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Tenants in this shadow housing market are often low-income and vulnerable to eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many in-law apartments are not up to code, city officials say they’re an important \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\">source of affordable housing\u003c/a>. That’s one reason why a San Francisco supervisor wants to \u003ca href=\"https://livablecity.org/livable-city-joins-broad-based-effort-to-legalize-existing-in-law-units/\">legalize\u003c/a> them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past year, 65-year-old Kai Man Lee, a recent immigrant from Hong Kong, has been living with his wife and son in an illegal unit in the Outer Sunset. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Illegal in-laws are often small apartments hidden from street view, and tucked in the garages and basements of single-family homes. Some lack basics, like heating, and kitchens.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>, Lee spoke through a translator to explain he’s now being evicted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started renting the place my landlord told me the unit is a legal unit. That I don’t have to worry about anything. A year later the landlord asked me to move out. The landlord said the unit is actually illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s family can’t afford most legal units because they struggle to get by on $20,000 a year, just above the federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal in-laws are often small apartments hidden from street view, and tucked in the garages and basements of single-family homes. Some lack basics like heating and kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials estimate there are more than 40,000 of these in-law units in the city. Many were built after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Chiu is \u003ca href=\"http://chiuassembly.ngpvanhost.com/form/36310271995674624\">sponsoring\u003c/a> the ordinance to legalize them, as one fix to the city’s affordable housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades, we have had a shadow economy in San Francisco involving these technically illegal in-law units that were housing thousands of immigrants, seniors, families — many of our lowest-income and longest-term residents,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City building inspectors don’t go after illegal units unless there are complaints. Every year the department takes about 100 units off the market for code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some landlords report their own illegal unit so the city will remove it from the market. Then they can evict the tenants, sell the house as a single-family home or raise the rent for new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Calimbas with the Asian Law Caucus says this is one reason why landlords evict families like the Lees without consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The landlord can do that because there is no regulatory mechanism for tracking what a landlord does to that property, to that unit, once it’s removed from housing permanently,” Calimbas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu and others say they don’t want to lose these affordable rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, Chiu says neighborhood groups opposed to density have blocked efforts to legalize, but, he says, things are different now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the midst of an affordability crisis,” Chiu said. “We’ve had skyrocketing eviction rates. We’ve had way too many families who are being pushed out of the city, and I think this is the right time for us to change our city’s policy toward in-laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s ordinance would simplify the process for landlords, but the details are still being worked out. The apartments would have to meet state health and safety codes, including having a working kitchen and bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups that represent landlords haven’t taken a formal position on the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Karnilowicz with the San Francisco Small Property Owners Association doesn’t think many landlords would take advantage of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To legalize these units, it’s going to cost some money, and it might not be cheap,” Karnilowicz said. “It could be 50, 60, a hundred thousand, who knows how much that’ll be even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the cost of bringing a unit up to state code might be prohibitively expensive for some landlords, building inspectors would have discretion to waive city requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Gullickson with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftu.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Tenants Union\u003c/a> is helping to write the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says two big things in the measure would help landlords legalize their units. 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(Tawanda Kanhema)\" width=\"1028\" height=\"577\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuskegee Airmen Inc. pilot John Favors flies over the Oakland Coliseum during a memorial flight to honor late South African president Nelson Mandela. (Tawanda Kanhema)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are flying over a highly populated African-American community to let them know that we do honor and respect the people who have put their lives out there for us,” Ben Henderson, a former U.S. Air Force engineer and pilot said. “It is very important for young people to understand the sacrifices that have been made and to reflect on the life of Nelson Mandela.