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(Nina Thorsen / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118486\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Richard-Brown.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Brown\" width=\"639\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nRichard Brown (front) was sentenced to 25 years to life after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. After serving 18 years of his sentence, Brown was released under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">resentencing laws Californians passed over a year ago\u003c/a> that allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. Minard Roorda and his wife Viviane (back) regularly visited Brown in prison, and\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/california-third-strikers-find-their-own-path-to-freedom/\"> helped Brown\u003c/a> settle and find work near them in the small town of Ripon, Calif. (Sarah Rice / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/3-strikes.jpg\" alt=\"3 strikes\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nA year after release, only \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">2 percent of three strikers \u003c/a>have committed new crimes. Most, like Richard Brown, want to move on with their lives. One of the jobs Richard does at his work, five days a week, is to operate the forklift and move almond-harvesting equipment to other locations. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118487\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/eviction.jpg\" alt=\"eviction\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nA group of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/despite-citys-help-sf-tenants-still-fighting-mid-market-eviction/\">tenants fighting orders to leave\u003c/a> their affordable artist live/work lofts in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood say the landlord has not withdrawn the eviction notices, despite pressure from Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials. Marcele Wilson, a resident of 1049 Market St., shows a group of reporters his single occupancy loft, which has no window. He's fighting an eviction. \"I moved to San Francisco to live in San Francisco. To be an artist in San Francisco. I don't want to leave,\" he said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Montgomery, Lisa Pickoff-White and Suzie Racho\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted to allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">Since then, about 1,000 people have been released.\u003c/a> KQED followed three men from prison to their new lives outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Minard and Vivian Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Minard and Viviane Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richard Brown, 61, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1995 after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. Brown, a former heroin addict, served prison time for assault in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203629\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts' son, Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts’ son Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watts’ parents have been raising his 13-year-old son, Nicky, in Bakersfield. Since his release, Watts has moved to Berkeley and into a re-entry program, but he is still having a hard time readjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody owes me anything. I don’t want to put that off on anybody, but I wish there was some kind of structure. … Like ‘Here, just get out. Here’s $200, leave.’ If you’re on parole, you have somebody looking over you, and if you don’t have no place to stay, parole is going to find you an address because they need an address for you to stay, so you’ve got some place to stay. Right now, you’re done. You’re over it. So in the back of my mind, if I could get a 16-month term, half-time, I’d probably go back real quick so I could be on parole. Just so I could come back and be on parole and I’d have all this funding. Eight months wouldn’t be anything in prison, and I’d be on parole then, and then I’d have this funding to help me through basic needs, I guess, without trying to bother my family for other things that I don’t really want to bother them for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under Three Strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203941\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says that some inmates feel that their Three Strikes sentences helped them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would happen to us if we didn’t get this life sentence? There’s a saying that God rescued us. He sent a black-and-white, and that’s how God rescued us… A police car. I probably would have either OD’d or maybe died, got killed… The lifestyle that we had, I used to do drugs. If I had more money, I’d do more drugs, and keep doing it and doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re facing a life sentence, that really is a rude awakening. It awakens you, and it’s for real.\u003cbr>\nWhen I got busted, and I was in jail, and they told me that I was a Three Strike candidate, it really shook me. It broke me; it really broke me. A lot of things developed that night that I got busted, in my life. It was part of my testimony, how God revealed himself to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Marin at his sister's home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin at his sister’s home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since his release, Marin spends time helping other former third strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got out, my mind was running so fast. It was kind of hard to explain. When I was trying to read, I couldn’t read. I caught myself thinking; my mind was running, and it was hard for me to concentrate, because there were so many things happening. I was a little shy and reserved, being amazed at a lot of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, when we got off the freeway, the area where I grew up at, I didn’t even recognize it. They did sidewalks and trees; I couldn’t believe where I was at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cell phone thing; I would be in my cell, and we would see TV, and we would see people, everyone texting and using the cell phone. I would think in my mind, ‘I would never do that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Montgomery, Lisa Pickoff-White and Suzie Racho\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted to allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">Since then, about 1,000 people have been released.\u003c/a> KQED followed three men from prison to their new lives outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Minard and Vivian Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Minard and Viviane Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richard Brown, 61, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1995 after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. Brown, a former heroin addict, served prison time for assault in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203629\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts' son, Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts’ son Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watts’ parents have been raising his 13-year-old son, Nicky, in Bakersfield. Since his release, Watts has moved to Berkeley and into a re-entry program, but he is still having a hard time readjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody owes me anything. I don’t want to put that off on anybody, but I wish there was some kind of structure. … Like ‘Here, just get out. Here’s $200, leave.’ If you’re on parole, you have somebody looking over you, and if you don’t have no place to stay, parole is going to find you an address because they need an address for you to stay, so you’ve got some place to stay. Right now, you’re done. You’re over it. So in the back of my mind, if I could get a 16-month term, half-time, I’d probably go back real quick so I could be on parole. Just so I could come back and be on parole and I’d have all this funding. Eight months wouldn’t be anything in prison, and I’d be on parole then, and then I’d have this funding to help me through basic needs, I guess, without trying to bother my family for other things that I don’t really want to bother them for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under Three Strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203941\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says that some inmates feel that their Three Strikes sentences helped them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would happen to us if we didn’t get this life sentence? There’s a saying that God rescued us. He sent a black-and-white, and that’s how God rescued us… A police car. I probably would have either OD’d or maybe died, got killed… The lifestyle that we had, I used to do drugs. If I had more money, I’d do more drugs, and keep doing it and doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re facing a life sentence, that really is a rude awakening. It awakens you, and it’s for real.\u003cbr>\nWhen I got busted, and I was in jail, and they told me that I was a Three Strike candidate, it really shook me. It broke me; it really broke me. A lot of things developed that night that I got busted, in my life. It was part of my testimony, how God revealed himself to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Marin at his sister's home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin at his sister’s home. 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Daniel Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We know, we know. There are a lot of rich, smart people around here. Not that we're boasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But consider some of the recent supporting evidence: Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported on \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington-a-world-apart/\">\"Super Zips,\"\u003c/a> ZIP codes ranking highest on residents' income and college education. Two of the nation's largest collections of contiguous Super Zips are found in the South Bay (No. 3) and East Bay (No. 5). And if that's note enough to convince you we're darn special, check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcoexist.com/3021592/the-10-smartest-cities-in-north-america?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+fastcoexist/feed+%28Co.Exist%29\">Fast Company's list of the smartest U.S. cities\u003c/a>: San Francisco tied for second with Boston (Seattle is ranked No. 1). The magazine defines \"smart\" as \"doing the most to become the sustainable, connected, innovative city of the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The clustering of the educated wealthy has been increasing, and is resulting in deeper stratification of socioeconomic classes.