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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first community meeting, some residents expressed concern over increased traffic, and the accessibility of the school for other students, who don’t qualify as low income. City planners said there will be at least two additional community meetings for residents to give their input into the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11579455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11579455 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1679-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the proposed 76,000-square-foot expansion site of The Primary School. The school will have capacity for 511 students (K-8). \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June, the school held its first graduation ceremony for 51 preschoolers. This coming school year, it will welcome 150 preschoolers and serve an additional 100 infants and toddlers. The ultimate goal is to provide on-site health care services and education to 511 students and their families from birth through eighth grade. The school partners with the Ravenswood Health Clinic to provide health services to its students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still a long way to go before the new school campus becomes official. The plans must first go through a city environmental review and traffic analysis this fall and winter. The East Palo Alto City Council will vote on the plan sometime in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11579456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11579456 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/IMG_1675-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An overhead map of the proposed building, which will be built on 3.5 acres of land off of Weeks Street in East Palo Alto. The school will have capacity for 511 students (K-8). \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This post has been updated to clarify the number of students expected to attend the school in the fall. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many cities in Silicon Valley are working to develop new sources of water to avoid shortfalls in future decades, but East Palo Alto is already at a critical point. The city needs more water in order to spur much-needed economic development and new housing. Here’s how it hopes to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If you don’t have water, you don’t have affordable housing. If you don’t have water, you can’t grow.”\u003ccite>Carlos Martinez, City Manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Carlos Martinez has big dreams for East Palo Alto. It will continue to be multi-ethnic, there will be residents of all economic classes, affordable housing, schools with 100 percent graduation rates and community programs for youth and seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a lot to ask from any town and East Palo Alto has an additional hurdle right now. The city doesn’t have enough water to drive economic growth, which would help provide the tax dollars to fund housing, schools, city services and new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is true when you look at other planets, when you look for life, you look for water and it is equally true here,” said Martinez, who is East Palo Alto’s city manager. “If you don’t have water, you don’t have affordable housing. If you don’t have water, you can’t grow, and if we can’t grow we can’t generate jobs, which our citizens need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Development on Hold\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key to East Palo Alto’s future is a small triangle of land in the back corner of a Home Depot parking lot. A sunken indent in the lawn is the only indication of the good fortune below. This is the location known as Pad D, where the city has already dug a test well in search of drinkable groundwater. The results were very promising – a good quantity of water and good quality. In less than two years, it’s possible this could be a producing well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592429\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-400x219.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-768x420.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1440x787.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1920x1049.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1180x645.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-960x525.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan/Water Deeply)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that’s good news because East Palo Alto’s water supply today comes from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Hetch Hetchy water system. The water itself is not problematic, but the amount is. East Palo Alto currently uses all of its allocation. By 2035, with the city’s projected growth, it will be short 1,200 acre-feet a year (an average household uses between one half and one acre-foot a year and East Palo Alto residents have some of the lowest water use in the state).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is not as dire as some Central Valley towns where wells ran dry last year and residents had to haul water for showering and drinking. East Palo Alto residents currently have enough water to meet their basic needs, but without an \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9865/silicon-valley-seeks-local-water-sources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additional supply\u003c/a> the city’s economic growth is hamstrung because new developments are not able to be approved by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this isn’t a function of California’s four-year drought, either. “I don’t want to give the impression that because of the drought there is no water,” said Martinez. “There is water – there is plenty of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have developers lining up.’\u003ccite>Michelle Daher, Environmental Coordinator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In fact, he says, other nearby cities have allocations that currently exceed their needs, but East Palo Alto officials haven’t yet managed to find cities that are willing to sell or trade their unused water. “There is plenty of water in the system, it’s just not ours,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And without well water or supplies from other cities to increase their allocation, East Palo Alto is out of other options. Even increasing conservation would be hard at this point. Residents have a reported per capita daily water use of 52 gallons – one of the lowest in the area (and the state). When Gov. Jerry Brown ordered statewide conservations mandates of up to 36 percent last year, East Palo Alto was tasked with trimming its water use only 8 percent because it was already low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents didn’t just hit the target, they nearly tripled it. By February they had saved enough water to meet an October target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very few parks and open spaces so we are not irrigating huge lawns. Our lots are small also, we don’t have three or four acre lots with landscaping,” said Martinez. “There is little we can do to gather more water. We are already doing what we can. We can’t tell our residents to use less water because it would be dangerous to their health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So East Palo Alto is looking to add two new wells to augment Hetch Hetchy water with local groundwater. The first is Pad D and the second well will be located 1.5 miles (2.4km) away on Gloria Way, a residential road. The Gloria Way well was in use decades ago, but residents disliked the color and odor of the water because of high levels of manganese and iron, so a filtration system will be needed before a well here can be used again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”zgmST6DMzFvdGUOq3KwBwke7VW4gGDTx”]Martinez estimates that construction could start on the Gloria Way well at the beginning of 2017. And it won’t be soon enough for some developers hoping to begin construction on projects in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have developers lining up,” said Michelle Daher, the city’s environmental coordinator. “We’re telling them we’ll process your applications, but without having the water to promise to your project we are not going to move forward beyond just an initial preview of the application. We can’t take it to the planning commission and get it fully vetted or get the entitlements because there isn’t water to meet the requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says there are three main projects in limbo while the city works on securing new water sources. Two are “Class A” office spaces (the most premiere) – one at 200,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) and the other a whopping 1.4 million square feet (130,000 square meters). The third project is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theprimaryschool.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primary School\u003c/a>, a new school combining education and health services for 500 kids led by Priscilla Chan, the pediatrician and philanthropist wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The school plans to open in a temporary location this fall until it can complete construction on its permanent East Palo Alto site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three projects would bring in needed revenue for the city, but East Palo Alto also has other priorities as well. “The city has a site they would like to develop as affordable housing, but of course we can’t develop affordable housing without water,” said Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning for the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more water, East Palo Alto, which is squeezed between the shoulders of Palo Alto (home to Stanford University) and Menlo Park (headquarters of Facebook), may be poised for big changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade Martinez says he’s already seen substantial changes. Back in 1992 East Palo Alto held the unenviable title of having the highest homicide rate per capita in the country. These days, though, thanks to the proliferation of the tech boom, it finally has the attention of moneyed interests and large developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t always been the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the city of East Palo Alto incorporated, many people in San Mateo County thought that the city could not survive because it has a very tiny tax base,” said Martinez. For example, in 1977 total \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sales tax revenue\u003c/a> per capita in East Palo Alto was $8.33. Next door in Palo Alto, it was $64.35 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until 1983, East Palo Alto was an unincorporated part of San Mateo County. In the years preceding, neighboring towns and highway construction had chipped away parts of East Palo Alto’s neighborhoods, shrinking the city’s borders down to an irregularly shaped 2.5 square miles (6.5 square km).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The largest tax generator was a McDonald’s,” said Martinez. “You can’t run a city with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592434\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592434\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community leaders were determined to make East Palo Alto economically sound and do so with a commitment to fair housing. The first step after incorporation, said Martinez, was enacting rent control ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing has been a defining factor in the area’s history, long before it was officially incorporated. In the post World War II boom that drove population growth in the peninsula, East Palo Alto became a refuge for African Americans at a time when housing discrimination and “\u003ca href=\"http://sils.unc.edu/news/2010/t-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redlining\u003c/a>” were common in other nearby cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades East Palo Alto was predominantly African American, but the demographics have shifted in recent years, though it still remains more racially diverse than neighboring towns or the county as a whole. Census numbers from 2010 show the city is 65 percent Hispanic or Latino, 17 percent Black and 7.5 percent Pacific Islander or Hawaiian. The majority of people in the city speak a language other than English at home and 40 percent were born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the tech boom has fueled a drastic rise in rents and home prices throughout the area, East Palo Alto remains more affordable, relatively speaking. Neighborhoods tend to have more modest homes and multiunit buildings. Median home prices have risen in East Palo Alto to $650,000, but it’s still a bargain compared to $2 million in neighboring Palo Alto or $1.5 million in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of East Palo Alto, though, have smaller paychecks than their neighbors. Median household income is 43 percent less than the rest of San Mateo County, which makes the need for economic development even greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Martinez knows that it will come with trade-offs. It already has. Back in the 1990s, when others counted East Palo Alto as down and out, the city’s leaders made strategic decisions to boost its economy. The downtown area known as Whiskey Gulch “suffered from physically dilapidated buildings, high crime and drug activity, and the proliferation of liquor stores and bars,” the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> explains. But it was razed and replaced in 1999 with “University Circle,” which now includes a Four Seasons hotel and office towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that began to bring property tax revenue and stabilize the city,” said Martinez. “People didn’t think retail users would relocate to East Palo Alto.” But they were wrong. Next came another development with Ikea, Home Depot, Nordstrom Rack, Sports Authority, Starbucks and other big chain businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no longer a doubt that East Palo Alto can sustain itself as a city but I think in that process to get to that point, many people were displaced, multi-family homes were demolished and families were relocated,” said Martinez. “The city council had to make very hard choices in order to survive as a city. Development generates revenues for financial services but also creates other impacts – it’s a balancing act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That balancing act is something that the city takes seriously as it develops a new general plan for how to grow East Palo Alto as more water becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is actively seeking input to make sure we get it right for future generations and have a vision that is long-term,” said Daher. “The residents have made it clear they are interested in seeing development happen, but in certain areas they want to focus on retaining their low-income housing portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the horizon is a new city center that would bring more pedestrian-friendly streets, retail and higher-density housing. The area that Martinez calls the “linchpin” for this new downtown is an empty 6-acre (2.4-hectare) lot surrounded by a chain-link fence. It’s across from the McDonald’s that used to be the city’s biggest tax generator. A sign lists a phone number for the vacant parcel’s developer, Barry Swenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is another dream deferred for East Palo Alto. Like other developments, it will have to wait for more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez hopes the wait is not too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have more and better city facilities and better recreational opportunities,” said Martinez. “There are many things that we should be doing but we don’t have the resources at this point. Additional development would enable us to provide that for our citizens. But that cannot happen if we don’t have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"http://waterdeeply.