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Other reasons: uncooperative landlords, a lack of space, a nomadic lifestyle, other pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Ann Dunn, founder of the Cat Town rescue and a longtime volunteer at Oakland Animal Services, hopes that at least some of their clients will be cat lovers who are in a position to become cat owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly,\" she said. \"You couldn't choose a worse environment for a cat than a shelter. So many cats have a cage reaction, and you have no idea what the cat is really like. All you see is their fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience at the cafe will be very different. 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I think it'll be great here, because as you can see at today's event, people are so nice, so happy, so peaceful, when they're with the cats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe is a joint effort of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cattownoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Town\u003c/a> rescue and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandhoodcats.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoodcats\u003c/a>, started by musician and photographer Adam Myatt. \"There's a ton of feral cats in West Oakland. I just started taking pictures of them, then I Kickstarted a calendar, then the East Bay Express interviewed me -- they gave me the 'Cat Man of West Oakland' name. I had a vision of trying to make a cat sanctuary or something in West Oakland that would help ferals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then as a result of that article, I met Ann (Dunn). She's helped me get five kittens adopted, two Hoodcats adults adopted, three others in foster care to potentially get adopted. To go from just taking pictures of cats to working with rescues and meeting all these people who are helping ferals ... and now we're starting a cat cafe.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everything (is) on the cats' terms. If they want to play, you can play with them. If they want to sleep, you can watch them sleep.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Cat Man himself doesn't have a cat. \"My roommate is allergic, so I don't get to bring any cats inside, which is kind of a bummer. 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So, if we have a kitten who's having a problem adjusting at the cafe, we have so many foster homes standing by who can take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just bringing all of these Oakland people together to collaborate from the ground up. And all for the good of cats! Everybody's so excited by that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dunn says: \"The cafe part is going to be completely self-contained within the larger property. So you'll walk in, get your goodies, then leave that area and go in to the cat zone. And the cat zone, we're planning to have one space for the adult cats and a separate place for kittens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our mission right now at Cat Town is (to focus on) cats that are really under-socialized, or shy, cats that aren't confident. Cats that are getting euthanized at the shelter because they're so stressed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the cafe, we're going in a completely different direction, so we're focusing on cats that are very confident, very flexible. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ctable width=\"640\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9168_CTC_Kittens_3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129130 alignnone\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9168_CTC_Kittens_3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"This pop-up installation was a preview of what Oakland's Cat Town Cafe might look like when it opens later in 2014. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9231_photo3-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129129 alignnone\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9231_photo3-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cafe co-founders Adam Myatt of Hoodcats and Ann Dunn of Cat Town rescue. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9170_CTC_Kittens_5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-129131 alignnone\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9170_CTC_Kittens_5-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"This pop-up installation was a preview of what Oakland's Cat Town Cafe might look like when it opens later in 2014. The custom-built cat bed/play structure pays homage to the Port of Oakland's iconic cranes. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9166_CTC_Kittens_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9166_CTC_Kittens_1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Owen and Davey were brought to Oakland Animal Services when they were baby kittens. After spending some time in a Cat Town foster home, they were adopted at the popup event by Cameron and Momo McKee of Bicycle Coffee. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9180_Mural_MeganKott_JustinDevine.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129138\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9180_Mural_MeganKott_JustinDevine-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cats take over Oakland in a mural by Megan Kott and Justin Devine. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9169_CTC_Kittens_4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129135\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9169_CTC_Kittens_4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"This pop-up installation was a preview of what Oakland's Cat Town Cafe might look like when it opens later in 2014. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9171_CTC_Kittens_6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9171_CTC_Kittens_6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A custom-made cat bed pays homage to the Port of Oakland's iconic cranes. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9232_kitten-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129142\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9232_kitten-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens Owen and Davey were adopted by the popup's coffee vendor. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9167_CTC_Kittens_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-129134\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9167_CTC_Kittens_2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"This pop-up installation was a preview of what Oakland's Cat Town Cafe might look like when it opens later in 2014. (Adam Myatt/Cat Town Cafe)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade of success in Asian countries, particularly Japan, the adorable phenomenon of cat cafes, where you can enjoy coffee and a snack while watching frolicking kittens, is finally coming to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the first one is likely to be either Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://cattownoakland.org/cat-town-cafe/\">Cat Town Cafe\u003c/a> or San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitteasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">KitTea\u003c/a> -- both of which are closing in on locations and should open by the end of the year, according to their organizers. Both are affiliated with rescue organizations, and both have used crowd funding to cover a substantial part of their startup costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Town Cafe celebrated the end of its first fundraising drive on Saturday with a pop-up version of the concept. About 400 people filed in and out of the \u003ca href=\"http://naminggallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Naming Gallery\u003c/a>, waiting for their turn to interact with a