this barely two-bedroom house. Her mother, also named Rocio Tafoya, walks in the door after a day working in the fields transplanting broccoli, cauliflower and radicchio. She wears a blue hardhat for safety, a bandana to protect her from both sun and cold, and carries a transistor radio in another bandana attached to her belt loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spanish she says, \"I have to have my music!\" and laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask how much she makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I usually make $500 or $600 a week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rent is $1,600 a month, for a house where she says she can hear “rats dancing.” Her teenage daughters work with her during the summer, but, I ask, how does she make that math work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, with the help of God,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her oldest daughter, Rocio, tells me this is better than their last place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That house, no lie, we used to live 34 people in total,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family of nine shared one room. She says the landlady even made bunk beds in the laundry room, which she would rent out to older men, often drug addicts and drunkards. When her mom would leave for the fields at 3 or 4 in the morning, Rocio Tafoya says sometimes they'd come knocking on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trying to make us open the door,\" she says. \"That's something scary I don't want to experience again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159786\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-960x613.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet the Tafoya family through community organizer Joel Hernandez, who gives me a tour of East Salinas, where he grew up. The housing density is claustrophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ll see just apartment complexes everywhere,” he says. “Every single piece of property is crowded with one, two, three layers of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out mobile homes and converted sheds stuffed into available yard spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some situations, garages are being rented out,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where houses stand alone, the number of vehicles overflowing from the street, parked on lawns, indicate these aren’t single-family homes. Hernandez says typically renters won’t report substandard conditions for fear of becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s Salinas Valley would be unrecognizable to those who lived here in the late 1800s, according to community historians Jim Ross Riley and Ken Dursa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Salinas Valley was just grains, hay and grains, and cattle,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When “suddenly the industrial revolution shows up in 1898, big time, big time,” Dursa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Dursa stands in front of the former “company home” he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-960x659.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-375x257.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Dursa stands in front of the former 'company home' he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>International sugar production magnate Claus Spreckels \u003ca href=\"http://www.spreckelssugar.com/history.aspx\">convinced local farmers to grow sugar beets\u003c/a>, and he built a state-of-the-art factory, the biggest in the world, just outside Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his trademark,” says Dursa. “The biggest and the best. The most modern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around his factory, Spreckels built a town he named after himself, with simple, four-room houses for some workers, grander homes around the park for supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had to work for Spreckels Sugar to live in the town,” says Riley, who still lives in the house his grandfather got to rent, dirt cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Dursa worked in the warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whistle went day and night like an air raid siren,” he says. “They even ran it at midnight,” for folks working graveyard shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa rifles through memorabilia, showing me the time cards of one John Steinbeck. He tells me, during the big sugar processing campaigns, “If you were anybody you worked at the factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Steinbeck may have made agriculture in this valley famous, but Claus Spreckels made it possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He introduced modern row crop agriculture to the entire Salinas Valley,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa adds, “The main impact was irrigation. He built the ditches, built the pumps, laid out fields, brought in agronomists. No irrigation, no sugar beets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels sugar factory site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels Sugar factory site. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those innovations had unintended consequences down the line. Crops like lettuce flourished (people referred to iceberg as “green gold”) and became more profitable than sugar beets. Local farmers stopped growing them, and transportation of beets from other parts of the state became too expensive. The factory stopped all operations in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s gone now,” says Ken Dursa, tearing up. “The factory’s what fed us. Fed us and supported us. A lot of good people worked there and it’s just gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later the site was purchased by agriculture giant \u003ca href=\"http://www.taproduce.com/\">Tanimura and Antle\u003c/a> -- which probably grew the lettuce in your last salad. This past spring, the company built new housing for workers where the factory once stood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight hours packing artisan romaine lettuce, Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams show me the apartment they share with three other women. Two bedroom/bathroom suites open onto a common living room and kitchen. It’s like a suite at a really spacious dorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Maricela Williams and Lucia Jacquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-960x648.