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Deeply\u003c/a>, and you can find the original \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9934/east-palo-altos-economic-future-tied-water/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. For important news about the California drought, you can \u003ca href=\"http://nwsdp.ly/waterlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up to the Water Deeply email list\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In less than two years, it’s possible this could be a producing well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592429\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-800x437.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-400x219.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-768x420.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1440x787.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1920x1049.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-1180x645.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink-960x525.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/east-palo-dont-drink.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns not to drink the water at the Gloria Way well in East Palo Alto. The city hopes in 2017 to begin construction on a new well here to use groundwater to augment water supply. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan/Water Deeply)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that’s good news because East Palo Alto’s water supply today comes from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Hetch Hetchy water system. The water itself is not problematic, but the amount is. East Palo Alto currently uses all of its allocation. By 2035, with the city’s projected growth, it will be short 1,200 acre-feet a year (an average household uses between one half and one acre-foot a year and East Palo Alto residents have some of the lowest water use in the state).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is not as dire as some Central Valley towns where wells ran dry last year and residents had to haul water for showering and drinking. East Palo Alto residents currently have enough water to meet their basic needs, but without an \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9865/silicon-valley-seeks-local-water-sources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additional supply\u003c/a> the city’s economic growth is hamstrung because new developments are not able to be approved by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this isn’t a function of California’s four-year drought, either. “I don’t want to give the impression that because of the drought there is no water,” said Martinez. “There is water – there is plenty of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have developers lining up.’\u003ccite>Michelle Daher, Environmental Coordinator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In fact, he says, other nearby cities have allocations that currently exceed their needs, but East Palo Alto officials haven’t yet managed to find cities that are willing to sell or trade their unused water. “There is plenty of water in the system, it’s just not ours,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And without well water or supplies from other cities to increase their allocation, East Palo Alto is out of other options. Even increasing conservation would be hard at this point. Residents have a reported per capita daily water use of 52 gallons – one of the lowest in the area (and the state). When Gov. Jerry Brown ordered statewide conservations mandates of up to 36 percent last year, East Palo Alto was tasked with trimming its water use only 8 percent because it was already low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents didn’t just hit the target, they nearly tripled it. By February they had saved enough water to meet an October target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very few parks and open spaces so we are not irrigating huge lawns. Our lots are small also, we don’t have three or four acre lots with landscaping,” said Martinez. “There is little we can do to gather more water. We are already doing what we can. We can’t tell our residents to use less water because it would be dangerous to their health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So East Palo Alto is looking to add two new wells to augment Hetch Hetchy water with local groundwater. The first is Pad D and the second well will be located 1.5 miles (2.4km) away on Gloria Way, a residential road. The Gloria Way well was in use decades ago, but residents disliked the color and odor of the water because of high levels of manganese and iron, so a filtration system will be needed before a well here can be used again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Martinez estimates that construction could start on the Gloria Way well at the beginning of 2017. And it won’t be soon enough for some developers hoping to begin construction on projects in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have developers lining up,” said Michelle Daher, the city’s environmental coordinator. “We’re telling them we’ll process your applications, but without having the water to promise to your project we are not going to move forward beyond just an initial preview of the application. We can’t take it to the planning commission and get it fully vetted or get the entitlements because there isn’t water to meet the requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says there are three main projects in limbo while the city works on securing new water sources. Two are “Class A” office spaces (the most premiere) – one at 200,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) and the other a whopping 1.4 million square feet (130,000 square meters). The third project is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theprimaryschool.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primary School\u003c/a>, a new school combining education and health services for 500 kids led by Priscilla Chan, the pediatrician and philanthropist wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The school plans to open in a temporary location this fall until it can complete construction on its permanent East Palo Alto site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three projects would bring in needed revenue for the city, but East Palo Alto also has other priorities as well. “The city has a site they would like to develop as affordable housing, but of course we can’t develop affordable housing without water,” said Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Planning for the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more water, East Palo Alto, which is squeezed between the shoulders of Palo Alto (home to Stanford University) and Menlo Park (headquarters of Facebook), may be poised for big changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade Martinez says he’s already seen substantial changes. Back in 1992 East Palo Alto held the unenviable title of having the highest homicide rate per capita in the country. These days, though, thanks to the proliferation of the tech boom, it finally has the attention of moneyed interests and large developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t always been the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the city of East Palo Alto incorporated, many people in San Mateo County thought that the city could not survive because it has a very tiny tax base,” said Martinez. For example, in 1977 total \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sales tax revenue\u003c/a> per capita in East Palo Alto was $8.33. Next door in Palo Alto, it was $64.35 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until 1983, East Palo Alto was an unincorporated part of San Mateo County. In the years preceding, neighboring towns and highway construction had chipped away parts of East Palo Alto’s neighborhoods, shrinking the city’s borders down to an irregularly shaped 2.5 square miles (6.5 square km).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The largest tax generator was a McDonald’s,” said Martinez. “You can’t run a city with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_592434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592434\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592434\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/East-Palo-development.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vacant lot in East Palo Alto may be the future site of a new downtown development when the city secures additional water resources to approve new building projects. \u003ccite>(Tara Lohan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community leaders were determined to make East Palo Alto economically sound and do so with a commitment to fair housing. The first step after incorporation, said Martinez, was enacting rent control ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing has been a defining factor in the area’s history, long before it was officially incorporated. In the post World War II boom that drove population growth in the peninsula, East Palo Alto became a refuge for African Americans at a time when housing discrimination and “\u003ca href=\"http://sils.unc.edu/news/2010/t-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redlining\u003c/a>” were common in other nearby cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades East Palo Alto was predominantly African American, but the demographics have shifted in recent years, though it still remains more racially diverse than neighboring towns or the county as a whole. Census numbers from 2010 show the city is 65 percent Hispanic or Latino, 17 percent Black and 7.5 percent Pacific Islander or Hawaiian. The majority of people in the city speak a language other than English at home and 40 percent were born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the tech boom has fueled a drastic rise in rents and home prices throughout the area, East Palo Alto remains more affordable, relatively speaking. Neighborhoods tend to have more modest homes and multiunit buildings. Median home prices have risen in East Palo Alto to $650,000, but it’s still a bargain compared to $2 million in neighboring Palo Alto or $1.5 million in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of East Palo Alto, though, have smaller paychecks than their neighbors. Median household income is 43 percent less than the rest of San Mateo County, which makes the need for economic development even greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Martinez knows that it will come with trade-offs. It already has. Back in the 1990s, when others counted East Palo Alto as down and out, the city’s leaders made strategic decisions to boost its economy. The downtown area known as Whiskey Gulch “suffered from physically dilapidated buildings, high crime and drug activity, and the proliferation of liquor stores and bars,” the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> explains. But it was razed and replaced in 1999 with “University Circle,” which now includes a Four Seasons hotel and office towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that began to bring property tax revenue and stabilize the city,” said Martinez. “People didn’t think retail users would relocate to East Palo Alto.” But they were wrong. Next came another development with Ikea, Home Depot, Nordstrom Rack, Sports Authority, Starbucks and other big chain businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no longer a doubt that East Palo Alto can sustain itself as a city but I think in that process to get to that point, many people were displaced, multi-family homes were demolished and families were relocated,” said Martinez. “The city council had to make very hard choices in order to survive as a city. Development generates revenues for financial services but also creates other impacts – it’s a balancing act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That balancing act is something that the city takes seriously as it develops a new general plan for how to grow East Palo Alto as more water becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is actively seeking input to make sure we get it right for future generations and have a vision that is long-term,” said Daher. “The residents have made it clear they are interested in seeing development happen, but in certain areas they want to focus on retaining their low-income housing portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the horizon is a new city center that would bring more pedestrian-friendly streets, retail and higher-density housing. The area that Martinez calls the “linchpin” for this new downtown is an empty 6-acre (2.4-hectare) lot surrounded by a chain-link fence. It’s across from the McDonald’s that used to be the city’s biggest tax generator. A sign lists a phone number for the vacant parcel’s developer, Barry Swenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is another dream deferred for East Palo Alto. Like other developments, it will have to wait for more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez hopes the wait is not too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have more and better city facilities and better recreational opportunities,” said Martinez. “There are many things that we should be doing but we don’t have the resources at this point. Additional development would enable us to provide that for our citizens. But that cannot happen if we don’t have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For years the tech boom largely bypassed one part of Silicon Valley: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">East Palo Alto\u003c/a>. It's just across Highway 101 from Stanford University and all the venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road. But until recently, East Palo Alto was a relatively affordable enclave for working-class Latinos and African-Americans. But that's quickly changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192651222\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Jones knows all about it. She was born and raised in East Palo Alto and now works as a Coldwell Banker real estate agent. After a freshly painted \"For Sale\" sign was pounded into the front lawn of her latest offering, Jones walked me around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2881 Drew Court in East Palo Alto is a modest, three-bedroom house on a quiet little cul de-sac. At 1,200 square feet, it's certainly not big for Silicon Valley. But it comes with a 12,700-square-foot lot where a larger home could be built. Asking price: $985,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they say in real estate -- location, location, location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can get all the way to Google if you want,\" Jones says while standing in the backyard. \"Or you can bike all the way up to Stanford if you need to. And definitely you can just jog up to Facebook if that's what you need to do. So yeah, this is a great location.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says these days houses listed in EPA don't stay on the market too long and they attract multiple offers, often from out-of-town or even international investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Silicon Valley, the economy, I think, of Silicon Valley is going to swallow this place,\" Robert Hoover tells me. \"And you can see the changes taking place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoover moved here as a young man to attend Stanford, one of the very few African-Americans studying there then. He graduated in 1961.