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"content": "\u003cp>It may have been a record snow year in the Sierra, but that hasn’t stopped locals from growing their own produce. In addition to the usual covered garden beds, some ambitious Tahoe gardeners have opted for a more engineered option: the Sierra Growing Dome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designed in partnership with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tahoefoodhub.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tahoe Food Hub\u003c/a> and manufactured by Colorado-based \u003ca href=\"http://geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Growing Spaces\u003c/a>, the dome comes in a variety of sizes and has been engineered to withstand heavy snow loads. The geodesic greenhouses look a bit like glass golf balls and require no external heat source, which makes them fairly economical to operate. Instead of heating and cooling equipment, the domes’ temperatures are moderated via the sun, a large tank of water and some ingenious vents that keep things cool in the summer and warm in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Most kids don’t know where food comes from.’\u003ccite>Denise Pillsbury, second-grade teacher at Sierra House Elementary\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At around $25,000, the domes run the risk of being a luxury that only wealthy foodies can afford for individual use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dome at the Tahoe Food Hub, however, also serves as the organization’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.tahoefoodhub.org/grow-local/sierra-agroecology-cen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agroecology center\u003c/a>, where experts share a variety of tips for growing food in alpine climates. The food hub connects local farmers with restaurants, schools and hospitals in the region in an effort to reduce food miles. Executive director Susie Sutphin said she hopes some local cities and organizations might consider taking on a dome. “It would make a lot of sense for some of the ski resorts up here. They’d be able to grow some of their own produce, which would reduce the amount of stuff they need to have trucked in and would also provide really fresh ingredients for their restaurants,” she said. “I could see one of the towns maybe putting one up, too, and they’re great for schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11502114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11502114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/TahoeFoodHub_SnowDome-800x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/TahoeFoodHub_SnowDome-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/TahoeFoodHub_SnowDome-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/TahoeFoodHub_SnowDome.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/TahoeFoodHub_SnowDome-240x135.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/TahoeFoodHub_SnowDome-375x211.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/TahoeFoodHub_SnowDome-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Produce can grow in the Tahoe Food Hub’s dome no matter what the weather outside is like. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, one local school, \u003ca href=\"http://sierrahouse.ltusd.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sierra House Elementary\u003c/a> in South Lake Tahoe, raised enough via donations and grants to buy not one but two domes, and start an ambitious gardening program that provides fresh produce twice per week to its students, two-thirds of whom are on the free and reduced lunch program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big reason for supporting the domes was we thought it would not only improve the kids’ diets, but would also provide a benefit to the broader community if they were going home and encouraging their parents to buy more vegetables,” said Ryan Galles, principal of Sierra House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was actually parent Michelle McLean who got the program off the ground after touring the Tahoe Food Hub’s dome in Truckee. She has now helped the school raise enough to add a pollinator garden, garden-pegged curricula, a garden mural in the cafeteria and even a job for herself coordinating it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”MFcneayQaXjvswI0AYSnahIN5quRwTlA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice each week, the kids go out to the domes and learn everything from basic gardening to more advanced biology and engineering. Once per week, they line up for a salad bar stocked by the domes, and you’ve never seen so many 6-year-olds this excited about salad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can really tell the difference between the students who have had the domes all along and the ones who were older when we got them,” said McLean. “The younger ones make much healthier choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers love the domes, too, and use them as a teaching aid for everything from science to vocabulary. Second-grade teacher Denise Pillsbury said the treks out to the domes help her kids get their wiggles out during the day, and that the program is improving their diets. “Most kids don’t know where food comes from, so they’re getting a much better understanding of it, helping to plant and weed, and then enjoy the food they grow,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And principal Galles’ goal of reaching the broader community has been achieved, too. Hector Ochoa, the\u003ca href=\"http://fsnep.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> UC CalFresh Nutrition\u003c/a> educator for Lake Tahoe, said he’s seen how kids are influencing their parents’ shopping and cooking decisions.Ochoa’s been fielding lots of requests at the Family Resource Center for tips on what to do with kale, and has been coordinating cooking classes filled with advice on how to make fresh produce stretch. “Sometimes it is more expensive, so we work with people to figure out how they can use every part of the vegetable, how they might be able to cook and freeze things,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids, though, just think it’s fun. They love to visit the fish in the aquaponic pond that sits in a corner of one of the domes; they like to eat everything from strawberry to mint to kale salad; and they’re noticeably chilled out after getting a little dose of nature in the middle of their school day — even when it’s snowing out.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The baby products store at the end of my block in Oakland closed recently, after 34 years in business. My family took note because we pass the place every day and because we were about to welcome a baby girl into the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we went to Baby World’s “going out of business” sale, I asked owner Cristina Cabello why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Internet killed us,” Cabello said. “Especially Amazon. You know, we couldn’t compete with the prices. They have free shipping. We couldn’t do free shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Stbz5UeRy015GSgkcL9hKrk6bNk6sbrP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has taken a hard look at online retail and its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve looked at the warehousing and distribution industry that is growing to deliver the convenience consumers crave. In the towns of Tracy and Patterson,\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/06/valley-farm-towns-transformed-by-your-online-shopping/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> huge distribution centers have created thousands of jobs\u003c/a>, with more planned at an Amazon facility in Fresno. We’ve not only looked at the value of those jobs, but\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/07/warehouses-promise-jobs-but-what-happens-when-the-robots-come/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> also at their future in automation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also returned to Baby World to see how it feels inside a store that is literally watching its customers try out their products and then go outside and order the same stuff online. Then we went out to see how Oakland’s larger brick-and-mortar retail scene is facing this down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Baby World, Cristina Cabello told me that business had been hard for about a year and a half, as she watched consumer behavior change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, Amazon has trained them to do everything online, and the mentality of people changed,” Cabello said. “So we had people here on Saturday, spending time with us — 15 minutes on the car seats, the strollers … and then, at the same price everywhere else, and we offered the service. They would come to the door and order it online because it was going to be put at their doorstep the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11500312\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11500312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby World in Oakland before shuttering. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Creative Destruction’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not your imagination. There are a lot of stories like Baby World in the retail sector right now. That’s the assessment I heard from Chris Thornberg, economist and founder of Beacon Economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is some shaking out in the industry,” Thornberg said. “Typically, the weaker players are the ones that get diminished. But a shaking out of the industry doesn’t mean the demise of an industry. … That is why economists discuss these sort of shifts as ‘creative destruction.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baby World isn’t the only business in Oakland that is struggling against new consumer behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A couple stores in Oakland have signs up that say, ‘If you’re coming here to kick the tires, get measured, try stuff on, then buy it online, please don’t come in. That’s not the business we want,’ ” said Keira Williams, retail specialist with the Oakland Economic and Workforce Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said that, overall, Oakland’s retail scene is thriving. Retail occupancy rates are high. Oakland’s sales tax revenue actually grew 0.3 percent last year over 2015. She said some stores are finding ways to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11500313\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11500313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby World shut down after finding it could no longer compete with online retailers. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/LQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You have to adapt. If you have a product that is easy to buy and often at a lower price online, you have to figure out what’s different at your store,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, of course, larger forces that are helping some of Oakland’s retailers thrive. The city is gentrifying, and is right in the middle of a region that’s seeing a real economic boom, which means that people moving in have more money to spend on all kinds of retail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams told me that Oakland has also focused less on building traditional shopping malls — which have really been struggling against online retail — and more on promoting its neighborhood shopping districts, like Rockridge. And those areas are doing particularly well. In commercial corridors in Oakland with an established business improvement district, sales tax revenue grew by 1.6 percent from 2015 to 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shoppers Speak Up\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked KQED readers on Facebook how online shopping has affected their communities and their own habits. Here’s what some of them had to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>How Has Online Shopping Impacted Your Community?\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were really excited when a pet store opened up a few blocks from our apartment, right across from the Downtown Oakland Library next to Lake Merritt. After about a year or two, we went in and saw they had a going out of business sign and I was shocked. Our neighborhood is dense and there are a lot of people with pets. I asked them why they weren’t able to stay open and the response was that too many people purchased their products online. \u003ci>— Meghan, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a knitter and I’ve seen a number of yarn stores go under due to competition from online. \u003ci>— Debbie, Alameda\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our favorite bookstore [Kepler’s] was going to be forced to close by both higher rent and Amazon’s pervasive presence. Citizens who loved to browse for books, attend authors’ presentations, find gifts and pick up their book club books, fought back. They lobbied City Council, showed up at a variety of meetings, and eventually were successful — our bookstore is still in business and going strong. — \u003ci>Tate, Menlo Park\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest downside to online shopping in mine and many other San Francisco neighborhoods is package theft. The only packages that I get delivered at home are either cheap (like less than 10 bucks,) or they are so huge and heavy that thieves would choose other packages first. \u003ci>— Rebecca, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Are You Still Loyal To Your Local Stores?\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sometimes go online to research various products, merchandise, and shops, but I avoid buying things online. I have never bought anything from Amazon or eBay, and I don’t want to. I go to local stores and shops to buy what I need, preferably locally owned stores. \u003ci>— Dave, East Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do our best to frequent the local shops — Cliff’s in the Castro, Animal House in the Lower Haight — but there are times when the option is outside our neighborhoods and online shopping, with a guilty conscience, we choose the latter for convenience sake. \u003ci>–Shana, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have tried to stay loyal to local bookstores, like Green Apple. We also try to go at least monthly to our neighborhood theater rather than stream movies at home because we don’t want that sweet old place to close. \u003ci>— Lauren, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>How Have Your Shopping Habits Changed Due to Online Shopping?\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a single, full-time working mom to a toddler, the convenience of having baby supplies, diapers, toilet paper, sunscreen, socks, toys, gifts, household goods, toiletries delivered right to my door is a convenience I cannot overlook. I’m sure it actually saves me money as I don’t have to drive anywhere, search for a coveted parking spot … pay the crazy meter prices and pray you don’t get a ticket and ALL the hassles that can come from having to go down to Grand Avenue or Temescal. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The baby products store at the end of my block in Oakland closed recently, after 34 years in business. My family took note because we pass the place every day and because we were about to welcome a baby girl into the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we went to Baby World’s “going out of business” sale, I asked owner Cristina Cabello why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Internet killed us,” Cabello said. “Especially Amazon. You know, we couldn’t compete with the prices. They have free shipping. We couldn’t do free shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has taken a hard look at online retail and its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve looked at the warehousing and distribution industry that is growing to deliver the convenience consumers crave. In the towns of Tracy and Patterson,\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/06/valley-farm-towns-transformed-by-your-online-shopping/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> huge distribution centers have created thousands of jobs\u003c/a>, with more planned at an Amazon facility in Fresno. We’ve not only looked at the value of those jobs, but\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/07/warehouses-promise-jobs-but-what-happens-when-the-robots-come/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> also at their future in automation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also returned to Baby World to see how it feels inside a store that is literally watching its customers try out their products and then go outside and order the same stuff online. Then we went out to see how Oakland’s larger brick-and-mortar retail scene is facing this down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Baby World, Cristina Cabello told me that business had been hard for about a year and a half, as she watched consumer behavior change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, Amazon has trained them to do everything online, and the mentality of people changed,” Cabello said. “So we had people here on Saturday, spending time with us — 15 minutes on the car seats, the strollers … and then, at the same price everywhere else, and we offered the service. They would come to the door and order it online because it was going to be put at their doorstep the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11500312\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11500312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/image1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby World in Oakland before shuttering. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Creative Destruction’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not your imagination. There are a lot of stories like Baby World in the retail sector right now. That’s the assessment I heard from Chris Thornberg, economist and founder of Beacon Economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is some shaking out in the industry,” Thornberg said. “Typically, the weaker players are the ones that get diminished. But a shaking out of the industry doesn’t mean the demise of an industry. … That is why economists discuss these sort of shifts as ‘creative destruction.