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A lot of the tools and equipment on this land are old because it’s been continuously farmed by Japanese American families for nearly 120 years, persisting through world wars, racist land laws and forced incarcerations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crisp fall mornings at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in North San José start slowly and mostly quietly, save for the trucks rumbling by along nearby Montague Expressway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the farm itself will soon be paved over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This persimmon harvest, coming to a close in just about a week, marks what will likely be the last farm work to ever take place on this land, as a developer plans to build nearly 1,500 apartments and townhomes here, along with a public park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Japanese American family with a rich farming history in the South Bay, the Sakauyes, has decided to sell the 22-acre plot their family has owned since 1907, and on which the Tsukudas have operated their stand for the last four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While plans for development have long loomed over the property, an air of finality and resignation has settled over the land in the last several months after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000118/san-jose-council-oks-development-of-historic-japanese-american-farm-for-housing\">San José City Council approved the housing plans in August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanover Company, the Houston-based developer, expects to begin work in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12018179 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432.jpg\" alt=\"Many persimmons in the back of a van\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tsukuda carries an electric fruit scale to the stand before opening up for business in San José, CA, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The boxes of persimmons were harvested from the orchard this season. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Saying goodbye to more than a farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Now that we’re finally at the end, it’s kind of sad,” James Tsukuda said while standing at the base of a persimmon tree last week. “A lot of our long-time customers are heartbroken,” he said. “They’re still hoping for a chance that the sale won’t go through. 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Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Tsukuda Family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda’s mother, Miyo Tsukuda, has long been one of the smiling faces customers see at the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, she has started asking customers to take photos with her that she prints out and puts in a scrapbook to help her remember everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My face is starting to get a lot of wrinkles,” she said with a laugh while reviewing some of the photos last week. “I said, ‘My goodness, when did I get old?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was born in a concentration camp in Arkansas, where her family was sent during World War II. They were among the thousands of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during the war and lost possessions and property, such as homes and farmland. Her late husband, Eiji Tsukuda, originally farmed a plot of land nearby, growing strawberries and raspberries until a forced eminent domain sale to make way for the Orchard School District pushed them off the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the family started leasing farmland from the Sakauyes. After he fell ill with cancer, Eiji Tsukuda handed off the farming duties at the current stand to James about 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018176\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg\" alt=\"A person with white hair and glasses, smiles while wearing a maroon top. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyo Tsukuda smiles while talking with a friend at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miyo Tsukuda said the “most enjoyable” thing for her has been talking with all the customers, and she’ll miss coming to the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get up in the morning, every morning, you tell yourself, ‘I have to get ready to go to work.’ I’m not going to have that anymore,” she said. “In a way, maybe it’s a good time to retire. But I’ll miss this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said while his mom may have been looking forward to retiring just a few years ago, now that the fruit stand is being forced to shut down, she’s reluctant to let go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been such a big part of her life for such a long time,” he said. “She’s made a lot of friends here. And so have I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said he’ll probably take his own tools with him when he leaves the farm for the last time but isn’t interested in any other keepsakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know about taking anything to remember the place by. That might actually be depressing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018177\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a brown hat in the background and many ripe persimmons in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda harvests persimmons in the orchard at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. 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However, preservationists have managed to work out a plan with the developer to preserve one house to serve as a link to the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home that once belonged to Eiichi Sakauye — a prominent farmer and civic figure in Santa Clara County for decades — will eventually be relocated 10 miles south to History Park, where it will be restored and used as a showcase to tell his story and the story of Japanese American histories in the South Bay.[aside postID=news_12000118]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Schroh Jr., the head of History San Jose, which operates History Park, said the plan is estimated to cost $1 million, and about $800,000 in donations has been pledged so far from a handful of donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of organizations and individuals, including the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, the Preservation Action Council of San Jose, Hanover Company, Vice Mayor Rosemary Kamei, Councilmember David Cohen, members of the Sakauye family and History San Jose, collaborated to ensure the house won’t be flattened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kamei and others pushed during an August council meeting to see the home restored on the site where it currently sits, that didn’t pan out, in part due to the city’s parks department not having enough funding to sustain it there. The developer and Eiichi Sakauye’s daughters also didn’t support preserving the home on the land but were willing to back a plan to have it relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those involved in the plan to save the home say that even though it will be relocated, its preservation is a big win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were looking at even a few months ago was this possibility that the entire site would be leveled, the house would be demolished, and nobody would speak up against it,” said Ben Leech, the president of the Preservation Action Council. “So the fact now that the house looks like it’s being saved and moved to History Park, it’s a sea change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Hatakeyama, the director of the Japanese American Museum, said the partnerships and work that went into the plan have yielded more than just the preservation of a historic house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really helped strengthen the fabric of San Jose’s historic preservation community. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other customers lamented the trope of bucolic settings being continually swapped out for blocks of housing, warehouses and office parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley is like a concrete jungle. And finding a farm in the middle of it, finding nice produce in the middle of it, is very comforting,” said Heral Lakhani, of Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many customers said they buy their fruits and veggies at the stand because of the quality of the produce, the affordable prices and, most importantly, for the friendly relationships they form with the Tsukuda family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702.jpg\" alt=\"Two people sit in sun and shade at a farm stand with a white board behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inez Lismonde sits with Miyo Tsukuda and her son John Tsukuda at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Tsukuda Family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda’s mother, Miyo Tsukuda, has long been one of the smiling faces customers see at the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, she has started asking customers to take photos with her that she prints out and puts in a scrapbook to help her remember everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My face is starting to get a lot of wrinkles,” she said with a laugh while reviewing some of the photos last week. “I said, ‘My goodness, when did I get old?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was born in a concentration camp in Arkansas, where her family was sent during World War II. They were among the thousands of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during the war and lost possessions and property, such as homes and farmland. Her late husband, Eiji Tsukuda, originally farmed a plot of land nearby, growing strawberries and raspberries until a forced eminent domain sale to make way for the Orchard School District pushed them off the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the family started leasing farmland from the Sakauyes. After he fell ill with cancer, Eiji Tsukuda handed off the farming duties at the current stand to James about 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018176\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg\" alt=\"A person with white hair and glasses, smiles while wearing a maroon top. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyo Tsukuda smiles while talking with a friend at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. 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And so have I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said he’ll probably take his own tools with him when he leaves the farm for the last time but isn’t interested in any other keepsakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know about taking anything to remember the place by. That might actually be depressing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018177\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a brown hat in the background and many ripe persimmons in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda harvests persimmons in the orchard at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Schroh Jr., the head of History San Jose, which operates History Park, said the plan is estimated to cost $1 million, and about $800,000 in donations has been pledged so far from a handful of donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of organizations and individuals, including the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, the Preservation Action Council of San Jose, Hanover Company, Vice Mayor Rosemary Kamei, Councilmember David Cohen, members of the Sakauye family and History San Jose, collaborated to ensure the house won’t be flattened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kamei and others pushed during an August council meeting to see the home restored on the site where it currently sits, that didn’t pan out, in part due to the city’s parks department not having enough funding to sustain it there. The developer and Eiichi Sakauye’s daughters also didn’t support preserving the home on the land but were willing to back a plan to have it relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those involved in the plan to save the home say that even though it will be relocated, its preservation is a big win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were looking at even a few months ago was this possibility that the entire site would be leveled, the house would be demolished, and nobody would speak up against it,” said Ben Leech, the president of the Preservation Action Council. “So the fact now that the house looks like it’s being saved and moved to History Park, it’s a sea change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Hatakeyama, the director of the Japanese American Museum, said the partnerships and work that went into the plan have yielded more than just the preservation of a historic house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really helped strengthen the fabric of San Jose’s historic preservation community. And so that’s something that we’re incredibly proud of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018173\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248.jpg\" alt=\"A person carries boxes as he walks through several trees full of persimmons.