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto,\" Hoover remembers. \"We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in front of the house he owned until a year ago, I asked him what he paid for it back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"$13,500,\" he says, laughing. \"And it seemed like a lot of money then.\" Hoover sold it recently for $368,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover was born in North Carolina 83 years ago, but to meet him you'd swear he was no more than 65 or 70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived in East Palo Alto, it was about half African-American. It wasn't officially a city then. And Hoover got involved in a two-year political battle that led to it finally becoming a chartered city in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, East Palo Alto went through some very tough times. Failing schools. Crime and drugs. In 1992 it was called the \"murder capital of the United States.\" Hoover helped organize neighbors to confront the drug dealers and take back their streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, says Hoover, East Palo Alto was a tight-knit kind of place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew every kid, every family on this block. And all the kids played together, and our house was one of the gathering places where the kids came and played.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we're standing in the driveway of his old house, a woman living there comes out to say hi. \"How are you?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto. We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.'\u003ccite>Bob Hoover\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"She was my tenant until I sold my house last year,\" Hoover says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Brown says that if it weren't for Hoover, she couldn't afford to still rent this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the things he made sure about,\" Brown says. \"He made sure that I was able to stay in the house, whoever bought the house. And I've been able to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the conditions of sale,\" Hoover confirms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, East Palo Alto is about 65 percent Latino. Hoover still lives here. But he says a lot of his black friends cashed out years ago and moved to places like Tracy, Stockton and Fresno. Many of them, he says, wish they had never left. But they can't afford to come back now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of this population that lives here does not have the kind of income that will allow them to stay here,\" Hoover says. \"Almost every house that's been on the market in the last 2½ years has been bought by someone outside the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, East Palo Alto has left behind its troubled past. Like any city, it has crime -- but nothing like it used to. Big-box stores like Ikea moved in. There's even an upscale Four Seasons Hotel here now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can see a lot more white people in the community now,\" Hoover says. \"And for the first time in -- God, I don't know, 15 years -- we had a white who ran for the City Council. They didn't win, but they were close. They were close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this his ninth decade of life, Bob Hoover is still \u003cem>really\u003c/em> active. He teaches golf to underprivileged kids. And he helps former prisoners get work. He seems to identify with the underdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who are not in the mainstream of the American economy, they need to have a place to live.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he wants that place to be East Palo Alto. Bob Hoover is not the kind of guy who thinks all change is bad. He sees the upside of it every day. He did, after all, sell his house for more than 27 times what he paid for it. But he worries about what will become of the folks who live here now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the people who are going to probably occupy East Palo Alto could live other places. They don't have to live here,\" Hoover reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And since this is really the only place people who are living here (now) can live, it's just a disruption of people's lives and their families. It's like so many other things in this country: If you're not part of the economically well-to-do, you just get the short end of everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For years the tech boom largely bypassed one part of Silicon Valley: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">East Palo Alto\u003c/a>. It's just across Highway 101 from Stanford University and all the venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road. But until recently, East Palo Alto was a relatively affordable enclave for working-class Latinos and African-Americans. But that's quickly changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192651222&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192651222'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Jones knows all about it. She was born and raised in East Palo Alto and now works as a Coldwell Banker real estate agent. After a freshly painted \"For Sale\" sign was pounded into the front lawn of her latest offering, Jones walked me around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2881 Drew Court in East Palo Alto is a modest, three-bedroom house on a quiet little cul de-sac. At 1,200 square feet, it's certainly not big for Silicon Valley. But it comes with a 12,700-square-foot lot where a larger home could be built. Asking price: $985,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they say in real estate -- location, location, location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can get all the way to Google if you want,\" Jones says while standing in the backyard. \"Or you can bike all the way up to Stanford if you need to. And definitely you can just jog up to Facebook if that's what you need to do. So yeah, this is a great location.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says these days houses listed in EPA don't stay on the market too long and they attract multiple offers, often from out-of-town or even international investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Silicon Valley, the economy, I think, of Silicon Valley is going to swallow this place,\" Robert Hoover tells me. \"And you can see the changes taking place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Bob_Hoover.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Hoover, standing in front of the East Palo Alto house he bought in 1962 for $13,500. He sold it a year ago for $368,000 -- 27 times what he paid for it. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoover moved here as a young man to attend Stanford, one of the very few African-Americans studying there then. He graduated in 1961.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto,\" Hoover remembers. \"We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in front of the house he owned until a year ago, I asked him what he paid for it back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"$13,500,\" he says, laughing. \"And it seemed like a lot of money then.\" Hoover sold it recently for $368,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover was born in North Carolina 83 years ago, but to meet him you'd swear he was no more than 65 or 70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he arrived in East Palo Alto, it was about half African-American. It wasn't officially a city then. And Hoover got involved in a two-year political battle that led to it finally becoming a chartered city in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, East Palo Alto went through some very tough times. Failing schools. Crime and drugs. In 1992 it was called the \"murder capital of the United States.\" Hoover helped organize neighbors to confront the drug dealers and take back their streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, says Hoover, East Palo Alto was a tight-knit kind of place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew every kid, every family on this block. And all the kids played together, and our house was one of the gathering places where the kids came and played.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we're standing in the driveway of his old house, a woman living there comes out to say hi. \"How are you?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'My wife and I got married and we tried to buy a house in Palo Alto. We couldn't buy a house. They wouldn't sell us one. And so we ended up buying here.'\u003ccite>Bob Hoover\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"She was my tenant until I sold my house last year,\" Hoover says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Brown says that if it weren't for Hoover, she couldn't afford to still rent this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the things he made sure about,\" Brown says. \"He made sure that I was able to stay in the house, whoever bought the house. And I've been able to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the conditions of sale,\" Hoover confirms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, East Palo Alto is about 65 percent Latino. Hoover still lives here. But he says a lot of his black friends cashed out years ago and moved to places like Tracy, Stockton and Fresno. Many of them, he says, wish they had never left. But they can't afford to come back now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of this population that lives here does not have the kind of income that will allow them to stay here,\" Hoover says. \"Almost every house that's been on the market in the last 2½ years has been bought by someone outside the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, East Palo Alto has left behind its troubled past. Like any city, it has crime -- but nothing like it used to. Big-box stores like Ikea moved in. There's even an upscale Four Seasons Hotel here now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can see a lot more white people in the community now,\" Hoover says. \"And for the first time in -- God, I don't know, 15 years -- we had a white who ran for the City Council. They didn't win, but they were close. They were close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this his ninth decade of life, Bob Hoover is still \u003cem>really\u003c/em> active. He teaches golf to underprivileged kids. And he helps former prisoners get work. He seems to identify with the underdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who are not in the mainstream of the American economy, they need to have a place to live.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he wants that place to be East Palo Alto. Bob Hoover is not the kind of guy who thinks all change is bad. He sees the upside of it every day. He did, after all, sell his house for more than 27 times what he paid for it. But he worries about what will become of the folks who live here now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the people who are going to probably occupy East Palo Alto could live other places. They don't have to live here,\" Hoover reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And since this is really the only place people who are living here (now) can live, it's just a disruption of people's lives and their families. It's like so many other things in this country: If you're not part of the economically well-to-do, you just get the short end of everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Stanford senior studying computer science, Rafael Cosman, decided to put his education to what he considers a worthy cause: teaching East Palo Alto students how to code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project started last summer with CodeCamp, a four-week intensive curriculum where East Palo Alto youth gathered to learn coding and other technical skills and participated in a hackathon where they each built a website or online features to improve society in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to take East Palo Alto and Silicon Valley and plug them together,” Cosman said. “We want there to be startups coming out of East Palo Alto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The things that we’ve seen our students do using technology have been very different than what Silicon Valley has done.’\u003ccite>Rafael Cosman, co-founder of StreetCode Academy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As impactful as CodeCamp was, Cosman and his classmate, friend and partner in this endeavor, Shadi Barhoumi, decided they needed to invest more time to create real change. Using their contacts in East Palo Alto, they have created a new educational coding experience: StreetCode Academy, which launched this past November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we realized from CodeCamp is that it’s not enough to have a coding summer camp or a coding class. None of those things by themselves are enough. What you need is an ecosystem,” Cosman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike CodeCamp, StreetCode will last throughout the school year and beyond. Cosman thinks a long-term technical experience will give EPA students the tools to stay in the area in which they grew up. Cosman and Barhoumi met with executives from Google, Facebook and other top companies in the area, along with some of their EPA students, where the executives advised the group on ways they can prepare to apply and receive internships at their companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that East Palo Alto has a lot to offer Silicon Valley because it’s got this great culture and great community focus,” Cosman said. “The things that we’ve seen our students do using technology have been very different than what Silicon Valley has done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example of a CodeCamp prodigy is Daniel Chatman, an East Palo Alto native. Through the creators of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/11/17/live-in-peace-east-palo-alto/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live in Peace\u003c/a>, an organization that teaches students how to play different instruments as a means to keep them focused, Chatman met Cosman and Barhoumi and decided to enroll in CodeCamp. His decision not only opened career doors for Chatman, but it also inspired him to create a website called Ambition Spotlight, where he highlights the creative work of people in East Palo Alto and beyond — a LinkedIn for people with atypical career paths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosman is graduating from Stanford in June and plans to continue working with his students in East Palo Alto for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just a couple of Stanford students making another nonprofit in East Palo Alto,” Cosman said. “Because that happens a lot and, frankly, they’re kind of sick of it. We’re in this for the long haul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on KQED News Associate site \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Peninsula Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Marianne LeVine,\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/06/11/east-palo-alto-gang-crime/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/EPA-gangs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/EPA-gangs.