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Using the latest census data, the Post ranked ZIP codes from 0 to 99, representing the average of each area’s percentile rankings for median household income and for the share of adults with college degrees. Those with a rank of 95 or higher are \"Super Zips\" (the phrase was coined by \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/charles-murray/\">Charles Murray\u003c/a>, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and author). Typical household income in one of the 650 Super Zips is $120,272, and 68 percent of adults hold college degrees. By comparison, household income in the remaining 23,925 zips is $53,962, with 27 percent holding college degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Super Zip numbers are way higher than others, of course. Atherton, for example, tallies a median household income of $240,833, and 82 percent of Athertonians are college grads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/bayareasuperzips/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118307\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118307 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/BayAreaSuperZips.jpg\" alt='The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.' width=\"436\" height=\"416\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Post story that accompanies its Super Zip map notes that the clustering of the educated wealthy has been increasing, and is resulting in deeper stratification of socioeconomic classes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Although the wealthiest Americans have always lived in their own islands of privilege, sociologists and demographers say the degree to which today’s professional class resides in a world apart is a departure from earlier generations. People of widely different incomes and professions commonly lived close enough that they mingled at stores, sports arenas and school. In an era in which women had fewer educational and professional opportunities, lawyers married secretaries and doctors married nurses. Now, lawyers and doctors marry each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell highlighted how middle-income neighborhoods have been fading away as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, 65 percent of families lived in middle-income neighborhoods; four decades later, 42 percent did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the share of families living in affluent neighborhoods doubled, from 7 percent to 15 percent, as did families living in poor neighborhoods, from 8 percent to 18 percent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The trend toward stratification is not a positive one, say sociologists, in part because it impedes the upward mobility that has always been a part of the American Dream. Again from the Post story:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As the affluent become more isolated, the working class and the poor become confined “to communities where no one has a college education and no one has connections to the world,” said Stephen Klineberg, a Rice University sociologist. “The social capital that’s so necessary for upward mobility is more difficult to come by than it was in the old days when there was broad-based prosperity.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And, the Post notes, the impact on children, particularly those from affluent families who grow up knowing only their privileged world, could be substantial and long-lasting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We ought to worry about what this means for society when kids who are the most advantaged don’t grow up with much experience or understanding of how the other 95 percent live, particularly the bottom half,” said Reardon, who studies the consequences of income inequality. “Will they be less empathetic? Do they understand what it’s like to grow up poor?”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But let us move on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/what-exactly-is-a-smart-city\">smartness\u003c/a>. This is the third year that Fast Company has ranked cities according to their \"broad, integrated approach to improving the efficiency of city operations, the quality of life for its citizens, and growing the local economy.\" Author Boyd Cohen has even developed a rubric for smart cities, which he calls the Smart Cities Wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/smartcity/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118309\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118309 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/smartcity-e1384478703751.jpg\" alt=\"The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the story points out, portentously, \"The survival of our species on planet earth is largely going to be determined by what happens in our cities. By 2050, 70 percent of the world's population will live in them. We are observing a mass migration to cities at an unprecedented rate. The growing urbanization places high demands on infrastructure such as transportation and building as well as increased demand for resources such as food, water, and energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast Company says San Francisco and Boston are second only to Seattle in delivering more services via mobile tech, optimizing existing infrastructure, and leveraging citizen participation to both make better land-use decisions and stimulate a strong, entrepreneurial ecosystem. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, hey, we already knew that.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Daniel Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We know, we know. There are a lot of rich, smart people around here. Not that we're boasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But consider some of the recent supporting evidence: Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported on \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington-a-world-apart/\">\"Super Zips,\"\u003c/a> ZIP codes ranking highest on residents' income and college education. Two of the nation's largest collections of contiguous Super Zips are found in the South Bay (No. 3) and East Bay (No. 5). And if that's note enough to convince you we're darn special, check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcoexist.com/3021592/the-10-smartest-cities-in-north-america?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+fastcoexist/feed+%28Co.Exist%29\">Fast Company's list of the smartest U.S. cities\u003c/a>: San Francisco tied for second with Boston (Seattle is ranked No. 1). The magazine defines \"smart\" as \"doing the most to become the sustainable, connected, innovative city of the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The clustering of the educated wealthy has been increasing, and is resulting in deeper stratification of socioeconomic classes.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Using the latest census data, the Post ranked ZIP codes from 0 to 99, representing the average of each area’s percentile rankings for median household income and for the share of adults with college degrees. Those with a rank of 95 or higher are \"Super Zips\" (the phrase was coined by \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/charles-murray/\">Charles Murray\u003c/a>, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and author). Typical household income in one of the 650 Super Zips is $120,272, and 68 percent of adults hold college degrees. By comparison, household income in the remaining 23,925 zips is $53,962, with 27 percent holding college degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Super Zip numbers are way higher than others, of course. Atherton, for example, tallies a median household income of $240,833, and 82 percent of Athertonians are college grads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/bayareasuperzips/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118307\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118307 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/BayAreaSuperZips.jpg\" alt='The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.' width=\"436\" height=\"416\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Post story that accompanies its Super Zip map notes that the clustering of the educated wealthy has been increasing, and is resulting in deeper stratification of socioeconomic classes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Although the wealthiest Americans have always lived in their own islands of privilege, sociologists and demographers say the degree to which today’s professional class resides in a world apart is a departure from earlier generations. People of widely different incomes and professions commonly lived close enough that they mingled at stores, sports arenas and school. In an era in which women had fewer educational and professional opportunities, lawyers married secretaries and doctors married nurses. Now, lawyers and doctors marry each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell highlighted how middle-income neighborhoods have been fading away as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, 65 percent of families lived in middle-income neighborhoods; four decades later, 42 percent did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the share of families living in affluent neighborhoods doubled, from 7 percent to 15 percent, as did families living in poor neighborhoods, from 8 percent to 18 percent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The trend toward stratification is not a positive one, say sociologists, in part because it impedes the upward mobility that has always been a part of the American Dream. 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This is the third year that Fast Company has ranked cities according to their \"broad, integrated approach to improving the efficiency of city operations, the quality of life for its citizens, and growing the local economy.\" Author Boyd Cohen has even developed a rubric for smart cities, which he calls the Smart Cities Wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/smartcity/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118309\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118309 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/smartcity-e1384478703751.jpg\" alt=\"The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the story points out, portentously, \"The survival of our species on planet earth is largely going to be determined by what happens in our cities. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sam Harnett\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/casa-sanchez/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118143\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118143 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Casa-Sanchez-e1384398917297.jpg\" alt=\"Ayutla restaurant now operates in the old Casa Sanchez space in San Francisco's Mission District. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayutla restaurant now operates in the old Casa Sanchez space in San Francisco’s Mission District. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s longtime tenants count on rent control to keep their housing costs down. But if you’re a small business owner in a hot neighborhood, there’s not much to stop a landlord from jacking up your rent once the lease is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission District, many landlords of commercial spaces \u003cem>are\u003c/em> raising rents. They’re cashing in on the demand for new businesses that serve tech workers. But at least one pair of landlords in the neighborhood is not going that route — Bob and Marta Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When their mother passed away two years ago, Bob and his sister Marta inherited the old \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Sanchez_Foods\">Casa Sanchez\u003c/a> restaurant on 24th Street, between York and Hampshire streets. The siblings decided they didn’t want to just rent to the highest bidder. Instead, they rented to a local family of Latino restaurateurs who had been displaced from their previous restaurant, also on 24th Street, when the owner redeveloped the building. Marta Sanchez says she and her brother wanted to give them one last shot in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”2dcf7643b4fd8844333c808eacce71e7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower 24th Street, where 89-year-old Casa Sanchez sits and which still has the highest concentration of Latino-owned businesses in the city, is the heart of the Latino Mission district. It stretches from the BART station on Mission Street east to Potrero Hill. It runs perpendicular to Valencia Street, which has seen rapid gentrification and an influx of new restaurants and shops over the last decade. And it is now at the front line in the city’s growing turmoil over tech-driven gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stretch of 24th Street has had a tumultuous past. It was known in previous decades for gang violence and drug dealing. Marta Sanchez says that in the ‘80s, tortilla companies fought for turf at the street’s taco joints in what came to be called the “tortilla wars.” She says