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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published Sep. 27, 2018.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ana Kiziryan has two children. The youngest, Eddy, looks just like his grandfather, Edward Agababian. Yana’s family is Armenian. They emigrated from Baku, Azerbaijan, during the pogroms in 1991. As the Soviet Union was crumbling, Azerbaijan’s government was rounding up and killing Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family feared for their lives. Her dad, Edward, filed for refugee status. “We’re really lucky America took us in,” Yana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s father was 32 when the family arrived in the U.S. He didn’t speak English well, but he was determined to make a middle-class life for his family. In San Francisco, he found out he could make OK money driving a taxi. So, he started driving a cab. And he loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11695025 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-520x390.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car.png 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian inspects a car engine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edward liked meeting new people. He liked the community of other cabbies. And he loved all the driving. Whenever the family took trips, he insisted they drive instead of fly. He was a driver by nature, Yana says. He was also competitive by nature. A trait that really came out whenever he went to work at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bunch of taxi drivers at San Francisco International Airport used to play chess. Back when Edward started driving, they never had to wait that long for a fare. So they played speed games. Yana said Edward never lost. After his shifts, Edward would come home and play against Yana. To make it easier on her, he would play without his queen. Then, when she was about to lose, he’d turn the board around and play as her. No matter the odds, he’d still find a way to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a cab was helping the family get by, but Edward wanted to ensure a secure future after he was gone. So Yana says he invested in the stock market. Twice he took a huge hit. Once in the dot-com boom. Then again in the 2008 financial crisis. His last big play was buying a taxi medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safe Bet and a Retirement Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Uber and Lyft, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10693923/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medallion was extremely desirable\u003c/a> for taxi drivers. A driver could lease the medallion to other drivers and make passive income on the medallion. Between that and driving the cab themselves, a taxi driver could make somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 a month. Medallions were the de facto retirement plan for drivers. That’s exactly how Edward thought of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought if anything ever happens to me,” Yana says, “if I were to die, the family would be set. It was his insurance plan and his retirement plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco taxi medallions used to be awarded to drivers on a seniority basis. Drivers would wait on a list for their chance to get one. It could take 10 or even 15 years for your name to come up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/09/HarnettTaxiMedallionsfull.mp3\" title=\"San Francisco Made Millions Selling Taxi Medallions. Now Drivers Are Paying the Price\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Circle-of-drivers-e1538082779288.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2010, amid transit budget shortfalls, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom took a page out of the New York City playbook. He encouraged the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (Muni) to “monetize” the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA started selling medallions for $250,000 a pop. The city needed a lender to provide low-interest loans to cab drivers, many of whom were immigrants with limited credit history. So, it turned to the San Francisco Federal Credit Union, a local institution that usually lends its money in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2010, the SFMTA has sold around 700 medallions to drivers. The credit union, which financed almost all of these medallions, estimates that the city brought in $64 million from selling them. That money helped alleviate budget deficits that had accumulated after the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallions were a boon for the city, but they quickly became toxic for the credit union and the drivers who bought them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Destruction of an Industry and a Way of Life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was one of those roughly 700 drivers who bought a medallion. He made a down payment and took out a loan with the credit union to get his in 2011. At first it was great. But then Lyft and Uber really started taking off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA did not require Lyft and Uber to buy medallions for their drivers. Unlike taxis, there was no cap on the amount of vehicles these venture-backed companies could put on the road. And they took advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the SFMTA says it did not have the authority to require Uber and Lyft to purchase medallions. It categorizes the companies at TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) instead of taxi companies. TNCs are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The TNC classification is controversial. Taxi drivers argue the city could have pushed back harder against the CPUC and taken more of a charge in regulating Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft burned billions of dollars in venture capital to grow quickly. They put thousands and thousands of drivers on the road, which allowed them to offer cheap rides and quick pickups. The number of taxis meanwhile were capped by the medallion program, and the fare rates fixed, which ensured steady pay for the drivers. Lyft and Uber completely undercut the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft engaged in a price war to gain customers, and as the cost of their rides went down, so did driver earnings. While customers were enjoying the ability to zip cheaply around the city on low prices subsidized by investment capital, drivers for taxis, Ubers and Lyfts were making less and less and less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought medallions were trapped in the industry. They had to make those loan payments. So even though his earnings were plummeting, Edward kept driving. Soon he was going out on the road, logging eight, 10 or 12 hours just to break even on the loan for his medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Edward became increasingly restless and nervous,” Yana says. “There were months were they didn’t have quite enough to make all their bills.” Sometimes she had to chip in to help out her parents. Yana said Edward even signed up to drive Uber and Lyft, just to try and get some extra rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana started worrying about her father’s health. “He internalized everything,” Yana says, “and I am sure it did not help with his blood pressure problem, and just overall health.” But Edward kept driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two years ago, Yana and her whole family left for a short trip to the East Coast. Edward stayed home to drive. He went to the airport, like he did every day. There were so few fares at that point, drivers could sit for hours in their car waiting for a passenger. That’s where Edward’s friends found him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His friends at the airport right away noticed something was wrong,” Yana says. “They looked at him and he was green.” Edward said he wanted to go home. “They were like, 'no',” Yana says. “'You’re going to the hospital.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambulance came and rushed him to the hospital. Edward’s aorta had torn. He was bleeding internally. Soon after getting to the hospital, he passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We didn’t even get to say goodbye.'\u003ccite> Yana Kiziryan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The doctor told us that when he got to the hospital, they asked him if he wanted to call his family,” Yana says, “and apparently he said, ‘I don’t want to make them nervous.’ And so we didn’t even get to say goodbye or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic Asset and Family Debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was 59 when he died. Even though he was gone, the family was still burdened by the medallion debt. The loan for the medallion was outstanding and would be counted against any inheritance. The family wanted to sell the medallion to recoup their losses, but there were no buyers. The market was totally frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695028\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11695028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1020x767.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1200x903.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1180x888.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-960x722.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-240x181.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-375x282.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-520x391.