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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Keith Jackson, owner of a prominent San Francisco-based consulting firm, is among those named in the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\">FBI's affidavit\u003c/a>. He donated $6,800 to state Sen. Leland Yee's secretary of state campaign in 2013, as shown below in a list of top contributors. In the affidavit, an FBI agent states that Jackson solicited him for campaign contributions in return for political favors. These donations were well above the legal limit of $500 per individual. At one point Jackson accepted a $10,000 cash donation from the undercover agent, the affidavit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson has also been accused by the FBI for being involved in a murder-for-hire scheme and a gun- and drug-trafficking conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This activity went on as both Jackson and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\">Yee\u003c/a> worked to retire Yee's mayoral campaign debt from the 2012 election, and also as Yee began raising money for the Secretary of State race. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS5753_TechBuses20130722-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130435\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS5753_TechBuses20130722-lpr-640x522.jpg\" alt=\"A private shuttle bus passes through San Francisco's Mission District. (David Gartner/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"522\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A private shuttle bus passes through San Francisco’s Mission District. (David Gartner/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://documents.bayareacouncil.org/sfshuttlepreso.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A \u003c/a>poll released today by \u003ca href=\"http://www.emcresearch.com/\" target=\"_blank\">EMC Research\u003c/a> and commissioned by \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Area Council\u003c/a>, a pro-business group, suggests that people are not as upset about “Google buses” or tech shuttles as anecdotal evidence would lead you to believe. Protests, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/\" target=\"_blank\">previously covered by KQED\u003c/a>, have attracted attention from around the country as buses shuttling employees to tech jobs in the South Bay were surrounding by activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is angry. The new poll found that a majority — 57 percent of the 500 likely voters polled — had a favorable or somewhat favorable impression of tech employee shuttle buses, while 15 percent said they had never heard of such a thing. The telephone survey also found that those surveyed had an even more favorable impression of tech workers and the impact of recent tech sector growth on the city. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/20/activists-appeal-san-francisco-tech-bus-plan\" target=\"_blank\">A plan to allow the shuttles to use some city Muni stops also garnered support\u003c/a>, because people believe the tech shuttle buses decrease traffic and pollution. However, 70 percent also said they supported some form of regulation of the shuttle buses. The poll focused almost solely on tech shuttles and perceptions of tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full poll results:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fembeds%2F214537200%2Fcontent&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F214537200%2FSan-Francisco-Shuttle-Survey&image=http%3A%2F%2Fimgv2-4.scribdassets.com%2Fimg%2Fword_document%2F214537200%2F111x142%2F6486b2d5fd%2F1395790521&key=981697b3caaa4776a9e96c1890128d7f&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=scribd\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F214542313%2FSurvey-on-Tech-Shuttles-San-Francsico\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">via \u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, EMC Research conducted a different study back in November, which more broadly examined the attitudes of San Francisco residents. That study, called \u003ca href=\"http://thesanfranciscosurvey.com/2013november/\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Survey\u003c/a>, asked residents broader questions on their feelings about housing, the problems they face and the economic changes in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just five months ago, 84 percent of the people polled said they felt that the tech growth has greatly impacted the cost of living in the city. Did their opinions change since then or did the questions change? Ted Gullickson, of the San Francisco Tenants Union, told KQED reporter Sara Hossaini that he wasn’t surprised by today’s survey finding support for tech shuttles — because it didn’t bring up living costs or housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the November survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fembeds%2F214545312%2Fcontent&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F214545312%2FThe-San-Francisco-Survey&image=http%3A%2F%2Fimgv2-3.scribdassets.com%2Fimg%2Fword_document%2F214545312%2F111x142%2F3e25a652ec%2F1395793515&key=981697b3caaa4776a9e96c1890128d7f&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=scribd\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F214545312%2FThe-San-Francisco-Survey\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">via \u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Photo: Jon Starbuck/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors have begun considering a proposal that would allow landlords to voluntarily legalize in-law units, or secondary apartments, that make up a shadow housing market where some of the city’s most vulnerable tenants live, sometimes in substandard conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure by Supervisor David Chiu is an effort to preserve one of the city’s largest stocks of affordable housing. City officials estimate there are up to 40,000 in-laws, often in the garages or basements of single-family homes, which make up about 10 percent of the housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public hearing on the proposal Monday before the supervisors’ Land Use and Economic Committee was dominated by questions about how it would affect property owners, who would pay for potentially expensive upgrades to bring the units up to code, and complaints from residents in the city’s western neighborhoods who fear increased density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/16/120916/in-law-units-San-Francisco\">we reported in December\u003c/a>, low-income families and seniors, including many recent immigrants, are often in-law tenants. Some don’t have signed leases and can be kicked out without any repercussions for landlords, who can easily put units back on the market and raise the rent. Some units lack basics, such as kitchens and stoves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, according to Chiu, could bring