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baby World isn’t the only business in Oakland that is struggling against new consumer behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A couple stores in Oakland have signs up that say, ‘If you’re coming here to kick the tires, get measured, try stuff on, then buy it online, please don’t come in. That’s not the business we want,’ ” said Keira Williams, retail specialist with the Oakland Economic and Workforce Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said that, overall, Oakland’s retail scene is thriving. Retail occupancy rates are high. Oakland’s sales tax revenue actually grew 0.3 percent last year over 2015. She said some stores are finding ways to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11500313\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11500313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_7005-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby World shut down after finding it could no longer compete with online retailers. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/LQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You have to adapt. If you have a product that is easy to buy and often at a lower price online, you have to figure out what’s different at your store,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, of course, larger forces that are helping some of Oakland’s retailers thrive. The city is gentrifying, and is right in the middle of a region that’s seeing a real economic boom, which means that people moving in have more money to spend on all kinds of retail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams told me that Oakland has also focused less on building traditional shopping malls — which have really been struggling against online retail — and more on promoting its neighborhood shopping districts, like Rockridge. And those areas are doing particularly well. In commercial corridors in Oakland with an established business improvement district, sales tax revenue grew by 1.6 percent from 2015 to 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shoppers Speak Up\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked KQED readers on Facebook how online shopping has affected their communities and their own habits. Here’s what some of them had to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>How Has Online Shopping Impacted Your Community?\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were really excited when a pet store opened up a few blocks from our apartment, right across from the Downtown Oakland Library next to Lake Merritt. After about a year or two, we went in and saw they had a going out of business sign and I was shocked. Our neighborhood is dense and there are a lot of people with pets. I asked them why they weren’t able to stay open and the response was that too many people purchased their products online. \u003ci>— Meghan, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a knitter and I’ve seen a number of yarn stores go under due to competition from online. \u003ci>— Debbie, Alameda\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our favorite bookstore [Kepler’s] was going to be forced to close by both higher rent and Amazon’s pervasive presence. Citizens who loved to browse for books, attend authors’ presentations, find gifts and pick up their book club books, fought back. They lobbied City Council, showed up at a variety of meetings, and eventually were successful — our bookstore is still in business and going strong. — \u003ci>Tate, Menlo Park\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest downside to online shopping in mine and many other San Francisco neighborhoods is package theft. The only packages that I get delivered at home are either cheap (like less than 10 bucks,) or they are so huge and heavy that thieves would choose other packages first. \u003ci>— Rebecca, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Are You Still Loyal To Your Local Stores?\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sometimes go online to research various products, merchandise, and shops, but I avoid buying things online. I have never bought anything from Amazon or eBay, and I don’t want to. I go to local stores and shops to buy what I need, preferably locally owned stores. \u003ci>— Dave, East Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do our best to frequent the local shops — Cliff’s in the Castro, Animal House in the Lower Haight — but there are times when the option is outside our neighborhoods and online shopping, with a guilty conscience, we choose the latter for convenience sake. \u003ci>–Shana, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have tried to stay loyal to local bookstores, like Green Apple. We also try to go at least monthly to our neighborhood theater rather than stream movies at home because we don’t want that sweet old place to close. \u003ci>— Lauren, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>How Have Your Shopping Habits Changed Due to Online Shopping?\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a single, full-time working mom to a toddler, the convenience of having baby supplies, diapers, toilet paper, sunscreen, socks, toys, gifts, household goods, toiletries delivered right to my door is a convenience I cannot overlook. I’m sure it actually saves me money as I don’t have to drive anywhere, search for a coveted parking spot … pay the crazy meter prices and pray you don’t get a ticket and ALL the hassles that can come from having to go down to Grand Avenue or Temescal. I’d truly rather click a button and spend that precious time with my toddler. — \u003ci>Tonya, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\"Marocain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>could \u003c/em>just be the word for a dress fabric of ribbed crepe, made of silk or wool or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the word that broke an intense streak of ties -- the word that brought 12-year-old Ananya Vinay from Fresno, California, the youngest finalist at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland, to victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was kind of intense,\" Vinay \u003ca href=\"http://spellingbee.com/blog/#!/some-words-our-winner?nid=1419\">said\u003c/a> in an interview after beating eighth-grader Rohan Rajeev from Oklahoma. Vinay and Rajeev competed in 21 rounds before Rohan stumbled on the word \"marram.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinay took home $40,000 in cash, a $2,500 savings bond and, of course, a collection of reference books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinay's philosophy is a simple one: \"If you try your best, you're a winner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you were wondering what her favorite word was, try spelling this one: spizzerinctum. Definition: ambition to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It motivates me,” she said. “I hope I get a word I know and I just keep going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road to the spelling championship is full of highs and lows. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\"Marocain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>could \u003c/em>just be the word for a dress fabric of ribbed crepe, made of silk or wool or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the word that broke an intense streak of ties -- the word that brought 12-year-old Ananya Vinay from Fresno, California, the youngest finalist at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland, to victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was kind of intense,\" Vinay \u003ca href=\"http://spellingbee.com/blog/#!/some-words-our-winner?nid=1419\">said\u003c/a> in an interview after beating eighth-grader Rohan Rajeev from Oklahoma. Vinay and Rajeev competed in 21 rounds before Rohan stumbled on the word \"marram.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinay took home $40,000 in cash, a $2,500 savings bond and, of course, a collection of reference books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinay's philosophy is a simple one: \"If you try your best, you're a winner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you were wondering what her favorite word was, try spelling this one: spizzerinctum. Definition: ambition to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It motivates me,” she said. “I hope I get a word I know and I just keep going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road to the spelling championship is full of highs and lows. Here are more photos from the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11490708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11490708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-1020x795.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-1020x795.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-1920x1496.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-1180x919.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-960x748.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-240x187.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-375x292.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691352680-520x405.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rohan Rajeev, 14, waits to hear if Ananya Vinay of Fresno, California, spells \"marocain\" correctly to win the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11490663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11490663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-1020x755.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-1020x755.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-1920x1422.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-1180x874.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-960x711.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-240x178.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-375x278.