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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Measure N\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond residents have rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/36831\">Measure N\u003c/a>, which would have paved the way for a development of 59 single-family homes along the waterfront in Richmond’s Marina Bay, with more than 65 percent voting against it. Developer Richard Poe took his plan to voters after his project met resistance from the city’s planning commission because the development didn’t comply with Richmond’s general plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 5-acre plot of land where Poe sought to build single-family homes is seen by the city as a potential key economic and transit hub in the East Bay. It is right next to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm\">Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center\u003c/a> and the planned ferry terminal. It is also zoned for high-density housing, aimed at helping mitigate the Bay Area’s growing housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the run-up to the election, Poe \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/02/richmond-measures-highlight-debate-over-housing\">touted\u003c/a> his high-end housing project as a win-win for local residents and the city, saying it would bring in much-needed tax revenue and protect the shoreline from high-rise development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanly Anderson, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://marinabaycouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marina Bay Neighborhood Council\u003c/a>, held a community forum about Measure N a few weeks ago. He said residents had mixed reactions to the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people that are very happy with a small community on that property,” Anderson said. “There are people who feel that a small community on that property is inappropriate because it’s basically in a commercial area and it’s removed from the rest of the development in Marina Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson says many local residents, regardless of whether they like Poe’s development or not, are uncomfortable with the way the developer tried to circumvent the city planning commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The planning department put a lot of time and effort into figuring out what the grand plan for the city is,” he said. “And the City Council looked at it and liked it and the planning department looked at it and liked it, and there are issues that go beyond a single development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe has said if Measure N fails, he might opt to build office buildings on the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Measure O\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/36833\">Measure O\u003c/a>, which sought to limit the city manager’s pay, appears to have been narrowly defeated by just a few hundred votes, with 50.97 percent of voters rejecting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would have limited the city manager’s pay to five times the median income in the city, or about $275,000. Currently, City Manager Bill Lindsay makes about $380,000, but he’s not the top-paid manager in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Claudia Madiro said the city needed Measure O to rein in city compensation packages that she says are out of control. “That’s part of my frustration. That government reasons its salaries ought to match private sector plus gov [sic] retirement perks,” Madiro said via text.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, local resident Scott Littlehale says he voted against the measure because it would make it hard to attract top talent to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unreasonable to think that Richmond’s city manager’s salary should be capped at levels that would be equal to cities that are much,much smaller than Richmond’s, much less complex than Richmond, and it’s a flat-out harmful proposal,” Littlehale said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sean MacDonald’s shift as a Palo Alto fire captain starts at 8 a.m. By 4 a.m. he’s out the door and on the road. It’s 147 miles from his home in Roseville — northeast of Sacramento — to the fire station. Leave any later, and he risks getting stuck in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drive stinks, no easy way about it,” he said, but “that’s the price you pay to have a job in the Bay Area and raise a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing sky-high housing costs in the cities they serve, long commutes have become the norm among MacDonald’s fellow firefighters. “We’ve got guys living in Shingle Springs, Rocklin, Citrus Heights, Grass Valley,” he said, ticking off a dozen places over 100 miles from Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the younger firefighters live closer to Palo Alto, but they share apartments to save on rent. And even then, MacDonald said, “what they’re paying in rent is more than what I’m paying on a mortgage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing prices here are so, so expensive,” agreed firefighter Matt Goglio, who makes a 105-mile journey from Oakdale, past Modesto. “We’re basically being driven out of the area just due to the wages and the housing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just firefighters who are being priced out by Silicon Valley’s cost of living. As the Peninsula struggles to house a rapidly growing population, many people — especially the middle-class public servants and low-wage workers who keep the region running smoothly — have been moving away to more affordable places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet since their jobs are still back on the Peninsula, these workers are spending more time behind the wheel — at least an hour each way for over 200,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising Rents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The booming tech economy has drawn more workers to Silicon Valley, but housing construction hasn’t kept pace. Between 2010 and 2014, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties gained around 167,000 new jobs, but added only 22,000 additional housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10922735 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"1040\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png 1040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-400x198.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-800x396.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-960x475.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-1038x515.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This imbalance between jobs and housing is even worse at the local level. The region’s jobs tend to be clustered in affluent cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Santa Clara, which don’t have nearly enough homes for their workforces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922753\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"1174\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png 1174w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-400x334.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-800x668.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-960x801.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of housing being built is so small, compared to the growth in demand that it is causing the region to become much more unaffordable,” said Dave Vautin, a planner for the regional \u003ca href=\"http://mtc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metropolitan Transportation Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more people jockeying for a home near work, rents have climbed across the Peninsula — especially in the cities with the worst worker-to-housing imbalances:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922754\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"1396\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png 1396w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-400x231.