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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco begins formal regulation of the burgeoning short-term rental industry, questions remain over how the city can regulate the thousands of listings available on sites like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting today (Monday, Feb. 2), San Franciscans \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=2719&recordid=290&returnURL=%2findex.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">will be allowed\u003c/a> to put their homes on vacation rental platforms for up to 90 days a year. There will be no limit on \"hosted\" rentals -- that is, when the host stays in the house or apartment while guests are visiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation that led to the new law was debated in months of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/08/home-rental-airbnb-san-francisco-law/\" target=\"_blank\">city hearings\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/chiu-leads-campos-in-s.f.-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\">hotly contested state Assembly race\u003c/a> that sent the bill's author, David Chiu, to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu and other proponents argued that the city had to get ahead of the unregulated industry and fill city coffers with taxes and fees from the thousands of listings posted in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If they want to [rent out a room] for 90 days, 180 days, then you’re talking about somebody who really needs to be in the business of running a bed and breakfast. And they should have a permit for that.'\u003ccite>Dale Carlson,\u003cbr>\nShare Better San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Opponents countered that the city should focus on stopping, not legalizing, the illegal short-term rentals at a time when permanent rental stock in the city is so scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation that Mayor Ed Lee signed in October establishes a process for residents to become legal hosts. They must apply every two years through the city's Planning Department, the agency now charged with implementing and enforcing the new law. The application includes proof of residency, liability insurance and a $50 fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That biennial fee could be going up in the future because there are already concerns that the Planning Department won't have enough resources to be the city's Airbnb detective force, investigating complaints against hosts and cracking down on those who break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we’ve always known that the $50 fee would not cover all of the costs,\" says Scott Sanchez, who is overseeing enforcement for the department. \"The idea was to have a fee that would be low to encourage people to come in and then register. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In six months, if the Planning Department finds that the cost of the program requires more funding, the city controller can raise the application fee without further debate at the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Sanchez says the department will also rely on other sources of funding, including the thousands of dollars in penalties that hosts could face for breaking the law, by either not registering or turning a full unit into a permanent rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enforcement Help on the Way? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Department could soon have assistance in bringing penalties against law-breaking hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Six Supervisor Jane Kim, who voted for the ordinance, is sponsoring an amendment that would allow affordable housing nonprofits to directly sue hosts who break the law. That measure could get a final vote at the Board of Supervisors in March. She says her concern is that the ordinance lacks \"enough teeth\" to ensure effective enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city has too many cases, and nonprofits have been really helpful in helping us to assist and making sure laws are being followed,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight at the Ballot Box Looming \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to amend the ordinance could be upended by a measure that could make its way onto the November ballot. The initiative, from the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Share Better San Francisco\u003c/a>, is expected to be completed in March and circulated for signature-gathering in April and May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Share Better SF co-founder Dale Carlson says the existing legislation still leaves too much of the city's scarce housing stock at risk of permanently being pulled off the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they want to [rent out a room] for 90 days, 180 days, then you’re talking about somebody who really needs to be in the business of running a bed and breakfast,\" Carlson says, \"And they should have a permit for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would include many proposals that failed to gain passage at the Board of Supervisors during the debate over the bill last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One would require hosting platforms to pay back taxes before any of the short-term rentals are legalized. Estimates for Airbnb's back taxes run as high as $25 million, but the company says it's already \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/travel/airbnb-hosts-will-need-to-register-with-city-of-san-francisco/493848/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city treasurer's office\u003c/a> to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece would cap all rentals at 90 days a year, regardless of whether the host remains in the home during the guest's stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, enforcement is also on the mind of Carlson and the measure's proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit \"private right-of-action\" provision would be included in the ballot item, and the city attorney will be given the power to go after hosts who violate the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her shared concerns over enforcement, Kim hopes a ballot battle can be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the legislation probably went 60 to 70 percent of the way to ensure [enforcement] is going to happen,\" she says, \"it's not going to be able to enforce against all of the bad behavior that’s being spurred by this lucrative market. I’m looking forward to seeing if there are legislative opportunities that we can put in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As San Francisco begins formal regulation of the burgeoning short-term rental industry, questions remain over how the city can regulate the thousands of listings available on sites like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting today (Monday, Feb. 2), San Franciscans \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=2719&recordid=290&returnURL=%2findex.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">will be allowed\u003c/a> to put their homes on vacation rental platforms for up to 90 days a year. There will be no limit on \"hosted\" rentals -- that is, when the host stays in the house or apartment while guests are visiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation that led to the new law was debated in months of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/08/home-rental-airbnb-san-francisco-law/\" target=\"_blank\">city hearings\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/chiu-leads-campos-in-s.f.-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\">hotly contested state Assembly race\u003c/a> that sent the bill's author, David Chiu, to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu and other proponents argued that the city had to get ahead of the unregulated industry and fill city coffers with taxes and fees from the thousands of listings posted in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If they want to [rent out a room] for 90 days, 180 days, then you’re talking about somebody who really needs to be in the business of running a bed and breakfast. And they should have a permit for that.'\u003ccite>Dale Carlson,\u003cbr>\nShare Better San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Opponents countered that the city should focus on stopping, not legalizing, the illegal short-term rentals at a time when permanent rental stock in the city is so scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation that Mayor Ed Lee signed in October establishes a process for residents to become legal hosts. They must apply every two years through the city's Planning Department, the agency now charged with implementing and enforcing the new law. The application includes proof of residency, liability insurance and a $50 fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That biennial fee could be going up in the future because there are already concerns that the Planning Department won't have enough resources to be the city's Airbnb detective force, investigating complaints against hosts and cracking down on those who break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we’ve always known that the $50 fee would not cover all of the costs,\" says Scott Sanchez, who is overseeing enforcement for the department. \"The idea was to have a fee that would be low to encourage people to come in and then register. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In six months, if the Planning Department finds that the cost of the program requires more funding, the city controller can raise the application fee without further debate at the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Sanchez says the department will also rely on other sources of funding, including the thousands of dollars in penalties that hosts could face for breaking the law, by either not registering or turning a full unit into a permanent rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enforcement Help on the Way? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Department could soon have assistance in bringing penalties against law-breaking hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Six Supervisor Jane Kim, who voted for the ordinance, is sponsoring an amendment that would allow affordable housing nonprofits to directly sue hosts who break the law. That measure could get a final vote at the Board of Supervisors in March. She says her concern is that the ordinance lacks \"enough teeth\" to ensure effective enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city has too many cases, and nonprofits have been really helpful in helping us to assist and making sure laws are being followed,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight at the Ballot Box Looming \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to amend the ordinance could be upended by a measure that could make its way onto the November ballot. The initiative, from the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Share Better San Francisco\u003c/a>, is expected to be completed in March and circulated for signature-gathering in April and May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Share Better SF co-founder Dale Carlson says the existing legislation still leaves too much of the city's scarce housing stock at risk of permanently being pulled off the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they want to [rent out a room] for 90 days, 180 days, then you’re talking about somebody who really needs to be in the business of running a bed and breakfast,\" Carlson says, \"And they should have a permit for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would include many proposals that failed to gain passage at the Board of Supervisors during the debate over the bill last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One would require hosting platforms to pay back taxes before any of the short-term rentals are legalized. Estimates for Airbnb's back taxes run as high as $25 million, but the company says it's already \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/travel/airbnb-hosts-will-need-to-register-with-city-of-san-francisco/493848/\" target=\"_blank\">working with the city treasurer's office\u003c/a> to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece would cap all rentals at 90 days a year, regardless of whether the host remains in the home during the guest's stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, enforcement is also on the mind of Carlson and the measure's proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit \"private right-of-action\" provision would be included in the ballot item, and the city attorney will be given the power to go after hosts who violate the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her shared concerns over enforcement, Kim hopes a ballot battle can be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the legislation probably went 60 to 70 percent of the way to ensure [enforcement] is going to happen,\" she says, \"it's not going to be able to enforce against all of the bad behavior that’s being spurred by this lucrative market. I’m looking forward to seeing if there are legislative opportunities that we can put in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you showed up in the Bay Area in the last three years or so, you know that you've moved into a world where rents and home prices appear to know no limits. The current \"up\" market has seen the median price of single-family homes sold in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-city-S-F-median-home-price-hits-7-5626591.php\" target=\"_blank\">hit $1 million\u003c/a>. Million-dollar home sales \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/07/coldwell-banker-luxury-home-sales-rich-homebuyers\" target=\"_blank\">have become commonplace\u003c/a> in non-chic locales like Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rents have blown through the roof, too, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26733312/bay-area-apartment-rents-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area average for all apartments topping $2,200\u003c/a> last summer (and $3,400 in San Francisco, the region's most expensive market).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we all know what rapidly inflating real estate prices look like. You have to have been here a little longer, though -- at least four or five years -- to have seen the other side of this market, when prices fall. The most recent example, naturally, was during the Great Recession. Some parts of the Bay Area saw median home prices crash more than 50 percent from peak levels in 2006 before bottoming out in early 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy.'\u003ccite>1853 comment on San Francisco property market\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing prices also ran up during the dot-com boom, then slumped when that bubble burst in 2001. Prices spiked in the late '80s, then fell in the early '90s when California entered a deep recession. (By way of San Francisco's Paragon Real Estate Group, here's a pretty good \u003ca href=\"http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby\">review of data on the last 30 years\u003c/a> of the rising and falling tides in the housing market.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all booms and busts in the real estate market here have been created equal. The last down cycle, triggered as it was by \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">subprime mortgage madness\u003c/a>, was particularly brutal. It ended in mass foreclosures and to many homeowners owing far more for their homes than they were worth after the mortgage meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, the current run-up in real estate prices has led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">an increase in evictions\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Driven largely by the Bay Area tech boom, the soaring cost of housing and rising tide of displacement in the region's core cities have prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">widespread concern\u003c/a> both about the welfare of those pushed out and what seems like the irreversible change in the character of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this isn't the first time high property prices have triggered displacement alarm in San Francisco. Check out \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/9FfOHVu_noY\" target=\"_blank\">Boom: The Sound of Eviction\u003c/a>,\" a 2001 documentary that focuses on displacement during the dot-com bubble. And you can go a whole lot farther back than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian Roger Lotchin, in the sexily titled but nonetheless informative \"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City,\" \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">traces the ups and downs \u003c/a>of the city's early real estate market:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">The vara was a Spanish unit of measure used in California and the Southwest when they were Spanish colonies. According to \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qjHnAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA537&ots=4WlIXFUw5x&dq=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage&q=%22vara%22%20measure%20%22san%20francisco%22&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">sources we find\u003c/a>, the vara in San Francisco was equivalent to 2.75 feet, or 33 inches. The 50-vara lots discussed here would have would have been 50 varas square, or 137.5 feet by 137.5 feet. That's 18,906.25 square feet, just a bit over four-tenths of an acre. What would that land go for today? Well, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19015481/719-725-Larkin-St-San-Francisco-CA/\">a listing\u003c/a> for a property on Larkin Street, in the city's Tenderloin, that's a little less than one-third the size of a 50-vara lot. It's going for $3.2 million.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco's realty boom, like its commercial prosperity, began before the Gold Rush. In 1846, William Heath Davis wrote to H.D. Fitch that \"land speculations have been brisk at this place. Most of the lots ... have been taken up.\" The next year, Governor Stephen W. Kearny released the government's claim to beach and water real estate and the market surged again, with beach and water property reaching six and seven hundred dollars an acre. Some \"lots in San Francisco of 50 varas granted by the Alcalde in '44 for $15 were \"worth $1000.\" Yet even this increase was insignificant by comparison with advances stimulated by the Gold Rush. In December 1849, Thomas O. Larkin sold eight water lots and one other for $300,000. However, late 1849 marked the termination of the first \"flush times\" in real estate as speculation grew rife and a deflationary reaction set in.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lotchin says a second run-up in property prices reached its peak in December 1853: \"Lawyer John McCrackan wrote, 'Our city just at this time is dull except [for] Real Estate Speculations, upon which our people seem crazy. I drew papers of a piece of property today for my friend \"Hood\" which in 1846 cost him five dollars. It sold today for sixty thousand.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 1855, a prolonged depression set in that knocked the bottom out of property prices. That collapse was the subject of an unsigned column in the June 20, 1855, edition of Daily Alta California. The piece is compelling for how contemporary some of the language sounds -- property speculation has been \"merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time\" -- and for its condemnation of out-of-control speculation as ruinous to the public good: \"In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the moral focus of that statement is coming from a Victorian concern about the deleterious effects of speculation -- gambling, in effect -- it resonates in a present where social justice activists are fighting gentrification taking place amid crazy-seeming spikes in property prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, by way of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550620&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------#\" target=\"_blank\">California Digital Newspaper Collection\u003c/a>, is the Alta piece in full:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 1855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the greatest evils which has ever overtaken the city of San Francisco — the greatest because the parent of many other evils -- has been the overvaluation of property. It has not been properly confined to the city, but has manifested itself all over the State, and its results are to be noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now that Real Estate is \"down,\" it may not be improper to say a few words concerning a subject which is of unusual interest to every permanent resident of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The available area of the pueblo of Yerba Buena for business purposes was very small. It extended only from about Pacific to California and from Montgomery to Dupont streets. We indicate the boundaries by streets which were laid out after the pueblo became the city of San Francisco. This space, although ample to accommodate the limited trade of 1846-7, proved wholly insufficient to meet the requirements of the wholesale immigration incited by the gold discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a natural law, the working of which never deceive, the prices of lots within the available area of the town, after those discoveries, rose enormously. Thousands of people were rushing into the State, the most of whom landed in this city. Thousands of tons of merchandise were poured in upon us, which had to find storage in town, and had to be disposed of here. Rents naturally rose to the most extravagant rate, and the price of land advanced with equal rapidity, although not in a proportionate degree. There was no telling where the thing would stop, particularly as money was most abundant, and there appeared to be no end to the immigration. So far the speculation was a legitimate one. Afterwards it assumed another character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was evident from the first that this state of things could not last forever. The capital which had been introduced into the country in the shape of merchandise was quickly turned to enlarging the limits of the city proper. Wharves were extended, and the water invaded on the one side, while hills were cut down and streets graded on the other. All this time rents still kept up, if not to their original point, at least to one which proved highly remunerative, and the immigration still continued larger. It still appeared that there was more room wanted, until at last San Francisco attained her present size. But the tide had turned, and rates at last, after a long period — unexampled, indeed, for duration in California — began to decline. They have been declining ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco is to-day out of all proportion to the State. Where we originally did not have enough room, we have now a superabundance, not merely for today or this year, but for years to come. The Real Estate speculation, which was originally a legitimate one, has for the last two or three years been merely a bubble, liable to burst at any time, and kept in a state of inflation