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"content": "\u003cp>The Stud, San Francisco’s oldest operating gay bar, is \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/05/the-stud-closes-its-location-in-order-to-save-itself-for-the-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanently closing\u003c/a> its current SoMa location after 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who's frequented The Stud's cozy location at Ninth and Harrison streets knows it’s not just a venue — it’s a resilient community space and a second home for many. During its 55-year existence in San Francisco – the bar was formerly located on Folsom Street – it has survived the AIDS epidemic, two tech booms and a tripled rent hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the coronavirus pandemic, the 17-member collective that owns the bar faced what co-owner Marke Bieschke called a \"\u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/05/the-stud-closes-its-location-in-order-to-save-itself-for-the-future/\">desperate situation\u003c/a>\" felt by many small bars in the city that aren't getting a suspension or any breaks on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the bar’s co-owners are determined to reopen at a new location as soon as possible. And state lawmakers are pushing for legislation to help other spaces like The Stud survive the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic by renegotiating their leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fighting a Mass Extinction of Nightlife\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Across California, commercial tenants like The Stud are facing the unprecedented challenge of continuing to pay rent even though their businesses have to operate at severely limited capacity or have been forced to shutter altogether. Even as the state moves toward easing restrictions, the reality is that it’ll be a long time before many businesses can reopen at full capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco\"]'These are places where we find our community, where so many generations of LGBTQ people have gone to nightlife venues to find their community, to understand that they're not alone.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB939\">Senate Bill 939\u003c/a>, proposed legislation introduced in February by state Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Lena Gonzalez, D-Long Beach, who amended it last week with the aim of helping struggling businesses like The Stud by allowing commercial tenants to use their current income as a basis for negotiating reduced rent with their landlords. Under the bill, businesses like bars and restaurants could renegotiate their lease if they've lost over 40% of their revenue due to COVID-19 restrictions — and if they have to operate at reduced capacity because of social distancing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The negotiation process would be formalized into a 30-day period requiring at least two meetings between landlords and tenants. If the parties are unable to reach an agreement, tenants could then choose to terminate their lease without a penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although there are landlords doing the right thing, there are others who are not,\" Wiener said in a press briefing Thursday. \"And what this means is that these businesses will fold and the owners will potentially be driven into bankruptcy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11820145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud_Cash-e1590125600476.jpg\" alt=\"Militia Towers takes to the Black Fridays stage at The Stud on Sept. 22, 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Militia Towers takes to the Black Fridays stage at The Stud on Sept. 22, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener hopes the bill, scheduled for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday, will help curb mass closures of restaurants, cafes and bars in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the legislation is especially important for LGBTQ spaces like The Stud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are community spaces,” Wiener said. “These are places where we find our community, where so many generations of LGBTQ people have gone to nightlife venues to find their community, to understand that they're not alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud was forced to close its doors under shelter-in-place orders beginning in mid-March, and wasn’t permitted to offer cocktails-to-go as the venue doesn't have a kitchen. The owners organized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13878042/the-stud-reopens-virtually-with-a-weekly-drag-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual drag shows\u003c/a> that encouraged viewers to pay a cover charge, but the funds didn’t come close to covering the $444 daily rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for The Stud, the building’s landlords were “generous” and allowed them to terminate their lease early and vacate by May 31, according to the bar’s owners during a press briefing on Thursday. The co-op was merely breaking even before the pandemic, and this move saved them from accruing a massive amount of debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all commercial landlords are allowing tenants to break their leases early, and Wiener wants to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pandemic will end. It will be over,” Wiener said. “But we need to make sure that going back to normal doesn't mean we permanently lose so much of what made us strong and vibrant as a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bionka Simone enters the stage for Black Fridays on Sept. 22, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Ready for Another Impossible Feat\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time The Stud has faced the threat of permanent closure: In 2016, a group of community members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11041284/sfs-historic-stud-bar-appears-saved-from-closure-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banded together to form its current collective ownership\u003c/a> and saved The Stud after the landlords tripled the bar’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really like an impossible, very unlikely and ridiculous idea that 17 independent, strong-minded individual leaders could come together and somehow buy a bar together and then open it and keep it,” said Stud co-owner and drag queen VivvyAnne ForeverMORE, in a press briefing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the co-op faces another “impossible” challenge. But the owners are determined to reopen, and are keeping their liquor license while they search for a new space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13880884 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/The-Stud-1991-photo-by-Melissa-Hawkins.jpg']San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district covers The Stud’s neighborhood, said he will work to find the bar a permanent home. His office is working closely with Honey Mahogany — co-owner of The Stud, community activist and alum of RuPaul's Drag Race — to draft a local proposal that supports San Francisco’s nightlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to have to be completely outside of the box to be able to support our small businesses and especially our nightlife and our entertainment, which is not just about the money that comes in the door,” Haney said. “This is our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But securing a new location, especially during a pandemic, is difficult. Mahogany said moving to a new space will realistically cost somewhere between $700,000 to $1 million, so The Stud started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/stud-in-exile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> to fundraise for “start-up and buildout costs ... and to support the newly social-distanced reality of that in the interim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11820147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Posters supporting The Stud were taped along the sides of the bar outside the entrance, from July 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters supporting The Stud were taped along the sides of the bar outside the entrance, from July 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Goodbye in Style\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For community members wanting to help right now, ForeverMORE said the best thing to do is support the virtual events they’re holding — which include \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/drag-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drag Alive every Saturday at 7 p.m.