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"content": "\u003cp>To afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, you need to earn $29.83 an hour, or $62,046 annually, according to a new \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>out this month from the \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>. Add a second bedroom and your household hourly wage needs to hit $37.62 ($78,249 annually), the highest for any metro region in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things don’t get better in other parts of the Bay Area: San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin join San Francisco atop the charts as four of the six most expensive counties in America. Oakland-Fremont, Santa Cruz-Watsonville and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara join San Francisco in the top 10 most expensive metro regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130734 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/most-expensive-jurisdictions-640x226.jpg\" alt=\"Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"226\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several California cities and counties top the list of most expensive places to rent a home. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This report also contains dismal news for minimum-wage workers in California. Those earning the state minimum wage of $8 an hour would need to work 130 hours a week (there are 168 hours in a week total) to afford a market-rate two-bedroom in California based on the statewide real estate average. Though the minimum wage is higher in many California cities, including San Francisco and San Jose, there is still a wide gap between what minimum-wage workers earn and what they need for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign to raise the state minimum wage to $12 an hour \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/17/ron-unz-minimum-wage-measure-unlikely-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">failed to gather enough financial support\u003c/a> to get on this year’s ballot. KQED’s Do Now project recently asked people across the country \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2014/03/22/minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">how much they think minimum wage should be. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 628px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/local-min-wage-rates.jpg\" alt=\"Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"628\" height=\"340\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimum wage workers in San Francisco and San Jose still fall short of being able to afford housing. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you look at what people in the Bay Area are actually earning, the picture is a\u003cem> bit\u003c/em> less grim. The average renter in San Francisco, for example, earned $31.45 an hour – well above the $10.74 minimum wage. At that rate, it would take 1.2 full-time jobs to afford a two-bedroom in the city. Factor in a roommate or partner to split the rent with, and things look a bit more manageable – at least for those at or above the average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Jose metro region, the average renter is even better off, earning $32.99 an hour, but only $31.71 is needed for a market-rate two-bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, if all of these wage levels seem out of reach, we’ll leave you with a glimpse of all the cheaper places you could live. Hint: Can anybody give us a ride to Idaho?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-27-at-11.00.00-AM-640x516.png\" alt=\"A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nationwide view of housing affordability. (National Low Income Housing Coalition)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Now Brian Singer, a housing activist and former president of the nostalgically named \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkclub.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey Milk Democratic Club\u003c/a>, is pushing for the city to resurrect the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is that speculators would lose half of their profits from the immediate sale of a newly purchased property. The tax hit would decrease proportionally over the first six years of ownership and drop off completely after six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost overwhelming to think about being able to pass the very last thing Harvey Milk worked on during his life,” Singer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was one of seven considered at Saturday’s citywide Tenant Convention at the Tenderloin Community School auditorium. Participants were able to rank their preference for various proposals by ballot. The event was the culmination of a series of neighborhood tenant conventions that aimed to generate ideas to solve the city’s affordable housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is happening at the same time that the Board of Supervisors is uniting to pass stronger protections for tenants and encourage the development of both new market-rate and affordable housing. At the convention, which quickly reached legal capacity, six of the 11 supervisors were in attendance: John Avalos, David Campos, David Chiu, Malia Cohen, Jane Kim and Eric Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of you tenants of San Francisco are angry and outraged and fearful and frustrated, and City Hall knows that,” Sara Shortt, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hrcsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\u003c/a>, told conventioneers. “You’ve helped us make a great statement that we can no longer wait around until this becomes more than just a crisis but a disaster of epic proportions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizers said they would lobby the supervisors to approve the proposals that receive the most support. And that if the Board of Supervisors ignores them, they would work to advance a ballot measure in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants were asked to rank the following proposals and to suggest one of their own that was not listed:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Anti-speculation tax: Impose a windfall profits tax on speculators who buy and sell housing without keeping their buildings for at least six years. The rate would decrease each year of ownership, starting at 50 percent of the gain. The quicker the “flip,” the higher the tax.