merely by the activity of those interested in it. There is no reason why, with the present population and prospective increase of our State, fifty-vara lots two miles from the Plaza should command thousands of dollars, particularly when they are so situated as not to be available for purposes of agriculture. They should have a value, of course, and a vary considerable one. They may and do furnish legitimate objects of permanent investment for those who look forward to a return for their capital years hence ; but their intrinsic value it not to be rated by thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been going too fast. We have followed out the speculative illusion to its full extent, and now we must stop. It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Seme few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are wailing impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick of heart before it is realised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations : it has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat on fifty-vara lots, and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitals of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble— not merely in land, but in everything else, hat been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole,\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Real Estate market is at present in a curious position. The asking and offering prices for land show no approximation whatever to each other. Outside lots are unsaleable except at a ruinous discount from cost prices, while in some parts of the original plat of the city rates still keep up. The lot at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets on which Burgoyne's building stands sold, a few days since, at auction, for $39,000, or about $1000 a front foot. At the same time, fifty-vara lots on the hill, which .were valued eighteen months ago at $12,000 to $18,000, to-day only command about $2500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a singular fact, that a person owning a lot in the business part of the city, on which a brick building has been erected, can to-day borrow more money on it than it would sell for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is time that we began to awaken to the real value of property here. San Francisco is not New York, a city of half a million of inhabitants, with an immense population behind it; it is a small place— an important one, it is true, and destined one day to be the central point of the Pacific, but nevertheless a small one — the entrepot for a population of less than four hundred thousand people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no reason why property in it should not rule at New York rates, and any attempt to force them up to such prices can only be a purely speculative movement which must, like all gambling— be it with dice, or cards, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1860/07/23/news/affairs-california-wholesale-defeat-frandulent-land-titles-who-peter-smith-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Smith titles\u003c/a> — redound to the injury of the community at large.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The Bay Area protest were part of the \"Millions March\" coordinated action in cities around the country. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392135\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13472_IMG_0755-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Lives Matter protests got rowdy several times, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/06/michael-brown-eric-garner-protesters-block-i-880-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">protesters taking over freeways\u003c/a> and police working to keep them away. Here a woman waves a sign, in reference to Eric Garner's death in New York, moments before being shoved off a dividing wall on Interstate 880 in Oakland on Dec. 5. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg\" alt=\"RS13360_459889820-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"984\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1-800x546.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">pounded the Bay Area several times in December\u003c/a>, causing severe flooding in parts of Marin and Sonoma counties. The moisture was welcome, but experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/11/18/this-weeks-rain-unlikely-to-dent-drought/\" target=\"_blank\">California still desperately needs more rain\u003c/a> to make up for three years of drought. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\" alt=\"China basin fire2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze damaged several buildings in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/11/4-alarm-fire-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Bay in March\u003c/a>. Fire inspectors reported the blaze was started by unattended sparks from \"hot work\" on a building under construction. One of the companies working as a subcontractor on the building was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-fire-department-issues-citation-in-massive-mission-bay-blaze\" target=\"_blank\">fined for failing to follow fire safety regulations.\u003c/a> The blaze prompted the San Francisco Fire Department to announce it will be taking a more \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">proactive stance toward citations\u003c/a> in the future to prevent negligence. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12817_458073306-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/29/world-series-game-seven-live-update\" target=\"_blank\"> won the World Series\u003c/a> in a seven-game series against the Kansas City Royals this year. This was the third time in five years the baseball team took home the trophy. Here, Buster Posey #28 and Madison Bumgarner #40 celebrate after defeating the Kansas City Royals by a score of 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium on Oct. 29, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Elsa/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants win prompted fans to celebrate in the streets. While most of the revelry was peaceful and in good fun, police reported some people got out of hand, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/30/the-giants-win-and-then-the-trouble-starts\" target=\"_blank\">lighting fires in the streets and throwing beer bottles\u003c/a> that injured several officers. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_011[1]-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/24/uc-berkeley-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley students staged a walkout\u003c/a> and march on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, to protest a series of tuition increases approved by the University of California Board of Regents. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/18/csu-and-uc-tuition-hikes-over-time\" target=\"_blank\">average UC student now leaves school\u003c/a> $20,500 in debt and the average CSU student is $18,460 in debt, according to analyses conducted by both systems. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392143\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\" alt=\"Oyster Fisherman Battles National Park Service Over Harvest Rights\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long legal battle, retail operations at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/05/video-last-day-at-drakes-bay-oyster-companys-retail-business\" target=\"_blank\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. came to an end this summer\u003c/a>. The federal government allowed the company to continue wholesale operations, mainly selling oysters to local restaurants for a few more months, but customers can no longer visit the now-closed Oyster Shack in order to purchase, grill and shuck oysters on the beach of Drakes Estero. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392145\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\" alt=\"US-EARTHQUAKE\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 6.0 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/quake-rolls-through-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake rolled through the Bay Area\u003c/a> at 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, lasting 44 seconds. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/south-napa-earthquake-photos/\" target=\"_blank\">quake caused extensive damage in Napa\u003c/a> and reminded all Bay Area residents about the importance of earthquake preparedness. (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392147\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\" alt=\"lake oroville drought2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the State Water Project, is pictured on Jan. 18, 2014, the day it hit its lowest point during the current drought. Despite recent rains, experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">the state is not out of the drought\u003c/a> and residents should continue to practice water conservation. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\" alt=\"wine drought\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California vintners \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/01/28/california-winemakers-brace-for-drought-impacts/\" target=\"_blank\">braced themselves for the impacts of prolonged drought\u003c/a>. Napa growers aggressively pruned back vines, which will concentrate precious water and nutrients on a smaller number of grape clusters. But fewer grapes mean lower profits. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City crews \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled San Jose's massive homeless encampment known as \"The Jungle\" \u003c/a>on Dec. 4, 2014. The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most \"Jungle\" residents lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash. People \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">packed up their belongings and moved out\u003c/a> amid a rare bout of rain. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\" alt=\"Construction Continues On Bay Bridge Ahead Of Opening Of Eastern Span\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/01/some-good-news-and-some-bad-news-about-bay-bridge-rods\" target=\"_blank\">construction and stability of the Bay Bridge's east span\u003c/a> have some commuters worried. Questions remain around the massive steel bolts holding the bridge together and whether Caltrans kept \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/01/bay-bridge-report-caltrans-worked-to-keep-construction-flaws-quiet\" target=\"_blank\">concerns about the bridge secret\u003c/a>. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392152\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\" alt=\"airbnb\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco legalized home rental services like Airbnb this year. The issue has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/4/30/airbnb-supporters-rally-at-city-hall/\" target=\"_blank\">polarized citizens\u003c/a> concerned about housing affordability and individuals' ability to stay in the city. Regulation of these home-sharing services may make it to the state Legislature this year. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\" alt=\"Belmont Stakes 2014 - Previews\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians had big hopes that the horse named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/california-chrome\" target=\"_blank\">California Chrome\u003c/a> could win the Triple Crown this year. He did win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, but fell short with fourth place in the final Belmont Stakes competition. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\" alt=\"smoke jumper\" width=\"1438\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg 1438w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-800x506.