\u003c/a>, Turbo Pageant on Wednesdays and Princess every other Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"— VivvyAnne ForeverMORE\"]'We're doing our best to create community online in the ways that we can figure out, so that we can be together even though we are not together.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just come and chat on the Twitch. Even if you hate it, come for five minutes. Tip the queen, throw the cover charge in there and that's a real way to support,” ForeverMORE said. “We're doing our best to create community online in the ways that we can figure out, so that we can be together even though we are not together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To mourn the loss of the current space and celebrate The Stud’s community, the bar’s owners are planning a livestream funeral on their Drag Alive show on May 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ForeverMORE encourages viewers to rummage through their likely ignored closets, find their best all-black ensemble and celebrate the legacy of San Francisco’s oldest gay bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we're drag queens, so we're gonna do it in style,” ForeverMORE said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners released a callout to any community members who want to perform, and they already have a star-studded lineup of drag queens, including Jinkx Monsoon, Alaska Thunderfuck and San Francisco’s Juanita MORE!. To top it off, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesisters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u003c/a> will perform a goodbye blessing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it likely won’t be a goodbye forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are making this sacrifice in closing down in order to continue and fight another day,” Mahogany told KQED. “I think this decision will make The Stud even stronger, and we'll come back with something cool that will continue its legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Holly McDede and Shannon Lin contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for The Stud, the building’s landlords were “generous” and allowed them to terminate their lease early and vacate by May 31, according to the bar’s owners during a press briefing on Thursday. The co-op was merely breaking even before the pandemic, and this move saved them from accruing a massive amount of debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all commercial landlords are allowing tenants to break their leases early, and Wiener wants to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pandemic will end. It will be over,” Wiener said. “But we need to make sure that going back to normal doesn't mean we permanently lose so much of what made us strong and vibrant as a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920_Stud-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bionka Simone enters the stage for Black Fridays on Sept. 22, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Ready for Another Impossible Feat\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time The Stud has faced the threat of permanent closure: In 2016, a group of community members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11041284/sfs-historic-stud-bar-appears-saved-from-closure-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banded together to form its current collective ownership\u003c/a> and saved The Stud after the landlords tripled the bar’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really like an impossible, very unlikely and ridiculous idea that 17 independent, strong-minded individual leaders could come together and somehow buy a bar together and then open it and keep it,” said Stud co-owner and drag queen VivvyAnne ForeverMORE, in a press briefing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the co-op faces another “impossible” challenge. But the owners are determined to reopen, and are keeping their liquor license while they search for a new space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district covers The Stud’s neighborhood, said he will work to find the bar a permanent home. His office is working closely with Honey Mahogany — co-owner of The Stud, community activist and alum of RuPaul's Drag Race — to draft a local proposal that supports San Francisco’s nightlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to have to be completely outside of the box to be able to support our small businesses and especially our nightlife and our entertainment, which is not just about the money that comes in the door,” Haney said. “This is our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But securing a new location, especially during a pandemic, is difficult. Mahogany said moving to a new space will realistically cost somewhere between $700,000 to $1 million, so The Stud started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/stud-in-exile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> to fundraise for “start-up and buildout costs ... and to support the newly social-distanced reality of that in the interim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11820147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Posters supporting The Stud were taped along the sides of the bar outside the entrance, from July 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS20266_160719_The-Stud-Bar_bhs12-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters supporting The Stud were taped along the sides of the bar outside the entrance, from July 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Goodbye in Style\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For community members wanting to help right now, ForeverMORE said the best thing to do is support the virtual events they’re holding — which include \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/drag-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drag Alive every Saturday at 7 p.m.\u003c/a>, Turbo Pageant on Wednesdays and Princess every other Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Quiver Watts, an organizer with Reclaim SF, said it’s “unforgivable” that so many units are vacant in San Francisco while thousands don’t have a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leaving people outside is a crisis in any moment,” Watts said, “but to do so during a global pandemic is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11797001,news_11796166,news_11795944\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts said Reclaim SF was inspired by the Moms 4 Housing protest, which involved a group of mothers experiencing homeless taking over a West Oakland home to protest speculation in the real estate market. The demonstration lasted for more two months and ended with the protesters reaching an agreement with the city of Oakland to buy the contested house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms 4 Housing argued that housing is a human right — a principle Watts echoed on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our neighbors are dying on the streets and in congregate shelters,” Watts said. “They have nowhere to shelter in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home on 19th Street in San Francisco has been vacant for years, said Monica Covington, who was commissioned by the property’s former owners to sell the two-story walk-up. It was last listed at nearly $2.5 million, she said, but needed significant work to refurbish. That was about three to four years ago, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even then, it had been vacant for a number of years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covington wasn’t sure what happened to the property but said the investment group who had hired her, Citadel Real Estate, no longer owned it. Public records show that the home is now owned by a trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The occupation was the terminus of a “cancel rent” car caravan that began Friday morning at Pier 50 in San Francisco. Demonstrators were calling on landlords, mortgage holders and the government to suspend rent and mortgage payments during the coronavirus pandemic. 