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But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's an after-school ritual for Abigayle de la Rosa to stop at La Original Paleteria y Neveria (The Original Ice Cream Shop) and get a scoop of Mexican ice cream in her bustling San Jose neighborhood, called Calle Willow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it opened on Willow Street a year ago, the shop has become her version of \"31 Flavors.\" The surrounding area resembles parts of Mexico City, with storefront signs written in Spanish, merchants selling fresh flowers, jewelry, sidewalk tacos and pictures of the Virgencita de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. The neighborhood is wedged between downtown's glistening office buildings and Willow Glen, one of the most affluent areas in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Rosa is only 10 years old, but she's fully aware that on Sunday her neighborhood will be one of many on full display when six miles of city streets will be closed to cars but open to people to walk, bicycle, skateboard or travel by any nonmotorized mode of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the inaugural \u003ca href=\"http://vivacallesj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Viva CalleSJ\u003c/a> open streets event, a festival stretching from downtown San Jose to Little Saigon to East San Jose that aims to encourage residents to explore parts of the city they know little about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1440x945.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1920x1260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u003ccite>(VivaCalleSJ/city of San Jose )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think this bike ride will bring a lot more people here,\" says De la Rosa. \"There's a lot of cool things to see and the ice cream is delicious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Viva calle!\" is a Spanish phrase that translates to \"long live the streets!\" Organizers say the event is a test run for future street events. Can sprawling San Jose, where Teslas and hybrid cars are king, get people out of their car -- and comfort zones -- to explore the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Solis, recreation superintendent of San Jose's Department of Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services, thinks so. He says a major goal of Viva CalleSJ is to make a giant city known for its distinctive neighborhoods and diverse cultures a little more accessible. He's expecting 30,000 people to turn out in a city that is 180 square miles and has a population of 1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are going to be traversing a number of communities, social-economic lines and cultural lines, and our hope is to unify the city through open streets,\" says Solis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder Palles says he plans to be there. He lives in the nearby town of Milpitas and believes once people get to know the flavor of the downtown neighborhoods they will return. He comes to Calle Willow to pick up his daughter from school most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel at home here,\"he says. \"I live in Milpitas and all you see are the neighbors with closed doors. Look over here, how everyone is walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Jose, the \u003ca href=\"http://bikesiliconvalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> and Knight Foundation are the main sponsors, providing the funding for Viva CalleSJ. So far the cost is $300,000 to pay for everything from police to shutting down the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viva CalleSJ is similar to open streets events like Sunday Streets in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/what-is-sunday-streets-2/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SundayStreetsBerkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://oaklavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklavia\u003c/a>. But maybe the closest parallel is to a bigger city well to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, San Jose officials traveled to Los Angeles to look at how that city launched an open streets event in 2010 it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.ciclavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CicLAvia\u003c/a>. CicLAvia was inspired by events in Bogota, Columbia and Mexico City. L.A. has been ramping up the number of rides each year, attracting between 50,000 and 100,000 riders, and designing different routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romel Pascual, CicLAvia executive director, says there are similarities between the two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Jose is a smaller version of Los Angeles,\" he says. \"(W)e are made up of distinct neighborhoods that aren't just defined by different cultures but blended like it is in San Jose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pascual says studies show the event has been successful in drawing people from all over Los Angeles and increasing business along the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About 75 percent of all the ZIP codes in Los Angeles were represented along the route,\" he says. \"The amazing thing is the jump in businesses along the routes from 25 to 60 percent. These are mostly service-oriented businesses like restaurants and coffee shops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local San Jose residents want that kind of success in neighborhoods such as central San Jose's Little Saigon, where many Vietnamese immigrants settled after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Cecille Nguyen, who was born in San Jose and whose parents were immigrants, has been helping promote Viva CalleSJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Vietnamese people are very much passionate about their food and culinary skills but I think it's a bit neglected sometimes that the Vietnamese are known for their friendliness and willingness to help and serve,\" she says. \"I think that is something that will surprise everyone. No matter what service you're looking for here, you're going to find someone who can help you out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Velazquez, outreach manager for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, stressed the importance of overcoming the isolation of neighborhoods. The Calle Willow neighborhood, for example, while close to downtown and Willow Glen, is separated by