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maricela Williams and Lucia Jaquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They invite me to stay for dinner -- chicken mole and rice. Both women are based near Yuma, Arizona, and work for Tanimura and Antle there. But last year, Jaquez decided to come up to work for the company for the Salinas Valley’s longer, more profitable season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All she could afford to rent was a single, windowless room on a tough East Salinas street. With no access to a kitchen, she had to eat out, and some days she could afford only one meal. She says she felt so uncomfortable and unsafe, she swore she’d never return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this new worker housing called \u003ca href=\"http://www.avilaconst.com/Avila/Agriculture/Pages/Spreckels_Crossing,_Spreckles.html\">Spreckels Crossing\u003c/a>, she has private security and low rent and lots of amenities like laundry and a convenience store, even sports fields and ESL classes. That seems great, except to a number of residents of modern-day Spreckels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159824\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The town is a quiet, peaceful enclave, only four blocks square with just over 700 residents. It has one park, one church, one general store without much on its shelves. The surprise announcement that Tanimura and Antle wanted to house up to 800 single workers in apartments on the edge of town made some residents worry their quality of life was in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public meetings, they raised concerns about the well-being of the farmworkers, especially citing the isolation they might feel so far from shopping and activities in Salinas. They also worried about infrastructure like water and sewage and traffic, about potential drops in housing prices. Some feared the project could draw prostitution, drug use, cockfights. Lifelong resident Jim Ross Riley collected and presented many of his neighbors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some news media said that we were racist,\" Riley says. \"I don’t care what church, or race or nationality they are, they are single males in their 20s and 30s and they don’t stay home and knit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It got pretty heated. But nothing compared to what happened in the town of Nipomo, two hours south. Seven farmworker houses under construction were burned to the ground. Everyone I talked to in Spreckels says that would never happen here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not against farmworkers coming to the area,\" says Riley. “They are needed. I’m very concerned about their living conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Ross Riley is a life-long resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1020x600.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1180x694.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-960x565.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Ross Riley is a lifelong resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some Spreckels residents say Tanimura and Antle isn’t paying enough attention to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's what upsets people is they get to do whatever they want,\" Riley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tanimura and Antle wanted worker housing. Let’s be really clear. This was a business decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President and CEO Rick Antle says the company never had a problem attracting workers in the Salinas Valley, “but in April of 2015, we actually depleted all of our lists of people looking for jobs, and we ended up about 200, 300 workers short,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's about 15 percent of their workforce. He says crops rotted in the field. “What it told us was that the situation was only going to get worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he’d heard the stories of 20 workers sharing two-bedroom homes, and people living in garages -- but the company hadn’t made the connection between the housing shortage and the labor shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tanimura and Antle started planning to hire temporary guest workers on what’s called H2A visas. California is bringing them in at a faster rate than the rest of the country, and the Salinas Valley is driving that surge. Employers must provide housing for temporary workers. Some growers and labor contractors rented out whole hotels, but Antle says the company decided to build their own, at a cost of $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the company’s surprise, their domestic workers based in the San Joaquin Valley and Arizona -- people like Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams -- said, \"If you build affordable housing in Spreckels, we’ll come.\" Nearly 300 employees did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that we’ve been about to fully staff our crews,” Antle says. “We’ve had no losses in crops this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-sized room in their East Salinas apartment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-size room in their East Salinas apartment. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For much of the last century, workers in the Salinas Valley and across California often lived in worker housing: labor camps, close to the fields on growers’ land. Historians and housing advocates told me that, in the 1970s, after victories in the farmworker movement, the state enacted laws regulating employee housing. Many growers started tearing down substandard camps. Now, many workers have to find their own housing, and nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates are holding up Tanimura and Antle’s project as a model, but most growers can’t afford such an investment. Plus, this housing’s not a fix for year-round Salinas Valley workers. And even though it’s estimated that 80 percent of California farmworkers have home bases and families, Tanimura and Antle’s housing is only for employees: no kids allowed. I ask Antle: Isn’t the real need for farmworker family housing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes,\" he says. “And we’ll be addressing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he wouldn’t give me more details, he later pointed out two huge storage sheds right next to the new housing he says will be Phase Two. Meanwhile, one nearby grower is getting permits to build similar apartments, and local governments are investing in a farmworker housing study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t change life for the Tafoya family in that cramped East Salinas house. That study won’t address their immediate needs, and, as a family, they wouldn’t qualify for worker-only housing. I ask: Who’s responsible for making sure there’s affordable housing for farmworkers? Mom says local politicians are. She and her daughter, Rocio Tafoya, both say growers should chip in. Then the younger Tafoya points out the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is the one that produces the lettuce for everyone in the United States and probably it's something the state should