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3.png 1514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian's family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana could not believe her family was still being plagued by this medallion that they could not get rid of it. “For a while we kept calling the SFMTA and sending them emails and trying to understand what was going to happen,” Yana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SFMTA rules, the medallion is inoperable after its owner dies. That means the family couldn't even lease out or drive on the medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana said the family felt they had no options except to stop making the loan payments. So they defaulted, taking a hit on their credit score. “We’d never not paid for something when it was due,” Yana said. “It was a very uncomfortable feeling to know that you’re neglecting a payment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frozen Market and a Slow-Moving Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Federal Credit Union, which financed almost every one of these medallions, is relatively small, handling around just $1 billion in assets. It mostly invests locally, and the medallions seemed, at the time, like a great partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Oliver is the CEO of the credit union. He said the credit union agreed to give low-interest loans to taxi drivers with limited credit history because the city assured that it would maintain the viability of the medallion market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver says the SFMTA wrote both in its transportation code and the agreement with the credit union that it would buy back the medallions if it ended the program — if it stopped allowing medallions to be sold. \"Prohibited the retransfer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/transportation/divisionii/article1100regulationofmotorvehiclesforh?f=templates%24fn=default.htm%243.0%24vid=amlegal:sanfrancisco_ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is the exact language in the transportation code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one has bought a taxi medallion since 2016. The market is totally frozen. This is the central piece of a lawsuit the San Francisco Federal Credit Union has filed against the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit union is arguing that the SFMTA has failed to maintain a viable market for medallions, effectively putting an end to the program. The SFMTA is arguing that it hasn't officially ended the program, and therefore doesn't have to buy back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is in the discovery phase, and the credit union expects it will take until next summer for some action on the suit. That is a long way off for drivers who are struggling every month to make their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the credit union wins or the city settles, it is unclear what will happen to the drivers and their individual debts. Or all the millions they have already paid into the loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Relief in Sight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694430\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inderjit Ghotra's family purchased six medallions. Now he's underwater on all of them. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana's family is not alone. Over 150 families have defaulted on taxi medallions, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651103/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more taxi-driving families are defaulting every month\u003c/a>. The head of the taxi program for the SFMTA, Kate Toran, said if she could wave a magic wand, buy back the medallions and make this problem all go away, she would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran estimates that it would take $160 million to buy back all of the medallions. That’s probably not going to happen, she says. The SFMTA has been having meetings to discuss ways to make the taxi industry more viable. Nowhere has it discussed buying back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting last fall, the city proposed six reforms. Things like allowing corporations to buy medallions, which the city hopes would unfreeze the market. Right now, only licensed cab drivers can buy one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cab drivers who attended the meeting were supposed to stick up post-it notes with their comments on each reform. Almost all of them said the same thing: Please buy back our medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the city decided to explore limiting the number of taxis which could pick up passengers at the airport. The hope is to help out those who spent the most on their medallions, but many drivers are upset at a plan that would divide drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that meeting last fall, no move has been made to buy back the medallions sold to drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694428\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers just want one thing from the city: for it to buy back their medallions. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family has struggled for years with this medallion. Her father died. The family defaulted on their loan. They lost all the money they sunk into the medallion. What Yana wants now from the city is just some accountability, some admission that the program failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is too late for her father, but she hopes something will be done for all the other families and drivers who are still on the hook for their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published Sep. 27, 2018.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ana Kiziryan has two children. The youngest, Eddy, looks just like his grandfather, Edward Agababian. Yana’s family is Armenian. They emigrated from Baku, Azerbaijan, during the pogroms in 1991. As the Soviet Union was crumbling, Azerbaijan’s government was rounding up and killing Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family feared for their lives. Her dad, Edward, filed for refugee status. “We’re really lucky America took us in,” Yana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s father was 32 when the family arrived in the U.S. He didn’t speak English well, but he was determined to make a middle-class life for his family. In San Francisco, he found out he could make OK money driving a taxi. So, he started driving a cab. And he loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11695025 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-520x390.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car.png 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian inspects a car engine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edward liked meeting new people. He liked the community of other cabbies. And he loved all the driving. Whenever the family took trips, he insisted they drive instead of fly. He was a driver by nature, Yana says. He was also competitive by nature. A trait that really came out whenever he went to work at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bunch of taxi drivers at San Francisco International Airport used to play chess. Back when Edward started driving, they never had to wait that long for a fare. So they played speed games. Yana said Edward never lost. After his shifts, Edward would come home and play against Yana. To make it easier on her, he would play without his queen. Then, when she was about to lose, he’d turn the board around and play as her. No matter the odds, he’d still find a way to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a cab was helping the family get by, but Edward wanted to ensure a secure future after he was gone. So Yana says he invested in the stock market. Twice he took a huge hit. Once in the dot-com boom. Then again in the 2008 financial crisis. His last big play was buying a taxi medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safe Bet and a Retirement Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Uber and Lyft, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10693923/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medallion was extremely desirable\u003c/a> for taxi drivers. A driver could lease the medallion to other drivers and make passive income on the medallion. Between that and driving the cab themselves, a taxi driver could make somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 a month. Medallions were the de facto retirement plan for drivers. That’s exactly how Edward thought of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought if anything ever happens to me,” Yana says, “if I were to die, the family would be set. It was his insurance plan and his retirement plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco taxi medallions used to be awarded to drivers on a seniority basis. Drivers would wait on a list for their chance to get one. It could take 10 or even 15 years for your name to come up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2010, amid transit budget shortfalls, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom took a page out of the New York City playbook. He encouraged the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (Muni) to “monetize” the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA started selling medallions for $250,000 a pop. The city needed a lender to provide low-interest loans to cab drivers, many of whom were immigrants with limited credit history. So, it turned to the San Francisco Federal Credit Union, a local institution that usually lends its money in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2010, the SFMTA has sold around 700 medallions to drivers. The credit union, which financed almost all of these medallions, estimates that the city brought in $64 million from selling them. That money helped alleviate budget deficits that had accumulated after the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallions were a boon for the city, but they quickly became toxic for the credit union and the drivers who bought them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Destruction of an Industry and a Way of Life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was one of those roughly 700 drivers who bought a medallion. He made a down payment and took out a loan with the credit union to get his in 2011. At first it was great. But then Lyft and Uber really started taking off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA did not require Lyft and Uber to buy medallions for their drivers. Unlike taxis, there was no cap on the amount of vehicles these venture-backed companies could put on the road. And they took advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the SFMTA says it did not have the authority to require Uber and Lyft to purchase medallions. It categorizes the companies at TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) instead of taxi companies. TNCs are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The TNC classification is controversial. Taxi drivers argue the city could have pushed back harder against the CPUC and taken more of a charge in regulating Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft burned billions