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-800x461.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-1180x680.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-960x554.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1396px) 100vw, 1396px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Away\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Priced out of these expensive mid-Peninsula cities, Silicon Valley workers have been moving to places with more affordable living costs. Within Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, the population grew faster between 2010 and 2014 in areas with lower median rents and household incomes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922755\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png\" alt=\"4\" width=\"1271\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png 1271w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-400x282.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-800x564.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-1180x832.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-960x677.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1271px) 100vw, 1271px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922756\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.21.32 AM\" width=\"1021\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png 1021w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-400x249.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-960x597.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at the south end of Santa Clara County, for example, Gilroy — where the median household income was $81,056 — grew 10 percent over that time period. In Menlo Park, where the average household made $115,650, the population dropped by about 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers are moving even further out, to the East Bay or beyond, noted Matt Regan, a regional planning expert at the business-backed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only have to drive on (Interstate) 580 at 4:30 in the morning and just look at the headlights coming over the Altamont Pass,” he said, “to know that that’s where we’re building our affordable housing, on the other side of the hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disparate Commutes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This growth in places far from core Peninsula cities has driven up commute times, since more workers are traveling longer distances on increasingly congested roads. Between 2010 and 2014, the proportion of workers who spent an hour or more getting to their jobs jumped from 10 to nearly 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vautin noted that there’s an important income disparity in those commute times. The highly paid technical and business services workers who live in Silicon Valley have relatively short commute times, since they typically work nearby. It’s middle- and lower-income workers — teachers and firefighters, security guards at tech campuses, waiters at restaurants — who have been priced out of the Peninsula and are spending much more time in traffic:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"1430\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png 1430w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-400x131.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-1180x388.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-960x316.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, the disparity is even more apparent. Expensive job centers such as Mountain View and Menlo Park have the highest proportion of workers who travel for an hour or more, yet have some of the lowest shares of residents with long commutes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922758\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png\" alt=\"6\" width=\"1320\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png 1320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-400x268.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-800x536.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-1180x791.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-960x644.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922759\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.23.24 AM\" width=\"1026\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png 1026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-400x248.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-960x594.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1026px) 100vw, 1026px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can afford to live in Silicon Valley, you’re actually in pretty good shape when it comes to commuting,” said Vautin. “It’s the folks who can’t afford it and thus have to live really far away that are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stemming the Sprawl\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Policy experts argue that the key to bringing commute times under control is to address the underlying housing shortage. By building higher-density apartment buildings and townhouses near worksites and along public transit corridors, planners hope to house more workers on the Peninsula and reduce the need to commute from outlying areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of dense housing can be a hard sell in suburban Silicon Valley, where residents often fight new construction they fear will worsen traffic and change the character of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as a project proponent arrives at City Hall with a multifamily development idea, the pitchforks are sharpened and the flaming torches are lit,” said Regan. Because of such opposition, many attempts to build new housing have been scaled down or abandoned altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are signs the worsening housing crunch is making residents more amenable to growth. Voters in Mountain View elected a pro-housing majority to the City Council in 2014, community groups in several Peninsula cities are organizing to support new development, and Redwood City is building a cluster of tall new office and apartment buildings near its downtown Caltrain station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, how much Silicon Valley cities are willing to grow will affect everything from the region’s carbon footprint, to whether it can retain teachers, to whether firefighters like Goglio will be around in a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area traditionally has not been the fastest-growing region in the state,” said Vautin, and so it has been ill-prepared for the influx of new arrivals. “This is the critical issue of the decade here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Updated to correctly identify firefighters Sean MacDonald and Matt Goglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Data Sources\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data on household incomes, population growth, housing units and commute times come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. To ensure sufficiently large sample sizes in small places like East Palo Alto, most numbers are five-year rolling averages — an estimate for 2013, for example, will be the average of responses from 2009 through 2013. This means that changes over time are likely under-estimated, and may in fact be higher than the numbers shown here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rent data are from the Zillow Rent Index, a measure of the median asking rent for multifamily apartments.