do, too,\" Tafoya says, \"because we're the workers. I don't want to say we feed you, but ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they deserve better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco officials are applauding the Obama administration's decision to approve a preference-based city program aimed at slowing displacement of residents at risk of losing their housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced Wednesday that it would support an \"anti-displacement\" preference for federally funded affordable housing for the elderly in the city's Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is important progress in our efforts to halt the displacement of residents at greatest risk of being forced out of the city they know and love,\" said Mayor Ed Lee. \"This will thwart the outmigration of African-American and Latino communities who have been deeply impacted by the challenging housing market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty percent of the units at the Willie B. Kennedy Apartments -- a 98-unit development for senior citizens -- will be available to low-income residents who live in city census tracts under high risk of displacement pressure, said London Breed, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got something I believe that's going to be just as good and just as effective at making sure that the people who live here have a real shot,\" said Breed at a press conference Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local politicians, as well as Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/22/lee-feinstein-want-hud-to-help-city-with-anti-gentrification-plan/\">pressured HUD\u003c/a> to reconsider its initial decision in August to not support a neighborhood preference plan -- a move that Breed called a \"devastating blow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/hud-delays-decision-on-s-f-anti-gentrification-plan/\">The initial plan\u003c/a> would have given priority to low-income and minority residents of the Western Addition neighborhood. HUD said it could not support neighborhood-based preference and that it would violate the Fair Housing Act. Instead, HUD decided to consider an alternative that opens preference to residents elsewhere in the city, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that the anti-displacement strategy developed by HUD and San Francisco will serve as a model for other California cities facing similar affordable housing and gentrification challenges,\" Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pelosi, who called the deal an achievement, reiterated the importance of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfmohcd.org/neighborhood-resident-housing-preference\">Neighborhood Resident Housing Preference\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The new anti-displacement strategy represents an important step forward for our communities,\" said Pelosi. \"However, preserving the principle of neighborhood preference will be essential in protecting the rights of local residents to remain in their community. In San Francisco, the beauty is in the mix. We must ensure strong, thriving African-American and Latino communities always remain a part of the vibrant fabric of our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/indevelopment/1239-turk-street/\">Willie B. Kennedy\u003c/a> development is partially funded by HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ted Goldberg contributed to this report\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local politicians, as well as Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/22/lee-feinstein-want-hud-to-help-city-with-anti-gentrification-plan/\">pressured HUD\u003c/a> to reconsider its initial decision in August to not support a neighborhood preference plan -- a move that Breed called a \"devastating blow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/hud-delays-decision-on-s-f-anti-gentrification-plan/\">The initial plan\u003c/a> would have given priority to low-income and minority residents of the Western Addition neighborhood. HUD said it could not support neighborhood-based preference and that it would violate the Fair Housing Act. Instead, HUD decided to consider an alternative that opens preference to residents elsewhere in the city, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that the anti-displacement strategy developed by HUD and San Francisco will serve as a model for other California cities facing similar affordable housing and gentrification challenges,\" Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pelosi, who called the deal an achievement, reiterated the importance of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfmohcd.org/neighborhood-resident-housing-preference\">Neighborhood Resident Housing Preference\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The new anti-displacement strategy represents an important step forward for our communities,\" said Pelosi. \"However, preserving the principle of neighborhood preference will be essential in protecting the rights of local residents to remain in their community. In San Francisco, the beauty is in the mix. We must ensure strong, thriving African-American and Latino communities always remain a part of the vibrant fabric of our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/indevelopment/1239-turk-street/\">Willie B. Kennedy\u003c/a> development is partially funded by HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ted Goldberg contributed to this report\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose sits in Silicon Valley -- one of the wealthiest regions in the country -- yet homelessness is a persistent problem. Take a look around some of the biggest streets in East San Jose and you’ll notice what are essentially modern nomadic villages. On Lucretia Avenue, right across from Yerba Buena High School, we found numerous people living out of cars and campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s where we spotted Joseph Luprete sweeping the sidewalk in front of his camper. He bought it about a month ago for $690 and recently blacked out the windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At night with the lights on, the cops will drive by and try to ticket me or tell me to move along because it’s illegal to live in your car, “ Luprete says. \"I blacked it out so, at night, it doesn’t look like anyone is in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqwqxsbkBls&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luprete works nearly full time as a valet parking cars and makes $2,500 a month. He says it’s not enough to afford a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose, so he takes his chances every night living on the streets, knowing he’ll probably get cited by the police. “Oh yeah, they will bang on the door at 2, 3 in the morning and look at you like a homeless piece of crap. They just say, 'You gotta move, you can’t be here.