of dollars in venture capital to grow quickly. They put thousands and thousands of drivers on the road, which allowed them to offer cheap rides and quick pickups. The number of taxis meanwhile were capped by the medallion program, and the fare rates fixed, which ensured steady pay for the drivers. Lyft and Uber completely undercut the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft engaged in a price war to gain customers, and as the cost of their rides went down, so did driver earnings. While customers were enjoying the ability to zip cheaply around the city on low prices subsidized by investment capital, drivers for taxis, Ubers and Lyfts were making less and less and less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought medallions were trapped in the industry. They had to make those loan payments. So even though his earnings were plummeting, Edward kept driving. Soon he was going out on the road, logging eight, 10 or 12 hours just to break even on the loan for his medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Edward became increasingly restless and nervous,” Yana says. “There were months were they didn’t have quite enough to make all their bills.” Sometimes she had to chip in to help out her parents. Yana said Edward even signed up to drive Uber and Lyft, just to try and get some extra rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana started worrying about her father’s health. “He internalized everything,” Yana says, “and I am sure it did not help with his blood pressure problem, and just overall health.” But Edward kept driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two years ago, Yana and her whole family left for a short trip to the East Coast. Edward stayed home to drive. He went to the airport, like he did every day. There were so few fares at that point, drivers could sit for hours in their car waiting for a passenger. That’s where Edward’s friends found him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His friends at the airport right away noticed something was wrong,” Yana says. “They looked at him and he was green.” Edward said he wanted to go home. “They were like, 'no',” Yana says. “'You’re going to the hospital.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambulance came and rushed him to the hospital. Edward’s aorta had torn. He was bleeding internally. Soon after getting to the hospital, he passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We didn’t even get to say goodbye.'\u003ccite> Yana Kiziryan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The doctor told us that when he got to the hospital, they asked him if he wanted to call his family,” Yana says, “and apparently he said, ‘I don’t want to make them nervous.’ And so we didn’t even get to say goodbye or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic Asset and Family Debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was 59 when he died. Even though he was gone, the family was still burdened by the medallion debt. The loan for the medallion was outstanding and would be counted against any inheritance. The family wanted to sell the medallion to recoup their losses, but there were no buyers. The market was totally frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695028\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11695028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1020x767.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1200x903.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1180x888.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-960x722.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-240x181.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-375x282.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-520x391.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3.png 1514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian's family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana could not believe her family was still being plagued by this medallion that they could not get rid of it. “For a while we kept calling the SFMTA and sending them emails and trying to understand what was going to happen,” Yana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SFMTA rules, the medallion is inoperable after its owner dies. That means the family couldn't even lease out or drive on the medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana said the family felt they had no options except to stop making the loan payments. So they defaulted, taking a hit on their credit score. “We’d never not paid for something when it was due,” Yana said. “It was a very uncomfortable feeling to know that you’re neglecting a payment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frozen Market and a Slow-Moving Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Federal Credit Union, which financed almost every one of these medallions, is relatively small, handling around just $1 billion in assets. It mostly invests locally, and the medallions seemed, at the time, like a great partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Oliver is the CEO of the credit union. He said the credit union agreed to give low-interest loans to taxi drivers with limited credit history because the city assured that it would maintain the viability of the medallion market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver says the SFMTA wrote both in its transportation code and the agreement with the credit union that it would buy back the medallions if it ended the program — if it stopped allowing medallions to be sold. \"Prohibited the retransfer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/transportation/divisionii/article1100regulationofmotorvehiclesforh?f=templates%24fn=default.htm%243.0%24vid=amlegal:sanfrancisco_ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is the exact language in the transportation code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one has bought a taxi medallion since 2016. The market is totally frozen. This is the central piece of a lawsuit the San Francisco Federal Credit Union has filed against the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit union is arguing that the SFMTA has failed to maintain a viable market for medallions, effectively putting an end to the program. The SFMTA is arguing that it hasn't officially ended the program, and therefore doesn't have to buy back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is in the discovery phase, and the credit union expects it will take until next summer for some action on the suit. That is a long way off for drivers who are struggling every month to make their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the credit union wins or the city settles, it is unclear what will happen to the drivers and their individual debts. Or all the millions they have already paid into the loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Relief in Sight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694430\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inderjit Ghotra's family purchased six medallions. 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From tales of ghostly apparitions to aristocrats meeting grisly ends, every corner brings another ghoulish story from San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700255\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_102-e1540151451936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd listens to Christian Cagigal telling the story of Mary Ellen Pleasant on the San Francisco Ghost Hunt tour \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first stop on the tour, at Bush and Octavia, holds a real-life story stranger than any Halloween legend. This unlit corner is said to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a 19th century entrepreneur who once lived in a now-vanished mansion nearby, and who actually planted these eucalyptus trees. Her spirit, Cagigal tells the assembled ghost hunters, is said to summon chills, frighten dogs and even throw nuts from the nearby eucalyptus trees at passers-by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story Cagigal tells our group under those trees is instantly captivating: how Pleasant, a black woman, came to San Francisco in the mid-1800s and defied white society’s constraints and prejudices to not only amass great wealth, but to also use her power to immeasurably advance the cause of civil rights in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, he says, she was also described as a witch, a “voodoo queen” and even a murderer. So who was the \u003ci>real\u003c/i> Mary Ellen Pleasant?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Rather be a Corpse than a Coward”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Her life is so enshrouded in mystery because she was her own spin doctor,” says Sacramento writer and performer Susheel Bibbs, who has studied Pleasant’s story for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3.png 1007w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-800x449.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-960x539.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-240x135.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-375x210.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellen Pleasant pictured in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1890s \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pleasant wrote three autobiographies — but each one contradicts the other on basic facts, such as the year of her birth. We do know that she was born into slavery in Georgia, and was raised in Nantucket, Massachusetts, “in indenture,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There on the East Coast, the young Pleasant became a crucial figure in the civil rights fight, secretly teaming up with abolitionists and rescuing escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. In this world, nothing could ever be as it seemed — and concealment, disguise and duality were weapons in Pleasant’s armory from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That double life included presenting as a white woman when she could. “She was very used to being covert,” says Bibbs. “She often said that words were made to conceal feelings — and that she was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento writer and performer Susheel Bibbs. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her first husband died, Pleasant took the $45,000 in gold she now had from his estate and arrived by steamer in San Francisco in 1852 — still passing as white. She found a town filled with men come to make their Gold Rush fortunes, far from home and in need of lodging, food and domestic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Pleasant invested her sizable wealth in property, establishing boardinghouses and laundries — anything and everything she correctly thought would “be a niche in San Francisco to make \u003ci>more\u003c/i> money,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant deliberately stayed close to the action in the boardinghouses she ran and later owned, learning a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of private things about the influential men who stayed there. She used them as another kind of currency, not just to rise in society but to further her \u003ci>real\u003c/i> cause: bringing the Underground Railroad out West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque commemorates Mary Ellen Pleasant’s civil rights achievements in Pacific Heights, placed by the San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the wealthy white people of San Francisco society knew her as the white boardinghouse proprietress, San Francisco’s growing black community knew her real identity. She was known as “The Black City Hall” — the place you go to get what you need — who helped black people get jobs on steamers, in white homes and in her own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a century before Rosa Parks, she challenged San Francisco’s segregated transit system in court, winning the right for black people to ride the streetcars without being thrown off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cause,” Pleasant wrote in one of her memoirs, “was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people. And I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Civil War — over a decade after she arrived in the city — Pleasant finally checked the box that said “Black” on the census of 1865. While this undoubtedly caused a stir among the wealthy white people who’d thought her one of their own, Pleasant continued to move in their circles. The tide, however, was about to turn — and a heroine became a villain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“Queen of the Voodoos”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the 1880s, the wild, mud-caked San Francisco that Mary Ellen Pleasant, the capitalist, had carved her way into had itself transformed into a “very much more overtly racist” city, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700602\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg 291w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-240x330.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of Mary Ellen Pleasant aged 87. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Public Library History Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, emancipated slaves became convenient scapegoats for the economy’s woes — and as a wealthy older black woman, Pleasant now inspired suspicion, even fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press coined a nickname intended to diminish her power with the racist image it conjured: “Mammy Pleasant.” Unsurprisingly, she loathed it. “It gives me the suspirations,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d always been a figure of fascination in San Francisco, but now whispers grew that she had some otherworldly hold over the wealthy white people she was close to. People like Thomas Bell, her white business partner and friend with whom she shared her vast mansion — along with the wife she’d found for him, Teresa. One headline in the San Francisco Call asked: “Mammy Pleasant: Angel or Arch Fiend in the House of Mystery?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11701128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAC-5932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mansion Mary Ellen Pleasant shared with Thomas and Teresa Bell — the house in which he’d later be found dead. The writing on the back of this photograph in the San Francisco Public Library’s collection reads: “Torn down in 1927. Ghost of Mammy Pleasant.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 1883, Pleasant became entangled in the scandalous trial of Nevada Sen. William Sharon, who was accused of seducing and then abandoning, a young woman, Sarah Althea Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bibbs describes it as the O.J. Simpson trial of its day in how this case obsessed the press and public alike — “reported everywhere, every day” across the nation, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant wasn’t on trial herself, but she was the young Hill’s friend — and lawyers for Sharon painted Pleasant as a sinister crone. They claimed she’d used dark forces to manipulate her friend into entrapping a senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than rejecting the rumors, she defied them — encouraged them, even, during the senator’s trial. She carried a voodoo doll in court, claiming she would use it to bring about his death — and die he did, before the trial ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700253\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_100-e1540151423725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Cagigal holds up a photograph of 19th century San Francisco on his Ghost Hunt tour, at Mary Ellen Memorial Park \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While her behavior might strike us now as self-defeating, Pleasant had always employed misdirection to confound expectations and control her narrative. Pleasant’s status as a “voodoo queen” grew, cementing her reputation as a quasi-mystical figure in San Francisco. To the public, voodoo meant blood magic and malevolent intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mary Ellen Pleasant, however, the \u003ci>real\u003c/i> voodoo — vodoun or vodun — was actually her religion from her ancestral homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was born the daughter of a voodoo priestess and the granddaughter of a voodoo priestess from Haiti,” explains Bibbs. She believes there’s strong evidence to suggest that Pleasant had studied in New Orleans with legendary vodoun practitioner Marie Laveau (also spelled elsewhere as Laveaux or LaVeaux) before coming to San Francisco — and learned particularly from Laveau’s emphasis on using one’s power to serve the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scandal followed scandal. When her business partner, Thomas Bell, was found dead in her mansion, his widow, Teresa, collaborated on a full-page smear piece in the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline “The Queen of the Voodoos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1359px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1359\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png 1359w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1020x651.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1200x766.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1180x753.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-960x612.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-240x153.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-375x239.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1359px) 100vw, 1359px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Queen of the Voodoos” article about Mary Ellen Pleasant in the San Francisco Chronicle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The press had used the language of the supernatural to describe her for years — but now, they made her into a flat-out monster, accusing her of witchcraft and implying she murdered Bell. This article ignited a public wave against Mary Ellen Pleasant from the powers-that-be, for whom she’d become too powerful, too loud, almost diabolical — fueled by “hate, revenge and racism,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“We Forget Your Story”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s telling who gets a legend — and who gets a ghost story. Mary Ellen Pleasant was demonized in her own lifetime, yet in a system so loaded against a black woman in the public eye, playing with rumor like she did was perhaps the only way to play the game, even if it was ultimately her undoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ellen Pleasant died in 1904 in her 90s, with her fortunes greatly diminished by scandal. Her obituary in the San Francisco Examiner was titled: “Mammy Pleasant Will Work Weird Spells No More.” In her own writings, Teresa Bell defined Pleasant as “a demon from first to last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning the details of her extraordinary life, it’s hard to imagine how Mary Ellen Pleasant isn’t a towering figure in San Francisco’s history. Yet how we’re remembered depends on who’s telling your story. From those newspapers to her early biographers, Pleasant’s life has been so mangled. As Bibbs says: “One could not tell \u003ci>who\u003c/i> she was.” Was she the […] mother of civil rights, or was she a murderess?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700254\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_103-e1540151366310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lantern illuminates the sidewalk plaque dedicated to Mary Ellen Pleasant on the San Francisco Ghost Hunt tour \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or as Christian Cagigal puts it during the San Francisco Ghost Hunt, under those eucalyptus trees Pleasant is said to haunt: “When there’s three versions of your life story, we don’t know what to \u003cem>do\u003c/em> with your life story… and we forget your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps Mary Ellen Pleasant on his ghost hunt, he says, “so we might start to remember.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story Cagigal tells our group under those trees is instantly captivating: how Pleasant, a black woman, came to San Francisco in the mid-1800s and defied white society’s constraints and prejudices to not only amass great wealth, but to also use her power to immeasurably advance the cause of civil rights in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, he says, she was also described as a witch, a “voodoo queen” and even a murderer. So who was the \u003ci>real\u003c/i> Mary Ellen Pleasant?