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"content": "\u003cp>As news of a Biden-Harris victory \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846444/biden-wins-presidency-according-to-ap-edging-trump-in-turbulent-race\">settled in on Saturday morning\u003c/a>, people throughout the Bay Area took to the streets in celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a day for celebration and joy and tomorrow we get back to the fight,” said Ariel Ajagu during a celebration in the Castro. “It’s an ongoing thing. But it’s important that we celebrate our wins and this is a huge one.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ariel Ajagu\"]‘Today is a day for celebration and joy and tomorrow we get back to the fight.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such a weight off of my shoulders, just not feeling this existential dread,” Ajagu added. “I didn’t realize how much that anxiety got me down … It’s amazing to see San Francisco all come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajagu also noted the difference in mood from earlier in the year, when the Bay Area took to the streets for several days to protest the killing of George Floyd. “People are happy, smiling. People have incredible signs and flags and are showing our pride for the feeling that we can have our country again, that we’re coming back together and we’re turning a new leaf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Beth LaBerge captured the elation in San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Ajagu dances with friends during a celebration for the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the streets of the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters took to the streets with homemade signs and flags in support of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate their victory. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drink champagne in the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate their victory. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45775_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45775_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45775_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45775_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45775_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45775_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An impromptu drum and pot-banging circle of music in the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champagne is handed out in the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberto Roldan plays the tuba on Saturday morning in the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of supporters celebrate the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take to the streets of the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women cheer as a long line of cars pass along Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lia Ballard wears an American flag while cheering as cars honk along Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man cheers with elation from his car along Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846925\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846925\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/W_RS45847_034_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/W_RS45847_034_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/W_RS45847_034_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/W_RS45847_034_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/W_RS45847_034_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/W_RS45847_034_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Lynn-Preston walks on stilts along Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Z_RS45850_037_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Z_RS45850_037_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such a weight off of my shoulders, just not feeling this existential dread,” Ajagu added. “I didn’t realize how much that anxiety got me down … It’s amazing to see San Francisco all come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajagu also noted the difference in mood from earlier in the year, when the Bay Area took to the streets for several days to protest the killing of George Floyd. “People are happy, smiling. People have incredible signs and flags and are showing our pride for the feeling that we can have our country again, that we’re coming back together and we’re turning a new leaf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Beth LaBerge captured the elation in San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/1920_Ariel.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Ajagu dances with friends during a celebration for the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the streets of the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846920\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45774_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters took to the streets with homemade signs and flags in support of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate their victory. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45769_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drink champagne in the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate their victory. \u003ccite>(Beth 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45778_014_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champagne is handed out in the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45773_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberto Roldan plays the tuba on Saturday morning in the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846918\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/C_RS45799_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of supporters celebrate the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take to the streets of the Castro in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846923\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45833_013_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women cheer as a long line of cars pass along Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45828_003_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, 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srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45836_016_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man cheers with elation from his car along Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/W_RS45847_034_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Lynn-Preston walks on stilts along Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 7, 2020, to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Z_RS45850_037_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Z_RS45850_037_KQED_Oakland_BidenHarrisCelebration_11072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 p.m., Tuesday: \u003c/strong>San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pass the commercial eviction ordinance. The sponsors of the legislation are: Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Gordon Mar, Shamann Walton, Ahsha Safaí, Hillary Ronen, Rafael Mandelman, Matt Haney, Sandra Lee Fewer and Norman Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors will vote on an ordinance that would extend the city’s existing commercial eviction moratorium through March 31, 2021, and provide a pathway for rent repayment negotiations between landlords and struggling business owners who continue to face tremendous revenue losses and growing debt during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed ordinance would be the city’s most robust lifeline yet for small business owners across the city, providing long-term tenant protections for retail businesses, including legacy mom-and-pop shops that community members say are the heartbeat of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837511/whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends\">San Francisco’s beloved Asian cultural districts and neighborhoods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Aaron Peskin\"]'We as lawmakers have an imperative ... to make this a matter of law, to allow these businesses that are the backbone of our economy to make it through the pandemic.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes on the heels of high anxieties for some San Francisco communities of color, in particular in Japantown where the fate of dozens of beloved businesses inside the Japan Center mall are in the hands of only two corporate landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837511/whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends\">As KQED reported in September\u003c/a>, attempts by business owners to negotiate a rent repayment structure with the landlords — including for the months when businesses were inoperable during the COVID-19 shutdown — have gone unanswered. Additionally, the landlords have \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/21524071/japantown-japan-center-restaurants-sf-rent-negotiations-takara-kui-shin-bo\">started to demand full and immediate repayment\u003c/a> from tenants, heightening eviction concerns that have galvanized community members, including generations of Bay Area Japanese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=8907760&GUID=3F229F31-6F83-4709-85DD-BCCAF6CC3D6E\">ordinance\u003c/a>, sponsored by Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston and Ahsha Safaí, would match the timing of the state’s current commercial eviction moratorium. Gov. Gavin Newsom has extended that statewide moratorium, which allows local jurisdictions to continue banning evictions of commercial tenants affected by the pandemic, until March 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11837511 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44728_006_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg']The city’s \u003ca href=\"https://oewd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Guidance%20Temporary%20Moratorium%20on%20Commercial%20Evictions_v10.29.2020%20expires%2011.30.20.pdf\">current moratorium\u003c/a>, which has been extended by a series of monthly mayoral executive orders since the start of COVID-19-related shutdowns, is set to expire on Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Chin, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.matchacafe-maiko.com/eng/store/index.html?country=usa®ion=ca&target=ca-sanfran\">Matcha Cafe Maiko\u003c/a>, is hoping the ordinance will pass so that he knows how to chart the territory ahead. He has three store locations in San Francisco, including in Chinatown and Japantown, and has had to lay off about 75% of his full-time employees. The popular cafe, which serves authentic Japanese desserts and treats, has suffered a 70% drop in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now it's really helped that we haven't paid any rent yet, but I know it's all gonna come down,” Chin said. He says it’s been a slow climb back as the city has gradually progressed in reopening, but the months of unpaid rent loom. “We're going to have to pay it all back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japantown Peace Plaza outside of Japan Center mall, which houses specialty Japanese shops, including legacy businesses that have been around for decades. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new ordinance pays particular attention to the hardships of San Francisco’s most vulnerable small businesses that have annual gross receipts that are equal to or less than $25 million based on 2019 figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation has a tiered repayment approach: of top priority are commercial tenants that employ fewer than 10 full-time employees. If eligible, these \"Tier 1\" tenants would have up to 24 months after the statewide eviction moratorium’s end to pay back any unpaid rent, without facing the threat of eviction. They would also have the opportunity to terminate their leases early without penalty. Businesses that have between 10 and 24 employees would have 18 months to pay back unpaid rent, those that have between 25 and 49 employees would have one year and those that employ 50 or more would have until the moratorium’s expiration date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Peskin, during a Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting on Monday, said that about 80% of businesses in San Francisco employ fewer than 10 people, making this proposed ordinance broadly impactful across the city. He added that an estimated 164,000 people in San Francisco are employed by small businesses, according to his office’s calculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as lawmakers have an imperative, actually, to make this a matter of law, to allow these businesses that are the backbone of our economy to make it through the pandemic,” Peskin said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Excluded from the ordinance’s protections are for-profit tenants in office spaces; the legislation is engineered to help retail businesses that don’t have the benefit of being able to operate remotely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate attorney Allan Low of San Francisco-based law firm Perkins Coie is helping to represent the 41 tenants inside Japan Center Mall. He also helped advise the legislation, and said that \u003ca href=\"https://oewd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Guidance%20Temporary%20Moratorium%20on%20Commercial%20Evictions_v10.29.2020%20expires%2011.30.20.pdf\">the current moratorium\u003c/a> hasn’t addressed the issue of mounting unpaid rent, which is why the new ordinance’s proposed repayment structure is especially significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor's order really relied on the good faith of the two parties to work out their deals, or to resolve their disputes,” said Low, who emphasized that hasn’t been largely the case. To address this, the ordinance functions “kind of like the guard rails on either side of the road, where hopefully you could meet somewhere in the middle of the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low said many commercial landlords across the city are not coming to the negotiating table at all, which has left business owners — like Chin of Matcha Cafe Maiko — riddled with the anxiety of enormous debt, a burden that becomes heavier with each passing month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm not asking to not pay at all,” Chin said. “I don't know what's happening. The landlord is not really saying anything to us and we're just kinda hanging in the air right now ... they just send us the bills that say, ‘OK, this is how much you owe now, so make payments.’ OK, but how are we going to work this out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Naoya Morishita, the store manager, works at the Kinokuniya Book Store in the Japan Center West Mall on Sep. 2, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naoya Morishita, the store manager, works at the Kinokuniya Book Store in the Japan Center West Mall on Sep. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Peskin adds that the ordinance addresses this problem head-on by providing a starting point for negotiations between landlords and tenants, in particular by giving leverage to small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members say leverage is desperately needed in Japantown’s Japan Center mall. Dozens of public comments were submitted in hearings ahead of Tuesday’s vote, as well as many emails, from generations of Bay Area residents who expressed their treasured memories of San Francisco’s Japantown and the cultural significance it plays in their lives. The neighborhood is one of only three remaining Japantowns in the entire country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, conversations with Japan Center’s two corporate landlords — Kinokuniya Bookstores of America and 3D Investments — have mostly stalled or been ignored: monthly invoices continue to be delivered to tenants and attempts by legal representation to negotiate rent repayment have gone unanswered. And now, demands for full and immediate repayment of all outstanding rent and charges have started, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/21524071/japantown-japan-center-restaurants-sf-rent-negotiations-takara-kui-shin-bo\">a recent report from Eater SF\u003c/a>. Requests for comment from both Kinokuniya Bookstores of America and 3D Investments have not yet been returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low said business slowdown has resulted in his clients losing massive amounts of money each month, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 per month. A particular point of contention are high common area maintenance (CAM) fees that have skyrocketed exponentially for many of the tenants over the years, and are included in the monthly outstanding invoices. According to Low, 3D Investments has already begun efforts to try to evict one Japan Center tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low acknowledged that many landlords are hurting during the pandemic as well. He noted that the ordinance also offers protections for some commercial property owners: those who own less than 25,000 square feet in San Francisco, for example, can apply for a waiver demonstrating significant financial hardship and move forward with eviction for non-payment by tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes, though, that the ordinance will highlight the necessity of keeping tenants in place, especially for larger landlords like Kinokuniya and 3D Investments. The survival of San Francisco’s Japantown, which was established centuries ago, depends on it: “It should incentivize landlords to realize that there’s not a line of tenants that are lined up to take the space,” he said, noting the deep uncertainty of economic recovery ahead without additional federal aid yet in sight. “Let’s try to work with the people that are already there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He also helped advise the legislation, and said that \u003ca href=\"https://oewd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Guidance%20Temporary%20Moratorium%20on%20Commercial%20Evictions_v10.29.2020%20expires%2011.30.20.pdf\">the current moratorium\u003c/a> hasn’t addressed the issue of mounting unpaid rent, which is why the new ordinance’s proposed repayment structure is especially significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor's order really relied on the good faith of the two parties to work out their deals, or to resolve their disputes,” said Low, who emphasized that hasn’t been largely the case. To address this, the ordinance functions “kind of like the guard rails on either side of the road, where hopefully you could meet somewhere in the middle of the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low said many commercial landlords across the city are not coming to the negotiating table at all, which has left business owners — like Chin of Matcha Cafe Maiko — riddled with the anxiety of enormous debt, a burden that becomes heavier with each passing month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm not asking to not pay at all,” Chin said. “I don't know what's happening. The landlord is not really saying anything to us and we're just kinda hanging in the air right now ... they just send us the bills that say, ‘OK, this is how much you owe now, so make payments.’ OK, but how are we going to work this out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11846801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11846801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Naoya Morishita, the store manager, works at the Kinokuniya Book Store in the Japan Center West Mall on Sep. 2, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS44774_057_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naoya Morishita, the store manager, works at the Kinokuniya Book Store in the Japan Center West Mall on Sep. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Peskin adds that the ordinance addresses this problem head-on by providing a starting point for negotiations between landlords and tenants, in particular by giving leverage to small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members say leverage is desperately needed in Japantown’s Japan Center mall. Dozens of public comments were submitted in hearings ahead of Tuesday’s vote, as well as many emails, from generations of Bay Area residents who expressed their treasured memories of San Francisco’s Japantown and the cultural significance it plays in their lives. The neighborhood is one of only three remaining Japantowns in the entire country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, conversations with Japan Center’s two corporate landlords — Kinokuniya Bookstores of America and 3D Investments — have mostly stalled or been ignored: monthly invoices continue to be delivered to tenants and attempts by legal representation to negotiate rent repayment have gone unanswered. And now, demands for full and immediate repayment of all outstanding rent and charges have started, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/21524071/japantown-japan-center-restaurants-sf-rent-negotiations-takara-kui-shin-bo\">a recent report from Eater SF\u003c/a>. Requests for comment from both Kinokuniya Bookstores of America and 3D Investments have not yet been returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low said business slowdown has resulted in his clients losing massive amounts of money each month, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 per month. A particular point of contention are high common area maintenance (CAM) fees that have skyrocketed exponentially for many of the tenants over the years, and are included in the monthly outstanding invoices. According to Low, 3D Investments has already begun efforts to try to evict one Japan Center tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low acknowledged that many landlords are hurting during the pandemic as well. 