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sean MacDonald’s shift as a Palo Alto fire captain starts at 8 a.m. By 4 a.m. he’s out the door and on the road. It’s 147 miles from his home in Roseville — northeast of Sacramento — to the fire station. Leave any later, and he risks getting stuck in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drive stinks, no easy way about it,” he said, but “that’s the price you pay to have a job in the Bay Area and raise a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing sky-high housing costs in the cities they serve, long commutes have become the norm among MacDonald’s fellow firefighters. “We’ve got guys living in Shingle Springs, Rocklin, Citrus Heights, Grass Valley,” he said, ticking off a dozen places over 100 miles from Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the younger firefighters live closer to Palo Alto, but they share apartments to save on rent. And even then, MacDonald said, “what they’re paying in rent is more than what I’m paying on a mortgage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing prices here are so, so expensive,” agreed firefighter Matt Goglio, who makes a 105-mile journey from Oakdale, past Modesto. “We’re basically being driven out of the area just due to the wages and the housing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just firefighters who are being priced out by Silicon Valley’s cost of living. As the Peninsula struggles to house a rapidly growing population, many people — especially the middle-class public servants and low-wage workers who keep the region running smoothly — have been moving away to more affordable places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet since their jobs are still back on the Peninsula, these workers are spending more time behind the wheel — at least an hour each way for over 200,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising Rents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The booming tech economy has drawn more workers to Silicon Valley, but housing construction hasn’t kept pace. Between 2010 and 2014, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties gained around 167,000 new jobs, but added only 22,000 additional housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10922735 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"1040\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png 1040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-400x198.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-800x396.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-960x475.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-1038x515.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This imbalance between jobs and housing is even worse at the local level. The region’s jobs tend to be clustered in affluent cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Santa Clara, which don’t have nearly enough homes for their workforces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922753\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"1174\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png 1174w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-400x334.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-800x668.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-960x801.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of housing being built is so small, compared to the growth in demand that it is causing the region to become much more unaffordable,” said Dave Vautin, a planner for the regional \u003ca href=\"http://mtc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metropolitan Transportation Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more people jockeying for a home near work, rents have climbed across the Peninsula — especially in the cities with the worst worker-to-housing imbalances:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922754\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"1396\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png 1396w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-400x231.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-800x461.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-1180x680.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-960x554.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1396px) 100vw, 1396px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Away\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Priced out of these expensive mid-Peninsula cities, Silicon Valley workers have been moving to places with more affordable living costs. Within Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, the population grew faster between 2010 and 2014 in areas with lower median rents and household incomes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922755\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png\" alt=\"4\" width=\"1271\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png 1271w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-400x282.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-800x564.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-1180x832.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-960x677.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1271px) 100vw, 1271px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922756\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.21.32 AM\" width=\"1021\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png 1021w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-400x249.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-960x597.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at the south end of Santa Clara County, for example, Gilroy — where the median household income was $81,056 — grew 10 percent over that time period. In Menlo Park, where the average household made $115,650, the population dropped by about 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers are moving even further out, to the East Bay or beyond, noted Matt Regan, a regional planning expert at the business-backed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only have to drive on (Interstate) 580 at 4:30 in the morning and just look at the headlights coming over the Altamont Pass,” he said, “to know that that’s where we’re building our affordable housing, on the other side of the hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disparate Commutes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This growth in places far from core Peninsula cities has driven up commute times, since more workers are traveling longer distances on increasingly congested roads. Between 2010 and 2014, the proportion of workers who spent an hour or more getting to their jobs jumped from 10 to nearly 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vautin noted that there’s an important income disparity in those commute times. The highly paid technical and business services workers who live in Silicon Valley have relatively short commute times, since they typically work nearby. It’s middle- and lower-income workers — teachers and firefighters, security guards at tech campuses, waiters at restaurants — who have been priced out of the Peninsula and are spending much more time in traffic:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"1430\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png 1430w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-400x131.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-1180x388.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-960x316.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, the disparity is even more apparent. Expensive job centers such as Mountain View and Menlo Park have the highest proportion of workers who travel for an hour or more, yet have some of the lowest shares of residents with long commutes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922758\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png\" alt=\"6\" width=\"1320\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png 1320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-400x268.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-800x536.