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Rather be a Corpse than a Coward”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Her life is so enshrouded in mystery because she was her own spin doctor,” says Sacramento writer and performer Susheel Bibbs, who has studied Pleasant’s story for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3.png 1007w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-800x449.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-960x539.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-240x135.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-375x210.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellen Pleasant pictured in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1890s \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pleasant wrote three autobiographies — but each one contradicts the other on basic facts, such as the year of her birth. We do know that she was born into slavery in Georgia, and was raised in Nantucket, Massachusetts, “in indenture,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There on the East Coast, the young Pleasant became a crucial figure in the civil rights fight, secretly teaming up with abolitionists and rescuing escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. In this world, nothing could ever be as it seemed — and concealment, disguise and duality were weapons in Pleasant’s armory from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That double life included presenting as a white woman when she could. “She was very used to being covert,” says Bibbs. “She often said that words were made to conceal feelings — and that she was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento writer and performer Susheel Bibbs. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her first husband died, Pleasant took the $45,000 in gold she now had from his estate and arrived by steamer in San Francisco in 1852 — still passing as white. She found a town filled with men come to make their Gold Rush fortunes, far from home and in need of lodging, food and domestic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Pleasant invested her sizable wealth in property, establishing boardinghouses and laundries — anything and everything she correctly thought would “be a niche in San Francisco to make \u003ci>more\u003c/i> money,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant deliberately stayed close to the action in the boardinghouses she ran and later owned, learning a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of private things about the influential men who stayed there. She used them as another kind of currency, not just to rise in society but to further her \u003ci>real\u003c/i> cause: bringing the Underground Railroad out West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque commemorates Mary Ellen Pleasant’s civil rights achievements in Pacific Heights, placed by the San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the wealthy white people of San Francisco society knew her as the white boardinghouse proprietress, San Francisco’s growing black community knew her real identity. She was known as “The Black City Hall” — the place you go to get what you need — who helped black people get jobs on steamers, in white homes and in her own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a century before Rosa Parks, she challenged San Francisco’s segregated transit system in court, winning the right for black people to ride the streetcars without being thrown off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cause,” Pleasant wrote in one of her memoirs, “was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people. And I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Civil War — over a decade after she arrived in the city — Pleasant finally checked the box that said “Black” on the census of 1865. While this undoubtedly caused a stir among the wealthy white people who’d thought her one of their own, Pleasant continued to move in their circles. The tide, however, was about to turn — and a heroine became a villain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“Queen of the Voodoos”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the 1880s, the wild, mud-caked San Francisco that Mary Ellen Pleasant, the capitalist, had carved her way into had itself transformed into a “very much more overtly racist” city, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700602\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg 291w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-240x330.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of Mary Ellen Pleasant aged 87. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Public Library History Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, emancipated slaves became convenient scapegoats for the economy’s woes — and as a wealthy older black woman, Pleasant now inspired suspicion, even fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press coined a nickname intended to diminish her power with the racist image it conjured: “Mammy Pleasant.” Unsurprisingly, she loathed it. “It gives me the suspirations,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d always been a figure of fascination in San Francisco, but now whispers grew that she had some otherworldly hold over the wealthy white people she was close to. People like Thomas Bell, her white business partner and friend with whom she shared her vast mansion — along with the wife she’d found for him, Teresa. One headline in the San Francisco Call asked: “Mammy Pleasant: Angel or Arch Fiend in the House of Mystery?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11701128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAC-5932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mansion Mary Ellen Pleasant shared with Thomas and Teresa Bell — the house in which he’d later be found dead. The writing on the back of this photograph in the San Francisco Public Library’s collection reads: “Torn down in 1927. Ghost of Mammy Pleasant.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 1883, Pleasant became entangled in the scandalous trial of Nevada Sen. William Sharon, who was accused of seducing and then abandoning, a young woman, Sarah Althea Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bibbs describes it as the O.J. Simpson trial of its day in how this case obsessed the press and public alike — “reported everywhere, every day” across the nation, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant wasn’t on trial herself, but she was the young Hill’s friend — and lawyers for Sharon painted Pleasant as a sinister crone. They claimed she’d used dark forces to manipulate her friend into entrapping a senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than rejecting the rumors, she defied them — encouraged them, even, during the senator’s trial. She carried a voodoo doll in court, claiming she would use it to bring about his death — and die he did, before the trial ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700253\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_100-e1540151423725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Cagigal holds up a photograph of 19th century San Francisco on his Ghost Hunt tour, at Mary Ellen Memorial Park \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While her behavior might strike us now as self-defeating, Pleasant had always employed misdirection to confound expectations and control her narrative. Pleasant’s status as a “voodoo queen” grew, cementing her reputation as a quasi-mystical figure in San Francisco. To the public, voodoo meant blood magic and malevolent intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mary Ellen Pleasant, however, the \u003ci>real\u003c/i> voodoo — vodoun or vodun — was actually her religion from her ancestral homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was born the daughter of a voodoo priestess and the granddaughter of a voodoo priestess from Haiti,” explains Bibbs. She believes there’s strong evidence to suggest that Pleasant had studied in New Orleans with legendary vodoun practitioner Marie Laveau (also spelled elsewhere as Laveaux or LaVeaux) before coming to San Francisco — and learned particularly from Laveau’s emphasis on using one’s power to serve the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scandal followed scandal. When her business partner, Thomas Bell, was found dead in her mansion, his widow, Teresa, collaborated on a full-page smear piece in the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline “The Queen of the Voodoos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1359px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1359\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png 1359w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1020x651.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1200x766.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1180x753.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-960x612.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-240x153.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-375x239.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1359px) 100vw, 1359px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Queen of the Voodoos” article about Mary Ellen Pleasant in the San Francisco Chronicle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The press had used the language of the supernatural to describe her for years — but now, they made her into a flat-out monster, accusing her of witchcraft and implying she murdered Bell. This article ignited a public wave against Mary Ellen Pleasant from the powers-that-be, for whom she’d become too powerful, too loud, almost diabolical — fueled by “hate, revenge and racism,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“We Forget Your Story”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s telling who gets a legend — and who gets a ghost story. Mary Ellen Pleasant was demonized in her own lifetime, yet in a system so loaded against a black woman in the public eye, playing with rumor like she did was perhaps the only way to play the game, even if it was ultimately her undoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ellen Pleasant died in 1904 in her 90s, with her fortunes greatly diminished by scandal. Her obituary in the San Francisco Examiner was titled: “Mammy Pleasant Will Work Weird Spells No More.” In her own writings, Teresa Bell defined Pleasant as “a demon from first to last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning the details of her extraordinary life, it’s hard to imagine how Mary Ellen Pleasant isn’t a towering figure in San Francisco’s history. Yet how we’re remembered depends on who’s telling your story. From those newspapers to her early biographers, Pleasant’s life has been so mangled. As Bibbs says: “One could not tell \u003ci>who\u003c/i> she was.” Was she the […] mother of civil rights, or was she a murderess?