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Santuario is an organizer for Peninsula Interfaith Action working to stop gang violence. (Marianne LeVine/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Santuario is an organizer for Peninsula Interfaith Action working to stop gang violence. (Marianne LeVine/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least five people shot around the Bay Area in recent years have been traced by gang investigators to turf feuds and drug vendettas in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It began on a bright Sunday afternoon in late September 2012. Armed with two handguns, a trio of young men drove a silver Toyota 4Runner up Highway 101. Near a Belmont neighborhood off the Holly Street exit, they spotted their rival, Chariece Chew, in a Dodge Charger. At least a dozen shots were fired as the vehicle carrying Chew, its doors pierced by bullets, screeched onto the freeway, swerving through lanes before crashing into a construction fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Christopher Baker, 21, was shot several times and bled to death on Terra Villa Street in East Palo Alto. Two nights after that, four young men with handguns waited for Stoney Gipson outside the Impala nightclub in San Francisco. The 27-year-old’s lifeless body was found in the early-morning darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skies were clear on a Monday afternoon in January 2013 when bullets hailed on Illinois Street in East Palo Alto, killing 24-year-old Jonathan Alcazar. On a Saturday evening two weeks later, 21-year-old Lamont Coleman died of gunshot wounds on the city’s Capitol Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempted murder of Chew and the killings of Baker, Gipson, Alcazar and Coleman led the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office to launch an 18-month investigation that officials consider the county’s most extensive crackdown on gang activity. Investigators nicknamed their operation “Sunny Day,” a reference to the code words that gang members occasionally used to signal a successful hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closely monitoring cellular and GPS data, along with youthful boasts on social media, the investigators uncovered an ongoing series of gang retaliations that extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into cities from Menlo Park to San Francisco. The electronic trail led to the March 2013 indictments of 16 people, 11 of whom were from East Palo Alto. None have yet to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials continue to pursue leads, according to East Palo Alto Police Chief Lee Violett, who noted that this year the city has experienced a decrease in shootings and other types of violent crime. During the first half of 2013, East Palo Alto had seven homicides. Since last August there have been two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, believes Operation Sunny Day served to warn gang members of the severe consequences of their violent activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a person from [East Palo Alto] come in last week and said she’s lived in EPA for over 20 years,” Wagstaffe said in April. “The shocking thing is that since this all went public … she had not heard a gunshot or a police siren.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City in Transition\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the few places in Silicon Valley where housing costs are still within reach for low-income families, East Palo Alto has seen dramatic change in recent decades. Latinos make up the majority in the once-predominantly black city, and even this demographic shift might be fleeting. The latest tech boom has caused home prices to begin to soar, as startups and behemoths like Facebook encroach along the city’s edges, pricing out longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for housing among skilled tech workers would have been unfathomable in 1992, when the city boasted the country’s highest murder rate. Since then, East Palo Alto has seen a dramatic drop in crime, including 345 fewer homicides, rapes, armed assaults and robberies in 2012 than in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the problems that persists is the city's reputation as a center for gang activity in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the situation became particularly acute for residents, some of who found themselves living in a war zone. The number of assaults involving a weapon jumped from 129 to 230 between 2011 and 2012, and again remained high last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, gangs do not target innocent people, but bystanders are sometimes caught in the crossfire. On an early Sunday morning in 2011, shots on Wisteria Drive fatally wounded 3-month-old Izak Jesus. Law enforcement officials often refer to the “baby Izak” case to illustrate the community-wide toll of gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s fatal shooting of 16-year-old Jose Luis Quinones led then-East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis to declare a “crime emergency,” requiring officers to work overtime and canceling days off. Despite that declaration, gang warfare continued to rattle the city in the months that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gang members also contributed to a rise in burglaries within the county, according to officials from the San Mateo County Gang Task Force and the East Palo Alto Police Department. In addition to stealing firearms, gang members tapped into the statewide prescription drug epidemic by breaking into expensive homes in the middle of the day. They’d often head straight for the medicine cabinet, investigators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gotten so bad that if you have an open house and you’re selling your home, your Realtor will tell you to remove all prescription pills,” said Sgt. Leo Capovilla of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Gang Investigative Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Gang Violence\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence in East Palo Alto often takes the form of shootings, and intergang disputes nearly always involve “turf,” or areas in the city where gangs can sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gangs have changed over time, however, based on generational and demographic shifts. In the 1980s, East Palo Alto was home to the Midtown Hogs, a predominantly African-American gang whose primary source of income was crack cocaine. The Midtown Hogs are partly blamed for the city’s crack epidemic of the late '80s and early '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Midtown Hogs evolved into the Taliban, which most recently fought Da Vill, another predominantly African-American gang, and Sac Street, a Norteño subset, according to members of the San Mateo County Gang Task Force, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they often work undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto’s demographic shifts have helped determine which gangs flourish in the city. In recent years, African-American gangs spread to other parts of the Bay Area, while Latino gangs have proliferated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most gangs are divided along racial lines, some, like “Sac Street,” have involved both African-Americans and Latinos who live on Sacramento Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs — namely marijuana — are the gangs’ primary financial pipeline, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force members said a handful of families living in East Palo Alto have connections to Mexican cartels, which smuggle drugs across the border and give them to gang members to sell on city streets. Most of the clientele is not from East Palo Alto, the task force explained. Located along Highway 101, the city is a convenient stopping point for outsiders to make a quick purchase and then speed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Norteños funnel some drug funds to Nuestra Familia, a Mexican-American gang operating from state and federal prisons, much of the money is spent on accessories that promote their image. One task force member recalls finding a closet filled with Air Jordans, each pair worth around $100. Angel Santuario, a community organizer for the nonprofit Peninsula Interfaith Action, said “bling” gives gang members status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of it may be about liberation and freedom,” he said. “There’s a huge need in our communities to feel respected, to feel like we have dignity. For some of those folks, that’s why they go out and buy brand-new Nikes. It’s to be respected in their world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8I0M1snrGs?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often divided along racial and ethnic lines, the gangs capitalize on the vulnerability of youth in search of identity and community. Many gang members show their allegiance through the colors they wear and the tattoos they sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sac Street gang uses the Stanford University logo as its symbol — the S stands for its street name, the red for the gang’s color and the tree for marijuana, a primary source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Norteños operate along the border between Menlo Park and East Palo Alto. In late 2012, a generational struggle for leadership triggered a significant increase in shootings and assaults in East Palo Alto, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The younger generation of the gang members are hanging out separately,” one task force member said. “They started feuding with each other … they’re part of the same gang [but] killing each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Operation Sunny Day\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four murders and attempted murder in 2012 and early 2013 sent San Mateo County officials on a manhunt that would unravel a long-standing gang war between Da Vill, Sac Street and the Taliban. The war extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into Menlo Park, Belmont, Redwood City and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following months, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office partnered with every police agency in the county and three federal agencies — Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Detectives obtained warrants to monitor GPS and cellular data, as well as recorded telephone conversations from inside jail cells to understand the inner workings of gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe, the district attorney, emphasized that investigators based their case entirely on electronic surveillance. “They were right down to the same area where [crime] was located,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detectives listened in on conversations, one phrase stood out: “It’s a sunny day in East Palo Alto.” Based on the timing, they concluded the phrase could mean only one thing. The killings were being planned and carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also helped connect the dots. According to the task force, the notion of “respect” — or instilling fear — and an obsession with “image” motivate gang members to use social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to brag about their activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, social media desensitizes the severity of crime, according to a task force member, who said gang members sometimes post videos of a violent act, evoking a “mentality that it’s funny to shoot someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 18, 2013, Wagstaffe announced the indictments. The 16 suspects were charged with murder, attempted murder, coercion of witnesses, drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police and Community Outreach\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Da Vill and Sac Street are based in East Palo Alto and the Taliban has reached across the border into eastern Menlo Park, Operation Sunny Day required little involvement from the city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said the multi-agency probe served to offset East Palo Alto’s “finite resources,” allowing his department to assign just one detective to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight gangs in recent years, the police department also has enlisted the help of neighboring departments and promoted community-policing programs, often funded by state and federal grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2011, East Palo Alto implemented Operation Ceasefire, a federally funded initiative designed to target and motivate youth with violent pasts to reshape their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Smith, the former director of Operation Ceasefire, managed the program’s law enforcement side and served as an intermediary between the city and the county. One of the program’s initial challenges was to relieve tension between the need to promote community relations and the need to crack down on gang violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community was very sensitive to having a lot of people all of a sudden being labeled as gang members,” Smith said. “That created pushback and resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters is that the city’s Latino population — about 65 percent — is deeply distrustful of the police, said Angel Santuario of Peninsula Interfaith Action. Santuario has heard complaints that the department makes it difficult for citizens to report suspected criminal activity anonymously. Because residents fear retribution, they are reluctant to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Ruben Abrica believes community-policing programs have helped improve those relations. In March, after rumors circulated that the city might outsource police services to the county sheriff’s office, hundreds showed up at a council meeting to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not every day the community comes out to defend the police,” Abrica said. “Even young people were saying that the Police Department is not perfect, but we can work with the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups, notably members of the clergy and youth organizations, helped close gaps between the community and the police, according to Smith and Melvin Gaines, the department’s special projects manager. Gaines said community policing reflects a change in a past mentality that police officers could “arrest [their] way out of a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operation Ceasefire approached 83 potential participants, many with gang backgrounds. Forty-eight agreed to take part and 18 remain active. Two of the suspects arrested in Operation Sunny Day were Ceasefire candidates, according to Gaines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grant money for Operation Ceasefire ran out in December 2013. Although the city reapplied, the application was not approved because “other agencies had more compelling proposals,” Gaines said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliance on such money poses its own challenges, he added. While grants allow for East Palo Alto to experiment with a range of community initiatives, the city is also under constant pressure to find a steady source of funding. Sarah Lawrence, the director of UC Berkeley’s School of Law’s Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation, sees little alternative, saying this is the “nature of federal, local and state dynamics of funding streams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Smith thinks Operation Ceasefire could have been more successful had law enforcement been more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole message of Ceasefire is that ‘we hope you guys get some assistance, [but] if you call our bluff we’re coming after you,’” she said. “And we never went after anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she does not advocate for a “police state,” Smith said, having a greater number of police officers on the street is an inherent deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said he could not speak to Operation Ceasefire’s effectiveness because the program was implemented under Davis, but he acknowledged that a key component to any community-policing program is to “back up what you say you’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines believes Operation Ceasefire’s future will depend on whether community groups, once a financial incentive is removed, will continue to work with the police or shift resources to other initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Operation Sunny Day is credited with helping to curb gang violence, this state of peace is likely temporary, according to the task force. Gang members may just be taking a step back to try to anticipate what law enforcement will do next, all while leaving a lingering power vacuum.