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Now many people around the globe are chiming in on Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ historic nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has already been written on the nominee’s background as a Black woman, and her identity as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thejuggernaut.com/opinion-to-be-black-and-indian-right-now?s=ckfzvenrt0b6x0780lxl8xjw0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">daughter of immigrants\u003c/a> — with a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/new-york-joe-biden-election-2020-california-archive-f5e16e86fd669396003a19c200a911f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mother from India\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-race-and-ethnicity-joe-biden-donald-trump-jamaica-08c85c2f655ef8f11b1504c3788de5d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">father from Jamaica\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The international community reacted to the news of Oakland-born and Berkeley-raised Harris as the vice president-elect with messages of hope from different parts of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m happy to see that she is someone who has a long career, has the experience, has the qualifications,” said \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pacinthe Mattar, an Egyptian woman who immigrated to Canada in the 1980s, “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But at the same time, sometimes I think our obsession over representation when we don’t see ourselves often in news or media or politics can make us blind to … what kind of work they’re going to be doing and what systems they’re going to uphold.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mattar said she’s cheering Harris while also hoping “that her politics and her policies and the way that she helps lead the U.S. is going to be, not just a win for representation, but for the impact that it’s going to have on Black women and the lives of peoples of color in the work that she does.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congratulations came in from other Canadians as well, some touting the fact that she is also the first graduate of Westmount High School in Montreal to be elected as vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1325121342568505346\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In India, officials — as well as Bollywood stars — took to social media to post congratulatory messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagers in her\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/08/932755718/euphoria-residents-of-harris-ancestral-village-in-india-celebrate-her-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> ancestral home\u003c/a> in Tamil Nadu sent congratulatory messages, set off firecrackers, carried placards and offered prayers after they awoke Sunday morning to the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Groups gathered at street corners in Thulasendrapuram, a village of 350 people, reading newspapers and chatting about the victory before moving to a temple according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-kamala-harris-electoral-college-india-d4eef836a2d67ac5d2417a49eea86a42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">A woman wrote outside her home: “Congratulations Kamala Harris. Pride of our village. Vanakkam (Greetings) America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/nimumurali/status/1325267488104329216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Harris’ uncle, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUDY4sCeNmQ&feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gopalan Balachandran\u003c/a>, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/kamala-harris-india-vice-president/2020/11/07/e7842736-1ecb-11eb-ad53-4c1fda49907d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>: “This is a big moment, no question about it,” he said. “It’s good for the United States. It’s good for many people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1325145671742054400\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jamaica, Prime Minister Andrew Holness expressed support and pride in Harris’ Jamaican heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/andrewholnessjm/status/1325143062423736320?s=21\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional messages came in from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and elsewhere congratulating President-elect Joe Biden as well as VP-elect Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much of the positivity focused on Harris, some of the strength of the reaction may have been fueled by perceptions of Trump, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/engel-world-reacted-to-biden-win-like-u-s-overthrew-a-dictator-95527493828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the results came through tonight, people were reacting like the United States had overthrown a dictator,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the most obvious signs of tourism’s potential comeback to San Francisco ought to be the sight of the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.skystarwheel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SkyStar Observation Wheel\u003c/a>, creating countless Instagram moments as it gently rotates above the tree tops of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or so you’d think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny weekday afternoon, dozens of people wait in line to take the 10-minute to 12-minute ride on the Ferris wheel-style attraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those riders generally aren't visitors to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're mainly seeing San Francisco locals and people from surrounding counties,\" said SkyStar greeter David Saffold as he checked people's temperatures at the ride's entrance and directed them to the line. Saffold said he’s yet to meet a single real tourist since the wheel finally opened for business on Oct. 21 — an opening that had been delayed for many months because of COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845985 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"SkyStar Observation Wheel greeter David Saffold says most of the people riding the new Ferris wheel-style attraction in Golden Gate Park are Bay Area locals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SkyStar Observation Wheel greeter David Saffold says most of the people riding the new Ferris wheel-style attraction in Golden Gate Park are Bay Area locals. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But he said people from San Francisco and surrounding counties have been showing up in droves, despite the $18-per-adult ticket price. (Kids and seniors pay $12 to ride.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is great for the locals,\" said Saffold. \"It gives people something to do, something to enjoy during these mad times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourism is San Francisco’s largest industry. It supports more than 80,000 jobs and contributed nearly $800 million in tax revenue to the city last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those jobs and dollars disappeared during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Travel Association\u003c/a> (SF Travel), which promotes the city by the bay as a destination for business and leisure travel around the country and the world, \u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/88i61maeqrxlqa1l93mhtx8rpsidimn0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visitor numbers are down more than 53% compared to last year and tourist spending has plunged by 67%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845988 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco's newest attraction, the SkyStar Observation Wheel. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So while Bay Area residents have been making the most of touristy attractions they might normally avoid, SF Travel has started vigorously marketing the city to \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> tourists once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since San Francisco officials softened restrictions on hotels, restaurants and attractions in line with health guidelines in mid-September, SF Travel has launched campaigns in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-and-sftravel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Airbnb\u003c/a> and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/places-to-visit/san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit California.\u003c/a> There's also a series of YouTube videos promoting San Francisco featuring local celebrities like filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Mayor London Breed and former San Francisco Giants’ player Hunter Pence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUw6H0dFwg&t=2s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Travel has also instituted the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/article/take-san-francisco-safe-travel-pledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Safe Travel Pledge\u003c/a>\", asking potential visitors to fill out an online form agreeing to adhere to 10 health and safety requirements, such as wearing a face covering when in public spaces and maintaining physical distance from others while exploring the city. At the time of writing, 869 people had taken the pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Josephine Santos, tourist\"]'There's less people around, so you can kind of enjoy San Francisco almost like a local. It's a little bit refreshing, actually.