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700254\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_103-e1540151366310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lantern illuminates the sidewalk plaque dedicated to Mary Ellen Pleasant on the San Francisco Ghost Hunt tour \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or as Christian Cagigal puts it during the San Francisco Ghost Hunt, under those eucalyptus trees Pleasant is said to haunt: “When there’s three versions of your life story, we don’t know what to \u003cem>do\u003c/em> with your life story… and we forget your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco police officer arrested and charged by federal prosecutors earlier this week with robbing a bank in the city’s Sunset neighborhood was already under investigation for multiple crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before Officer Rain Daugherty allegedly got away with $9,050 in cash from the East West Bank on Irving Street on Nov. 29, he was under investigation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671641/appellate-court-rules-against-s-f-officers-in-racist-texting-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trading racist text messages\u003c/a> with fellow members of the San Francisco Police Department. That case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671641/appellate-court-rules-against-s-f-officers-in-racist-texting-case\">Appellate Court Rules Against S.F. Officers in Racist Texting Case\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671641/appellate-court-rules-against-s-f-officers-in-racist-texting-case\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30856_alt_720-1-1180x910.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>More recently, the 44-year-old was arrested in San Mateo County for drug possession and stealing $24,000 from an elderly neighbor in Burlingame for whom he was running occasional errands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, Daugherty posted $100,000 in bail in August, and has a preliminary hearing scheduled for February 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Alison Berry Wilkinson has been representing Daugherty on the text message case since 2015. She’s one of three lawyers working with the currently suspended police officer on these three separate cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daugherty could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the bank robbery charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson said the latest allegations against her client took her by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an excellent police officer,” Wilkinson said. “And the types of things that he is alleged to have done were inconsistent with the information I had about his dedication to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daugherty has been on “unpaid status” with the police force since July. Police chief Bill Scott said Daugherty hasn’t yet been fired because he has the right to due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just can’t arbitrarily release people without due process,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott also expressed sadness at the latest allegations against Daugherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just like we say of anybody that we have to deal with who has committed a crime, these are all human beings we’re talking about,” Scott said. “There is a human component to this, and it’s really heartbreaking to see a police officer be in that position.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In San Francisco, the houses are quite cozy — sometimes mere inches apart. We can hear our neighbors’ wailing babies, their band practice and even their showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This design is pretty common in cities across the country, but Friedel Pretorius, this week’s Bay Curious question asker, couldn’t help noticing it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like walking around San Francisco and just observing all the different houses,” says Friedel. “And I noticed that a lot of the buildings in San Francisco are really close together, like less than a foot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to know why they are so close and how they ended up this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always rot and maintenance that old houses need, and I just wonder how are they built and how are they maintained,” Friedel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/board-of-directors/#c-fracchia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Fracchia\u003c/a> has the answer. He’s the founder of the\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, \u003c/a>and has written several books on San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet him in the Jackson Square area, just north of the Transamerica Pyramid, where some of the city’s oldest buildings still stand. His bushy white eyebrows peek out from circular rimmed glasses that give him a scholarly look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705856\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705856 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"This house once stood at 1916 Sacramento Street and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about five feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This house, called the H. W. Newbauer House, once stood at 1916 Sacramento St. and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So you notice every one of these is on a lot next to each other, basically back to back,” says Fracchia. “There are no side yards or gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re looking at a series of brick buildings, two to three stories tall, very plain. He tells me this tight style of building was common in old European settlements, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ancient towns and cities had a wall around them. So you wanted to compress your real estate as much as you can,” says Fracchia, offering Paris in the Middle Ages as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me cities were designed this way to protect against invaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how San Francisco made this idea its own, and he ushers me into a nearby private dining club he’s a member of, to show me some framed paintings of what the city looked like before it was a city … before it became squished together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the one I really wanted to show you,” he says. “You notice there are just a handful of buildings over here. So very few buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702207 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close1-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia points to a drawing of San Francisco before the Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We are looking at a painting dated from 1846 to 1847. It’s right before the Gold Rush and right after the U.S. took over California from Mexico. At that point, there’s not really much to the city — it’s mostly sand dunes and it looks like peaceful, rolling countryside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with so few people, there was a city council. They convinced the federal government to give them the land San Francisco sits on. And then, Fracchia says, they started divvying that land up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did this late in 1846, when they hired O’Farrell to do the survey,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper O’Farrell was an Irish-born surveyor. \u003ca href=\"https://www.revolvy.com/page/Jasper-O%27Farrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O’Farrell Street in San Francisco is named after him.\u003c/a> He designed ranchos and other towns in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he was given the job, there are about, let’s say, 500 people in the settlement of Yerba Buena,” says Fracchia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702219 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia in front of a photo of San Francisco’s original waterfront. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Farrell had no idea what the future held for this little settlement and he had to guess how big the city would become. With little direction from the city council, he was given free rein to design it however he fancied. He started with a grid — a format already in place by the Mexican settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fracchia then points out another drawing of an early map of the city with streets running perpendicular to one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map has a bunch of teeny boxes, and each box represents a city block. Each of those blocks is divided into six smaller lots called varas — a Spanish unit of measurement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Farrell finalized his map, the city started auctioning off these varas. The ones South of Market were going for cheap: $12.67. But those close to downtown were pricey: $50 to $100 per vara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as they are auctioning them off, the Gold Rush happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden, there’s a huge demand to cram together an exploding population. A lot of people need to fit into not much space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The varas got subdivided into smaller lots, some less than 25 feet wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very typical real estate operation in large U.S. cities,” says Fracchia. “You can get more money by splitting the lots up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 25 feet is not that much space. Another local historian, William Kostura, says that it was just enough room for a parlor and a staircase. So in most cases, houses were built to take up the entire lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To build these houses, the walls had to be built first, on the ground, and then lifted into place using a system of levers and pulleys. This still happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the unique building techniques, Fracchia says the small lots also influenced the architecture of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gave way to the shape of San Francisco flats or houses. You know, a long narrow corridor called a railroad flat. Little rooms off that. You don’t have any kind of expansion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705855\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705855 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0367-1-e1542057187557.