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skies were clear on a Monday afternoon in January 2013 when bullets hailed on Illinois Street in East Palo Alto, killing 24-year-old Jonathan Alcazar. On a Saturday evening two weeks later, 21-year-old Lamont Coleman died of gunshot wounds on the city’s Capitol Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempted murder of Chew and the killings of Baker, Gipson, Alcazar and Coleman led the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office to launch an 18-month investigation that officials consider the county’s most extensive crackdown on gang activity. Investigators nicknamed their operation “Sunny Day,” a reference to the code words that gang members occasionally used to signal a successful hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closely monitoring cellular and GPS data, along with youthful boasts on social media, the investigators uncovered an ongoing series of gang retaliations that extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into cities from Menlo Park to San Francisco. The electronic trail led to the March 2013 indictments of 16 people, 11 of whom were from East Palo Alto. None have yet to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials continue to pursue leads, according to East Palo Alto Police Chief Lee Violett, who noted that this year the city has experienced a decrease in shootings and other types of violent crime. During the first half of 2013, East Palo Alto had seven homicides. Since last August there have been two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, believes Operation Sunny Day served to warn gang members of the severe consequences of their violent activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a person from [East Palo Alto] come in last week and said she’s lived in EPA for over 20 years,” Wagstaffe said in April. “The shocking thing is that since this all went public … she had not heard a gunshot or a police siren.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City in Transition\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the few places in Silicon Valley where housing costs are still within reach for low-income families, East Palo Alto has seen dramatic change in recent decades. Latinos make up the majority in the once-predominantly black city, and even this demographic shift might be fleeting. The latest tech boom has caused home prices to begin to soar, as startups and behemoths like Facebook encroach along the city’s edges, pricing out longtime residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for housing among skilled tech workers would have been unfathomable in 1992, when the city boasted the country’s highest murder rate. Since then, East Palo Alto has seen a dramatic drop in crime, including 345 fewer homicides, rapes, armed assaults and robberies in 2012 than in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the problems that persists is the city's reputation as a center for gang activity in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the situation became particularly acute for residents, some of who found themselves living in a war zone. The number of assaults involving a weapon jumped from 129 to 230 between 2011 and 2012, and again remained high last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, gangs do not target innocent people, but bystanders are sometimes caught in the crossfire. On an early Sunday morning in 2011, shots on Wisteria Drive fatally wounded 3-month-old Izak Jesus. Law enforcement officials often refer to the “baby Izak” case to illustrate the community-wide toll of gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s fatal shooting of 16-year-old Jose Luis Quinones led then-East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis to declare a “crime emergency,” requiring officers to work overtime and canceling days off. Despite that declaration, gang warfare continued to rattle the city in the months that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gang members also contributed to a rise in burglaries within the county, according to officials from the San Mateo County Gang Task Force and the East Palo Alto Police Department. In addition to stealing firearms, gang members tapped into the statewide prescription drug epidemic by breaking into expensive homes in the middle of the day. They’d often head straight for the medicine cabinet, investigators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gotten so bad that if you have an open house and you’re selling your home, your Realtor will tell you to remove all prescription pills,” said Sgt. Leo Capovilla of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Gang Investigative Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Gang Violence\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence in East Palo Alto often takes the form of shootings, and intergang disputes nearly always involve “turf,” or areas in the city where gangs can sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gangs have changed over time, however, based on generational and demographic shifts. In the 1980s, East Palo Alto was home to the Midtown Hogs, a predominantly African-American gang whose primary source of income was crack cocaine. The Midtown Hogs are partly blamed for the city’s crack epidemic of the late '80s and early '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Midtown Hogs evolved into the Taliban, which most recently fought Da Vill, another predominantly African-American gang, and Sac Street, a Norteño subset, according to members of the San Mateo County Gang Task Force, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they often work undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto’s demographic shifts have helped determine which gangs flourish in the city. In recent years, African-American gangs spread to other parts of the Bay Area, while Latino gangs have proliferated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most gangs are divided along racial lines, some, like “Sac Street,” have involved both African-Americans and Latinos who live on Sacramento Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs — namely marijuana — are the gangs’ primary financial pipeline, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force members said a handful of families living in East Palo Alto have connections to Mexican cartels, which smuggle drugs across the border and give them to gang members to sell on city streets. Most of the clientele is not from East Palo Alto, the task force explained. Located along Highway 101, the city is a convenient stopping point for outsiders to make a quick purchase and then speed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Norteños funnel some drug funds to Nuestra Familia, a Mexican-American gang operating from state and federal prisons, much of the money is spent on accessories that promote their image. One task force member recalls finding a closet filled with Air Jordans, each pair worth around $100. Angel Santuario, a community organizer for the nonprofit Peninsula Interfaith Action, said “bling” gives gang members status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of it may be about liberation and freedom,” he said. “There’s a huge need in our communities to feel respected, to feel like we have dignity. For some of those folks, that’s why they go out and buy brand-new Nikes. It’s to be respected in their world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/o8I0M1snrGs?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/o8I0M1snrGs?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often divided along racial and ethnic lines, the gangs capitalize on the vulnerability of youth in search of identity and community. Many gang members show their allegiance through the colors they wear and the tattoos they sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sac Street gang uses the Stanford University logo as its symbol — the S stands for its street name, the red for the gang’s color and the tree for marijuana, a primary source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Norteños operate along the border between Menlo Park and East Palo Alto. In late 2012, a generational struggle for leadership triggered a significant increase in shootings and assaults in East Palo Alto, according to the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The younger generation of the gang members are hanging out separately,” one task force member said. “They started feuding with each other … they’re part of the same gang [but] killing each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Operation Sunny Day\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four murders and attempted murder in 2012 and early 2013 sent San Mateo County officials on a manhunt that would unravel a long-standing gang war between Da Vill, Sac Street and the Taliban. The war extended past East Palo Alto’s borders into Menlo Park, Belmont, Redwood City and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following months, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office partnered with every police agency in the county and three federal agencies — Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Detectives obtained warrants to monitor GPS and cellular data, as well as recorded telephone conversations from inside jail cells to understand the inner workings of gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe, the district attorney, emphasized that investigators based their case entirely on electronic surveillance. “They were right down to the same area where [crime] was located,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As detectives listened in on conversations, one phrase stood out: “It’s a sunny day in East Palo Alto.” Based on the timing, they concluded the phrase could mean only one thing. The killings were being planned and carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also helped connect the dots. According to the task force, the notion of “respect” — or instilling fear — and an obsession with “image” motivate gang members to use social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to brag about their activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, social media desensitizes the severity of crime, according to a task force member, who said gang members sometimes post videos of a violent act, evoking a “mentality that it’s funny to shoot someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 18, 2013, Wagstaffe announced the indictments. The 16 suspects were charged with murder, attempted murder, coercion of witnesses, drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police and Community Outreach\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Da Vill and Sac Street are based in East Palo Alto and the Taliban has reached across the border into eastern Menlo Park, Operation Sunny Day required little involvement from the city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said the multi-agency probe served to offset East Palo Alto’s “finite resources,” allowing his department to assign just one detective to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight gangs in recent years, the police department also has enlisted the help of neighboring departments and promoted community-policing programs, often funded by state and federal grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2011, East Palo Alto implemented Operation Ceasefire, a federally funded initiative designed to target and motivate youth with violent pasts to reshape their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Smith, the former director of Operation Ceasefire, managed the program’s law enforcement side and served as an intermediary between the city and the county. One of the program’s initial challenges was to relieve tension between the need to promote community relations and the need to crack down on gang violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community was very sensitive to having a lot of people all of a sudden being labeled as gang members,” Smith said. “That created pushback and resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters is that the city’s Latino population — about 65 percent — is deeply distrustful of the police, said Angel Santuario of Peninsula Interfaith Action. Santuario has heard complaints that the department makes it difficult for citizens to report suspected criminal activity anonymously. Because residents fear retribution, they are reluctant to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Ruben Abrica believes community-policing programs have helped improve those relations. In March, after rumors circulated that the city might outsource police services to the county sheriff’s office, hundreds showed up at a council meeting to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not every day the community comes out to defend the police,” Abrica said. “Even young people were saying that the Police Department is not perfect, but we can work with the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups, notably members of the clergy and youth organizations, helped close gaps between the community and the police, according to Smith and Melvin Gaines, the department’s special projects manager. Gaines said community policing reflects a change in a past mentality that police officers could “arrest [their] way out of a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operation Ceasefire approached 83 potential participants, many with gang backgrounds. Forty-eight agreed to take part and 18 remain active. Two of the suspects arrested in Operation Sunny Day were Ceasefire candidates, according to Gaines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grant money for Operation Ceasefire ran out in December 2013. Although the city reapplied, the application was not approved because “other agencies had more compelling proposals,” Gaines said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reliance on such money poses its own challenges, he added. While grants allow for East Palo Alto to experiment with a range of community initiatives, the city is also under constant pressure to find a steady source of funding. Sarah Lawrence, the director of UC Berkeley’s School of Law’s Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation, sees little alternative, saying this is the “nature of federal, local and state dynamics of funding streams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Smith thinks Operation Ceasefire could have been more successful had law enforcement been more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole message of Ceasefire is that ‘we hope you guys get some assistance, [but] if you call our bluff we’re coming after you,’” she said. “And we never went after anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she does not advocate for a “police state,” Smith said, having a greater number of police officers on the street is an inherent deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violett said he could not speak to Operation Ceasefire’s effectiveness because the program was implemented under Davis, but he acknowledged that a key component to any community-policing program is to “back up what you say you’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines believes Operation Ceasefire’s future will depend on whether community groups, once a financial incentive is removed, will continue to work with the police or shift resources to other initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Marianne LeVine\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/03/11/east-palo-affordable-housing/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/EPA-apart.