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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 emergency dispatchers and city workers gathered outside the \u003ca href=\"http://sfdem.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Department of Emergency Management\u003c/a> (SFDEM) building at Turk and Laguna streets Wednesday afternoon to protest low staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency dispatchers — city workers who answer 911 calls and route them to the correct public safety agency — took to the street holding picket signs (“911, Do you have an emergency? Please hold!”) and chanting slogans (“What do we want? More dispatchers! When do we want it? 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Outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco Monday, DeMeester asked why it took the FBI three years to make the arrest, saying the time lag raises questions about the amount of money spent on the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also raises the question of whether the government did not think that they had a case they could make, until towards the end the agents started pushing this idea of the arms dealing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee remains free on $500,000 bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the FBI searched an office at the state Legislature \"occasionally used by a staff member of Yee’s who normally works in his district office,\" the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/01/6287550/fbi-returns-to-sacramento-to-search.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/yees-district-offices-to-remain-open-despite-senate-suspension/Content?oid=2751976\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner reports\u003c/a> today that Yee's staff will continue to act as liaison to public agencies for District 8 constituents, who live in San Francisco and San Mateo counties.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Yee's Senate seat will be eliminated later this year, a result of redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Jackson\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal magistrate said Tuesday he believes Keith Jackson, also charged in the case, can be safely released from jail if he can post bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130511\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130511 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/YeeOffice300.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials stand outside Sen. 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Brosnahan said he thought Jackson could cobble together $100,000 by using his mother's house in Texas and another relative's house in Tennessee as collateral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is Keith Jackson?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson began his political career at 32, winning election to the San Francisco Board of Education on a platform of \"family values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had not really been involved in the school district at all before his election,\" said Jill Wynns, also elected to the board in 1994. She said Jackson, a political novice, wasn't up to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So when he got elected people were surprised. 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The average market rate per room on new leases has now gone well above $1,000 per month. Spots in shared-living situations with rent-controlled leases that make prices lower are few and coveted. And even some privately run single-room-occupancies (SRO), often a last resort before homelessness, are now charging $1,000 in rent for a room that doesn’t even have its own bathroom or kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedrooms for under $1,000 a month can still be found on the fringes of some less popular neighborhoods or with students near San Francisco State. But the only way to get a spot in one of the city’s trendier neighborhoods for that price is to convince a master tenant with a rent-controlled lease to let you move in. For these spots, applicants compete against dozens or, in some cases, hundreds of other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting selected to sublet a room in a shared-living situation depends on the whims of the leaseholders. Applicants send tailored cover letters, fight to win attention at open houses, and attempt to impress potential housemates during one-on-one interviews. The whole thing is a subjective process with little protection against prejudices like ageism, sexism or racism. If the master tenant doesn’t like you, you won’t get picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To beat the competition and get a hotly coveted room, applicants are trying anything they can. Some advertise themselves on Craigslist as great roommates. Others send LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Francesco Mursia made a video introducing himself and describing his favorite pastimes. He is not getting many responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mursia thinks part of the problem is his age. Many of the other applicants are 20-somethings in a period of transition. Mursia is 39. He would like to live alone, but with his budget ($1,000/month) that’s not possible in San Francisco. He’s been looking for a room since September. He checks Craigslist every day, sends out emails and goes to open houses. During this process, he said, “You ask yourself, why don’t I stand out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even expensive rooms are highly contested. Eun-Joung Lee lives in a three-bedroom on the border between the Mission and Noe Valley. She recently put a room on Craigslist for $1,500 a month. That may sound like a lot, but according to Tracy Ballard from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarearentaladvisors.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Rental Advisors\u003c/a>, the average asking rate for a three-bedroom in San Francisco is around $5,000/month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, $1,500 for a room in a hot neighborhood isn’t that bad. Lee got 20 responses to her post, which suggests she could have probably priced the room even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard financial advice is to not spend more than a third of your income on rent. For a $1,500 a month room you would need to earn $54,000 a year after taxes. Lexie Scanlon barely makes half that as an hourly employee. She says she cannot find anywhere affordable in the city to live, so she is considering an SRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlon has lived in an SRO before. It was not a pleasant arrangement. The place had bedbugs, she said, but at least it was affordable — only $185 a week. She recently called to inquire about a room at the same place, and the price had gone up to $225 a week. But, $900 a month is too much to pay for those conditions, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlon has seen a few shared-living situations she can afford — mostly student houses or apartments that advertise themselves as “tech houses.” These places post on Craigslist as group living arrangements for people with startup ambitions. One such post was titled “the good life 2.