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This house once stood at 1916 Sacramento St. and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15½ feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of these houses were often built with small gaps separating them — like 1 or 2 feet — to allow light to come in through the side walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining those walls can get tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you fix a house when you can’t get to the side?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ben Ladomirak from\u003ca href=\"http://www.teevan.com/about-us/team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Teevan \u003c/a>works on all sorts of houses in San Francisco, and he tells me he’s done everything imaginable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing that exists on a home that we haven’t done,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He comes across houses that are super close together all the time, but he says “none are wide enough that you could get a person in there. I mean, I might be able to get a tiny person that’s not me. But all jokes aside, you can’t get in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that means that he can’t paint them — which causes problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UV damages the paint, which then makes the paint peel, which then makes the wood split and crack, which lets the water in, and it’s really water that does the damage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t happen that often because most walls are shaded from the sun. But when it does happen, it’s a big deal. If Ben thinks the wall is rotted out and the building might fall down, he has to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we’ll be able to deal with it is from the inside of your house. We cannot get to it from the outside,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine everything on the wall being stripped down, all the sheetrock out, and you have the vertical studs that you can see. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always rot and maintenance that old houses need, and I just wonder how are they built and how are they maintained,” Friedel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/board-of-directors/#c-fracchia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Fracchia\u003c/a> has the answer. He’s the founder of the\u003ca href=\"https://sfhistory.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, \u003c/a>and has written several books on San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet him in the Jackson Square area, just north of the Transamerica Pyramid, where some of the city’s oldest buildings still stand. His bushy white eyebrows peek out from circular rimmed glasses that give him a scholarly look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705856\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705856 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"This house once stood at 1916 Sacramento Street and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about five feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_0366-1-e1542057208808.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This house, called the H. W. Newbauer House, once stood at 1916 Sacramento St. and was built in 1878. The parlors on each floor were 15 and a half feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So you notice every one of these is on a lot next to each other, basically back to back,” says Fracchia. “There are no side yards or gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re looking at a series of brick buildings, two to three stories tall, very plain. He tells me this tight style of building was common in old European settlements, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ancient towns and cities had a wall around them. So you wanted to compress your real estate as much as you can,” says Fracchia, offering Paris in the Middle Ages as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me cities were designed this way to protect against invaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how San Francisco made this idea its own, and he ushers me into a nearby private dining club he’s a member of, to show me some framed paintings of what the city looked like before it was a city … before it became squished together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the one I really wanted to show you,” he says. “You notice there are just a handful of buildings over here. So very few buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702207 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close1-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia points to a drawing of San Francisco before the Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We are looking at a painting dated from 1846 to 1847. It’s right before the Gold Rush and right after the U.S. took over California from Mexico. At that point, there’s not really much to the city — it’s mostly sand dunes and it looks like peaceful, rolling countryside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with so few people, there was a city council. They convinced the federal government to give them the land San Francisco sits on. And then, Fracchia says, they started divvying that land up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did this late in 1846, when they hired O’Farrell to do the survey,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasper O’Farrell was an Irish-born surveyor. \u003ca href=\"https://www.revolvy.com/page/Jasper-O%27Farrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O’Farrell Street in San Francisco is named after him.\u003c/a> He designed ranchos and other towns in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he was given the job, there are about, let’s say, 500 people in the settlement of Yerba Buena,” says Fracchia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702219 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Close2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Fracchia in front of a photo of San Francisco’s original waterfront. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Farrell had no idea what the future held for this little settlement and he had to guess how big the city would become. With little direction from the city council, he was given free rein to design it however he fancied. He started with a grid — a format already in place by the Mexican settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fracchia then points out another drawing of an early map of the city with streets running perpendicular to one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The map has a bunch of teeny boxes, and each box represents a city block. Each of those blocks is divided into six smaller lots called varas — a Spanish unit of measurement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Farrell finalized his map, the city started auctioning off these varas. The ones South of Market were going for cheap: $12.67. But those close to downtown were pricey: $50 to $100 per vara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as they are auctioning them off, the Gold Rush happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden, there’s a huge demand to cram together an exploding population. A lot of people need to fit into not much space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The varas got subdivided into smaller lots, some less than 25 feet wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very typical real estate operation in large U.S. cities,” says Fracchia. “You can get more money by splitting the lots up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 25 feet is not that much space. Another local historian, William Kostura, says that it was just enough room for a parlor and a staircase. So in most cases, houses were built to take up the entire lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To build these houses, the walls had to be built first, on the ground, and then lifted into place using a system of levers and pulleys. This still happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the unique building techniques, Fracchia says the small lots also influenced the architecture of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gave way to the shape of San Francisco flats or houses. You know, a long narrow corridor called a railroad flat. Little rooms off that. 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The parlors on each floor were 15½ feet wide and the staircase was about 5 feet wide. Today, apartments occupy this lot. \u003ccite>(Quarterly Architectural News, October 1879)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of these houses were often built with small gaps separating them — like 1 or 2 feet — to allow light to come in through the side walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining those walls can get tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you fix a house when you can’t get to the side?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ben Ladomirak from\u003ca href=\"http://www.teevan.com/about-us/team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Teevan \u003c/a>works on all sorts of houses in San Francisco, and he tells me he’s done everything imaginable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing that exists on a home that we haven’t done,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He comes across houses that are super close together all the time, but he says “none are wide enough that you could get a person in there. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve watched with dismay as San Francisco’s sky-high rents push out yet another favorite music venue, gallery or indie movie theater, take heart: There’s a homegrown solution at hand. And other cities around the world, like London, are starting to look to San Francisco for inspiration when it comes to helping artists and creative organizations stay put.