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated there are more than 4,000 homeless people in San Jose. About 500 of them are living out of their vehicles, according to Ray Bramson, San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\">homelessness response manager\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the solutions the city is looking at is finding safe parking lots where people can park and get connected to housing and long-term services,” Bramson says. He notes the city has identified one potential partner and is working out some issues to have it as a pilot site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, where tent encampments are easily spotted on sidewalks and under freeway overpasses, many of San Jose’s homeless stay out of sight by setting up shelter deep along the city’s 140 miles of trails, creeks and riverbeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the case with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\">The Jungle\u003c/a>, which was one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments until the city shut it down in 2014. More than 300 people were moved out and the area was fenced off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We returned to the site of The Jungle recently with Leonard Jackson, who says he spent five years living there. The area is now overgrown with weeds. But when Jackson called it home, The Jungle resembled a small community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004748 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was tents. It was couches, tarps, stoves, it was motor homes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson ended up homeless due to drug addiction. He says many people in the Jungle struggled with drugs and mental health issues, but there were also plenty of people who were working and barely surviving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“9-to-5 good paying jobs. They just didn’t have no place to live,” Jackson says. “I knew people who worked for Google, who worked for Cisco, and they were homeless right here in The Jungle with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jungle’s closure led to new doors opening for Jackson. Outreach workers helped him get off drugs, find a job and move into a new home subsidized by the city. According to San Jose housing officials,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/20/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\"> more than 200 former residents of The Jungle now have homes,\u003c/a> but the city still faces a daunting challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can’t find units in the market. The vacancy rate for rentals hovers around 4 percent,” says Bramson. “We’re doing everything we can, rehabbing a lot of hotels and motels, buying manufactured housing that’s assembled elsewhere and bringing it on site to get people into supportive services that they need to keep them stable and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGEk1e88JyU&w=560&h=315]\u003cbr>\nIn what’s being hailed as the largest effort yet to end regional homelessness in the South Bay, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a $950 million affordable housing bond measure for the November ballot. A 2015 survey found that Santa Clara County has more than 6,500 homeless people, which would make it the fourth-largest homeless population in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard Jackson is grateful he won’t have to wait until November to find out if more help is coming. He says he’s thankful every day for the outreach workers who found him in The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the grace of God, these people came along and saved a lot of us,” Jackson says. “It feels great to have my own place, my own job, security. It feels like I am on top of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thuy Vu reported on this story for \"KQED Newsroom,\" a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He notes the city has identified one potential partner and is working out some issues to have it as a pilot site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, where tent encampments are easily spotted on sidewalks and under freeway overpasses, many of San Jose’s homeless stay out of sight by setting up shelter deep along the city’s 140 miles of trails, creeks and riverbeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the case with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\">The Jungle\u003c/a>, which was one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments until the city shut it down in 2014. More than 300 people were moved out and the area was fenced off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We returned to the site of The Jungle recently with Leonard Jackson, who says he spent five years living there. The area is now overgrown with weeds. 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The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was tents. It was couches, tarps, stoves, it was motor homes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson ended up homeless due to drug addiction. 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"content": "\u003cp>The hardest thing about being homeless for George Perez was acting like he wasn’t homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, Perez would study at school, go to class or clean up in the campus gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night, the 39-year-old sophomore at City College of San Francisco was downtown, sleeping at BART stations to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one knew I was homeless,” said Perez, who’s studying business administration and social science and behavior. “I would act like I was OK, but I really wasn’t. At the end of the day it was hard, because I had nobody to talk to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Perez works at the Homeless At-Risk Transitional Students Programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/en/student-services/student-counseling/homeless-at-risk-transitional-students-programs-harts.html\" target=\"_blank\">(HARTS) \u003c/a>at City College of San Francisco. He helps students experiencing the kind of housing instability he knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel their pain. I know exactly what they're going through,” said Perez, who said it took him between six months to a year to find subsidized housing in the Bayview. “I can see it in their faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936047\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10936047 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-400x247.jpg\" alt=\"George Perez stands at the entrance of the HARTS Program at City College.\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-1920x1185.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Perez stands at the entrance of the HARTS program at City College. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent Board of Supervisors committee meeting, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=11325\" target=\"_blank\">Supervisor Scott Wiener\u003c/a> asked San Francisco's colleges and universities what they are doing to provide more on-campus housing for those attending the 30 or so colleges and universities in the city -- a population estimated to be at least 80,000, according to the city's Planning Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have never built nearly enough student housing in San Francisco to account for these students and their housing needs,” Wiener said. “Due to our lack of student housing production, these students are frequently basically tossed into our general housing pool to compete against the broader population, which drives up housing costs. It’s not good for the students. It’s not good for the broader population of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261360792&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Department says there are about 9,000 on-campus beds available to students across campuses citywide. AnMarie \u003c!--correct spelling--> Rodgers, a senior policy adviser with the department, said at the hearing that even though colleges have built more housing and have plans to build more, the city would need 28,000 more beds to house just half of those attending school here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those beds won't appear any time soon. The process of building in the city is expensive and slow. David Seward, chief financial officer for UC Hastings College of the Law, told the hearing about another obstacle public colleges face in developing housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no state funding provided to support student housing,\" Seward told supervisors. \"Under the Master Plan for Higher Education, all of these projects must be self-supporting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Squeeze at S.F. State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place the shortage of student housing is particularly acute is San Francisco State University, which provides housing for about 4,000 of its nearly 30,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing enrollment patterns at S.F. State have increased the demand for local housing among its students, said Jo Volkert, the school's interim vice president of student affairs. Last year, 50 percent of freshmen came from counties outside the Bay Area -- double the rate in 2000. Volkert notes that those students generally don't have family nearby they can live with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Gaona, a junior studying environmental science at S.F. State, applied for on-campus housing last semester. Gaona was put on a waitlist. But with school starting, he felt he couldn't wait any longer and began looking for off-campus housing on Craigslist. When he found nothing within his budget, he decided to live out of his car for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely was a downer,\" said Gaona. \"The thing I was worried about mostly every day was that if my car got broken into, then my 'house' basically has this huge hole in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaona, who is from Los Angeles, had his entire life in his car. He said that was the only inconvenience. But Gaona often had to schedule his sleeping schedule around store hours at the Trader Joe's near campus so that he could wash up before it closed. He had a yoga mat for a mattress and couldn't cook warm meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a shared house in the Sunset District has made all the difference in his college experience, Gaona said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've found my grades have gone up because having that comfort and having that proximity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S.F. State has announced plans to develop housing that would ease, if not end, its housing squeeze. The university currently has a public-private partnership called the Holloway Project under review. Officials say the project would add about 250 to 450 beds and could be ready to occupy by 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Commuting From Far Away \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students who choose to attend school in San Francisco are finding ways around dealing with the housing market, by avoiding it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of all students attending S.F. State don’t even live in the city, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://parking.sfsu.edu/sites/sites7.sfsu.edu.parking/files/forms/SF%20State%20Transportation%20Survey%202014%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">university’s latest transportation survey\u003c/a>. Instead, they live in the East Bay, North Bay or Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Racela, 23, drives to S.F. State from his parents' home in Pittsburg -- about 40 miles away -- because he cannot afford to live in San Francisco. He said his commute to school lasts anywhere between an hour to an hour and a half one way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It affects all aspects of my life,” said Racela. “I wouldn't say this would be the best option because of the toll that commuting can take on your mental and physical health, but it's the only option I had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Racela also works and is involved in organizations on campus, he said he has to plan his life weeks and even months ahead to account for the time it'll take him to get from Pittsburg to the city for events and meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racela said he sometimes still thinks about one day being able to move to the city, but hesitates when he thinks about his student debt. For now, he's putting up with the commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hustle and grind really puts a strain on you as it is,\" he said. \"Commuting can intensify that strain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impact of High Rents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rapid rise in San Francisco housing prices is also making it hard for students to find a place to live -- even at schools training future doctors and lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clare Hansen-Shinnerl, UC San Francisco’s assistant vice chancellor of campus services, told supervisors that the medical school's students used to rely on off-campus housing but can no longer afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because on-campus housing at UCSF is currently 40 percent below market rate, Shinnerl said on-campus housing has become all the more appealing. But the university has housing for only about 1,000 of its more than 6,300 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shinnerl said the housing shortage at the college is a particularly