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-1180x791.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-960x644.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922759\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.23.24 AM\" width=\"1026\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png 1026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-400x248.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-960x594.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1026px) 100vw, 1026px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can afford to live in Silicon Valley, you’re actually in pretty good shape when it comes to commuting,” said Vautin. “It’s the folks who can’t afford it and thus have to live really far away that are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stemming the Sprawl\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Policy experts argue that the key to bringing commute times under control is to address the underlying housing shortage. By building higher-density apartment buildings and townhouses near worksites and along public transit corridors, planners hope to house more workers on the Peninsula and reduce the need to commute from outlying areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of dense housing can be a hard sell in suburban Silicon Valley, where residents often fight new construction they fear will worsen traffic and change the character of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as a project proponent arrives at City Hall with a multifamily development idea, the pitchforks are sharpened and the flaming torches are lit,” said Regan. Because of such opposition, many attempts to build new housing have been scaled down or abandoned altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are signs the worsening housing crunch is making residents more amenable to growth. Voters in Mountain View elected a pro-housing majority to the City Council in 2014, community groups in several Peninsula cities are organizing to support new development, and Redwood City is building a cluster of tall new office and apartment buildings near its downtown Caltrain station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, how much Silicon Valley cities are willing to grow will affect everything from the region’s carbon footprint, to whether it can retain teachers, to whether firefighters like Goglio will be around in a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area traditionally has not been the fastest-growing region in the state,” said Vautin, and so it has been ill-prepared for the influx of new arrivals. “This is the critical issue of the decade here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Updated to correctly identify firefighters Sean MacDonald and Matt Goglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Data Sources\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data on household incomes, population growth, housing units and commute times come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This project was produced by the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003ci>San Francisco Public Press\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a community-supported nonprofit news organization dedicated to public interest journalism. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every body of water that opens onto a global ocean, San Francisco Bay is virtually guaranteed to rise several feet in coming decades, climate scientists say. But that has not deterred real estate developers from proposing and building billions of dollars worth of new homes and offices in bayfront areas that current climate change predictions show could flood by century’s end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land-use records and environmental applications reveal that the building boom, fueled by a white-hot tech economy, is moving too fast for regulators to keep pace. Most cities and regional agencies have not yet adopted tools to address flooding in areas where thousands of acres are threatened by sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Even the scenario widely considered ‘most likely’ would put thousands of acres of the current shoreline underwater.\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Orange_motto-copy-400x162.jpg\" alt=\"sfpp-duke-v4\" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10622862\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Developers say they have engineering and financial solutions to deal with any reasonable future flooding risk. But critics, including climate scientists, urban planners and environmental activists, say the current wave of construction might leave taxpayers on the hook for enormously expensive emergency protections and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers studying climate change predict that the rise in ocean levels will accelerate later this century as the atmosphere heats the ocean and melts glaciers. Many of their models show that by 2100, occasional flooding could reach as high as 8 feet above current high tide, in the event of a severe coastal storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the scenario widely considered “most likely” — 3 feet of permanent rise — would put thousands of acres of the current shoreline underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers are planning or currently building at least 27 major commercial and residential complexes around the bay on land lower than 8 feet above high tide, as estimated by recent aerial surveys. And more than a dozen Bay Area cities continue to issue permits for plans that address future flood risks vaguely, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\" alt=\"SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium\" width=\"1310\" height=\"980\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10622857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg 1310w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Facebook are among the marquee corporate names driving the bayfront explosion. Some cities are even courting companies to build near sea level, often on landfill created in the mid-20th century in former salt marshes. Much of that land could return to the sea, unless cities erect seawalls, levees and other monumental edifices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Hill, a professor of environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley, said more experimentation is needed in waterfront construction techniques. But few businesses are invested in fortifying the properties they build beyond midcentury. It is hard to fund resilient architecture, Hill said, when developers “do not have a shared interest with the public about what will happen with those properties in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many areas, new development includes desperately needed housing. Projects now in the pipeline in San Francisco would add 25,000 new apartments. On Treasure Island alone, developers are ready to break ground on a forest of residential towers that could house 12,000 people, and at Mission Rock and Pier 70, developers have pledged to build more affordable apartments than the city requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporate and government data show that the highest-profile building projects on the shorelines of San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the East Bay will cost more than $21 billion to build, excluding the value of the land underneath them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not account for the likely public cost, coming within decades, of protecting these settlements with dikes, levees and artificial wetlands — or for the economic toll of abandoning development in designated buffer zones as waves rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few local governments, including Mountain View, are beginning to spend money on sea level rise infrastructure projects that can protect waterfront business districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622860\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 772px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\" alt=\"An apartment tower rises in Mission Bay, bringing new neighbors for Jack Wickert, 78, a retired music teacher and playwright who lives in a houseboat on Mission Creek. Asked if he was \" width=\"772\" height=\"1158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10622860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg 772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment tower rises in Mission Bay, bringing new neighbors for Jack Wickert, 78, a retired music teacher and playwright who lives in a houseboat on Mission Creek. Asked if he was\u003cbr>worried about sea level rise, he quipped: ‘I’ll rise with it.’ \u003ccite>(Peter Snarr, San Francisco Public Press.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And San Francisco is in its second year of interdepartmental planning to address sea rise. But the city has yet to update its flood plain ordinance or planning and building codes to address increasing flood risk on the waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating consistent rules governing private property could be a challenge. “Regulations around climate change are in their infancy, or nonexistent,” said David Behar, climate program director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has updated its flood maps, which guide public works investments, but other agencies do not impose those guidelines on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors last year resisted a call from the chair of the city’s civil grand jury to stop approving new shoreline development until stricter building rules are passed. Officials said that changes to city codes might be necessary, though until now state environmental laws and reviews have been sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official maps upon which the city’s 2008 flood ordinance is based do not account for future sea rise. Developers say this means the city lacks the legal grounds to prevent building there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years, San Francisco land-use agencies have approved residential, entertainment, retail, medical and office projects on nearly 50 waterfront parcels that are less than 8 feet above sea level. Major projects are somewhere in the approval process for Treasure Island and in parts of South of Market, Pier 70, Candlestick Point and Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious is the Golden State Warriors’ $1 billion plan for a mixed-use facility in the Mission Bay neighborhood south of downtown. Opponents of the project, centered around an arena for the 2015 NBA champions, have focused on how it would affect traffic and bay views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a survey of 13 communities around the bay with the most intense waterfront development, the Public Press found that six had progressed beyond studying the threat of sea rise but none had an action plan. And only two — San Francisco and San Jose — had changed rules for any departments that oversee land use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 report for the California Energy Commission, the Pacific Institute, an Oakland-based research group advocating for corporate environmental stewardship and social equity, estimated that property lost in the event of 4.6 feet of sea rise by 2099 would cost the Bay Area $62 billion (nearly two-thirds the cost for all of California).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This inundation would require rebuilding the airports serving San Francisco and Oakland, and moving parts of interstates 101 on the Peninsula and 80 in the East Bay. It could also put 270,000 people in danger during severe floods, the report warned, and “continued development in vulnerable areas will put additional areas at risk and raise protection costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"During king tides, which occur when the gravity of the sun and the moon align, 'We can get an idea of what a permanent rise in sea level might look like in our communities,' says the California King Tides Project. In these stills from a timelapse video, the tide at Heron’s Head Park near Hunters Point rose 5.75 feet over 5.5 hours.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10622865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During king tides, which occur when the gravity of the sun and the moon align, “We can get an idea of what a permanent rise in sea level might look like in our communities,” says the California King Tides Project. In these stills from a timelapse video, the tide at Heron’s Head Park near Hunters Point rose 5.75 feet over 5.5 hours. \u003ccite>(Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Now is the time to look seriously at what will happen 50 or 100 years down the road,” said Gary Griggs, who directs the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and contributed to the National Research Council’s most recent report on sea level rise on the West Coast. “What is the value of making a development, housing project or mall if we know it will have to be removed later, except for some short-term temporary gains?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers stand to profit handsomely from the waterfront land rush, but governments also benefit in the short run. The proposed megaprojects promise tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Some cities are offering developers tax credits, low-cost land and flood-control infrastructure to encourage building on their shorelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting alone, cities risk pushing floodwaters into neighboring areas. In the short term, to avoid ringing the whole bay with barriers, communities could surround themselves with small levees and extend them inland up creeks. This would keep water from neighboring communities out, until it got too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The common roadblocks that environmentalists face nationwide in raising concern over adaptation to climate change, such as distrust of science or lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, play only a small role in Bay Area politics. Here, the obstacles involve pressure from the real estate, construction and tech businesses emphasizing short-term economic opportunity over more precautionary environmental perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco planning staffers say they evaluate each application for its response to the threat of sea level rise and suggest a range of adaptation strategies. According to public records, in the last five years the city has approved more than 50 projects, each worth at least $1 million, in low-lying waterfront areas. The estimated development costs of these projects exceed $4.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report in June 2014 from San Francisco’s civil grand jury — a volunteer committee that examines local government — concluded that San Francisco was not moving nearly fast enough to protect public safety in the event of sea rise. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This project was produced by the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003ci>San Francisco Public Press\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a community-supported nonprofit news organization dedicated to public interest journalism. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every body of water that opens onto a global ocean, San Francisco Bay is virtually guaranteed to rise several feet in coming decades, climate scientists say. But that has not deterred real estate developers from proposing and building billions of dollars worth of new homes and offices in bayfront areas that current climate change predictions show could flood by century’s end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land-use records and environmental applications reveal that the building boom, fueled by a white-hot tech economy, is moving too fast for regulators to keep pace. Most cities and regional agencies have not yet adopted tools to address flooding in areas where thousands of acres are threatened by sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Even the scenario widely considered ‘most likely’ would put thousands of acres of the current shoreline underwater.