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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118632\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/15/listeners-weigh-in-gentricication-is-_____________/attachment/93075709/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118632\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118632 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/93075709.jpg\" alt=\"Thinkstock Image\" width=\"442\" height=\"386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinkstock Image\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In nearly every \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum\u003c/a> show on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, KQED’s series on affordable housing in the Bay Area, many listeners and commenters opine, to paraphrase, “Build Baby Build.” That is to say, San Francisco simply needs to accept its popularity and booming economy and build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Forum decided to take up the question, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the Bay Area build its way out of a lack of affordable housing?\u003c/a>” The answer, to paraphrase again, is “It’s complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Forum guests agreed that building needs to be part of the solution, they also agreed that creating housing is a complex problem, requiring a multi-pronged, nuanced approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a person who enjoys listening, the full Forum show is online \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. But if you’re short on time and just want the highlights, this post’s for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.Work backwards\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. 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That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Show affordable housing the money\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also goes on to criticize Plan Bay Area for its lack of monetary teeth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no funding source for the affordable housing that’s necessary to make that kind of vision work,” he said. “It’s just basically a numerical game plan and then the market builds. But the market only builds for a segment of that need and without the money, what you have is a recipe for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just how much does it cost to build affordable or subsidized housing? A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably costs, depending on who you’re building for, a few hundred thousand dollars in subsidies per unit,” said Gabriel Metcalf. “And maybe a third of that [comes from local sources]. So call it a $100,000 in subsidy, locally, per unit. You can kind of multiply that by how many people you want to help, and you can help thousands of people, but there will still be hundreds of thousands of people who are not going to get one of those units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Think beyond the single-family unit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a study on the East Bay of the potential for building in-law units, and compared it to the potential for building multi-family buildings, and we found that about half of our in-field developments should be coming from in-law units,” said Karen Chapple. “In many of our larger lots it’s very hard to assemble, it’s very expensive. It can cost one quarter the amount to build an in-law unit in the back of a single-family home. That said, it does need to be price controlled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials are starting to recognize the role that secondary units can play in easing the housing crunch. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed allowing in-law units to be built in his district\u003c/a> and Board of Supervisor President David Chiu introduced legislation that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize existing secondary units\u003c/a> that were built illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think Bay Area officials should do to increase the amount of affordable housing in the region? We welcome your suggestions in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. 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Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118480\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2013/11/15/batkidnp.jpg\" alt=\"BatKid\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nPolice escort 5-year-old leukemia survivor Miles Scott, also known as BatKid, after they arrest the Riddler in San Francisco. Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area foundation \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/follow-batkid-as-he-saves-gotham-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">turned the city into Gotham City\u003c/a> for Miles by creating a day-long event bringing his wish to be a BatKid to life. (Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Greenpeace.jpg\" alt=\"Greenpeace\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nGreenpeace members motor out in a small boat to greet the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/\">Rainbow Warrior III as it enters a foggy San Francisco Bay\u003c/a> on Friday, November 8. A banner hanging from the side of the iconic ship calls attention to 30 Greenpeace activists currently imprisoned in Russia. The crew members of the Arctic Sunrise were arrested after protesting oil drilling in the Arctic at an oil rig owned by Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled energy company. 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If awarded, Sheriff David Livingston plans to build a new wing with increased jail space and re-entry services at the 30-acre site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately it will make our neighborhoods safe, our staff safer, and hopefully will result in lower recidivism rates,” Livingston told the Board of Supervisors at a meeting last Tuesday. While Livingston got the green light to submit a proposal to the state, some supervisors are proceeding with caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main point of contention is whether to add 240 more jail cells, which the Sheriff’s Department is pushing for. “The idea behind it is good, but the devil’s in the details,” Supervisor John Gioia said. “My impression is that we need far fewer jail cells. 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In the West County facility 23 assaults on inmates and staff have been reported in the past two months alone. “I worked [there] when it first opened and I can’t ever remember a staff member being assaulted,” Contra Costa Undersheriff Mike Casten told the board meeting.