pair of orange tabby kittens named Owen and Davey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caitlyn Kilgore had already contributed to the Cat Town Cafe's Indiegogo fundraising campaign, but dropped by to check out the kittens. \"My partner's allergic, so we can't have cats at home,\" she said, \"So I want to get in some play time when I can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, her partner, Collin Sullivan, was also interacting with Owen and Davey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I suppose if I were snuggling with them a lot and getting their dander or fur or whatever on my clothes, then that would be bad,\" he explained. \"But hanging out with them and watching them play around while I have some coffee -- I think that would be just fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allergy issues were mentioned by several of the wannabe cat cafe patrons as reasons why they'd like the chance to spend time with cats but don't live with any. Other reasons: uncooperative landlords, a lack of space, a nomadic lifestyle, other pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Ann Dunn, founder of the Cat Town rescue and a longtime volunteer at Oakland Animal Services, hopes that at least some of their clients will be cat lovers who are in a position to become cat owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only reason we're doing this is to get cats out of cages and get them adopted quickly,\" she said. \"You couldn't choose a worse environment for a cat than a shelter. So many cats have a cage reaction, and you have no idea what the cat is really like. All you see is their fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience at the cafe will be very different. For health reasons, the food service and preparation areas will be completely separate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the pop-up is any guide, Cat Town Cafe's adoption mission should be a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron McKee of Bicycle Coffee had agreed to be the coffee provider for the day. \"And then I got here this morning and saw these cats,\" he said, \"and I knew that we were going to be taking them home. I got in an argument with my wife last night, so I figured if I called and told her I was bringing home two kittens, that would help work things out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And it did,\" said Momo McKee. She might have been the only person at the pop-up who's been to a working cat cafe -- several of them, in fact, in her native Japan. \"They're all over Tokyo, even in small towns. I think it'll be great here, because as you can see at today's event, people are so nice, so happy, so peaceful, when they're with the cats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cafe is a joint effort of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cattownoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Town\u003c/a> rescue and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandhoodcats.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoodcats\u003c/a>, started by musician and photographer Adam Myatt. \"There's a ton of feral cats in West Oakland. I just started taking pictures of them, then I Kickstarted a calendar, then the East Bay Express interviewed me -- they gave me the 'Cat Man of West Oakland' name. I had a vision of trying to make a cat sanctuary or something in West Oakland that would help ferals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then as a result of that article, I met Ann (Dunn). She's helped me get five kittens adopted, two Hoodcats adults adopted, three others in foster care to potentially get adopted. To go from just taking pictures of cats to working with rescues and meeting all these people who are helping ferals ... and now we're starting a cat cafe.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everything (is) on the cats' terms. If they want to play, you can play with them. If they want to sleep, you can watch them sleep.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Cat Man himself doesn't have a cat. \"My roommate is allergic, so I don't get to bring any cats inside, which is kind of a bummer. But I have one cat who lives out in my backyard, I made a little house for him, and he's totally content to be the king of our backyard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myatt came up with the idea for a cat bed that's a replica of a cargo crane, like you see at the Port of Oakland, and two of his friends designed and built it. \"For the actual cat cafe, we're going to get some bigger, meatier, metal cranes -- they're even talking about having them be functional, they'll go up and down, which would be awesome. But this initial crane, I've had a ton of people ask when they could get one - I didn't even think about that, but that's a great idea!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ann and Cat Town already have three years of experience of being a rescue, on top of the years of experience working with Oakland Animal Services. So I feel like we have the rescue thing locked down. So, if we have a kitten who's having a problem adjusting at the cafe, we have so many foster homes standing by who can take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just bringing all of these Oakland people together to collaborate from the ground up. And all for the good of cats! Everybody's so excited by that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dunn says: \"The cafe part is going to be completely self-contained within the larger property. So you'll walk in, get your goodies, then leave that area and go in to the cat zone. And the cat zone, we're planning to have one space for the adult cats and a separate place for kittens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our mission right now at Cat Town is (to focus on) cats that are really under-socialized, or shy, cats that aren't confident. Cats that are getting euthanized at the shelter because they're so stressed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the cafe, we're going in a completely different direction, so we're focusing on cats that are very confident, very flexible. We'll know they're good with other cats. We're hoping we can get groups of cats that already know each other and come in to the shelter together. But that's going to be the biggest challenge -- not just identifying the cats, but making sure they have a proper period to get acclimated. We're working with cat behaviorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you imagine if you went to a friend's house that had cats. Sometimes the cats are going to hide under the bed, sometimes the cats are going to come out and rub up against your legs. Everything (is) on the cats' terms. If they want to play, you can play with them. If they want to sleep, you can watch them sleep. It's going to be what the cats choose to do with you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "San Francisco Firefighters Mopping Up Massive Mission Bay Blaze | KQED",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News staffers Lisa Pickoff-White, Olivia Allen-Price, Charla Bear, Mina Kim, David Weir, Jeremy Raff, Mark Andrew Boyer, Pat Yollin, Joanne Elgart-Jennings and others contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/photo2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129058 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/photo2-640x480.jpeg\" alt=\"Firefighters work to contain a five-alarm fire at Fourth and China Basin streets in Mission Bay. (Charla Bear/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters work to contain a five-alarm fire in China Basin. (Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:10 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> San Francisco firefighters continue to pour water on the site of Tuesday’s five-alarm Mission Bay fire, as arson investigators search for the cause of the blaze that destroyed a 172-unit apartment