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eviction moratorium: One-year pause on certain no-fault evictions, including owner-move-in evictions for long-term tenants with more than 10 years tenancy. A pause also on demolition and capital improvement evictions, except for code compliance or safety upgrades. The moratorium would not apply to Ellis Act evictions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was one of seven considered at Saturday’s citywide Tenant Convention at the Tenderloin Community School auditorium. Participants were able to rank their preference for various proposals by ballot. The event was the culmination of a series of neighborhood tenant conventions that aimed to generate ideas to solve the city’s affordable housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is happening at the same time that the Board of Supervisors is uniting to pass stronger protections for tenants and encourage the development of both new market-rate and affordable housing. At the convention, which quickly reached legal capacity, six of the 11 supervisors were in attendance: John Avalos, David Campos, David Chiu, Malia Cohen, Jane Kim and Eric Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of you tenants of San Francisco are angry and outraged and fearful and frustrated, and City Hall knows that,” Sara Shortt, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hrcsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\u003c/a>, told conventioneers. “You’ve helped us make a great statement that we can no longer wait around until this becomes more than just a crisis but a disaster of epic proportions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizers said they would lobby the supervisors to approve the proposals that receive the most support. And that if the Board of Supervisors ignores them, they would work to advance a ballot measure in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants were asked to rank the following proposals and to suggest one of their own that was not listed:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Anti-speculation tax: Impose a windfall profits tax on speculators who buy and sell housing without keeping their buildings for at least six years. The rate would decrease each year of ownership, starting at 50 percent of the gain. The quicker the “flip,” the higher the tax.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eviction moratorium: One-year pause on certain no-fault evictions, including owner-move-in evictions for long-term tenants with more than 10 years tenancy. A pause also on demolition and capital improvement evictions, except for code compliance or safety upgrades. The moratorium would not apply to Ellis Act evictions. Other exception would apply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Department of Rent Control Enforcement and Compliance: Create a new city office charged with assuring that policies comply with laws protecting tenants, monitoring enforcement — and supporting research on rental housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Upgrade relocation assistance: Increase relocation payments to tenants for no-fault evictions (aside from Ellis Act evictions) to cover the difference between a displaced tenant’s existing rent and market-rate rent for not less than two years. Proposal would complement currently pending Ellis Act relocation assistance legislation.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Excessive rents tax: Create a new tax on new rental agreements if rent exceeds affordability levels set by the city. The tax would increase with higher levels. Under some circumstances, tax costs could be passed through to existing tenants.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Housing balance requirement: Restrict or condition city approval of new market-rate housing based upon the developer’s ability to meet affordable housing goals, and replace housing lost because of Ellis Act evictions and demolitions. Policy would create incentives to build new affordable housing and preserve rent-controlled housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Legalize illegal units: Improve process to convert illegal rental units into legal-rent controlled housing. Restrict “removal of unit” evictions where units can be legalized. Waive nonessential zoning and code enforcements not related to safety.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\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>[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. The bus departed at 9:20 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, nobody pretended to be an entitled techie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Robles, who works for a nonprofit group that advocates for seniors and the disabled , said he joined the rally to call attention to rising rents that displaced vulnerable residents. “We’re here to send a message to the rich tech companies that their business has ramifications and consequences,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to talk to the bus riders were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business leaders have said the backlash against the tech buses doesn’t make sense, as the buses take solo drivers off the roads. According to the Bay Area Council, a business group that represents the shuttle operators, 30 companies run the buses and make a combined total of 4,000 stops across San Francisco every weekday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, those buses are using Muni stops without permission and without paying a cent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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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. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. The bus departed at 9:20 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, nobody pretended to be an entitled techie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Robles, who works for a nonprofit group that advocates for seniors and the disabled , said he joined the rally to call attention to rising rents that displaced vulnerable residents. “We’re here to send a message to the rich tech companies that their business has ramifications and consequences,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to talk to the bus riders were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business leaders have said the backlash against the tech buses doesn’t make sense, as the buses take solo drivers off the roads. According to the Bay Area Council, a business group that represents the shuttle operators, 30 companies run the buses and make a combined total of 4,000 stops across San Francisco every weekday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, those buses are using Muni stops without permission and without paying a cent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The act allows landlords to evict tenants in order to get out of the rental business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”20dea849ee67276a47c7386f7a35d71c”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brousseau noted the evictions through September amount to a 145 percent increase compared to the previous 12 months. The figure is likely much higher, he said, because it doesn’t account for tenants who accepted buyouts. The neighborhood with the highest number of Ellis Act evictions was the Mission, followed by the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increased number of evictions is hitting a city where more and more residents are struggling to keep up with higher rents. Brousseau’s report says 42 percent of San Francisco households are “rent burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30 percent of their household income on rent. The number was highest in the Bayview, Excelsior and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods, where 57 percent of households are considered rent burdened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fear is real and it’s based on facts that we now have,” said Supervisor Eric Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a translator, Anna Gutierrez with the housing justice and immigrant rights nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjjc.org/\">Just Cause\u003c/a>, described in Spanish how she is facing an imminent eviction from her Mission home, where she has lived for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This injustice has to end now,” she said. “I have seen too many of my neighbors evicted and it doesn’t seem to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beverly Upton, who has helped women find shelter and housing in her role as director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, said she and her neighbor are facing Ellis Act evictions from her building on Gough Street, where she has lived for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never been late on our rent. We’ve never asked for any big improvements,” she said. “Once the advocates and the organizers and the artists are gone, who will be left to care about our city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony included a lone landlord, Andrew Long, who argued that small property owners are also hurting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your rent laws need to be more even-handed for landlords,” he said. “You’re driving landlords, especially small landlords, out of business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exploring ways to curb evictions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said it’s important for the city “to have a united front to tackle this crisis.” He’s exploring a number of measures to curb evictions, including a moratorium on all Ellis Act evictions. That would require state legislation, which Campos said he is working on with Assemblymember Tom Ammiano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos has also introduced legislation to create a mechanism for tenants to file complaints when they are harassed by landlords. He’s also asked the city attorney to draft a bill that would double the amount of relocation assistance landlords must provide to tenants under the Ellis Act, and is exploring a measure that would require landlords to report buyouts to the Rent Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Mayor Ed Lee announced Thursday that he’s formed a “broad coalition” of elected officials, tenants groups and other organizations “to help address the issue of affordability for working-class families in California’s major metropolitan areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to protect our valuable housing stock and prevent Ellis Act evictions that displace longtime tenants and do nothing to add needed housing in our City,” Lee said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below: Report on evictions in San Francisco by budget and legislative analyst Fred Brousseau:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_46850\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/184465909/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In some circles, those who own property and rent to others rank near the top of regional public enemies, alongside tech workers, Dodger fans, and oh, I don’t know, people who kick puppies for fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are landlords really to blame for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Rents-soaring-across-region-4924282.php\" target=\"_blank\">soaring rents\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">increased evictions\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/how-much-tech-can-one-city-take\" target=\"_blank\">the much-bemoaned changing culture\u003c/a> of the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, they’re one of the big players at the table when we talk about increasing rents and evictions. But as a number of “Forum” commenters have pointed out, there are many factors that add to the problem of scarce, expensive housing, including the relatively small slice of land available for development in the inner Bay Area and the increased competition for housing as the regional economy improves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED’s “Priced Out” series continues, we’re hearing a whole spectrum of views on housing prices and evictions. Here’s a brief list of reasons landlords say they’re not responsible for the current rental housing crunch. The quotes below are from KQED’s “Forum” last Friday: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">Evictions on the Rise in San Francisco\u003c/a>. You can listen to the show in its entirety by \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Not All Landlords Are Created Equal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Forum” hour featured lots of complaints about big real-estate firms and corporate-style landlords raising rents and evicting tenants. But the Bay Area has plenty of small landlords who have a completely different way of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One property owner, referred to only as “Jeanne” at her request, said she was a “mom-and-pop landlord” running a business “not any different than owning a bakery.” Jeanne’s family has been in San Francisco “for over a hundred years,” and her mother bought a building 40 years ago. “That’s what supported our family. We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of the one-bedroom apartment in this building.” Jeanne said her family has developed relationships with their tenants, helping to take care of them as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of my one-bedroom apartment.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Landlords Get Screwed, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are that at some point, your landlord has suffered at the hands of bad tenants or life circumstances. Mike in San Francisco called in during the show to share the story of what sounds like a generous landlord who found himself needing money because of health problems:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My wife’s uncle had two tenants in a building in the Marina and for 30 plus years he never raised the rent. He was a wonderful landlord. And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Rules Have Changed for Many Landlords\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has changed for some longtime landlords in cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which have approved rent control laws over the years. Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a tenants’ group, said on the show that “landlords know what they’ve gotten into when they buy property, and they know what our laws are and they’ve decided to sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not always the case. As Jeanne and other listeners pointed out — many landlords bought their buildings before rent control was on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Landlords Have Some Decent Ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Priced Out\u003c/a> series, many listeners and readers have asked about solutions to the issues of rising rents and evictions, only to be told that under current market conditions, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\">little hope\u003c/a> things will get better soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some ideas out there. Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, said there’s a lot San Francisco could learn from New York:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“New York every year does a housing study, and they put out a book of statistics about the market and what rents are, what exists [in terms of] housing that’s available — we should be doing that here. … They have a department of housing and everything is run through there. We’re fragmentized here, where we have several different departments in housing — nobody knows what the other department is doing. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“… The other thing that New York has that’s different than San Francisco is their owner-occupied buildings are exempt from rent control. Our owner-occupied buildings were put under rent control in 1991 and they were exempt prior to that. And it worked a lot better. It allowed for flexibility for mom-and-pop owners to cut deals with their tenants, feed their tenants and not be punished for that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We created 13,000 jobs last year, and we put 120 new housing units on the market. I don’t think we can continue this way.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. It’s Not All Their Fault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of causes for the lack of housing, especially affordable housing, in the Bay Area: the economy, the physical landscape and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/12/local/la-me-affordable-housing-20120813\" target=\"_blank\">the loss of redevelopment mone\u003c/a>y that allowed cities to help get more housing built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janan New of the San Francisco Apartment Association noted there’s a basic imbalance between what’s happening in the city’s labor market and what’s happening in the housing market:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We created basically 13,000 jobs last year” said New, “and we put 120 new housing units on the market. So I don’t think we can continue this way without further cannibalization of the rental housing stock because people want to come here, people are going to continue to come here. And they need a place to live.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a rare moment of agreement, both New and Sara Shortt, of the Housing Rights Committee, acknowledged that one must look at the “broader context” of the housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Shortt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We also have the hoarding issue… We also have people who have \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-%C3%A0-terre\" target=\"_blank\">pied-à-terres\u003c/a> in the city now, it’s their second, maybe third rental unit that they have, or they have it on top of a home ownership unit. We have people who are doing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb\u003c/a> thing where they are holding the units off the market and they’re renting them out just as vacation rentals… We’re seeing more and more of those types of things.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/priced-out/\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>KQED’s series on the Bay Area housing crisis.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matthew Green\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117654\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction/rs7468_72898270-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117654\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7468_72898270-scr-e1383878709870.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Inner Mission area had the highest number of Ellis Act evictions in the past five years. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Inner Mission has had the most Ellis Act evictions in the past five years. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the books since 1986, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=07001-08000&file=7060-7060.7\">Ellis Act\u003c/a> allows California landlords to evict tenants in order to go out of business and remove units from the rental market, usually with the intent of selling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”dc7d51e2e6959b724809370455955423″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law prohibits local governments from forcing rental property owners to continue offering their housing for rent. However, it does allow local governments to impose a variety of requirements on such property owners, which can include providing tenant relocation assistance, giving specific notice periods and having deed restrictions on future use of the property. For example, a city could require an owner who re-rents “Ellised” property within a certain period of time to first offer it to any displaced former tenants, at the original rental rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is little comprehensive data on Ellis Act evictions statewide. But in cities like San Francisco, with high rents and strict local rent control laws, Ellis Act evictions often go up during periods when home sales increase. That was the case during the dot-com boom that ended in 2000 and again during the housing bubble that peaked in 2005. Ellis Act evictions are up again now as the city’s real estate market recovers from the recession and as the tech boom spurs demand for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chart below, by San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://dangrover.com/about\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Grover\u003c/a>, shows Ellis Act evictions in the city since 1998, comparing rates with all no-fault evictions (including Ellis but also those due to capital improvements, demolition, owner move-in or substantial rehabilitation) during the same period. The chart also shows all for-cause evictions, in which tenants violated rental agreements. The chart (also available in \u003ca href=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/\" target=\"_blank\">a larger version\u003c/a>) is overlaid with San Francisco median home price rates. Use the drop-down menus to change the variables, and mouse over the bars to see eviction numbers by year.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/embeddable.