roadway bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valazquez, who's trying to drum up more business sponsors for future events, says when he worked in Chicago he observed how neighborhoods divided by bridges or railroad tracks suffered a disconnect between people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really hoping to get people young and old,\" he says. \"This isn't a bike race. We want \u003cem>abuelitas\u003c/em> (grandmothers) being led in their wheelchairs by their granddaughters. We want to see people walking and skateboarding. We want everyone to feel comfortable using the streets and see that this is theirs and something they can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's an after-school ritual for Abigayle de la Rosa to stop at La Original Paleteria y Neveria (The Original Ice Cream Shop) and get a scoop of Mexican ice cream in her bustling San Jose neighborhood, called Calle Willow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it opened on Willow Street a year ago, the shop has become her version of \"31 Flavors.\" The surrounding area resembles parts of Mexico City, with storefront signs written in Spanish, merchants selling fresh flowers, jewelry, sidewalk tacos and pictures of the Virgencita de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. The neighborhood is wedged between downtown's glistening office buildings and Willow Glen, one of the most affluent areas in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Rosa is only 10 years old, but she's fully aware that on Sunday her neighborhood will be one of many on full display when six miles of city streets will be closed to cars but open to people to walk, bicycle, skateboard or travel by any nonmotorized mode of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the inaugural \u003ca href=\"http://vivacallesj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Viva CalleSJ\u003c/a> open streets event, a festival stretching from downtown San Jose to Little Saigon to East San Jose that aims to encourage residents to explore parts of the city they know little about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1440x945.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1920x1260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u003ccite>(VivaCalleSJ/city of San Jose )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think this bike ride will bring a lot more people here,\" says De la Rosa. \"There's a lot of cool things to see and the ice cream is delicious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Viva calle!\" is a Spanish phrase that translates to \"long live the streets!\" Organizers say the event is a test run for future street events. Can sprawling San Jose, where Teslas and hybrid cars are king, get people out of their car -- and comfort zones -- to explore the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Solis, recreation superintendent of San Jose's Department of Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services, thinks so. He says a major goal of Viva CalleSJ is to make a giant city known for its distinctive neighborhoods and diverse cultures a little more accessible. He's expecting 30,000 people to turn out in a city that is 180 square miles and has a population of 1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are going to be traversing a number of communities, social-economic lines and cultural lines, and our hope is to unify the city through open streets,\" says Solis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder Palles says he plans to be there. He lives in the nearby town of Milpitas and believes once people get to know the flavor of the downtown neighborhoods they will return. He comes to Calle Willow to pick up his daughter from school most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel at home here,\"he says. \"I live in Milpitas and all you see are the neighbors with closed doors. Look over here, how everyone is walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Jose, the \u003ca href=\"http://bikesiliconvalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> and Knight Foundation are the main sponsors, providing the funding for Viva CalleSJ. So far the cost is $300,000 to pay for everything from police to shutting down the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viva CalleSJ is similar to open streets events like Sunday Streets in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/what-is-sunday-streets-2/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SundayStreetsBerkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://oaklavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklavia\u003c/a>. But maybe the closest parallel is to a bigger city well to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, San Jose officials traveled to Los Angeles to look at how that city launched an open streets event in 2010 it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.ciclavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CicLAvia\u003c/a>. CicLAvia was inspired by events in Bogota, Columbia and Mexico City. L.A. has been ramping up the number of rides each year, attracting between 50,000 and 100,000 riders, and designing different routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romel Pascual, CicLAvia executive director, says there are similarities between the two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Jose is a smaller version of Los Angeles,\" he says. \"(W)e are made up of distinct neighborhoods that aren't just defined by different cultures but blended like it is in San Jose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pascual says studies show the event has been successful in drawing people from all over Los Angeles and increasing business along the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About 75 percent of all the ZIP codes in Los Angeles were represented along the route,\" he says. \"The amazing thing is the jump in businesses along the routes from 25 to 60 percent. These are mostly service-oriented businesses like restaurants and coffee shops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local San Jose residents want that kind of success in neighborhoods such as central San Jose's Little Saigon, where many Vietnamese immigrants settled after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Cecille Nguyen, who was born in San Jose and whose parents were immigrants, has been helping promote Viva CalleSJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Vietnamese people are very much passionate about their food and culinary