thousands of illegal units up to code, protect tenants and “help homeowners make a long-term investment in affordable housing.” Landlords would be allowed to legalize one unit per lot, which would be rent controlled. It would prohibit them from legalizing if they have issued a no-fault eviction within 10 years. After a unit is upgraded, a property owner would be prohibited from converting it into a condo for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, some property owners testified that landlords shouldn’t have to shoulder the entire costs of bringing a unit up to code. Under the legislation, those costs could not be passed on to tenants, whom Chiu said are often struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some homeowners are elderly and “really depend on the rent from the tenants, who tend to be younger and better employed, to keep up the property,” real estate agent Dena Aslanian-Williams testified. “Not letting that homeowner pass on the cost of legalizing that unit is punitive and it’s actually regressive politics because it’s punishing the elderly homeowner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu countered that sort of landlord is exactly the kind of homeowner the legislation is meant to target.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure, according to Chiu, could bring thousands of illegal units up to code, protect tenants and “help homeowners make a long-term investment in affordable housing.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If DBI (Department of Building Inspection) were to send out an inspector, they could shut that down and that elderly homeowner wouldn’t have access to that rent income,” said Chiu. “I’m trying to help protect the status of the tenant to live there, but also the ability for that elderly homeowner to have a legal stream of rental income so they can live in your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the measure had been carefully crafted after more than a year of input from tenants rights groups, property owners, neighborhood groups and others. It passed the San Francisco Planning Commission on a 6-1 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, San Francisco officials have tried but failed to pass legislation addressing in-law units, but with the city’s worsening economic inequality and housing displacement, Chiu argues the time is right to finally tackle the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really tried to strike a balance here by making this voluntary. We’re allowing owners that have the ability to make the life safety changes that they need to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some homeowners who live in the city’s more suburban neighborhoods were worried the measure would change zoning codes, allowing more density in areas with mostly single-family homes. They also complained the measure would not allow a homeowner to convert back to a single-family home after an in-law is legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you prevent the proliferation of rental units in our neighborhoods, cherished for friendly family dwellings and the safe community it fosters from known neighbors, who have a stake in the property as well as respect for the values of the district?” said resident George Wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu has stressed the legislation covers only existing units. “The unit must have been built prior to this year, so we do not encourage homeowners to add more units without going through the required planning and building process,” Chiu wrote in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fighting-to-preserve-affordable-housing-in-san-francisco/Content?oid=2680212\">a San Francisco Examiner op-ed\u003c/a> earlier this year. “The legalization program includes a pre-screening phase to allow a homeowner to gather information about the legalization process without fear of automatic enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Supervisor Jane Kim agreed the legislation is important, she was concerned about how many landlords would actually take advantage of the program. She questioned what incentive there would be for homeowners to legalize. “It’s unclear to me what impact this legislation is going to have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to take care of a good percentage of secondary units that really need very minimal changes done in order to be legalized,” Omar Calimbas of the Asian Law Caucus responded. His organization was part of a working group that helped fashion the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the program would be reevaluated every six months, and suggested that in a few years officials could consider whether the city or other lenders might help homeowners pay for the costs of upgrading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Colen, executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, said the problem has persisted for far too long and urged supervisors to pass the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe it only has a modest effect, and there’s not going to be a flood of people running to the front to have them legalized, but from the city’s perspective, I don’t understand what interest is served by keeping something illegal and having a rule that’s widely flouted or ignored, ” Colen said. “I think this is a very sensible step forward in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless there are complaints, city building inspectors don’t go after illegal units. 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Under the legislation, those costs could not be passed on to tenants, whom Chiu said are often struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some homeowners are elderly and “really depend on the rent from the tenants, who tend to be younger and better employed, to keep up the property,” real estate agent Dena Aslanian-Williams testified. “Not letting that homeowner pass on the cost of legalizing that unit is punitive and it’s actually regressive politics because it’s punishing the elderly homeowner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu countered that sort of landlord is exactly the kind of homeowner the legislation is meant to target.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure, according to Chiu, could bring thousands of illegal units up to code, protect tenants and “help homeowners make a long-term investment in affordable housing.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If DBI (Department of Building Inspection) were to send out an inspector, they could shut that down and that elderly homeowner wouldn’t have access to that rent income,” said Chiu. “I’m trying to help protect the status of the tenant to live there, but also the ability for that elderly homeowner to have a legal stream of rental income so they can live in your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the measure had been carefully crafted after more than a year of input from tenants rights groups, property owners, neighborhood groups and others. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Noah Arroyo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-03/mission-accomplished-currently-planned-housing-already-meets-sf-mayors-ambitious-6-year-goal\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/peek-a-boo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129473\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/peek-a-boo.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Quick, an author and screenwriter who purchased his condo in the Bayview 15 years ago, said he looks forward to the changes as thousands of new homes rise in his neighborhood. (Teresa Hammock / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Quick, an author and screenwriter who purchased his condo in the Bayview 15 years ago, said he looks forward to the changes as thousands of new homes rise in his neighborhood. (Teresa Hammock/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s goal of adding 30,000 units to the housing market by 2020 may not be as “ambitious” or “aggressive” as he claims. Records show that the city could hit that goal just with existing development projects and those currently under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An assessment by the mayor’s office shows that at least 27,000 housing units are already in the pipeline for construction. In combination with the planned refurbishing of 4,000 homes, projects now in the planning process would more than meet the mayor’s goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current overheated real estate market, developers will continue to build as long as the local economy remains strong. They are likely to use all the permits they can in a race to cash in on skyrocketing rents. In which case Lee might be able to sit back and watch the housing roll in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Dennis-Phillips, a planner and program manager at the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, characterized Lee’s goal as “ambitious yet realistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By design, it is based on projects that have a very real possibility of moving forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s quarterly \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=9245\" target=\"_blank\">Development Pipeline report\u003c/a>, which tracks housing projects on their way to completion, predicts that the housing construction rebound will last for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planners say increasing density in the Bay Area’s urban hubs will help keep housing affordable and prevent uncontrolled suburban sprawl. The Association of Bay Area Governments recommends San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/pdf/final_supplemental_reports/Final_Bay_Area_2014-2022_RHNA_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">build at least 28,800 housing units by 2022\u003c/a>, which Lee’s goal would exceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his January \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=983\" target=\"_blank\">State of the City address\u003c/a>, Lee said that builders needed to quicken the pace to keep up with demand. Adding supply overall, he said, would bring down housing costs across the price spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the speech, Lee’s staff did some quick math, counting up the apartments included in housing projects now on the books citywide. They “assumed” that between 27,094 and 28,494 housing units would be built by 2020. In response to a public records request by the Public Press, the mayor’s office shared these estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,920 housing units now under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>10,574 units for which permits are filed or granted, but not yet under construction.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2,500 units in the Hunters Point Shipyard housing project’s first phase.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>3,100–4,500 units in other large projects, including Parkmerced, the old Schlage Lock site in Visitacion Valley, Pier 70 and Mission Rock near Pier 48.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Housing construction cannot happen overnight. Indeed, many of these have been on the drawing board for years. So Lee cannot precisely claim credit for all of them, since many of the permit applications were filed long before he became mayor, in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sources would likely put San Francisco’s housing production over the top of the 30,000 goal. City staff estimated that up to 4,000 units of “rehabilitated” public housing could be built by 2020, and that additional units not now in the pipeline could be completed. And city staff did even not factor in contributions from the massive development planned at Treasure Island, which would add roughly 2,900 units by the 2020 deadline, said Robert Beck, the project’s development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city may also have lowballed its estimate for the Hunters Point Shipyard. The developer there said it would produce 3,400 new homes by 2019, or almost 1,000 units more than the city predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020. That is more than three times the annual average over the last two decades, said John Rahaim, the city’s planning director. The closest the city came to that level of production was in \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/O3RpuD\" target=\"_blank\">2009, when it built 3,454 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s goal is “very doable,” Rahaim said. He based his assessment on the large number of active projects citywide where developers have filed or received building permit applications or begun construction. The Development Pipeline lists 857 housing projects. If all of them get built, they would create more than 50,000 units of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hurdles ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, having permits or construction plans is not the same as producing finished housing. Major projects will contribute large numbers of residential units in the long term, making them central to the city’s housing goals, said Olson Lee, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing. But these will take years, and in some cases decades to complete, due in part to financial, legal and regulatory obstacles. The Hunters Point project is the only large development that has broken ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction at Parkmerced, in the city’s southwest corner, has been held up in litigation over its environmental impact report. Stuart Flashman, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the Parkmerced Action Coalition, said it could take years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasure Island development can progress only as quickly as the U.S. Navy remediates toxic soil — necessarily a slow and deliberate process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission Rock and Schlage Lock projects are in the design phase, awaiting city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing planner Dennis-Phillips said the city has approved only about half of the 30,000 units, and these projects must still overcome “permitting, constructability, financing or market challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing task force established by the mayor in December will attempt to streamline the construction entitlement process. Lee has charged the panel with recommending these changes by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A number of process, policy and funding improvements are necessary to make sure these units go from an idea on paper to actual homes that can meet the needs of San Franciscans,” Dennis-Phillips said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But City Hall cannot control all the forces that converged to create the economic boom and resulting housing crisis. As the 2008 recession made clear, housing in San Francisco will continue to rise only as long as local developers see the payoff in rapid construction to meet the demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The building will occur if the economy remains strong,” Olson Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>, a News Associate of KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So Lee cannot precisely claim credit for all of them, since many of the permit applications were filed long before he became mayor, in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sources would likely put San Francisco’s housing production over the top of the 30,000 goal. City staff estimated that up to 4,000 units of “rehabilitated” public housing could be built by 2020, and that additional units not now in the pipeline could be completed. And city staff did even not factor in contributions from the massive development planned at Treasure Island, which would add roughly 2,900 units by the 2020 deadline, said Robert Beck, the project’s development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Lee’s overall housing goal would require an average of 5,000 new units to be brought online every year through 2020.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city may also have lowballed its estimate for the Hunters Point Shipyard. 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If all of them get built, they would create more than 50,000 units of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hurdles ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, having permits or construction plans is not the same as producing finished housing. Major projects will contribute large numbers of residential units in the long term, making them central to the city’s housing goals, said Olson Lee, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing. But these will take years, and in some cases decades to complete, due in part to financial, legal and regulatory obstacles. The Hunters Point project is the only large development that has broken ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction at Parkmerced, in the city’s southwest corner, has been held up in litigation over its environmental impact report. Stuart Flashman, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the Parkmerced Action Coalition, said it could take years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasure Island development can progress only as quickly as the U.S. Navy remediates toxic soil — necessarily a slow and deliberate process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission Rock and Schlage Lock projects are in the design phase, awaiting city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing planner Dennis-Phillips said the city has approved only about half of the 30,000 units, and these projects must still overcome “permitting, constructability, financing or market challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing task force established by the mayor in December will attempt to streamline the construction entitlement process. Lee has charged the panel with recommending these changes by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A number of process, policy and funding improvements are necessary to make sure these units go from an idea on paper to actual homes that can meet the needs of San Franciscans,” Dennis-Phillips said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But City Hall cannot control all the forces that converged to create the economic boom and resulting housing crisis. As the 2008 recession made clear, housing in San Francisco will continue to rise only as long as local developers see the payoff in rapid construction to meet the demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The building will occur if the economy remains strong,” Olson Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Or, as the site \u003ca href=\"http://frenchmorning.com/le-video-veritable-tresor-culturel-francophone-se-meurt/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Morning put it\u003c/a>: “Le Video, véritable trésor culturel francophone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=%27se+meurt%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb#channel=sb&q=%27se+meurt%22+translation&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">se meurt\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, se meurt, maybe. Fifteen-year employee John Taylor, who works as a buyer for the store, said the outpouring of goodwill that the announcement prompted has made him a “little more hopeful” the store would survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a ton of good response on Facebook,” he said. “People have been tweeting about it. Different people have come forward with ideas, either coming into the store or in emails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inner Sunset neighborhood fixture opened in 1980. Owner Catherine Tchen, who was born in Paris, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunsetbeacon.com/archives/SunsetBeacon/2012editions/Nov12/levideo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunset Beacon\u003c/a> in 2012 that she launched the store because of the dearth of French and other foreign films available in San Francisco. “Tchen searched the globe to find a wide range of silent, black-and-white, experimental, independent, cult and foreign films,” the Beacon wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to create my own personal \u003ca href=\"http://www.cinematheque.fr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinématheque\u003c/a> and to give customers their own personal Cinématheque in their backyard,” Tchen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Taylor said the store has been losing money for years. While some \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/23/adobe-books-an-appreciation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other treasured cultural retail outposts\u003c/a> have come under financial pressure due to rising rents in the city, Tchen