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691349380-520x385.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ananya Vinay of Fresno, California, with her trophy. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11490662\" 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https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-691201248-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samhita Sandhya Kumar of Gold River, California, reacts after spelling her word correctly during the final round of the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11490661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11490661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-690973242-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Jones (L) of New Carlisle, Indiana, and Asha Chauhan (R) of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, wait on stage during round three of the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11490660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg 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"content": "\u003cp>When Raul Maya first came to the U.S. from southern Mexico, he worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant making less than $5 an hour. Then he moved up to working as a busboy and cashier. It took him years to save enough money to open up a menswear shop, Fashion Palace, in Oakland’s predominantly Latino Fruitvale district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/05/LowIncEntrepreneursRomero20170509.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1.jpg\" Title=\"Are Low-Income Businesses Shortchanged by Big Banks?\" program=\"News Fix\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Maya’s customers live nearby. On a recent afternoon, they streamed into the store from shifts at restaurants and construction sites; some still wore paint stains on their clothes. They came looking for suits and Maya’s own designs of long-sleeved cotton shirts to wear at weddings and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone going to parties around here, I help them get dressed up,” said Maya in Spanish, and chuckled. “Sometimes they’ll end up buying more clothes because they see they look great!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been a nagging issue for him and other small-business owners he knows in the neighborhood: access to credit through banks, which generally offer the lowest interest rates in the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in lower-income census tracts in Alameda County, including the area where Maya is located, received significantly fewer bank loans and credit cards than the wealthiest business districts in 2015, according to a KQED analysis of the most recent federal public data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists say this points to an unmet need for bank credit among entrepreneurs in predominantly minority and underserved communities. That in turn, pushes small-business owners to get more expensive loans that can eat up their profits and limit their ability to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large banks and other lenders counter that many entrepreneurs — particularly in the communities hardest hit by the Great Recession — struggle to meet the criteria that qualify them for responsible financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[bizLoanNoLoans]\u003cstrong>Rates Higher For Business Owners with Low Credit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, Maya ran into a serious cash-flow problem and tried applying for a credit card from his bank, but was rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They said my credit score wasn’t high enough. I never got a loan or credit card, not even for $50, from a bank,” said Maya, who\u003c/span> turned instead to a more costly loan for $5,000 from a non-bank lender nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not want to name the lender, as he is still paying them an additional $3,000 in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know that they are charging you too much in interest, but because of your economic situation you have to take it,” said Maya. “Although later you are in hell and it’s a long road to finish paying.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya’s loan adds up to about a 35 percent annual percentage rate (APR). But he could have paid much more. Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are facing triple-digit interest rates in California, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Press/press_releases/2016/2015_CFLL_Annual_Report_Press_Release_06-30-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> the state’s Department of Business Oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lending companies need to charge more to provide much needed access to credit for customers who would not receive it at banks, said Thomas Leonard, executive director of the California Financial Service Providers Association, which represents dozens of non-bank lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rates are going to be higher for customers that have a lesser amount of credit. And what you find is that the interest rates become really a product of risk,” said Leonard, a former banker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Unequal Access’ To Credit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/23/latino-businesses-struggle-to-get-funding-to-grow-survey-says/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">starting businesses\u003c/a> at a faster rate than other groups in the country. But their ventures have higher failure rates or grow at a slower pace partly because they have less capital, said Robert Fairlie, an economist at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re less likely to get bank loans. They’re less likely to be able to tap into family and friends’ wealth or neighborhood wealth. So all those things kind of work against them,” said Fairlie, who has researched minority-owned enterprises for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unequal access to credit, said Fairlie, contributes to the massive wealth gap in this country because small businesses generate jobs and wealth for their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median wealth of white households in this country in 2011 was $110,000, compared with less than $8,000 for Latinos and African-Americans, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/wealth/data.html\">according to the U.S. Census\u003c/a>. Median wealth — also known as net worth — is the difference between one’s assets, such as income, savings and a home — and liabilities, or debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/lbr/current/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> largest banks\u003c/a> in the U.S., said that increasing lending to small businesses in diverse communities is a priority.[contextly_sidebar id=”iv4OFUALi0E0wBhEYoCmlKmKFiXktbMJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make every responsible loan we possibly can to help creditworthy small businesses that are seeking credit,” wrote Ruben Pulido, a spokesman for Wells Fargo in San Francisco. He added that credit-readiness, including the ability of small-business owners to show they are able to repay, is a top limiting factor in making more loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both banks are donating and lending millions of dollars to nonprofits in the Oakland area. Those nonprofits work with diverse and lower-income small-business owners to help them get access to credit. This means training them on how to qualify for loans, and relending money from the big banks to these entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The banks are obligated to help meet the credit needs of the communities where they operate under the\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/cra_about.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Community Reinvestment Act\u003c/a> (CRA), a federal law that was passed almost 40 years ago. The law has increased the flow of credit to lower-income areas, according to various studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the business district where Raul Maya’s store is located received only 45 loans and credit card lines of $100,000 or less in 2015, far fewer than wealthier districts in the city with a comparable number of businesses, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.ffiec.gov/cra/craproducts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> data\u003c/a> reported by large financial institutions under the CRA. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodstockinst.org/research/patterns-disparity-small-business-lending-chicago-and-los-angeles-san-diego-regions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> of the Los Angeles, San Diego and Chicago areas by the Woodstock Institute found disparities in bank lending by income and race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED focused on loans of $100,000 and under because, according to experts, they are most likely to support small local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal agency that supervises and grades big national banks on their CRA performance, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/speeches/2016/pub-speech-2016-150.