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Pickett, SF Travel’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, said he’s cautiously optimistic about tourism’s return to San Francisco, though it could be a long time before the most lucrative segment, international travelers, sees an upswing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's coming back very, very slowly,\" Pickett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers are nowhere near what they were last year, of course. Yet SF Travel data shows hotel occupancy has risen from just over 15% to around 35% since April. And the number of passengers flying into San Francisco International Airport has almost doubled over the past four months, according to SFO's \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/media/facts-statistics/air-traffic-statistics/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">monthly traffic statistics\u003c/a>. Steep hotel and flight price reductions in recent months may have something to do with the recent growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 691px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11845966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/monthly-occupancy.png\" alt=\"Hotel monthly occupancy data from SF Travel.\" width=\"691\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/monthly-occupancy.png 691w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/monthly-occupancy-160x78.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel monthly occupancy data from SF Travel. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SF Travel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"covid-19\" label=\"related coverage\"]But because the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/world.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. currently restricts many international travelers from entering the country\u003c/a>, and lots of people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/drive-fly-safe-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still feeling jittery\u003c/a> about boarding even domestic flights, Pickett said his target audience for now is mostly Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the recovery is starting now, it's really focused on domestic visitors, and frankly, even just in-state and regional visitors,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent visit to San Francisco’s main tourist hot spot, \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitfishermanswharf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fisherman’s Wharf\u003c/a>, bears this out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do see some tourists,\" said Mia Harriman, general manager of \u003ca href=\"http://cioppinos.letseat.at/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cioppino’s,\u003c/a> a longtime seafood restaurant with a big, umbrella’d outdoor patio right there on the main drag. \"We had people from Texas the other day. They said that they flew out and that was fine, except for the fact there was no bar on the plane. That was their biggest complaint.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845989 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Harriman, general manager of Cioppino’s, a longtime seafood restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Harriman said the overwhelming majority of customers she's met haven’t traveled nearly as far to sample Cioppino’s signature seafood stew and cocktails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen quite a few from San Diego and Los Angeles,\" Harriman said. \"So it seems like a lot of people are coming from Southern California. And they are driving up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same thing goes for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcatraz Island\u003c/a>, another of the city's major tourist destinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent visitors to Alcatraz are mostly from Northern and Southern California,\" wrote a spokesman for ferry operator \u003ca href=\"https://www.alcatrazcruises.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcatraz Cruises\u003c/a>, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an intrepid few are flying in from out of state, like Josephine Santos and Tito Arcos of Jersey City, New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845991 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josephine Santos and Tito Arcos are on vacation in San Francisco from New Jersey. It's the couple's third visit to the city. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's less people around, so you can kind of enjoy San Francisco almost like a local,\" said Santos, standing in line for the Alcatraz ferry on her third visit to the city. \"It's a little bit refreshing, actually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is slightly disappointed that some of the infamous prison's inside spaces, including the cell block, are off-limits right now for COVID-19 distancing safety reasons and a long-awaited seismic retrofit construction project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arcos and Santos are relieved San Francisco is taking visitors’ well-being so seriously. Boats to Alcatraz are operating at reduced capacity, only a maximum of 750 people are allowed on the island per day (down from roughly 5,000 before the pandemic), and there are multiple hand sanitizing stations on the dock, on the ferry and on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845993 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Alcatraz Island. The famous tourist destination reopened to visitors in August. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's good to see how many people are wearing masks, socially distancing and following all the rules,\" said Santos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad that San Francisco is taking the proper precautions, because this is a really big city,\" Arcos added. \"They're handling it well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current city guidelines recommend that people quarantine themselves for two weeks after arriving (or returning) to San Francisco. While self-quarantining isn't required, city officials are considering emphasizing its role in preventing a possible travel-related spike in COVID-19 cases during the holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the most obvious signs of tourism’s potential comeback to San Francisco ought to be the sight of the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.skystarwheel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SkyStar Observation Wheel\u003c/a>, creating countless Instagram moments as it gently rotates above the tree tops of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or so you’d think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny weekday afternoon, dozens of people wait in line to take the 10-minute to 12-minute ride on the Ferris wheel-style attraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those riders generally aren't visitors to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're mainly seeing San Francisco locals and people from surrounding counties,\" said SkyStar greeter David Saffold as he checked people's temperatures at the ride's entrance and directed them to the line. Saffold said he’s yet to meet a single real tourist since the wheel finally opened for business on Oct. 21 — an opening that had been delayed for many months because of COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845985 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"SkyStar Observation Wheel greeter David Saffold says most of the people riding the new Ferris wheel-style attraction in Golden Gate Park are Bay Area locals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45677_david-safford-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SkyStar Observation Wheel greeter David Saffold says most of the people riding the new Ferris wheel-style attraction in Golden Gate Park are Bay Area locals. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But he said people from San Francisco and surrounding counties have been showing up in droves, despite the $18-per-adult ticket price. (Kids and seniors pay $12 to ride.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is great for the locals,\" said Saffold. \"It gives people something to do, something to enjoy during these mad times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourism is San Francisco’s largest industry. It supports more than 80,000 jobs and contributed nearly $800 million in tax revenue to the city last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those jobs and dollars disappeared during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Travel Association\u003c/a> (SF Travel), which promotes the city by the bay as a destination for business and leisure travel around the country and the world, \u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/88i61maeqrxlqa1l93mhtx8rpsidimn0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visitor numbers are down more than 53% compared to last year and tourist spending has plunged by 67%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845988 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45675_the-wheel-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco's newest attraction, the SkyStar Observation Wheel. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So while Bay Area residents have been making the most of touristy attractions they might normally avoid, SF Travel has started vigorously marketing the city to \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> tourists once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since San Francisco officials softened restrictions on hotels, restaurants and attractions in line with health guidelines in mid-September, SF Travel has launched campaigns in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-and-sftravel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Airbnb\u003c/a> and the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/places-to-visit/san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit California.\u003c/a> There's also a series of YouTube videos promoting San Francisco featuring local celebrities like filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Mayor London Breed and former San Francisco Giants’ player Hunter Pence.