building under construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said investigators had determined welding was going on at the site and ended between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., about an hour before the fire was reported. “The investigation is ongoing, but it’s leaning in the direction of an accidental fire,” Talmadge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 fire rigs and 35 firefighters are still stationed around the burned building, part of a two-building complex on the west side of Fourth Street between Mission Rock and China Basin streets. At the height of the fire Tuesday evening, half of the roughly 320 firefighters on duty in the city were fighting the blaze. Talmadge said crews will stay on the scene until they determine it’s safe for engineers to assess the building for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department reports two injuries in the blaze: a firefighter, one of the first on the scene, who suffered first- and second-degree burns to the face and hands, and a battalion chief who sprained an ankle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 190-unit apartment building directly across Fourth Street from the fire remained evacuated Wednesday morning. Searing heat from the fire blew out windows in 30 units facing the blaze, triggering sprinklers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The destroyed structure was part of a two-building, 360-unit development. Developer BRE Properties said the second building was not affected by the fires, and construction crews were back at work there Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:45 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> KCBS reporter Chris Filippi reports the first injury in the Mission Bay blaze: One of the first firefighters on the scene after the fire broke out around 5 p.m. is reported to have suffered burns to his face and hands. Filippi says the unidentified firefighter stayed on the line for hours before “copping to” his injuries and being sent to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:51 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White says fire crews are getting the upper hand on the blaze, and have saved the surrounding buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White said that firefighters will be on the scene through the night. Streets around the fire will be closed through Wednesday, and possibly into the week as crews work to safely bring the remains of the building down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment complex is very precarious, KQED’s Charla Bear reports. Parts of the building have already collapsed internally, and the top portion of the building is leaning to one side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:31 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Crews have been unable to get into the structure and determine the cause of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s concerns about getting into where we can get in because it’s going to be vulnerable,” Hayes-White. “We have a joint fire and police arson task force. They’ll have to determine cause and origin. We’ll talk to the contractors, whether it’s welding or — we don’t know. We have no idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White said that firefighters will be on the scene through the night. Streets around the fire will be closed through Wednesday and possibly into the week as the building comes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is very precarious, and the top portion of the building is leaning to one side. Parts of the building have already collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:55 p.m.:\u003c/strong> At the time, Hayes-White said it would take hours to contain the fire. More than 150 firefighters and about 85-90 apparatus are currently working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers had gotten off around 3:30 or 4 p.m, the fire chief said, and the fire had about an hour to smolder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It went up very quickly once it started,” she said, because there was no fire protection installed yet in the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White described the blaze as “pretty significant” saying it had been years since there was a five-alarm conflagration in the city. She said it helped to look at previous fires the department had helped fight, especially the massive 2002 blaze at Santana Row in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters evacuated people in buildings down to Third Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:41 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Firefighters put a fire curtain to help contain the blaze. There was a small fire that spread to a nearby building but it was contained, Hayes-White said at a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds could have made the fire much worse. Starting at 8 p.m. tonight, the National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory, with gusts that could go up to 40 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Firefighters are battling a five-alarm blaze at Fourth and China Basin streets. The building has begun to collapse. KPIX is reporting that the fire has spread to the roof of a building at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindy Talmadge, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department, says the building was under construction, which makes battling the blaze more difficult because the building’s fire suppression systems had not yet been installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The glass on the building across the street is starting to fail from the heat,” said Talmadge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future complex is located across the street from the Strata at Mission Bay apartments, according to a spokeswoman for the Sares Regis Group, which manages that property. Channel 5 reported that BRE Properties was due to complete the work shortly and that each of the units in the nine-story, $227 million complex was going to sell for $630,000. The sprinklers were not functional yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:35 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The fire was reported at at 4:56 p.m. today. Crews arrived on the scene at 5:04 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a tremendous plume of smoke that goes across the sky,” said KQED’s Mark Andrew Boyer. KCBS reports that the smoke column has risen to more than 3,000 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/pretty.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129054\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/pretty-640x480.jpeg\" alt=\"The sun sets, highlighting the smoke from the 5-alarm fire. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets, highlighting the smoke from the five-alarm fire. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/20140311_180208-e1394591085936.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129027\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/20140311_180208-e1394591085936-480x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Fourth and China Basin fire. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fourth Street and China Basin fire. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/kids.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129055\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/kids-640x480.jpeg\" alt=\"People watch the China Basin fire from afar. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the China Basin fire from afar. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/9215_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-129042\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/9215_transform-771x1028.