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda carries plastic boxes through the orchard at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The farm stand is offering up its last haul of persimmons to customers old and new in the last week of business before the land they farm is developed with apartments and townhomes. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanover plans to temporarily relocate the home onto another portion of the Sakauye farm to allow construction work to begin, and the home could be moved to History Park by the summer of next year, Hatakeyama said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okkes Gozdas, a resident of the area near the farm, said he comes to the stand almost every day during the summer for fresh produce, and frequents during the fall for persimmons, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s happy Eiichi Sakauye’s home will be preserved but feels the community is suffering a big loss with farming on the land coming to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>, its recent deal to sell 19 vintage diesel locomotives and 90 well-used passenger cars to an overseas city that will use them for a badly needed commuter train line is nothing but good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone sees it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Dave Cortese (D–San José) said sending the fossil-fuel-burning engines to Peru is just shifting pollution and greenhouse emissions from one place to another and shouldn’t be allowed. To prevent it from happening again, he’s introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB30\">a bill\u003c/a> to block similar transfers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain, which launched its all-new electric fleet this year, will soon send its 1980s-era rolling stock to be lifted aboard cargo ships in the Bay Area for a trip to Peru, where the equipment will go to work carrying passengers \u003ca href=\"https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/caltrain-equipment-will-be-used-to-launch-new-commuter-operation-in-peru/\">between the Lima suburbs of Callao and Chosica\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Sargent, Caltrain’s director of strategy and policy, said the deal gives new life to equipment that would otherwise be scrapped while also promising to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by giving people an alternative to personal vehicles in a traffic-choked city of 10 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really just step one towards transit being a tool for environmental sustainability down there,” Sargent said. “We love the idea that we’re going to get to move more people going into the future with the equipment that we lovingly maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 733px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM.png 733w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-240x152.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-375x237.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-520x329.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain’s modernized electric trains began service in 2021. The system — a vital commuter rail link between San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties — carries about 65,000 riders a day. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of Caltrain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017428/polluted-communities-hold-their-breath-as-companies-struggle-with-californias-diesel-truck-ban\">Diesel engines\u003c/a>, however, are a target of environmental advocates because they produce high levels of particulate pollution that has been implicated in a wide range of respiratory and circulatory diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living near freeways, rail lines, ports and other major producers of diesel pollution suffer a much higher incidence of illnesses like asthma and various forms of heart disease than those who live farther from those sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017428 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/01_120224_Drumm-Avenue_CS_CM_08-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese is among dozens of Bay Area officials who have signed the “\u003ca href=\"https://dieselfree33.baaqmd.gov/\">Diesel Free by ’33\u003c/a>” pledge, a Bay Area Air Quality Management District campaign that aims to reduce diesel emissions “throughout California and beyond.” He said legislators need to “make sure that we’re not exporting the problem outside our state boundaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California rail agencies that could be affected by his bill include Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) and Amtrak California, which operates the Capitol Corridor, San Joaquin, Metrolink and Surfliner routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been a big proponent of climate restoration, getting back to pre-industrial levels of carbon in our atmosphere, and they’re not going to do that by swapping out diesel from one area to another, from the Bay Area to Peru or to Arizona or to someplace [with] lax standards just because they’re going to give you a check,” Cortese said. “To me, that’s selling out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sargent said the environmental issues Cortese raised were top of mind when Caltrain considered the deal with Peru. He adds that those concerns prompted the U.S. State Department and Commerce Department to support the $6 million sale. The transaction also required and received approval from the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was in large part because of the environmental benefits of getting people out of their cars,” Sargent said. Those benefits include removing as much as 20,000 metric tons of carbon emissions from Lima’s air every day when the new train service goes into service next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City transportation officials say the 25-mile Callao-Chosica line will carry about 200,000 passengers a day — more than the current ridership of every California transit agency except L.A. Metro and San Francisco Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Sargent, Caltrain’s director of strategy and policy, said the deal gives new life to equipment that would otherwise be scrapped while also promising to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by giving people an alternative to personal vehicles in a traffic-choked city of 10 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really just step one towards transit being a tool for environmental sustainability down there,” Sargent said. “We love the idea that we’re going to get to move more people going into the future with the equipment that we lovingly maintained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 733px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11336508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM.png 733w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-240x152.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-375x237.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-26-at-12.34.20-PM-520x329.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain’s modernized electric trains began service in 2021. The system — a vital commuter rail link between San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties — carries about 65,000 riders a day. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of Caltrain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017428/polluted-communities-hold-their-breath-as-companies-struggle-with-californias-diesel-truck-ban\">Diesel engines\u003c/a>, however, are a target of environmental advocates because they produce high levels of particulate pollution that has been implicated in a wide range of respiratory and circulatory diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living near freeways, rail lines, ports and other major producers of diesel pollution suffer a much higher incidence of illnesses like asthma and various forms of heart disease than those who live farther from those sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Billie Eilish is bringing the \u003ca href=\"https://store.billieeilish.com/pages/tour?srsltid=AfmBOoq2eASfgCymyq7bTBd9zoGeRpy1GjTfUL7EzORz-cKu6q6DxHhT\">\u003cem>Hit Me Hard and Soft\u003c/em> tour\u003c/a> to San José on Dec. 10 and Dec. 11, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/themarias/?hl=en\">Los Angeles pop band The Marías\u003c/a> as the opener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tour is named after her critically acclaimed album released earlier this year, coming right after the high of her second Oscar win for her \u003cem>Barbie \u003c/em>ballad, “What Was I Made For?” Eilish was also part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967133/charli-xcx-fans-election-2024-harris-trump\">the whirlwind that was brat summer\u003c/a> as a featured singer on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGd4efgdPA\">Charli XCX’s “Guess.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about seeing Billie Eilish next week, from SAP Center’s bag policy to parking, tickets and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading, or jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#parkingSAPcenter\">Where can I find parking for SAP Center?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SAPcenterbanneditems\">What’s the bag policy at SAP Center?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#pesoplumatickets\">Can I still buy Billie Eilish tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How can I get to SAP Center by car?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re driving from out of town, you have several options to get to downtown San José. If you’re coming from San Francisco or the Peninsula, both Highway 101 and the I-280 freeways (and El Camino Real, if you have a lot of time to spare) take you straight to the city’s center. If you’re coming in from the East Bay, you can take either the I-680 or the I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need an explainer on right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963875/peso-pluma-san-jose-parking-schedule\">past concerts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US-CA-807&q=peso%20pluma%20concert&hl=en\">places in the North Bay, including Santa Rosa and Larkspur, have shown some of the strongest interest.\u003c/a> If that’s where you’re coming from, the fastest option will likely be getting on the I-580, crossing the Richmond Bridge and then transferring on to I-880 that will take you straight to downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"parkingSAPcenter\">\u003c/a>Where can I find parking at SAP Center?