skills but I think it's a bit neglected sometimes that the Vietnamese are known for their friendliness and willingness to help and serve,\" she says. \"I think that is something that will surprise everyone. No matter what service you're looking for here, you're going to find someone who can help you out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Velazquez, outreach manager for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, stressed the importance of overcoming the isolation of neighborhoods. The Calle Willow neighborhood, for example, while close to downtown and Willow Glen, is separated by roadway bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valazquez, who's trying to drum up more business sponsors for future events, says when he worked in Chicago he observed how neighborhoods divided by bridges or railroad tracks suffered a disconnect between people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really hoping to get people young and old,\" he says. \"This isn't a bike race. We want \u003cem>abuelitas\u003c/em> (grandmothers) being led in their wheelchairs by their granddaughters. We want to see people walking and skateboarding. We want everyone to feel comfortable using the streets and see that this is theirs and something they can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10706109\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 374px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/donedwards.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10706109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/donedwards.jpg\" alt=\"Late Congressman Don Edwards, 1915-2015.\" width=\"374\" height=\"459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Late Congressman Don Edwards, 1915-2015. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Edwards, a champion of civil rights and the environment who represented his native San Jose in Congress for more than three decades, has died at the age of 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards' son, retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Len Edwards, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015\" target=\"_blank\">told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> the former congressman died Thursday evening at his home in Carmel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He died peacefully and with a great deal of grace,\" Len Edwards said. \"He died as he lived, an elegant man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/us/politics/don-edwards-congressman-who-championed-civil-rights-dies-at-100.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times summarizes\u003c/a> Edwards' record as a lawmaker focused on preserving and expanding civil rights protections:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He entered Congress in 1963, in time to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After becoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights, he managed the Equal Rights Amendment on the House floor in 1971 and was the floor manager for all other civil rights bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective at working with Republicans, among them Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, he was the chief House architect on civil rights bills through the 1991 law that overturned eight Supreme Court decisions narrowly interpreting the employment rights of women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Edwards was able to work easily with Republicans on rights measures even though they rarely voted alike on anything else. He was an all-out liberal on issues from the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon to the 1991 Persian Gulf war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He retired in 1994 with a lifetime rating of 97 percent from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, which he headed from 1965 to 1967. In 20 of his 32 years in Congress, he had a 100 percent score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the most important of the civil rights bills he handled was the 1982 extension of the Voting Rights Act. In response to written questions in 2012, he said, “If you can’t vote, you are not a real citizen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Edwards was not gentle in his criticism of those in government and the courts who failed to uphold rights guaranteed by the law and the Constitution. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/14/opinion/should-rehnquist-be-promoted-no-he-has-advocated-segregation.html\" target=\"_blank\">a 1986 op-ed in The New York Times\u003c/a>, he argued against President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist to become the tribunal's chief justice. As a Justice Department lawyer, Edwards noted, Rehnquist had proposed a constitutional amendment that would effectively legalize racial discrimination in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chief Justice of the United States should symbolize the nation's commitment to equal justice under law,\" Edwards wrote. \"William Rehnquist's amendment provides conclusive proof of what his record on the bench has so long suggested -- that he has never accepted the fundamental constitutional principle that no official should engage in invidious discrimination on the basis of race. He is a relic of a shameful era in our history when the law was perverted into an instrument for segregating society. He should not be confirmed to our highest judicial office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The Senate later \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082200931.html\" target=\"_blank\">voted 65-33 to confirm Rehnquist\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards was equally dedicated to environmental causes. The San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015\" target=\"_blank\">recounts\u003c/a> Edwards' role in securing permanent protection for a large swath of southern San Francisco Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Edwards wrote the bill that President Richard Nixon signed in 1972 establishing the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. In setting up the first urban national wildlife refuge in the United States, the law preserved a broad expanse of South Bay wetlands, for fish, wildlife and public recreation -- blocking the type of development that had filled in large sections of San Francisco Bay in prior decades. Congress renamed the 30,000-acre refuge for Edwards in 1995, and he remained a hero to Bay Area environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Back then the bay was something to use -- for sewer outfalls, garbage dumps, anything you didn't want you put in the bay,\" said Florence LaRiviere, a longtime Palo Alto environmentalist who worked with Edwards in the early 1970s to create the refuge. \"He listened to us. Without Mr. Edwards, there would be development right up to the edge of the bay. All of the wonderful wildlife would be gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family said the permanent protection for the South Bay shoreline was something Edwards remained proud of, long after his retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open area for families to enjoy and for our environment to be saved that will last forever,\" Len Edwards said. \"That to me is the most wonderful gift he could give.