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128924\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/EPA-apart-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"This Woodland Park apartment is an Equity Residential property in East Palo Alto. Equity purchased Woodland Park in December 2011. (Marianne LeVine / Peninsula Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Woodland Park apartment is an Equity Residential property in East Palo Alto. Equity purchased Woodland Park in December 2011. (Marianne LeVine/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, April 4\u003c/strong>: East Palo Alto's City Council unanimously passed a tenant protection ordinance Tuesday. The proposal has to pass a second vote in the coming weeks before it becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would tighten restrictions on demolitions, protect renters from landlord harassment and provide relocation benefits for tenants who are displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters turned out in force to support the measure's passage. One common theme among them: In the event of displacement, there's nowhere else to go in the Bay Area because of how expensive housing has become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/04/02/east-palo-alto-unanimously-backs-new-tenant-protection-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\">Palo Alto Online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Palo Alto's Biggest Landlord Opposes Tenant Protection Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that controls more than half of East Palo Alto's rental housing market is opposing a proposed city law that would provide relocation benefits to displaced tenants, tighten restrictions on demolishing buildings and offer protection from landlord harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.equityapartments.com/corporate/\" target=\"_blank\">Equity Residential\u003c/a>, which in 2011 bought more than 1,800 units in the city, has challenged the proposal as an “unlawful” burden on apartment owners and landlords, stirring fears among community groups and some City Council members that the company aims to force out low-income residents to make room for more affluent tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a history of offering protection for tenants because they’re vulnerable,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofepa.org/directory.aspx?EID=49\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Ruben Abrica\u003c/a>, a former East Palo Alto mayor. “(Equity) is objecting to the whole concept. They don’t see a need for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within six months of acquiring its properties from Wells Fargo in foreclosure sales, Equity raised the attention of city officials by issuing 706 three-day eviction notices from January to June 2012. Equity’s notices warned tenants who were late on rent that they had three days to pay before they would face eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e67632a7989cafa28191163425fbebcf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city Rent Stabilization Board made those figures public, Equity stopped reporting the notices. Company executive John Hyjer said it was not required by law to notify the city of three-day eviction notices, only of unlawful detainers -- eviction cases filed in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s less onerous on the city of East Palo Alto’s already stretched resources,” Hyjer, Equity’s first vice president of investments, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Gibson, a lawyer for \u003ca href=\"http://www.legalaidsmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">LegalAid San Mateo\u003c/a>, said when the city is not told of all eviction notices, it becomes difficult for organizations like hers to direct tenants toward programs that assist with rent payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If we have to fight, we will fight'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2010, East Palo Alto voters passed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=469\" target=\"_blank\">Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance\u003c/a>, designed to protect tenants from “unreasonable rent increases” and “arbitrary, discriminatory or retaliatory evictions,” and to guarantee landlords the “right to fair return.” The proposed law, known as the Tenant Protection Ordinance, would expand tenant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The landlord also has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential objected to the proposed ordinance, city officials have been working with landlord and tenant representatives to make revisions. Equity views the proposed changes as a violation of local and state laws. Larisa Bowman, a lawyer for Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, called such concerns “unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential has opposed other tenant protection efforts in California. Sam Zell, the company chairman, donated $50,000 to Proposition 98, a ballot measure that would have phased out rent control throughout California had it passed in June 2008. He is also the chairman of Equity Lifestyle Properties, which has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. Both companies are real estate investment trusts and are publicly traded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential’s purchase of its East Palo Alto properties, some tenants have complained about difficulty paying rent -- one type of complaint is that a person will be told by a rent collector to come back the next day and then will be informed the rent is late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, the community legal representative, said some of the confusion over rent payments is because of the portfolio’s change in ownership, from Page Mill Properties to Wells Fargo to Equity Residential. However, she still remains concerned. “The amount of rent a person is being evicted over is $47,” she said. “Are you after $47 or are you after this unit? I can’t prove that, (but) for tenants it certainly feels that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Webster, a longtime advocate for affordable housing in East Palo Alto and member of the Rent Stabilization Board, said he believes Equity Residential wants to replace long-term tenants paying rent under market rate. “They’re going to exploit every angle that is legally permissible in order to (extract) profits,” he said. “They have a vested interest at this point in making life miserable for long-term tenants, under the Rent Stabilization Program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential said it does not intend to displace residents. But Hyjer noted “there has been a lot of discussion with the city that a significant amount of housing in Woodland Park has and is becoming functionally obsolete. Equity Residential has no intention of displacing current residents if and when this housing gets replaced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto officials will present the newly drafted protection ordinance at a City Council meeting March 18. Councilman Abrica said officials are aware of Equity’s reputation for playing hardball but added that the city would not be intimidated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are determined to fight you, they will use every weapon at their disposal,” Abrica said. “We have demonstrated that we’re not going to roll over. If we have to fight, we will fight. But ultimately that becomes the decision of the council.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Alexei Koseff/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Alexei Koseff, \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2013/07/16/squeezed-by-the-foreclosure-crisis-and-booming-silicon-valley-real-estate-east-palo-alto-confronts-gentrification/\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a region proudly defined by its tech industry and a network of millionaire entrepreneurs, East Palo Alto has always been outside the loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few miles from the new Facebook campus and Stanford University, it’s a place where homes can still be bought for low-six-figure sums, and you’re as likely to hear Spanish as English while wandering the sunny suburban streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is a bastion of relative affordability for those in the trenches of Silicon Valley’s economy. Median household income is $50,137, according to Census Bureau estimates — less than half of neighboring Palo Alto and Menlo Park, and well below the San Mateo County median of $87,633.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a bedroom community for people providing services for all the cities around us,” said the Rev. Lawrence C. Goode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/parishes/san-mateo-county/east-palo-alto---st-francis-of-assisi/\">St. Francis of Assisi,\u003c/a> East Palo Alto’s largest church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s unique position on the Peninsula is threatened by creeping gentrification. The signs have become increasingly obvious in recent years, as East Palo Alto is pushed at both ends by the devastating effects of the economic crisis and Silicon Valley’s strong recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widespread subprime lending ravaged the community, where more than a third of single-family homes have gone into foreclosure since 2008. Investors began scooping up the available properties at rock-bottom prices, and the city now has a growing number of absentee landlords, many of them buyers from China. Half of the homes sold at foreclosure auctions in the past two years, for instance, are owned by people with primary addresses outside the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes at a time when Facebook has appeared in East Palo Alto’s backyard and nearby communities are beginning to see record real estate prices once again. Despite increased rental housing stock, rents in East Palo Alto are up sharply, perhaps an attempt to capitalize on the potential business of young tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Diversity is key to the health of the region. East Palo Alto has a vital role to play in the context of Silicon Valley.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Anticipation of gentrification has been going on for a long, long time,” said William Webster, a self-described “hard-core community activist” for 25 years. “But it seems that people’s fears are being realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many longtime residents and housing advocates worry that East Palo Alto will become inaccessible to the people it has traditionally served since its incorporation 30 years ago. Through nonprofits and city policy, including the only rent-control law in San Mateo County, they are trying to preserve affordable housing and what many regard as the community’s greatest asset: access to jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Diversity is key to the health of the region,” said John Liotti, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://able.is/\">AbleWorks\u003c/a>, a financial education organization. “East Palo Alto has a vital role to play in the context of Silicon Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is especially true as wealth disparity increases in the area. In a study released earlier this year, the civic organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointventure.org/\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a> found a widening gap in per capita income between high-earning Asians and non-Hispanic whites and low-earning African-Americans and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is the preservation of affordable housing an unwinnable fight against the inevitability of market forces? According to Jennifer Martinez, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.piapico.org/\">Peninsula Interfaith Action\u003c/a>, the shifts in East Palo Alto are indicative of broader trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From San Francisco down to San Jose and across the Bay, we’re seeing more low-income people of color being displaced,” she said. “East Palo Alto is the most obvious of the subtle changes that are happening throughout the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dot-com boom had huge impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the current situation recalls the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when the soaring potential of the new Internet economy sent Silicon Valley’s prospects surging. Real estate in cities like Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton quickly became among the most expensive in the country, creating a ripple effect on the region’s poorer communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Webster, this period marked the beginning of East Palo Alto’s last major demographic shift, as Latino families priced out of nearby areas flowed into the predominantly African-American city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also spurred a newfound interest from developers, who saw in East Palo Alto some of the most affordable land remaining on the Peninsula. Opportunity forced investors and potential homeowners to finally look past East Palo Alto’s largely negative reputation, defined by a violent period in the early 1990s when it had the highest murder rate in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressing demand and soaring prices, with houses selling for more than half a million dollars, were only halted when the dot-com bubble finally burst in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems unlikely that such a twist could change the course of East Palo Alto’s fate once again. Indeed, it is another financial crisis that is driving radical changes in the structure of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robert Jones, executive director of affordable housing development organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.epacando.org/\">EPA CAN DO\u003c/a>, risky loans for uneducated and unqualified buyers led to a severe impact in East Palo Alto when the real estate market began to unravel in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its peak, East Palo Alto was experiencing foreclosures at a higher rate than anywhere else in San Mateo County. Since the beginning of 2008, 1,422 of the city’s approximately 4,200 single-family homes and condominium units have entered the foreclosure process, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.propertyradar.com/\">PropertyRadar.com\u003c/a>. Prices plummeted more than 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “bloodbath,” as Liotti called it, eventually attracted the attention of investors, who began acquiring dozens of properties for cash at trustee’s auctions held daily on a bench outside the county courthouse in Redwood City. Many were sold for less than $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These investors have subsequently become some of the largest property owners in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A changing of the guard'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The absentee landlord phenomenon is becoming increasingly common in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Harris, who has worked as a real estate agent in East Palo Alto for 40 years, said the market is currently dominated by Chinese investors. Most intend to rent out the homes they purchase in East Palo Alto, he said, but some have moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a changing of the guard,” Harris said. “You’re going to see a melting pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend worries affordable housing advocates like Webster and Liotti. With a large portion of the housing stock in East Palo Alto owned by people who do not live there, they said, the city is especially vulnerable to gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their primary fear is that