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The activists, who are demanding the city take action to slow the pace of evictions and limit rent increases, then marched to the San Francisco Association of Realtors before holding a rally at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA’s pilot program would cover shuttles for UCSF and other colleges in the city as well as bus services operated on behalf of large office buildings and the Silicon Valley technology companies. If approved, the SFMTA proposal would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Require shuttle operators — both bus firms and companies that set up shuttles for workers — to get permits to operate in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Designate 200 stops for shuttle use, many of which are Muni bus stops.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Impose rules to prevent shuttles from blocking Muni vehicles or other traffic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charge buses $1 for every stop they make. SFMTA planners say that will raise $1.5 million over the life of the 18-month pilot and defray the program ‘s costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA board heard about two hours of public comment on the proposal. On the anti-side, residents and activists said the $1 per stop price was too low, that the buses are out of control on the streets, that they pose a danger to pedestrians and cyclists, and that they’re helping fuel the displacement of tenants unable to pay rents driven upward by the influx of highly paid tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s going to change until people rise up and do something, and stopping these buses would be a step in the right direction,” one speaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side, several tech company and bus service employees said they supported both the shuttles and the pilot program. They said the buses reduce car trips, cut pollution and provide economic benefits to the city both by fostering the current tech boom and by encouraging those who commute to Silicon Valley via bus to spend more in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A speaker who identified herself as Krista Jones, an employee of bus service Bauer’s Transportation, said activists were indulging in “misplaced hostility” by blaming the buses for the city’s housing and displacement issues. “Wake the hell up to what’s really going on,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim talks with News Fix editor Dan Brekke about the details of the pilot program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130737142&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting has started. On the agenda: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\">a pilot program under which shuttle operators would pay for using city-owned and -maintained stops\u003c/a>. (Before that item came up, the MTA board heard public comments calling on the agency to do something to respond to a rising number of pedestrians being struck and killed by cars in the city.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED News reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a> is at the meeting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> Mtng on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulations getting underway … packed room. Just avoided getting kicked out. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Q0xscmFHUL\">pic.twitter.com/Q0xscmFHUL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425740190708006912\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>At least 27 speakers waiting to sound off to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> board abt \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulation… next item after director’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425743732051169280\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Noon\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Solnit, a local author and historian who has written extensively about the impact of tech workers moving into San Francisco, said today’s protest is about fighting for the “San Francisco dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the dream that you can be idealistic, that you can lead a really meaningful life … that you can live in a city that has room for everyone,” she told the crowd gathered at City Hall this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reason a lot of us were out there blockading this morning is that we’re looking at a city that could become homogeneous, that could become a very dense suburb … as it becomes a bedroom community for the Silicon Valley,” Solnit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:30 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of several dozen protesters briefly blocked two tech buses at Market and Eighth streets in San Francisco this morning. As of 10 a.m., the buses had been allowed to leave and the protesters had marched up Market Street to the offices of the San Francisco Association of Realtors at Grove and Franklin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is ground zero for the battle of renters in San Francisco,” a woman yelled through a bullhorn while gesturing at the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other protesters played musical instruments including drums, a saxophone, a trombone and a clarinet. The crowd chanted, “What do we want? Stop the evictions!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal Heights resident Amanda Ream, 38, said she is participating in today’s protest because she wants San Francisco to “maintain the diversity and culture that I love about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Barry Hermanson, 62, a homeowner in the Sunset District, said, “The eviction crisis is out of hand…The gentrification in this city is incredible.” Hermanson said he is running for Congress, in part because he says he is concerned about a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group protested outside the Realtors’ office for about 10 minutes before heading back toward Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>***\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[Picking up with our original post:] \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nReports via Twitter showed dozens of protesters stopped two buses at 8th and Market streets. It’s unknown right now which tech companies are connected to the vehicles:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Protesters against the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/google\">@google\u003c/a> bus are at 8th and market. Lots of backed up traffic. Police just arrived \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23googlebus&src=hash\">#googlebus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/tMHg6EMnTp\">pic.twitter.com/tMHg6EMnTp\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kyle Wong (@kwong47) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kwong47/statuses/425683423215120385\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>RT \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kurtisalexander\">@kurtisalexander\u003c/a>: Exchange between police and tech protesters in downtown S.F. getting testy. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GoogleBus&src=hash\">#GoogleBus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/We5osJRUx1\">pic.twitter.com/We5osJRUx1\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— SFGate.com (@SFGate) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate/statuses/425682837258268673\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a press release from the anti-eviction/anti-displacement group that organized this morning’s protest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Subject: Embargoed Press Release: Anti-Displacement Action Against the Relationship of Tech, Real Estate Speculation, and City Politics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embargoed Press Release (keep embargo until 9am PST on 1/21/14).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press Contacts:\u003cbr>\nRebecca Gourevitch (650)248-1295\u003cbr>\nRoberto Hernandez (415)206-0577\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What: \u003c/strong>Anti-Displacement Action Against the Impacts of the Tech Boom, Real Estate Speculation and City Politics\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where:\u003c/strong> Beginning at UN Plaza, marching to three locations\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When:\u003c/strong> 8:30am, Tuesday 1/21/14. We will conclude by 11am. Some of us will reconvene at City Hall at 1pm for the SFMTA Hearing on the Tech Bus Pilot Program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday 1/21/14 at 8:30am, a group of activists, organizers, and community members will join together at UN Plaza to protest the augmenting levels of displacement shattering the heart of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three target locations will highlight what we see as the main causal relationship of displacement in San Francisco: real estate speculators and investors are capitalizing on the tech class that big tech corporations are inputting into the city. The city gives the tech industry major incentives to move in, be they tax breaks or practically free use of public bus stops and other infrastructure. Real estate speculators take advantage of this, abusing state laws such as the Ellis Act to displace longtime residents, disproportionately those who are elderly, disabled, and/or in other ways marginalized. This industry too has long had its hands in the pockets of politicians. The collusion between tech, real estate, and city/state politics is responsible for the unprecedented levels of displacement. Ellis Act evictions have gone up 170% over the last 12 months; no-fault evictions are up 83% over the last three years. Rents are up 20% along tech bus routes, and evictions have skyrocketed in SOMA directly correlating to Twitter settling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will march to three locations and will have speakers at each one, including community leaders, writers, and tenants who are being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will reconvene at City Hall at 1pm for the SFMTA Board meeting on the $1/bus stop proposal. We maintain that $1 doesn’t stop displacement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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They said the buses reduce car trips, cut pollution and provide economic benefits to the city both by fostering the current tech boom and by encouraging those who commute to Silicon Valley via bus to spend more in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A speaker who identified herself as Krista Jones, an employee of bus service Bauer’s Transportation, said activists were indulging in “misplaced hostility” by blaming the buses for the city’s housing and displacement issues. “Wake the hell up to what’s really going on,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim talks with News Fix editor Dan Brekke about the details of the pilot program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130737142&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting has started. On the agenda: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\">a pilot program under which shuttle operators would pay for using city-owned and -maintained stops\u003c/a>. (Before that item came up, the MTA board heard public comments calling on the agency to do something to respond to a rising number of pedestrians being struck and killed by cars in the city.