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1438px) 100vw, 1438px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very dry conditions made this a tough year for wildfires in California. Fires started by lightning often erupted in very remote, mountainous parts of the state, far from any roads. Sometimes the only way to get fire crews to them was to have them \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/01/californias-smokejumpers-fight-the-hardest-to-reach-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\">jump out of planes\u003c/a>. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392157\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg\" alt=\"CCSF skirmish\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco student Otto Pippenger was detained by San Francisco police officers outside an administration building. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/ccsf-protest-violent\" target=\"_blank\">Students and teachers protested decisions\u003c/a> by Special Trustee Robert Agrella on Thursday, March 13, 2014. The accrediting commission revoked the school's accreditation, but the action is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/11/city-attorney-accreditation-commission-get-day-in-court-over-ccsf\" target=\"_blank\">currently being appealed in court\u003c/a>. The judge is expected to issue his verdict in January 2015. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1.jpg\" alt=\"RS13679_JV0A0614-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/thousands-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-francisco-join-millions-march\" target=\"_blank\">filled the streets of San Francisco and Oakland\u003c/a> on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, to protest police brutality and the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers. The Bay Area protest were part of the \"Millions March\" coordinated action in cities around the country. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392135\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13472_IMG_0755-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13472_IMG_0755-qut-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Lives Matter protests got rowdy several times, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/06/michael-brown-eric-garner-protesters-block-i-880-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">protesters taking over freeways\u003c/a> and police working to keep them away. Here a woman waves a sign, in reference to Eric Garner's death in New York, moments before being shoved off a dividing wall on Interstate 880 in Oakland on Dec. 5. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg\" alt=\"RS13360_459889820-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"984\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1-800x546.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">pounded the Bay Area several times in December\u003c/a>, causing severe flooding in parts of Marin and Sonoma counties. The moisture was welcome, but experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/11/18/this-weeks-rain-unlikely-to-dent-drought/\" target=\"_blank\">California still desperately needs more rain\u003c/a> to make up for three years of drought. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\" alt=\"China basin fire2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze damaged several buildings in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/11/4-alarm-fire-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Bay in March\u003c/a>. Fire inspectors reported the blaze was started by unattended sparks from \"hot work\" on a building under construction. One of the companies working as a subcontractor on the building was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-fire-department-issues-citation-in-massive-mission-bay-blaze\" target=\"_blank\">fined for failing to follow fire safety regulations.\u003c/a> The blaze prompted the San Francisco Fire Department to announce it will be taking a more \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">proactive stance toward citations\u003c/a> in the future to prevent negligence. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12817_458073306-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/29/world-series-game-seven-live-update\" target=\"_blank\"> won the World Series\u003c/a> in a seven-game series against the Kansas City Royals this year. This was the third time in five years the baseball team took home the trophy. Here, Buster Posey #28 and Madison Bumgarner #40 celebrate after defeating the Kansas City Royals by a score of 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium on Oct. 29, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Elsa/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants win prompted fans to celebrate in the streets. While most of the revelry was peaceful and in good fun, police reported some people got out of hand, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/30/the-giants-win-and-then-the-trouble-starts\" target=\"_blank\">lighting fires in the streets and throwing beer bottles\u003c/a> that injured several officers. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_011[1]-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/24/uc-berkeley-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley students staged a walkout\u003c/a> and march on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, to protest a series of tuition increases approved by the University of California Board of Regents. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/18/csu-and-uc-tuition-hikes-over-time\" target=\"_blank\">average UC student now leaves school\u003c/a> $20,500 in debt and the average CSU student is $18,460 in debt, according to analyses conducted by both systems. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392143\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\" alt=\"Oyster Fisherman Battles National Park Service Over Harvest Rights\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long legal battle, retail operations at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/05/video-last-day-at-drakes-bay-oyster-companys-retail-business\" target=\"_blank\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. came to an end this summer\u003c/a>. The federal government allowed the company to continue wholesale operations, mainly selling oysters to local restaurants for a few more months, but customers can no longer visit the now-closed Oyster Shack in order to purchase, grill and shuck oysters on the beach of Drakes Estero. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392145\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\" alt=\"US-EARTHQUAKE\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 6.0 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/quake-rolls-through-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake rolled through the Bay Area\u003c/a> at 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, lasting 44 seconds. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/south-napa-earthquake-photos/\" target=\"_blank\">quake caused extensive damage in Napa\u003c/a> and reminded all Bay Area residents about the importance of earthquake preparedness. (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392147\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\" alt=\"lake oroville drought2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the State Water Project, is pictured on Jan. 18, 2014, the day it hit its lowest point during the current drought. Despite recent rains, experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">the state is not out of the drought\u003c/a> and residents should continue to practice water conservation. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\" alt=\"wine drought\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California vintners \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/01/28/california-winemakers-brace-for-drought-impacts/\" target=\"_blank\">braced themselves for the impacts of prolonged drought\u003c/a>. Napa growers aggressively pruned back vines, which will concentrate precious water and nutrients on a smaller number of grape clusters. But fewer grapes mean lower profits. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City crews \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled San Jose's massive homeless encampment known as \"The Jungle\" \u003c/a>on Dec. 4, 2014. The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most \"Jungle\" residents lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash. People \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">packed up their belongings and moved out\u003c/a> amid a rare bout of rain. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\" alt=\"Construction Continues On Bay Bridge Ahead Of Opening Of Eastern Span\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/01/some-good-news-and-some-bad-news-about-bay-bridge-rods\" target=\"_blank\">construction and stability of the Bay Bridge's east span\u003c/a> have some commuters worried. Questions remain around the massive steel bolts holding the bridge together and whether Caltrans kept \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/01/bay-bridge-report-caltrans-worked-to-keep-construction-flaws-quiet\" target=\"_blank\">concerns about the bridge secret\u003c/a>. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392152\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\" alt=\"airbnb\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco legalized home rental services like Airbnb this year. The issue has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/4/30/airbnb-supporters-rally-at-city-hall/\" target=\"_blank\">polarized citizens\u003c/a> concerned about housing affordability and individuals' ability to stay in the city. Regulation of these home-sharing services may make it to the state Legislature this year. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\" alt=\"Belmont Stakes 2014 - Previews\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians had big hopes that the horse named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/california-chrome\" target=\"_blank\">California Chrome\u003c/a> could win the Triple Crown this year. He did win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, but fell short with fourth place in the final Belmont Stakes competition. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\" alt=\"smoke jumper\" width=\"1438\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg 1438w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-800x506.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1438px) 100vw, 1438px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very dry conditions made this a tough year for wildfires in California. Fires started by lightning often erupted in very remote, mountainous parts of the state, far from any roads. Sometimes the only way to get fire crews to them was to have them \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/01/californias-smokejumpers-fight-the-hardest-to-reach-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\">jump out of planes\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Localish\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco officials declare that the payroll and stock-option tax breaks granted to Twitter and other companies -- to get them to move to the long-depressed mid-Market Street area -- have been \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">a big win for city revenues\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(San Francisco Chronicle) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/27/protesters-accuse-airbnb-of-killing-san-franciscos-neighborhoods\" target=\"_blank\">Amid protests\u003c/a>, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/10/sf-mayor-signs-airbnb-legislation-ed-lee.html\" target=\"_blank\">signed legislation\u003c/a> legalizing and regulating Airbnb short-term rentals in San Francisco. But the fight's not over: Airbnb opponents, who warn the new ordinance will exacerbate the city's affordable housing crisis, say they'll launch a ballot campaign to repeal it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Police are investigating how a big-rig driver struck and killed a teenager riding his bike to school in Cupertino. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Election season\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For many voters deciding between mayoral hopefuls Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/28/residential-crime-could-tip-vote-san-jose-mayor-race/\" target=\"_blank\">the top issue is residential crime\u003c/a> and what the candidates plan to do about it. \u003cstrong>(Beth Willon, KQED News) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An official-looking election guide that purports to show the ideological positions of candidates relative to President Barack Obama and 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-election-mailers-study-20141027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">is being sent to voters\u003c/a> in two California congressional districts. The ersatz guides, from political science researchers at Stanford and Dartmouth, \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/montana-election-mailer-state-seal-stanford-dartmouth-professors\" target=\"_blank\">were also sent to voters in Montana\u003c/a>, where they've prompted an investigation into possible campaign-law violations. \u003cstrong>(Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>With eight days to go until Election Day, Gov. Jerry Brown officially \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/27/brown-launches-reelection-bid-sort-of/\" target=\"_blank\">hits the campaign trail\u003c/a> -- sort of. \u003cstrong>(John Myers, KQED News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Political reporter Josh Richman of the \u003cstrong>Bay Area News Group\u003c/strong> takes a look at Neel Kashkari's very untraditional GOP campaign for governor and suggests that \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_26811348/kashkari-might-blaze-path-even-while-losing\" target=\"_blank\">the effort could shift the strategy\u003c/a> of future Republican candidates in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Company towns: In Richmond, \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/27/why-chevrons-trying-to-buy-richmonds-elections/\" target=\"_blank\">Chevron has poured millions of dollars\u003c/a> into a campaign to elect a company-friendly slate of city officials. Something similar is happening in Anaheim, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/disney-639722-anaheim-pac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney has spent more than $500,000\u003c/a> to elect City Council candidates who support a streetcar line it wants built. \u003cstrong>(Richmond Confidential, Orange County Register) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Viral candidacy: Peter Liu, a self-described multimillionaire whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">official campaign portrait\u003c/a> shows him posing with what appears to be a semiautomatic pistol, is one of 15 candidates running for Oakland City Council. Thanks to a San Francisco Chronicle video interview on his policy stands, he's now the only one in the field \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/a>. Watch:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/DNg9Mx6t91U\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ebola\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>UCSF lab works to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_26811343/ebolas-evolving-threat-studied-ucsf-lab\" target=\"_blank\">unravel the past and future\u003c/a> that might be revealed in the Ebola virus's DNA. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/nyregion/christie-ebola-policy-new-jersey-and-new-york.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Chris Christie defends his draconian Ebola quarantine policy \u003c/a>as scientists condemn it. \u003cstrong>(The New York Times)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And one more from the Times, which over the past couple of months has crafted an absorbing portrait of the grim reality of life at the heart of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa: How the wish to do more to help the afflicted in Liberia \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/africa/wish-to-do-more-in-ebola-fight-meets-reality-in-liberia.html?\" target=\"_blank\">collides with poverty and the lack of basic resources\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>World Series\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Giants secret to postseason success on the road? \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_26809549/giants-sleep-at-home-before-heading-kansas-city\" target=\"_blank\">Sleep first, then travel\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the World Series goes to a seventh game, the Giants say ace Madison Bumgarner \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/bumgarner-available-out-of-bullpen-for-potential-game-7/2014/10/27/2441eed0-5e19-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">will be available out of the bullpen\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Giant memories: A lifelong fan of baseball's Giants -- the New York Giants, who ceased to exist in 1958 -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/giant-memories/\" target=\"_blank\">ponders his long-lost love\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(Beyond Chron)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>And also: \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, talk about the editor who made it possible: \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-ben-bradlee-we-knew-friend-fierce-editor-and-a-truth-seeker-above-all/2014/10/28/c565eb86-5df1-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html?hpid=z1\" target=\"_blank\">The Ben Bradlee we knew: Friend, fierce editor and truth-seeker, above all\u003c/a>. \u003cstrong>(Washington Post)\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Something similar is happening in Anaheim, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/disney-639722-anaheim-pac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney has spent more than $500,000\u003c/a> to elect City Council candidates who support a streetcar line it wants built. \u003cstrong>(Richmond Confidential, Orange County Register) \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Viral candidacy: Peter Liu, a self-described multimillionaire whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">official campaign portrait\u003c/a> shows him posing with what appears to be a semiautomatic pistol, is one of 15 candidates running for Oakland City Council. Thanks to a San Francisco Chronicle video interview on his policy stands, he's now the only one in the field \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakmayor2014.com/candidates/peter-y-liu/\" target=\"_blank\">featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Airbnb.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-134899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Airbnb-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Kathryn Blum rents a spare guest room in her home to visitors. "It's my property -- I want to be able to do with it as I choose," she said at a rally in April. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathryn Blum rents a spare guest room in her home to visitors. \"It's my property -- I want to be able to do with it as I choose,\" she said at a rally in April. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Planning Commission approved a plan by Supervisor David Chiu to legalize and regulate home rental services following a marathon meeting that began Thursday afternoon and ended 6½ hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to take up the legislation in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Chiu's proposal, San Franciscans whose homes are their primary residences for nine months of the year could legally rent out their units for up to 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents would have to apply for a permit from the city. To qualify, San Franciscans would need to meet several requirements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>be able to prove that they live in the unit for at least 275 days a year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts who live in units with rent control could not charge short-term visitors more than they are paying to their landlord\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>pay San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>and maintain rental or homeowners insurance for at least $150,000 worth of property damage.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Violators who continue to rent out their apartments beyond the 90 days would be subject to a $416-a-day fine for the first offense and $1,000 a day thereafter. The planning department pushed Chiu to extend the 90-day cap to single homes as well multi-unit dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planning department officials stressed that only addresses -- and not names -- would be made public under the registry. They also want to publish the frequency of rentals and display the information on a map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco's Housing Landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five companies account for 80 percent of current short-term rentals: VRBO, Airbnb, HomeAway, Craigslist and FlipKey, according to a commission report. In most cases property owners either manage the listings or employ an agent to manage their property as a short-term rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planning commission found that 4,000 to 5,000 entire housing units have been removed from San Francisco housing stock and are being advertised online as short-term rentals. This number accounts for 1.3 percent of all housing units in the City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/item/window-into-airbnb-s-hidden-impact-on-s-f-30110.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle report\u003c/a> found that close to 5,000 San Francisco homes, apartments and private or shared rooms were for rent via Airbnb alone and two-thirds were entire houses or apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comparison, 2,669 units were converted into condos between 2009 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Opposing Views on Home Rentals' Impact on the Housing Crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, a number of people who rent rooms in their homes testified about how it has helped them make ends meet and send tourism dollars to businesses in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of our friends find it impossible to stay in the city once they have kids, and most if not all of my colleagues find it impossible to live as artists in San Francisco. Home sharing has made it possible for me to do both,\" said Julie, an artist who lives with her family in a house in Noe Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"py3q7HYIREe9l4zXfl2fKad1s5kBSQdI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some felt the legislation was too stringent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be severely hurt economically by the 90 cap and I disagree with the public registration for privacy reasons,\" said Sondra, who said offering a short-term rental has helped provide money for her son's college tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2014/05/21/making-sausage-airbnb-helped-write-its-own-regulations\" target=\"_blank\">recently turned against\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation and urged its hosts and users to protest at the meeting. Last week the company launched \u003ca href=\"http://sf.fairtoshare.org/tos\" target=\"_blank\">Fair to Share\u003c/a>, a coalition to support \"home sharing.