it grew so heated that tortilla delivery men were said to carry guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those years also saw a burst of Latino pride and activism on the street. Community and arts organizations sprang up, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.precitaeyes.org/\">Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitor Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/\">Galeria de la Raza\u003c/a>, a gallery that displays Latino and Chicano art. The alleyways and storefronts up and down the street are still covered with giant murals painted by graffiti artists during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/24th-street-033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118152\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118152 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/24th-street-033-e1384406845841.jpg\" alt='Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the \"death\" of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)' width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the “death” of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, upscale restaurants and cafes have popped up. On weekends, a long line forms at Wise Sons, a Jewish-inspired deli where Mark Zuckerberg has been seen dining — he is reported to have bought a house several blocks west toward Noe Valley. Tour groups now come through to see the murals, and Google employee buses stop near the BART station on their way to the tech campuses on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/10/live-anti-evictions-protest-on-24th-street/\">rally \u003c/a>last month, protesters marched down 24th Street to call attention to the impact of the Mission’s rapid gentrification. “24th Street is not for sale!” they chanted. “No more evictions!” One speaker demanded that “the city provide incentives to keep long-term businesses in the Mission.” The message was clear: This isn’t just about displaced residents, but displaced businesses. The march started by Casa Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Sanchez says the restaurant has always been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.casasanchez.com/Index.html\">family business\u003c/a>. Her grandparents made tortillas initially, but during the tortilla wars, they concentrated on chips and salsa instead. It was safer. They concocted their first batches at a table inside the restaurant. Later, the company made national headlines by offering free lunches for life to anyone who got a tattoo of the Casa Sanchez logo — a boy in a sombrero riding a corn cob rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s mother ran the restaurant for years. A neighborhood matriarch, she held sway from a chair in the corner of the room – she actually died while sitting in that chair. When she passed away in 2011, they made a shrine for her in one of the patio booths out back. Inside the restaurant, there’s a picture of her up on the wall, painted like an old Mexican fresco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Marta Sanchez says she and her brother have been flooded with offers to lease or sell the place. She says a chef from a famous San Francisco restaurant came in and offered her $200,000 up front just to sign the lease. But she and Bob decided to turn it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a family meeting,” Sanchez says, “and I just gave a lot of credit to my brother, because he was paying the mortgage after my mom passed away and he didn’t have to do that — he could have taken the $200,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, they decided to go with the Banuelos family, who opened a taqueria called Ayutla in the Casa Sanchez space in mid-2012. The family is paying far less than market rate to rent the space. But Marta Sanchez and Maria Elena Banuelos knew each other from grade school, and knew each other on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving money at you, eventually you are going to take it.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Emilia Estrada is part of the Banuelos family. She says “the owner Bob Sanchez, he’s a very nice man, and he was able to accommodate us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Banuelos have run restaurants in the Mission for almost 40 years. Their most recent was La Posta, on 24th Street. “It was so sad when they demolished La Posta,” Estrada says. “That one was really, really nice.” Now, where the restaurant used to be, are condos and new retail spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguello runs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lower24thstreet.org/english/index.html\">Lower 24th Street Merchant & Neighbors Association\u003c/a>. To illustrate the rapid gentrification, he points out two properties side by side on the street. One was left to a brother and the other to a sister. The brother’s property was turned into condos, while the sister kept her building as an independently owned boutique. All up and down the street you can see this kind of uneven development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguello says the reason 24th Street hasn’t changed entirely is because many businesses actually own their buildings — that’s how the Latino barber shops, churches and knickknack shops can afford to stay. Without them, Arguello says, this would be the Mission in name only. Maybe it would be called “Mission Viejo” (Old Mission), he says, or some other kind of made-up real estate term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchezes made an emotional decision about renting Casa Sanchez, not an economic one. They are keeping the rent low so a local business can stay in the neighborhood. But not everyone has the resources to rent below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/marta/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118153\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118153 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Marta-e1384406454610.jpg\" alt=\"Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy,” Marta Sanchez says, “because if you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving that amount of money at you, eventually you are going to take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be blamed for it,” she says, “because there is only so much you can do on behalf of your values with the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, Berkeley became one of the few U.S. cities \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Quotaorigin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ever attempt to impose commercial rent control\u003c/a> in the late 1970s and 1980s. But its laws, which denied landlords the right to occupy their own property when leases expired, were \u003ca href=\"http://www.leagle.com/decision/19871475655FSupp820_11339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down\u003c/a> in federal court for violating the U.S. Constitution’s \u003ca href=\"http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_10_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract clause\u003c/a>. Berkeley amended its ordinances to satisfy that shortcoming, but the state then enacted a law pre-empting further local attempts at commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Ammiano-Wants-to-End-Ban-on-Commercial-Rent-2951202.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact of the law\u003c/a> is that in San Francisco, as elsewhere, businesses live or die at the whim of their landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casa Sanchez has been hosting punk music and other live music events at nights, free for patrons of Ayutla, and partly to help make ends meet. Marta Sanchez says what the Banuelos family pays in rent barely covers the mortgage. 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The alleyways and storefronts up and down the street are still covered with giant murals painted by graffiti artists during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/24th-street-033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118152\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118152 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/24th-street-033-e1384406845841.jpg\" alt='Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the \"death\" of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)' width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the “death” of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, upscale restaurants and cafes have popped up. On weekends, a long line forms at Wise Sons, a Jewish-inspired deli where Mark Zuckerberg has been seen dining — he is reported to have bought a house several blocks west toward Noe Valley. Tour groups now come through to see the murals, and Google employee buses stop near the BART station on their way to the tech campuses on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/10/live-anti-evictions-protest-on-24th-street/\">rally \u003c/a>last month, protesters marched down 24th Street to call attention to the impact of the Mission’s rapid gentrification. “24th Street is not for sale!” they chanted. “No more evictions!” One speaker demanded that “the city provide incentives to keep long-term businesses in the Mission.” The message was clear: This isn’t just about displaced residents, but displaced businesses. The march started by Casa Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Sanchez says the restaurant has always been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.casasanchez.com/Index.html\">family business\u003c/a>. Her grandparents made tortillas initially, but during the tortilla wars, they concentrated on chips and salsa instead. It was safer. They concocted their first batches at a table inside the restaurant. Later, the company made national headlines by offering free lunches for life to anyone who got a tattoo of the Casa Sanchez logo — a boy in a sombrero riding a corn cob rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s mother ran the restaurant for years. A neighborhood matriarch, she held sway from a chair in the corner of the room – she actually died while sitting in that chair. When she passed away in 2011, they made a shrine for her in one of the patio booths out back. Inside the restaurant, there’s a picture of her up on the wall, painted like an old Mexican fresco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Marta Sanchez says she and her brother have been flooded with offers to lease or sell the place. She says a chef from a famous San Francisco restaurant came in and offered her $200,000 up front just to sign the lease. But she and Bob decided to turn it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a family meeting,” Sanchez says, “and I just gave a lot of credit to my brother, because he was paying the mortgage after my mom passed away and he didn’t have to do that — he could have taken the $200,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, they decided to go with the Banuelos family, who opened a taqueria called Ayutla in the Casa Sanchez space in mid-2012. The family is paying far less than market rate to rent the space. But Marta Sanchez and Maria Elena Banuelos knew each other from grade school, and knew each other on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving money at you, eventually you are going to take it.