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the Sheriff tried to obtain AB 109 money to increase the holding capacity in the West County jail and to improve safety, but the plan was shelved due to widespread community resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff is now seeking an allotment of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1001-1050/sb_1022_bill_20120627_enrolled.pdf\">SB 1022\u003c/a> funds — money that the state has set aside for jail construction and expansion — to deal with the operational and safety concerns stemming from realignment. “It’s the greatest opportunity we’ve seen in our law enforcement careers,” Casten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Contra Costa County receives the $80 million grant, the Sheriff wants to increase holding capacity at the West County jail. The office also plans to provide a suite of educational and vocational services at the facility, although it already offers an assortment of re-entry programs to inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s officials are adamant that the new facility will not lead to a spike in the number of inmates housed in the county. Instead, the project will allow some of the more serious criminals from the Martinez jail — which only has a handful of educational and religious programs — to be transferred to West County so that they can access services. It will “allow high risk inmates with serious charges the opportunity to have the same opportunities as the lower risk, less serious offenders,” Casten stated in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some activists are wary about expanding the county jail, and are pushing for more alternatives to incarceration. Many suggest reducing the number of inmates in pre-trial detention. About 85 percent of people held in Contra Costa County jails were awaiting trial in 2012, according to the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you take those people and give them bail reduction or electronic monitoring, that would clear so many bed spaces that [the Sheriff] wouldn’t even know why he was asking for that money,” said Andres Abarra, a member of the criminal justice research group \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacinst.org/publication/safe-return-project-research-project-for-formerly-incarcerated-residents-in-richmond-calif/\">Safe Return\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While roughly 90 percent of the $80 million expansion project would be covered by the state, Contra Costa County residents would have to foot the bill for increased staffing and upkeep at the facility, Abarra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s officials say that maintenance and staffing costs stemming from with the expansion would be covered by state funds — including some AB 109 money. Contra Costa County leads the state in split-sentences — where a portion of the term is served in jail and another portion on probation — and has a “robust” policy for pursuing alternatives to incarceration, such as pre-trial release and ankle monitoring, Casten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Kruggel, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CCISCOCA\">Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization\u003c/a>, cautiously supports the Sheriff’s plan. “He should be applauded for his efforts to increase programming,” Kruggel said. “But it’s still not a good use of tax-payer dollars to build more beds when there are so many other alternatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s application is due October 24.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They ended the “Heal the Valley” march at the Google headquarters in Mountain View on Oct. 10, where Google employees watched the \"other Valley\" march through their usually serene campus. (Charisse Domingo / San Jose Beez)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114643\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/PhotoWeek131011hunger.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek131011hunger\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nCalifornia's San Joaquin Valley is the country's most productive farm belt: its fertile orchards and fields generate most of the nation's fresh produce and nuts. Yet for the people who work and live near these farms, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/specialcoverage/hungerinthevalleyofplenty/index.jsp\">access to healthy and fresh food can be a daily struggle\u003c/a>. The Ortiz family lives in Raisin City, a speck on the map about 25 miles southeast of Fresno. Their job prospects might be better in a bigger city. But here the only work is in the fields, and it’s seasonal and often part time. Oscar Ortiz makes an average of $170 per week. Not enough, says Jessica Ortiz (above), to cover the basics. (Scott Anger / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/PhotoWeek131011ceasefire.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek131011ceasefire\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nMore than 100 people took to the streets Thursday, Oct. 3, in an effort to build community and take a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/10/08/berkeley-community-turns-out-for-march-against-violence/\">stand against violence in West Berkeley\u003c/a>. Attendees at Ceasefire Walk Against Violence included community organizers, members of congregations from around the city and beyond, and local residents and officials. 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Although the balance on his mortgage is more than $400,000, LeGrande’s home was recently assessed at just $131,000, and in 22 years he will have to make a balloon payment of about $194,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real treadmill type of position,” he says.\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111228 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Richmond-Confidential-logo-300x43.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond-Confidential-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Richmond officials sent letters to 32 banks and mortgage companies offering to buy 624 underwater mortgages at steep discounts. If the banks refuse to sell, the city is threatening to use the power of eminent domain to acquire the mortgages and refinance them at more manageable rates.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scheme has sparked a national debate about the use of eminent domain, but until now Richmond officials haven’t shed much light on how they selected the list of 624 mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process of selecting which mortgages to include in the program was far from arbitrary, says Steven Gluckstern, chairman of San Francisco-based investment firm Mortgage Resolution Partners, which is partnering with Richmond on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The underwater properties the city targeted had to meet three criteria: First, they had to be owner-occupied homes – not rental properties; second, they had to have mortgages that were worth less than the assessed value of the home; and third, the mortgages had to be owned by private-label securities. 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