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reads: “We all went to top schools and work at the companies you read about.” Scanlon doesn’t fit that profile. She is 42 years old, transgender and a veteran. She works in the city and wants to know why there isn’t a place for her here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Harrigan is on the other side of the equation. He is on the lease of an iconic four-bedroom Victorian in the Lower Haight. He could probably rent the rooms out for as much as $1,500 each, but he doesn’t want to be greedy. At the same time, he said, “If I was to rent it out at like $500 I would have hundreds of emails. You would get everyone applying for it, and it wouldn’t be manageable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrigan recently had a room open up in the apartment and he decided to put it up at $1,000 — about double the rent-controlled rate and $500 below what he could have charged. 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It’s just frustrating. It reflects negatively not just on him but the group he represents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another longtime Sunset resident, 21-year-old Matthew Louie, said it’s downright shameful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have Leland Yee represent the Chinese in San Francisco, and have these accusations brought against him of illegal weapons dealing, wire fraud, things of that nature, just looks poorly in front of us, as he represents the Chinese people in Chinatown and in San Francisco,” Louie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet there are those in the community who are feeling more protective, as if maybe Yee didn’t deserve this fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people may think there’s something behind it, (like) is it a conspiracy,” Chen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The neighborhood is relatively sleepy today, versus a few decades ago when gang activity was a headline staple.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chinatown businessman Peter Kwan is a Yee supporter. 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The move could potentially add millions to San Francisco coffers and help Airbnb avoid conflict with regulators — especially if the company seeks to go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been criticized by city officials, landlords and hotels, who say it ignores local regulations, including the hotel tax and a ban on renting residential spaces for less than 30 days. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Airbnb-other-sites-owe-city-hotel-tax-S-F-says-3457290.php\">San Francisco's treasurer ruled\u003c/a> in 2012 that the online home rental services like Airbnb are subject to the tax. At the time, the company strongly resisted. \"Laws (like San Francisco’s hotel tax) were written long before the Internet or any of these activities were conceived,\" an Airbnb spokesperson said after that ruling. \"Innovative new models that allow San Franciscans to generate additional income should be addressed by innovative laws and policies -- not stifled by 40-year-old regulations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marina Franco, an attorney at a law firm that represents property owners, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Airbnb-to-collect-hotel-taxes-for-San-Francisco-5365352.php%22%20target=%22_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that the tax alone would not satisfy landlords. \"Our concerns are the liabilities of having strangers in our buildings, the fact that (tenants) are renting rooms for more than landlords are entitled to charge and that they don't have conditional use permits to run hotels,\" Franco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle said that an Airbnb host who was briefed on the plan said the company plans to keep hosts anonymous when it remits the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Airbnb-sublets-in-S-F-land-some-renters-in-the-5326019.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco landlords have been trying to evict tenants who use their rentals to host Airbnb guests\u003c/a>. \"Landlords are pissed off that tenants are profiting off their properties,\" Delene Wolf, executive director of the San Francisco Rent Board, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Airbnb-sublets-in-S-F-land-some-renters-in-the-5326019.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> in March. \"It makes them crazy: They're rent controlled, and the tenant is making more off their property than they can make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu is working on legislation that would establish a framework for the company's operations. \"Now that they are doing the right thing and remitting taxes, I'm looking forward to moving forward on legislation to regulate shareable housing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with those other fast-growing stalwarts of the \"sharing economy,\" the ride-service firms UberX and Lyft, Airbnb has caused all manner of consternation in the well-regulated business that preceded it. Across the country, local taxi companies have adamantly opposed the ride services; and the \"hospitality industry\" has likewise gone to war with Airbnb. In New York City, the hotel industry has been especially critical of the company. Airbnb said recently it's in \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303779504579465532885246114?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303779504579465532885246114.html\" target=\"_blank\">discussion with New York state\u003c/a> over a subpoena of information on 15,000 Airbnb hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky wrote, in a \u003ca href=\"http://blog.airbnb.com/who-we-are/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a> on the New York battle, that he believed hosts should pay tax. \"Our hosts are not hotels,\" he wrote, \"but we believe that it makes sense for our community to pay occupancy tax, with limited exemptions for those who earn under certain thresholds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco agreement comes on the heels of a recently launched Airbnb initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/life-learning/db9746750a3a\" target=\"_blank\">Shared City\u003c/a>, intended to \"help civic leaders and our community create more shareable, more livable cities through relevant, concrete actions and partnerships.\" \u003ca href=\"http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/26/airbnb-shared-city/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune\u003c/a> described the plan as \"somewhere between \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=jane+jacob\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Jacobs\u003c/a> meets \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Florida\u003c/a> with a 2014, shareable-economy twist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303802104579451022670668410\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal reported\u003c/a> last month reported that Airbnb is \"close to becoming one of the world's most valuable startups\" after engaging in \"advanced talks\" for another round of financing worth $400-$500 million. 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According to campaign money tracker MapLight, since 2002 Brosnahan has given nearly $30,000 in campaign contributions to candidates for federal office, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/130537/keith-jackson-among-laland-yees-top-political-contributors/\">Keith Jackson\u003c/a>, a relatively small-time political consultant and fundraiser, end up with a top-notch legal defender? Was it just dumb luck or something else? It depends on whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cases with multiple defendants such as this one, the office of the federal public defender represents one client, while the other defendants lacking counsel are assigned defense attorneys from a panel of lawyers who volunteer to do the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the northern district office in San Francisco, those panel assignments are overseen by panel administrator Ruben P. 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