\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Orange_motto-copy-400x162.jpg\" alt=\"sfpp-duke-v4\" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10622862\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Developers say they have engineering and financial solutions to deal with any reasonable future flooding risk. But critics, including climate scientists, urban planners and environmental activists, say the current wave of construction might leave taxpayers on the hook for enormously expensive emergency protections and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers studying climate change predict that the rise in ocean levels will accelerate later this century as the atmosphere heats the ocean and melts glaciers. Many of their models show that by 2100, occasional flooding could reach as high as 8 feet above current high tide, in the event of a severe coastal storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the scenario widely considered “most likely” — 3 feet of permanent rise — would put thousands of acres of the current shoreline underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers are planning or currently building at least 27 major commercial and residential complexes around the bay on land lower than 8 feet above high tide, as estimated by recent aerial surveys. And more than a dozen Bay Area cities continue to issue permits for plans that address future flood risks vaguely, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\" alt=\"SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium\" width=\"1310\" height=\"980\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10622857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg 1310w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Facebook are among the marquee corporate names driving the bayfront explosion. Some cities are even courting companies to build near sea level, often on landfill created in the mid-20th century in former salt marshes. Much of that land could return to the sea, unless cities erect seawalls, levees and other monumental edifices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Hill, a professor of environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley, said more experimentation is needed in waterfront construction techniques. But few businesses are invested in fortifying the properties they build beyond midcentury. It is hard to fund resilient architecture, Hill said, when developers “do not have a shared interest with the public about what will happen with those properties in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many areas, new development includes desperately needed housing. Projects now in the pipeline in San Francisco would add 25,000 new apartments. On Treasure Island alone, developers are ready to break ground on a forest of residential towers that could house 12,000 people, and at Mission Rock and Pier 70, developers have pledged to build more affordable apartments than the city requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporate and government data show that the highest-profile building projects on the shorelines of San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the East Bay will cost more than $21 billion to build, excluding the value of the land underneath them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not account for the likely public cost, coming within decades, of protecting these settlements with dikes, levees and artificial wetlands — or for the economic toll of abandoning development in designated buffer zones as waves rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few local governments, including Mountain View, are beginning to spend money on sea level rise infrastructure projects that can protect waterfront business districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622860\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 772px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\" alt=\"An apartment tower rises in Mission Bay, bringing new neighbors for Jack Wickert, 78, a retired music teacher and playwright who lives in a houseboat on Mission Creek. Asked if he was \" width=\"772\" height=\"1158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10622860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg 772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment tower rises in Mission Bay, bringing new neighbors for Jack Wickert, 78, a retired music teacher and playwright who lives in a houseboat on Mission Creek. Asked if he was\u003cbr>worried about sea level rise, he quipped: ‘I’ll rise with it.’ \u003ccite>(Peter Snarr, San Francisco Public Press.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And San Francisco is in its second year of interdepartmental planning to address sea rise. But the city has yet to update its flood plain ordinance or planning and building codes to address increasing flood risk on the waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating consistent rules governing private property could be a challenge. “Regulations around climate change are in their infancy, or nonexistent,” said David Behar, climate program director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has updated its flood maps, which guide public works investments, but other agencies do not impose those guidelines on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors last year resisted a call from the chair of the city’s civil grand jury to stop approving new shoreline development until stricter building rules are passed. Officials said that changes to city codes might be necessary, though until now state environmental laws and reviews have been sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official maps upon which the city’s 2008 flood ordinance is based do not account for future sea rise. Developers say this means the city lacks the legal grounds to prevent building there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years, San Francisco land-use agencies have approved residential, entertainment, retail, medical and office projects on nearly 50 waterfront parcels that are less than 8 feet above sea level. Major projects are somewhere in the approval process for Treasure Island and in parts of South of Market, Pier 70, Candlestick Point and Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious is the Golden State Warriors’ $1 billion plan for a mixed-use facility in the Mission Bay neighborhood south of downtown. Opponents of the project, centered around an arena for the 2015 NBA champions, have focused on how it would affect traffic and bay views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a survey of 13 communities around the bay with the most intense waterfront development, the Public Press found that six had progressed beyond studying the threat of sea rise but none had an action plan. And only two — San Francisco and San Jose — had changed rules for any departments that oversee land use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 report for the California Energy Commission, the Pacific Institute, an Oakland-based research group advocating for corporate environmental stewardship and social equity, estimated that property lost in the event of 4.6 feet of sea rise by 2099 would cost the Bay Area $62 billion (nearly two-thirds the cost for all of California).