\" The organization wants to increase the legislation's 90-day limit to 180.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several people, including some tenant activists, called on the commission to take a harder look at the issue and redraft the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The legislation before you will only exacerbate the problems by rezoning the entire city so that every permanent resident can rent out to tourists for 275 days a year and for 90 days when they're not there,\" said Douglas Engmann, representing San Franciscans for Neighborhoods, Affordable Housing and Jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Planthold, a disabled rights activist, was concerned the rentals don't comply with the American with Disabilities Act. He also urged the commission to study the issue further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody has yet said, what about the disabled? Why aren't they able to participate and why aren't they included, and why isn't there any analysis about this constituency?\" Planthold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planning Director John Rahaim said the city does not have the ability to enforce the ADA because it is a federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Would Regulate the Rentals?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planning department said it's trying to legalize home rentals without making the tight rental market worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it can take up to 12 weeks to cite violators, Rahaim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are recommending that we get citation authority. So, for example, if someone is already at 90 days and they advertise for their unit for 10 more days we would be able to cite them immediately,\" Rahaim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said he agreed with a recommendation that the planning department be the primary enforcement agency, but several speakers, including former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, urged officials to strengthen enforcement. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planning department officials stressed that only addresses -- and not names -- would be made public under the registry. They also want to publish the frequency of rentals and display the information on a map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco's Housing Landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five companies account for 80 percent of current short-term rentals: VRBO, Airbnb, HomeAway, Craigslist and FlipKey, according to a commission report. In most cases property owners either manage the listings or employ an agent to manage their property as a short-term rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planning commission found that 4,000 to 5,000 entire housing units have been removed from San Francisco housing stock and are being advertised online as short-term rentals. This number accounts for 1.3 percent of all housing units in the City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/item/window-into-airbnb-s-hidden-impact-on-s-f-30110.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle report\u003c/a> found that close to 5,000 San Francisco homes, apartments and private or shared rooms were for rent via Airbnb alone and two-thirds were entire houses or apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comparison, 2,669 units were converted into condos between 2009 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Opposing Views on Home Rentals' Impact on the Housing Crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, a number of people who rent rooms in their homes testified about how it has helped them make ends meet and send tourism dollars to businesses in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of our friends find it impossible to stay in the city once they have kids, and most if not all of my colleagues find it impossible to live as artists in San Francisco. Home sharing has made it possible for me to do both,\" said Julie, an artist who lives with her family in a house in Noe Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some felt the legislation was too stringent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be severely hurt economically by the 90 cap and I disagree with the public registration for privacy reasons,\" said Sondra, who said offering a short-term rental has helped provide money for her son's college tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2014/05/21/making-sausage-airbnb-helped-write-its-own-regulations\" target=\"_blank\">recently turned against\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation and urged its hosts and users to protest at the meeting. Last week the company launched \u003ca href=\"http://sf.fairtoshare.org/tos\" target=\"_blank\">Fair to Share\u003c/a>, a coalition to support \"home sharing.\" The organization wants to increase the legislation's 90-day limit to 180.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several people, including some tenant activists, called on the commission to take a harder look at the issue and redraft the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The legislation before you will only exacerbate the problems by rezoning the entire city so that every permanent resident can rent out to tourists for 275 days a year and for 90 days when they're not there,\" said Douglas Engmann, representing San Franciscans for Neighborhoods, Affordable Housing and Jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Planthold, a disabled rights activist, was concerned the rentals don't comply with the American with Disabilities Act. He also urged the commission to study the issue further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody has yet said, what about the disabled? Why aren't they able to participate and why aren't they included, and why isn't there any analysis about this constituency?\" Planthold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planning Director John Rahaim said the city does not have the ability to enforce the ADA because it is a federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Would Regulate the Rentals?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planning department said it's trying to legalize home rentals without making the tight rental market worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it can take up to 12 weeks to cite violators, Rahaim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are recommending that we get citation authority. So, for example, if someone is already at 90 days and they advertise for their unit for 10 more days we would be able to cite them immediately,\" Rahaim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said he agreed with a recommendation that the planning department be the primary enforcement agency, but several speakers, including former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, urged officials to strengthen enforcement. The original legislation calls for the Department of Building Inspection to enforce the measure should it become law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners Hisashi Sugaya and Kathrin Moore opposed the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Rich Hillis asked that the Board of Supervisors extend the 90-day cap, exclude SROs and notify and give landlords 30 days to object, and that planning staff check units for code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View San Francisco Planning Commission on AirBnB on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/236182600/San-Francisco-Planning-Commission-on-AirBnB\">San Francisco Planning Commission on AirBnB\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View KQED News's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/KQED_News\">KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_11621\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/236182600/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-cPpHT6pQBXLMZxRfxPUV&show_recommendations=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Bryan Goebel contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But then, last week, he asked the Planning Commission to postpone consideration of his legislation [to set local regulations for Airbnb], and thought, 'Well, perhaps there is still an opportunity to work something out legislatively.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson said he will work with the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee's office over the next several months to craft regulations for Airbnb. If an agreement can’t be worked out, Carlson says he will resubmit signatures by this November to get the measure on the November 2015 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The measure was intended to provide a degree of regulation over short-term rentals of residences to tourists, and we’ve got somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 condos, apartments and homes that are being offered on more than 60 websites to tourists,” Carlson said. “They’re all offered illegally, and the city is not collecting hotel taxes on them, and it’s hurting the affordability crisis in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson told KQED that, beyond creating a registry for people who want to offer short-term rentals, there are major differences between what rules he'd like to see the city adopt and Chiu's proposal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>David wants to rezone the entire city so that short-term rentals are legal in every residential neighborhood across town. We don’t want to do that. David wants his registry to be essentially private. You could request to see it, but when the city showed it to you the names of the people offering short-term rentals to tourists would be redacted. Our proposal is that should all be public. Building permits are public, business licenses are public. There’s no reason to keep these names hidden. We require permission from landlords before tenants sublet their units to tourists. David didn’t want to do that either.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure was also backed by housing activist Calvin Welch and former planning commissioner Doug Engmann, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/07/07/backers-withdraw-anti-airbnb-sf-ballot-initiative/#24876101=0\" target=\"_blank\">More on the proposed ballot measure from the Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The ballot proposal would have required San Francisco hosts to comply with current — largely ignored — laws that require people offering short-term rentals to apply for a bed and breakfast license, an expensive and cumbersome process. People in areas zoned for single-family residential use — like much of the city west of Van Ness Avenue — could not even apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ballot initiative contains many land mines that make home sharing not just difficult but virtually impossible,” said Peter Kwan, a retired educator who founded Home Sharers of San Francisco, a 1,000-member organization for Airbnb hosts. “A vast majority of people who are currently doing home sharing would have to stop, because they’d either be banned or, if not, to go through those hoops would be too burdensome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwan said he was relieved that the proposal is not moving forward.