the Bay Area’s expensive housing market will push affluent tech workers to look for more affordable options in East Palo Alto, ultimately displacing the low-income population that has traditionally lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerns were amplified with the arrival of Facebook. The social media giant moved its headquarters in late 2011 to a campus on Willow Road in Menlo Park, a mile from the border with East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, the real estate agent, said he has not yet seen Facebook employees buying homes in East Palo Alto. While he has rented to some, he expects any resulting gentrification will be a slow process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104070\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-104070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/EastPalo-housing-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"EastPalo-housing\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The upscale University Square development brought a wave of wealthy Silicon Valley workers to East Palo Alto in the late 1990s. (Alexei Koseff/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Webster is positive that the economic realities of living in Silicon Valley make that transition inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to the environmental impact report for Facebook’s new campus, which emphasized cutting down on the number of daily car trips, as a sign that the pressure on East Palo Alto’s real estate will only increase as Facebook continues to expand and workers look to live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to reports, Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters currently has space for up to 6,600 employees, far more than the 3,600 that previous tenant Sun Microsystems was allowed. Plans are underway for another new campus across the street that could house 2,800 more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook did not return requests for comment. In 2012, the company pledged $150,000 toward East Palo Alto’s efforts to preserve affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With gentrification, you can either embrace it or run away from it,” said Court Skinner, a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=122\">East Palo Alto Planning Commission\u003c/a>. “But if you run away from it, you won’t run as fast as Facebook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anticipation is now motivating many affordable housing advocates and nonprofits in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liotti’s AbleWorks set up a community land trust in 2011 to promote home ownership among low-income buyers. The goal of the program is to acquire and repair distressed properties, and then make them available for working-class families to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Success has been limited so far. AbleWorks has turned around three homes and is working on a fourth, but Liotti says it will take 10 times that to make a significant impact, and the housing stock is simply not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“If we can’t support our entire ecosystem of workers, they’ll have a tough time competing.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Foreclosures in East Palo Alto have slowed and few homeowners are selling. High demand for this low supply has pushed home prices over $350,000 again, making it difficult for AbleWorks to buy even those properties that make it past the courthouse bench. Liotti concedes that their program came “probably a year late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same barriers have recently put a halt to Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s work in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable homeownership organization launched its \u003ca href=\"http://www.habitatgsf.org/NRP#.Uehz8Y21F8E\">Neighborhood Revitalization Program\u003c/a> in early 2009 to rehabilitate blighted homes and stabilize communities in the midst of the foreclosure crisis. Executive director Phillip Kilbridge says they placed new “committed, local” owners into 15 houses in East Palo Alto and nearby east Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in April, Habitat for Humanity was outbid for a property by a cash offer of $470,000, an amount far beyond the nonprofit’s means. “We are for all intents and purposes out of that business,” Kilbridge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees the increasingly competitive East Palo Alto market as an ominous sign for low-income families in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a housing shortage, you have an affordable housing shortage,” Kilbridge said. “If we can’t support our entire ecosystem of workers, they’ll have a tough time competing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>East Palo Alto residents reflect on life in the city\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214835145875248506342.0004de4198e120981bf20&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.464163,-122.138615&spn=0.023844,0.047207&z=14&output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe> View \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214835145875248506342.0004de4198e120981bf20&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.464163,-122.138615&spn=0.023844,0.047207&z=14&source=embed\">East Palo Alto residents reflect on life in the city\u003c/a> in a larger map\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rentals have skyrocketed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rental market, always a crucial part of East Palo Alto’s housing equation, has been strongly impacted by recent changes in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2007, when the foreclosure crisis hit, the population of renters in the city has increased from 48.6 percent to 54.2 percent, or more than 3,000 people, according to 2011 estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a concurrent rise in rental units, median rents in East Palo Alto have surged $200 and the average number of residents per household is up slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of particular concern to affordable housing advocates is East Palo Alto’s west side. Separated from the rest of the city by Highway 101 and bounded by the San Francisquito Creek, this small area between Willow and Embarcadero roads encompasses the majority of multifamily units in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing stock is owned almost entirely by \u003ca href=\"http://www.equityapartments.com/corporate/\">Equity Residential\u003c/a>, a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in Chicago. The multibillion-dollar company acquired 1,800 units from Wells Fargo in 2011 after previous owner Page Mill Properties defaulted on its loan two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumors abound that Equity plans to convert the Woodland Park complex—a sprawl of low-rise apartment buildings inhabited primarily by families—into high-end rentals, and eventually condominiums, for Silicon Valley’s more affluent clientele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Martinez of Peninsula Interfaith Action, eviction notices skyrocketed last year when Equity took control. She suspects that the company is targeting the Facebook crowd to replace its current low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.pagemill.com/\">Page Mill Properties\u003c/a> began acquiring buildings on the west side in 2006 and quickly became the largest landlord in East Palo Alto. Despite the city’s rent control ordinance, Page Mill raised rents and evicted residents, displacing about 1,200 families, according to Tameeka Bennett, who works on housing issues with Youth United for Community Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104081\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-104081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Ableworks-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"AbleWorks acquired its fourth property in April, a foreclosed home on Poplar Street that it plans to turn into housing for college students. (Alexei Koseff/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AbleWorks acquired its fourth property in April, a foreclosed home on Poplar Street that it plans to turn into housing for college students. (Alexei Koseff/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a protracted battle and numerous lawsuits with the city, the situation peaked in 2009 when Page Mill Properties asked San Mateo County to unincorporate the west side from East Palo Alto’s “sphere of influence.” Later that year, the investment company defaulted on its loan and lost the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page Mill Properties could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth United, an environmental and social justice organization, was one of many local groups to get involved with the Page Mill battle. It petitioned Wells Fargo to break up the foreclosed portfolio and sell the smaller parcels separately, an effort eventually joined by East Palo Alto’s city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett said residents feared a repeat of Page Mill Properties if another investor assumed complete control of Woodland Park. Many are still worried about Equity’s intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distrust is palpable. In January, the city halted development on the west side for 22 months as it updates its general plan, which will include a specific area plan for the west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Christopher Peter, managing director for the Woodland Park complex, is working hard to change the cynical perceptions of Equity Residential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter came to East Palo Alto in 2010 to manage the properties for Wells Fargo and was retained by Equity. He said he chose to live in Woodland Park so he could better understand the neighborhood and address its needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to recent community improvement efforts, such as a playground that Equity built because the west side has no parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve brought it up to a standard that is more desirable for people to live here,” which is reflected in a rising occupancy rate, Peter said. “Actions speak far louder than words.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City trying to increase housing supply\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although East Palo Alto has made affordable housing a priority in the wake of the foreclosure crisis, revamping the rent stabilization ordinance in 2010 and passing a new law controlling condo conversions last year, some policymakers want to make responsible development part of East Palo Alto’s plan as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of misguided efforts to retain a lot of the old housing” that is inadequate, said Skinner of the Planning Commission. “The state of the city encourages people who have any success at all to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner believes East Palo Alto has an opportunity to benefit from its location in the midst of affluent Silicon Valley. Many residents struggle to find employment in the city, he said, and bringing more jobs could elevate overall conditions so that cheap housing is no longer so desperately needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, the city approved plans for a new “downtown” along Bay Road with commercial, industrial and office space, as well as residential units and parks. Development is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto Planning Manager Brent Butler said the city is also working to keep housing affordable by increasing supply. Lot size requirements for second units have been reduced and his department has incentivized nonprofit housing providers to get involved in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These new policies build on a longstanding requirement that 20 percent of any new housing development be offered below market rate. Several nearby communities are years behind on state requirements for providing affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Menlo Park was ordered last year by regional authorities to build at least 1,000 units of low-income housing, Butler said, which should help reduce pressure on East Palo Alto’s market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In turn, he would like to see East Palo Alto grow as a diverse, mixed-income community, which Butler says has been shown to improve overall achievement and prosperity in a city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that sounds like the flip side of the same gentrification coin, it just might be. But maybe that’s the workable solution that East Palo Alto has been searching for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s unique position on the Peninsula is threatened by creeping gentrification. The signs have become increasingly obvious in recent years, as East Palo Alto is pushed at both ends by the devastating effects of the economic crisis and Silicon Valley’s strong recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widespread subprime lending ravaged the community, where more than a third of single-family homes have gone into foreclosure since 2008. Investors began scooping up the available properties at rock-bottom prices, and the city now has a growing number of absentee landlords, many of them buyers from China. Half of the homes sold at foreclosure auctions in the past two years, for instance, are owned by people with primary addresses outside the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes at a time when Facebook has appeared in East Palo Alto’s backyard and nearby communities are beginning to see record real estate prices once again. Despite increased rental housing stock, rents in East Palo Alto are up sharply, perhaps an attempt to capitalize on the potential business of young tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Diversity is key to the health of the region. East Palo Alto has a vital role to play in the context of Silicon Valley.