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Emilia Estrada is part of the Banuelos family. She says “the owner Bob Sanchez, he’s a very nice man, and he was able to accommodate us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Banuelos have run restaurants in the Mission for almost 40 years. Their most recent was La Posta, on 24th Street. “It was so sad when they demolished La Posta,” Estrada says. “That one was really, really nice.” Now, where the restaurant used to be, are condos and new retail spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguello runs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lower24thstreet.org/english/index.html\">Lower 24th Street Merchant & Neighbors Association\u003c/a>. To illustrate the rapid gentrification, he points out two properties side by side on the street. One was left to a brother and the other to a sister. The brother’s property was turned into condos, while the sister kept her building as an independently owned boutique. All up and down the street you can see this kind of uneven development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguello says the reason 24th Street hasn’t changed entirely is because many businesses actually own their buildings — that’s how the Latino barber shops, churches and knickknack shops can afford to stay. Without them, Arguello says, this would be the Mission in name only. Maybe it would be called “Mission Viejo” (Old Mission), he says, or some other kind of made-up real estate term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchezes made an emotional decision about renting Casa Sanchez, not an economic one. They are keeping the rent low so a local business can stay in the neighborhood. But not everyone has the resources to rent below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/marta/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118153\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118153 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Marta-e1384406454610.jpg\" alt=\"Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy,” Marta Sanchez says, “because if you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving that amount of money at you, eventually you are going to take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be blamed for it,” she says, “because there is only so much you can do on behalf of your values with the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, Berkeley became one of the few U.S. cities \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Quotaorigin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ever attempt to impose commercial rent control\u003c/a> in the late 1970s and 1980s. But its laws, which denied landlords the right to occupy their own property when leases expired, were \u003ca href=\"http://www.leagle.com/decision/19871475655FSupp820_11339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down\u003c/a> in federal court for violating the U.S. Constitution’s \u003ca href=\"http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_10_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract clause\u003c/a>. Berkeley amended its ordinances to satisfy that shortcoming, but the state then enacted a law pre-empting further local attempts at commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Ammiano-Wants-to-End-Ban-on-Commercial-Rent-2951202.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact of the law\u003c/a> is that in San Francisco, as elsewhere, businesses live or die at the whim of their landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casa Sanchez has been hosting punk music and other live music events at nights, free for patrons of Ayutla, and partly to help make ends meet. Marta Sanchez says what the Banuelos family pays in rent barely covers the mortgage. She hopes some of the young hipsters and techies moving into the neighborhood will come in for burritos and help them stay in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/despite-citys-help-sf-tenants-still-fighting-mid-market-eviction/rs7539_1049_market_0330_web/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118012\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7539_1049_market_0330_web-e1384365558484.jpg\" alt=\"1049 Market St. tenant Melissa Bracero says she would probably have to leave the city if she's evicted. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED). \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1049 Market St. tenant Melissa Bracero says she would probably have to leave the city if she's evicted. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/1049market/\">group of tenants\u003c/a> fighting orders to leave their affordable artist live/work lofts in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood say the landlord has not withdrawn the eviction notices, despite pressure from Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants held a noon protest Tuesday outside the 83-unit building at 1049 Market St., calling on owners John Gall and Amy Bogart to stop the evictions by Thanksgiving. The tenants are mostly artists, and include seniors and people with disabilities. Their 60-day eviction notices would take effect just before the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of human being evicts people during the holidays?” said Tommi Avicolli Mecca of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hrcsf.org/\">Housing Rights Committee\u003c/a> of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven-story building, built in 1907 as a furniture store, is zoned for commercial use. The owners had been trying to bring the units up to code for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Landlords say city rules have forced them to evict tenants. The city and housing activists insist that's not the case.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It has long been our belief that this was achievable and we would be able to keep this unique and affordable community,\" stated a Sept. 13 memo to tenants from the landlord. But it went on to inform them that \"we were not able to overcome the city of San Francisco's overly restrictive building code requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Per these city orders, the building must currently be vacated,\" the memo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners obtained permits to convert the building into offices and began issuing eviction orders in late September. Tenants quickly organized, and got housing activists involved. They persuaded Mayor Lee, Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the neighborhood, and the Department of Building Inspection to intervene. The city subsequently withdrew the permits and offered to work with Gall and his partners to grandfather in residential code violations, namely units that don't have windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contrary to owner Gall’s claims, the Department of Building Inspection has never pushed him or any prior owner to evict the tenants of 1049 Market,\" Randy Shaw, the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Mayor_Lee_Supervisor_Kim_DBI_Director_Hui_Unite_to_Stop_Market_Street_Evictions_11960.html\">wrote on Beyond Chron\u003c/a>. \"In fact, since DBI and its public commission was created through a 1994 ballot initiative that I authored (Proposition G), it has not pushed for the eviction of any tenants (a sharp break from its predecessor Bureau of Building Inspection, which prioritized closing down in-law apartments).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"613f376ea31a6b96b3b6b8e989ea54bb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing activists lauded the intervention as a model that could be used to prevent evictions in other commercial buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has provided the landlord with everything he needs to legalize these units and there’s nothing stopping him from doing that, nothing,” said Avicolli Mecca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants say they've had no direct line of communication with Gall and no indication he's backing down. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/11/12/mid-market-landlord-appeals-tenants-face-holiday-evictions\">Bay Guardian reports\u003c/a> Gall has appealed the city's permit suspensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're dying to hear from him and what he has to say,\" said tenant Jonathan Stoker. \"We want to keep our homes. It shouldn't be up to the highest bidder, because if that happens it'll change the face of this whole city, and where are we going to go?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gall, a Stanford grad and former major league baseball player, did not return KQED's phone calls but recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-intercedes-in-mid-market-eviction-fight/Content?oid=2618959\">told the San Francisco Examiner's Chris Roberts \u003c/a> that he was \"still trying to figure out the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, the city supervisor, has asked Gall to rescind the eviction notices. Last week, she said \"he is committed to exploring a no-eviction pathway with his investors to preserve the affordable units at 1049 Market Street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/market-street-building-evictions-could-be-largest-san-francisco-ouster-in-decades/Content?oid=2599843\">first reported\u003c/a>, the eviction would be one of the largest in the city’s history. Housing activists say it's part of a wave of evictions hitting San Francisco, brought on by the hot housing market and tech boom. The Mid-Market building is just a few blocks from Twitter headquarters in an area Mayor Lee has prioritized for revitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all really on edge,\" said Naomi Cooper, a 65-year-old public school teacher who's lived in the building for 13 years and will be forced to leave just before Christmas if the eviction notices stand. \"I feel like there should be a place for me here. I've given a lot to this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfofficelofts.com/LiveWork.html\">live/work lofts\u003c/a>, which vary in size from 200 to 500 square feet, rent for between $900 and $1,000 a month, and include kitchens and shared bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a great blessing,\" said Melissa Bracero, a part-time accountant and clothing designer, who invited reporters into her loft overlooking Market Street. \"We hope to be here in a year and not saying, 'Oh, we've left this city for good.'\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Yoona Ha\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-building.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, 14 San Francisco technology companies received $1.9 million in tax breaks for setting up shop in the mid-Market Street area. Supporters said it was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Twitter-Central-Market-Neighborhood-IPO-San-Francisco-Mayor-Ed-Lee-230586501.html\">good investment\u003c/a>, bringing economic development and jobs to an economically depressed strip in the core of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zone is certainly coming back to life, and the companies that benefited now employ more than 2,700 workers. But it is less clear that the deal resulted in entry-level jobs for residents of the hardscrabble neighborhood — one of the goals most sought by skeptics of the tax break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest six of the companies promised a list of community benefits that included an effort to identify qualified job seekers in the Tenderloin and mid-Market area. But the agreements are vaguely worded, the companies have been slow to report their progress to the city, and most were unresponsive to direct questions about employment practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for neighborhood employment say the community benefit agreements — instituted nine months after the April 2011 approval of the tax breaks — lack teeth. The agreements urge companies to forge “meaningful engagement” with the neighborhood by doing things like exploring community training and hiring initiatives, donating computer equipment to schools, encouraging employee tutoring and appointing community liaisons.