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One word: timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAP Center has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sapcenter.com/directions-parking/parking-pricing-and-directions\">on-site parking\u003c/a> at their ABC Lot but anyone who has been to a concert here knows that parking can fill up fast. “I’d just encourage everybody to arrive early,” says Jim Sparaco, director of public relations for SAP Center during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963875/peso-pluma-san-jose-parking-schedule\">the Peso Pluma concert\u003c/a>. “Most people like to arrive before the concert starts, but of course, that’s when everyone wants to arrive — and that can create longer lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11959799\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is scheduled to start at 7 p.m., and Sparaco recommends you get to SAP Center at least an hour before the concert begins. Concert tickets are usually not cheap, and if you want to make the most of the show, make sure you’re in your seat when it begins — not sitting in your car waiting for a parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also reserve parking ahead of time, either at the main ABC Lot or at another, nearby parking lot, using \u003ca href=\"https://spothero.com/search?kind=destination&id=56099&%243p=a_hasoffers&%24affiliate_json=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.spothero.com%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D1%26aff_id%3D1822%26source%3Dsapcenter%26aff_sub2%3Dparkingpage%26aff_sub3%3Dlink%26format%3Djson&operator_id=16236&_branch_match_id=1355649275202063070&utm_source=Partnerships&utm_campaign=Tune_Platform&utm_medium=paid+advertising&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA31Ry07DMBD8mvjYJk4bGiQLIaoeuSDO0dbZ1KZpbNYOiAvfzrot4VUh%2BTKz9s7DJkYfrufz4F00SG4G3s96O%2BznMRRe3j8%2FYHGzt0OrWgzRDhCtG4Rt1bLK61pkclF6BY2B4LoOKVxmoOtsbyFi8xTcoAyLZuVtJjd8IoFmgd1ssqDdgXl%2B0%2Bis3By3NLbNynWRySrRJ7CSknFwI2lkHMBrHCLS%2BVIYt5JpD5S2e9jh16DkQQrJTOfoAJFxciacR4Lokp4qKllWYqT%2B6DdMhv9UlUJMZbHjTC5TCbzzWw0s9SvJu%2B6t3p9xLhfbZQVVh8tqVbdwpYs6b69quSoX8njZhdjokQgH%2FcYvHh%2FWE%2F0C%2FZgqyBMTULuhBXpr%2FLjtbWCrPEpNGWimjzhTl8rbOehTc1IEbfCAp%2FjCsJL6k114iEb9aEAcFygpPvOqQpyE1CQjpvDq%2F%2BjiZ3DFscW30CoX74QsQ%2FzHzZbca0BSd4bcAT8Ategf%2B9sCAAA%3D&view=dl\">parking reservation website Spot Hero\u003c/a>. Reservations range from $20 to $45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also try looking for street parking — but keep in mind that others will have the same idea, and you may have to walk 15–20 minutes from your car to the venue depending on how busy it gets. And check signs for any parking restrictions, as you don’t want to return to your car after the concert to find a hefty parking ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I get to SAP Center using public transit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You’re in luck: downtown San José is very well connected by several public transit agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re coming from the city’s Eastside, you can take the light rail VTA from Alum Rock station straight to San José-Diridon, which is only one block away from SAP Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain — which runs from San Francisco through San Mateo County to the South Bay — also stops at San José-Diridon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Caltrain is offering \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/billie\">$1 fares to fans younger than 18 \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/fares/ticket-types/group-sales\">10% off for parties of 15 or more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 10, there will be a “Billie Car” with both Billie Eilish and Caltrain merch available for fans. The schedule for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/billie\">“Billie Car” can be found on Caltrain’s website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming in from the East Bay? You can take BART and get off at Berryessa/North San José station and then get on a VTA bus, specifically the Rapid 500 bus line, which will quickly take you straight to SAP Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that public transportation in San José does not run the whole night and usually the “last two trains depart San José-Diridon at 10:30 p.m. and 11:12 p.m.” If you’re getting home from the Billie Eilish concert by public transit, be very sure of when you need to get up from your seat and start heading out — you don’t want to be stranded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SAPcenterbanneditems\">\u003c/a>Bag policy: What’s not allowed into SAP Center?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No food.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-time San José residents know this well: Their city is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\">a treasure trove of delicious cuisine from all over the world\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/san-jose-mexican-food-18167782.php\">the SR 408 is a particularly fantastic place to eat Sinaloa-style Mexican food.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re thinking of grabbing some dinner before the concert, you will have to finish it before heading to the show as you are \u003cem>not\u003c/em> allowed to bring outside food into SAP Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And major news for vegans: The SAP Center is also offering \u003ci>only\u003c/i> vegan meals as tribute to Eilish’s advocacy for \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/07/billie-eilish-vegan-sap-center-san-jose/\">plant-based diets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No alcohol.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nope, you won’t be allowed in with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sapcenter.com/plan-your-visit/arena-faqs\">outside alcoholic beverages\u003c/a>. Cans, glass bottles and coolers are also not allowed in — doesn’t matter if they are open or closed. (Plastic bottles are fine, however, and you can refill your water bottle inside SAP Center.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, however, several spots inside SAP Center where you can pick up a drink that you can enjoy at your seat. But lines get long, especially as the concert is starting, so that’s another reason to make it to the concert with extra time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kind of bag can I bring?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your bag or clutch is smaller than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sapcenter.com/plan-your-visit/bag-policy\">5 x 9 x 2 inches\u003c/a>, you can pass through security without a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if your bag is bigger than that — including larger fanny packs or diaper bags — your bag may go through X-ray inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There \u003cem>are\u003c/em> size limits, however. You can’t enter SAP Center with bags bigger than 20 x 14 x 11 inches (which is roughly similar to a medium-sized tote bag). So don’t try coming in with your backpack and ask to check it in as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sapcenter.com/plan-your-visit/bag-policy\">SAP Center no longer offers a bag check option or storage lockers onsite\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pesoplumatickets\">\u003c/a>Can I still find tickets for Billie Eilish in San José?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-san-jose-california-12-10-2024/event/1C0060939D8E20BB\">Ticketmaster\u003c/a>, both Billie Eilish shows are\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-san-jose-california-12-11-2024/event/1C00609AC3B345A8\"> sold out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may also want to check out Facebook Marketplace, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stubhub.com/billie-eilish-san-jose-tickets-12-10-2024/event/153501246/?quantity=2\">Stubhub\u003c/a>, or other social media, with the lower end of prices ranging around $350 to $400. \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/taylor-swift-scams-concert-tickets-better-business-bureau/13474055/\">The Better Business Bureau (BBB) issued a warning about resale scams\u003c/a>, with many people discovering after sending money through apps like Venmo or Zelle that these “tickets” never existed. Check out the person’s profile and their past posting history to see if it seems real. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbb.org/article/scams/28902-bbb-scam-alert-spot-the-scam-before-paying-big-bucks-for-taylor-swift-tickets\">if you do choose to buy a resale ticket, use your credit card\u003c/a>, says the BBB. This at least provides some protection for you if the deal was fake.[aside label='More guides from KQED' tag='audience-news']And \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbb.org/article/scams/28902-bbb-scam-alert-spot-the-scam-before-paying-big-bucks-for-taylor-swift-tickets\">if you’re in a large group chat and get a ticket offer from someone you know\u003c/a>, call this person directly — to make sure someone isn’t impersonating them online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website\u003ca href=\"https://aviewfrommyseat.com/venue/SAP+Center/seating/all/?photo_type=concert\"> a view from my seat\u003c/a> shares what fans who have gone to SAP Center already could see from where they sat. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is scheduled to start at 7 p.m., and Sparaco recommends you get to SAP Center at least an hour before the concert begins. Concert tickets are usually not cheap, and if you want to make the most of the show, make sure you’re in your seat when it begins — not sitting in your car waiting for a parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also reserve parking ahead of time, either at the main ABC Lot or at another, nearby parking lot, using \u003ca href=\"https://spothero.com/search?kind=destination&id=56099&%243p=a_hasoffers&%24affiliate_json=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.spothero.com%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D1%26aff_id%3D1822%26source%3Dsapcenter%26aff_sub2%3Dparkingpage%26aff_sub3%3Dlink%26format%3Djson&operator_id=16236&_branch_match_id=1355649275202063070&utm_source=Partnerships&utm_campaign=Tune_Platform&utm_medium=paid+advertising&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA31Ry07DMBD8mvjYJk4bGiQLIaoeuSDO0dbZ1KZpbNYOiAvfzrot4VUh%2BTKz9s7DJkYfrufz4F00SG4G3s96O%2BznMRRe3j8%2FYHGzt0OrWgzRDhCtG4Rt1bLK61pkclF6BY2B4LoOKVxmoOtsbyFi8xTcoAyLZuVtJjd8IoFmgd1ssqDdgXl%2B0%2Bis3By3NLbNynWRySrRJ7CSknFwI2lkHMBrHCLS%2BVIYt5JpD5S2e9jh16DkQQrJTOfoAJFxciacR4Lokp4qKllWYqT%2B6DdMhv9UlUJMZbHjTC5TCbzzWw0s9SvJu%2B6t3p9xLhfbZQVVh8tqVbdwpYs6b69quSoX8njZhdjokQgH%2FcYvHh%2FWE%2F0C%2FZgqyBMTULuhBXpr%2FLjtbWCrPEpNGWimjzhTl8rbOehTc1IEbfCAp%2FjCsJL6k114iEb9aEAcFygpPvOqQpyE1CQjpvDq%2F%2BjiZ3DFscW30CoX74QsQ%2FzHzZbca0BSd4bcAT8Ategf%2B9sCAAA%3D&view=dl\">parking reservation website Spot Hero\u003c/a>. Reservations range from $20 to $45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also try looking for street parking — but keep in mind that others will have the same idea, and you may have to walk 15–20 minutes from your car to the venue depending on how busy it gets. 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San Diego’s city council president is the latest to do so, proposing to prevent local apartment owners from using the pricing software, which he maintains is driving up housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s proposed ordinance, now being drafted by the city attorney, comes after San Francisco supervisors in July enacted a similar, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13157163&GUID=BC67A1E5-F3C7-4EF9-929A-46203D6E63B1\">first-in-the-nation ban\u003c/a> on “the sale or use of algorithmic devices to set rents or manage occupancy levels” for residences. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/05/san-jose-may-consider-ban-on-rent-setting-software-after-antitrust-suit/\">San Jose is considering\u003c/a> a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California and seven other states have also joined the federal prosecutors’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1364976/dl?inline\">antitrust suit\u003c/a>, which targets the leading rental pricing platform, Texas-based RealPage. The complaint alleges that “RealPage is an algorithmic intermediary that collects, combines, and exploits landlords’ competitively sensitive information. And in so doing, it enriches itself and compliant landlords at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, state lawmakers, this year, failed to advance \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1154?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">legislation\u003c/a> by Bakersfield Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/melissa-hurtado-165039?