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s budget analyst issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\">report\u003c/a> on the number of Ellis Act evictions in the city by neighborhood (among other housing displacement issues). The report found that “while Ellis Act evictions have occurred in many neighborhoods over the last five years, approximately 64.1 percent of them occurred in” seven neighborhoods, which also saw increases in assessed property values and home prices: Inner Mission, Russian Hill/Polk Gulch, Castro/Eureka Valley, Outer Richmond, Inner Richmond, North Beach, Haight Ashbury/Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following map uses data from the report on Ellis Act evictions in most (but not all) San Francisco neighborhoods from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col12%3E%3E2+from+1aInieSxglQz1f4vabFhrqI9045FxPS_gSy8FEB4&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.74408720928566&lng=-122.40319834631345&t=1&z=12&l=col12%3E%3E2&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopted in direct response to a 1984 California Supreme Court decision, the Ellis Act was a backlash to strict local rent control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, following a wave of condominium conversions in Santa Monica that removed many rental units from the market, voters adopted a measure meant to preserve the city’s remaining rental housing stock. 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The chart also shows all for-cause evictions, in which tenants violated rental agreements. The chart (also available in \u003ca href=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/\" target=\"_blank\">a larger version\u003c/a>) is overlaid with San Francisco median home price rates. Use the drop-down menus to change the variables, and mouse over the bars to see eviction numbers by year.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/embeddable.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s budget analyst issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\">report\u003c/a> on the number of Ellis Act evictions in the city by neighborhood (among other housing displacement issues). The report found that “while Ellis Act evictions have occurred in many neighborhoods over the last five years, approximately 64.1 percent of them occurred in” seven neighborhoods, which also saw increases in assessed property values and home prices: Inner Mission, Russian Hill/Polk Gulch, Castro/Eureka Valley, Outer Richmond, Inner Richmond, North Beach, Haight Ashbury/Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following map uses data from the report on Ellis Act evictions in most (but not all) San Francisco neighborhoods from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col12%3E%3E2+from+1aInieSxglQz1f4vabFhrqI9045FxPS_gSy8FEB4&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.74408720928566&lng=-122.40319834631345&t=1&z=12&l=col12%3E%3E2&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adopted in direct response to a 1984 California Supreme Court decision, the Ellis Act was a backlash to strict local rent control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, following a wave of condominium conversions in Santa Monica that removed many rental units from the market, voters adopted a measure meant to preserve the city’s remaining rental housing stock. It required that landlords who sought to exit the rental market first obtain a permit that could only be issued if a strict set of conditions were met. Among them, landlords were required to prove that the unit in question was not occupied by a person of low or moderate income and to demonstrate that the unit’s removal from the rental market would not adversely affect the city’s housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Nash, a 17-year-old student whose mother had bought him a $260,000 rental property in Santa Monica before the ordinance was adopted, sought to get out of the rental business and demolish the building. He initially applied for a permit to do so, but ended up suing the city to circumvent the process. 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"content": "\u003cp>There seems to be a lot of negativity about San Francisco floating around recently. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ballooning rents and home prices\u003c/a> to gripes about gentrification … yes, even \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3758-why-is-there-so-much-human-shit-on-the-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the poo problem\u003c/a> is getting press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But friends, there’s good news too. Even if we don’t always think San Francisco is the greatest place to live, outsiders still think we’re pretty hip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A listacle out today from \u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voactiv\u003c/a> pins San Francisco as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/livability/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#3 best city to live in if you’re under 35\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gives us the honor? Widely used public transportation, bike-friendly roadways, a high average salary and cheap pot, to name a few. A few factoids that helped propel San Francisco to the top:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/livability/#SanFrancisco\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117527\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117527 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-07-at-1.02.54-PM.png\" alt=\"A few of the rankings that helped propel us to number 3. Click for the full graphic. (Voactiv.com)\" width=\"586\" height=\"655\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for the full graphic. (Voactiv.com)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other hipster-chic cities like Portland, Austin, Seattle and Minneapolis join S.F. in the top 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not until you reach Las Vegas at No. 6 that things get interesting. They have cheap Wi-Fi, lots of young, single people (read: strippers) and cheap cigarettes. Pack your bags!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list does acknowledge that San Francisco’s $4,000-a-month average for a 2-bedroom apartment was among the highest in the country, but apparently that doesn’t hurt us too much. (If you want the cheapest rent, \u003ca href=\"http://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/livability/#LowRent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">head to Detroit\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I should add, as a recent East Coast transplant, I’ve seen firsthand how enamored the U.S. remains with San Francisco. When I told friends I was uprooting my life in Baltimore to move across the country, I was met with a wide-eyed look of delight. “I love San Francisco!” everyone would say, “You’re so lucky!” (Then they would tell me they had a cousin in San Diego that they should put me in touch with, to which I would fake a smile and say, “Oh yeah?” Geography, folks. It’s hard.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you think? Is San Francisco the place to be if you’re under 35? Why or why not?