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/RhUw6H0dFwg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RhUw6H0dFwg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>SF Travel has also instituted the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/article/take-san-francisco-safe-travel-pledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Safe Travel Pledge\u003c/a>\", asking potential visitors to fill out an online form agreeing to adhere to 10 health and safety requirements, such as wearing a face covering when in public spaces and maintaining physical distance from others while exploring the city. At the time of writing, 869 people had taken the pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They said that they flew out and that was fine, except for the fact there was no bar on the plane. That was their biggest complaint.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845989 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45676_mia-harriman-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Harriman, general manager of Cioppino’s, a longtime seafood restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Harriman said the overwhelming majority of customers she's met haven’t traveled nearly as far to sample Cioppino’s signature seafood stew and cocktails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen quite a few from San Diego and Los Angeles,\" Harriman said. \"So it seems like a lot of people are coming from Southern California. And they are driving up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same thing goes for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcatraz Island\u003c/a>, another of the city's major tourist destinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent visitors to Alcatraz are mostly from Northern and Southern California,\" wrote a spokesman for ferry operator \u003ca href=\"https://www.alcatrazcruises.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcatraz Cruises\u003c/a>, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an intrepid few are flying in from out of state, like Josephine Santos and Tito Arcos of Jersey City, New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845991 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45679_josephine-and-tito-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josephine Santos and Tito Arcos are on vacation in San Francisco from New Jersey. It's the couple's third visit to the city. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's less people around, so you can kind of enjoy San Francisco almost like a local,\" said Santos, standing in line for the Alcatraz ferry on her third visit to the city. \"It's a little bit refreshing, actually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is slightly disappointed that some of the infamous prison's inside spaces, including the cell block, are off-limits right now for COVID-19 distancing safety reasons and a long-awaited seismic retrofit construction project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arcos and Santos are relieved San Francisco is taking visitors’ well-being so seriously. Boats to Alcatraz are operating at reduced capacity, only a maximum of 750 people are allowed on the island per day (down from roughly 5,000 before the pandemic), and there are multiple hand sanitizing stations on the dock, on the ferry and on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11845993 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45680_alcatraz-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Alcatraz Island. The famous tourist destination reopened to visitors in August. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's good to see how many people are wearing masks, socially distancing and following all the rules,\" said Santos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad that San Francisco is taking the proper precautions, because this is a really big city,\" Arcos added. \"They're handling it well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor London Breed and San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors largely agree on the city’s most pernicious problems — the pandemic, the rental crisis, homelessness, the survival of small businesses — but find themselves disagreeing on how to solve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These ideological logjams, however, may clear after this November’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed is considered a political moderate, generally in ideological opposition to the (for now) progressive-majority Board of Supervisors, and they’re particularly split on how to solve the rental housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moderates tend to favor market-rate housing production at any rental price, in a bid to bring down rents through abundant supply, whereas progressives tend to favor city- or developer-subsidized affordable housing with rents targeted at residents with specific income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When disagreements over housing solutions or other proposed legislation arise, the 11-member board has an ace in the hole: Any vote backed by a supermajority can’t be vetoed by the mayor, an advantage a solid bloc of eight progressive allies have enjoyed over the last year. Marshaling those eight members on a particular issue gives progressives an open road to author their preferred laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That supermajority can be tenuous, however, said David Campos, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and a former supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the other side can split you off and siphon you off, your leverage is diminished,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while votes are still being counted, this November’s election may shift the balance of power. While no one is calling out “checkmate,” a few vital rooks may be knocked off the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one new ally to the mayor is on a firm path to the board after voting concluded Tuesday, while another of Breed’s allies is only dozens of votes away from winning, with some San Franciscans clicking the “refresh” button on the Department of Elections’ website repeatedly — and nervously — as officials continue to count mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myrna Melgar, a former Planning Commission president who is a progressive Democrat, declared herself winner after the latest ballot count showed her leading her closest opponent, Joel Engardio, by seven points. The latest count looks poised to clinch Melgar’s win, as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar will represent District 7 on the southwestern side of San Francisco, which includes Parkmerced. While she is ideologically progressive, she was appointed to the Planning Commission by Breed and is considered a close ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar and Breed have known each other for years and enjoy a positive working relationship. That’s particularly key for Breed, whose history with the board has shown that she often values the ability to work with someone over how closely they align with her views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFyimby/status/1324184754900463618\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the city’s Richmond District, Breed’s former senior adviser, Marjan Philhour, a moderate Democrat, is locked in a tight race with progressive Democrat Connie Chan. In each day’s new count, the two jockey for the lead by mere dozens of votes, amounting to a toss-up that’s still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 90,000 mail-in ballots left to count, according to the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour is considered a close ally of Breed’s and if elected, would take the seat of outgoing Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer, who, while friendly with the mayor, is considered particularly powerful among the progressive camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Meeting in the Middle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progressives and moderates play nice on some issues, but add a dash of housing discussion and you’ll often find a combustible mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar can perhaps douse the powder keg by serving as a conduit between Breed and the progressive camp. As a candidate, Melgar uniquely obtained the backing of SF YIMBY Action, a pro-housing development group, and also of progressives and their allies who are normally opposed to YIMBY ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing built on the West Side is my top priority,” Melgar told KQED, where she’s thinking of pushing for subsidized co-ops in partnership with progressive supervisor Gordon Mar, perhaps in a unique arrangement between government and labor groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept would rely on a funding mechanism favored by progressives and would see the construction of housing in a part of town that moderates have long complained hasn’t borne its fair share of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond housing proposals alone, boasting allies on both sides of the aisle may make it possible for Melgar to serve as a crucial swing vote on the Board of Supervisors more generally, a position once enjoyed by former supervisor David Chiu, who is now serving as a state Assembly member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Todd David, director of the SF Housing Action Coalition\"]‘I’d like to see the Board of Supervisors put their money where their mouth is, take their mandate, and change zoning in the city to allow for some geographic affordable housing equity.’