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED News reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a> is at the meeting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> Mtng on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulations getting underway … packed room. Just avoided getting kicked out. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Q0xscmFHUL\">pic.twitter.com/Q0xscmFHUL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425740190708006912\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>At least 27 speakers waiting to sound off to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> board abt \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulation… next item after director’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425743732051169280\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Noon\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Solnit, a local author and historian who has written extensively about the impact of tech workers moving into San Francisco, said today’s protest is about fighting for the “San Francisco dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the dream that you can be idealistic, that you can lead a really meaningful life … that you can live in a city that has room for everyone,” she told the crowd gathered at City Hall this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reason a lot of us were out there blockading this morning is that we’re looking at a city that could become homogeneous, that could become a very dense suburb … as it becomes a bedroom community for the Silicon Valley,” Solnit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:30 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of several dozen protesters briefly blocked two tech buses at Market and Eighth streets in San Francisco this morning. As of 10 a.m., the buses had been allowed to leave and the protesters had marched up Market Street to the offices of the San Francisco Association of Realtors at Grove and Franklin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is ground zero for the battle of renters in San Francisco,” a woman yelled through a bullhorn while gesturing at the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other protesters played musical instruments including drums, a saxophone, a trombone and a clarinet. The crowd chanted, “What do we want? 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It’s unknown right now which tech companies are connected to the vehicles:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Protesters against the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/google\">@google\u003c/a> bus are at 8th and market. Lots of backed up traffic. 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Others are new immigrants, working to find their place in a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To outsiders, it’s long been curious why such prime real estate is largely left alone in a city facing a massive housing shortage. Gary Kamiya, author of “Cool Gray City of Love,” has\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/arise-tenderloin\">written extensively\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> about why he believes the city and the nonprofits that serve the Tenderloin are not improving the neighborhood’s blighted state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/15/123502/san-francisco-tenderloin-resists-change/rs549_104161743-scr-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123694\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-123694 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2078/01/RS549_104161743-scr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers prepare meals at St. Anthony's dining hall in the Tenderloin. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers prepare about 2,500 meals a day at St. Anthony’s Dining Room in the Tenderloin. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What the nonprofits want to do is maintain their stake here,” Kamiya told me during a “KQED Newsroom” interview. “This is where they have their structures. They’re being part of the solution, but ironically they are also part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates argue that conditions are gradually improving in the Tenderloin, but that the neighborhood should continue to serve low-income residents. Redeveloping it would leave thousands of low-income families unable to afford to live in San Francisco, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buildings are in better condition than ever before,” says Randy Shaw, director of the \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thclinic.org/\">Tenderloin Housing Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a nonprofit that operates housing in the neighborhood. “It’s become San Francisco’s last working-class neighborhood, and the last it will ever have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The City’s Role\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And why don’t lawmakers step in to clean up the place? This could be one reason:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1940s, the city decided to redevelop another “troubled” section of town – \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Fillmore\u003c/a>. Thousands of businesses were forced to close as the city pushed through urban development plans. More than 800 Victorian homes were demolished to make way for new housing and retail – built quickly and cheaply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without access to goods, services or jobs, many African American families left the neighborhood, and never returned. It is an urban redevelopment horror story that still haunts the city’s psyche, leaving lawmakers reluctant to stir the pot in the Tenderloin. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Housing advocates say redeveloping it would leave thousands of low-income families unable to afford to live in the city. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The city is very loath to step in and say, ‘Let’s sweep all this away. Let’s move it somewhere else,’” says Kamiya. “To simply take an undesirable population and go warehouse them someplace, it’s extremely problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Is Change Inevitable?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cities like London, New York and San Diego have been quick to redevelop similar neighborhoods, the Tenderloin has so far resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land-use protections, rent controls, zoning protections and a unique housing stock that has no single-family homes make it almost impossible to redevelop, says Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood has about 100 single-room-cccupancy hotels – known as SROs – that house many of the city’s poor and disabled residents. These units in particular are shielded from being replaced with upscale apartments, as has happened in other neighborhoods like the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the legal protections, longtime resident Judy Young eyes the new high-tech neighbors with suspicion. She wonders if a day might come when the Tenderloin becomes out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families do live here because it is one of the most affordable places in the city,” she says. “If you can find a studio or one bedroom here for $1,200, that’s pretty affordable compared to other places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is an understatement, as a recent city\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/12/03/247531636/as-rent-soars-longtime-san-francisco-tenants-fight-to-stay\"> report\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> found that the median rent in San Francisco has reached $3,400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Spencer Michels reported on this story for “KQED Newsroom,” which is a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. 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That “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>” phenomenon has gotten to the point where activist groups have organized to demand action from San Francisco officials to stop certain evictions and to speed up action on creating new affordable housing. The soaring rents and increase in evictions have also accentuated a culture clash between longer-term city residents and the growing number of mostly newly arrived young technology workers. 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(\u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@craigsfrost via Twitter)\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“San Francisco” vs. “The Techies”\u003c/strong>: The leading symbol of the divide between those who fancy themselves the real residents of San Francisco (meaning: they’ve lived and worked here awhile) and recently arrived technology workers is the Google bus. The buses have appeared in increasing numbers throughout the city and East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one serious cultural critic says\u003c/a>, “I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.” In addition to carrying people who can and do pay top dollar for housing, thus helping drive up rents, many in the city also complain that the buses are using stops reserved for Muni without paying a dime for the privilege. In the final weeks of 2013, the unease with the technology buses — they carry thousands of people to Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech firms — has gone beyond talk. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twice in the last few weeks\u003c/a>, anti-eviction protesters in the city have blocked the buses. A similar protest in Oakland resulted in vandalism to one of the Silicon Valley-bound motor coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The BART Strikes: \u003c/strong>BART’s two biggest unions, SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555, had given up more than $100 million in concessions in 2009 and went into negotiations this year seeking significant wage increases and trying to hold the line on medical insurance and pension plans. They ran into a hard line from a management that sought to limit labor costs and plow as much money as possible into upgrading the aging BART system. The clash led to two four-day strikes, in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October\u003c/a>, that forced BART’s 200,000 or so weekday riders to find alternative transit and sparked widespread public anger at union workers. Two workers inspecting tracks in Walnut Creek \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/20/ntsb-investigating-bart-train-accident-that-killed-two-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died during the October walkout\u003c/a> when they were struck by a train operated by a management trainee. The strike exposed a deep and so far unhealed rift between management and workers and led to calls for a change in state law \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ban strikes\u003c/a> by public transit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=”c8beeb5d4b7a54b42df6b7509feb5a76″]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police/Oakland Crime: It has not been a good year for crime-weary of Oakland residents and the city’s beleaguered Police Department. The \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak044723.