pressing problem because of how critical access to campus is to the medical curriculum there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students and trainees need proximity to labs, patients, clinics,” said Shinnerl. “They don't have options to live far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF is planning to build 550 housing units in the city's Dogpatch neighborhood, but Shinnerl admits that doesn’t solve much for current students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call the students and trainees at UCSF right now the 'sandwich generation,' because they don't have a solution for them,” said Shinnerl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Extra Burden for Students at City College\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the HARTS program at City College of San Francisco, students stop in for food vouchers and subsidized Muni passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one corner of the office there’s a microwave on a shelf, along with free Cup Noodles. They’re paid for out of the pocket of Chris Shaeffer, the program's coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure people think much about these students and what their housing needs are,” he said. “These people are engaged in college, a career, an education program which is going to lead to a better life for them. But they need some place to live, and we should be offering it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936064\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10936064 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Hurtado peeps her head in the HARTS program clothing donation closet which stores clothes, shoes and socks for students in the program. \" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-1920x1323.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-1180x813.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-960x661.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Hurtado peeps her head in the HARTS program clothing donation closet, which stores clothes, shoes and socks for students in the program. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>HARTS can help with paying for things like books, food or transportation. When it comes to housing, it can only refer students to waitlists for shelters and single-room-occupancy hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because City College of San Francisco has no on-campus housing options, as is the case with most community colleges, which are built by design to serve residents who live close by. But Martha Hurtado, the office assistant at HARTS, said she sees how the cost of housing in the city affects the students who stop by the office every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see some of the students come in here and they’re hungry,” said Hurtado. “Sometimes they just stay on campus and find a windless corner and that’s where they stay. To be able to study, then think about where you’re gonna sleep? That’s hard. They don’t get to go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaeffer said the city is losing out on individuals who can and want to contribute to society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gonna lose artists and poets, musicians, intelligent students. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The hardest thing about being homeless for George Perez was acting like he wasn’t homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, Perez would study at school, go to class or clean up in the campus gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night, the 39-year-old sophomore at City College of San Francisco was downtown, sleeping at BART stations to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one knew I was homeless,” said Perez, who’s studying business administration and social science and behavior. “I would act like I was OK, but I really wasn’t. At the end of the day it was hard, because I had nobody to talk to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Perez works at the Homeless At-Risk Transitional Students Programs \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/en/student-services/student-counseling/homeless-at-risk-transitional-students-programs-harts.html\" target=\"_blank\">(HARTS) \u003c/a>at City College of San Francisco. He helps students experiencing the kind of housing instability he knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel their pain. I know exactly what they're going through,” said Perez, who said it took him between six months to a year to find subsidized housing in the Bayview. “I can see it in their faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936047\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10936047 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-400x247.jpg\" alt=\"George Perez stands at the entrance of the HARTS Program at City College.\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-1920x1185.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3952-e1461265758407-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Perez stands at the entrance of the HARTS program at City College. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent Board of Supervisors committee meeting, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=11325\" target=\"_blank\">Supervisor Scott Wiener\u003c/a> asked San Francisco's colleges and universities what they are doing to provide more on-campus housing for those attending the 30 or so colleges and universities in the city -- a population estimated to be at least 80,000, according to the city's Planning Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have never built nearly enough student housing in San Francisco to account for these students and their housing needs,” Wiener said. “Due to our lack of student housing production, these students are frequently basically tossed into our general housing pool to compete against the broader population, which drives up housing costs. It’s not good for the students. It’s not good for the broader population of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261360792&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Department says there are about 9,000 on-campus beds available to students across campuses citywide. AnMarie \u003c!