[/pullquote]The calculation is simple: If you’re ideologically in two camps, both will negotiate with you for your vote. Melgar could use that power to unite Breed and the supervisors on thorny issues where they may not otherwise see eye to eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible, she certainly could do that,” Campos said. “But for this kind of unity to really work, there has to be a commitment on the part of everyone involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she thought that dynamic could emerge on the board, Melgar simply answered, “I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if the board reaches out to the mayor there will be a good outcome in this city,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans “elected London Breed mayor and a progressive Board of Supervisors as a balance to one another. I think the hope is that they’ll work together and find a common ground that is needed,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Even More Leverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Melgar’s win may give Breed a trusted ombudsman with the progressive-led board, an additional Philhour win would give Breed a far higher stack of chips at the poker table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would give Breed enough allies among the supervisors to break up the progressives’ veto-proof supermajority. It would also give the mayor a chance to stymie higher taxation in future ballot propositions from the board, for instance, or to argue for more affordable housing for middle-income San Franciscans versus low-income residents, two positions she has espoused in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarjanPhilhour/status/1313282016633266177\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour may carry another trump card: Her time in City Hall has shown she’s not afraid to get in scraps over ideas she backs. In the past, vocal critics of the board’s progressive wing have been successful at drawing public attention to policies they disagree with, and Philhour could fit that mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philhour is viewed skeptically by some progressives as perhaps too close to Breed, having served directly in her office. They’re particularly worried that super PAC-like campaign accounts, called independent expenditure committees, spent money to support Philhour’s election in the Richmond District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that funding came from William Oberndorf, a wealthy investor who gave more than $1 million to help Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, in his senate race, \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/10/the-big-gop-and-real-estate-money-moves-into-district-one/\">according to 48 Hills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorable donations from Republican allies prompted some progressives to question local candidates’ proposals, but Philhour tweeted in October, “I am the only candidate in this race to denounce all Independent Expenditures and Super PACs. I’ve done so from the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, a tenants organizer, hopes that Philhour, if elected, will show her independence and favor progressive affordable housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Marjan [Philhour] wins, it’s incumbent on her to think about that vision and not what the PAC, big business-backers want to do about housing,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Full Election Results\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/KQED-Election-Results-Hero-1020x574.jpg\"]That’s particularly important with the likely passages of San Francisco’s Propositions I and K, the former of which is a property transfer tax that would raise about $196 million annually for the city’s general fund, and the latter of which is a mandate for the city to build up to 10,000 affordable rental units, a proposal which still needs identified funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is buying what the progressives are putting on the ballot right now,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd David, director of the SF Housing Action Coalition, said progressives should strike while the iron is hot, as this week’s likely multiple ballot proposition wins would give progressives more tools to begin tackling the housing affordability crisis in a way he claims they have not yet done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many political moderates like David, who side with market-rate ideologies, agree that the progressives should aggressively pursue their housing proposals because building more affordable housing on the West Side, for example, would at least see the neighborhood become more housing-dense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see the Board of Supervisors put their money where their mouth is,” David said. “Take their mandate, and change zoning in the city to allow for some geographic affordable housing equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David critiqued the progressive supervisors for failing to use their majority to add more housing on San Francisco’s West Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have “all said they can do this,” but “last time I checked they haven’t added any new zoning locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any possible new cooperation between Breed’s camp and the progressives, if pursued, could transform the city, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is co-published with \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/\">ProPublica\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two dozen groups on the Chinese-owned social media app WeChat have been circulating misinformation that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is “preparing to mobilize” the National Guard and “dispatch” the military to quell impending riots, apparently in an attempt to frighten Chinese Americans into staying home on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misinformation, which takes the form of a photo of a flyer and is in both English and Chinese, also warns that the government plans to impose a national two-week quarantine and close all businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will announce this as soon as they have troops in place to prevent looters and rioters,” it states. The flyer originally appeared on WeChat during the first surge of the pandemic, and it later spread to other social media. It recently resurfaced on WeChat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure thousands of people have seen that. I’m sure that it’s pretty widespread,” said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco, which has been tracking the flyer and other misinformation on WeChat. “We’re really concerned about making sure we get some good counterinformation, facts out there so that people are not discouraged because this is the last stretch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carly Liu, San Francisco\"]‘It makes us feel more scared … I do think if there were (people) who were going to vote in-person on Nov. 3, they may definitely be deterred from going out in person.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahaku McFadden, a spokesperson for the National Guard, called the flyer “categorically false,” adding that DHS “does not have the authority to mobilize the National Guard,” which is under the control of state governors, and that “there is no discussion of a nationwide quarantine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ProPublica’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/electionland/\">Electionland\u003c/a> project first received a tip about the flyer from a San Francisco resident whose elderly mother received it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother is not proficient in English, but she read the Chinese part and started freaking out,” the woman, who gave her first name as Dora, said. “It is clearly to keep people from the polls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/CPA-Flyer-WeChat.jpg\" alt=\"flyer debunking disinformation on WeChat\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/CPA-Flyer-WeChat.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/CPA-Flyer-WeChat-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This flyer was created by the Chinese Progressive Association after reporting from KQED and ProPublica to combat misinformation in the Chinese community. \u003ccite>(Chinese Progressive Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the Trump administration has tried to ban WeChat, a spate of recent misinformation on the app appears aimed at boosting the president’s reelection campaign by deterring Chinese Americans from voting Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shameful democrats, truly shameful,” runs one frequently shared message, which KQED translated from Chinese. “Without our consent, they made everyone permanent mail in ballot voters. Also, some people’s political registration has been changed to ‘independent’ or ‘democrat.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another asserts that “90 percent of media is controlled by Democrats, 60 percent of college professors are left wing. That means America’s population, culture, wealth, media, and education are in the hands of Democrats. Trump and Republicans are in a very dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owned by Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Ltd, WeChat is among the world’s largest social media apps, boasting more than 1 billion active monthly users, mostly in China. Chinese Americans, who once used it primarily to communicate with family back home, have increasingly formed chat groups on the app for everything from sharing recipes to organizing rent strikes. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/how-chinese-language-media-u-s-are-debunking-wechat-coronavirus-n1156621\">During the pandemic\u003c/a> and the presidential campaign, dozens of groups have promulgated misinformation without it being flagged or removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday night, WeChat had received no recent complaints regarding the flyer about the National Guard, though there may have been some when the image first circulated in late March and early April, a person familiar with WeChat’s policies said. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, which have started to crack down on false information, WeChat is almost entirely reliant on individual users to report misinformation, the person said. Users agree on signing up not to post “fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive” information on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='election-explainers']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person also said that, unlike some U.S.