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This inundation would require rebuilding the airports serving San Francisco and Oakland, and moving parts of interstates 101 on the Peninsula and 80 in the East Bay. It could also put 270,000 people in danger during severe floods, the report warned, and “continued development in vulnerable areas will put additional areas at risk and raise protection costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"During king tides, which occur when the gravity of the sun and the moon align, 'We can get an idea of what a permanent rise in sea level might look like in our communities,' says the California King Tides Project. In these stills from a timelapse video, the tide at Heron’s Head Park near Hunters Point rose 5.75 feet over 5.5 hours.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10622865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During king tides, which occur when the gravity of the sun and the moon align, “We can get an idea of what a permanent rise in sea level might look like in our communities,” says the California King Tides Project. In these stills from a timelapse video, the tide at Heron’s Head Park near Hunters Point rose 5.75 feet over 5.5 hours. \u003ccite>(Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Now is the time to look seriously at what will happen 50 or 100 years down the road,” said Gary Griggs, who directs the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and contributed to the National Research Council’s most recent report on sea level rise on the West Coast. “What is the value of making a development, housing project or mall if we know it will have to be removed later, except for some short-term temporary gains?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers stand to profit handsomely from the waterfront land rush, but governments also benefit in the short run. The proposed megaprojects promise tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Some cities are offering developers tax credits, low-cost land and flood-control infrastructure to encourage building on their shorelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting alone, cities risk pushing floodwaters into neighboring areas. In the short term, to avoid ringing the whole bay with barriers, communities could surround themselves with small levees and extend them inland up creeks. This would keep water from neighboring communities out, until it got too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The common roadblocks that environmentalists face nationwide in raising concern over adaptation to climate change, such as distrust of science or lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, play only a small role in Bay Area politics. Here, the obstacles involve pressure from the real estate, construction and tech businesses emphasizing short-term economic opportunity over more precautionary environmental perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco planning staffers say they evaluate each application for its response to the threat of sea level rise and suggest a range of adaptation strategies. According to public records, in the last five years the city has approved more than 50 projects, each worth at least $1 million, in low-lying waterfront areas. The estimated development costs of these projects exceed $4.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report in June 2014 from San Francisco’s civil grand jury — a volunteer committee that examines local government — concluded that San Francisco was not moving nearly fast enough to protect public safety in the event of sea rise. Behar, who last year headed the city’s interagency Sea Level Rise Technical Committee, said scientists’ increasing confidence in their projections and the degree of agreement among them support taking action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Mayor Ed Lee convened a new panel, the Sea Level Rise Coordinating Committee, chaired by Gil Kelley, the director of citywide planning, and Fuad Sweiss, the city engineer. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 3:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/07/09/exclusiveapple-signs-major-lease-in-north-san-jose.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> has reported that Apple Inc. signed a major lease for space in San Jose. Citing unnamed sources, the business publication said the Cupertino-based company has reached an agreement to lease nearly 300,000 square feet in North San Jose. The deal, if confirmed, would mark Apple’s first major entry into San Jose in quite some time. Apple wouldn’t comment on the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of two-part series looking at why San Jose, the third largest city in California, has faced fiscal problems while the tech boom is enriching the Silicon Valley communities around it. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”amQD6ZjYu8t2YRGCmpFryBtpOyytyVJQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. According to the mayor’s office, 10.3 million square feet of office and R&D space is in the pipeline in North San Jose alone, the neighborhood Apple is considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been growing at a record clip for really the last two or three years in terms of jobs,” says Mayor Sam Liccardo. “What we’re seeing in terms of demand for sites from employers has been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says from the time he moved to Sunnyvale in 1970, “Everything historically has rolled from north to south: high tech companies, occupancies, vacancies, rents, roll from Palo Alto south to San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it is important that San Jose takes advantage of the current boom to lock in new tech companies. That’s because while he doesn’t think this tech boom is a bubble, he says he’s seen enough economic busts to doubt that any boom lasts forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because our cycles tend to be steeper, there’s more pressure for cities to get with it before the inevitable downturn to come.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 3:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/07/09/exclusiveapple-signs-major-lease-in-north-san-jose.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> has reported that Apple Inc. signed a major lease for space in San Jose. Citing unnamed sources, the business publication said the Cupertino-based company has reached an agreement to lease nearly 300,000 square feet in North San Jose. The deal, if confirmed, would mark Apple’s first major entry into San Jose in quite some time. Apple wouldn’t comment on the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of two-part series looking at why San Jose, the third largest city in California, has faced fiscal problems while the tech boom is enriching the Silicon Valley communities around it. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. According to the mayor’s office, 10.3 million square feet of office and R&D space is in the pipeline in North San Jose alone, the neighborhood Apple is considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been growing at a record clip for really the last two or three years in terms of jobs,” says Mayor Sam Liccardo. “What we’re seeing in terms of demand for sites from employers has been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says from the time he moved to Sunnyvale in 1970, “Everything historically has rolled from north to south: high tech companies, occupancies, vacancies, rents, roll from Palo Alto south to San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it is important that San Jose takes advantage of the current boom to lock in new tech companies. That’s because while he doesn’t think this tech boom is a bubble, he says he’s seen enough economic busts to doubt that any boom lasts forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Bhatia says many live in the city’s once-illegal law units or have been priced out of San Francisco’s housing market altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_DoubleDecker-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arts Drawing by: Shawn Komlos and Jeff Maeshiro \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10521887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing by Jared Clifton. \" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10521887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1440x994.