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Demonstrators called on landlords, mortgage holders and the government to suspend rent and mortgage payments during the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orona is a former San Francisco firefighter who is now disabled and can’t work. She said she has nowhere to go because San Francisco’s rents are astronomically high. According to the real estate website Apartment List, the average two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was $3,094 in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cold out here and there are no places for us to go,” Orona said. “Our city leaders and (Mayor) London Breed need to make something happen and make something happen now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists have been stepping up pressure on San Francisco Mayor London Breed to move more homeless residents into hotels to protect them from becoming ill during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, a few dozen people spread out in front of Breed’s home, staging a die-in to call her attention to the plight of people living in emergency shelters and transitional housing programs. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was Jamie Bagley’s first apartment without roommates: a newly refurbished one-bedroom in downtown Oakland with sunlight streaming into the living room and a patio for her collection of outdoor plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $2,195 per month, the veteran hairdresser felt like years of hard work were finally paying off. She moved in on February 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus, and, one by one, clients canceled appointments. Her income dried up. Now, Bagley, 42, is worried she may have to leave the apartment she worked so hard to rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed like I had just landed, that I finally had just come to this point in life where I was starting to get ahead,” Bagley said. “Now when I look into the future, it looks like I might have some hard decisions to make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bagley is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">thousands of Californians who didn’t pay rent this month\u003c/a> — a number that’s only expected to grow the longer workers are ordered to stay home. She and fellow renters are safe for now: On April 6, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811012/california-court-leaders-suspend-evictions-amid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state Judicial Council suspended new eviction filings\u003c/a> for 90 days after the state of emergency is lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a decision that tipped the balance of power in favor of tenants, according to attorneys who represent both landlords and renters, and one that property law experts and activists say could have major ripple effects across California’s housing market for months, if not years, to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be a landlords’ market, but now it’s a renters’ market,” said Gustavo Lopez, a realtor and property manager for a dozen rentals in the San Francisco Bay Area. “Nobody saw this coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant rights attorney Joseph Tobener said he’s been getting about 100 calls a week from people who’ve lost their jobs and won’t be able to pay rent. [aside postID=\"news_11810140\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener said the big shift came after the Judicial Council’s decision to halt eviction proceedings statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lightbulb went off,” Tobener said. “I was like, ‘are you kidding me? What are people supposed to do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Power to the Tenants\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tobener’s firm, Tobener Ravenscroft LLP, is recommending tenants negotiate a rent deferment plan — even rent forgiveness — during the health emergency. The firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/cant-afford-rent-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently published a legal toolkit\u003c/a> for tenants who have been financially burdened because of COVID-19, which also advises tenants with no other options to stop paying rent and refuse to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobener predicts tenants likely won’t see an eviction judgement until sometime in 2021, because even when the courts do open, there will be a huge backlog of cases and the potential limitations of holding jury trials.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joseph Tobener, Tenant rights attorney\"]‘It’s a real mess… It’s like the perfect shitstorm with the courts being closed.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real mess,” Tobener said. “It’s like the perfect shitstorm with the courts being closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Woo, a San Francisco-based property attorney who represents landlords with Cooper White & Cooper LLP, also sees a backlog of cases in the courts’ future, and said that means time is now on the tenants’ side. The Judicial Council’s decision was just one more in a bevy of tenant protections cities and counties had already approved, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this order has done is, it has shifted the whole timing to at least 120 days longer,” Woo said, “and that is to the advantage of the tenant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evictions were one way to get tenants to negotiate a payment plan if they were not making rent, Woo said. But rent will be due eventually, and Woo is advising clients to work out a deal with their tenants to pay some rent now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some property management companies, however, have tried more aggressive tactics to get their tenants to pay. Greg August, of San Francisco, was laid off in March from his job as a hotel convention waiter and bartender. He’s applied for unemployment but still hasn’t received a payment yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property managers for Normandy Apartments in San Francisco, where August lives, slipped a letter under the door asking for a phone number for tenants’ employers to verify they are unemployed. They also requested a statement, under penalty of perjury, declaring the tenant does not have sufficient savings to cover rent. Attorneys for tenants say that it’s illegal to request those items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August said the letter made him really nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like getting up in the morning,” he said. “I’m afraid there will be a knock on my door demanding I pay, and I’m worried about someone approaching me in the laundry room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Kimmel, one of the property managers for Normandy Apartments, said they’ve since agreed to only ask tenants for a letter from their employers stating their hours were reduced or that they were laid off. Then, like many other property managers, he’ll try to work out a payment plan when the tenants can go back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all in the same boat here,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Striking a Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/many-americans-couldnt-pay-april-rent/\">A recent survey by Apartment List\u003c/a> of nearly 1,000 California residents found nearly 11 percent of tenants were unable to pay any rent in April. Another 14 percent of renters could only make a partial payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s pretty consistent with what Bill Rosetti, the CEO of J & R Associates, an Oakland-based property management firm, said he’s seeing, with