\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117940 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/SFPubPress-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the City Administrator’s Office requires compliance with only 80 percent of the memorandums’ provisions. While “binding,” the documents call for a “good-faith effort” by companies to follow through on their community obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One provision asks the companies to “partner” with a program that identifies entry-level jobs for local residents. But signatories — many of whom were late in filing quarterly reports to the city this year — are under no obligation to report whether that resulted in any actual jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, a skeptic about the tax breaks, said the loose wording means tech firms got something for nothing. He said their promises to the community in exchange for reduced taxes were “barely worth the paper they're written on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within three months of taking office in January 2011, Mayor Ed Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass a payroll tax exclusion law for technology businesses in the mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. It allows the companies to avoid payroll taxes on new hires for six years. Under the subsequent deal on community benefits, companies with payrolls of more than $1 million get the tax break only if they enter a community benefit agreement with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some stakeholders remain unconvinced that the agreements are sufficient. Mara Blitzer, a longtime neighborhood social services advocate, said that while she appreciated technology companies’ community volunteering efforts, other stipulations, especially local hiring, are more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community really had high hopes for what the agreement was going to do, but I think, frankly, it isn’t the strongest,” said Blitzer, who until this year was a senior project manager at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/\">Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation\u003c/a>, and has since taken a government job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements call on companies to use the \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/businessservices/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=85\">First Source Hiring Program\u003c/a>, which was set up in 1998 to funnel “economically disadvantaged” city residents into entry-level jobs. The program is primarily geared toward major city-funded contracts, public works and business activities needing building permits or planning approval. The community benefit agreements ask technology firms to “partner” with First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from some of the biggest tax break recipients — Twitter, Zoosk, 21Tech and Yammer — declined to comment on the status of their agreements. Zendesk, a customer service software firm, and One Kings Lane, a home decor company, did respond to questions. Both said they had not hired any employees through First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Redondiez, a legislative aide to Avalos, said one of the problems is a lack of follow-up by the city. Until this year, she said, First Source had no budget for a dedicated enforcement staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors created the payroll tax exclusion after Twitter indicated it was considering moving its expanded headquarters out of San Francisco. The breaks applied to any business within a tax zone area straddling Market Street from Sixth Street to Van Ness Avenue, including some side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117945\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/twitter-IPO-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the community benefit agreements was to mitigate gentrification as tech expansion raises rents for neighboring businesses, residents and public amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies are required to report the status of their agreements quarterly to the City Administrator’s Office. Incomplete provisions must be carried out the following year, said Bill Barnes, the office’s project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos said the community benefit agreements were weak because the city created them after passing the tax exemption. That left little room for negotiation with technology firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been stronger if we were building our tax breaks contingent on stronger community benefit agreements,” he said. “If the agreement comes afterward, then obviously it’s not going to be as strong as it could have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirements should be sharpened, said Dina Hilliard, executive director of the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, a nonprofit group providing beautification and safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The existing agreements clearly are not utilized in a way that is customized to each company’s strengths,” Hilliard said. “Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many low-skilled neighborhood residents, the education and experience qualifications for entry-level jobs may be too strict. Some neighborhood job candidates lack regular access to computers, hampering the online application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Entry-Level Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Market and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5005\">Tenderloin Area Citizens Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, which advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and the city administrator, agreed that a strict hiring mandate would be impractical, because Zendesk requires highly skilled workers, said company spokeswoman Tiffany Apczynski. She said most office jobs require advanced degrees and years of experience. In any event, First Source would not help with neighborhood hiring, since it is available to all city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Zendesk decided to fulfill its “obligation to the neighborhood” under its agreement by offering two paid marketing internships for clients of local nonprofit groups such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org/\">Vietnamese Youth Development Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also pledged to work with \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/trainingprograms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=85\">TechSF\u003c/a>, a citywide workforce training initiative, to host networking events for employment trainees. It has invested $15,000 in community event sponsorships, and says it is on pace to spend about $120,000 in the community this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kings Lane has identified entry-level positions in customer service that could be filled locally, spokeswoman Stephanie Pettinati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos sounded frustrated by the paucity of job opportunities for locals. He said he would push for an overhaul of local hiring laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we’ve heard, there’s never been any kind of penalty for someone who doesn’t follow the First Source Ordinance,” Avalos said. “There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilliard questioned whether community benefit agreements were even good ideas in the long run: “I want the city to sit down with the company and come up with a customized plan on how they are going to provide community benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brightlinedefense.org/\">Brightline Defense Projec\u003c/a>t, a nonprofit organization based in SoMa that promotes environmental, economic and social sustainability in low-income neighborhoods, is pushing for reforms to require more than just “good faith” efforts to make local hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Avalos sponsored one such successful effort. The ordinance mandated that an increasing percentage of city residents be hired for city-funded construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, Brightline Defense’s executive director, said the city has been “rolling out a red carpet” for technology companies through special tax treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring programs, he said, should require “job guarantees and a track record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2013-11/twitter-other-tech-companies-get-sf-tax-breaks-but-show-little-progress-hiring-in-neighborhood\">This article\u003c/a> first appeared in San Francisco Public Press, a KQED News Associate\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Yoona Ha\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-building.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, 14 San Francisco technology companies received $1.9 million in tax breaks for setting up shop in the mid-Market Street area. Supporters said it was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Twitter-Central-Market-Neighborhood-IPO-San-Francisco-Mayor-Ed-Lee-230586501.html\">good investment\u003c/a>, bringing economic development and jobs to an economically depressed strip in the core of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zone is certainly coming back to life, and the companies that benefited now employ more than 2,700 workers. But it is less clear that the deal resulted in entry-level jobs for residents of the hardscrabble neighborhood — one of the goals most sought by skeptics of the tax break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest six of the companies promised a list of community benefits that included an effort to identify qualified job seekers in the Tenderloin and mid-Market area. But the agreements are vaguely worded, the companies have been slow to report their progress to the city, and most were unresponsive to direct questions about employment practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for neighborhood employment say the community benefit agreements — instituted nine months after the April 2011 approval of the tax breaks — lack teeth. The agreements urge companies to forge “meaningful engagement” with the neighborhood by doing things like exploring community training and hiring initiatives, donating computer equipment to schools, encouraging employee tutoring and appointing community liaisons.\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117940 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/SFPubPress-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the City Administrator’s Office requires compliance with only 80 percent of the memorandums’ provisions. While “binding,” the documents call for a “good-faith effort” by companies to follow through on their community obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One provision asks the companies to “partner” with a program that identifies entry-level jobs for local residents. But signatories — many of whom were late in filing quarterly reports to the city this year — are under no obligation to report whether that resulted in any actual jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, a skeptic about the tax breaks, said the loose wording means tech firms got something for nothing. He said their promises to the community in exchange for reduced taxes were “barely worth the paper they're written on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within three months of taking office in January 2011, Mayor Ed Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass a payroll tax exclusion law for technology businesses in the mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. It allows the companies to avoid payroll taxes on new hires for six years. Under the subsequent deal on community benefits, companies with payrolls of more than $1 million get the tax break only if they enter a community benefit agreement with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some stakeholders remain unconvinced that the agreements are sufficient. Mara Blitzer, a longtime neighborhood social services advocate, said that while she appreciated technology companies’ community volunteering efforts, other stipulations, especially local hiring, are more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community really had high hopes for what the agreement was going to do, but I think, frankly, it isn’t the strongest,” said Blitzer, who until this year was a senior project manager at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/\">Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation\u003c/a>, and has since taken a government job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements call on companies to use the \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/businessservices/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=85\">First Source Hiring Program\u003c/a>, which was set up in 1998 to funnel “economically disadvantaged” city residents into entry-level jobs. The program is primarily geared toward major city-funded contracts, public works and business activities needing building permits or planning approval. The community benefit agreements ask technology firms to “partner” with First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from some of the biggest tax break recipients — Twitter, Zoosk, 21Tech and Yammer — declined to comment on the status of their agreements. Zendesk, a customer service software firm, and One Kings Lane, a home decor company, did respond to questions. Both said they had not hired any employees through First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Redondiez, a legislative aide to Avalos, said one of the problems is a lack of follow-up by the city. Until this year, she said, First Source had no budget for a dedicated enforcement staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors created the payroll tax exclusion after Twitter indicated it was considering moving its expanded headquarters out of San Francisco. The breaks applied to any business within a tax zone area straddling Market Street from Sixth Street to Van Ness Avenue, including some side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117945\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/twitter-IPO-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the community benefit agreements was to mitigate gentrification as tech expansion raises rents for neighboring businesses, residents and public amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies are required to report the status of their agreements quarterly to the City Administrator’s Office. Incomplete provisions must be carried out the following year, said Bill Barnes, the office’s project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos said the community benefit agreements were weak because the city created them after passing the tax exemption. That left little room for negotiation with technology firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been stronger if we were building our tax breaks contingent on stronger community benefit agreements,” he said. “If the agreement comes afterward, then obviously it’s not going to be as strong as it could have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirements should be sharpened, said Dina Hilliard, executive director of the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, a nonprofit group providing beautification and safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The existing agreements clearly are not utilized in a way that is customized to each company’s strengths,” Hilliard said. “Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many low-skilled neighborhood residents, the education and experience qualifications for entry-level jobs may be too strict. Some neighborhood job candidates lack regular access to computers, hampering the online application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Entry-Level Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Market and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5005\">Tenderloin Area Citizens Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, which advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and the city administrator, agreed that a strict hiring mandate would be impractical, because Zendesk requires highly skilled workers, said company spokeswoman Tiffany Apczynski. She said most office jobs require advanced degrees and years of experience. In any event, First Source would not help with neighborhood hiring, since it is available to all city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Zendesk decided to fulfill its “obligation to the neighborhood” under its agreement by offering two paid marketing internships for clients of local nonprofit groups such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org/\">Vietnamese Youth Development Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also pledged to work with \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/trainingprograms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=85\">TechSF\u003c/a>, a citywide workforce training initiative, to host networking events for employment trainees. It has invested $15,000 in community event sponsorships, and says it is on pace to spend about $120,000 in the community this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kings Lane has identified entry-level positions in customer service that could be filled locally, spokeswoman Stephanie Pettinati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos sounded frustrated by the paucity of job opportunities for locals. He said he would push for an overhaul of local hiring laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we’ve heard, there’s never been any kind of penalty for someone who doesn’t follow the First Source Ordinance,” Avalos said. “There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilliard questioned whether community benefit agreements were even good ideas in the long run: “I want the city to sit down with the company and come up with a customized plan on how they are going to provide community benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brightlinedefense.org/\">Brightline Defense Projec\u003c/a>t, a nonprofit organization based in SoMa that promotes environmental, economic and social sustainability in low-income neighborhoods, is pushing for reforms to require more than just “good faith” efforts to make local hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Avalos sponsored one such successful effort. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/golden-state-warriors-unveil-slightly-downsized-arena-design-for/sf-20131112-aerial/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117923\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117923\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sf-20131112-aerial-e1384294405464.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden State Warriors's latest rendering of their proposed new arena on the San Francisco Waterfront. (Golden State Warriors)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden State Warriors's latest rendering of their proposed new arena on the San Francisco waterfront. (Golden State Warriors)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I could have sworn I just heard someone say, \"No wall on the waterfront.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State Warriors unveiled a new design Tuesday for the team's proposed arena/event center/retail complex on Piers 30-32, just south of the Bay Bridge on the San Francisco waterfront. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/20131112/sf\" target=\"_blank\">a press release\u003c/a>, the team says \"the design incorporates more than a year of feedback from regulatory agencies and citizens\" about the facility, which is now somewhat smaller and not quite as monolithic as earlier designs. The Warriors are taking note of some other feedback on waterfront development, too: last week's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/election-2013-sf-waterfront-development-measures-lose\" target=\"_blank\">defeat of Propositions B and C\u003c/a>, which if passed would have allowed construction of a big condo project on the Embarcadero just up the street from the Ferry Building. The battle cry of the No on B and C campaign: \"No wall on the waterfront.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how much more petite — or less wall-like — is the new complex than the old? The original pavilion, a term that the team apparently prefers to \"arena,\" totaled 771,000 gross square feet of event and commercial space; the new design calls from 695,000 square feet. Where the arena was first envisioned as 135 feet high, now it will be 125 feet. When the complex was first proposed, half of the 12.6-acre site was described as open space. Now that's up to 60 percent, 7.6 acres. The design also includes human-friendly features like valet bike parking, a public ramp around the arena, a kayak ramp, and a new public plaza on the Embarcadero at the site's northwest corner. The proposal also calls for a deep-water berth, part of fulfilling use requirements for the waterfront site, and a waterfront fire station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're about building something that is better for the future, not living in the past.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those changes aside, the Warriors and their allies, including Mayor Ed Lee and a host of business leaders, will still face a nearly certain ballot fight on the waterfront facility. Former Mayor Art Agnos promised as much as soon as the results for Props. B and C were in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Warriors' owners say they're bestowing a gift on the region and criticize Agnos and those who have opposed the arena — mainly neighborhood residents and environmental and waterfront advocates — as \"living in the past.\" Here's co-owner and team CEO Joe Lacob in \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/warriors/2013/11/12/joe-lacob-looks-back-at-first-three-years-as-warriors-owner-looks-ahead-toward-future/\">Tuesday's San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I don’t think most people really want to live in the past. They want to live in a better future. We have to listen to everybody’s view and try to accommodate their views, and we can’t just do what we want to do. We [want] to make it something that for the majority of the people is a better place, a city, a better set of piers. That’s what we’re about: building something that is better for the future, not living in the past.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob also says that the Warriors arena is fundamentally different from the condo project the voters were deciding on when they rejected Props. B and C. In fact, he compares it to arguably \u003cem>the\u003c/em> most iconic of Bay Area landmarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What we’re doing is a much different civic-kind-of goal. Yes, it’s on the waterfront, but we want to create something to be used by so many San Franciscans and Bay Area residents. I hate to equate it to the Golden Gate Bridge, but, in the 1930s, it was thought of negatively. Well, it turns out that it’s a very useful and beautiful thing. People are proud of it, and it represents the city worldwide. I believe this can do the same. There are always going to be naysayers. There are going to be those who don’t want any development. They’d rather let those piers rot or have a new set of taxes levied. We’re going to spend almost $200 million to fix them and set the foundation for this arena. If we put this arena anywhere else, it would cost us $200 million less. This is not economic for us. We’re doing this, because it’s the best location as far as transit, near the new multi-billion TransBay Terminal. We’re fixing something on the pier, which is a great civic gift, frankly. I know some people won’t like the height or this or that, but I wish people would view this practically. It is sitting out on the water. It’s not blocking anybody’s views. We’re creating a 7-acre park for the good of all San Francisco. We’re creating a new San Francisco Fire Department building. That’s not something I wanted to do, but I realize it’s something we need to do to give something back. There is going to be a cruise ship terminal, bike paths, running paths, green areas. ... At the end of the day, I believe that we will have a positive reaction from the city planning department, the mayor, the ex-mayor and the people of the community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcb.com/partner/joseph-lacob\" target=\"_blank\">a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist\u003c/a>, told CSN Bay Area that he resents suggestions that he's a wealthy interloper:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To be attacked by someone like Art Agnos, who is a voice of the past . . . to say that we are billionaires trying to take over the city is a joke. That's absurd and it's insulting. What is he trying to do for the city? We're trying to do something positive. It is going to be tough. We're going to have to convince him and others – or outvote them – that what we're doing is in the best interest of the majority of San Franciscans and people of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob also said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/lacob-hiring-jackson-west-changed-mentality\" target=\"_blank\">the CSN interview\u003c/a> that he recognizes it may take a while to realize his dream of a new arena and that it may never happen at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I guess what I'd say to you is that we have alternatives – I'm not a fool – but we're going to [try] real hard to do this, even though it's more expensive than any other plan by far. It's not even close, and that's just the arena itself, not the surrounding area. 