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest city statistics\u003c/a> show robberies are up 16 percent over last year. Robberies committed with firearms are up 27 percent. A federal judge overseeing a civil rights settlement with the city and the Police Department installed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new outside “compliance director”\u003c/a> early this year. Shortly afterward, Police Chief Howard Jordan quit (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/96633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for medical reasons, he insisted\u003c/a>). Outside consultant William Bratton issued a report finding that the department was poorly organized and ineffective at dealing with some of the most common crimes, with just one part-time investigator assigned to handle a backlog of 10,000 burglary cases. Just as that report came out, Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was replaced by not one, but two interim chiefs\u003c/a>. The second of those stand-in leaders, Sean Whent, has overseen the implementation of new programs designed to build bridges to distrustful residents while more efficiently dealing with violent crime. It’s too early to say what the long-term outcome of those changes will be, but here’s something to note: The city suffered through a resurgence of deadly violence in 2012, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/12/oaklands-other-homicide-crisis-unsolved-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">131 homicides citywide\u003c/a>. With just a few days to go in 2013, Oakland has recorded 87 homicides for the year. That toll still gives Oakland one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, but it’s a dramatic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122144\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs6229_img_5691-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122144\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122144\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS6229_IMG_5691-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge Completed:\u003c/strong> Caltrans assured us that 2013 would be the year that, 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake that demonstrated the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was seismically unfit, we would finally have a new bridge to drive on. The agency delivered on its promise, years later than promised and at a price, $6.4 billion, that was several times the original estimate. However, the completion of the new eastern span, a self-anchored suspension bridge with a gleaming white tower, was not accomplished without some tense moments. When it came time to fasten two massive seismic stabilizers on the suspension span last March, the huge threaded rods that were supposed to hold them in place \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/bay-bridge-bolts-snap-repairs-could-cost-up-to-5-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapped\u003c/a>. That forced engineers to come up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/26/bay-bridge-short-term-fix-a-go-but-no-word-on-open-date/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workarounds\u003c/a> to hold the stabilizers in place, and at one point bridge authorities scrapped plans for the long-planned Labor Day opening of the new span. But when repair work went better than expected and officials expressed concern about the risks of keeping the old span open, the Labor Day plan was reinstated. The new bridge, complete with traffic shoulders and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=109958&action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a beautiful bike path\u003c/a>, opened late Labor Day evening. But the saga isn’t yet complete: East Bay state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier is leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_24413224/state-sen-mark-desaulnier-launches-legislative-probe-into\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigation \u003c/a>into why the bridge took so long and cost so much to complete. And some in the engineering community still express \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/more-questions-about-durability-of-steel-parts-on-new-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns about the long-term impact\u003c/a> of the project’s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/20/97597/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> various construction problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/news-pix-2013-in-photos/doma-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121326\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court\u003c/strong>: In June, the Supreme Court issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5-4 ruling\u003c/a> that had the effect of striking down \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Had the effect of striking down” because in the end, the high court didn’t address the constitutional issues of equal protection and due process raised in the original suit against the initiative. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/what-the-doma-and-prop-8-rulings-mean-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the justices found\u003c/a> that the authors of the 2008 initiative lacked standing to defend the measure in court. The tribunal’s ruling left standing\u003ca href=\"https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the 2010 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker\u003c/a> that struck down Prop. 8 as unconstitutional. The effect was immediate: Same-sex marriages resumed in San Francisco two days after the high court spoke, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.freedomtomarry.org/states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courts and legislatures in several other states\u003c/a>have cleared the way for gay and lesbian weddings since the June Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rim Fire\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-biggest wildfire in California history\u003c/a> started in mid-August, reportedly by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-hunter-20131206,0,4531265.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hunter who set an illegal campfire\u003c/a> in Stanislaus National Forest, near the northwestern corner of Yosemite National Park. The fire wasn’t fully contained until late October, and by that time it had burned well into Yosemite, threatened the San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy reservoir, destroyed power facilities and burned 257,314 acres — 452 square miles. The latest assessment of damage from the fire says \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-damage-study-20131227,0,446155.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the total cost could be close to $2 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/americas-cup-final-race/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112866\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-112866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/cupfinal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America's Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America’s Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>America’s Cup\u003c/strong>: We still haven’t decided whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Ellison\u003c/a>, the Oracle software billionaire who captured the America’s Cup from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/sports/global/12bertarelli.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some other billionaire\u003c/a> a few years back and then decided to defend it in San Francisco, wears a white hat or a black hat. But villain/hero categorization aside, the 34th America’s Cup sailed on the bay over the summer is an event to be remembered. The regatta was marked by tragedy when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson, part of the Swedish-sponsored Artemis Racing team, was killed\u003c/a> in a May training accident. Simpson’s death prompted\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/23/safety-recommendations-released-for-americas-cup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a new emphasis on safety\u003c/a> for the huge 72-foot catamarans that Ellison and his team had chosen for this year’s competition. The series of races among Artemis and two other challengers for the Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa, were a nonevent, with the Kiwis easily winning the right to face the Oracle team. Before the finals could start,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/03/oracle-americas-cup-penalty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an international jury imposed severe penalties against Oracle\u003c/a> for cheating in an earlier series of races. In the “first-to-nine-wins” format, New Zealand seemed to have the Cup locked up when it took an 8-1 lead in the series. Then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this happened\u003c/a>— an incredible string of victories that allowed Ellison’s Oracle team to retain the Cup. We’ll get an idea in 2014 whether Ellison will defend the Cup again in San Francisco or take the event elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mustache Wars\u003c/strong>: Those funny “ride-sharing” companies that seemed like a novelty not so long ago — operations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyft\u003c/a>, whose cars carry pink mustaches, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidecar \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber\u003c/a> — are now entrenched in the local transportation scene. In September, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/19/cpuc-ridesharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Public Utilities Commission issued regulations\u003c/a> to govern the new companies, which the agency classifies as “transportation network companies,” or TNCs. In San Francisco, the closely regulated taxi industry has long fought attempts to expand the number of cabs on the street even as many would-be customers swear it’s next to impossible to find a cab when you really want one. Now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the TNCs appear to have made deep inroads\u003c/a> into the traditional taxi companies’ business — cutting into the customer base and attracting drivers from the old-line cab firms. Among the questions facing the TNCs: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whether drivers and their vehicles have adequate insurance coverage\u003c/a>. And among the questions facing the taxi companies: How will they adapt their operations, including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the widespread practice of expecting drivers to tip other company employees\u003c/a>, to survive the challenge from the TNCs. Jon Brooks, the former full-time proprietor of News Fix, reported extensively on the story this year and produced three major reports on what’s going on in the