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters pour water over a five-alarm fire in China Basin. (Charla Bear/KQED)\" width=\"771\" height=\"1028\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters pour water over a five-alarm fire in China Basin. (Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Joanne Elgart-Jennings took a video.\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpyx4iaXYfs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9213_IMG959357.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129030\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9213_IMG959357-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters cross over Channel Street. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters cross over Channel Street. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News staffers Lisa Pickoff-White, Olivia Allen-Price, Charla Bear, Mina Kim, David Weir, Jeremy Raff, Mark Andrew Boyer, Pat Yollin, Joanne Elgart-Jennings and others contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/photo2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129058 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/photo2-640x480.jpeg\" alt=\"Firefighters work to contain a five-alarm fire at Fourth and China Basin streets in Mission Bay. (Charla Bear/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters work to contain a five-alarm fire in China Basin. (Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:10 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> San Francisco firefighters continue to pour water on the site of Tuesday’s five-alarm Mission Bay fire, as arson investigators search for the cause of the blaze that destroyed a 172-unit apartment building under construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said investigators had determined welding was going on at the site and ended between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., about an hour before the fire was reported. “The investigation is ongoing, but it’s leaning in the direction of an accidental fire,” Talmadge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 fire rigs and 35 firefighters are still stationed around the burned building, part of a two-building complex on the west side of Fourth Street between Mission Rock and China Basin streets. At the height of the fire Tuesday evening, half of the roughly 320 firefighters on duty in the city were fighting the blaze. Talmadge said crews will stay on the scene until they determine it’s safe for engineers to assess the building for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department reports two injuries in the blaze: a firefighter, one of the first on the scene, who suffered first- and second-degree burns to the face and hands, and a battalion chief who sprained an ankle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Filippi says the unidentified firefighter stayed on the line for hours before “copping to” his injuries and being sent to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:51 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White says fire crews are getting the upper hand on the blaze, and have saved the surrounding buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White said that firefighters will be on the scene through the night. Streets around the fire will be closed through Wednesday, and possibly into the week as crews work to safely bring the remains of the building down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment complex is very precarious, KQED’s Charla Bear reports. Parts of the building have already collapsed internally, and the top portion of the building is leaning to one side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:31 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Crews have been unable to get into the structure and determine the cause of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s concerns about getting into where we can get in because it’s going to be vulnerable,” Hayes-White. “We have a joint fire and police arson task force. They’ll have to determine cause and origin. We’ll talk to the contractors, whether it’s welding or — we don’t know. We have no idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White said that firefighters will be on the scene through the night. Streets around the fire will be closed through Wednesday and possibly into the week as the building comes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is very precarious, and the top portion of the building is leaning to one side. Parts of the building have already collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:55 p.m.:\u003c/strong> At the time, Hayes-White said it would take hours to contain the fire. More than 150 firefighters and about 85-90 apparatus are currently working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers had gotten off around 3:30 or 4 p.m, the fire chief said, and the fire had about an hour to smolder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It went up very quickly once it started,” she said, because there was no fire protection installed yet in the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White described the blaze as “pretty significant” saying it had been years since there was a five-alarm conflagration in the city. She said it helped to look at previous fires the department had helped fight, especially the massive 2002 blaze at Santana Row in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters evacuated people in buildings down to Third Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:41 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Firefighters put a fire curtain to help contain the blaze. There was a small fire that spread to a nearby building but it was contained, Hayes-White said at a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds could have made the fire much worse. Starting at 8 p.m. tonight, the National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory, with gusts that could go up to 40 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Firefighters are battling a five-alarm blaze at Fourth and China Basin streets. The building has begun to collapse. KPIX is reporting that the fire has spread to the roof of a building at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindy Talmadge, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department, says the building was under construction, which makes battling the blaze more difficult because the building’s fire suppression systems had not yet been installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The glass on the building across the street is starting to fail from the heat,” said Talmadge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future complex is located across the street from the Strata at Mission Bay apartments, according to a spokeswoman for the Sares Regis Group, which manages that property. Channel 5 reported that BRE Properties was due to complete the work shortly and that each of the units in the nine-story, $227 million complex was going to sell for $630,000. The sprinklers were not functional yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:35 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The fire was reported at at 4:56 p.m. today. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/07/as-stadium-news-of-the-week-legal-manutemporary-insanity/rs6758_181574858-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128794\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-128794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS6758_181574858-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After 32 years, the Oakland Athletics are playing their final spring training games at \u003ca href=\"http://phoenix.gov/parks/sports/phxmuni.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Municipal Stadium\u003c/a> this month. Next year the team will be taking over \u003ca href=\"http://hohokamstadium.