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It’s a calculation based on taking the value of everything someone owns and subtracting all their debts. But Kenny says there are well-off people in richer countries who may have borrowed money to go to law school, say, or buy a home. When calculating their wealth with all that debt, they may seem poorer by Oxfam’s measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they’re not worse off in terms of their life outcomes,” explains Kenny. “They’re not worse off in terms of how much they can afford to eat or are they getting decent health care? They’ve just borrowed more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oxfam pushes back, saying these moneyed individuals with debt represent a small fraction of the 5 billion who are worse off. 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This is not by accident, but by design.’[/pullquote]Some argue that this approach doesn’t always work. “If you’re going to have tax policy that will redistribute income in favor of the poor, especially in favor of the global poor, you’re going to find it very difficult,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.weber.edu/goddard/John_Mbaku.html\">John Mukum Mbaku\u003c/a>, an economist at Weber State University who’s originally from Cameroon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for that difficulty, explains Mbaku, is that the wealthy tend to be politically engaged and use campaign contributions to influence policy-making. 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Sales taxes — which fund social services, affordable housing and many other critical city programs — plummeted in 2020 as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Excluding downtown, total sales tax remitted from neighborhood businesses have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24112924-con-presentation-110223\">largely bounced back to their pre-pandemic levels\u003c/a>, data from the city’s controller’s office shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true for restaurants, which have surpassed their 2018 sales tax levels in areas beyond downtown, according to city data. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Catherine Stefani\"]‘The city is rebounding in ways that we weren’t months ago.’[/pullquote]But even in the city’s financial core — hardest hit by pandemic-related economic woes — restaurants have bounced back to nearly 90% of those levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is rebounding in ways that we weren’t months ago,” Supervisor Catherine Stefani said at the hearing, which Supervisor Joel Engardio requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retail businesses, however, are seeing a different, more downward trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city, sales tax from retail businesses remain below their pre-pandemic levels. The city is recouping less than 80% of its pre-pandemic sales tax revenue, and that’s closer to 90% for the rest of the city. 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The market’s inaugural night drew thousands of attendees, who enjoyed shops, food, games and live performances. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were 4,000 businesses downtown before the pandemic, for example. Now, there are about 3,200, according to Egan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had fairly weak levels of business formation,” Egan said. “That accounts for the majority of issues downtown.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Joel Engardio\"]‘With this shift to remote work, our downtown was overdue for a seismic imbalance. We need to continue to bring foot traffic and life to our streets.’[/pullquote]The city has been actively trying to bring people back downtown for other non-work-related reasons to make up for the gap, like lively night markets in the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this shift to remote work, our downtown was overdue for a seismic imbalance. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pia Harris was at In The Black in November, the month the Black-led marketplace debuted in the Fillmore, when a non-Black customer walked into the store wearing a shirt designed by Joseph Broussard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broussard, a Fillmore native who owns Dreamer Boyz clothing, was also in the store. According to Harris, who created the concept of In The Black, the customer expressed his love for the design that featured the Eye of Horus, a symbol of protection, health and restoration in ancient Egyptian religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://intheblackshop.com/\">In The Black\u003c/a> is a shared retail space for Black-owned businesses on Fillmore Street near the Geary Boulevard intersection. There are around 20 businesses in the space that was once Money Mart, a check cashing and payday lender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952805 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a coffee cup looks at merchandise set out on a table inside a brightly-lit storefront.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66205_230609-InTheBlack-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Chatlein shops at In The Black in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rent for the businesses, which sell clothing, accessories and skincare products, is based on the size of the retail area businesses occupy in the 1,500-square-foot space owned by the San Francisco Housing Development Corporation. Harris, 45, is the program director of SFHDC’s economic development team. In The Black is her brainchild, and last month the marketplace celebrated six months in business.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tyra Fennell, founding director, Imprint City\"]‘People have to own where they are. That’s the only way for them to be stabilized.’[/pullquote]Black people thrived in the Fillmore before being targeted for displacement. The neighborhood was once known as the “Harlem of the West” because of the large number of Black businesses and entertainment venues in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black residents, many of whom migrated west for wartime work in the Navy shipyards and to escape racial terrorism in the south, settled in Bay Area cities like Richmond, Oakland and San Francisco. Despite anti-Black housing discrimination, Black neighborhoods flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the 1950s to the 1970s, however, the Fillmore underwent drastic changes driven by the federally-funded redevelopment of areas that were deemed “blighted” by the city’s leaders. The Fillmore, with its old Victorian houses and mostly Black population, became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">focus of San Francisco’s urban renewal\u003c/a>. Many homes were bulldozed while many others were relocated. Many Black-owned businesses were forced to shut down. According to Rachel Brahinsky, a politics and urban studies professor at USF, an estimated 10,000 to 13,000 Fillmore residents were incrementally displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a sort of instant disappearance,” Brahinsky said. “Culture is very resilient. People are very resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Black is centering Black people in the Fillmore at a time when the Black population in the city continues to decline. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the Black population in San Francisco peaked in 1970 with \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty70.htm\">96,078 residents\u003c/a>, or roughly 13% of the city’s total population. That number has steadily dwindled to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">45,135 residents\u003c/a>, or 5% of the total population in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris wanted to create a store where Black entrepreneurs could thrive. A combination of high commercial rent prices and the lack of access to credit present steep barriers for Black entrepreneurs to open brick-and-mortar businesses. Harris thought businesses that shared rent would have a better chance to survive and maintain a foothold in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952807 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A woman wears a green hoodie reading \"Black Girl Magic\" standing beside some brightly colored clothes hanging on a rack.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pia Harris, founder of In The Black and program director at San Francisco Housing Development Corporation, at the shop in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris, a longtime Fillmore resident, had to give up where she lived two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had to move out of the city because she made too much for public housing according to the San Francisco Housing Authority’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfha.org/files/documents/Payment%20Standards%20-%202023.pdf\">income limits (PDF)\u003c/a>, but did not make enough to afford renting in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A series of moves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris moved several times when she was growing up. When she was 4, her mother couldn’t keep up with payments for their Oceanview neighborhood home so they both moved to Chicago. They returned to San Francisco 10 years later, first living on 16th Street and Potrero Avenue before settling in the Fillmore. Around the time Harris graduated from George Washington High School, they were evicted from their one bedroom apartment and became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you have to do is lose a job,” Harris said. “I’m so terrified for myself right now. If any part of my income changes, I can’t afford the basic cost of living in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Harris moved to the Robert B. Pitts Apartments on Scott Street in the Fillmore. She lived there for 15 years, raising her two daughters. She moved to Oakland in 2021, and her oldest daughter took over the lease of Harris’ former apartment with a roommate. Harris currently rents a house on 99th Avenue near San Leandro where she lives with her youngest daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s people like me now that have made it,” Harris said. “But then you’re in this weird in-between spot where you still can’t afford to live here, but you also make too much money for any subsidy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the early stages of the pandemic, Harris paused her catering delivery business, Nia Soul, and prepared meals that were distributed to homeless people living in hotels through \u003ca href=\"https://sfnewdeal.org/\">SF New Deal\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps local businesses stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rebuilding the Fillmore\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris is a founding member of the Fillmore Merchants and Neighborhood Collaborative, a group focused on creating economic opportunity. Before joining the SFHDC, Harris and the collaborative helped businesses apply for grants during the pandemic. She received a grant from San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development to do the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris wants to rebuild the Black prosperity in the Fillmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we just want to have representation,” Harris said. “We’re not asking for this to be an all-Black neighborhood. We’re saying we see that there’s boba across the street. We see that there’s poke and a Jewish deli and Japanese food, but where is the African American voice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Black Fillmore residents were displaced decades ago, they had limited options on where they could live in San Francisco because realtors would steer Black residents away from living in certain areas in the city. Steering is a form of redlining, the act of denying loans and other financial services based on race and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952804 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person walks down a nearly empty city sidewalk featuring a street sign reading \"Feel More in the Fillmore.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66198_230609-InTheBlack-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Fillmore is reflected in the window of the Fillmore Heritage Center in San Francisco on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Black people displaced from the Fillmore settled in Bayview-Hunters Point, an affordable neighborhood with an existing Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyra Fennell has made it her mission to expand awareness of the Bayview’s art and culture scene. Fennell, who moved to San Francisco in 2009, saw that the historically Black neighborhood was culturally overlooked during her time at the San Francisco Arts Commission.