-based social media companies, WeChat has no specific relationship with the federal government to track or report misinformation. WeChat’s user base in this country is far smaller — “in the low single-digit millions” — than that of Facebook or Twitter. Asian Americans, many of whom reportedly use WeChat, make up 36% of San Francisco’s population. DHS officials said they were unaware of any efforts by WeChat or the federal government to partner to address election misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration wrote a series of rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834806/wechat-ban-and-sfs-chinatown-how-trumps-plan-could-hurt-housing-rights-campaigns\">that would have effectively banned downloads of WeChat\u003c/a> and the video-sharing app TikTok in the U.S. this fall. On Sept. 20, the day they were to go into effect, a federal judge stayed the ruling, giving WeChat a reprieve. The app can be downloaded for free with no restrictions in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS officials said that the FBI handles most investigations of domestic misinformation and election interference. The FBI declined to comment on whether it is investigating the flyer or on any other interactions with WeChat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FBI remains in close touch with all of our interagency partners and social media and technology companies to enable a quick exchange of threat information,” said Sutton Roach, a spokesperson for the bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misinformation on WeChat is not a new phenomenon. A 2018 study by the Columbia Journalism Review found that political discourse on WeChat is “asymmetrically polarized” and “especially vulnerable to political misinformation” such as unfounded right-wing conspiracy theories. Most of this misinformation \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/wechat-misinformation-china.php\">is spread in large chat rooms\u003c/a>, like the ones the Chinese Progressive Association has observed in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shaw San Liu, Chinese Progressive Association\"]‘This conflation of racial justice and Black Lives Matters with riots as a white right-wing talking point, that is very much being brought into the Chinese right-wing analysis.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After similar reports of misinformation in Australia, WeChat blocked Australian users from seeing the content of problematic accounts flagged by the Australian government. WeChat worked with Austrian regulators to help ensure that information on official accounts – which require verification and payment by account owners – complied with local laws banning the dissemination of misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stemming the Tide\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Without intervention from WeChat, responsibility for pushing back against misinformation has often fallen on younger members of Chinese American families, said Kitty Fong, a San Francisco resident and president of the Rose Pak Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening in October, the 32-year-old Fong walked into her family kitchen to get some water. Her mother was cooking spare ribs and rice, and over the simmering meat she turned to Fong to ask if she’d heard the rumor on WeChat that riots were coming on the heels of the election, and that families should stock up on food and other goods. The flyer warning about mobilizing the National Guard also encourages people to “stock up on whatever you need to make sure you have a two week supply of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carly Liu, a San Francisco resident who lives in the South of Market neighborhood, said she thinks that misinformation on WeChat has swayed her community. The messages echo claims on right-wing websites that presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter are corrupt and being investigated, and that there’s a media cover-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden “should be arrested and prosecuted for racketeering charges,” one WeChat message says. “This very serious case is ignored and censored by mainstream media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such messages “actually convinced some people to vote for Trump because they weren’t sure they can trust Biden,” Liu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she is not a U.S. citizen, Liu helped her parents, who are in their 80s, to vote. But Liu has seen misinformation popping up on WeChat that gave her pause about going outside to help them cast their ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just Tuesday she saw a photo spreading on WeChat of a local Social Security office with boarded up windows, accompanied by the flyer warning of riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes us feel more scared,” Liu said in Cantonese. “I do think if there were (people) who were going to vote in-person on Nov. 3, they may definitely be deterred from going out in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11844284 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45228_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10052020-qut-1020x680.jpg']Shaw San Liu, from the Chinese Progressive Association, said that robberies publicized in Chinese media, racist insults on the rise amid the pandemic and physical attacks have led some in San Francisco’s Chinese American community to feel isolated and unsupported by the government and to be more receptive to right-wing extremism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there is this very much deep-seated narrative that has been building in the community around the Chinese community being victimized. The Chinese community being attacked,” Liu said. That has fostered anti-homeless, anti-queer, anti-Black sentiment in the community, she added. “This conflation of racial justice and Black Lives Matters with riots as a white right-wing talking point, that is very much being brought into the Chinese right-wing analysis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After groups on WeChat first spread the flyer in late March, the National Guard stamped the flyer “FALSE” in a tweet. The hoax resurfaced again in the last few weeks, spurring fears of voter suppression. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amid fanfare in March, California officials celebrated the launch of a multimillion-dollar contract with Verily — Google’s health-focused sister company — that they said would vastly expand COVID-19 testing among the state’s impoverished and underserved communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seven months later, San Francisco and Alameda counties — two of the state’s most populous — have severed ties with the company’s testing sites amid concerns about patients’ data privacy and complaints that funding intended to boost testing in low-income Black and Latino neighborhoods instead was benefiting higher-income residents in other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Alameda are among at least 28 counties, including Los Angeles, where California has paid Verily to boost testing capacity through contracts collectively worth $55 million, according to a spokesperson for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. About half of them have received COVID-19 tests through six mobile units that travel among rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11818312 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/HaywardCoronavirusTesting-1020x664.jpg']Gov. Gavin Newsom has heralded the investment as a game changer in addressing persistent inequities in access to COVID-19 testing across the state that tend to fall along lines of ethnicity and income. The goal, he said in April, touting six new Verily testing sites, was to “make sure we’re truly testing California broadly defined, not just parts of California and those that somehow have the privilege of getting ahead of the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the roadblocks for getting underrepresented populations to use the program soon became apparent to Alameda County officials. \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Letter-to-Dr.-Ghaly-on-Testing-Platform.pdf\">In a June letter\u003c/a> to California Secretary of Health Mark Ghaly, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and other members of the county’s COVID-19 Racial Disparities Task Force raised numerous concerns about the Verily protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among their complaints: People signing up for a test through Verily had to do so online, using an existing or newly created Gmail account; the sign-ups were offered only in English or Spanish; and participants were asked to provide sensitive personal information, including their home address and whether they were managing chronic health conditions such as diabetes, obesity or congestive heart failure, which could expose their data to third-party use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical in this crisis that we continue to build trust between government and healthcare providers and vulnerable communities,” the task force members wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verily had two sites in Alameda County, and one was shuttered by May. The second, located at an Oakland church, closed in August and is set to reopen using a different testing vendor. Alameda County testing director Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick said that while the Verily sites helped the county reach testing goals in terms of raw numbers, they were phased out because of long wait times of a week or more for results, and because the tests were not reaching the residents in greatest need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verily does not manufacture the COVID-19 tests used at its California sites. It contracts with major corporations such as Quest Diagnostics and Thermo Fisher Scientific to provide the test kits and perform the lab work. What Verily provides is a digital platform where people are screened for symptoms, schedule testing appointments at participating sites and check back for test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Dr. Noha Aboelata, CEO of Roots Community Health Center\" size=\"medium\" align=\"right\"]‘Corporations that are not really invested in the community come helicoptering in, bearing gifts, but what they’re taking away is much more valuable.’[/pullquote]Dr. Noha Aboelata is CEO of Roots Community Health Center, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans and is one of the original Verily sites in Oakland. Her experience with Verily is best described as a tale of two lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Aboelata worked with Verily to establish a walk-up site at her clinic, rather than the drive-thru model the company typically uses. There would be two lines: one for people who scheduled their appointments through Verily’s online portal; and a second for people who had not preregistered with Verily. Roots would staff both lines, and Verily would supply test kits and personal protective equipment including masks, which were “like gold” at the time, Aboelata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems emerged almost immediately, she said. People were suspicious of the requirement that they sign up with a Gmail account, and the request for personal information, such as health status and risk factors. “You don’t necessarily want to share that with Google,” Aboelata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was the language in the privacy policy that allows for sharing data with third parties. “That always is going to raise suspicion and concern in our community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who ended up in the Verily-registered line, she said, tended to be white and to come from wealthier ZIP codes outside East Oakland. And because Verily never changed the website language describing Roots as a drive-thru site, many were angry at having to walk up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had people coming from all over the Bay Area who were frustrated that they had to park in Oakland, where they had probably never been and didn’t seem to want to be,” she said. “They were creating quite a scene, and some were saying, ‘I want to talk to the manager.’” She had to ask a few people to leave. “One of them was saying, ‘This is so Oakland, and I hope you all get the virus.’ It was pretty awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots line for clients who did not register through Verily, on the other hand, was made up mostly of people of color from the community who long had come to the clinic for medical care, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350.jpg\" alt=\"a Roots Community Health Center tent\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843963\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/verily_01_1350-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roots Community Health Center in East Oakland is among the Alameda County COVID-19 testing sites that have severed ties with Verily. People were suspicious of the requirement that they sign up for testing with a Gmail account and the request for personal information, according to center officials. \u003ccite>(Roots Community Health Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Aboelata looked at the data, the disparities were obvious: 12.9% of people tested in the non-Verily line were positive for COVID-19, while just 1.5% of people tested in the Verily-registered line were positive. For Aboelata, it was clear that the two lines were testing two entirely different populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just six days of testing, Aboelata asked Verily to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From where we sit, this is an old story,” she said. “Corporations that are not really invested in the community come helicoptering in, bearing gifts, but what they’re taking away is much more valuable.” That thing of value, Aboelata believes, is the data Verily requests from everyone who signs up for a test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus-testing\" label=\"related coverage\"]In San Francisco, Verily mobile testing clinics have also been sidelined. County officials declined to provide an explanation. However, multiple people with knowledge of the testing efforts said the Verily registration process proved chaotic for homeless people and others in the Tenderloin district, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenneth Kim, clinical director of Glide, an outreach center that helped run the Tenderloin site, said many homeless residents coming in for testing had Gmail accounts, as Verily required, but could not remember their passwords. When staffers at the testing site tried to help them retrieve their passwords, they found that Google’s two-factor authentication process required users to have the same phone number as when they signed up, which few of the homeless participants did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jonathan Fuchs, who leads San Francisco County’s testing strategy at the Department of Public Health, confirmed that the partnership with Verily was “currently on hold.” He declined to provide further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions, Verily spokesperson Kathleen Parkes said the program requires users to register with Gmail accounts because Google’s authentication procedures safeguard sensitive data and protect “against unknown individuals sending or receiving information with serious consequences for health or well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations with San Francisco and Alameda remain “active,” Parkes said. The company did not respond to specific questions about the testing disparities cited by community leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verily’s role in COVID-19 testing has been shadowed by controversy since President Donald Trump told reporters at a Rose Garden news conference in March that “Google” was developing a screening website and testing tool. “Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now,” he said. “They’ve made tremendous progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, COVID-19 tests were in short supply and Trump was under pressure to increase capacity as infections ballooned in California, New York and other states. But Google was not building such a website. Instead, Verily, another Alphabet Inc. subsidiary focused on life sciences, was in the early stages of developing a website to help triage people in need of COVID-19 testing, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238574670686928906\">Google clarified in a tweet\u003c/a>. It planned to unveil a pilot program in two Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Newsom announced a California partnership with Verily that so far has paid the company $55 million to establish both mobile and brick-and-mortar testing sites. In addition, Verily has partnered with Rite Aid to manage testing at approximately 300 sites in multiple states under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75P00120C00030_7570_-NONE-_-NONE-\">$122.6 million federal contract\u003c/a> between the pharmacy chain and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. California’s Verily contracts are in place through Nov. 30; the HHS contract is set to expire in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in the Verily initiative sign an authorization form that says their information can be shared with multiple third parties involved in the testing program, including unnamed contractors and state and federal health authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the form tells you that Verily may share data with ‘entities that assist with the testing program,’ it doesn’t say who those entities are. If one of those unnamed and unknown entities violates your privacy by misusing your data, you have no way to know and no way to hold them accountable,” said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for digital privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy states Verily will not use the data collected for its own research or meld it with other Google products without the user’s permission. But it notes participants may be invited to share their data for such research, and the testing portal prominently features links inviting participants to sign up for other Verily research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Dr. Margot Kushel, director of UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative\" size=\"medium\" align=\"right\"]‘It turns out that in public health, the highest-tech solution is usually not the right one.’[/pullquote]In California, as of Oct. 8, the Verily sites had processed an average of 1,583 patient samples per day over the prior seven days, according to the California Department of Public Health. Verily, the state health department and Alameda County all declined requests to provide race and ethnicity data by testing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Kim Rhoads, a UCSF professor and former colorectal surgeon who leads a COVID-19 testing project for Black communities, said Aboelata’s experience with Verily is emblematic of widespread racial disparities in the testing and treatment of COVID-19. “We can’t keep talking about the consequences being unintended,” Rhoads said. “We are six months into this pandemic and anyone who is surprised by the repetitive findings of inequity in testing, the spread of virus and COVID-19 mortality just isn’t paying attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Ghaly, California’s health secretary, said he believed the state’s partnerships with Verily and other companies continue to be a national model for addressing problems with testing disparities, including setting up venues for minority and rural populations. For example, in counties in northern parts of the state, sometimes the only regular testing available was through mobile testing set up under the program, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s lots of success and lots of lessons learned and we continue to apply them,” Ghaly said. “Until the entire effort is completed, I always look at where we are as part success and part opportunity to keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Secretary-Ghalys-Response-to-Oakland-Mayor-and-Racial-Disparities-Task-Force.pdf\">a September response\u003c/a> to the Oakland COVID-19 disparities task force, Ghaly outlined several actions the state had taken or would take in response to the concerns, including having Verily update its platform to include additional languages and work with testing vendors on alternative methods for data collection to address privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the things we learned specifically in our experience in Alameda and other parts of the Bay Area is language matters,” Ghaly told Kaiser Health News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After working with the homeless for 25 years, Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, said she wasn’t surprised to learn some community leaders ran into problems with Verily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turns out that in public health, the highest-tech solution is usually not the right one,” she said. To bring COVID cases down, she explained, requires a “laser focus” on the highest-risk communities. And people in those communities often don’t want to turn over the protected information Verily asks for, whether because of fears about their immigration status or a history of mistrust of the medical establishment and policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can imagine a million and a half reasons why people would distrust it,” Kushel said. “The very structure of this is set up to fail. And by failing the communities who need it most, we fail everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Healthline correspondent Angela Hart contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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