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a> that would have banned the use of any pricing algorithms based on nonpublic data provided by competing companies. She said she plans to bring the bill back during the next legislative session because of what she described as ongoing harms from such algorithms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure the economy is fair and … that every individual who wants a shot at creating a business has a shot without being destroyed along the way, and that we’re also protecting consumers because it is hurting the pocketbooks of everybody in one way or another,” Hurtado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage has been a major impetus for all of the actions. The company counts as its customers landlords with thousands of apartment units across California. Some officials accused the company of thwarting competition that would otherwise drive rents down, exacerbating the state’s housing shortage and driving up rents in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, millions of Californians worry about keeping a roof over their head and RealPage has directly made it more difficult to do so,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A RealPage spokesperson, Jennifer Bowcock, told CalMatters that a lack of housing supply, not the company’s technology, is the real problem — and that its technology benefits residents, property managers, and others associated with the rental market. The spokesperson later wrote that a “misplaced focus on nonpublic information is a distraction… that will only make San Francisco and San Diego’s historical problems worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the federal lawsuit, the company called the claims in it “devoid of merit” and said it plans to “vigorously defend ourselves against these accusations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that, after multiple years of education and cooperation on the antitrust matters concerning RealPage, the (Justice Department) has chosen this moment to pursue a lawsuit that seeks to scapegoat pro-competitive technology that has been used responsibly for years,” the company’s statement read in part. “RealPage’s revenue management software is purposely built to be legally compliant, and we have a long history of working constructively with the (department) to show that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s challenges will only grow if pricing software becomes another instance in which California lawmakers lead the nation. Following San Francisco’s ban, the Philadelphia City Council \u003ca href=\"https://phlcouncil.com/weekly-report-democracy-in-action-during-this-weeks-philadelphia-city-council-session/\">passed a ban on algorithmic rental price-fixing\u003c/a> with a veto-proof vote last month. \u003ca href=\"https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/10/24/lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-landlords-use-of-rent-setting-software/\">New Jersey has been considering\u003c/a> its own ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “For Rent” sign hangs in the window of an apartment building in San Francisco on July 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is it price fixing — or coaching landlords?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, RealPage controls 80% of the market for commercial revenue management software. Its product is called YieldStar, and its successor is AI Revenue Management, which uses much of the same codebase as YieldStar but has more precise forecasting. RealPage told CalMatters it serves only 10% of the rental markets in both San Francisco and San Diego across its three revenue management software products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to use YieldStar and AIRM, landlords have historically provided RealPage with their own private data from their rental applications, rent prices, executed new leases, renewal offers and acceptances, and estimates of future occupancy, although a recent change allows landlords to choose to share only public data. This information from all participating landlords in an area is then pooled and run through mathematical forecasting to generate pricing recommendations for the landlords and their competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego council president, Sean Elo-Rivera, explained it like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the simplest terms, what this platform is doing is providing what we think of as that dark, smoky room for big companies to get together and set prices,” he said. “The technology is being used as a way of keeping an arm’s length from one big company to the other. But that’s an illusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the company’s own words, from company documents included in the lawsuit, RealPage “ensures that (landlords) are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.” The company also said in the documents that it “helps curb (landlords’) instincts to respond to down-market conditions by either dramatically lowering price or by holding price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing rent guidance isn’t the only service RealPage has offered landlords. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/locked-out/2020/05/28/access-denied-faulty-automated-background-checks-freeze-out-renters\">a Markup and \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> found that RealPage, alongside other companies, used faulty computer algorithms to do automated background checks on tenants. As a result, tenants were associated with criminal charges they never faced and denied homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impact on tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thirty-one-year-old Navy veteran Alan Pickens and his wife move nearly every year, “Because the rent goes up, it gets unaffordable, so we look for a new place to stay,” he said. The northeastern San Diego apartment complex where they just relocated has two-bedroom apartments advertised for between $2,995 and $3,215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They live in an area of San Diego where the U.S. Justice Department said information-sharing agreements between landlords and RealPage have harmed or are likely to harm renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department in August filed its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, alleging the company, through its legacy YieldStar software, engaged in an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters\">unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing.\u003c/a>” The complaint names specific areas where rents are artificially high. Beyond the part of San Diego where Pickens lives, those areas include South Orange County, Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula, and Murrieta and northeastern San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second quarter of 2020, the average rent in San Diego County was $1,926, reflecting a 26% increase over three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/09/11/san-diego-rents-are-cooling-off-heres-how-changes-break-down-by-area/#:~:text=In%20the%20second%20quarter%20of,was%20a%20few%20years%20ago.\">according to the \u003cem>San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Rents have since risen even more in the city of San Diego, to $2,336 per month as of November 2024 – up 21% from 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/san-diego/\">according to RentCafe\u003c/a> and the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>. That’s 50% higher than the national average rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general of eight states, including California, joined the Justice Department’s antitrust suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Justice Department contends RealPage artificially inflated prices to keep them above a certain minimum level, department spokesperson Elissa Perez said. This was particularly harmful given the high cost of housing in the state, she added. “The illegally maintained profits that result from these price alignment schemes come out of the pockets of the people that can least afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-renters/\">make up a larger share of households\u003c/a> in California than in the rest of the country — 44% here compared to 35% nationwide. The Golden State also has a higher percentage of renters than any state other than New York, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2023.S1901?q=rent&g=010XX00US%240400000\">latest U.S. Census data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/07/a-city-of-renters-san-diego-has-fourth-highest-percentage-of-renters-in-the-u-s/\">fourth-highest percentage of renters of any major city in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent ranks of California legislators, however, have included few renters: As of 2019, CalMatters could \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislature-lawmakers-who-are-landlords/\">find only one state lawmaker who did not own a home\u003c/a> — and found that more than a quarter of legislators at the time were landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies show that rising rents impact low-income residents more heavily. Nationally, between 2000 and 2017, Americans without a college degree spent a higher percentage of their income on rent. That percentage ballooned from 30% to 42%. For college graduates, that percentage increased from 26% to 34%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my estimation, the only winners in this situation are the richest companies who are either using this technology or creating this technology,” Elo-Rivera said. “There couldn’t be a more clear example of the rich getting richer while the rest of us are struggling to get by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The state has invested in RealPage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Private equity giant Thoma Bravo \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286225/000119312521011569/d52613dprem14a.htm\">acquired RealPage in January 2021\u003c/a> through two funds that have hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from California public pension funds, including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the Regents of the University of California and the Los Angeles police and fire pension funds, according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re invested in things that are directly hurting their pensioners,” said K Agbebiyi, a senior housing campaign coordinator with the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit private equity watchdog that \u003ca href=\"https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PESP_Report_Helter_Shelter_2024.pdf\">produced a report about corporate landlords’\u003c/a> impact on rental hikes in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage argues that landlords are free to reject the price recommendations generated by its software. However, the U.S. Justice Department alleges that trying to do so requires a series of steps, including a conversation with a RealPage pricing adviser. The advisers try to “stop property managers from acting on emotions,” according to the department’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a property manager disagrees with the price the algorithm suggests and wants to decrease rent rather than increase it, a pricing adviser will “escalate the dispute to the manager’s superior,” prosecutors allege in the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, the Pickenses, who are expecting their first child, have given up their gym memberships and downsized their cars to remain in the area. They’ve considered moving to Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the extras pretty much have to go,” Pickens said. “I mean, we love San Diego, but it’s getting hard to live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My wife is an attorney, and I served in the Navy for 10 years and now work at Qualcomm,” he said. “Why are we struggling? Why are we struggling?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords now use a single company’s software — which uses an algorithm based on proprietary lease information — to help set rent prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors say the practice amounts to “an unlawful information-sharing scheme,” and some lawmakers throughout California are moving to curb it. San Diego’s city council president is the latest to do so, proposing to prevent local apartment owners from using the pricing software, which he maintains is driving up housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s proposed ordinance, now being drafted by the city attorney, comes after San Francisco supervisors in July enacted a similar, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13157163&GUID=BC67A1E5-F3C7-4EF9-929A-46203D6E63B1\">first-in-the-nation ban\u003c/a> on “the sale or use of algorithmic devices to set rents or manage occupancy levels” for residences. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/05/san-jose-may-consider-ban-on-rent-setting-software-after-antitrust-suit/\">San Jose is considering\u003c/a> a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California and seven other states have also joined the federal prosecutors’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1364976/dl?inline\">antitrust suit\u003c/a>, which targets the leading rental pricing platform, Texas-based RealPage. The complaint alleges that “RealPage is an algorithmic intermediary that collects, combines, and exploits landlords’ competitively sensitive information. And in so doing, it enriches itself and compliant landlords at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, state lawmakers, this year, failed to advance \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1154?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">legislation\u003c/a> by Bakersfield Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/melissa-hurtado-165039?_gl=1*skqse8*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4xLjE3MzMxNjM1NDYuNjAuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMzE2MjY3Ny4xMy4wLjE3MzMxNjI2NzcuMC4wLjA.