about 10 percent of the tenants in the 700 or 800 units his company owns unable to pay rent this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosetti is offering his tenants a 60-day deferral on rent and is using that time to figure out a payment plan. A five-decade veteran of the industry, Rosetti has seen recessions come and go. But he’s never experienced anything like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is way worse,” he said, “because in other cycles, it’s just a small percentage of people — 5 or 10 percent of tenants who can’t pay — but in this circumstance, every one of our tenants is impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expects 30 percent of his tenants won’t be able to pay come June if the shelter in place continues, which will make it difficult to keep up with maintenance on the buildings and seismic retrofit work he had planned to do this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden falls especially hard on small landlords who have just a few properties they rent out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Kim and his wife purchased a four-unit apartment building in Oakland’s Eastmont neighborhood last year. Most of the tenants use Section 8 vouchers to subsidize their rents, Kim said. And two of them couldn’t make payments this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said he has no plans to evict his tenants. But he doesn’t know how long he can cover his mortgage without their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can do maybe six months, and then we’ll be forced to sell the building,” he said, adding that the time frame includes getting his bank to agree to a forbearance on the mortgage and taking out loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t pay for April, May and June, my bank won’t charge interest, but come July, I have to pay in full,” he said. “And if I don’t pay anything until then, I will have a really big bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Ripple Effects\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If property owners can’t pay their mortgages or maintain their properties, a housing disaster could be looming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just renters that get hurt by this,” said Carol Galante, faculty director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and the former federal housing commissioner during the Obama administration. “I think people really don’t understand how much of the rent goes to covering the basics of owning and running a building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst case scenario, Galante said that if landlords start missing their payments, we could see an extended drop in rents and home values. On top of that, a spike in unemployment and an uncertain economic forecast could spell bad news for the housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to see a dramatic distressed market,” Galante said. “That’s not good for anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as landlords are feeling uncertain about being able to pay their mortgages, electricity bills and maintenance, tenants are uncertain when they will go back to work — or even if they will go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Bagley always thought hairdressing was a recession-proof profession. Even during the Great Depression, some people were getting their hair done, she said. Now, she’s not sure when she’ll be allowed to go back to work or what the economy will look like when she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she doesn’t want to use the little savings she has on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel better hanging on to what I have,” Bagley said, acknowledging that landlords are in a tough spot, too. “I feel like there has to be some sort of debt forgiveness here, otherwise everyone is going to end up in a really bad place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for Tenants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>KQED’s collection of resources for renters, with a breakdown by county are available \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For additional assistance with bills see KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812172/how-to-navigate-bills-right-now-from-student-loans-to-phone-plans#4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Navigate Bills Right Now, From Student Loans to Phone Plans. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.mynd.co/situation-room/tenant/coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collection of resources\u003c/a> on COVID-19 for renters and residents compiled by Mynd Property Management.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R9y8KLbU-oZTJheoqobmqg6TJxkwSjTkJvm6WywHURk/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Mass Resource List\u003c/a> is a continuously updated document with additional housing and health information.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California tenants just scored a rare victory in the state Capitol—emphasis on the rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high-profile bill passed Wednesday night by the state Assembly would impose \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/rent-control-cap-california-housing-gouging/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a “rent-gouging cap” on annual rent increases\u003c/a> for the vast majority of renters. If approved by the state Senate and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, it would make California the second state to provide such protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11677380,news_11732880,news_11728558\" label=\"More on Renter Protections\"]“I’m thrilled that the Assembly has taken one step forward to providing some relief to millions of tenants one rent increase away from losing their homes,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, Democrat from San Francisco and author of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant rights group can rightfully celebrate today’s vote as an achievement—mostly because of the near-herculean effort it took to get a renter bill this far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&firstNav=tracking\">AB 1482\u003c/a> was significantly watered down to accommodate reluctant lawmakers and appease opposing interest groups: The proposed rent cap was raised from 5% to 7% plus inflation; it exempts landlords who own less than 10 single family homes; and it would expire in 2023. And it still just squeaked by the Assembly. The fate of a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1481&firstNav=tracking\">twin bill\u003c/a> that would have mandated landlords evict tenants only for “just cause”—which many argue is necessary for Chiu’s bill to be effective—remains uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d expect California’s 17 million renters to have more juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of Californians are tenants, including 12 million of voting age—a major swath of the potential electorate. Rents have soared to alarming highs, causing more than half the state’s tenants to meet the federal definition of “housing-cost burdened.” In one of his first addresses in office, the state’s new progressive governor called on a Democratic supermajority of state lawmakers to send him a package of tenant protection bill as soon as possible. This weekend a recently formed Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/renters-caucus-california-democratic-state-convention-2019-tickets-62122943396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“renters caucus”\u003c/a> will host an event at the state party convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, legislation aimed at helping California’s renters almost always has struggled to get through the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742791/bill-to-expand-rent-control-in-california-stalls-in-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bill that would have allowed California cities to expand rent control\u003c/a> to more residences was withdrawn by its author when it became clear the bill couldn’t even muster enough support to pass its first committee hearing. A proposal that would have created a \u003ca href=\"https://a15.asmdc.org/press-releases/20190318-california-lawmakers-announce-measures-protect-renters-and-combat-housing\">statewide rental database\u003c/a> to reliably track evictions and prices—data that’s hard to come by for anyone but landlords—was quietly buried before it could advance to a full floor vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Paul Mitchell, Political Data Inc\"]“When you think about renters, you’re looking at a lower socioeconomic status, younger people, people who move more often. That’s all negatively correlated to turnout.”