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1028px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Mandela_18_ALCATRAZ_Kanhema1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-120894\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Mandela_18_ALCATRAZ_Kanhema1-1028x771.jpg\" alt=\"The memorial flight flew over landmarks like Alcatraz Island. (Tawanda Kanhema)\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The memorial flight flew over landmarks like Alcatraz Island. (Tawanda Kanhema)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first plane, flown by Capt. Sam Gaadi of Aerial Beacon, an aerial advertising operation, took off shortly after 2 p.m. from Hayward and headed north toward the Coliseum, where Mandela addressed his largest audience in the United States following his release from 27 years in South African prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaadi, who flew a Cessna with a banner reading #Mandela27Years, said the event was a way of honoring Mandela for his fight for equality and acknowledging the San Francisco Bay Area community’s support of Mandela in the years leading to his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1028px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Mandela_10_SF_Kanhema1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-120892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Mandela_10_SF_Kanhema1-1028x771.jpg\" alt=\"After the Coliseum, the planes broke formation and flew over different parts of the Bay Area. (Tawanda Kanhema)\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the Coliseum, the planes broke formation and flew over different parts of the Bay Area. (Tawanda Kanhema)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We decided to combine our forces as pilots and businesses in the Bay Area and honor the legacy of President Mandela,” Gaadi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flight coincided with other events to honor Mandela in San Francisco and in Oakland, which were among the first U.S. cities to introduce ordinances calling for the disinvestment of funds from U.S. companies that were doing business with South Africa’s apartheid regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1028px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Mandela_13_GOLDEN_GATE_Kanhema.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-120893\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Mandela_13_GOLDEN_GATE_Kanhema-1028x561.jpg\" alt=\"Gaadi flew a Cessna with a banner reading #Mandela27Years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/8VfZxT3WTYg\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In an interview with \"KQED Newsroom\" Friday, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone talked about sports, gay marriage and the power of Pope Francis, who last week was named Time magazine’s \u003ca href=\"http://poy.time.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Person of the Year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordileone had a rough landing in famously liberal San Francisco when Pope Benedict XVI named him archbishop last year. As a leading supporter of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/prop-8/\">Prop. 8\u003c/a>, which banned same-sex marriage in California until the Supreme Court threw it out, Cordileone’s appointment \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/08/new-archbishop-of-san-francisco-defends-stance-on-same-sex-marriage/\">generated anger and concern\u003c/a> in the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, when Cordileone was still a bishop in San Diego, he \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Salvatore-Cordileone-s-key-Prop-8-role-3742409.php\">helped organize efforts to get Prop. 8 on the California ballot\u003c/a> and he personally contributed at least $6,000, according to state campaign finance records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our discussion, Archbishop Cordileone said he’s been reaching out in hopes of “getting to know gay Catholics,” joining parishioners for meals at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Most-Holy-Redeemer-at-crossroads-3791909.php\" target=\"_blank\">Most Holy Redeemer Church\u003c/a> in the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we don’t interact with each other, we can make decisions or get images based on stereotypes – that happens on both sides,” the archbishop said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what he’s learned from those interactions, Cordileone said he’s come to understand how gay people have “suffered.”\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/newsroom-115x65.jpg\" alt=\"newsroom-115x65\" width=\"115\" height=\"65\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been disowned by their families,” he said. “They’ve been harmed and they want to come to a place that will accept them for who they are. And affirm them. So it tenderizes us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Archbishop Cordileone still chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. Just last month in that capacity, he responded to the passage of same-sex marriage legislation in Hawaii, saying, “The decision in Hawaii is disappointing and shows the need for rebuilding a culture of the family in our country,” adding that “changing the meaning of marriage in the law does not promote the common good or protect authentic rights.” So clearly, the archbishop’s views have not changed, even if his rhetoric is softer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/a2cUY7n0HYE\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>During our interview, Cordileone, a big supporter of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act\" target=\"_blank\">the DREAM Act,\u003c/a> also explained why immigration reform was so important to him and his flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration is sort of a metaphor for who we understand ourselves to be spiritually,” Cordileone said. “We as believers are not at home here. 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Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The county grew by nearly 26,000 people to a total of roughly 1.6 million residents — a growth rate of 1.7 percent compared to a statewide rate of 0.9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, 103,000 more people left California than came here during the July 2012-July 2013 period — a decline that has continued since 2001. But in the Bay Area, 4,800 more people moved in than left, with Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa and Santa Cruz counties picking up the biggest gains. Santa Clara and San Francisco counties, where most of the area jobs are, saw 3,522 and 1,824, respectively, move away. 