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>William Donlon \"Don\" Edwards was born Jan. 6, 1915, in San Jose. Here's the Times again on his early life and the beginning of his congressional career:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He graduated in 1936 from Stanford University, where he starred on the golf team. He played into his 90s. In 1950, he won the Bing Crosby Clambake at Pebble Beach as an amateur teamed with the professional golfer Marty Furgol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After attending law school at Stanford, he passed the bar in 1939 and became an F.B.I. agent the next year. He joined the Navy in 1942 and served as an intelligence officer ashore and then as a gunnery officer on fast, armed cargo ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being discharged in 1945, he joined his father’s land title firm. But when he divorced his first wife, his father, who disapproved of the divorce, forced him out. So in 1951, Mr. Edwards founded the Valley Title Insurance Company with his second wife. It prospered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became politically active in the 1950s, first as president of the California Young Republicans while Earl Warren, a moderate Republican, was governor. “But the Republicans were mostly too conservative,” he said in 2012, “and I was basically liberal. I became disillusioned and moved away from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s growing population led to the creation of eight new congressional districts in 1962, Mr. Edwards ran in one in San Jose. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10706109\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 374px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/donedwards.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10706109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/donedwards.jpg\" alt=\"Late Congressman Don Edwards, 1915-2015.\" width=\"374\" height=\"459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Late Congressman Don Edwards, 1915-2015. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Edwards, a champion of civil rights and the environment who represented his native San Jose in Congress for more than three decades, has died at the age of 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards' son, retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Len Edwards, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015\" target=\"_blank\">told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> the former congressman died Thursday evening at his home in Carmel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He died peacefully and with a great deal of grace,\" Len Edwards said. \"He died as he lived, an elegant man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/us/politics/don-edwards-congressman-who-championed-civil-rights-dies-at-100.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times summarizes\u003c/a> Edwards' record as a lawmaker focused on preserving and expanding civil rights protections:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He entered Congress in 1963, in time to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After becoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights, he managed the Equal Rights Amendment on the House floor in 1971 and was the floor manager for all other civil rights bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective at working with Republicans, among them Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, he was the chief House architect on civil rights bills through the 1991 law that overturned eight Supreme Court decisions narrowly interpreting the employment rights of women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Edwards was able to work easily with Republicans on rights measures even though they rarely voted alike on anything else. He was an all-out liberal on issues from the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon to the 1991 Persian Gulf war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He retired in 1994 with a lifetime rating of 97 percent from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, which he headed from 1965 to 1967. In 20 of his 32 years in Congress, he had a 100 percent score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the most important of the civil rights bills he handled was the 1982 extension of the Voting Rights Act. In response to written questions in 2012, he said, “If you can’t vote, you are not a real citizen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Edwards was not gentle in his criticism of those in government and the courts who failed to uphold rights guaranteed by the law and the Constitution. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/14/opinion/should-rehnquist-be-promoted-no-he-has-advocated-segregation.html\" target=\"_blank\">a 1986 op-ed in The New York Times\u003c/a>, he argued against President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist to become the tribunal's chief justice. As a Justice Department lawyer, Edwards noted, Rehnquist had proposed a constitutional amendment that would effectively legalize racial discrimination in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chief Justice of the United States should symbolize the nation's commitment to equal justice under law,\" Edwards wrote. \"William Rehnquist's amendment provides conclusive proof of what his record on the bench has so long suggested -- that he has never accepted the fundamental constitutional principle that no official should engage in invidious discrimination on the basis of race. He is a relic of a shameful era in our history when the law was perverted into an instrument for segregating society. He should