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101891368,arts_13848442\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Through her nonprofit, Imprint City, she hosted events such as Bayview Live, a music and arts festival that ran from 2016-19. A challenge she faced while promoting events was figuring out how to attract Black people to a city where there aren’t a lot of people that identify as Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The landscape here just isn’t Black,” said Fennell, who now works in Mayor London Breed’s administration. “It’s not majority Black, it’s super-minority Black. I prefer to program Black events for Black people, so I generally have to promote outside of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fennell said that predatory lending and increased home pricing are issues that have contributed to the out-migration of Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without strong economic policies to maintain the Black community, it’s all just social policies,” Fennell said. “People have to own where they are. That’s the only way for them to be stabilized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jameel Rasheed Patterson sees redevelopment as a force of nature, but only when the government is in lockstep with the community. Labeling a community as blighted, he said, allows the government to make changes without the consent of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They throw out little dog whistle type code words to imply that the community isn’t taking care of the neighborhood,” said Patterson, the associate director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nclfinc.org/\">New Community Leadership Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that works to empower disenfranchised communities. “So we got to remove the people in order to change the neighborhood, then it becomes pest control gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How In The Black works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In The Black receives funding from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamkeepersf.org/\">Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a>, which is under the direction of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Dr. Sheryl Evans Davis, the executive director of the commission, applauded Harris’ selflessness and her ability to focus on a project outside of her comfort zone in the culinary industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think In The Black has offered a level of hope for folks about sharing spaces and being able to work together collaboratively,” Davis said. “I think it’s also opened up the opportunity, even along the Fillmore corridor, to be able to access and activate other spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Camouflage and military-print jackets hang on a rack with patches sewn on reading \"Rooting for Everybody Black\" and Not Today KAREN!\" inside a store. Behind and out of focus, two people talk to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66207_230609-InTheBlack-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CIK Apparel hangs at the store In The Black in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on June 9, 2023. The rent for the marketplace is around $8,000 per month, and the businesses pay between $600 to $1,500. According to Harris, In The Black made $20,000 in sales in December. Because of unsteady retail trends, it has made around $8,000 to $12,000 a month in sales since. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Joshua Farr, In The Black’s manager, hopes to see the marketplace expand to cities like Oakland in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just business as usual,” said Farr, 40. “Us trying to learn and document and put together our story so that we’re able to do it again and do it better, and do it in new spaces and do it for new industries even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the businesses currently in the store were part of the first SFHDC’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfhdc.org/mmbob/\">Minding My Black-Owned Business\u003c/a> cohort in 2022. The 12-week pilot program gave businesses $7,500 grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cianni Jackson participated in the program. She created her business, \u003ca href=\"https://cikapparel.com/\">CIK Apparel\u003c/a>, during the racial unrest in 2020 because she wanted to showcase the pride and strength inherent in Black culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Fillmore native, Jackson designs and sells jackets, hoodies and other gear that features unique patches with messages such as “Black Girl Magic” and “Rooting for Everybody Black.” She likes to see people trying on her clothes in the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like when you’re in their face, they’ll grab it from you sooner,” Jackson, 43, said. “So In The Black has been a great opportunity for me to have my projects out in front of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Black is currently looking for merchants who sell haircare and other essential lifestyle products, according to Harris, who is in the process of opening a cafe a few blocks from the marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would like to live in the Fillmore again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just waiting for the market to get better to try to take my chance on purchasing something,” Harris said. “I’m always worried about having to get a second or third job if I have to just to maintain our lifestyle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Black people thrived in the Fillmore before being targeted for displacement. The neighborhood was once known as the “Harlem of the West” because of the large number of Black businesses and entertainment venues in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black residents, many of whom migrated west for wartime work in the Navy shipyards and to escape racial terrorism in the south, settled in Bay Area cities like Richmond, Oakland and San Francisco. Despite anti-Black housing discrimination, Black neighborhoods flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the 1950s to the 1970s, however, the Fillmore underwent drastic changes driven by the federally-funded redevelopment of areas that were deemed “blighted” by the city’s leaders. The Fillmore, with its old Victorian houses and mostly Black population, became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">focus of San Francisco’s urban renewal\u003c/a>. Many homes were bulldozed while many others were relocated. Many Black-owned businesses were forced to shut down. According to Rachel Brahinsky, a politics and urban studies professor at USF, an estimated 10,000 to 13,000 Fillmore residents were incrementally displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a sort of instant disappearance,” Brahinsky said. “Culture is very resilient. People are very resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In The Black is centering Black people in the Fillmore at a time when the Black population in the city continues to decline. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the Black population in San Francisco peaked in 1970 with \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty70.htm\">96,078 residents\u003c/a>, or roughly 13% of the city’s total population. That number has steadily dwindled to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">45,135 residents\u003c/a>, or 5% of the total population in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris wanted to create a store where Black entrepreneurs could thrive. A combination of high commercial rent prices and the lack of access to credit present steep barriers for Black entrepreneurs to open brick-and-mortar businesses. Harris thought businesses that shared rent would have a better chance to survive and maintain a foothold in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952807 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A woman wears a green hoodie reading \"Black Girl Magic\" standing beside some brightly colored clothes hanging on a rack.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66215_230609-InTheBlack-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pia Harris, founder of In The Black and program director at San Francisco Housing Development Corporation, at the shop in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris, a longtime Fillmore resident, had to give up where she lived two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had to move out of the city because she made too much for public housing according to the San Francisco Housing Authority’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfha.org/files/documents/Payment%20Standards%20-%202023.pdf\">income limits (PDF)\u003c/a>, but did not make enough to afford renting in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A series of moves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris moved several times when she was growing up. 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"content": "\u003cp>After California regulators seized San Francisco’s troubled First Republic Bank early Monday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) \u003ca href=\"https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23034.html\">promptly sold\u003c/a> all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase in a bid to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/silicon-valley-fed-supervision-review-30f56061bf5d103cef7e9445d50fd759\">end the turmoil\u003c/a> that has raised questions about the health of the U.S. banking system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank’s demise marked the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. It was also the second Bay Area-based bank to fail in less than two months, joining Silicon Valley Bank — for just over seven weeks the second-largest bank failure, and now the third — which \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/silicon-valley-bank-failure-fdic-tech-vc-f343cdc6a8adee4a3635b756cec1f787\">was seized by the FDIC \u003c/a>on March 10 after its collapse following a bank run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, concerned depositors also began pulling money out of First Republic, which has more than three dozen branches in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Filippo Rebessi, economics professor, Cal State East Bay\"]‘Other banks across the nation, they don’t have these very large uninsured depositors that all of a sudden may be more prone to make a run.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an especially significant problem for banks based in a region where the tech industry has created enormous wealth for some. 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The bank’s shareholders are likely to be wiped out as part of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dimon said in a conference call with both reporters and investors that he believed “this part of this (banking) crisis is over.” Other midsize banks reported their results last week and the vast majority showed that deposits had stabilized and profits remained relatively healthy. The outlier was First Republic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When catering to the very rich becomes a liability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before this year, First Republic was the envy of the banking industry. Its well-appointed branches served warm cookies to its clients — who were almost exclusively the rich and powerful. Its bankers lured in wealthy clients with low-cost mortgages and attractive savings rates in order to sell them on higher-profit businesses like wealth management and brokerage accounts. In return, the wealthy rarely defaulted on their loans and parked substantial sums of money in the bank that could be lent elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that business model of catering to the rich became a liability with the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/silicon-valley-bank-uk-bailout-hsbc-sale-4d2da0e9c6f39c0fd8faf321a2b295cf\">collapses of Silicon Valley Bank\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/signature-fdic-failure-new-york-community-bank-3c820646cc6574439fa158095594505e\">Signature Bank\u003c/a>. These banks had large amount of uninsured deposits — that is, deposits above the $250,000 limit set by the FDIC. 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The bank seemed to be on the brink of failure for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $30 billion package “bought time when time was needed” for First Republic, said Jeremy Barnum, JPMorgan’s chief financial officer, in a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Monday, First Republic reported its first-quarter results and stunned analysts and investors when it revealed that $100 billion in deposits had flowed out of the bank, most in mid-March immediately after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Its executives took no questions from analysts on an earning conference call. First Republic’s stock plunged more than 50% the day after the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the middle of last week, it became clear government intervention in First Republic was necessary. Treasury officials asked banks to submit bids for First Republic, and bankers and regulators worked through the weekend to find a way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once again JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank with a reputation as a dealmaker during times of crisis, became the government’s go-to bank; Treasury officials had enlisted JPMorgan last month to lead the $30 billion rescue package. Also, back in 2008, Dimon was the go-to banker for Washington to find private solutions for that banking crisis, and JPMorgan acquired both Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11943901,news_11948019,news_11944608\" label=\"Related Posts\"]The Federal Reserve and FDIC, which regulate the banking industry along with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, could face renewed criticism over their handling of First Republic. 