[/pullquote]“We have in California in both houses a supermajority of Democrats, many of whom will tell you that they’re concerned about the housing crisis,” said Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation and a lobbyist for tenant interests who has watched a handful of tenant protection bills die or get watered down in recent years. “And yet when we go to try to secure their vote for what seem like very reasonable policies, they’re not going up [to vote].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why can’t tenant groups wield the political muscle you’d think their numbers would warrant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money is the easy answer: Landlords have it, renters don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have to have plausible arguments, and our arguments still have to resonate,” said Deb Carlton, lobbyist for the California Apartment Association.”A lot of these bills are extreme and they’re not willing to compromise on these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more to it than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>California renters are more likely to be lower income, younger and immigrants—all demographic blocs less likely to vote\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Who’s your typical California renter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture a Latina woman in her early 40s, making around $26,000 a year. There’s about a 1 in 3 chance that’s she’s foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast that to your typical California homeowner—white, ten years older, making about $12,000 more a year. There’s about a 25% chance she was born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of the demographic characteristics associated with homeownership—nativity, race and ethnicity, income level, age—make homeowners much more likely to vote than renters. And lawmakers are acutely aware of who votes and who doesn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/17564e7a-9f02-4e29-86e6-a30ac2d19a73?src=embed\" title=\"Renter v homeowner\" width=\"600\" height=\"860\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about renters, you’re looking at a lower socioeconomic status, younger people, people who move more often. That’s all negatively correlated to turnout,” said Paul Mitchell, a political consultant with Political Data Inc, which provides voter roll services to state political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite comprising more than 40% of the population, renters make up only about 20% of registered California voters, according to data analyzed by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November, tenant advocates hoped that a rent control initiative put on the ballot would gin up turnout from renters who finally had a clear and compelling economic interest to show up to the polls. Although precise data on the rental status of voters is hard to obtain, an analysis of voters identified as renters by Political Data Inc. shows that registered homeowners were still about 25 percent more likely to vote than registered renters. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702293/early-results-show-rent-control-measure-trailing-at-polls\">rent control initiative lost\u003c/a> by an overwhelming margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>It’s not just what’s associated with being a renter that depresses turnout. Just being a renter, itself, makes you less likely to vote.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2016, simply owning a home in California meant you were nearly 6% more likely to be a registered voter than if you rented, even controlling for factors like ethnicity and level of education, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renting had roughly as strong an impact on your likelihood to register as being unemployed or being single. That disparity in renter-versus-homeowner registration and turnout has persisted election after election, in California and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you buy a house, you become settled in a community,” said Eric McGhee, research fellow at the institute. “When you’re settled in a community, you’re more likely to sign up and register to vote, and when you’re registered, you’re more likely to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11751072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-1020x1029.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-1020x1029.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-160x161.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-800x807.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM.png 1102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>There are some very practical reasons renting keeps Californians from the ballot box. Renters tend to move more, meaning they need to re-register to vote at each new address. Political mailers and turn-out-the-vote campaigns can have a tough time infiltrating apartment complexes and keeping track of who moved where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond these structural barriers, there’s the thorny question of why more renters aren’t more politically organized and active, especially compared to homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the answer–many renters consider their identity as a tenant temporary, and aspire to be homeowners some day. Why spend time on something like campaigning for rent control if you won’t benefit from it in a few years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in America and certainly everyone in California, from when you’re born, the expectation is you rent until you have enough money to buy a house,” said Shanti Singh, communications director for Tenants Together, a statewide coalition of local tenants groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh likens the difficulty tenants unions have mobilizing renters to the difficulty labor unions have mobilizing workers who aspire to one day rise to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Brian Augusta, lobbyist for tenant interests\"]“That’s the question we’re always asking ourselves.”[/pullquote]“We’re like 20 to 30 years behind the labor movement, and even the labor movement is always trying to get people to understand their identity as workers,” said Singh. “We’re trying to do the same thing and kind of trying to follow that path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dynamic may be changing as the cost of homeownership becomes less and less feasible for younger Californians, who may consider renting less a temporary station and more the only viable means of remaining in the state. In 1970, the average California home \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/digging-data-attainable-california-dream-today/\">cost about three times\u003c/a> the median income for a 25 to 34-year-old family. Today the average home costs about seven times a young family’s earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The money imbalance is important, but it doesn’t explain everything\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To many in the tenants rights movement, the answer to why pro-renter bills die in the Capitol is simple: Landlords and their allies have lots of money for campaign contributions, lobbying and independent political expenditures. Tenants don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Apartment Association, the primary interest group representing large landlords on statewide issues, poured $280,000 into general lobbying in the first three months of this year. The California Association of Realtors, a longtime political ally of the landlords and a staunch opponent of rent control, spent $418,000. In the last election cycle, those interest groups lavished nearly $1 million on campaign contributions to candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re doing your rounds on lobbying, it’s just sort of a black box when you have groups like the realtors and (landlords) on the other side,” said Augusta, the pro-tenant lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while certainly important, money doesn’t explain everything about why Democratic lawmakers shy away from tenant bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11741220\"]Many legislators who have not supported tenant legislation represent solidly blue legislative districts, and have little fear of losing to a Republican challenger funded by a punitive real estate lobby or a Democratic challenger in a primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the question we’re always asking ourselves,” said Augusta. “I don’t know the answer as to why they would run scared in a safe district from a bill that benefits their constituents even though it might upset groups from the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers could obviously be worried about rubbing the industry the wrong way if they seek higher office, or have other legislative priorities in need of industry support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another underlying reason tenant groups believe they have trouble resonating with lawmakers: Almost all the legislators are homeowners, and many are landlords \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741220/lawmakers-and-landlords-more-than-a-quarter-of-california-legislators-are-both\">themselves.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CALmatters could only identify one state lawmaker who was not a homeowner—Assemblyman Todd Gloria, Democrat from San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We have in California in both houses a supermajority of Democrats, many of whom will tell you that they’re concerned about the housing crisis,” said Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation and a lobbyist for tenant interests who has watched a handful of tenant protection bills die or get watered down in recent years. “And yet when we go to try to secure their vote for what seem like very reasonable policies, they’re not going up [to vote].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why can’t tenant groups wield the political muscle you’d think their numbers would warrant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money is the easy answer: Landlords have it, renters don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have to have plausible arguments, and our arguments still have to resonate,” said Deb Carlton, lobbyist for the California Apartment Association.”A lot of these bills are extreme and they’re not willing to compromise on these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more to it than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>California renters are more likely to be lower income, younger and immigrants—all demographic blocs less likely to vote\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Who’s your typical California renter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture a Latina woman in her early 40s, making around $26,000 a year. There’s about a 1 in 3 chance that’s she’s foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast that to your typical California homeowner—white, ten years older, making about $12,000 more a year. There’s about a 25% chance she was born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of the demographic characteristics associated with homeownership—nativity, race and ethnicity, income level, age—make homeowners much more likely to vote than renters. 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That’s all negatively correlated to turnout,” said Paul Mitchell, a political consultant with Political Data Inc, which provides voter roll services to state political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite comprising more than 40% of the population, renters make up only about 20% of registered California voters, according to data analyzed by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November, tenant advocates hoped that a rent control initiative put on the ballot would gin up turnout from renters who finally had a clear and compelling economic interest to show up to the polls. Although precise data on the rental status of voters is hard to obtain, an analysis of voters identified as renters by Political Data Inc. shows that registered homeowners were still about 25 percent more likely to vote than registered renters. 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Renters tend to move more, meaning they need to re-register to vote at each new address. Political mailers and turn-out-the-vote campaigns can have a tough time infiltrating apartment complexes and keeping track of who moved where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond these structural barriers, there’s the thorny question of why more renters aren’t more politically organized and active, especially compared to homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the answer–many renters consider their identity as a tenant temporary, and aspire to be homeowners some day. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]D[/dropcap]o you know how much your neighbor’s house cost? How about how much they pay in property taxes? We usually don’t pry into our neighbors’ lives and ask these questions, but as part of our special on California’s Proposition 13, that’s exactly what we did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year marks the 40th anniversary of Proposition 13, which essentially locks in a homeowner’s property tax to the year they bought their home — no matter how much their home increases in value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a sense of Proposition 13’s impact on Californians, KQED Education Reporter Vanessa Rancaño looked at her own neighborhood in North Oakland, where she rents a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED Education Reporter Vanessa Rancaño invited her North Oakland neighbors over to talk about the impact Proposition 13 has had on their lives. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a rainy day in late November, three of her neighbors and a fellow Oakland resident met in Rancaño’s living room for brunch and a conversation about how Proposition 13 affects each of them differently — even though they live just doors away from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700683/too-few-homes-is-proposition-13-to-blame-for-californias-housing-shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Michelle Krasowski\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Krasowski is a librarian who rents an apartment in North Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Krasowski is a librarian who rents an apartment in North Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">The California Dream: The Oakland Block That Proposition 13 Built\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/10/23/Prop13600.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, Proposition 13 has played an outsized role in who can afford to live in California. Did it save the California Dream, or spoil it? To answer that question, we focused on a single block in a middle-class neighborhood in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Michelle Krasowski works as the Librarian Specialist in support of Adult Services for the Contra Costa County Library System. She has rented an apartment on the block for two years, and says she spends most of her paycheck on rent. She says she was shocked when she found out how her rent compares to what her landlord is paying in property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I feel like he’s he’s getting a lot out of this and I’m getting a lot sucked out of me and my life. I’m here to serve the public and my community, I’m invested in improving people’s quality of life — especially for people like me who are government workers. I can’t negotiate a higher salary. I have a salary cap. There is no rent cap, there is no home sales cap. So in this particular climate I’ll never be able to own a home. And that’s really sad to me as somebody who really cares about the people around me.