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hohokam Stadium\u003c/a> in nearby Mesa, the former Cactus League home of the Chicago Cubs. The move is happening with a minimum of fuss. The mayor of Phoenix threw out the first pitch on opening day, and concession stands around the park sell souvenir cups and pins with the Phoenix Muni logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be the only time in the 21st century that an A's stadium transition happens smoothly or amicably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, A's part-owner and managing partner Lew Wolff \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/03/07/as-owner-wolff-explores-temporary.html\" target=\"_blank\">was quoted by the Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> as saying that he'd asked his architects to explore the possibility of building a temporary ballpark for the A's if it became impossible for them to stay at the Oakland Coliseum when their current lease expires at the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way it's a situation most of us have encountered at some point, in moving from one apartment or house to another: What do you do if the new place isn't ready on the day you have to move out of the old one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most obvious solution is the \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080330&content_id=2467286&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy\" target=\"_blank\">Yankee Stadium model\u003c/a>: build the new ballpark next to the old one and move when it's ready. But that may not work for the A's, largely because they share their current home with the Oakland Raiders. This is where it gets to be like a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">15-puzzle\u003c/a> — that's the term for those annoying plastic toys with the numbered squares that you need to shift around to get in the right order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Raiders strike a deal with Oakland to build a new football stadium on the exact footprint of the current Coliseum (which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24037189/raiders-stadium-site-preference-could-hasten-exit\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly their preference\u003c/a>), then the A's might have to find a temporary home while their new ballpark is built. The Raiders would have the same problem, since there's no way the construction could take place in a single NFL off-season. But they would have the option of temporarily playing at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A's owner Lew Wolff floats a new idea: a temporary stadium if the team can't renew its lease at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the A's could play a season or two at AT&T Park. San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. And building a safe facility in a seismically active region isn't any easier simply because the structure is temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of San Jose's legal battle with Major League Baseball shifts to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that last year, San Jose got tired of waiting for baseball and its commissioner, Bud Selig, to make a decision on whether the A's would be allowed to move to San Jose, and filed a lawsuit. Last October, a federal court judge in San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the suit's challenge\u003c/a> to Major League Baseball's \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust exemption\u003c/a> (a second part of the suit, alleging that baseball officials broke state law by interfering with the city's contract with the A's, was allowed to proceed). U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte ruled, in effect, that it's up to Congress, not the courts, to deal with the antitrust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city appealed Whyte's antitrust ruling and last week filed an 83-page brief arguing its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get more perspective on how the city is going to press its antitrust claim, I talked to lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm\u003c/strong>: San Jose appears to be taking the position that the scope of the antitrust exemption is a question of fact, for a jury to decide. That's pretty unusual. It's not something that San Jose argued in the district court. I can understand from a strategic perspective why San Jose would do that, because it allows the court of appeal, if they're so inclined, to take an intermediate step and send the case back to the district court. And then it would open it up for discovery, back in the district court, which would lead to a whole range of documents and sworn testimony from MLB executives. I've never seen that argument before, and it strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen: \u003c/strong> That's been a theory when people talk about this case — that MLB will do anything to avoid discovery, that they don't want to open up their books, that Bud Selig doesn't want to go into court. Do you think there is that much that's shocking or proprietary about baseball's inner workings that they want to conceal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> I've always heard that speculation, too — that not just MLB, but the individual owners would much prefer to keep their financials private, and the owners would pressure MLB to get rid of the lawsuit, down the road if it ever came to that. There's the additional pressure point, for the league as a whole, of putting the antitrust exemption at risk. Major League Baseball is the only one of the four professional sports that still hangs on to this exemption from antitrust law, and in particular as it relates to team location and relocation. MLB doesn't want to lose that, and has had to fight for it in Congress and in the courts. They're a long way from having to give up documents or losing that exemption, but I see both those as pressure points. Which is why the way the district court case played out really couldn't have been any better for Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> By dismissing it quickly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Yes. Now San Jose was successful in getting an expedited appeal, and I was quite surprised that the 9th Circuit agreed to do that. So what normally would take a year to 18 months, between the briefings, and being assigned to a panel, and having oral arguments -- that process is going to move along much more quickly in the 9th Circuit, and we're likely to get at least an initial decision sometime this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> So do you have a guess about what's likely to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Ultimately I think the 9th Circuit will affirm the district court's decision (to dismiss San Jose's case). But it will be interesting to see, if they affirm, how aggressive they might be on whether they think the law ought to be changed and whether the case law ought to be overturned, to set it up so that the Supreme Court might be interested in taking it. What's so interesting about this is that events on the ground have changed. 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San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. 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Last October, a federal court judge in San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the suit's challenge\u003c/a> to Major League Baseball's \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust exemption\u003c/a> (a second part of the suit, alleging that baseball officials broke state law by interfering with the city's contract with the A's, was allowed to proceed). U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte ruled, in effect, that it's up to Congress, not the courts, to deal with the antitrust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city appealed Whyte's antitrust ruling and last week filed an 83-page brief arguing its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get more perspective on how the city is going to press its antitrust claim, I talked to lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm\u003c/strong>: San Jose appears to be taking the position that the scope of the antitrust exemption is a question of fact, for a jury to decide. That's pretty unusual. It's not something that San Jose argued in the district court. I can understand from a strategic perspective why San Jose would do that, because it allows the court of appeal, if they're so inclined, to take an intermediate step and send the case back to the district court. 