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And, she said, that employment setup is what has led to worker grievances — mainly low wages, no benefits and isolation from colleagues. Partain is one of at least 10,000 people worldwide doing this job, according to Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They work from home and even though they’re employed by subcontractors, they’re given assignments directly by Google. Partain evaluates the quality and placement of Google ads, while her colleagues rate the quality of Google Search results. Their tasks can range from confirming a search for “carrot cake recipe” brings up relevant results to making sure an airfare ad doesn’t appear next to a news story about a plane crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without them, Google Search wouldn’t function smoothly. Google says it gets \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/how-search-works/rigorous-testing/\">billions of queries\u003c/a> every day and it’s constantly making improvements to ensure its algorithms keep up. 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And we get paid less than your average fast food worker.’[/pullquote]Partain flew in from Kansas for the rally and said she’d been a rater for more than seven years and that she and her colleagues “want to be able to do our job well, earn a dignified wage and have access to basic benefits.” The raters were joined by worker advocates, local politicians and union representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t really understand just how prevalent the subcontracting and staffing agency usage is,” said Roberto Clack, executive director of Temp Worker Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for contract workers. “These models are really the driving force towards lower labor standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google’s Mencini declined to provide numbers on the company’s subcontractor workforce. But, according to estimates from the Alphabet Workers Union, Alphabet has around 200,000 contract workers worldwide who do \u003ca href=\"https://everygoogleworker.alphabetworkersunion.org/\">all sorts of jobs\u003c/a>. That’s more than 50% of the company’s total workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The raters’ pressure campaign on Google began last year. With the help of Alphabet Workers Union, they began meeting each other and organizing online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Alphabet Workers Union published an open letter to Raghavan demanding the company raise pay for raters. Then, in January of this year, raters who work for Appen \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/01/11/google-search-quality-rater-raise/\">got their first-ever raise\u003c/a> to $14 or $14.50 an hour, based on seniority. Previously, workers made roughly $10 to $13 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the February rally, Appen raters were told they’d get another raise by the end of this year that would increase their pay to $15 an hour. Then, a couple weeks later, Appen sent them an email saying the hours they work could be extended from the previous maximum of 26 hours per week to what raters have now — 29 hours per week. Raters can work their own hours, but it can be no more than 29 per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, the magic 30 hours a week is what we can’t go past,” Partain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google’s Mencini told NPR that the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/support.google.com/corporate-suppliers/answer/10208902/*zippy=__;Iw!!Iwwt!Ub5DUC5iYYOJz9Y7sePkrMr9s_4Id4QlDovj04rf7c2RxXO5jdmw1TQ2oA5dU4_x1Qyq8MnV7RFg%24\">Wages and Benefits standards\u003c/a> — which would provide health care and sick leave to contractors — only apply to people who are assigned to Google at least 30 hours per week and have access to the company’s corporate systems or campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raters say that as long as they haven’t met that threshold, they’re going to keep up the pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re asking for now is just to be allowed to get the same benefits as people who work 30 hours a week are supposed to get,” Partain said. “And if we have to work 30 hours a week in order to get them, people would be happy to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as a response from Raghavan to meet with them, raters say they’re still waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But smaller players have fewer means of surviving a collapse, reflecting the perilous journey minority entrepreneurs face while attempting to navigate industries historically rife with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these folks that have very special circumstances based on their identity, it’s not something that they can just change about themselves, and that makes them unbankable by the top four [large banks],” said Asya Bradley, board member of numerous start-ups who has watched the WhatsApp group grapple with SVB’s demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley said some investors have implored start-ups to switch to larger financial institutions to stymie future financial risks, but that’s not an easy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why we’re going to regional and community banks is because these [large] banks don’t want our business,” Bradley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banking expert Aaron Klein, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, said SVB’s collapse could exacerbate racial disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to be more challenging for people who don’t fit the traditional credit box, including minorities,” Klein said. “A financial system that prefers the existing holders of wealth will perpetuate the legacy of past discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Asya Bradley, board member of numerous start-ups\"]‘The reason why we’re going to regional and community banks is because these [large] banks don’t want our business.’[/pullquote]Tiffany Dufu was gutted when she couldn’t access her SVB account and, in turn, could not pay her employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufu raised $5 million as CEO of The Cru, a New York-based career coaching platform and community for women. 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Perhaps I was naive.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its collapse came as a shock to Bay Area vintners like Adam Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, Silicon Valley Bank was never on the list of banks that I was terribly concerned about,” he said. “Perhaps I was naive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is the founder and winemaker at \u003ca href=\"https://claricewinecompany.com/\">Clarice Wine Company\u003c/a>, based in Santa Rosa. He’s been a customer with SVB since 1997, and in addition to his account, he has a line of credit open at the bank, on which he owes tens of thousands of dollars. Immediately after the bank’s closure last week, Lee was locked out of those accounts for nearly three days. His sole employee happened to receive her paycheck Friday morning — just a few hours before the bank’s collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior signage of Silicon Valley Bank with white letters on a gray building.