\">Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a> that would have banned the use of any pricing algorithms based on nonpublic data provided by competing companies. She said she plans to bring the bill back during the next legislative session because of what she described as ongoing harms from such algorithms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure the economy is fair and … that every individual who wants a shot at creating a business has a shot without being destroyed along the way, and that we’re also protecting consumers because it is hurting the pocketbooks of everybody in one way or another,” Hurtado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage has been a major impetus for all of the actions. The company counts as its customers landlords with thousands of apartment units across California. Some officials accused the company of thwarting competition that would otherwise drive rents down, exacerbating the state’s housing shortage and driving up rents in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, millions of Californians worry about keeping a roof over their head and RealPage has directly made it more difficult to do so,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A RealPage spokesperson, Jennifer Bowcock, told CalMatters that a lack of housing supply, not the company’s technology, is the real problem — and that its technology benefits residents, property managers, and others associated with the rental market. The spokesperson later wrote that a “misplaced focus on nonpublic information is a distraction… that will only make San Francisco and San Diego’s historical problems worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the federal lawsuit, the company called the claims in it “devoid of merit” and said it plans to “vigorously defend ourselves against these accusations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that, after multiple years of education and cooperation on the antitrust matters concerning RealPage, the (Justice Department) has chosen this moment to pursue a lawsuit that seeks to scapegoat pro-competitive technology that has been used responsibly for years,” the company’s statement read in part. “RealPage’s revenue management software is purposely built to be legally compliant, and we have a long history of working constructively with the (department) to show that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s challenges will only grow if pricing software becomes another instance in which California lawmakers lead the nation. Following San Francisco’s ban, the Philadelphia City Council \u003ca href=\"https://phlcouncil.com/weekly-report-democracy-in-action-during-this-weeks-philadelphia-city-council-session/\">passed a ban on algorithmic rental price-fixing\u003c/a> with a veto-proof vote last month. \u003ca href=\"https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/10/24/lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-landlords-use-of-rent-setting-software/\">New Jersey has been considering\u003c/a> its own ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “For Rent” sign hangs in the window of an apartment building in San Francisco on July 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is it price fixing — or coaching landlords?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, RealPage controls 80% of the market for commercial revenue management software. Its product is called YieldStar, and its successor is AI Revenue Management, which uses much of the same codebase as YieldStar but has more precise forecasting. RealPage told CalMatters it serves only 10% of the rental markets in both San Francisco and San Diego across its three revenue management software products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to use YieldStar and AIRM, landlords have historically provided RealPage with their own private data from their rental applications, rent prices, executed new leases, renewal offers and acceptances, and estimates of future occupancy, although a recent change allows landlords to choose to share only public data. This information from all participating landlords in an area is then pooled and run through mathematical forecasting to generate pricing recommendations for the landlords and their competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego council president, Sean Elo-Rivera, explained it like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the simplest terms, what this platform is doing is providing what we think of as that dark, smoky room for big companies to get together and set prices,” he said. “The technology is being used as a way of keeping an arm’s length from one big company to the other. But that’s an illusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the company’s own words, from company documents included in the lawsuit, RealPage “ensures that (landlords) are driving every possible opportunity to increase price even in the most downward trending or unexpected conditions.” The company also said in the documents that it “helps curb (landlords’) instincts to respond to down-market conditions by either dramatically lowering price or by holding price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing rent guidance isn’t the only service RealPage has offered landlords. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/locked-out/2020/05/28/access-denied-faulty-automated-background-checks-freeze-out-renters\">a Markup and \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> found that RealPage, alongside other companies, used faulty computer algorithms to do automated background checks on tenants. As a result, tenants were associated with criminal charges they never faced and denied homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impact on tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thirty-one-year-old Navy veteran Alan Pickens and his wife move nearly every year, “Because the rent goes up, it gets unaffordable, so we look for a new place to stay,” he said. The northeastern San Diego apartment complex where they just relocated has two-bedroom apartments advertised for between $2,995 and $3,215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They live in an area of San Diego where the U.S. Justice Department said information-sharing agreements between landlords and RealPage have harmed or are likely to harm renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department in August filed its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, alleging the company, through its legacy YieldStar software, engaged in an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters\">unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing.\u003c/a>” The complaint names specific areas where rents are artificially high. Beyond the part of San Diego where Pickens lives, those areas include South Orange County, Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula, and Murrieta and northeastern San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second quarter of 2020, the average rent in San Diego County was $1,926, reflecting a 26% increase over three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/09/11/san-diego-rents-are-cooling-off-heres-how-changes-break-down-by-area/#:~:text=In%20the%20second%20quarter%20of,was%20a%20few%20years%20ago.\">according to the \u003cem>San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Rents have since risen even more in the city of San Diego, to $2,336 per month as of November 2024 – up 21% from 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/san-diego/\">according to RentCafe\u003c/a> and the \u003cem>Tribune\u003c/em>. That’s 50% higher than the national average rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general of eight states, including California, joined the Justice Department’s antitrust suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Justice Department contends RealPage artificially inflated prices to keep them above a certain minimum level, department spokesperson Elissa Perez said. This was particularly harmful given the high cost of housing in the state, she added. “The illegally maintained profits that result from these price alignment schemes come out of the pockets of the people that can least afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-renters/\">make up a larger share of households\u003c/a> in California than in the rest of the country — 44% here compared to 35% nationwide. The Golden State also has a higher percentage of renters than any state other than New York, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST1Y2023.S1901?q=rent&g=010XX00US%240400000\">latest U.S. Census data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/07/a-city-of-renters-san-diego-has-fourth-highest-percentage-of-renters-in-the-u-s/\">fourth-highest percentage of renters of any major city in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent ranks of California legislators, however, have included few renters: As of 2019, CalMatters could \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislature-lawmakers-who-are-landlords/\">find only one state lawmaker who did not own a home\u003c/a> — and found that more than a quarter of legislators at the time were landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies show that rising rents impact low-income residents more heavily. Nationally, between 2000 and 2017, Americans without a college degree spent a higher percentage of their income on rent. That percentage ballooned from 30% to 42%. For college graduates, that percentage increased from 26% to 34%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my estimation, the only winners in this situation are the richest companies who are either using this technology or creating this technology,” Elo-Rivera said. “There couldn’t be a more clear example of the rich getting richer while the rest of us are struggling to get by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The state has invested in RealPage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Private equity giant Thoma Bravo \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286225/000119312521011569/d52613dprem14a.htm\">acquired RealPage in January 2021\u003c/a> through two funds that have hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from California public pension funds, including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the Regents of the University of California and the Los Angeles police and fire pension funds, according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re invested in things that are directly hurting their pensioners,” said K Agbebiyi, a senior housing campaign coordinator with the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit private equity watchdog that \u003ca href=\"https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PESP_Report_Helter_Shelter_2024.pdf\">produced a report about corporate landlords’\u003c/a> impact on rental hikes in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage argues that landlords are free to reject the price recommendations generated by its software. However, the U.S. Justice Department alleges that trying to do so requires a series of steps, including a conversation with a RealPage pricing adviser. The advisers try to “stop property managers from acting on emotions,” according to the department’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a property manager disagrees with the price the algorithm suggests and wants to decrease rent rather than increase it, a pricing adviser will “escalate the dispute to the manager’s superior,” prosecutors allege in the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, the Pickenses, who are expecting their first child, have given up their gym memberships and downsized their cars to remain in the area. They’ve considered moving to Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the extras pretty much have to go,” Pickens said. “I mean, we love San Diego, but it’s getting hard to live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José leaders on Tuesday night unanimously approved a $1.2 billion proposal from a private firm to build two new wings at Good Samaritan Hospital on the city’s west side, despite concerns about the for-profit hospital owner’s controversial record of cutting services or shuttering facilities at its properties when profits drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While HCA Healthcare — the largest private hospital operator in the country — said the new facilities at the hospital are needed to comply with heightened state earthquake safety standards, some council members, residents and patient advocates were apprehensive about approving a massive project for a company that has reduced critical health care options across the city in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after HCA last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\">announced plans\u003c/a> to close its trauma center at Regional Medical Center hospital in East San José while also cutting its severe heart attack and stroke services — a decision it walked back slightly after prolonged protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents the community that hospital is located in, was among those pushing to defer Tuesday’s vote by a month to allow more time for discussion about a community benefits agreement that would “safeguard the health of residents” and ensure HCA would be a good partner going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at this juncture because HCA, a Fortune 500 company, has consistently cut services in the name of profit,” Ortiz said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz ultimately voted to support the environmental review and rezoning to allow the new Good Samaritan buildings because he said he needed to do what’s right for health care in the whole community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he accused HCA of creating a two-tiered health care system: one for residents in wealthier parts of the city, the other for those in poorer areas, by cutting critical services in East San José while expanding and investing heavily in West San José. He also said the company was “fear-mongering” by suggesting that delaying the decision could result in Good Samaritan having to close down entirely because it wouldn’t meet state earthquake safety deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m troubled by the rhetoric implying that failing to pass this rezoning, especially when we were just going to postpone it a month, would result in Good Samaritan to close,” Ortiz said. “In my opinion, that’s fear-mongering of the worst kind, and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Councilmember Pam Foley, who represents the area where Good Samaritan is located, said the choice was clear for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Good Sam closes because it cannot meet the timeline, we lose access to critical health care resources. “How can I say to my constituents and the community at large, ‘Well, that’s HCA’s fault.’ How can any of us say that?” she said. “Let’s be perfectly clear. A vote against rezoning today is a vote in favor of closing Good Samaritan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA’s proposal entails a three-phase project to build 750,000 square feet of new hospital space across two buildings and a new 200,000-square-foot medical office while demolishing the hospital’s main building, which does not meet the state’s new seismic safety standards that go into effect between now and 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project also includes a 24,000-square-foot central utility plant and two large parking garages totaling nearly 700,000 square feet. In all, the project is set to take about six years to complete, with shovels set to hit the ground in 2025.[aside label=\"more South Bay news\" tag=\"santa-clara-county\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a deal hammered out ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, outlined in a memo from five councilmembers, HCA agreed to kick in $3 million as a sweetener to support affordable housing citywide and emergency interim housing in the area around the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your decision today is about protecting the patients that rely on Good Sam, a vital community resource, and enabling us to meet the state-mandated 2030 earthquake compliance deadline,” Jackie Van Blaricum, the head of HCA’s Far West division, told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we may not see eye to eye on everything, surely we can agree that losing an entire hospital’s services is not in the community’s best interest,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor representatives and construction workers, along with former Good Samaritan patients, doctors and other hospital staff, all spoke in support of the project on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopi Ayer, the chief of staff at the hospital, said while concerns from the community are “legitimate,” they should be saved for another time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we need to do today,” Ayer told the council. “If we don’t go ahead with this, it will be like cutting off our nose to spite our face, and that is not a good bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memo, council members said the major benefits to the city from such a project should not be overlooked, including increased property tax revenue and about 1,000 construction jobs, in addition to the ongoing jobs at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA’s announcement in early 2023 that it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\">close the trauma center\u003c/a> at Regional Medical Center sparked an outcry among residents and health care workers, who said shuttering the only such trauma center on the East Side of the county would have life-threatening consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of protests, the hospital \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996422/hospital-operator-backs-off-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center-after-public-outcry\">slightly reduced\u003c/a> its planned cuts and Santa Clara County officials later announced the county would move to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">purchase the hospital\u003c/a> and fold it into the public health care system, with plans to eventually restore cut services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents also recalled how the company cut labor and delivery services at the Regional Medical Center in 2020. And in 2004, it closed San José Medical Center shortly after buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents and mental health advocates also noted that HCA last year, citing a lack of staff, cut a 21-bed inpatient psychiatric services program at Mission Oaks Hospital in Los Gatos, which served Good Samaritan patients who needed acute mental health treatment. At the same time, it also closed Good Samaritan’s pediatric intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not against the development. 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The decision to fill the vacancy with an election, rather than picking a replacement to serve until the next regular election, is a marked reversal from 2022, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934261/san-jose-council-to-fill-vacancies-with-appointments-not-special-elections\">the council opted to fill two vacancies through appointments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will ensure the voice as well as the vision of District 3 residents and community is part of the progress of this great city,” said Meenakshi Nieto, a D3 resident who told the council she supported a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election could take place as soon as April, according to a memo presented by the city clerk. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, a runoff will be held between the top two finishers, with the winner likely taking office in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically, the special election could swing the balance of power in city government and give Mayor Matt Mahan a clear majority of allies on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres was a progressive who was largely backed by organized labor. A victory in District 3 by a business-aligned moderate could give Mahan a reliable sixth vote in step with his agenda on the city budget and issues such as homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next year, the council will make a placeholder appointment to the District 3 seat. The council agreed to delay that selection until after the candidate filing period for the special election closes in order to prevent anyone running for the seat from being considered for the caretaker role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two years ago, the council voted against scheduling special elections to fill two vacancies and instead appointed current Councilmembers Domingo Candelas in District 8 and Arjun Batra in District 10. This time around, council members opted for an election in an 8–2 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I completely understand the merits of an appointment more than most,” Candelas said. “I think it’s important and imperative for our community to have a voice through a special election, and this special election, most importantly, is going to help rebuild that trust in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has been absent from his council duties for weeks since San José police said he was the subject of an investigation involving sexual misconduct with a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 5, Torres was arrested in a different case and charged with three counts of child molestation, including sodomy, oral copulation, and lewd and lascivious acts on a minor under the age of 14. Prosecutors said Torres assaulted a teenage relative in 1999 when he was 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the arrest, Torres submitted his resignation, effective Nov. 27.[aside postID=news_12014643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Dev Davis, who voted for appointments in 2022, said she believed the Torres scandal entitled D3 residents to a “do-over” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council members who voted against the special election — Sergio Jimenez and David Cohen — argued that the election would burden the city with added costs and leave residents with a representative immediately focused on running for reelection. District 3 voters will select a representative for a full, four-year term in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re running for reelection, we’re not always present, both mentally and physically,” Jimenez said. “If we go down the road of a special election, you’re going to have a group of people perpetually running for office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who spoke at the meeting said Torres left the city’s largest business district without a voice on the council. In recent weeks, Torres’ staff has handled constituent services with assistance from the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re greatly concerned about the lack of representation D3 has endured in the past month,” said Alex Stettinski, CEO of the San José Downtown Association. “We need someone who understands our downtown community, including our property owners, small businesses and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The representative should not be polarizing, as the community needs someone who can lead the charge — united — and will find a path of healing and recovery for our downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In early October, residents in San José’s District 3 learned that their city councilmember, Omar Torres, was being investigated for child sexual misconduct. After weeks of public pressure — and new sexual assault allegations stemming from when he was a young man — Torres resigned. He has since been arrested and charged with three felonies. KQED’s Joseph Geha explains what happened, and how all of this has affected local residents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3742480627&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there are errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:01:19] Omar Torres was raised in San Jose, in the Washington-Guadalupe neighborhood, which is just south of the downtown core. It’s part of the district that he represents and has represented as a councilmember in District 3. He’s a first term council member, know elected just in November 2022. But he wasn’t new to politics and he wasn’t new to working in the city of San Jose. For people and for local businesses and for getting involved with non-profits and advocacy organizations. You know, when he was a teenager, he said he’s told this story many times. He witnessed a drive by shooting that really impacted him and impacted his neighborhood. And it helped kind of spark a drive in him to want to, you know, make things better for people like himself and his neighbors and his friends and his family. He had served on a local school board, a local community college district, and he was the deputy chief of staff for former Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco. So he was definitely was not new to city hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Omar Torres \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] So where we allocate our budget reflects what we value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] He’s definitely a progressive candidate and he’s never shied away from that, while he’s definitely worked with businesses in his career and helped to advocate for businesses, I don’t think he’s considered a business candidate. He’s more of a Labor candidate, more of a progressive candidate. But he certainly tried to advocate for affordable housing and for policies that would help provide places for homeless people to stay and live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Omar