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The city does well compared with others around the nation when it comes to \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">funding artists’ work\u003c/a>. But the city’s efforts to create affordable live/work spaces for artists haven’t panned out. Many local artists are now worrying the high cost of housing will force them to leave the city and abandon their creative community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott is one of dozens of artists and community activists who cram into a small courtyard behind a coffee house in San Francisco’s Mission District. A campfire burns before a makeshift stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She steps up to the microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Floating, drifting — I have been living as a sort of ghost for the last five months,” she says. The event is called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/730582570300323/?ref=22\"> “Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors”.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Elliott talks about her eviction from her home in the Haight, a man sitting next to the fire toasts marshmallows and passes out s’mores to the crowd. The event is supposed to be campy, but the storytellers strain to contain their emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s anyone who wants to prevent artists from leaving, it’s Tom DeCaigny, cultural affairs director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfartscommission.org/\">San Francisco Arts Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a couple of artists who are personal friends in the city who have faced eviction and a couple of them have had to leave the city. And on a personal level that’s hard,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s DeCaigny’s job to promote and preserve the city’s arts and culture industry, which pumps roughly $1.4 billion a year into the local economy. He remembers the last artist exodus, spurred by the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. He’s asking city leaders to study that era to see what worked and what went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking back at ’99 and 2000, the city did make some financial contributions to specific shared-space initiatives,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those investments gave San Francisco dancers a \u003ca href=\"http://www.odcdance.org/\">state-of-the-art performance and training complex\u003c/a> in the Mission. Independent filmmakers got a new place to screen their work at a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninthstreet.org/building\">facility in the mid-Market area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we know there are solutions by which the city can make investments, and private philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, to foster new innovations in both shared nonprofit space but also developments around artists’ housing,” DeCaigny says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9090_2014-01-17-08.10.31-lpr1-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco artist and activist LisaRuth Elliott tells her eviction horror story at an event in the Mission. 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The new live-work spaces attracted an affluent crowd, and artists were priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art is part of the brand for San Francisco,” says Randy Cohen, who researches and promotes sustainable arts policies at \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansforthearts.org/\">Americans for the Arts\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know San Francisco has many positive attributes, but, globally, it’s thought of as a great cultural city,” he says. “If your artists are leaving town, you’re putting a key component of your brand at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says that while San Francisco searches for solutions to its housing crunch, less expensive cities like Seattle, Baltimore and Detroit are jumping on the opportunity to cultivate their own cultural brand, and they’re offering artists some enticing housing incentives. In Detroit, for example, homesteading is all the rage, says Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know: Live here, move here, work here for five years, and you get the deed,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, economic factors have long dictated where artists live and work: Artists priced out of Manhattan have moved to Brooklyn. Boston artists have moved to Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Oakland is luring artists from San Francisco and beyond, says Kelley Kahn, Oakland’s economic development director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a sense here that you can come here and actually have a really high quality of life and, at the same time, be able to make a living in fine arts or the industrial art,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some artists hope Oakland won’t get too popular. Housing costs here are also on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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My connection to something I wanted and needed had been severed; that thing was out in the world somewhere, maybe blowing along the street, or in the hands of some kid from school, or floating down the local creek. I could imagine anything and search all I wanted, but once that precious cash was out of my hands, my connection to it was broken and, yes, I felt bereft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, I've lost lots and lots of stuff — it's part of the lifestyle if you accumulate things and take them outside the house. 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Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the app lets you send a contact number and text message to whomever might have the phone, whether well-meaning stranger or light-fingered ne'er-do-well. I sent my office phone number and a message first thing. The app also allows you to turn on a loud, ringing pulse from the lost device. I activated that. The app offers a third option: Erase iPhone. If you \u003cem>know\u003c/em> the phone has been stolen, hit that and, in theory, you can wipe your personal information from the device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing happened when I sent the phone number and message. The app had pinpointed the phone at a specific address. I street-viewed the location on Google Maps, then tried a reverse directory search to see if there was a phone number associated with the address. 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Why didn't whoever had it call?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> thought about calling the police, remembering \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/21/berkeley-police-chief-sent-10-officers-on-hunt-for-sons-iphone/\" target=\"_blank\">an incident in Berkeley\u003c/a> in which the chief had sent 10 officers looking for his son's lost iPhone. I also recalled an episode in which a neighbor had used Find My iPhone to track and retrieve a stolen iPad. But I didn't call the police because I wasn't really sure my phone was stolen and it felt a little weird to enlist the cops for my own personal lost-and-found detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about erasing the iPhone. When I opened the window to do that, though, the app warned I would no longer be able to track the device if I proceeded. That felt too final, and part of me still held out hope that a kindhearted, soon-to-be-revealed good Samaritan would deliver the phone into my hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The phone headed in the opposite direction, up over Potrero Hill. It made a feint toward my office, then traveled north...