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The Warriors are taking note of some other feedback on waterfront development, too: last week's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/election-2013-sf-waterfront-development-measures-lose\" target=\"_blank\">defeat of Propositions B and C\u003c/a>, which if passed would have allowed construction of a big condo project on the Embarcadero just up the street from the Ferry Building. The battle cry of the No on B and C campaign: \"No wall on the waterfront.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how much more petite — or less wall-like — is the new complex than the old? The original pavilion, a term that the team apparently prefers to \"arena,\" totaled 771,000 gross square feet of event and commercial space; the new design calls from 695,000 square feet. Where the arena was first envisioned as 135 feet high, now it will be 125 feet. When the complex was first proposed, half of the 12.6-acre site was described as open space. Now that's up to 60 percent, 7.6 acres. The design also includes human-friendly features like valet bike parking, a public ramp around the arena, a kayak ramp, and a new public plaza on the Embarcadero at the site's northwest corner. The proposal also calls for a deep-water berth, part of fulfilling use requirements for the waterfront site, and a waterfront fire station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're about building something that is better for the future, not living in the past.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those changes aside, the Warriors and their allies, including Mayor Ed Lee and a host of business leaders, will still face a nearly certain ballot fight on the waterfront facility. Former Mayor Art Agnos promised as much as soon as the results for Props. B and C were in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Warriors' owners say they're bestowing a gift on the region and criticize Agnos and those who have opposed the arena — mainly neighborhood residents and environmental and waterfront advocates — as \"living in the past.\" Here's co-owner and team CEO Joe Lacob in \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/warriors/2013/11/12/joe-lacob-looks-back-at-first-three-years-as-warriors-owner-looks-ahead-toward-future/\">Tuesday's San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I don’t think most people really want to live in the past. They want to live in a better future. We have to listen to everybody’s view and try to accommodate their views, and we can’t just do what we want to do. We [want] to make it something that for the majority of the people is a better place, a city, a better set of piers. That’s what we’re about: building something that is better for the future, not living in the past.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob also says that the Warriors arena is fundamentally different from the condo project the voters were deciding on when they rejected Props. B and C. In fact, he compares it to arguably \u003cem>the\u003c/em> most iconic of Bay Area landmarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What we’re doing is a much different civic-kind-of goal. Yes, it’s on the waterfront, but we want to create something to be used by so many San Franciscans and Bay Area residents. I hate to equate it to the Golden Gate Bridge, but, in the 1930s, it was thought of negatively. Well, it turns out that it’s a very useful and beautiful thing. People are proud of it, and it represents the city worldwide. I believe this can do the same. There are always going to be naysayers. There are going to be those who don’t want any development. They’d rather let those piers rot or have a new set of taxes levied. We’re going to spend almost $200 million to fix them and set the foundation for this arena. If we put this arena anywhere else, it would cost us $200 million less. This is not economic for us. We’re doing this, because it’s the best location as far as transit, near the new multi-billion TransBay Terminal. We’re fixing something on the pier, which is a great civic gift, frankly. I know some people won’t like the height or this or that, but I wish people would view this practically. It is sitting out on the water. It’s not blocking anybody’s views. We’re creating a 7-acre park for the good of all San Francisco. We’re creating a new San Francisco Fire Department building. That’s not something I wanted to do, but I realize it’s something we need to do to give something back. There is going to be a cruise ship terminal, bike paths, running paths, green areas. ... At the end of the day, I believe that we will have a positive reaction from the city planning department, the mayor, the ex-mayor and the people of the community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcb.com/partner/joseph-lacob\" target=\"_blank\">a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist\u003c/a>, told CSN Bay Area that he resents suggestions that he's a wealthy interloper:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To be attacked by someone like Art Agnos, who is a voice of the past . . . to say that we are billionaires trying to take over the city is a joke. That's absurd and it's insulting. What is he trying to do for the city? We're trying to do something positive. It is going to be tough. We're going to have to convince him and others – or outvote them – that what we're doing is in the best interest of the majority of San Franciscans and people of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lacob also said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/lacob-hiring-jackson-west-changed-mentality\" target=\"_blank\">the CSN interview\u003c/a> that he recognizes it may take a while to realize his dream of a new arena and that it may never happen at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I guess what I'd say to you is that we have alternatives – I'm not a fool – but we're going to [try] real hard to do this, even though it's more expensive than any other plan by far. It's not even close, and that's just the arena itself, not the surrounding area. We think for the next 40 years, 50 years, it will be something that all people of the Bay Area can be proud of, a great civic accomplishment.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/15/103615/84000-family-four-san-francisco/forrent/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103809\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/forrent.jpg\" alt=\"(iStock image)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(iStock image)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want a crowd to turn against you, then just tell people you’re a landlord. In some circles, those who own property and rent to others rank near the top of regional public enemies, alongside tech workers, Dodger fans, and oh, I don’t know, people who kick puppies for fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are landlords really to blame for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Rents-soaring-across-region-4924282.php\" target=\"_blank\">soaring rents\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">increased evictions\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/how-much-tech-can-one-city-take\" target=\"_blank\">the much-bemoaned changing culture\u003c/a> of the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, they’re one of the big players at the table when we talk about increasing rents and evictions. But as a number of “Forum” commenters have pointed out, there are many factors that add to the problem of scarce, expensive housing, including the relatively small slice of land available for development in the inner Bay Area and the increased competition for housing as the regional economy improves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED’s “Priced Out” series continues, we’re hearing a whole spectrum of views on housing prices and evictions. Here’s a brief list of reasons landlords say they’re not responsible for the current rental housing crunch. The quotes below are from KQED’s “Forum” last Friday: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">Evictions on the Rise in San Francisco\u003c/a>. You can listen to the show in its entirety by \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Not All Landlords Are Created Equal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Forum” hour featured lots of complaints about big real-estate firms and corporate-style landlords raising rents and evicting tenants. But the Bay Area has plenty of small landlords who have a completely different way of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One property owner, referred to only as “Jeanne” at her request, said she was a “mom-and-pop landlord” running a business “not any different than owning a bakery.” Jeanne’s family has been in San Francisco “for over a hundred years,” and her mother bought a building 40 years ago. “That’s what supported our family. We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of the one-bedroom apartment in this building.” Jeanne said her family has developed relationships with their tenants, helping to take care of them as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of my one-bedroom apartment.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Landlords Get Screwed, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are that at some point, your landlord has suffered at the hands of bad tenants or life circumstances. Mike in San Francisco called in during the show to share the story of what sounds like a generous landlord who found himself needing money because of health problems:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My wife’s uncle had two tenants in a building in the Marina and for 30 plus years he never raised the rent. He was a wonderful landlord. And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Rules Have Changed for Many Landlords\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has changed for some longtime landlords in cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which have approved rent control laws over the years. Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a tenants’ group, said on the show that “landlords know what they’ve gotten into when they buy property, and they know what our laws are and they’ve decided to sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not always the case. As Jeanne and other listeners pointed out — many landlords bought their buildings before rent control was on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Landlords Have Some Decent Ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Priced Out\u003c/a> series, many listeners and readers have asked about solutions to the issues of rising rents and evictions, only to be told that under current market conditions, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\">little hope\u003c/a> things will get better soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some ideas out there. Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, said there’s a lot San Francisco could learn from New York:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“New York every year does a housing study, and they put out a book of statistics about the market and what rents are, what exists [in terms of] housing that’s available — we should be doing that here. … They have a department of housing and everything is run through there. We’re fragmentized here, where we have several different departments in housing — nobody knows what the other department is doing. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“… The other thing that New York has that’s different than San Francisco is their owner-occupied buildings are exempt from rent control. Our owner-occupied buildings were put under rent control in 1991 and they were exempt prior to that. And it worked a lot better. It allowed for flexibility for mom-and-pop owners to cut deals with their tenants, feed their tenants and not be punished for that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We created 13,000 jobs last year, and we put 120 new housing units on the market. I don’t think we can continue this way.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. It’s Not All Their Fault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of causes for the lack of housing, especially affordable housing, in the Bay Area: the economy, the physical landscape and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/12/local/la-me-affordable-housing-20120813\" target=\"_blank\">the loss of redevelopment mone\u003c/a>y that allowed cities to help get more housing built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janan New of the San Francisco Apartment Association noted there’s a basic imbalance between what’s happening in the city’s labor market and what’s happening in the housing market:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We created basically 13,000 jobs last year” said New, “and we put 120 new housing units on the market. So I don’t think we can continue this way without further cannibalization of the rental housing stock because people want to come here, people are going to continue to come here. And they need a place to live.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a rare moment of agreement, both New and Sara Shortt, of the Housing Rights Committee, acknowledged that one must look at the “broader context” of the housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Shortt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We also have the hoarding issue… We also have people who have \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-%C3%A0-terre\" target=\"_blank\">pied-à-terres\u003c/a> in the city now, it’s their second, maybe third rental unit that they have, or they have it on top of a home ownership unit. We have people who are doing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb\u003c/a> thing where they are holding the units off the market and they’re renting them out just as vacation rentals… We’re seeing more and more of those types of things.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of my one-bedroom apartment.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Landlords Get Screwed, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are that at some point, your landlord has suffered at the hands of bad tenants or life circumstances. Mike in San Francisco called in during the show to share the story of what sounds like a generous landlord who found himself needing money because of health problems:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My wife’s uncle had two tenants in a building in the Marina and for 30 plus years he never raised the rent. He was a wonderful landlord. And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Rules Have Changed for Many Landlords\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has changed for some longtime landlords in cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which have approved rent control laws over the years. Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a tenants’ group, said on the show that “landlords know what they’ve gotten into when they buy property, and they know what our laws are and they’ve decided to sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not always the case. As Jeanne and other listeners pointed out — many landlords bought their buildings before rent control was on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Landlords Have Some Decent Ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Priced Out\u003c/a> series, many listeners and readers have asked about solutions to the issues of rising rents and evictions, only to be told that under current market conditions, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\">little hope\u003c/a> things will get better soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some ideas out there. Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, said there’s a lot San Francisco could learn from New York:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“New York every year does a housing study, and they put out a book of statistics about the market and what rents are, what exists [in terms of] housing that’s available — we should be doing that here. … They have a department of housing and everything is run through there. 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It’s Not All Their Fault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of causes for the lack of housing, especially affordable housing, in the Bay Area: the economy, the physical landscape and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/12/local/la-me-affordable-housing-20120813\" target=\"_blank\">the loss of redevelopment mone\u003c/a>y that allowed cities to help get more housing built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janan New of the San Francisco Apartment Association noted there’s a basic imbalance between what’s happening in the city’s labor market and what’s happening in the housing market:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We created basically 13,000 jobs last year” said New, “and we put 120 new housing units on the market. So I don’t think we can continue this way without further cannibalization of the rental housing stock because people want to come here, people are going to continue to come here. 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My eyeball view of the weather — rain? what rain? — seems to be confirmed by weather reports, too. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's hourly report on regional rainfall\u003c/a> shows next to nothing in the way of precipitation: one-hundredth of an inch in Concord is the big dousing of the morning so far. The airports in Oakland and San Francisco have reported a trace of rain — the same as I saw in Berkeley. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)\u003c/a>, an unofficial reporting system of volunteer weather observers, shows a handful of reports of .01 and .02 around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, 2013 moves on, the driest calendar year so far for San Francisco (and probably the rest of the region) since 1849, the year weather record-keeping started in the city. Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/California-on-course-for-driest-year-on-record-4971192.php\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Fimrite sums up\u003c/a> where we are as of this week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>No rain at all fell in San Francisco in October and only 3.95 inches has fallen since Jan. 1, the smallest amount of precipitation to date since record keeping began 164 years ago, according to the National Weather Service....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"It's absolutely dry,\" said Bob Benjamin, a National Weather Service forecaster. \"We just went through October where there was no measurable precipitation in downtown San Francisco. That's only happened seven times since records started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous record dry year was in 1976, when 5.57 inches of rain fell in San Francisco over the 311 days between Jan. 1 and Nov. 7. Meteorologists use San Francisco as a benchmark because it has the longest consecutive rainfall record in the state, going back to 1849-50.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's bone-dry conditions have some water managers preparing to resort to \"cloud-seeding\" in order to sprout more precipitation. KQED's Mina Kim spoke on Tuesday with Jeffrey Tilley, director of weather modification at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119868729\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all is lost for the coming rain year. We're at the very beginning of the rainy season, and as forecaster and local precipitation historian Jan Null points out, two of San Francisco's wettest winters followed completely dry Octobers.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But for now, there's worse to come. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's Bay Area office in Monterey warns\u003c/a> in its current forecast discussion that today's non-rain event is likely to be followed by warm, dry, windy conditions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>MAIN FORECAST CONCERN FOR THE WEEK NOW APPEARS TO BE FIRE WEATHER\u003cbr>\nAS A MODERATE NORTHERLY SURFACE GRADIENT WILL COINCIDE WITH A\u003cbr>\nNORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT PLUS A SHORTWAVE TROF ROTATING\u003cbr>\nTHROUGH SOME TIME ON FRIDAY. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/pipes/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117802\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/pipes.jpg\" alt=\"Andreas Sodo, the Rainbow Warrior's thrid engineer has been with Greenpeace for years. He stands with the main engine, which has the highest environmental standards (IMO Tier-II) given to engines. They use the main engine when they need to move quickly, into the wind or through a storm. The engine has a system to re-use engine heat to make the ships hot water. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior III is docked in San Francisco for \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/rainbow-warrior-2013-ship-tour/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a week of public events\u003c/a>, including weekend tours, a film screening and environmental education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ship crossed under the Golden Gate Bridge on a foggy morning last week, sailing from Vancouver, Washington, on a West Coast tour. Built in 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/ships/the-rainbow-warrior/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainbow Warrior III\u003c/a> is technologically more advanced than her predecessors, with a helicopter landing pad, a satellite uplink for transmitting images, and the capacity to carry advanced scientific equipment to support research at sea. The first Rainbow Warrior was bombed in 1985; the second retired two summers ago, after 22 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third incarnation of the iconic ship boasts some new “green” features, including onboard glass recycling, biological treatment of sewage and graywater, and the use of engine heat to warm the cabins and make hot water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in San Francisco, crew members will hold a vigil in support of 30 passengers and crew members from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, along with two journalists, who are currently imprisoned in Russia. Russian authorities \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-dima-greenpeace-20131110-dto,0,5955731.htmlstory#axzz2kMwnoVk9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested them\u003c/a> in September when Greenpeace staged a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/dolphin/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117798\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/dolphin.jpg\" alt=\"Dave the dolphin is the only thing transferred from the second Rainbow Warrior to Rainbow Warrior III. It was rumored to be a time capsule so the crew of the new ship gently cracked it open and found necklaces and the lyrics to a Bob Dylan song encapsulated inside. 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