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people think of London as a huge city with a monumental cultural legacy, stretching from Shakespeare to Adele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also a city facing a cultural crisis, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.london.gov.uk/people/mayoral/justine-simons-obe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justine Simons\u003c/a>, London’s deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries. And that is one of the things London and San Francisco have in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unaffordability is a big issue for London and San Francisco,” Simons said. “And we both have issues around the protection and the retention of creative workspace and artists studios. The whole creative infrastructure is under a lot of pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706395\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 490px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11706395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JUstine-Simons.jpg\" alt=\"Justine Simons, London's deputy mayor of culture and creative industries.\" width=\"490\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JUstine-Simons.jpg 490w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JUstine-Simons-160x80.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justine Simons, London’s deputy mayor of culture and the creative industries. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mayor of London website)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simons was in San Francisco recently presiding over the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/events/world-cities-culture-summit-san-francisco-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Cities Culture Summit\u003c/a> — an annual gathering of 40 or so cultural leaders from across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get together and share our ideas,” Simons said. “And we also steal the best ideas from each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like an idea London recently stole from San Francisco to reduce cultural displacement — \u003ca href=\"https://cast-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Arts Stabilization Trust\u003c/a> — or CAST for short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“London has been completely inspired by the San Francisco CAST model, to the extent that we are setting up our own version of it,” Simons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAST is a nonprofit real estate development and holding company that helps arts groups secure space through long-term below-market leases and a lease-to-own model funded by philanthropy and other sources. It has raised $36 million to support a handful of projects since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has also helped nonprofit cultural groups keep the lights on in the shorter term, through providing $1.8 million in grants and technical assistance to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAST projects at various stages of development include helping performing arts presenter \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CounterPulse\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luggage Store Gallery\u003c/a> secure permanent spaces in the Tenderloin and mid-Market areas respectively, as well as working on plans to restore the Geneva Car Barn in the Excelsior neighborhood and create an arts and culture center as part of the 5M development in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706400\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11706400 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"CAST executive director, Moy Eng.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moy Eng, CAST executive director \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The elements that are really critical to having creatives in our city are leadership, financial resources and space,” said CAST’s executive director, Moy Eng. “As the space has gotten increasingly expensive, we purchase property through subsidy and low-interest financing to make it possible for arts groups to stay here in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eng said CounterPulse received $6 million in financing from CAST and has seven years to raise the money needed to purchase its premises at 80 Turk St. from her company at a cost frozen in 2015. “That’s well below market,” Eng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Luggage Store Gallery has a similar lease-to-own arrangement with CAST.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CounterPulse artistic and executive director Julie Phelps said her organization has raised $4 million of the $7 million it needs to buy CAST out in 2023. She said helping to stabilize a couple of cultural groups might be a drop in the bucket when so many are desperate for affordable space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, she said, the model is powerful, because it not only secures a future for her own organization, but also helps stabilize the futures of other individual artists and groups working in CounterPulse’s orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706401\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11706401 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Justine-Simons-and-Julie-Phelps-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"London deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries Justine Simons and CounterPulse executive and artistic director Julie Phelps pictured at CounterPulse. November 13, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Justine-Simons-and-Julie-Phelps-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Justine-Simons-and-Julie-Phelps-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Justine-Simons-and-Julie-Phelps-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Justine-Simons-and-Julie-Phelps-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Justine-Simons-and-Julie-Phelps-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Simons, left, London deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries, and CounterPulse executive and artistic director Julie Phelps, at CounterPulse on Nov. 13, 2018. \u003ccite>(Kate Patterson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Having a permanent facility doesn’t just benefit CounterPulse because we serve countless artists and small companies every year,” Phelps said. “So those artists are also all stabilized by way of CounterPulse being stabilized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>London’s version of CAST is expected to launch next year. But the UK capital isn’t the only city to come calling: Auckland, Tel Aviv and Amsterdam, among other urban centers, are also seeking anti-cultural displacement advice from San Francisco, as are several other cities around the United States, like Seattle, Austin and Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That the model is being applied to cities around the world is really where the broad impact is coming,” Phelps said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eng said she’s thrilled so many urban centers are hoping to replicate San Francisco’s CAST model. But she said each has to come up with its own take on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think we’re the silver bullet,” Eng said. “What we can present is an illustration of what could work in a major city, and it will take its own form and set of nuances in each particular city.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It has raised $36 million to support a handful of projects since 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has also helped nonprofit cultural groups keep the lights on in the shorter term, through providing $1.8 million in grants and technical assistance to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAST projects at various stages of development include helping performing arts presenter \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CounterPulse\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luggage Store Gallery\u003c/a> secure permanent spaces in the Tenderloin and mid-Market areas respectively, as well as working on plans to restore the Geneva Car Barn in the Excelsior neighborhood and create an arts and culture center as part of the 5M development in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706400\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11706400 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"CAST executive director, Moy Eng.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Moy-Eng-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moy Eng, CAST executive director \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The elements that are really critical to having creatives in our city are leadership, financial resources and space,” said CAST’s executive director, Moy Eng. “As the space has gotten increasingly expensive, we purchase property through subsidy and low-interest financing to make it possible for arts groups to stay here in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eng said CounterPulse received $6 million in financing from CAST and has seven years to raise the money needed to purchase its premises at 80 Turk St. from her company at a cost frozen in 2015. “That’s well below market,” Eng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Luggage Store Gallery has a similar lease-to-own arrangement with CAST.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CounterPulse artistic and executive director Julie Phelps said her organization has raised $4 million of the $7 million it needs to buy CAST out in 2023. She said helping to stabilize a couple of cultural groups might be a drop in the bucket when so many are desperate for affordable space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, she said, the model is powerful, because it not only secures a future for her own organization, but also helps stabilize the futures of other individual artists and groups working in CounterPulse’s orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706401\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11706401 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Justine-Simons-and-Julie-Phelps-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"London deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries Justine Simons and CounterPulse executive and artistic director Julie Phelps pictured at CounterPulse. 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