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248009084-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley Bank headquarters is seen in Santa Clara on March 10, 2023. US regulators have shut down SVB amid its sudden collapse, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced in a statement on Friday. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With less than $250,000 in his account, Lee was never concerned about financial loss, since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) immediately announced it would cover up to that amount (and has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23019.html\">agreed to cover all deposits\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others weren’t so calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some couldn’t make payroll, the apps didn’t work, loans couldn’t be made, some couldn’t get advances. It’s clearly frustrating, and I don’t blame them for being angry,” said Rob McMillan, founder and former executive vice president of SVB’s wine division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMillan added that he was also shocked at the sudden downfall of the bank, where he has worked for more than 30 years.[aside label=\"More California Coverage\" tag=\"silicon-valley\"]“The wine industry is not part of this. We had nothing to do with it. Our clients are in fine shape. The portfolios are in fine shape,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, his clients are in a state of uncertainty. “It’s fear of the unknown,” he said. The bank is currently operating under the auspices of the federal government, and McMillan said there are several buyers potentially interested in acquiring \u003ca href=\"https://www.svb.com/industry-solutions/premium-wine-banking\">SVB’s wine division\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, though, wineries are dealing with a financial disruption that likely rippled out to their most vulnerable workforce: farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If payday was during that period of time and they didn’t get their paycheck, they’re going to be hurting,” said Rosaura Segura, an immigration services provider and farmworker advocate in St. Helena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also worried about the long-term impacts of the bank’s collapse, considering its financial support of the vineyard workforce. 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So, yeah, we’re going to feel their absence,” Segura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As will the wine industry as a whole. In addition to lending money, SVB’s McMillan compiled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.svb.com/trends-insights/reports/wine-report\">yearly benchmark report\u003c/a> for the wine industry, which provided a data-driven economic review and forecast for wineries and garnered worldwide readership. McMillan said he’s unsure he’ll be able to continue producing the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley Bank has a truly unique understanding of the wine business,” said Clarice Wine Company’s Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Lee said, he’s sticking with SVB — or whatever becomes of it — especially now that he has the backing of the FDIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In an ironic way, Silicon Valley Bank is the safest place right now to put your money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The failure of Signature Bank, which had more than $110 billion in assets, is the third-largest in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to shore up confidence in the banking system, the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank clients would be protected and able to access their money. 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In a statement, Biden also said he was “firmly committed to holding those responsible for this mess fully accountable and to continuing our efforts to strengthen oversight and regulation of larger banks so that we are not in this position again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators had to rush to close Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets, on Friday when it experienced a traditional run on the bank where depositors rushed to withdraw their funds all at once. It is the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prominent Silicon Valley executives feared that if the federal government didn’t rescue the failed bank, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/silicon-valley-bank-janet-yellen-bailout-fdic-fail-failed-c224cf4d2ef07c70cd27e7d0d3be628b\">customers would make runs on other financial institutions\u003c/a> in the coming days. Stock prices plunged over the last few days at other banks that cater to technology companies, including First Republic Bank and PacWest Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the bank’s customers are a range of companies, from the local wine industry and technology start-ups devoted to combating climate change. Sunrun, which sells and leases solar energy systems, had less than $80 million of cash deposits with Silicon Valley. Stitch Fix, the clothing retail website, disclosed recently that it had a credit line of up to $100 million with Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Dufu, founder and CEO of The Cru, a New York-based career coaching platform and community for women, posted a video Sunday on LinkedIn from an airport bathroom, saying the bank crisis was \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7040727755319037952/\">testing her resiliency\u003c/a>. Given that her money was tied up at Silicon Valley Bank, she had to pay her employees out of her personal bank account. With two teenagers to support who will be heading to college, she said she was relieved to hear that the government’s intent is to make depositors whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Small businesses and early stage start-ups don’t have a lot of access to leverage in a situation like this, and we’re often in a very vulnerable position, particularly when we have to fight so hard to get the wires into your bank account to begin with, particularly for me, as a Black female founder,” Dufu told The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank began its slide into insolvency when its customers, largely technology companies that needed cash as they struggled to get financing, started withdrawing their deposits. 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