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"content": "\u003cp>We always qualify our complaints about the cold in the Bay Area: Oh, it’s cold — but this is \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em> compared to (name of hometown here). It’s true that the closer you live to the water here, the less insulation your home will have and the weaker the heating will be, and it’s occasionally uncomfortable on those few nights every year the temperature dips into the 30s. That just comes with the territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for one group of Bay Area residents, the cold weather is brutal and occasionally deadly. Those who live without reliable shelter face a night-to-night struggle to find some way, any way, to stay warm. For many, that means a pile of blankets, lots of layers of clothing and a piece of cardboard between them and the concrete they lie on. Two of our staffers, reporter \u003cstrong>Alex Emslie\u003c/strong> and photographer \u003cstrong>Sara Bloomberg\u003c/strong>, visited with unsheltered San Franciscans earlier this week to hear how they were contending with the elements. Here are the pictures and voices they brought back:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7936_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0329_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7936_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0329_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Qat Astrophic says she feels safer sleeping in her tent on the sidewalk than staying in a shelter. 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Not to mention if you got a couple sleeping bags, one inside the other, I was homeless in the snow in Portland, and put one sleeping bag inside of the other one, and managed to stay warm sleeping outside in the snow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7931_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0192_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120646\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7931_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0192_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Smith battles the freezing temperatures that have hit San Francisco with layers of sweaters and blankets. 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It was really, it was painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7925_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0002_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7925_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0002_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Kelly Law says he tries to “curl up and try to get as warm as I can.” (Sara Bloomberg)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124586715″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fred Kelly Law: \u003c/strong>We caught up with Fred Kelly Law in the Civic Center area. He’s 61 and has been in San Francisco “for years.” His tactic for staying warm on recent cold nights: “Curl up and try to get as warm as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7934_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0267_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Nyla Bonner, 2, enjoys a free meal with her mother Chelan Cassidy at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. 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It comes on it goes off it comes on and goes off, so I turn the stove on. … I have another coat I put on, but it’s still cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Mauricio Solies lives on the street and faces the freezing temperatures at night: "We need blankets. That's the most important thing. And love." 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She’s been at Bayanihan about a year and says it’s cold there, too. “I’ve been getting my heater fixed. It comes on it goes off it comes on and goes off, so I turn the stove on. … I have another coat I put on, but it’s still cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7929_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0113_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Mauricio Solies lives on the street and faces the freezing temperatures at night: "We need blankets. That's the most important thing. And love." 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You have to do the same thing, respect, respect, don’t fight, and that’s it. Don’t fight with nobody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7928_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0095_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120643\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7928_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0095_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Thomas works at Saint Boniface Church on Golden Gate Avenue. 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The online poll of 553 San Francisco registered voters covered multiple topics, but the report focuses on questions of affordability and the tech sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, respondents were positive about the city and the economy, with 69 percent saying things are “generally going in the right direction.” Most believe economic conditions will continue to improve in the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 39.5 percent feel cost of living is a “big problem,” and 28.1 percent think it is “somewhat of a problem.” These groups combined, the survey notes, cut across all demographic lines, including income, ethnicity, age, political leanings and living situation (homeowner vs. renter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the one hand, [voters in San Francisco] want the economy to be strong and think things are moving in right direction,” said Corey Cook, USF political science professor and co-author of the study, to KQED’s Joshua Johnson. “On the other hand … they said their chief concern is affordability — particularly housing affordability — so there’s clearly an underlying sense of anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most respondents see the tech boom as being most beneficial for tech execs and workers; a clear majority say that the city’s tech sector is also good for other white collar workers and the city overall. 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City coffers are once again full, and the big cuts to social services and parks that were seen during the recession aren’t happening anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, evictions are up 38 percent since 2010, and Ellis Act evictions, usually used when a landlord wants to sell a building, are up 170 percent. The median home sale price in the city hit $1 million in the summer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The majority of USF survey respondents said the spike in the cost of living has been recent, and strongly support the idea that city government should enact policies to preserve affordability. These efforts range from addressing Ellis Act evictions to getting more affordable housing in the pipeline and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most interesting to Cook was how respondents feel about the tech companies. 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