Torres \u003c/strong>[00:02:57] We need to continue to ensure that our families do not fall into homelessness. That is why we need to prioritize creating affordable housing, especially permanent supportive housing for our families and for our unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] Tell me a little more about the district. District 3, we’re talking downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] Yeah, absolutely. And more. Most people, when they hear District three, if they’re familiar with San Jose, they’re definitely thinking downtown. It does include the majority, I would say, of the downtown core that most people are familiar with. If you’re going out in San Jose for nightlife or for entertainment, if you work at one of the tech companies like Zoom or Adobe, you’re in the downtown core or if you work at City Hall, it also includes a lot of other neighborhoods that are really vibrant and really, you know, crucial to kind of the fabric of San Jose. Vendome and Naglee Park, as well as Japantown, which is a really great place to live, to work. It’s a very important district for the vitality of the city. I think the biggest issue in District three, you know, unsurprisingly, has been the pandemic, right? And then the subsequent recovery efforts. So both in the downtown core, where you have a ton of mom and pop type businesses, restaurants and establishments, but also, again, in those surrounding neighborhoods where people are running businesses day to day are counting on the foot traffic, are counting on not just business, not just business people, but you remember that in District 3 includes the entirety of San Jose State University, which is, you know, really interconnected with the city. There’s the Martin Luther King Junior Library, brings a lot of people to the area on foot. So a lot of these places were facing serious problems after the pandemic. And San Jose’s downtown, you know, was shown to have done a lot better in the recovery than many other downtowns, both in California and the nation. But it still was struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:56] Sounds like Councilmember Torres had been active in District three in the community for quite a while. But we’re talking now, Joseph, because a bit more than a month ago, a huge story broke that Omar Torres was being investigated for child sexual misconduct. There was a lot of back and forth about whether he should resign. Now, he has not only resigned, but has been charged with multiple crimes and arrested. So help me understand the timeline of of how we got here. Where does this story begin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] We have to start before this went public, before people started to learn about this in news reports. According to some police documents that have been revealed, essentially it was late August when Omar Torres himself went to San Jose police and said that he was being extorted by a young man in Chicago or in the Chicago area, that he had had an online, you know, digital sexual relationship with. And this man was allegedly extorting Omar Torres, threatening to essentially publish photos and videos of him, including nude photos and videos if if Omar Torres did not pay him money. So Omar reported it himself. And then in the course of that investigation, police and authorities eventually started to turn their investigation to point back at Omar Torres. And that’s because in the course of their investigation, they found some communications with this person in Chicago on his devices. And they’d also seized Omar’s devices. And they found some text messages, you know, where he expressed interest in having, you know, sexual encounters with people under the age of 18. And so that may have been the basis of it. But again, police have been very tight lipped about the full breadth of that investigation. So that’s where things kind of unfolded through October. Is is the district three residents and the general public started to become aware that Omar was being investigated for this child sexual misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Just so I’m understanding it here, Torres goes to the police and says, I’m being extorted by an adult man to be clear, in Chicago. But in the course of that investigation, police find texts between them that indicate that Torrez might have potentially committed sex crimes against minors or had indicated an interest in that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:07:15] That’s correct. Yeah, The potential allegation, I guess it wasn’t a charge, but during the month of October, as this became public and as these details kind of started trickling out, residents, business owners, his colleagues on the council, it took a while, but eventually there was a massive wave of people calling for him to resign because they said they were disturbed and sickened and disgusted by what they saw in his text message communications and what the investigation had revealed to that point. I think it broke people’s hearts for some and then for others it was more of a practical issue, which is they were really disturbed by the fact that once this started to really spill out that he wouldn’t resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Chien-Hale \u003c/strong>[00:08:04] Downtown in particular, I think needs constant representation because we just have so many problems, so many issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:08:12] Elizabeth Chien-Hale, for example, she’s a leader in the San Jose Downtown Residents Association. She actually ran against Omar in the primary in 2022. But she, for example, was very concerned that the seat would be open without representation while Omar refused to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Chien-Hale \u003c/strong>[00:08:33] We’re paying for a bad mistake. We made a bad mistake that was concealed and would have been nearly impossible to discover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] He also had residents in District three start a recall campaign against him in late October, which now is a moot point. But they said they fully intended to see a months long recall process through to remove him from office if he would not resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] So when this news was becoming public, how did Omar Torres handle it and what did he say to those who wanted him to step down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:09:10] Omar Torres not only would not resign, but he denied any wrongdoing and his attorney didn’t discredit the validity of the text messages that were kind of at the center of this. But he did characterize them as, you know, quote, fantasy and role play and said that they didn’t represent any real life intentions of Omar Torres. And, you know, they they continued as a united front to say that they would wait for the investigation to complete before making public statements and addressing everyone’s concerns. And then eventually we started to see that Omar Torres would not resign and he put his district responsibilities kind of in a state of limbo. He was not showing up to council meetings. He also was not showing up to these various committees and commissions and boards that he’s appointed to to represent San Jose. Things like the Library Commission, things like transportation boards that help make very important decisions about regional transit. And as a result, people were feeling like they’d lost their representation so he wouldn’t resign. But he also wasn’t fulfilling his duties and he was asking his council colleagues through memos for excused absences for either illness or to take a 30 day leave of absence for time away for his mental health. So there was all these concerning signs that he was going to try to continue to extend holding on to his elected power while not personally being involved in the day to day work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:45] What changed then, if at the time Omar Torres says, I’m not resigning? What ultimately led to his resignation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:54] What changed is that in the midst of all of that swirling around Omar Torres and the residents of District three, a family member, a relative of Omar Torres, came forward to San Jose police having seen the reports about what he was being investigated for and reported a decades old sexual assault. Years of sexual assault starting when he was a minor and continuing even while Omar had turned 18. And on the basis of that story that this family member told police, they did an investigation which included a recorded phone call with Omar in which police say he admitted to his family member what he had done and apologized to him and admitted his guilt. According to the transcripts, he’s repeatedly apologizing for what he did to his family member. He says that he himself was sexually abused and as a result, he looked to sexually abuse others. And it’s a it’s a really heart wrenching document to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:59] Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:11:59] Very quickly, the D.A. had announced charges against Omar Torres for child molestation. And on Election Day, November 5th, Omar Torres submits a letter of resignation from the city council to the city clerk of San Jose and alerts his colleagues that he’ll be resigning. And just hours later, he is arrested by San Jose police. And, you know, it is announced that there are charges that are going to be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:27] So Omar Torres is arrested and resigns on Election Day. And just to be clear, he wasn’t running in this election because he won a seat two years ago. What is he been charged with and what consequences could he face?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:12:43] So the Santa Clara County District attorney’s office brings three charges of child molestation against Torres. They’re all felonies and they’re all stemming from this series of weeks. In 1999, when Torres was 18 and his family member was still a minor. So with these three charges, if he’s convicted, district attorney officials have said he could face more than 20 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:10] So, I mean, this is just an awful story, just really heartbreaking. But I want to I want to zoom out a little bit and talk about what this has meant for the city of San Jose, because District three, which includes downtown San Jose, now has no active member of city council. Right. What has the reaction been? You know, I guess starting again with the residents who have been most directly affected by all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:13:52] We have heard from many residents of District three, both in the downtown core, in the areas of Japantown and other neighborhoods, business owners who have in various ways come out and said we are very concerned about the lack of representation right now. We don’t have a voice on the council. So this was part of the frustration with Omar Torres. Not being willing to resign initially is that folks in the district felt that they were losing out on their representation even when it came to just mundane items that the council would discuss on the dais during meetings where he was not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:28] And what’s the reaction from. Officials in city government been. I mean, I know earlier on, before Torres was arrested, they had been calling for his resignation. But what are they saying now that he has been arrested, has resigned and that there is now a vacant seat on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:14:47] In the lead up to his resignation and arrest Omar Torres. His colleagues, as I said, had called for his resignation, but some were a bit more vocal than others even after the fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Bien Doan \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] When you have a representative with these heinous allegations, it destroys the trust and integrity of our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:15:06] One councilmember that comes to mind is been to one of District seven who has called not only for Omar Torres to resign, but in the wake of what has happened and how the council felt that it was almost powerless to get rid of Omar Torres from the council. He has even suggested that he’d like to change the city charter so that future councils, if they were to run into a similar situation, would not be so hamstrung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Bien Doan \u003c/strong>[00:15:33] And I think we should look into changing that charter that gives us another avenue to put a council member on administrative leave or remove a council member when things like this happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:15:45] These allegations are every parent’s worst nightmare. But you