--correct spelling--> Rodgers, a senior policy adviser with the department, said at the hearing that even though colleges have built more housing and have plans to build more, the city would need 28,000 more beds to house just half of those attending school here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those beds won't appear any time soon. The process of building in the city is expensive and slow. David Seward, chief financial officer for UC Hastings College of the Law, told the hearing about another obstacle public colleges face in developing housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no state funding provided to support student housing,\" Seward told supervisors. \"Under the Master Plan for Higher Education, all of these projects must be self-supporting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Squeeze at S.F. State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place the shortage of student housing is particularly acute is San Francisco State University, which provides housing for about 4,000 of its nearly 30,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing enrollment patterns at S.F. State have increased the demand for local housing among its students, said Jo Volkert, the school's interim vice president of student affairs. Last year, 50 percent of freshmen came from counties outside the Bay Area -- double the rate in 2000. Volkert notes that those students generally don't have family nearby they can live with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Gaona, a junior studying environmental science at S.F. State, applied for on-campus housing last semester. Gaona was put on a waitlist. But with school starting, he felt he couldn't wait any longer and began looking for off-campus housing on Craigslist. When he found nothing within his budget, he decided to live out of his car for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely was a downer,\" said Gaona. \"The thing I was worried about mostly every day was that if my car got broken into, then my 'house' basically has this huge hole in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaona, who is from Los Angeles, had his entire life in his car. He said that was the only inconvenience. But Gaona often had to schedule his sleeping schedule around store hours at the Trader Joe's near campus so that he could wash up before it closed. He had a yoga mat for a mattress and couldn't cook warm meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a shared house in the Sunset District has made all the difference in his college experience, Gaona said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've found my grades have gone up because having that comfort and having that proximity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S.F. State has announced plans to develop housing that would ease, if not end, its housing squeeze. The university currently has a public-private partnership called the Holloway Project under review. Officials say the project would add about 250 to 450 beds and could be ready to occupy by 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Commuting From Far Away \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students who choose to attend school in San Francisco are finding ways around dealing with the housing market, by avoiding it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of all students attending S.F. 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He said his commute to school lasts anywhere between an hour to an hour and a half one way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It affects all aspects of my life,” said Racela. “I wouldn't say this would be the best option because of the toll that commuting can take on your mental and physical health, but it's the only option I had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Racela also works and is involved in organizations on campus, he said he has to plan his life weeks and even months ahead to account for the time it'll take him to get from Pittsburg to the city for events and meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racela said he sometimes still thinks about one day being able to move to the city, but hesitates when he thinks about his student debt. For now, he's putting up with the commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hustle and grind really puts a strain on you as it is,\" he said. \"Commuting can intensify that strain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impact of High Rents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rapid rise in San Francisco housing prices is also making it hard for students to find a place to live -- even at schools training future doctors and lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clare Hansen-Shinnerl, UC San Francisco’s assistant vice chancellor of campus services, told supervisors that the medical school's students used to rely on off-campus housing but can no longer afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because on-campus housing at UCSF is currently 40 percent below market rate, Shinnerl said on-campus housing has become all the more appealing. But the university has housing for only about 1,000 of its more than 6,300 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shinnerl said the housing shortage at the college is a particularly pressing problem because of how critical access to campus is to the medical curriculum there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students and trainees need proximity to labs, patients, clinics,” said Shinnerl. “They don't have options to live far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF is planning to build 550 housing units in the city's Dogpatch neighborhood, but Shinnerl admits that doesn’t solve much for current students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call the students and trainees at UCSF right now the 'sandwich generation,' because they don't have a solution for them,” said Shinnerl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Extra Burden for Students at City College\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the HARTS program at City College of San Francisco, students stop in for food vouchers and subsidized Muni passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one corner of the office there’s a microwave on a shelf, along with free Cup Noodles. They’re paid for out of the pocket of Chris Shaeffer, the program's coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure people think much about these students and what their housing needs are,” he said. “These people are engaged in college, a career, an education program which is going to lead to a better life for them. But they need some place to live, and we should be offering it to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10936064\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10936064 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Hurtado peeps her head in the HARTS program clothing donation closet which stores clothes, shoes and socks for students in the program. \" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-1920x1323.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-1180x813.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/0M6A3948-e1461265679650-960x661.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Hurtado peeps her head in the HARTS program clothing donation closet, which stores clothes, shoes and socks for students in the program. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>HARTS can help with paying for things like books, food or transportation. 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