\u003cbr>\nUnder the proposal, tenants renting via Airbnb would have had to show written permission from their landlords. Many property owners dislike having tenants rent via Airbnb because of concerns about security, and wear and tear. Landlords increasingly have issued eviction notices to tenants renting on Airbnb, either because they are violating lease prohibitions against subletting, or on the grounds that they are committing illegal acts by flouting the city’s ban on short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative would have prohibited short-term rentals in in-law apartments, affordable housing units, apartments that were subject to an Ellis Act eviction, and units that received affordable housing funds from city, state or federal agencies. 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Airbnb, \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/morning-agenda-airbnbs-10-billion-valuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently valued at $10 billion\u003c/a> based on a recent round of venture financing, has operated in a legal gray area until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, a coalition of landlords and housing advocates condemned home-sharing, arguing that vacation and short-term rentals are squeezing affordable housing out of the city. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Supervisor \u003c/span>David Chiu has proposed legislation that would require Airbnb hosts to pay San Francisco\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘s hotel tax and create a public registry of hosts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”30d63dfeca72c1c4e94c8536d6660eb6″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But opponents says Chiu’s proposal doesn’t go far enough. A group that includes housing activist Calvin Welch, former planning commissioner Doug Engmann and PR executive Dale Carlson is calling for placing much tougher restrictions on short-term rentals. Their proposal would restrict Airbnb rentals to neighborhoods with commercial zoning, and it would require hosts to show proof of insurance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday afternoon, Airbnb backers held a rally of their own in response to the proposed rule changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134707\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3413-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3413-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Schaller and Tish Kronen attended an Airbnb rally in front of San Francisco City Hall (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Schaller, left, and Tish Kronen attended an Airbnb rally in front of San Francisco City Hall. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Victoria \u003cspan style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">Schaller came to the rally with her dog, Princess. Schaller has done some cleaning for Airbnb hosts. “I support it because it helps people make a little extra money,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">She was joined by Tish Kronen, who rents out her home through Airbnb. “I’m going through a divorce, and if I didn’t have this, I don’t know if I’d make it through.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134711\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Goff has been an Airbnb host in the past, but he doesn’t currently have a spare bedroom. Still, he attended Tuesday’s rally at Civic Center Plaza. “I believe really strongly in letting small businesses use technology to make money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134709\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3385-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134709\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3385-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi driver Frank Fahy attended an Airbnb rally at City Hall (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi driver Frank Fahy attended an Airbnb rally at City Hall. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Airbnb debate has some similarities to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tncs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversy over ride services\u003c/a> such as Lyft and Uber. Frank Fahy drives a taxi in San Francisco, and he has watched a lot of business go to ride services recently. “Everyone who has a car is getting into the taxi business,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To supplement is income, he started renting out his house as a short-term rental a couple months ago. But he’s worried that new restrictions will prevent him from continuing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3470-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134714\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3470-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kathryn Blum holds a handmade sign at Tuesday's Airbnb rally (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathryn Blum holds a handmade sign at Tuesday’s Airbnb rally. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathryn Blum rents a spare guest room in her Potrero Hill home, which brings business to the neighborhood, she argued. “It’s my property — I want to be able to do with it as I choose. But I don’t think the harsh regulations will let me keep my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3508-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3508-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Short-term rental supporters sport signs at a rally at Civic Center Plaza (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-term rental supporters sport signs at a rally at Civic Center Plaza. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Airbnb opponents and backers held a pair of rallies at San Francisco’s City Hall on Tuesday as city officials continue to consider regulating short-term rentals and the increasingly popular practice of home-sharing. Airbnb, \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/morning-agenda-airbnbs-10-billion-valuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently valued at $10 billion\u003c/a> based on a recent round of venture financing, has operated in a legal gray area until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, a coalition of landlords and housing advocates condemned home-sharing, arguing that vacation and short-term rentals are squeezing affordable housing out of the city. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Supervisor \u003c/span>David Chiu has proposed legislation that would require Airbnb hosts to pay San Francisco\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘s hotel tax and create a public registry of hosts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But opponents says Chiu’s proposal doesn’t go far enough. A group that includes housing activist Calvin Welch, former planning commissioner Doug Engmann and PR executive Dale Carlson is calling for placing much tougher restrictions on short-term rentals. Their proposal would restrict Airbnb rentals to neighborhoods with commercial zoning, and it would require hosts to show proof of insurance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday afternoon, Airbnb backers held a rally of their own in response to the proposed rule changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134707\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3413-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3413-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Schaller and Tish Kronen attended an Airbnb rally in front of San Francisco City Hall (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Schaller, left, and Tish Kronen attended an Airbnb rally in front of San Francisco City Hall. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Victoria \u003cspan style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">Schaller came to the rally with her dog, Princess. Schaller has done some cleaning for Airbnb hosts. “I support it because it helps people make a little extra money,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #3c3c3c\">She was joined by Tish Kronen, who rents out her home through Airbnb. “I’m going through a divorce, and if I didn’t have this, I don’t know if I’d make it through.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134711\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3379-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fahy shows his support for Cher and home-sharing. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Goff has been an Airbnb host in the past, but he doesn’t currently have a spare bedroom. Still, he attended Tuesday’s rally at Civic Center Plaza. “I believe really strongly in letting small businesses use technology to make money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134709\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3385-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134709\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_3385-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi driver Frank Fahy attended an Airbnb rally at City Hall (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi driver Frank Fahy attended an Airbnb rally at City Hall. 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"disqusTitle": "SF Supervisor's Airbnb Proposal Would Legalize Some Short-Term Rentals",
"title": "SF Supervisor's Airbnb Proposal Would Legalize Some Short-Term Rentals",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks and Lisa Pickoff-White\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123982\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/airbnbsf-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. Photo: Effie Yang/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Airbnb guide in San Francisco. (Effie Yang/Flickr) \u003ccite>(Effie Yang/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is considering regulating home rental vacation services like Airbnb in hopes of reducing illegal short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Chiu proposes to let residents rent their dwellings for a period shorter than 30 days, currently illegal for owners and tenants alike. But those who want to legally rent their residences short-term will have to comply with some stiff requirements, and landlords could still prohibit the rentals through language in a lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Chiu's proposal, tenants or landlords who want to become Airbnb \"hosts\" would need to register with the city, prove they occupy the unit 75 percent of the year and pay the same taxes as hotels. Airbnb has already agreed to pay San Francisco's 14 percent hotel tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the legislation was aimed in part at people who are contributing to the housing shortage by using their homes mostly as hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have had the worst offenders, who have been taking entire units off the marketplace,\" he said. \"Tenants who've been renting multiple units in order to turn most of them into de facto hotels, and owners and landlords who've been evicting tenants to do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Rules for Short-Term Rentals and Hosting Services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules the Department of Building Inspection would create and maintain a registry of permitted hosts. Residents would have to apply and pay a fee to the department to obtain a permit. To qualify, residents need to meet several requirements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>residents need to have lived in their unit for at least 60 days,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>be able to prove that they live in the unit for at least 275 days a year,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts who live in units with rent control could not charge short-term visitors more than they are paying to their landlord,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>hosts would have to pay San Francisco's hotel tax,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>and hosts would have to maintain rental or homeowners insurance for at least $150,000 worth of property damage.