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Wilkins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Wilkens is retired. He bought his house in Oakland in 1976.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Wilkins is retired. He bought his house in Oakland in 1976. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1976 (two years before Proposition 13 passed), Ken Wilkins bought his home for $18,500. That was $2,000 less than he paid for the car he drives now. Now, he pays only $1,800 in property taxes, which helps him stay in the neighborhood as a retired senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I think I [voted for Proposition 13], but I really didn’t think it out really well. I think there should have been some other compromise like businesses should not have had that break at all. But I actually am happy to be under Proposition 13. [If Proposition 13 were theoretically repealed], I think I would move to Nebraska!”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700810/similar-homes-different-taxes-is-proposition-13-fair-to-new-homeowners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Jas Johl\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jas Johl got a job in the tech industry so she could buy her house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jas Johl got a job in the tech industry so she could buy her house. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jas Johl grew up in Sacramento and got a needs-based scholarship to attend UC Berkeley for college. She chose to work in the tech industry because she wanted to own a home in Oakland. She says she is more willing to pay her hefty property taxes ($13,000), because they go toward funding public education. Still, she says, it doesn’t seem right that so few people have the chance to be homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“My parents were immigrants, I grew up in a family of seven on a $35,000 income. And now I am a family of one with…I don’t know how many times that income. I do think I’m very lucky but I also feel like it shouldn’t be this hard. I like the job I have now. But I mean, would I be a teacher if being a teacher paid the same amount?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Gardner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Gardner was Oakland's Assistant City Manager in 1978 when Prop 13 passed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Gardner was Oakland’s Assistant City Manager in 1978 when Prop 13 passed. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henry Gardner has lived in Oakland since 1971. He was Assistant City Manager when Proposition 13 passed and became City Manager three years later. He says as a homeowner, he benefits from Proposition 13 — even though he says it has hurt the city “tremendously.” Gardner is a strong advocate of a split roll tax, which would adjust property taxes more frequently. It will be on the ballot in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“[The] California dream is to expose our children to arts, to culture, to music, to have high-quality libraries, to have communities that are safe. Those are all California dreams. It’s not just ownership. It’s an opportunity to advance, and we have lost a lot of that. Not all of it’s due to Proposition 13, but a lot of it is.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>o you know how much your neighbor’s house cost? How about how much they pay in property taxes? We usually don’t pry into our neighbors’ lives and ask these questions, but as part of our special on California’s Proposition 13, that’s exactly what we did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year marks the 40th anniversary of Proposition 13, which essentially locks in a homeowner’s property tax to the year they bought their home — no matter how much their home increases in value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a sense of Proposition 13’s impact on Californians, KQED Education Reporter Vanessa Rancaño looked at her own neighborhood in North Oakland, where she rents a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34431_TCR-120118_PROP13-_101-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED Education Reporter Vanessa Rancaño invited her North Oakland neighbors over to talk about the impact Proposition 13 has had on their lives. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a rainy day in late November, three of her neighbors and a fellow Oakland resident met in Rancaño’s living room for brunch and a conversation about how Proposition 13 affects each of them differently — even though they live just doors away from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700683/too-few-homes-is-proposition-13-to-blame-for-californias-housing-shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Michelle Krasowski\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Krasowski is a librarian who rents an apartment in North Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34435_TCR-120118_PROP13-_205-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Krasowski is a librarian who rents an apartment in North Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">The California Dream: The Oakland Block That Proposition 13 Built\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/10/23/Prop13600.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, Proposition 13 has played an outsized role in who can afford to live in California. Did it save the California Dream, or spoil it? To answer that question, we focused on a single block in a middle-class neighborhood in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Michelle Krasowski works as the Librarian Specialist in support of Adult Services for the Contra Costa County Library System. She has rented an apartment on the block for two years, and says she spends most of her paycheck on rent. She says she was shocked when she found out how her rent compares to what her landlord is paying in property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I feel like he’s he’s getting a lot out of this and I’m getting a lot sucked out of me and my life. I’m here to serve the public and my community, I’m invested in improving people’s quality of life — especially for people like me who are government workers. I can’t negotiate a higher salary. I have a salary cap. There is no rent cap, there is no home sales cap. So in this particular climate I’ll never be able to own a home. And that’s really sad to me as somebody who really cares about the people around me.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Wilkins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Wilkens is retired. He bought his house in Oakland in 1976.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34430_TCR-120118_PROP13-_147-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Wilkins is retired. He bought his house in Oakland in 1976. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1976 (two years before Proposition 13 passed), Ken Wilkins bought his home for $18,500. That was $2,000 less than he paid for the car he drives now. Now, he pays only $1,800 in property taxes, which helps him stay in the neighborhood as a retired senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I think I [voted for Proposition 13], but I really didn’t think it out really well. I think there should have been some other compromise like businesses should not have had that break at all. But I actually am happy to be under Proposition 13. [If Proposition 13 were theoretically repealed], I think I would move to Nebraska!”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700810/similar-homes-different-taxes-is-proposition-13-fair-to-new-homeowners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Jas Johl\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jas Johl got a job in the tech industry so she could buy her house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34432_TCR-120118_PROP13-_292-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jas Johl got a job in the tech industry so she could buy her house. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jas Johl grew up in Sacramento and got a needs-based scholarship to attend UC Berkeley for college. She chose to work in the tech industry because she wanted to own a home in Oakland. She says she is more willing to pay her hefty property taxes ($13,000), because they go toward funding public education. Still, she says, it doesn’t seem right that so few people have the chance to be homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“My parents were immigrants, I grew up in a family of seven on a $35,000 income. And now I am a family of one with…I don’t know how many times that income. I do think I’m very lucky but I also feel like it shouldn’t be this hard. I like the job I have now. But I mean, would I be a teacher if being a teacher paid the same amount?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Gardner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Gardner was Oakland's Assistant City Manager in 1978 when Prop 13 passed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34433_TCR-120118_PROP13-_257-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Gardner was Oakland’s Assistant City Manager in 1978 when Prop 13 passed. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henry Gardner has lived in Oakland since 1971. He was Assistant City Manager when Proposition 13 passed and became City Manager three years later. He says as a homeowner, he benefits from Proposition 13 — even though he says it has hurt the city “tremendously.” Gardner is a strong advocate of a split roll tax, which would adjust property taxes more frequently. It will be on the ballot in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“[The] California dream is to expose our children to arts, to culture, to music, to have high-quality libraries, to have communities that are safe. Those are all California dreams. It’s not just ownership. It’s an opportunity to advance, and we have lost a lot of that. Not all of it’s due to Proposition 13, but a lot of it is.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Mateo County is one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045216/06081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expensive \u003c/a>counties in the Bay Area. That's largely because it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/majorer/countymajorer.asp?CountyCode=000081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">home to several Silicon Valley giants\u003c/a>, drawing huge numbers of well-paid people to work at companies like Oracle in Redwood City, Gilead Sciences in Foster City and Facebook in Menlo Park. But that drives up the cost of real estate and rents, and that's driving out many seniors, singles and young families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of \u003ca href=\"http://housing.smcgov.org/sites/housing.smcgov.org/files/September%202016%20Indicators%20%28Secure%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last September\u003c/a>, according to the most recent data available from the county, the average rent for a one-bedroom was $2,622; for a two-bedroom, it was $2,980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a> released a study of 100 low-income people from Daly City to East Palo Alto, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/sites/default/files/images/impacts_of_displacement_in_san_mateo_county.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Displacement in San Mateo County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the lead authors, Miriam Zuk, explains what they were looking for. \"What happened to people? Where did they move? What kind of neighborhoods did they end up in?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers found stories of landlords who illegally harassed renters into leaving or evicted them for no cause. But often they simply raised the rent. Zuk says a number of jurisdictions have adopted restrictions on rent hikes or on evictions, but not both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those really need to go hand in hand,\" she says, \"because if you're not able to evict somebody in the way you want to, you can just raise the rent -- and evict them, essentially, that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people pushed out often can’t afford anything else on the local market. \"The pockets of affordability are rapidly disappearing,\" Zuk says. Those surveyed who did have the resources to move left the county, and even the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The others? The study found that one in three displaced low-income households wound up couch-surfing with family or friends -- or on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You Don’t Have to be Poor to be Pushed Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if rents have \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/27/bay-area-tenants-get-some-relief-as-rents-continue-to-slide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leveled off recently\u003c/a>, they’ve leveled off at stratospheric heights, and many landlords are keen to charge what the market will bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saia Fetuu makes a good enough living in landscaping and construction to afford $2,800 for a three-bedroom, single-family home in formerly affordable East Palo Alto. But a couple of months ago, he says, his landlord notified him the rent would rise by $1,050 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked them to negotiate with us,\" Fetuu says. \"You know, we can work something out, something we can afford.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite nearly 14 years in the house, Fetuu couldn’t get anywhere. The company, Working Dirt LLC, referred us to their attorney, who did not return our calls. The company has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/coverage/2013/squeezed-by-the-foreclosure-crisis-and-booming-silicon-valley-real-estate-east-palo-alto-confronts-gentrification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">track record\u003c/a> of buying up properties that fall into foreclosure in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fetuu family’s case has been taken up by \u003ca href=\"http://www.clsepa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit. The family’s attorney, Jason Tarricone, says, \"What they're doing is not necessarily illegal. It’s immoral. And so we are asking them to come to the table and negotiate a fair rent increase.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the County is Doing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, San Mateo County is helping to fund the construction of new affordable units and protect what affordable units still exist. This week, county supervisors voted to boost spending on affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters recently approved Measure K, a half-cent sales tax extension, to fund the creation and protection of affordable housing, among other municipal needs. On Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"http://sanmateocounty.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=58&meta_id=7044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supervisors voted unanimously\u003c/a> to spend nearly $44 million of that money over the next two years alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that meeting, Board of Supervisors President \u003ca href=\"http://bos.smcgov.org/district-3-don-horsley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Horsley \u003c/a>acknowledged his office gets \"barraged\" with emails from people objecting to individual affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People don't like change,\" he said, \"but somehow, we have to get that message out, that it's in their self-interest: the interest of having extended families, and having fewer people clog up the roads and highways,\" traveling from outside the county to work at jobs they no longer live near.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To watch the board meeting about this issue, advance to 1:12:30 below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://sanmateocounty.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=58&starttime=undefined&stoptime=undefined&autostart=0&embed=1\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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