actually owns the building that her business is located in. But Taylor said she can no longer afford to keep the unprofitable business afloat instead of renting out the 3,000-square-foot ground floor that it now occupies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the store wants to implement a plan in which it would move the 80,000-90,000 titles in stock to an upstairs space. There customers would not be able to browse the films, but could peruse the titles in copious binders. Ideally, the store wants to switch to a rent-by-mail business, like Netflix. Le Video has been working on cleaning up its database and creating software for such a transition, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that we’ll go upstairs, keep the collection alive,” he said. “We’re working on doing a Kickstarter or Indiegogo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the store has truncated its hours. Le Video is also asking that anyone who has prepaid for movies to use their remaining credits while they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widespread changes in media delivery over the past few years may have some observers amazed that the store has lasted this long. As Netflix has gradually swelled into a movie rental colossus, the city’s video stores, independent and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Final-curtain-for-Blockbuster-stores-4962081.php\">chain store alike\u003c/a>, have shut down. Taylor attributes the lousy video business climate to “people’s interest in having things streaming to them and not having to leave the house to get stuff. They want instant gratification for their entertainment, and even though they have less of a choice it doesn’t matter to a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds about right. Years ago, serious cinema fans automatically put Le Video on their must-visit list. The store says it has “the largest rental selection in California,” and anyone who’s snaked his or her way through the aisles, awestruck at the breadth and depth of the selection, wouldn’t doubt it. While I made that pilgrimage many times awhile back, I also stand as a good example of why even the most exceptional video stores are moribund. I used to actually schlep to Le Video on Muni for the privilege of renting an obscure Werner Herzog film or something. But when Netflix came along with its so-called \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html\">long tail\u003c/a>, the strategy of stockpiling a vast array of niche content so that it becomes profitable in the aggregate, I more and more made the decision to have my hard-to-find movies delivered direct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/12/did-netflix-just-kill-its-long-tail-model/\">business model has changed\u003c/a>, however. They’re very much trying to \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-21/netflix-may-ditch-dvds-sooner-rather-than-later\">move people away from DVDs and onto streaming\u003c/a>, a service that currently has a much more limited selection of titles. Perhaps, consequently, the famous long tail has been trimmed. Strictly anecdotal, but I’ve noticed some DVDs that used to sit patiently waiting their turn in my queue have now dropped down to the “saved” section, where the time of their availability is “unknown.” Le Video’s John Taylor pointed out Netflix’s collection now omits many standard titles — like some Woody Allen movies. A quick check reveals “Bananas,” “Mighty Aphrodite,” “Everyone Says I Love You,” “Deconstructing Harry,” “Sweet and Lowdown,” “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask” and “September” — all unavailable. Via streaming, it’s really slim Woody-pickings: Just “Manhattan” and “Play It Again Sam.” A Netflix spokeswoman emailed me that it doesn’t publicize numbers for its library. She did not respond to the question of why some DVDs previously available on Netflix are now MIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I encountered a problem stemming from this trend recently, when I needed to get hold of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” the seminal black independent film by Melvin Van Peebles, for a piece I’m writing. I had rented it through Netflix in the past, but it’s currently unavailable. I couldn’t find it for rent on Amazon or iTunes either. I would have run down to my local video store, but I don’t have a local video store. My wife eventually snared a copy at a library in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One moral of that story is the lengths to which I went to avoid having to head over to Le Video to get the film. But there’s another point as well: For those who want to get hold of more obscure titles, subscriptions to multiple services may now be necessary. And a one-stop movie shop like Le Video, long tail intact, may still be relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, ideas for keeping Le Video afloat are all over its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LeVideoSF\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. Said one customer: “It’s crazy, but someone find a way to contact Tarantino. He’s a well known lover of the SF movie scene and has a special place in his heart for video stores for true film fanatics like himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/CCSFskirmish.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-129429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/CCSFskirmish-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"CCSFskirmish\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nCity College student Otto Pippenger was detained by San Francisco Police Department officers outside an administration building. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/ccsf-protest-violent\" target=\"_blank\">Students and teachers protesting\u003c/a> decisions by Special Trustee Robert Agrella were stopped by campus and San Francisco police from entering the college's administration building on Thursday, March 13. 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They certainly should be using a search warrant, because these devices capture very rich, detailed and intimate information about a person’s location and how they communicate and who they communicate with, and also have the capability to catch the actual content of conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The StingRays are coming from Homeland Security through federal grants -- does that mean they are supposed to be used to fight terrorism-- rather than more ordinary crime? Are there any guidelines regulating the use of this technology?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well you certainly see that with the requests made by local law enforcement agencies that purchase these devices. They are clearly trying to sell the city council or the mayor’s office or whoever it may be, that these are devices that can be used really for two purposes: terrorism as well as emergency scenarios that require search and rescue. 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