don’t have to be a parent to be sickened by the charges against Omar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:15:53] Mayor Matt Mahan of San Jose. Even before he and the council called for Omar Torres to resign, had said very clearly that he was disgusted and sickened by some of the allegations against Torres. But he’s also been focused on how this seat will be filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:16:12] As I think you all know, the charter provides two options which can be combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:16:16] One is and one is a special election which could take more time and cost a few million dollars roughly. Matt Meehan favors that approach because he says it allows residents to, you know, scrutinize and question their potential. Next representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:16:33] The public, the community, the voters should decide on who their representatives are, not folks elected to represent other districts in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:16:42] But there’s other members of the council who believe that an appointment process where the actual council body itself would would interview and vote on a candidate to fill the seat through the end of the term in 2026. And that could be a little bit faster and much cheaper. But it’s unclear which way the council will vote to decide how to fill this seat. And that that question is coming up at a council meeting tomorrow night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:08] Has anyone put their name forward as a potential council member, whether they get appointed or run for the seat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:17:17] Yeah, I mean, certainly there has been a lot of interest in who will take over the District three seat. And so far, just, you know, days after Omar Torres has been arrested and resigned, we’ve seen several people toss their hat in the ring. Elizabeth Chien-Hale from the San Jose Downtown Residents Association, who ran against Omar in 2022, in the primary, has said she is very seriously considering running for this seat again. Someone else who ran in 2022 and lost against Omar in the general election is Irene Smith. She’s also said she’ll be running for the seat again. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] He’s definitely a progressive candidate and he’s never shied away from that, while he’s definitely worked with businesses in his career and helped to advocate for businesses, I don’t think he’s considered a business candidate. He’s more of a Labor candidate, more of a progressive candidate. But he certainly tried to advocate for affordable housing and for policies that would help provide places for homeless people to stay and live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Omar Torres \u003c/strong>[00:02:57] We need to continue to ensure that our families do not fall into homelessness. That is why we need to prioritize creating affordable housing, especially permanent supportive housing for our families and for our unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] Tell me a little more about the district. District 3, we’re talking downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] Yeah, absolutely. And more. Most people, when they hear District three, if they’re familiar with San Jose, they’re definitely thinking downtown. It does include the majority, I would say, of the downtown core that most people are familiar with. If you’re going out in San Jose for nightlife or for entertainment, if you work at one of the tech companies like Zoom or Adobe, you’re in the downtown core or if you work at City Hall, it also includes a lot of other neighborhoods that are really vibrant and really, you know, crucial to kind of the fabric of San Jose. Vendome and Naglee Park, as well as Japantown, which is a really great place to live, to work. It’s a very important district for the vitality of the city. I think the biggest issue in District three, you know, unsurprisingly, has been the pandemic, right? And then the subsequent recovery efforts. So both in the downtown core, where you have a ton of mom and pop type businesses, restaurants and establishments, but also, again, in those surrounding neighborhoods where people are running businesses day to day are counting on the foot traffic, are counting on not just business, not just business people, but you remember that in District 3 includes the entirety of San Jose State University, which is, you know, really interconnected with the city. There’s the Martin Luther King Junior Library, brings a lot of people to the area on foot. So a lot of these places were facing serious problems after the pandemic. And San Jose’s downtown, you know, was shown to have done a lot better in the recovery than many other downtowns, both in California and the nation. But it still was struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:56] Sounds like Councilmember Torres had been active in District three in the community for quite a while. But we’re talking now, Joseph, because a bit more than a month ago, a huge story broke that Omar Torres was being investigated for child sexual misconduct. There was a lot of back and forth about whether he should resign. Now, he has not only resigned, but has been charged with multiple crimes and arrested. So help me understand the timeline of of how we got here. Where does this story begin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] We have to start before this went public, before people started to learn about this in news reports. According to some police documents that have been revealed, essentially it was late August when Omar Torres himself went to San Jose police and said that he was being extorted by a young man in Chicago or in the Chicago area, that he had had an online, you know, digital sexual relationship with. And this man was allegedly extorting Omar Torres, threatening to essentially publish photos and videos of him, including nude photos and videos if if Omar Torres did not pay him money. So Omar reported it himself. And then in the course of that investigation, police and authorities eventually started to turn their investigation to point back at Omar Torres. And that’s because in the course of their investigation, they found some communications with this person in Chicago on his devices. And they’d also seized Omar’s devices. And they found some text messages, you know, where he expressed interest in having, you know, sexual encounters with people under the age of 18. And so that may have been the basis of it. But again, police have been very tight lipped about the full breadth of that investigation. So that’s where things kind of unfolded through October. Is is the district three residents and the general public started to become aware that Omar was being investigated for this child sexual misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Just so I’m understanding it here, Torres goes to the police and says, I’m being extorted by an adult man to be clear, in Chicago. But in the course of that investigation, police find texts between them that indicate that Torrez might have potentially committed sex crimes against minors or had indicated an interest in that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:07:15] That’s correct. Yeah, The potential allegation, I guess it wasn’t a charge, but during the month of October, as this became public and as these details kind of started trickling out, residents, business owners, his colleagues on the council, it took a while, but eventually there was a massive wave of people calling for him to resign because they said they were disturbed and sickened and disgusted by what they saw in his text message communications and what the investigation had revealed to that point. I think it broke people’s hearts for some and then for others it was more of a practical issue, which is they were really disturbed by the fact that once this started to really spill out that he wouldn’t resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Chien-Hale \u003c/strong>[00:08:04] Downtown in particular, I think needs constant representation because we just have so many problems, so many issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:08:12] Elizabeth Chien-Hale, for example, she’s a leader in the San Jose Downtown Residents Association. She actually ran against Omar in the primary in 2022. But she, for example, was very concerned that the seat would be open without representation while Omar refused to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Chien-Hale \u003c/strong>[00:08:33] We’re paying for a bad mistake. We made a bad mistake that was concealed and would have been nearly impossible to discover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] He also had residents in District three start a recall campaign against him in late October, which now is a moot point. But they said they fully intended to see a months long recall process through to remove him from office if he would not resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] So when this news was becoming public, how did Omar Torres handle it and what did he say to those who wanted him to step down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:09:10] Omar Torres not only would not resign, but he denied any wrongdoing and his attorney didn’t discredit the validity of the text messages that were kind of at the center of this. But he did characterize them as, you know, quote, fantasy and role play and said that they didn’t represent any real life intentions of Omar Torres. And, you know, they they continued as a united front to say that they would wait for the investigation to complete before making public statements and addressing everyone’s concerns. And then eventually we started to see that Omar Torres would not resign and he put his district responsibilities kind of in a state of limbo. He was not showing up to council meetings. He also was not showing up to these various committees and commissions and boards that he’s appointed to to represent San Jose. Things like the Library Commission, things like transportation boards that help make very important decisions about regional transit. And as a result, people were feeling like they’d lost their representation so he wouldn’t resign. But he also wasn’t fulfilling his duties and he was asking his council colleagues through memos for excused absences for either illness or to take a 30 day leave of absence for time away for his mental health. So there was all these concerning signs that he was going to try to continue to extend holding on to his elected power while not personally being involved in the day to day work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:45] What changed then, if at the time Omar Torres says, I’m not resigning? What ultimately led to his resignation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:54] What changed is that in the midst of all of that swirling around Omar Torres and the residents of District three, a family member, a relative of Omar Torres, came forward to San Jose police having seen the reports about what he was being investigated for and reported a decades old sexual assault. Years of sexual assault starting when he was a minor and continuing even while Omar had turned 18. And on the basis of that story that this family member told police, they did an investigation which included a recorded phone call with Omar in which police say he admitted to his family member what he had done and apologized to him and admitted his guilt. According to the transcripts, he’s repeatedly apologizing for what he did to his family member. He says that he himself was sexually abused and as a result, he looked to sexually abuse others. And it’s a it’s a really heart wrenching document to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:59] Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:11:59] Very quickly, the D.A. had announced charges against Omar Torres for child molestation. And on Election Day, November 5th, Omar Torres submits a letter of resignation from the city council to the city clerk of San Jose and alerts his colleagues that he’ll be resigning. And just hours later, he is arrested by San Jose police. And, you know, it is announced that there are charges that are going to be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:27] So Omar Torres is arrested and resigns on Election Day. And just to be clear, he wasn’t running in this election because he won a seat two years ago. What is he been charged with and what consequences could he face?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:12:43] So the Santa Clara County District attorney’s office brings three charges of child molestation against Torres. They’re all felonies and they’re all stemming from this series of weeks. In 1999, when Torres was 18 and his family member was still a minor. 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