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103815\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/gogap/423445909/sizes/z/in/photolist-DqgHx-49LF4a-7gRrEP-7gRrGg-7h7GXs-5HkHR8-Hie3c-6dvp5u-gZrFP-49QKWd-76LJfe-bktq8D-nLcAZ-7gUS5m-4SMiat-7NRkdD-5ChzWX-9WTo9p-9WWd5u-9WWdZS-9WTkMR-9WTjXK-9WWf9f-9WWcR3-9WWpQ5-9WTqaV-9WWfUU-9WWemu-9WTmVn-9WTpEH-9WTmxB-9WWbnG-9WTqAg-9WWpAA-9WTxBR-5YMUpC-7gQVTk-qANDE-qANEy-qANLs-RZwVF-RZqbt-RZyKz-qANBG-7gVoay-7gRrrM-7gRr3R-7gRrtx-7gVoru-7gVogL-7gVo7u/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/423445909_c0ab40fb5e_z-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Families find it expensive to live in San Francisco. Photo: GoGap/Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families find it increasingly expensive to live in San Francisco. Photo: GoGap/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca title=\"How Much Does It Cost to Live Comfortably in the Bay Area?\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/11/cost-live-comfortably-bay-area/affordability-poverty\">we wrote about a new budget calculator released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)\u003c/a> that attempts to offer a contrast to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.familiesusa.org/resources/tools-for-advocates/guides/federal-poverty-guidelines.html\">Federal Poverty Guidelines\u003c/a>, which say a family of four is “officially” poor only if it earns less than $23,550.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What EPI hoped to do was illustrate that in plenty of places (the San Francisco Bay Area certainly being one of them), $23,550 isn’t even close to enough for that four-person family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as many readers noted, the numbers that EPI comes up with might not be enough either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/15/103615/screen-shot-2013-07-15-at-1-27-08-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103622\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103622\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-15-at-1.27.08-PM-1024x278.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-15 at 1.27.08 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"173\">\u003c!--more-->\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the calculator, a family of four needs to earn $84,133 to attain a “secure yet modest living standard” in San Francisco. The numbers are similar, but slightly lower, for San Jose-Sunnyvale at $79,261 and the Oakland-Fremont area at $75,064.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPI’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/resources/budget/\" target=\"_blank\">budget calculator\u003c/a> simply uses an algorithm based on housing, food, transportation, child care, health care and other necessities, as well as adding in taxes. Those rough numbers are calculated in each geographic area in order to provide varying benchmarks for different locations, based on the cost of living in those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing costs, for example, came from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) fair market rents, which represents the 40th percentile of housing prices in that region. That means that 60 percent of two-bedroom apartments in the San Francisco metro area are more expensive than the $1,795/month the EPI budget calculator used. In the Oakland-Fremont area, the HUD 40th percentile projected that a two-bedroom apartment would cost $1,361. These numbers are not averages, which would be slightly higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the other costs are calculated from \u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/publication/ib368-basic-family-budgets/\" target=\"_blank\">different guidelines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/publication/wp297-2013-family-budget-calculator-technical-documentation/\" target=\"_blank\">methodology\u003c/a> — transportation costs are based on the average number of miles driven in that region, according to the National Household Travel Survey and child-care costs came from the annual Child Care Aware of America report — it was the housing prices that raised the most questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/15/103615/84000-family-four-san-francisco/screen-shot-2013-07-15-at-1-28-51-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103616\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103616\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-15-at-1.28.51-PM-1024x627.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-15 at 1.28.51 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has one of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/11/san-francisco-has-second-least-affordable-rental-market-in-us/\" target=\"_blank\">the least affordable housing markets in the country\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/24/98037/san-francisco-rent-prices-zumper\" target=\"_blank\">rents vary drastically by neighborhood and region\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly plenty of neighborhoods in San Francisco have few (or no) options for $1,795. But, some argued for the benefits of their lesser-known and cheaper neighborhoods, and others advocated for hidden gems outside the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/15/103615/screen-shot-2013-07-15-at-1-28-58-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103633\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103633\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-15-at-1.28.58-PM-1024x689.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-15 at 1.28.58 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/15/103615/screen-shot-2013-07-15-at-1-27-37-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103634\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-15-at-1.27.37-PM-1024x410.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-15 at 1.27.37 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPI’s board chairman, Richard L. Trumka, is the former president of the AFL-CIO. \u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/about/board/\" target=\"_blank\">The board\u003c/a> also includes presidents of the United Steelworkers of America, SEIU and the United Auto Workers, as well as a former labor secretary, a current Democratic congressman and a number of professors. The organization’s mission is “to broaden discussions about economic policy to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers,” according to its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the budget calculator isn’t to prescribe a set amount that a family can live on. EPI’s family budgets — compared with the federal poverty guidelines — aims to “offer a higher degree of geographic customization and provide a more accurate measure of economic security,” says its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is the calculator perfect? No. But, does it help make clear that the poverty line of $23,550 isn’t enough in San Francisco? Absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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