not be confirmed to our highest judicial office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The Senate later \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082200931.html\" target=\"_blank\">voted 65-33 to confirm Rehnquist\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards was equally dedicated to environmental causes. The San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015\" target=\"_blank\">recounts\u003c/a> Edwards' role in securing permanent protection for a large swath of southern San Francisco Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Edwards wrote the bill that President Richard Nixon signed in 1972 establishing the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. In setting up the first urban national wildlife refuge in the United States, the law preserved a broad expanse of South Bay wetlands, for fish, wildlife and public recreation -- blocking the type of development that had filled in large sections of San Francisco Bay in prior decades. Congress renamed the 30,000-acre refuge for Edwards in 1995, and he remained a hero to Bay Area environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Back then the bay was something to use -- for sewer outfalls, garbage dumps, anything you didn't want you put in the bay,\" said Florence LaRiviere, a longtime Palo Alto environmentalist who worked with Edwards in the early 1970s to create the refuge. \"He listened to us. Without Mr. Edwards, there would be development right up to the edge of the bay. All of the wonderful wildlife would be gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family said the permanent protection for the South Bay shoreline was something Edwards remained proud of, long after his retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open area for families to enjoy and for our environment to be saved that will last forever,\" Len Edwards said. \"That to me is the most wonderful gift he could give.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>William Donlon \"Don\" Edwards was born Jan. 6, 1915, in San Jose. Here's the Times again on his early life and the beginning of his congressional career:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He graduated in 1936 from Stanford University, where he starred on the golf team. He played into his 90s. In 1950, he won the Bing Crosby Clambake at Pebble Beach as an amateur teamed with the professional golfer Marty Furgol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After attending law school at Stanford, he passed the bar in 1939 and became an F.B.I. agent the next year. He joined the Navy in 1942 and served as an intelligence officer ashore and then as a gunnery officer on fast, armed cargo ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being discharged in 1945, he joined his father’s land title firm. But when he divorced his first wife, his father, who disapproved of the divorce, forced him out. So in 1951, Mr. Edwards founded the Valley Title Insurance Company with his second wife. It prospered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became politically active in the 1950s, first as president of the California Young Republicans while Earl Warren, a moderate Republican, was governor. “But the Republicans were mostly too conservative,” he said in 2012, “and I was basically liberal. I became disillusioned and moved away from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s growing population led to the creation of eight new congressional districts in 1962, Mr. Edwards ran in one in San Jose. In a four-way Democratic primary, he received 35.9 percent of the vote and won by 726 votes over Mayor John Stevenson of Fremont. He won the general election easily and never had a close race again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards married three times and outlived all his wives. His survivors include four sons.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pension reform's sometimes tortuous grip on San Jose loosened Tuesday when the City Council passed a new agreement \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28700793/measure-b-settlement-at-top-san-jose-council\">with police and firefighter unions\u003c/a> on retirement benefits and wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement is a watered-down version of Measure B , the pension reform ballot measure that San Jose voters overwhelmingly passed in 2012. It gave less generous retirement benefits to new employees and forced existing workers to either reduce benefits or pay more to keep them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.publicceo.com/2015/08/san-jose-scraps-pension-reform-measure/\">The new plan scales back what employees must contribute fo\u003c/a>r retirement, offers a cheaper health care plan for new and existing employees, gives police officers an 8 percent raise plus a one-time retention bonus, and reinstates the police and fire retirement plan's earlier definition of disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We needed to find a Goldilocks solution,\" said Mayor Sam Liccardo, who had backed Measure B. \"We needed a set of benefits that can make us a competitive employer and still insure that we had a financially sustainable system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a judge will have to invalidate parts of Measure B and insert the changes before it goes back to San Jose voters in November 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220998952\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few cities in California have had more upheaval and fractures within the community over voter-approved pension reform than San Jose has. There were three years of bitter legal battles with police and firefighters, who felt Measure B was a frontal assault on the benefits they earned, and they took the measure to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the state have been keeping a close eye on the fallout from Measure B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was, in a sense, the experiment,\" said Josh Rauh, a pension reform scholar at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. \"There had been no city that had up until now in California tried to change pension benefits for existing employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B came about as cities like Stockton and San Bernardino were on the verge of bankruptcy, partially caused by crushing retirement payments that came due as the economy was tanking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ex-Mayor's Bold Move\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed took Measure B pension reform to the ballot in 2012, saying he couldn't cut city services and staff any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656543\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10656543 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Reed, former San Jose mayor, reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Even though it's painful to take these matters on directly, the costs of doing nothing were enormous because we were cutting services to our people every year to pay for these skyrocketing costs,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said many politicians take a piecemeal approach to pension reform or dabble around the edges of benefits for new employees, fearing blowback from public employee unions. Reed, he said, acted boldly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor Reed was at a point in his career where his political aspirations beyond his time in office were fairly limited, and he also had a very strong view that pensions in the state of California are unsustainable they way they are budgeted and the way they are measured,\" said Rauh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed agrees that most politicians have a lot to lose by taking on public employee unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew in the Democratic Party -- and I'm a Democrat -- that if you crossed the public employees unions, you probably don't have a future in the party,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Jose police officers left for jobs in surrounding cities where the pension benefits and pay were better. Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the San Jose Police Officers' Association, said the Police Department had already lost officers because of budget layoffs. Then it was hit by pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were already losing officers,\" said Saggau. \"What Measure B did was accelerate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.publicceo.com/2015/08/san-jose-scraps-pension-reform-measure/\">This year the new crop of city leaders, including Liccardo and the new POA president, were able to sit down and negotiate \u003c/a>a revised pension reform plan. A good part of the work had already been accomplished in court in 2013, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/us/a-mixed-ruling-on-san-jose-cuts.html?_r=0\">a judge ruled the city \u003c/a>could not require existing employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said what happened in San Jose shows that cities can't succeed in reining in pension costs by working alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities need to band together and get behind those who are proposing statewide ballot initiatives to make this issue something that is in voters' hands,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed and former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio are now pushing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris-skews-ballot-6451702.php\">a 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. 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There were three years of bitter legal battles with police and firefighters, who felt Measure B was a frontal assault on the benefits they earned, and they took the measure to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the state have been keeping a close eye on the fallout from Measure B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was, in a sense, the experiment,\" said Josh Rauh, a pension reform scholar at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. \"There had been no city that had up until now in California tried to change pension benefits for existing employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B came about as cities like Stockton and San Bernardino were on the verge of bankruptcy, partially caused by crushing retirement payments that came due as the economy was tanking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ex-Mayor's Bold Move\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed took Measure B pension reform to the ballot in 2012, saying he couldn't cut city services and staff any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656543\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10656543 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Reed, former San Jose mayor, reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Even though it's painful to take these matters on directly, the costs of doing nothing were enormous because we were cutting services to our people every year to pay for these skyrocketing costs,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said many politicians take a piecemeal approach to pension reform or dabble around the edges of benefits for new employees, fearing blowback from public employee unions. Reed, he said, acted boldly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor Reed was at a point in his career where his political aspirations beyond his time in office were fairly limited, and he also had a very strong view that pensions in the state of California are unsustainable they way they are budgeted and the way they are measured,\" said Rauh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed agrees that most politicians have a lot to lose by taking on public employee unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew in the Democratic Party -- and I'm a Democrat -- that if you crossed the public employees unions, you probably don't have a future in the party,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Jose police officers left for jobs in surrounding cities where the pension benefits and pay were better. Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the San Jose Police Officers' Association, said the Police Department had already lost officers because of budget layoffs. 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A good part of the work had already been accomplished in court in 2013, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/us/a-mixed-ruling-on-san-jose-cuts.html?_r=0\">a judge ruled the city \u003c/a>could not require existing employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said what happened in San Jose shows that cities can't succeed in reining in pension costs by working alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities need to band together and get behind those who are proposing statewide ballot initiatives to make this issue something that is in voters' hands,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed and former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio are now pushing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris-skews-ballot-6451702.php\">a 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. 