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated\u003c/a> that it is aware more work is needed to address “important remaining issues” on the law’s implementation. The OCC has been reviewing its examination procedures in an effort to make them more rigorous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SmallBizAmountLoans]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crowdfunding As An Inexpensive Alternative\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting his high-interest loan through the non-bank lender, Maya found out he could get an inexpensive loan through the crowdfunding website Kiva. The nonprofit offers entrepreneurs in the U.S. and abroad a platform to fundraise for loans with zero interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Business ownership is a great way to build wealth. (But) the wealth gap persists. So what we’re trying to do is just break that paradigm,” said Jonny Price, head of Kiva’s U.S. operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the blessing of the city of Oakland, the organization has ramped up crowdfunding for local small-business owners. Kiva is also trying a new tactic in the Fruitvale by meeting face to face with entrepreneurs who have technical or language barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11450853 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonny Price and Alejandra Pena confer at Kiva’s headquarters in San Francisco on March 29, 2017. The nonprofit is trying a new approach with entrepreneurs in Oakland’s Fruitvale, which includes technical and language assistance. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Tuesday morning, a dozen women entrepreneurs, some with children in tow, huddled around a table at Maya’s store and lent $100 to each other through Kiva. Then they become eligible to start fundraising up to $2,000 from the organization’s worldwide pool of lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bety Ugalde, a single mom of three, sells shoes imported from Mexico. She said her business is taking off. Before opening it, she used to work two jobs as a cook, sleeping only three hours some nights, but was still unable to afford her rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I feel happier because I have this business and a half-time job and I can make ends meet,” said Ugalde in Spanish. She added she plans to use her loan to stock more merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overseeing all this activity at his store is Maya. He bustles about, bringing coffee and sweet bread to the women entrepreneurs at the weekly meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s nice is that you can lend that money again to a new person who’s starting,” said Maya. “I tell them, we have to be united. We’ve got to support new people coming in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group that meets at Maya’s shop has now grown to about 70 people.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Maya’s customers live nearby. On a recent afternoon, they streamed into the store from shifts at restaurants and construction sites; some still wore paint stains on their clothes. They came looking for suits and Maya’s own designs of long-sleeved cotton shirts to wear at weddings and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone going to parties around here, I help them get dressed up,” said Maya in Spanish, and chuckled. “Sometimes they’ll end up buying more clothes because they see they look great!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been a nagging issue for him and other small-business owners he knows in the neighborhood: access to credit through banks, which generally offer the lowest interest rates in the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses in lower-income census tracts in Alameda County, including the area where Maya is located, received significantly fewer bank loans and credit cards than the wealthiest business districts in 2015, according to a KQED analysis of the most recent federal public data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists say this points to an unmet need for bank credit among entrepreneurs in predominantly minority and underserved communities. That in turn, pushes small-business owners to get more expensive loans that can eat up their profits and limit their ability to succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large banks and other lenders counter that many entrepreneurs — particularly in the communities hardest hit by the Great Recession — struggle to meet the criteria that qualify them for responsible financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[bizLoanNoLoans]\u003cstrong>Rates Higher For Business Owners with Low Credit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, Maya ran into a serious cash-flow problem and tried applying for a credit card from his bank, but was rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They said my credit score wasn’t high enough. I never got a loan or credit card, not even for $50, from a bank,” said Maya, who\u003c/span> turned instead to a more costly loan for $5,000 from a non-bank lender nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not want to name the lender, as he is still paying them an additional $3,000 in interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know that they are charging you too much in interest, but because of your economic situation you have to take it,” said Maya. “Although later you are in hell and it’s a long road to finish paying.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya’s loan adds up to about a 35 percent annual percentage rate (APR). But he could have paid much more. Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are facing triple-digit interest rates in California, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Press/press_releases/2016/2015_CFLL_Annual_Report_Press_Release_06-30-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> the state’s Department of Business Oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lending companies need to charge more to provide much needed access to credit for customers who would not receive it at banks, said Thomas Leonard, executive director of the California Financial Service Providers Association, which represents dozens of non-bank lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rates are going to be higher for customers that have a lesser amount of credit. And what you find is that the interest rates become really a product of risk,” said Leonard, a former banker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Unequal Access’ To Credit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/23/latino-businesses-struggle-to-get-funding-to-grow-survey-says/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">starting businesses\u003c/a> at a faster rate than other groups in the country. But their ventures have higher failure rates or grow at a slower pace partly because they have less capital, said Robert Fairlie, an economist at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re less likely to get bank loans. They’re less likely to be able to tap into family and friends’ wealth or neighborhood wealth. So all those things kind of work against them,” said Fairlie, who has researched minority-owned enterprises for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unequal access to credit, said Fairlie, contributes to the massive wealth gap in this country because small businesses generate jobs and wealth for their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median wealth of white households in this country in 2011 was $110,000, compared with less than $8,000 for Latinos and African-Americans, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/wealth/data.html\">according to the U.S. Census\u003c/a>. Median wealth — also known as net worth — is the difference between one’s assets, such as income, savings and a home — and liabilities, or debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/lbr/current/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> largest banks\u003c/a> in the U.S., said that increasing lending to small businesses in diverse communities is a priority.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make every responsible loan we possibly can to help creditworthy small businesses that are seeking credit,” wrote Ruben Pulido, a spokesman for Wells Fargo in San Francisco. He added that credit-readiness, including the ability of small-business owners to show they are able to repay, is a top limiting factor in making more loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both banks are donating and lending millions of dollars to nonprofits in the Oakland area. Those nonprofits work with diverse and lower-income small-business owners to help them get access to credit. This means training them on how to qualify for loans, and relending money from the big banks to these entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The banks are obligated to help meet the credit needs of the communities where they operate under the\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/cra_about.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Community Reinvestment Act\u003c/a> (CRA), a federal law that was passed almost 40 years ago. The law has increased the flow of credit to lower-income areas, according to various studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the business district where Raul Maya’s store is located received only 45 loans and credit card lines of $100,000 or less in 2015, far fewer than wealthier districts in the city with a comparable number of businesses, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.ffiec.gov/cra/craproducts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> data\u003c/a> reported by large financial institutions under the CRA. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodstockinst.org/research/patterns-disparity-small-business-lending-chicago-and-los-angeles-san-diego-regions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> of the Los Angeles, San Diego and Chicago areas by the Woodstock Institute found disparities in bank lending by income and race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED focused on loans of $100,000 and under because, according to experts, they are most likely to support small local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal agency that supervises and grades big national banks on their CRA performance, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/speeches/2016/pub-speech-2016-150.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated\u003c/a> that it is aware more work is needed to address “important remaining issues” on the law’s implementation. The OCC has been reviewing its examination procedures in an effort to make them more rigorous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SmallBizAmountLoans]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crowdfunding As An Inexpensive Alternative\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting his high-interest loan through the non-bank lender, Maya found out he could get an inexpensive loan through the crowdfunding website Kiva. The nonprofit offers entrepreneurs in the U.S. and abroad a platform to fundraise for loans with zero interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Business ownership is a great way to build wealth. (But) the wealth gap persists. So what we’re trying to do is just break that paradigm,” said Jonny Price, head of Kiva’s U.S. operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the blessing of the city of Oakland, the organization has ramped up crowdfunding for local small-business owners. Kiva is also trying a new tactic in the Fruitvale by meeting face to face with entrepreneurs who have technical or language barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11450853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11450853 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25304_IMG_0614-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonny Price and Alejandra Pena confer at Kiva’s headquarters in San Francisco on March 29, 2017. The nonprofit is trying a new approach with entrepreneurs in Oakland’s Fruitvale, which includes technical and language assistance. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Tuesday morning, a dozen women entrepreneurs, some with children in tow, huddled around a table at Maya’s store and lent $100 to each other through Kiva. Then they become eligible to start fundraising up to $2,000 from the organization’s worldwide pool of lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bety Ugalde, a single mom of three, sells shoes imported from Mexico. She said her business is taking off. Before opening it, she used to work two jobs as a cook, sleeping only three hours some nights, but was still unable to afford her rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I feel happier because I have this business and a half-time job and I can make ends meet,” said Ugalde in Spanish. 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He thinks they were trying to get people out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually would approach you with a stack of cash, with a wad of cash, in their hand and the contract in the other one,” Chavez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the new landlords is Danny Haber, co-founder of the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenegev.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Negev,\u003c/a> which advertises as catering to people who want to live in “personality-based housing,” renting rooms to people with similar interests in the same buildings. Haber and his colleagues have gained notoriety for renovating buildings like the Hotel Travelers on both sides of the bay, and they’ve been accused of pushing out low-income renters before. But they see the renovations in an entirely different light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one was forced out!” said Edward Singer, an attorney for the landlords. He says the building was in disrepair, with no sprinklers and a failing elevator, and his clients are doing the right thing by bringing the building up to code, making it safe. He recognizes displacement of low-income people is an issue in Oakland, but he says it’s unfair to make only residential hotel landlords responsible for fixing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a nonprofit,” Singer said. “It’s being driven by the ability to make the building more attractive to tech workers who want to live in downtown Oakland and take care of all the cultural amenities down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On rental sites like Hotbeds.com and Trulia, the owners are advertising renovated rooms at the Travelers at $1,100 a month, more than one and a half times what Chavez pays now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost, in the last several years, many SRO hotels,” said Elissa Dennis, an affordable housing advocate with the nonprofit Community Economics. “We lost Lake Merritt Lodge to become student housing, we’ve lost the Will Rogers to become the Clarion, we’re losing the Travelers here. There are rumors that the Sutter is going to become a boutique hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City law considers guests who stay longer than 30 days permanent residents with rent increases tied to inflation and some protections from eviction. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/report/oak055799.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 report\u003c/a> by the city’s Housing and Community Development Department, 50 of the 70 residents at the Hotel Travelers at the time were considered permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dennis says Oakland’s policy doesn’t have the teeth to prevent residential hotels from being converted to move in people who can pay more. And when low-income tenants are pushed out of these hotels, they often end up on the street. So advocates started looking at ordinances in other cities, like San Francisco, which requires hotel owners to replace affordable units if they convert, or pay to replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Hey, let’s do that here in Oakland,’ ” Dennis said. “And we felt we had political will to do it, but ran into legal issues with the Ellis Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Chavez points to a sign warning of an unstable floor in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. The building is being gutted and renovated and Chavez says he and the other few remaining low-income tenants are facing pressure to leave.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Chavez points to a sign warning of an unstable floor in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. The building is being gutted and renovated, and Chavez says he and the other few remaining low-income tenants are facing pressure to leave. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s Ellis Act allows landlords to evict tenants if they convert their building to a different use. Currently, only cities with more than a million residents, and San Francisco, which is its own county, are able to get around the Ellis Act to prevent evictions from residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by Democratic state Assemblyman Rob Bonta would add Oakland to that list. The California Apartment Association, which represents landlords and usually defends the Ellis Act, has not yet taken a position on Bonta’s bill. The California Hotel and Lodging Association and the California Association of Realtors did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Chavez says he supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to do something really quickly or it’s going to be game over for affordable housing for seniors and low-income people,” said Chavez. “I see what happens to people that get kicked out of hotels every day. The line goes down the block. They end up in the emergency rooms and the jails and the shelters and in the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who pays for that?” he asks. “Who pays, and who profits?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I moved in here because it had affordable rent, I was on disability at the time, and I was paying twice as much somewhere else,” Chavez says. “Even though it wasn’t the Taj Mahal, it was a place of refuge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319697\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Chavez in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. He is one of a few tenants who are holding onto their rent-controlled units while the building's owner is conducting extensive renovations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Chavez in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. He is one of a few tenants who are holding onto their rent-controlled units while the building’s owner is conducting extensive renovations. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Single-room-occupancy hotels, or SROs, typically don’t require a deposit, proof of income, a credit check or a long-term lease, so they have long been last-resort housing for people who have nowhere else to go. But in Oakland, many SROs are now being sold and rehabbed for tourists, student housing or market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, new owners took over the Hotel Travelers. The way Chavez tells it, they shut down the elevator and the Wi-Fi, and got rid of the maid service and the doorman. He thinks they were trying to get people out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually would approach you with a stack of cash, with a wad of cash, in their hand and the contract in the other one,” Chavez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the new landlords is Danny Haber, co-founder of the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenegev.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Negev,\u003c/a> which advertises as catering to people who want to live in “personality-based housing,” renting rooms to people with similar interests in the same buildings. Haber and his colleagues have gained notoriety for renovating buildings like the Hotel Travelers on both sides of the bay, and they’ve been accused of pushing out low-income renters before. But they see the renovations in an entirely different light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one was forced out!” said Edward Singer, an attorney for the landlords. He says the building was in disrepair, with no sprinklers and a failing elevator, and his clients are doing the right thing by bringing the building up to code, making it safe. He recognizes displacement of low-income people is an issue in Oakland, but he says it’s unfair to make only residential hotel landlords responsible for fixing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a nonprofit,” Singer said. “It’s being driven by the ability to make the building more attractive to tech workers who want to live in downtown Oakland and take care of all the cultural amenities down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On rental sites like Hotbeds.com and Trulia, the owners are advertising renovated rooms at the Travelers at $1,100 a month, more than one and a half times what Chavez pays now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost, in the last several years, many SRO hotels,” said Elissa Dennis, an affordable housing advocate with the nonprofit Community Economics. “We lost Lake Merritt Lodge to become student housing, we’ve lost the Will Rogers to become the Clarion, we’re losing the Travelers here. There are rumors that the Sutter is going to become a boutique hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City law considers guests who stay longer than 30 days permanent residents with rent increases tied to inflation and some protections from eviction. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/report/oak055799.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 report\u003c/a> by the city’s Housing and Community Development Department, 50 of the 70 residents at the Hotel Travelers at the time were considered permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dennis says Oakland’s policy doesn’t have the teeth to prevent residential hotels from being converted to move in people who can pay more. And when low-income tenants are pushed out of these hotels, they often end up on the street. So advocates started looking at ordinances in other cities, like San Francisco, which requires hotel owners to replace affordable units if they convert, or pay to replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Hey, let’s do that here in Oakland,’ ” Dennis said. “And we felt we had political will to do it, but ran into legal issues with the Ellis Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Chavez points to a sign warning of an unstable floor in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his family’s garden in East Oakland. He ignores the trucks that roll by just over his chain-link fence and points out a lemon tree, an apricot tree and a fig tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grapevine snakes along the fence and there are also peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot growing in a compact area that fits roughly two cars. This urban oasis is nothing compared to the 10-acre farm the family had in Syria, where they grew over 100 fruit trees, Rawoas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas, his wife Rawaa Kasedah and their four children came to the U.S. as refugees from Syria almost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Comfortable Life, Disrupted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Syria, Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory and the family had a comfortable life they never before considered leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the fighting from the civil war in Syria got closer, it became too dangerous for the kids to go to school. Kasedah says the violence severely stressed the children, who now range in age from 11 to 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they talked about was war: ‘I saw someone’s leg cut off and I saw a body part here and there,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the fighting reached Rawoas’ factory, he shut it down. All 50 of his employees lost their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasedah says they tolerated the war for nearly a year, but then the fighting came too close to their home in a Damascus suburb. At one point, two tanks faced off in front of the Rawoas family house. The building shook every time one fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306030064″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest day was the day I left my home,” Kasedah says. “That day, we didn’t know who was bombing or dropping rockets. All of the bombing was right over my house. The electricity went out, and there was no place safe since my whole house is windows. I was scared. We all slept in a small hallway between the rooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of six spent the last night in their home on a foam mattress in the dark, crying, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, they fled their home of eight years. Kasedah wept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband said, ‘You sound like you’ve lost a child the way you’re crying,’ ” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Jordan, in Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After crossing the border to Jordan, the family was able to register as refugees with the United Nations. Luckily, they rented a house in Jordan, rather than living in the challenging circumstances of a refugee camp. Kasedah felt this was critical to the safety of her children, especially her teenage daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the mother describes this period of waiting as one of the hardest times the family faced. As refugees, it was hard to find work. Every time the kids went back to school, it was unclear if they’d finish the term. Rawoas and Kasedah worried that any misstep could send them all back to Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’ve come to America, and we’ve lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people. We don’t consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America’s] my country.’\u003ccite>Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A year after crossing the border, though, the family learned they’d be resettled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just told us you are eligible to immigrate,” Kasedah remembers. “We did the first interview, we said, where will we go? They said, ‘We still don’t know.’ We were happy, because we just wanted a way out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their way out was to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s waiting period was punctuated by daylong interviews with a variety of government officials every two-three months. 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The family describes an\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/588a14fc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> intensive screening process\u003c/a>, involving eight federal U.S. agencies, six security databases and five separate background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of one interview day, an official told the family they had only a small chance of being accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three years after leaving Syria, the family finally boarded a plane to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Home in America\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the transition to the U.S. was incredibly difficult. Kasedah wasn’t used to feeling so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first came, for the first five months I cried every day because I was so used to doing everything for my kids myself,” she says. Kasedah didn’t speak English and didn’t know where to go for simple resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the help of friends, their community and resettlement agencies, however, the family found their footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11299911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur, and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt, and homemade pickles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It’s a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt and homemade pickles. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after two years in Oakland, Kasedah and Rawoas are enrolled in English classes. Rawoas works as a bus driver for kids with disabilities, and for the ride-hailing company Uber. Kasedah hopes to launch Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant. The older children, both daughters go to college, one working as a dental assistant and the other as a barista. One volunteers with newly arrived refugees. The two younger children study and play sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Desire to Give Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels gratitude for his new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve come to America, and we’ve lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people,” he says. “We don’t consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America’s] my country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels this so strongly that he’d fight for the United States. When his eldest daughter told him that she saw recruiters for the U.S. military at her college campus, Rawoas told her he wanted to join. At the time, he didn’t yet have his green card, which disqualified him from joining. When he got a green card, he went back to the recruiter. This time, he was turned down for age. 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Kasedah didn’t speak English and didn’t know where to go for simple resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the help of friends, their community and resettlement agencies, however, the family found their footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11299911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur, and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt, and homemade pickles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. 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Others had served hot meals from a makeshift kitchen, spread mulch over muddy grass to prepare for edible landscaping and provided 24/7 security for the dozen or so homeless people they say were residing there full time. They had also pulled together a donations tent, an information tent and a medical tent — all run by volunteers. Some had started calling it “The Promised Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when police and city workers arrived to vacate and demolish it, they were met by a passionate crowd of nearly 100 of the encampment’s supporters — some wearing neon-green “legal observer” caps from the National Lawyers Guild and others chanting and carrying signs that said “homelessness is not a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the camp’s regular volunteers is Linda Grant. She’s an Oakland-born mother of six children. She said she’s been homeless before and understands how hard it is to survive on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the city to say we can’t make this type of village … well, what else are you guys doing with it? You turned it into a dog park. Dogs before humans?” she said, referring to the dog run that borders one edge of the park. “I don’t get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11300091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11300091 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-800x450.jpg\" alt='Red, a former resident of \"The Village,\" works on the second floor of his shelter one day before Oakland officials tore down the encampment.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/red-1920-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red, a former resident of “The Village,” worked on the second floor of his shelter one day before Oakland officials tore down the encampment. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland spokeswoman Karen Boyd said the encampment was in violation of 18 health, safety and fire codes. She said the city had also received several complaints from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyd was on-site as Oakland police working with the Department of Public Works dismantled The Village with large machines Thursday. She said the solution to homelessness is permanent housing. But taking over public parks without permission is not the way to go about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had they come to us with ideas and said, ‘We have money for porta-potties. What can we do? Where can we do it? 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The assumption of college administrators before the creation of this class was that the students weren’t ready to engage in these types of discussions to write college essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructor Tejada said these students are proving those assumptions wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Content matters, that if we give students engaging, thinking-oriented curriculum that they are excited about learning, they come to class ready to discuss what they’ve read and share their own ideas,” Tejada said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are thrown into the deep end of the pool, but with floaties, so to speak. There’s a paid aide in each class whose job is to help students do research, structure their writing, and work through the lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who have been challenged by community college’s remedial education system raved about this class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re learning someone else’s experience and how he lived and how he expressed what we went through. and we can compare it to our daily livelihood,” said student Cynthia Graham. “It’s a great book. I couldn’t put it down when I picked it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11231137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11231137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Graham, right, participates in a discussion in Leslie Tejada's English 100 class at West Los Angeles College in Los Angeles, Calif. on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Graham, right, participates in a discussion in Leslie Tejada’s English 100 class at West Los Angeles College in Los Angeles on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data driving reforms\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThese anecdotes and a growing body of research are convincing community college administrators and faculty that the remedial education system is broken, doing more to stand in the way of students’ goals rather than help them reach them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that it is broken,” said James Lanich, the CEO of Educational Results Partnership, a nonprofit that’s working for California’s community colleges to change the methods campuses use to place students in remedial classes. “I think that there’s disagreement on the reasons why it is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now the vast majority of our ethnic minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged English language learners are being sorted out of access to the community college system,” he said, “Ultimately not succeeding in transfer degrees to the universities and not succeeding in attainment of living wage jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_1116ORR.pdf\">According to a recent report\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California, 56 percent of California community college students who begin remedial math courses do not finish the sequence that is supposed to prepare them for college-level classes. Forty percent of students who begin remedial English courses finish the sequence. And the majority of students sorted into these courses are low-income students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Developmental education that is not effective comes at a high cost to students — not only in tuition and fees for courses that do not count toward a degree, but also in time and lost income,” said Marisol Cuellar Mejia, a co-author of the report. “It is also costly to California, which needs more college-educated workers and relies on community colleges as an entry point to higher education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Patchwork of improvements\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 75 percent of the state’s community colleges are changing their remedial classes, some a lot faster than others. One of the reasons behind the uneven changes is that California’s 113 community colleges are locally run by elected boards of education and campus presidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At West L.A. 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Administrators said changes have been slower in math remedial classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://rpgroup.org/Our-Projects/All-Projects/ctl/ArticleView/mid/1686/articleId/118/Multiple-Measures-Assessment-Project-MMAP\">A statewide group is doing research \u003c/a>on whether high school grades are a better indicator of college readiness and future success, \u003ca href=\"https://cccassess.org/\">while another group\u003c/a> is creating one new remedial test to replace the different ones colleges have been using.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges are at an in-between period now, between the old way of doing things and a new more improved way that administrators hope will lead to higher graduation and transfer rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much good information that we’re trying to examine, and we’re examining the practices, and we’re examining the state policies. 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