industry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will ‘Ride Sharing’ Kill San Francisco’s Taxi Industry? \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/08/how-to-get-a-cab-and-4-other-tips-from-san-francisco-cab-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tip or Bribe? Taxi Drivers Say Illegal Payments to Dispatchers Are Routine\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122140\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs7674_img_5067-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122140\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7674_IMG_5067-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weather: 2013, the Driest Year\u003c/strong>: And we’ll leave you with what could be the biggest story of 2014 if we don’t see a change in our winter weather: the Bay Area (and most of the state) is just completing its driest calendar year since the first weather observer set up the first rain gauge here during the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, where records go back to 1850, just 5.59 inches of rain has fallen this year. That compares to the 30-year average recorded between 1980 and 2010 of 23.06 inches and the current calendar-year low-rainfall record of 8.73 inches, set in 1976. Other signs we’re very, very dry: The official U.S. Drought Monitor categorizes \u003ca href=\"http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">94 percent of the state as in moderate to extreme drought\u003c/a>, and the California-Nevada River Forecast Center observes that Folsom Lake, the big reservoir just east of Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626426660749916&set=a.204261386299781.49442.156316434427610&type=1&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has fallen below 200,000 acre feet\u003c/a> of storage for just the seventh time since it was created in the 1950s. Any serious California rain watcher will point out that what really matters for us is our seasonal precipitation — and by convention, our rain year runs from July 1 to June 30 to better reflect how much rain and snow comes our way during each wet season, which usually starts in October and ends by early May. We still have our historically wettest months ahead of us, January and February, so there’s hope we’ll see storms arrive to help replenish reservoirs and bulk up the mountain snowpack. But right now, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/fxus07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-range outlook for January\u003c/a> calls for below-normal precipitation for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s \u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with KQED News Fix Editor \u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong> about some of the year’s biggest Bay Area stories. Listen to the conversation below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127152132&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/GRaGYJkmDy0\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Time’s running out on 2013, and it’s time to paw through (or pore over, if you’re the dignified sort) the posts that have piled up over the past 12 months and name our picks for the most important stories of the year. For extra credit, we’ll try to say why we think the stories are important both now and in the future. And we welcome you to tell us where we’ve gone astray or where we’re short-sighted and ignorant. (And above, the view of the year that’s almost past from our colleagues at “KQED Newsroom.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction Crisis/Housing Affordability: A surging tech sector economy in San Francisco is spurring \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/18/total-value-san-francisco-metro-housing-stock-jumps-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new spike in home prices and rents in and around the city\u003c/a>. The hot rental market, in turn, has led to\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a surge in evictions\u003c/a>. That “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>” phenomenon has gotten to the point where activist groups have organized to demand action from San Francisco officials to stop certain evictions and to speed up action on creating new affordable housing. The soaring rents and increase in evictions have also accentuated a culture clash between longer-term city residents and the growing number of mostly newly arrived young technology workers. Read on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121543\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/on-the-google-bus-looking-out-at-the-protest/google-bus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121543\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Google-Bus-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google's Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (@craigsfrost via Twitter).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google’s Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (\u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@craigsfrost via Twitter)\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“San Francisco” vs. “The Techies”\u003c/strong>: The leading symbol of the divide between those who fancy themselves the real residents of San Francisco (meaning: they’ve lived and worked here awhile) and recently arrived technology workers is the Google bus. The buses have appeared in increasing numbers throughout the city and East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one serious cultural critic says\u003c/a>, “I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.” In addition to carrying people who can and do pay top dollar for housing, thus helping drive up rents, many in the city also complain that the buses are using stops reserved for Muni without paying a dime for the privilege. In the final weeks of 2013, the unease with the technology buses — they carry thousands of people to Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech firms — has gone beyond talk. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twice in the last few weeks\u003c/a>, anti-eviction protesters in the city have blocked the buses. A similar protest in Oakland resulted in vandalism to one of the Silicon Valley-bound motor coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The BART Strikes: \u003c/strong>BART’s two biggest unions, SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555, had given up more than $100 million in concessions in 2009 and went into negotiations this year seeking significant wage increases and trying to hold the line on medical insurance and pension plans. They ran into a hard line from a management that sought to limit labor costs and plow as much money as possible into upgrading the aging BART system. The clash led to two four-day strikes, in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October\u003c/a>, that forced BART’s 200,000 or so weekday riders to find alternative transit and sparked widespread public anger at union workers. Two workers inspecting tracks in Walnut Creek \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/20/ntsb-investigating-bart-train-accident-that-killed-two-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died during the October walkout\u003c/a> when they were struck by a train operated by a management trainee. The strike exposed a deep and so far unhealed rift between management and workers and led to calls for a change in state law \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ban strikes\u003c/a> by public transit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police/Oakland Crime: It has not been a good year for crime-weary of Oakland residents and the city’s beleaguered Police Department. The \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak044723.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest city statistics\u003c/a> show robberies are up 16 percent over last year. Robberies committed with firearms are up 27 percent. A federal judge overseeing a civil rights settlement with the city and the Police Department installed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new outside “compliance director”\u003c/a> early this year. Shortly afterward, Police Chief Howard Jordan quit (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/96633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for medical reasons, he insisted\u003c/a>). Outside consultant William Bratton issued a report finding that the department was poorly organized and ineffective at dealing with some of the most common crimes, with just one part-time investigator assigned to handle a backlog of 10,000 burglary cases. Just as that report came out, Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was replaced by not one, but two interim chiefs\u003c/a>. The second of those stand-in leaders, Sean Whent, has overseen the implementation of new programs designed to build bridges to distrustful residents while more efficiently dealing with violent crime. It’s too early to say what the long-term outcome of those changes will be, but here’s something to note: The city suffered through a resurgence of deadly violence in 2012, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/12/oaklands-other-homicide-crisis-unsolved-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">131 homicides citywide\u003c/a>. With just a few days to go in 2013, Oakland has recorded 87 homicides for the year. That toll still gives Oakland one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, but it’s a dramatic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122144\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs6229_img_5691-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122144\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122144\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS6229_IMG_5691-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge Completed:\u003c/strong> Caltrans assured us that 2013 would be the year that, 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake that demonstrated the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was seismically unfit, we would finally have a new bridge to drive on. The agency delivered on its promise, years later than promised and at a price, $6.4 billion, that was several times the original estimate. However, the completion of the new eastern span, a self-anchored suspension bridge with a gleaming white tower, was not accomplished without some tense moments. When it came time to fasten two massive seismic stabilizers on the suspension span last March, the huge threaded rods that were supposed to hold them in place \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/bay-bridge-bolts-snap-repairs-could-cost-up-to-5-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapped\u003c/a>. That forced engineers to come up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/26/bay-bridge-short-term-fix-a-go-but-no-word-on-open-date/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workarounds\u003c/a> to hold the stabilizers in place, and at one point bridge authorities scrapped plans for the long-planned Labor Day opening of the new span. But when repair work went better than expected and officials expressed concern about the risks of keeping the old span open, the Labor Day plan was reinstated. The new bridge, complete with traffic shoulders and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=109958&action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a beautiful bike path\u003c/a>, opened late Labor Day evening. But the saga isn’t yet complete: East Bay state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier is leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_24413224/state-sen-mark-desaulnier-launches-legislative-probe-into\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigation \u003c/a>into why the bridge took so long and cost so much to complete. And some in the engineering community still express \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/more-questions-about-durability-of-steel-parts-on-new-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns about the long-term impact\u003c/a> of the project’s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/20/97597/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> various construction problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/news-pix-2013-in-photos/doma-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121326\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court\u003c/strong>: In June, the Supreme Court issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5-4 ruling\u003c/a> that had the effect of striking down \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Had the effect of striking down” because in the end, the high court didn’t address the constitutional issues of equal protection and due process raised in the original suit against the initiative. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/what-the-doma-and-prop-8-rulings-mean-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the justices found\u003c/a> that the authors of the 2008 initiative lacked standing to defend the measure in court. The tribunal’s ruling left standing\u003ca href=\"https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the 2010 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker\u003c/a> that struck down Prop. 8 as unconstitutional. The effect was immediate: Same-sex marriages resumed in San Francisco two days after the high court spoke, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.freedomtomarry.org/states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courts and legislatures in several other states\u003c/a>have cleared the way for gay and lesbian weddings since the June Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rim Fire\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-biggest wildfire in California history\u003c/a> started in mid-August, reportedly by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-hunter-20131206,0,4531265.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hunter who set an illegal campfire\u003c/a> in Stanislaus National Forest, near the northwestern corner of Yosemite National Park. The fire wasn’t fully contained until late October, and by that time it had burned well into Yosemite, threatened the San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy reservoir, destroyed power facilities and burned 257,314 acres — 452 square miles. The latest assessment of damage from the fire says \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-damage-study-20131227,0,446155.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the total cost could be close to $2 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/americas-cup-final-race/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112866\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-112866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/cupfinal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America's Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America’s Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>America’s Cup\u003c/strong>: We still haven’t decided whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Ellison\u003c/a>, the Oracle software billionaire who captured the America’s Cup from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/sports/global/12bertarelli.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some other billionaire\u003c/a> a few years back and then decided to defend it in San Francisco, wears a white hat or a black hat. But villain/hero categorization aside, the 34th America’s Cup sailed on the bay over the summer is an event to be remembered. The regatta was marked by tragedy when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson, part of the Swedish-sponsored Artemis Racing team, was killed\u003c/a> in a May training accident. Simpson’s death prompted\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/23/safety-recommendations-released-for-americas-cup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a new emphasis on safety\u003c/a> for the huge 72-foot catamarans that Ellison and his team had chosen for this year’s competition. The series of races among Artemis and two other challengers for the Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa, were a nonevent, with the Kiwis easily winning the right to face the Oracle team. Before the finals could start,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/03/oracle-americas-cup-penalty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an international jury imposed severe penalties against Oracle\u003c/a> for cheating in an earlier series of races. In the “first-to-nine-wins” format, New Zealand seemed to have the Cup locked up when it took an 8-1 lead in the series. Then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this happened\u003c/a>— an incredible string of victories that allowed Ellison’s Oracle team to retain the Cup. We’ll get an idea in 2014 whether Ellison will defend the Cup again in San Francisco or take the event elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mustache Wars\u003c/strong>: Those funny “ride-sharing” companies that seemed like a novelty not so long ago — operations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyft\u003c/a>, whose cars carry pink mustaches, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidecar \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber\u003c/a> — are now entrenched in the local transportation scene. In September, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/19/cpuc-ridesharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Public Utilities Commission issued regulations\u003c/a> to govern the new companies, which the agency classifies as “transportation network companies,” or TNCs. In San Francisco, the closely regulated taxi industry has long fought attempts to expand the number of cabs on the street even as many would-be customers swear it’s next to impossible to find a cab when you really want one. Now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the TNCs appear to have made deep inroads\u003c/a> into the traditional taxi companies’ business — cutting into the customer base and attracting drivers from the old-line cab firms. Among the questions facing the TNCs: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whether drivers and their vehicles have adequate insurance coverage\u003c/a>. And among the questions facing the taxi companies: How will they adapt their operations, including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the widespread practice of expecting drivers to tip other company employees\u003c/a>, to survive the challenge from the TNCs. Jon Brooks, the former full-time proprietor of News Fix, reported extensively on the story this year and produced three major reports on what’s going on in the industry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will ‘Ride Sharing’ Kill San Francisco’s Taxi Industry? \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/08/how-to-get-a-cab-and-4-other-tips-from-san-francisco-cab-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tip or Bribe? Taxi Drivers Say Illegal Payments to Dispatchers Are Routine\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122140\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs7674_img_5067-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122140\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7674_IMG_5067-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weather: 2013, the Driest Year\u003c/strong>: And we’ll leave you with what could be the biggest story of 2014 if we don’t see a change in our winter weather: the Bay Area (and most of the state) is just completing its driest calendar year since the first weather observer set up the first rain gauge here during the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, where records go back to 1850, just 5.59 inches of rain has fallen this year. That compares to the 30-year average recorded between 1980 and 2010 of 23.06 inches and the current calendar-year low-rainfall record of 8.73 inches, set in 1976. Other signs we’re very, very dry: The official U.S. Drought Monitor categorizes \u003ca href=\"http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">94 percent of the state as in moderate to extreme drought\u003c/a>, and the California-Nevada River Forecast Center observes that Folsom Lake, the big reservoir just east of Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626426660749916&set=a.204261386299781.49442.156316434427610&type=1&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has fallen below 200,000 acre feet\u003c/a> of storage for just the seventh time since it was created in the 1950s. Any serious California rain watcher will point out that what really matters for us is our seasonal precipitation — and by convention, our rain year runs from July 1 to June 30 to better reflect how much rain and snow comes our way during each wet season, which usually starts in October and ends by early May. We still have our historically wettest months ahead of us, January and February, so there’s hope we’ll see storms arrive to help replenish reservoirs and bulk up the mountain snowpack. But right now, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/fxus07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-range outlook for January\u003c/a> calls for below-normal precipitation for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s \u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with KQED News Fix Editor \u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong> about some of the year’s biggest Bay Area stories. Listen to the conversation below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Started at Google in Jan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414127126690816000\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RedwoodGirl\">@RedwoodGirl\u003c/a> And when my lease is up I may try to move closer. Its not just about me you know. My wife has a job close to where we are now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414128315859873792\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another Google worker riding the bus through West Oakland this morning took to Facebook to recount what happened. This person, who didn’t want us to use his/her name, talked to us later. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The protesters’ short manifesto\u003c/a> blamed the technology sector and its workers for many of the ills afflicting Oakland, this 15-year Oakland resident has another view: Protests like the one this morning are the last thing the city needs, and the activists who are targeting the buses need to get a clue. Here’s part of the worker’s conversation with KQED News:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What’s most frustrating is that there are so many other issues going on in Oakland, like crime and poverty, and I feel like the corporate shuttles are the last thing these people should be worrying about. We’re not really causing any harm. And it’s really unfortunate that they don’t really see, you know, the big picture here. 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Started at Google in Jan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414127126690816000\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RedwoodGirl\">@RedwoodGirl\u003c/a> And when my lease is up I may try to move closer. Its not just about me you know. My wife has a job close to where we are now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414128315859873792\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another Google worker riding the bus through West Oakland this morning took to Facebook to recount what happened. This person, who didn’t want us to use his/her name, talked to us later. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The protesters’ short manifesto\u003c/a> blamed the technology sector and its workers for many of the ills afflicting Oakland, this 15-year Oakland resident has another view: Protests like the one this morning are the last thing the city needs, and the activists who are targeting the buses need to get a clue. Here’s part of the worker’s conversation with KQED News:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What’s most frustrating is that there are so many other issues going on in Oakland, like crime and poverty, and I feel like the corporate shuttles are the last thing these people should be worrying about. We’re not really causing any harm. And it’s really unfortunate that they don’t really see, you know, the big picture here. I mean, they’re just going to be driving out the people who really care about the city, out of Oakland. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Was the protest scary? \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It wasn’t scary at all, it was just more, more frustrating — it made me really angry that I just can’t go to my bus stop and like get on the bus and feel safe about it. Like now, I have to worry about whether my car’s going to get vandalized when I get back from work. It’s not scary since I’ve been through worse incidents in Oakland, and I feel like it’s really unfortunate that we have to go through this.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What would the worker say to the protesters?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would say do your homework. Really just sort of kind of take a step back and really look, really think about what you’re doing, and … really see that these things that you’re doing are really causing harm to our city. People are watching us from all across the globe and people are just painting a really bad picture of Oakland.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The action, carried out by activists seeking city action to halt evictions in the Mission District and elsewhere amid an influx of technology workers, was a sequel to one on Dec. 9 in which a Google bus was halted at the same corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Oakland protesters’ flyer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, one bus was stopped at the MacArthur BART station. The second incident happened at 7th and Adeline streets near the West Oakland BART station. Demonstrators there not only displayed banners, including one that said “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/status/414074094578307072/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F*** Off Google\u003c/a>,” but also broke windows on one bus and caused other damage. 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(None did, so far as we’ve heard.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a business group that reportedly represents 30 of the shuttle bus operators in their dealings with San Francisco officials, issued a statement saying “the vandalism and violence against employee shuttles and the workers who ride them is unfortunate and unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activist media site IndyBay carried \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/20/18748143.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this rather impressionistic account \u003c/a>of what happened at 7th and Adeline: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At 8:15, a small group of people met at 7th and Adeline in West Oakland. Down the street, over 20 employees of Google were queued up, waiting for their giant white bus to take them to their Mountain View headquarters. When it arrived, a kind young man, homeless and unemployed, boarded the bus with the employees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they took their seats, several people unfurled two giant banners reading “TECHIES: Your World Is Not Welcome Here” and “F*** OFF GOOGLE.” They offered fliers to the passengers but they were refused. One passenger tried to take someone’s bicycle, but they were repelled. Inside the bus, the other passengers slowly became aware of what was happening outside. One female passenger suddenly remarked, “The protesters are at it again.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man on the bus urgently approached the bus driver and began asking, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bus driver, what are you gonna do, man? What are you gonna do?”\u003cbr>\n“Don’t worry. It’s freedom of speech, freedom of speech.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man then walked to the rear of the bus, saying,\u003cbr>\n“Oh my god! What’s gonna happen next?”\u003cbr>\nThe same female passenger took out her phone and began filming the blockade.\u003cbr>\n“At least we’re warm in here and they’re cold out there,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost on cue, a person appeared from behind the bus and quickly smashed the whole of the rear window, making glass rain down on the street. Cold air blew inside the bus and the blockaders with their banners departed. The kind young man left the bus and outside someone threw fliers with a smiley face logo and the message ‘disrupt google’ into the air. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this the bus remained where it was, blocked for the time being. Several more people arrived while the stranded Google employees began collecting the fliers off the street. The bus remained where it was, the thought of driving to Mountain View with a broken window and flooded with cold air an unthinkable horror they could not endure. Another crowd assembled near the bus pickup zone and within the hour the blockade began again.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s a link to a Twitter image of the protest as seen from inside the Google bus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp>My Gbus got hit by protesters in Oakland and they broke a window. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\">pic.twitter.com/VGCyhBLgyd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414074094578307072\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here’s the beginning of the text of \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/HN96VRk5ey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the flyer\u003c/a> the West Oakland protesters were distributing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“In case you’re wondering why this happened, we’ll be extremely clear. The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods. While you guys live fat as hogs with your free 24/7 buffets, everyone else is scraping the bottom of their wallets, b arely existing in this expensive world that you and your chums have helped create. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Full text of the flyer: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland!’\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement on today’s bus incidents, the Bay Area Council said the protests do nothing to address the underlying causes of the housing challenges facing the region:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The anger and frustration that some residents feel about rising home prices and rents, growing evictions, increasing traffic is understandable. But blaming a single industry and a single group of workers is unfair, misguided and misdirected. Many of these problems are directly related to the simple fact that the Bay Area over the past 30 years has failed to produce sufficient housing across all income levels to meet the needs of our growing economy. We also have failed to invest adequately to expand and maintain our transportation infrastructure. We must acknowledge the pain that many residents are feeling as our economy grows, but the solution to these issues resides in working together to expand our housing supply, invest in transit and transportation and helping those who are directly affected by the changes we’re experiencing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> San Francisco anti-eviction activists have taken to the streets to block Silicon Valley-bound buses this morning. Several dozen protesters at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco blocked a bus carrying Apple employees. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest at the same corner on Dec. 9\u003c/a> targeted a Google bus. (That action featured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/google-bus-protest-most-entertaining-moment-was-staged/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an apparently impromptu performance\u003c/a> by an Oakland labor activist who, suggesting he was a Google employee enraged at the delay in getting to work, told the protesters they needed to get out of San Francisco and find someplace they could afford to live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those in this morning’s crowd carried banners, including one urging passengers to get off the bus and join the protest. The picture above is from KQED News producer Vinnee Tong, who just happened to be passing the corner of 24th and Valencia while the protest was under way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second bus, this one headed for Google’s Mountain View campus, was blocked this morning by protesters at Oakland’s MacArthur BART station. Here’s a picture of that from KQED News reporter Grace Rubenstein:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses/macarthurbus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121449\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/macarthurbus-e1387562289874.jpg\" alt=\"A Google bus halted by protesters Friday morning at Oakland's MacArthur BART station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121449\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google bus halted by protesters Friday morning at Oakland’s MacArthur BART station. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month’s protests have carried a double-edged message. They’re focused partly on the displacement of apartment tenants across the city as well-paid technology sector workers crowding into the city drive up rental prices. And the actions are also targeting the fact that fleets of Silicon Valley buses are using Muni bus stops and other infrastructure without paying for it. Here’s \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/20/bus-blocked-again-in-tech-boom-backlash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Chronicle’s Kurtis Alexander\u003c/a> on today’s protest and the background context: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friday’s action, taken by a few dozen demonstrators, began shortly before 9 a.m. on southbound Valencia Street at 24th Street. It wasn’t immediately clear which company the shuttle belonged to. The blockade didn’t last long, as police soon arrived and protesters followed their orders to move to the sidewalk. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses/photo-1-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121446\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/photo-11-e1387561504967.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-eviction protesters block a Silicon Valley bus -- this one carrying Apple employees -- at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco's Mission District (Vinnee Tong/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121446\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-eviction protesters block a Silicon Valley bus — this one carrying Apple employees — at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco’s Mission District (Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Our local “Google bus” protests took a turn today as a total of three buses were stopped in actions in San Francisco and Oakland, where one of the vehicles was vandalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a bus carrying Apple employees was blocked during the morning rush hour by protesters at 24th and Valencia streets. The action, carried out by activists seeking city action to halt evictions in the Mission District and elsewhere amid an influx of technology workers, was a sequel to one on Dec. 9 in which a Google bus was halted at the same corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Oakland protesters’ flyer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, one bus was stopped at the MacArthur BART station. The second incident happened at 7th and Adeline streets near the West Oakland BART station. Demonstrators there not only displayed banners, including one that said “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/status/414074094578307072/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F*** Off Google\u003c/a>,” but also broke windows on one bus and caused other damage. Google confirmed the West Oakland incident to KQED News reporter Sam Harnett. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The character of the West Oakland incident seems much more aggressive and hostile toward Google and its employees than bus-related protests in San Francisco, which have been nonviolent and focused specifically on the displacement of residents from the Mission District as employees of technology firms bid up rents and home prices. During this morning’s San Francisco action, demonstrators went through the motions, at least, of reaching out to Apple employees inside the bus, urging them to join the protest. (None did, so far as we’ve heard.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a business group that reportedly represents 30 of the shuttle bus operators in their dealings with San Francisco officials, issued a statement saying “the vandalism and violence against employee shuttles and the workers who ride them is unfortunate and unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activist media site IndyBay carried \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/20/18748143.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this rather impressionistic account \u003c/a>of what happened at 7th and Adeline: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At 8:15, a small group of people met at 7th and Adeline in West Oakland. Down the street, over 20 employees of Google were queued up, waiting for their giant white bus to take them to their Mountain View headquarters. When it arrived, a kind young man, homeless and unemployed, boarded the bus with the employees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they took their seats, several people unfurled two giant banners reading “TECHIES: Your World Is Not Welcome Here” and “F*** OFF GOOGLE.” They offered fliers to the passengers but they were refused. One passenger tried to take someone’s bicycle, but they were repelled. Inside the bus, the other passengers slowly became aware of what was happening outside. One female passenger suddenly remarked, “The protesters are at it again.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man on the bus urgently approached the bus driver and began asking, \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bus driver, what are you gonna do, man? What are you gonna do?”\u003cbr>\n“Don’t worry. It’s freedom of speech, freedom of speech.”\u003cbr>\nThe kind young man then walked to the rear of the bus, saying,\u003cbr>\n“Oh my god! What’s gonna happen next?”\u003cbr>\nThe same female passenger took out her phone and began filming the blockade.\u003cbr>\n“At least we’re warm in here and they’re cold out there,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost on cue, a person appeared from behind the bus and quickly smashed the whole of the rear window, making glass rain down on the street. Cold air blew inside the bus and the blockaders with their banners departed. The kind young man left the bus and outside someone threw fliers with a smiley face logo and the message ‘disrupt google’ into the air. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this the bus remained where it was, blocked for the time being. Several more people arrived while the stranded Google employees began collecting the fliers off the street. The bus remained where it was, the thought of driving to Mountain View with a broken window and flooded with cold air an unthinkable horror they could not endure. Another crowd assembled near the bus pickup zone and within the hour the blockade began again.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s a link to a Twitter image of the protest as seen from inside the Google bus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp>My Gbus got hit by protesters in Oakland and they broke a window. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\">pic.twitter.com/VGCyhBLgyd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/statuses/414074094578307072\">December 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here’s the beginning of the text of \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/HN96VRk5ey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the flyer\u003c/a> the West Oakland protesters were distributing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“In case you’re wondering why this happened, we’ll be extremely clear. The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods. While you guys live fat as hogs with your free 24/7 buffets, everyone else is scraping the bottom of their wallets, b arely existing in this expensive world that you and your chums have helped create. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Full text of the flyer: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland!’\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement on today’s bus incidents, the Bay Area Council said the protests do nothing to address the underlying causes of the housing challenges facing the region:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The anger and frustration that some residents feel about rising home prices and rents, growing evictions, increasing traffic is understandable. But blaming a single industry and a single group of workers is unfair, misguided and misdirected. Many of these problems are directly related to the simple fact that the Bay Area over the past 30 years has failed to produce sufficient housing across all income levels to meet the needs of our growing economy. We also have failed to invest adequately to expand and maintain our transportation infrastructure. We must acknowledge the pain that many residents are feeling as our economy grows, but the solution to these issues resides in working together to expand our housing supply, invest in transit and transportation and helping those who are directly affected by the changes we’re experiencing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> San Francisco anti-eviction activists have taken to the streets to block Silicon Valley-bound buses this morning. Several dozen protesters at 24th and Valencia streets in San Francisco blocked a bus carrying Apple employees. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest at the same corner on Dec. 9\u003c/a> targeted a Google bus. (That action featured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/google-bus-protest-most-entertaining-moment-was-staged/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an apparently impromptu performance\u003c/a> by an Oakland labor activist who, suggesting he was a Google employee enraged at the delay in getting to work, told the protesters they needed to get out of San Francisco and find someplace they could afford to live.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those in this morning’s crowd carried banners, including one urging passengers to get off the bus and join the protest. The picture above is from KQED News producer Vinnee Tong, who just happened to be passing the corner of 24th and Valencia while the protest was under way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second bus, this one headed for Google’s Mountain View campus, was blocked this morning by protesters at Oakland’s MacArthur BART station. Here’s a picture of that from KQED News reporter Grace Rubenstein:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses/macarthurbus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121449\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/macarthurbus-e1387562289874.jpg\" alt=\"A Google bus halted by protesters Friday morning at Oakland's MacArthur BART station. 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Tenants in this shadow housing market are often low-income and vulnerable to eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many in-law apartments are not up to code, city officials say they’re an important \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\">source of affordable housing\u003c/a>. That’s one reason why a San Francisco supervisor wants to \u003ca href=\"https://livablecity.org/livable-city-joins-broad-based-effort-to-legalize-existing-in-law-units/\">legalize\u003c/a> them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past year, 65-year-old Kai Man Lee, a recent immigrant from Hong Kong, has been living with his wife and son in an illegal unit in the Outer Sunset. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Illegal in-laws are often small apartments hidden from street view, and tucked in the garages and basements of single-family homes. Some lack basics, like heating, and kitchens.