\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I was thinking about borrowing a car and driving down to Daly City when suddenly the map showed the phone moving. First, it got on Interstate 280 and headed north. When it got to U.S. 101, it headed north again. The phone stopped just off the freeway in the Bayview District for 10 or 15 minutes. Google showed the location to be a storage warehouse, so I wondered whether my phone was about to be added to a bin of hundreds of lost or stolen mobile devices. I filed an online lost property report with the San Francisco police and waited further developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoa. The phone was moving again. Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. Maybe some tech-savvy, kindhearted good Samaritan had figured out where I worked and was bringing it to me! I sent a message saying I was in the neighborhood if the Samaritan wanted to drop by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no. The phone headed in the opposite direction, up over Potrero Hill. It made a feint toward my office — \u003cem>Is the kindhearted Samaritan lost?\u003c/em> — then traveled at public-transit speed north to the Caltrain Station at Fourth and Townsend, through SoMa, across the Financial District to North Beach and the edge of Chinatown. And there it came to an extended stop again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sent a couple more pings and another text during this odyssey and after I saw it had stopped. Still no answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had insisted on updating coworkers on this drama's minute-by-minute progress all afternoon. By this time, after 5 o'clock, most had voiced the reasonable opinion that the lack of response over several hours meant that whoever had happened upon the phone had no intention of returning it. I suspected they were right, but I also could picture the finder throwing it into a purse or backpack and forgetting about it. When I said that out loud, one office-mate shook her head and commented on my surprising faith in humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true I wasn't necessarily thinking the worst about whoever was carrying the phone, but this wasn't really faith. I was able to see where the phone was. But as long as the unseen finder remained silent, the phone was just as gone as those five-dollar bills I was in the habit of losing as a kid. So my messages started reasonably enough as a simple return request, then progressed from implied threat to promise to cajolery to resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>inally, I had drawn out the workday about as far as it would go. I was noodling around with a couple of things and getting ready to leave work, and abandon my poor lonely iPhone in the city, when my desk line rang. I answered. \"My boyfriend found your phone and would like to return it,\" a woman said. \"Well, I'd love to have it back,\" I answered. The woman, who said her name was Andrea, gave me an address — it matched the location the phone-finder app gave — and told me her boyfriend, Danny, would be there when I arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coworker dropped me off in North Beach, I stopped at an ATM to get some cash, and then I went to the address on Pacific Avenue, a run-down city-owned apartment block. It was dark by this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I made my way up to the open-air second-floor corridor and found the apartment number I was looking for. The passageway was lined with containers full of empty bottles and cans to be recycled. The venetian blinds on the windows were broken and askew. I knocked on the door. No one came. I left to check whether I was at the right address. Yeah, I was. I went back upstairs and knocked again. Again no answer. I knocked louder. After 15 or 20 seconds, a lock turned and the door opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're Danny?\" I asked. \"Yeah, that's right.\" he said. \"I guess you don't have to go and buy a new phone.\" He said it twice and handed me the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I shook his hand and took out my wallet, removed a twenty and gave it to him. \"I wanted to give you something,\" I said. \"Wish it was more.\" I looked past him into the apartment, where there seemed to be a floor-to-ceiling pile of, well, stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He closed the door behind him. \"That's OK,\" he said. \"That's OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he had seen the phone lying on a seat when he got off the train in Colma and picked it up. I wanted to ask him about the messages I'd sent, whether he had heard the phone going off and what he had made of all of that. But I didn't. He was my good Samaritan, it turned out, and kindhearted enough to call me. 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Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the app lets you send a contact number and text message to whomever might have the phone, whether well-meaning stranger or light-fingered ne'er-do-well. I sent my office phone number and a message first thing. The app also allows you to turn on a loud, ringing pulse from the lost device. I activated that. The app offers a third option: Erase iPhone. If you \u003cem>know\u003c/em> the phone has been stolen, hit that and, in theory, you can wipe your personal information from the device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing happened when I sent the phone number and message. The app had pinpointed the phone at a specific address. I street-viewed the location on Google Maps, then tried a reverse directory search to see if there was a phone number associated with the address. 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Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. Maybe some tech-savvy, kindhearted good Samaritan had figured out where I worked and was bringing it to me! I sent a message saying I was in the neighborhood if the Samaritan wanted to drop by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no. The phone headed in the opposite direction, up over Potrero Hill. It made a feint toward my office — \u003cem>Is the kindhearted Samaritan lost?\u003c/em> — then traveled at public-transit speed north to the Caltrain Station at Fourth and Townsend, through SoMa, across the Financial District to North Beach and the edge of Chinatown. And there it came to an extended stop again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sent a couple more pings and another text during this odyssey and after I saw it had stopped. Still no answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had insisted on updating coworkers on this drama's minute-by-minute progress all afternoon. 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Clipper Card data shows 266,000 more rides by youth Muni riders in May 2013 than in May 2012. Approximately 45 percent of Free Muni for Low Income Youth participants plan to ride public transportation as an adult, while 70 percent would recommend Muni to their friends, according to the San Francisco Unified School District Student Survey results.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Free Muni for All?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED's Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with Tommy, a local activist who has been involved in recent Google bus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's certainly a good thing because I think the program to make Muni free for youth who are low-income is a good thing, but it's only a beginning,\" said Tommy. \"I would like to see Google and other companies that are using our bus stops chip in enough money to make Muni free for everybody. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you buy properties solely to evict long-term tenants, and to flip those at extraordinary prices, that is the wrong message,\" Mayor Ed Lee said. \"That is not what the Ellis Act was created for, and it’s certainly opposite of our values in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis Act evictions in the city have tripled to more than 300 in the past year, and about half were initiated by owners who'd held the property for less than a year, according to Leno. “Many of these renters are seniors, disabled people and low-income families with deep roots in their communities and no other local affordable housing options available to them,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His bill has a broad coalition of support, from housing advocates to tech companies. But about two dozen small-property owners showed up at Leno's announcement in Chinatown yesterday to protest the bill. They were led by Josephine Zhao, who’s been a landlord in the Sunset District for less than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I get into problems with transferring to a different job or have to dispose of my properties somehow, I couldn't do that,\" she said. \"I couldn’t get out of business, so what right is there left for us? We have to take care of tenants for the rest of their lives. Who’s taking care of us to the end of my life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janan New, who heads the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaa.org\">San Francisco Apartment Association,\u003c/a> which represents landlords, said, “In our research, many owners have had to invoke the Ellis Act in order to move in a family member or caretaker in their home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say the Leno bill is aimed at speculators looking to flip apartments into condos for higher profits.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But a \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/02/cities-unequal-berube\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Brookings Institution confirms that San Francisco also is earning its other, less desirable reputation as a kind of ground zero for rising income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings: When it comes to income, San Francisco is the second-most-unequal among American cities, after Atlanta. And in no other city has the rich-poor divide widened more in recent years. (Oakland, meanwhile, is not so far behind, ranking seventh on the list nationally. But the gap has not widened appreciably in recent years. San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, ranks far down \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/02/city%20inequality/appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the complete list\u003c/a>, No. 36; the rich/poor gap also grew far slower there than in San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the report’s author, Alan Berube, senior fellow and deputy director in Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program, decided to run the numbers on income inequality nationwide, he was inspired in part by coverage of the tech bus protests in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berube tapped U.S. Census data for his analysis, and he chose a particular measure to compare the haves and have-nots: the “95/20 ratio.” It’s a comparison between the income that puts a household in the 95th percentile, or the top 5 percent, and the income that puts one in the bottom 20 percent. Berube explained that comparing those extremes helps us gauge the severity of the distance in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The picture he found was stark. In the most unequal cities — Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami and Boston, in that order — residents at the top earned at least 15 times the income of those at the bottom. In San Francisco, for instance, the top 5 percent of households earned more than $353,000 per year, whereas the bottom 20 percent of households mostly earned less than $21,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, when Berube compared the income gap from 2007 (just before the recession) with 2012, he found that the disparity in this city has grown more dramatically than in any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco stood out not only in being one of the most unequal cities — and I think you might have guessed that even before you ran the data — but the data also confirmed that San Francisco has experienced the most pronounced recent increase in disparity between its rich and poor households,” Berube said. “There was no place that experienced that degree of pulling apart as much as San Francisco did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 547px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/Top-Bottom-Cities-for-Inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"547\" height=\"557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only did typical earnings drop by $4,000 for San Franciscans in the lowest income bracket during that time, but the gains among households at the top soared by $28,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidden in those numbers might be yet another distressing trend, Berube said. Even the bottom 20 percent in San Francisco earns more than the poorest people in most other cities, and that might, at first glance, appear encouraging. But Berube underscored that it may not mean that San Francisco’s poor are paid better — it may simply mean that the poorest of the poor are just leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re at an income of $15,000, there’s no longer any place to live in San Francisco,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 588px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/increases-in-inequality.jpg\" alt=\"Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program\" width=\"588\" height=\"579\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart courtesy of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, Berube’s number-crunching showed that big cities in general are more unequal than other places. In other words, compared with the national average, the urban rich are a little bit richer, and the urban poor are a little poorer. Why? Cities increasingly house the industries with the highest-paid knowledge workers, Berube said. Yet at the same time, the public housing, social services and public transportation found in urban centers also make them a likely home for low-income people. Thus, the extremes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So which cities showed up on the more equal end of the spectrum? Most, Berube wrote, “are Southern and Western cities with expansive borders, and either include many ‘suburban’ neighborhoods alongside a traditional urban core, or are themselves overgrown suburbs like Mesa, Ariz., and Arlington, Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One surprise: Seattle. Berube expected to see it neck-and-neck with San Francisco for income disparity. But it ranked only 31st of 50 cities. It turns out that “Seattle is a much less unequal place than San Francisco is,” according to Berube. That may change as more Silicon Valley firms move to the northwest city, he added, but “one thing Seattle has managed to do better than San Francisco in recent years is build housing,” and that relieves pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair to San Francisco, he said, Seattle has 84 square miles to work with, compared to San Francisco’s 47, and it’s much harder to build new housing when your city is bounded on three sides by water.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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