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Anticipation of gentrification has been going on for a long, long time,” said William Webster, a self-described “hard-core community activist” for 25 years. “But it seems that people’s fears are being realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many longtime residents and housing advocates worry that East Palo Alto will become inaccessible to the people it has traditionally served since its incorporation 30 years ago. Through nonprofits and city policy, including the only rent-control law in San Mateo County, they are trying to preserve affordable housing and what many regard as the community’s greatest asset: access to jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Diversity is key to the health of the region,” said John Liotti, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://able.is/\">AbleWorks\u003c/a>, a financial education organization. “East Palo Alto has a vital role to play in the context of Silicon Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is especially true as wealth disparity increases in the area. In a study released earlier this year, the civic organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointventure.org/\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a> found a widening gap in per capita income between high-earning Asians and non-Hispanic whites and low-earning African-Americans and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is the preservation of affordable housing an unwinnable fight against the inevitability of market forces? According to Jennifer Martinez, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.piapico.org/\">Peninsula Interfaith Action\u003c/a>, the shifts in East Palo Alto are indicative of broader trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From San Francisco down to San Jose and across the Bay, we’re seeing more low-income people of color being displaced,” she said. “East Palo Alto is the most obvious of the subtle changes that are happening throughout the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dot-com boom had huge impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the current situation recalls the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when the soaring potential of the new Internet economy sent Silicon Valley’s prospects surging. Real estate in cities like Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton quickly became among the most expensive in the country, creating a ripple effect on the region’s poorer communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Webster, this period marked the beginning of East Palo Alto’s last major demographic shift, as Latino families priced out of nearby areas flowed into the predominantly African-American city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also spurred a newfound interest from developers, who saw in East Palo Alto some of the most affordable land remaining on the Peninsula. Opportunity forced investors and potential homeowners to finally look past East Palo Alto’s largely negative reputation, defined by a violent period in the early 1990s when it had the highest murder rate in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressing demand and soaring prices, with houses selling for more than half a million dollars, were only halted when the dot-com bubble finally burst in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems unlikely that such a twist could change the course of East Palo Alto’s fate once again. Indeed, it is another financial crisis that is driving radical changes in the structure of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robert Jones, executive director of affordable housing development organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.epacando.org/\">EPA CAN DO\u003c/a>, risky loans for uneducated and unqualified buyers led to a severe impact in East Palo Alto when the real estate market began to unravel in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its peak, East Palo Alto was experiencing foreclosures at a higher rate than anywhere else in San Mateo County. Since the beginning of 2008, 1,422 of the city’s approximately 4,200 single-family homes and condominium units have entered the foreclosure process, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.propertyradar.com/\">PropertyRadar.com\u003c/a>. Prices plummeted more than 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “bloodbath,” as Liotti called it, eventually attracted the attention of investors, who began acquiring dozens of properties for cash at trustee’s auctions held daily on a bench outside the county courthouse in Redwood City. Many were sold for less than $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These investors have subsequently become some of the largest property owners in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A changing of the guard'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The absentee landlord phenomenon is becoming increasingly common in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Harris, who has worked as a real estate agent in East Palo Alto for 40 years, said the market is currently dominated by Chinese investors. Most intend to rent out the homes they purchase in East Palo Alto, he said, but some have moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a changing of the guard,” Harris said. “You’re going to see a melting pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trend worries affordable housing advocates like Webster and Liotti. With a large portion of the housing stock in East Palo Alto owned by people who do not live there, they said, the city is especially vulnerable to gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their primary fear is that the Bay Area’s expensive housing market will push affluent tech workers to look for more affordable options in East Palo Alto, ultimately displacing the low-income population that has traditionally lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These concerns were amplified with the arrival of Facebook. The social media giant moved its headquarters in late 2011 to a campus on Willow Road in Menlo Park, a mile from the border with East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, the real estate agent, said he has not yet seen Facebook employees buying homes in East Palo Alto. While he has rented to some, he expects any resulting gentrification will be a slow process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104070\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-104070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/EastPalo-housing-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"EastPalo-housing\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The upscale University Square development brought a wave of wealthy Silicon Valley workers to East Palo Alto in the late 1990s. (Alexei Koseff/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Webster is positive that the economic realities of living in Silicon Valley make that transition inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to the environmental impact report for Facebook’s new campus, which emphasized cutting down on the number of daily car trips, as a sign that the pressure on East Palo Alto’s real estate will only increase as Facebook continues to expand and workers look to live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to reports, Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters currently has space for up to 6,600 employees, far more than the 3,600 that previous tenant Sun Microsystems was allowed. Plans are underway for another new campus across the street that could house 2,800 more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook did not return requests for comment. In 2012, the company pledged $150,000 toward East Palo Alto’s efforts to preserve affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With gentrification, you can either embrace it or run away from it,” said Court Skinner, a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=122\">East Palo Alto Planning Commission\u003c/a>. “But if you run away from it, you won’t run as fast as Facebook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anticipation is now motivating many affordable housing advocates and nonprofits in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liotti’s AbleWorks set up a community land trust in 2011 to promote home ownership among low-income buyers. The goal of the program is to acquire and repair distressed properties, and then make them available for working-class families to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Success has been limited so far. AbleWorks has turned around three homes and is working on a fourth, but Liotti says it will take 10 times that to make a significant impact, and the housing stock is simply not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“If we can’t support our entire ecosystem of workers, they’ll have a tough time competing.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Foreclosures in East Palo Alto have slowed and few homeowners are selling. High demand for this low supply has pushed home prices over $350,000 again, making it difficult for AbleWorks to buy even those properties that make it past the courthouse bench. Liotti concedes that their program came “probably a year late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same barriers have recently put a halt to Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s work in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable homeownership organization launched its \u003ca href=\"http://www.habitatgsf.org/NRP#.Uehz8Y21F8E\">Neighborhood Revitalization Program\u003c/a> in early 2009 to rehabilitate blighted homes and stabilize communities in the midst of the foreclosure crisis. Executive director Phillip Kilbridge says they placed new “committed, local” owners into 15 houses in East Palo Alto and nearby east Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in April, Habitat for Humanity was outbid for a property by a cash offer of $470,000, an amount far beyond the nonprofit’s means. “We are for all intents and purposes out of that business,” Kilbridge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees the increasingly competitive East Palo Alto market as an ominous sign for low-income families in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a housing shortage, you have an affordable housing shortage,” Kilbridge said. “If we can’t support our entire ecosystem of workers, they’ll have a tough time competing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>East Palo Alto residents reflect on life in the city\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214835145875248506342.0004de4198e120981bf20&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.464163,-122.138615&spn=0.023844,0.047207&z=14&output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe> View \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214835145875248506342.0004de4198e120981bf20&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.464163,-122.138615&spn=0.023844,0.047207&z=14&source=embed\">East Palo Alto residents reflect on life in the city\u003c/a> in a larger map\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rentals have skyrocketed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rental market, always a crucial part of East Palo Alto’s housing equation, has been strongly impacted by recent changes in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2007, when the foreclosure crisis hit, the population of renters in the city has increased from 48.6 percent to 54.2 percent, or more than 3,000 people, according to 2011 estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a concurrent rise in rental units, median rents in East Palo Alto have surged $200 and the average number of residents per household is up slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of particular concern to affordable housing advocates is East Palo Alto’s west side. Separated from the rest of the city by Highway 101 and bounded by the San Francisquito Creek, this small area between Willow and Embarcadero roads encompasses the majority of multifamily units in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing stock is owned almost entirely by \u003ca href=\"http://www.equityapartments.com/corporate/\">Equity Residential\u003c/a>, a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in Chicago. The multibillion-dollar company acquired 1,800 units from Wells Fargo in 2011 after previous owner Page Mill Properties defaulted on its loan two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumors abound that Equity plans to convert the Woodland Park complex—a sprawl of low-rise apartment buildings inhabited primarily by families—into high-end rentals, and eventually condominiums, for Silicon Valley’s more affluent clientele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Martinez of Peninsula Interfaith Action, eviction notices skyrocketed last year when Equity took control. She suspects that the company is targeting the Facebook crowd to replace its current low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.pagemill.com/\">Page Mill Properties\u003c/a> began acquiring buildings on the west side in 2006 and quickly became the largest landlord in East Palo Alto. Despite the city’s rent control ordinance, Page Mill raised rents and evicted residents, displacing about 1,200 families, according to Tameeka Bennett, who works on housing issues with Youth United for Community Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104081\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-104081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Ableworks-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"AbleWorks acquired its fourth property in April, a foreclosed home on Poplar Street that it plans to turn into housing for college students. 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It petitioned Wells Fargo to break up the foreclosed portfolio and sell the smaller parcels separately, an effort eventually joined by East Palo Alto’s city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett said residents feared a repeat of Page Mill Properties if another investor assumed complete control of Woodland Park. Many are still worried about Equity’s intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distrust is palpable. In January, the city halted development on the west side for 22 months as it updates its general plan, which will include a specific area plan for the west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Christopher Peter, managing director for the Woodland Park complex, is working hard to change the cynical perceptions of Equity Residential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter came to East Palo Alto in 2010 to manage the properties for Wells Fargo and was retained by Equity. He said he chose to live in Woodland Park so he could better understand the neighborhood and address its needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to recent community improvement efforts, such as a playground that Equity built because the west side has no parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve brought it up to a standard that is more desirable for people to live here,” which is reflected in a rising occupancy rate, Peter said. “Actions speak far louder than words.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City trying to increase housing supply\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although East Palo Alto has made affordable housing a priority in the wake of the foreclosure crisis, revamping the rent stabilization ordinance in 2010 and passing a new law controlling condo conversions last year, some policymakers want to make responsible development part of East Palo Alto’s plan as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of misguided efforts to retain a lot of the old housing” that is inadequate, said Skinner of the Planning Commission. “The state of the city encourages people who have any success at all to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner believes East Palo Alto has an opportunity to benefit from its location in the midst of affluent Silicon Valley. Many residents struggle to find employment in the city, he said, and bringing more jobs could elevate overall conditions so that cheap housing is no longer so desperately needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, the city approved plans for a new “downtown” along Bay Road with commercial, industrial and office space, as well as residential units and parks. Development is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto Planning Manager Brent Butler said the city is also working to keep housing affordable by increasing supply. Lot size requirements for second units have been reduced and his department has incentivized nonprofit housing providers to get involved in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These new policies build on a longstanding requirement that 20 percent of any new housing development be offered below market rate. Several nearby communities are years behind on state requirements for providing affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Menlo Park was ordered last year by regional authorities to build at least 1,000 units of low-income housing, Butler said, which should help reduce pressure on East Palo Alto’s market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In turn, he would like to see East Palo Alto grow as a diverse, mixed-income community, which Butler says has been shown to improve overall achievement and prosperity in a city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that sounds like the flip side of the same gentrification coin, it just might be. But maybe that’s the workable solution that East Palo Alto has been searching for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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