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Drawing_HorizontalCore-960x663.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Jared Clifton. \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of: The Urban Works Agency, California College of the Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. Two-bedroom units here are going for $900,000. Ultimately, housing, like traffic, is dependent on regional and international economic pressures far beyond the control of the city of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. Two-bedroom units here are going for $900,000. Ultimately, housing, like traffic, is dependent on regional and international economic pressures far beyond the control of the city of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/RS612_foreclosure20120511-scr-e1376067103153.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106283\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/RS612_foreclosure20120511-scr-e1376067103153.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond is attempting to use eminent domain to help 'underwater' mortgage holders. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richmond is attempting to use eminent domain to help ‘underwater’ mortgage holders. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors say they want the city to join Richmond in a controversial effort to help homeowners facing foreclosure. In a program facing legal threats and stalled by a City Council minority, Richmond wants to use its power of eminent domain to seize \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/uc-berkeley-report-calls-for-action-on-underwater-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“underwater” homes\u003c/a> — properties for which mortgage holders owe more than the homes are currently worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos says he’s working with the city attorney’s office to draft legislation to create a joint powers authority with Richmond that could help deflect lawsuit threats and allow the program to go ahead. At the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, Avalos postponed a vote on \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3149680&GUID=8C59104B-8F73-4AA7-A5A1-AA141A85CF03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a resolution commending Richmond\u003c/a> for its eminent domain program and declaring San Francisco’s intention to sign on to a joint powers authority. Co-sponsors include Supervisors David Campos, Jane Kim and Eric Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Richmond’s plan, the city would work with an outside investment firm to take over as many as 600 underwater properties or buy them at current market value, and then grant new, affordable mortgages. The banking and real estate industries and federal home loan authorities oppose the plan. Supporters of the plan on the Richmond City Council, which voted to set up the program last year, have been unable to get the supermajority of members they’d need to actually go ahead with seizing properties. The main worry expressed by opponents: the city’s possible liability if it’s sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the program might proceed if other cities sign on to the plan — especially one with the financial clout of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco joining that effort, especially when we are a center of financial institutions, would send a strong message that creating these tools to protect households against defaults and foreclosures is essential,” Avalos said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos said the program would also help people San Francisco residents. He hopes to introduce the legislation to the board by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be an enormous boon for a lot of working-class communities of color,” he said. “We have a huge out-migration of African-Americans in San Francisco, and many African-American households see this as a real strong tool that will enable them to stay in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Councilman Tom Butt has supported the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/09/106270/Richmond-eminent-domain-underwater-mortgages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eminent domain plan\u003c/a> from the beginning — he calls it a creative and brilliant solution to the city’s housing problems. But he says he’s not expecting San Francisco or any other city to join Richmond soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been two weeks away from having a partner for the last nine months,” he said. “So every time some city takes an interest in this, I sort of take it with a grain of salt. It’d be great if it happened but it would also, I think, surprise me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt said even if another city signs on immediately, unresolved legal issues mean it could take years before eminent domain could bail out a single household.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\">last official count\u003c/a>, San Francisco had more than 700 chronically homeless veterans. \u003ca href=\"https://www.onecpd.info/resources/documents/ahar-2013-part1.pdf\">Statewide\u003c/a>, the number is 15,000, mostly in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘This allows us to have a much more responsive approach to the real day-to-day needs of veterans.’\u003ccite>John Pérez, former Assembly speaker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But housing like 150 Otis doesn’t come cheap. It cost $30 million to renovate. That’s why veterans’ advocates are pushing for Proposition 41. It would allow California to sell $600 million in bonds. That money would act as a catalyst to developers and nonprofits to create affordable rental housing for low-income vets and their families. “Whatever we can do to create a broader base of housing options is the key. And this will do that,” says Michael Blecker, director of Swords to Plowshares. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Big Change: Renting Instead of Buying\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the housing created under Prop. 41 would include social services to help vets get back on their feet. And it would be available for rent. That’s a real change from how it’s been done in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over 100 years, the state has helped vets to buy houses, farms and mobile homes through the CalVet Home Loans program. But demand for those loans has fallen significantly since 2000. Observers give many reasons. Some vets can’t afford to buy a home because they lack a stable income or they’ve been priced out of California’s real estate market. And those who can buy may find better mortgages on the open market. Blecker says the loan program is a relic. “A lot of these state veteran loan programs were a legacy of World War II, when there was a tremendous push for home ownership when the World War II veterans came back,” says Blecker. “How many veterans are coming back wanting to purchase a farm in the state of California? Not too many.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, veterans housing bonds that voters approved in 2008 have never been sold. So, earlier this year, the Legislature voted to de-authorize $600 million in bonds — more than half of what’s sitting in the CalVet loan pot. Assembly Speaker Emeritus John \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez (D-Los Angeles), \u003c/span>who led the effort, says Prop. 41 would redirect the money where it’s needed most. “This allows us to have a much more responsive approach to the real day-to-day needs of veterans,” he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 41 has no vocal critics. 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