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>, Lee spoke through a translator to explain he’s now being evicted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started renting the place my landlord told me the unit is a legal unit. That I don’t have to worry about anything. A year later the landlord asked me to move out. The landlord said the unit is actually illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s family can’t afford most legal units because they struggle to get by on $20,000 a year, just above the federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal in-laws are often small apartments hidden from street view, and tucked in the garages and basements of single-family homes. Some lack basics like heating and kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials estimate there are more than 40,000 of these in-law units in the city. Many were built after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Chiu is \u003ca href=\"http://chiuassembly.ngpvanhost.com/form/36310271995674624\">sponsoring\u003c/a> the ordinance to legalize them, as one fix to the city’s affordable housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades, we have had a shadow economy in San Francisco involving these technically illegal in-law units that were housing thousands of immigrants, seniors, families — many of our lowest-income and longest-term residents,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City building inspectors don’t go after illegal units unless there are complaints. Every year the department takes about 100 units off the market for code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some landlords report their own illegal unit so the city will remove it from the market. Then they can evict the tenants, sell the house as a single-family home or raise the rent for new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Calimbas with the Asian Law Caucus says this is one reason why landlords evict families like the Lees without consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The landlord can do that because there is no regulatory mechanism for tracking what a landlord does to that property, to that unit, once it’s removed from housing permanently,” Calimbas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu and others say they don’t want to lose these affordable rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, Chiu says neighborhood groups opposed to density have blocked efforts to legalize, but, he says, things are different now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the midst of an affordability crisis,” Chiu said. “We’ve had skyrocketing eviction rates. We’ve had way too many families who are being pushed out of the city, and I think this is the right time for us to change our city’s policy toward in-laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s ordinance would simplify the process for landlords, but the details are still being worked out. The apartments would have to meet state health and safety codes, including having a working kitchen and bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups that represent landlords haven’t taken a formal position on the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Karnilowicz with the San Francisco Small Property Owners Association doesn’t think many landlords would take advantage of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To legalize these units, it’s going to cost some money, and it might not be cheap,” Karnilowicz said. “It could be 50, 60, a hundred thousand, who knows how much that’ll be even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the cost of bringing a unit up to state code might be prohibitively expensive for some landlords, building inspectors would have discretion to waive city requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Gullickson with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftu.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Tenants Union\u003c/a> is helping to write the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says two big things in the measure would help landlords legalize their units. One, it would change current zoning rules that don’t allow density. And two, it would not require street parking for a legal unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those requirements have always been fatal to any illegal units where the landlords actually wanted to legalize after being cited, because you just can’t get past those,” Gullickson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this attempt to legalize in-law units passes, Kai Man Lee says it will take a lot of stress off tenants, and landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this debate isn’t helping the Lees right now. They’re going to have to move into another in-law that costs twice as much and is worse than their current apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new place doesn’t have a sink, doesn’t even have a kitchen area, not even a refrigerator for him to wash any of his produce, or wash anything to prepare for dinner,” said Lee through a translator. “Most of the time he will have to prepare in the bathroom because that’s the only place that he can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s ordinance is currently in a public review period and must be considered by the Planning Commission before it goes to the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125331115&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Turns out we’re conflicted about the tech boom in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to many of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\">news reports\u003c/a> of late, the majority of San Franciscans do not think the tech boom has been bad for the city. We are, however, worried about San Francisco’s affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are among the highlights of a just-released survey (embedded below) from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usfca.edu/\">University of San Francisco\u003c/a>. The online poll of 553 San Francisco registered voters covered multiple topics, but the report focuses on questions of affordability and the tech sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, respondents were positive about the city and the economy, with 69 percent saying things are “generally going in the right direction.” Most believe economic conditions will continue to improve in the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 39.5 percent feel cost of living is a “big problem,” and 28.1 percent think it is “somewhat of a problem.” These groups combined, the survey notes, cut across all demographic lines, including income, ethnicity, age, political leanings and living situation (homeowner vs. renter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the one hand, [voters in San Francisco] want the economy to be strong and think things are moving in right direction,” said Corey Cook, USF political science professor and co-author of the study, to KQED’s Joshua Johnson. “On the other hand … they said their chief concern is affordability — particularly housing affordability — so there’s clearly an underlying sense of anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most respondents see the tech boom as being most beneficial for tech execs and workers; a clear majority say that the city’s tech sector is also good for other white collar workers and the city overall. But that positive sentiment is qualified. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say, ‘I don’t see it benefiting me and my family,’ and there’s anxiety about whether people will be allowed to stay,” Cook said. He notes that the highest numbers of respondents for whom cost of living is a problem are “middle earners,” those reporting income between $30,000 and $130,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Franciscans-ambivalent-on-future-poll-finds-5049659.php\">story\u003c/a> on the USF survey, the San Francisco Chronicle pointed out that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Technology companies have created 23,500 jobs since 2009 and have helped drop the city’s unemployment rate to 5.3 percent, the lowest in five years. City coffers are once again full, and the big cuts to social services and parks that were seen during the recession aren’t happening anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, evictions are up 38 percent since 2010, and Ellis Act evictions, usually used when a landlord wants to sell a building, are up 170 percent. The median home sale price in the city hit $1 million in the summer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The majority of USF survey respondents said the spike in the cost of living has been recent, and strongly support the idea that city government should enact policies to preserve affordability. These efforts range from addressing Ellis Act evictions to getting more affordable housing in the pipeline and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most interesting to Cook was how respondents feel about the tech companies. 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But if you’re short on time and just want the highlights, this post’s for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.Work backwards\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Show affordable housing the money\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also goes on to criticize Plan Bay Area for its lack of monetary teeth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no funding source for the affordable housing that’s necessary to make that kind of vision work,” he said. “It’s just basically a numerical game plan and then the market builds. But the market only builds for a segment of that need and without the money, what you have is a recipe for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just how much does it cost to build affordable or subsidized housing? A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably costs, depending on who you’re building for, a few hundred thousand dollars in subsidies per unit,” said Gabriel Metcalf. “And maybe a third of that [comes from local sources]. So call it a $100,000 in subsidy, locally, per unit. You can kind of multiply that by how many people you want to help, and you can help thousands of people, but there will still be hundreds of thousands of people who are not going to get one of those units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Think beyond the single-family unit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a study on the East Bay of the potential for building in-law units, and compared it to the potential for building multi-family buildings, and we found that about half of our in-field developments should be coming from in-law units,” said Karen Chapple. “In many of our larger lots it’s very hard to assemble, it’s very expensive. It can cost one quarter the amount to build an in-law unit in the back of a single-family home. That said, it does need to be price controlled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials are starting to recognize the role that secondary units can play in easing the housing crunch. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed allowing in-law units to be built in his district\u003c/a> and Board of Supervisor President David Chiu introduced legislation that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize existing secondary units\u003c/a> that were built illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think Bay Area officials should do to increase the amount of affordable housing in the region? We welcome your suggestions in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. 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