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The legislation also regulates \"hosting platforms,\" like Airbnb or VRBO. Those companies would have to notify hosts about the city's regulations, and remove listings that do not have a permit for up to a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evictions on the Rise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.'\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>--Time magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle has been reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-cracks-down-on-Airbnb-rentals-5381237.php\" target=\"_blank\">evictions of San Francisco tenants\u003c/a> who have been renting out their residences short-term through Airbnb are increasing. \"Since 2012, the Planning Department has witnessed a surge in complaints about short-term rentals, normally from neighbors,\" the paper wrote last week. \"The agency is now actively investigating about 85 people offering their spaces on Airbnb, VRBO and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report quotes a tenants attorney who said eviction notices in the city were \"reaching epidemic levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://time.com/63810/san-francisco-airbnb-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">Time reports\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation offers some protection for tenants who find themselves on the wrong side of city regulations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The legislation ... protects tenants from being evicted right away for listing their apartment on a site like Airbnb. Currently, the law gives a landlord the authority to evict someone if the renter is violating the city’s prohibition against short-term rentals, no questions asked. The new law says that tenants who meet all the criteria and registered with the city would be protected from such evictions. Tenants who hadn’t registered would also get a chance to remedy their behavior (i.e. stop renting out their apartment) on the first offense, assuming their lease is silent on the issue.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But if their lease is not silent on the issue, then they're out of luck. Any legalization of short-term rentals in Chiu's legislation would not override restrictions against them stated on a lease. \"(S)o if a resident has signed papers agreeing not to rent out their apartment to anyone else, the new law would likely not protect them from eviction,\" Time wrote. \"As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb, which is based in San Francisco, said in a statement that it was reviewing the proposal and looked forward to working with policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups applauded Chiu's bill, while advocates for property owners said it does not adequately address their concern that short-term renters could pose a safety and health risk to other tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People that are using a unit for transient use typically aren't as careful as they are when it's their primary residence,\" Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, told the Chronicle. \"We would prefer the status quo to anything else - and we are not in support of creating another dysfunctional bureaucracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Planning Director John Rahaim says he supports the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it's great for the city, we think it's great for sustainable development,\" he said. \"The primary concern, and both from our standpoint and the standpoint of the complaints we hear, is almost exclusively around owners and tenants who are vacating their units entirely and using them as hotel rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Jose City Council committee will discuss imposing a hotel tax on short-term rentals Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, including New York, have similar prohibitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York's attorney general has demanded that Airbnb turn over data about New York City residents who have put listings on the site as part of an investigation into whether they are breaking a state law barring sublets for fewer than 30 days if the occupants are not present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, Airbnb warns hosts to be aware of the laws in their city, noting that some restrict people's ability to host paying guests for short periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very happy to see a move toward creating a regulatory infrastructure of Airbnb hosting at all,\" said Arun Sundararajan, a New York University professor who studies the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sundararajan said the CPUC's regulation of ride services like UberX and Lyft sets a good precedent for balancing regulation and innovation for the sharing economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It represents a new kind of partnership where the government lays out some guidelines and delegates the responsibility for regulation to the platform,\" he said. \"EBay is not responsible for monitoring actively, but eBay is responsible for stopping the sale of something if it's pointed out that counterfeit or illegal activity is taking place. 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Those companies would have to notify hosts about the city's regulations, and remove listings that do not have a permit for up to a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evictions on the Rise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As landlords get hip to the reality of the sharing economy, it’s possible that many leases will prohibit short-term rentals of any kind.'\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>--Time magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle has been reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-cracks-down-on-Airbnb-rentals-5381237.php\" target=\"_blank\">evictions of San Francisco tenants\u003c/a> who have been renting out their residences short-term through Airbnb are increasing. \"Since 2012, the Planning Department has witnessed a surge in complaints about short-term rentals, normally from neighbors,\" the paper wrote last week. \"The agency is now actively investigating about 85 people offering their spaces on Airbnb, VRBO and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report quotes a tenants attorney who said eviction notices in the city were \"reaching epidemic levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://time.com/63810/san-francisco-airbnb-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">Time reports\u003c/a> Chiu's legislation offers some protection for tenants who find themselves on the wrong side of city regulations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The legislation ... protects tenants from being evicted right away for listing their apartment on a site like Airbnb. Currently, the law gives a landlord the authority to evict someone if the renter is violating the city’s prohibition against short-term rentals, no questions asked. The new law says that tenants who meet all the criteria and registered with the city would be protected from such evictions. Tenants who hadn’t registered would also get a chance to remedy their behavior (i.e. stop renting out their apartment) on the first offense, assuming their lease is silent on the issue.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But if their lease is not silent on the issue, then they're out of luck. 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The company is also in negotiations over collecting taxes with New York state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"b9b5cbb763e6203dc841ab0d7e5388d7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have repeatedly said that we believe our community in San Francisco should pay its fair share of taxes,\" David Hantman, the company's head of global public policy, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://publicpolicy.airbnb.com/san-francisco-taxes-airbnb-community/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a>. The move could potentially add millions to San Francisco coffers and help Airbnb avoid conflict with regulators — especially if the company seeks to go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been criticized by city officials, landlords and hotels, who say it ignores local regulations, including the hotel tax and a ban on renting residential spaces for less than 30 days. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Airbnb-other-sites-owe-city-hotel-tax-S-F-says-3457290.php\">San Francisco's treasurer ruled\u003c/a> in 2012 that the online home rental services like Airbnb are subject to the tax. At the time, the company strongly resisted. \"Laws (like San Francisco’s hotel tax) were written long before the Internet or any of these activities were conceived,\" an Airbnb spokesperson said after that ruling. \"Innovative new models that allow San Franciscans to generate additional income should be addressed by innovative laws and policies -- not stifled by 40-year-old regulations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marina Franco, an attorney at a law firm that represents property owners, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Airbnb-to-collect-hotel-taxes-for-San-Francisco-5365352.php%22%20target=%22_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that the tax alone would not satisfy landlords. \"Our concerns are the liabilities of having strangers in our buildings, the fact that (tenants) are renting rooms for more than landlords are entitled to charge and that they don't have conditional use permits to run hotels,\" Franco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle said that an Airbnb host who was briefed on the plan said the company plans to keep hosts anonymous when it remits the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Airbnb-sublets-in-S-F-land-some-renters-in-the-5326019.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco landlords have been trying to evict tenants who use their rentals to host Airbnb guests\u003c/a>. \"Landlords are pissed off that tenants are profiting off their properties,\" Delene Wolf, executive director of the San Francisco Rent Board, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Airbnb-sublets-in-S-F-land-some-renters-in-the-5326019.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> in March. \"It makes them crazy: They're rent controlled, and the tenant is making more off their property than they can make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu is working on legislation that would establish a framework for the company's operations. \"Now that they are doing the right thing and remitting taxes, I'm looking forward to moving forward on legislation to regulate shareable housing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with those other fast-growing stalwarts of the \"sharing economy,\" the ride-service firms UberX and Lyft, Airbnb has caused all manner of consternation in the well-regulated business that preceded it. Across the country, local taxi companies have adamantly opposed the ride services; and the \"hospitality industry\" has likewise gone to war with Airbnb. In New York City, the hotel industry has been especially critical of the company. 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