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"content": "\u003cp>In East San Jose’s Mayfair Neighborhood, a young Cesar Chavez first started mobilizing farmworkers to get them better wages and working conditions. The area was then known as \u003cem>Sal Si Puedes, \u003c/em>meaning “get out if you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the 1950s, and Chavez often drove a bus to the fields in Santa Clara County and brought back the fruit pickers to Mayfair’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church to talk about labor organizing and voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was no coincidence that \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=the+nation+on+silicon+valley+rising\">a new labor campaign\u003c/a> was launched at the same church in February. This time the issue is the low wages of service workers who clean, cook and stand guard at the sprawling campuses of Silicon Valley’s tech giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyrising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Rising\u003c/a>, this coalition of labor unions, faith leaders and community-based organizations is orchestrating a campaign to raise families out of poverty by pushing for a livable wage, affordable housing and corporate responsibility. They are now highlighting the plight of service workers, the majority of which are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ftUeX6f_wzs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime South Bay labor activist Bob Brownstein says Silicon Valley Rising has symbolic parallels to the farmworkers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The grape strike wasn’t just about grapes,” he says, referring to the 1965 Delano Grape Strike, when workers walked off farms demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage. “It was about the plight of the agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today “the struggles of security guards and cafeteria workers and shuttle drivers — it’s not just about them. It’s about a much larger low-wage sector that’s trapped in Silicon Valley,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign has resulted in hundreds of cooks, shuttle drivers, groundskeepers and maintenance workers staging nearly monthly demonstrations for higher wages and better benefits in front of high-profile tech companies and contractors’ offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wage-theft-legislation-20150421-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of workers rallied\u003c/a> outside the Capitol in Sacramento in support of wage and labor bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want corporations to hire responsible contractors,” says Rebeca Armendariz, a spokeswoman for SEIU United Service Workers West. “We want them held accountable for following labor law. For not ripping off their workers, for paying them honest and fair wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214697196&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage demands for service workers isn’t a new issue. Twenty-five years ago, janitors in Santa Clara County mobilized for better wages and benefits in the “Justice for Janitors Campaign.” San Jose’s Cisco Systems Inc. was a major target, and the company eventually agreed to a union contract providing descent pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s organizers feel this labor movement is more broadly based, and that the volatile debate about growing \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-in-red-vs-blue-states-2015-7\">income inequality\u003c/a> is helping its cause. This campaign “is being viewed as a much larger problem because the level of inequality in the Silicon Valley — actually, the country — has gone rogue,” says Brownstein. “It’s no longer sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600580 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Jon Pedigo of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church talks with service workers. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, a new study calculated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/29/bay-area-income-gap-now-more-than-250000-between-top-and-bottom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the income gap\u003c/a> between the top and bottom Bay Area households at more than a quarter-million dollars, 50 percent higher than the gap nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a research think tank that did \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the report\u003c/a>, says the wage gap in this region is a stark situation for workers in the service sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make this economy hum and their wages have been stagnant,” he says. “There’s no growth in their wages over a period of decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Rising took two years to get organized. Father Jon Pedigo, the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, is one of the leaders who worked to hammer out a shared strategy for the campaign. He says extensive groundwork had to be laid down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t like, ‘Let’s all get on board and do this together.’ It was really through some meetings of getting people to listen, to talk to each other and kind of trust each other,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign is intended to focus attention on workers such as 33-year-old Maria, a cafeteria worker at Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. She doesn’t want to use her real name for fear of losing her job with Bon Appetit, the Palo Alto-based company Yahoo contracts with for food services. A single mother, she lives in a tiny trailer not far from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get paid $12 an hour, and it is hard work for $12,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she pays for her trailer space — $700 a month — and other bills, she says she has barely $400 for food and to support her 15-year-old and 10-year-old daughters\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600521\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600521 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"https://youtu.be/ftUeX6f_wzs\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yahoo cafeteria worker says she has little money left after paying $700 a month for her trailer space and her bills. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her older daughter says her mother doesn’t have the time to participate in Rising Silicon Valley activities, but hopes the organizing will pay off in her workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She feels if she keeps working there, she’ll get paid more so she does have hope,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on this story, both Yahoo and Bon Appetit emailed identical statements that said their contractors’ wages and benefits compare favorably with those across the food service industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the radio story aired on KQED and this blog post was published, a Yahoo spokeswoman emailed another statement that said there was a misunderstanding in sending the same statement as Bon Appetit. The spokeswoman said “fairness is a guiding principle at Yahoo and we are looking into this matter with Bon Appetit.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley companies are reluctant to discuss the issue of wages and their relationships with their service workers. And they refuse to discuss the recent labor agitation and organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they have to be aware of the increased activism. In February, for example, shuttle bus drivers for Yahoo, Apple, Genentech, eBay and Zynga voted to joined the Teamsters union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tech corporations have made a number of policy changes impacting service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Mountain View-based Google gave pay raises to its shuttle drivers, who did not join the Teamsters. Also in March, Cupertino-based Apple brought contract security workers onto its payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park-based Facebook in May said its contractors with more than 25 employees must pay them at least $15 an hour and provide sick leave and vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Goler of Facebook says the social media company increased wages and benefits because it was the right thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve really been working on it awhile, and it sort of came from us and our thinking about what’s important to us and our business and our community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 1 of two-part series on activists taking on tech companies over the wages of service workers. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/16/silicon-valley-firms-beginning-to-make-labor-concessions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2\u003c/a> looks at how Silicon Valley corporations are responding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In East San Jose’s Mayfair Neighborhood, a young Cesar Chavez first started mobilizing farmworkers to get them better wages and working conditions. The area was then known as \u003cem>Sal Si Puedes, \u003c/em>meaning “get out if you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the 1950s, and Chavez often drove a bus to the fields in Santa Clara County and brought back the fruit pickers to Mayfair’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church to talk about labor organizing and voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was no coincidence that \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=the+nation+on+silicon+valley+rising\">a new labor campaign\u003c/a> was launched at the same church in February. This time the issue is the low wages of service workers who clean, cook and stand guard at the sprawling campuses of Silicon Valley’s tech giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyrising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Rising\u003c/a>, this coalition of labor unions, faith leaders and community-based organizations is orchestrating a campaign to raise families out of poverty by pushing for a livable wage, affordable housing and corporate responsibility. They are now highlighting the plight of service workers, the majority of which are immigrants.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ftUeX6f_wzs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ftUeX6f_wzs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime South Bay labor activist Bob Brownstein says Silicon Valley Rising has symbolic parallels to the farmworkers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The grape strike wasn’t just about grapes,” he says, referring to the 1965 Delano Grape Strike, when workers walked off farms demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage. “It was about the plight of the agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today “the struggles of security guards and cafeteria workers and shuttle drivers — it’s not just about them. It’s about a much larger low-wage sector that’s trapped in Silicon Valley,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign has resulted in hundreds of cooks, shuttle drivers, groundskeepers and maintenance workers staging nearly monthly demonstrations for higher wages and better benefits in front of high-profile tech companies and contractors’ offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wage-theft-legislation-20150421-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of workers rallied\u003c/a> outside the Capitol in Sacramento in support of wage and labor bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want corporations to hire responsible contractors,” says Rebeca Armendariz, a spokeswoman for SEIU United Service Workers West. “We want them held accountable for following labor law. For not ripping off their workers, for paying them honest and fair wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214697196&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage demands for service workers isn’t a new issue. Twenty-five years ago, janitors in Santa Clara County mobilized for better wages and benefits in the “Justice for Janitors Campaign.” San Jose’s Cisco Systems Inc. was a major target, and the company eventually agreed to a union contract providing descent pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s organizers feel this labor movement is more broadly based, and that the volatile debate about growing \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-in-red-vs-blue-states-2015-7\">income inequality\u003c/a> is helping its cause. This campaign “is being viewed as a much larger problem because the level of inequality in the Silicon Valley — actually, the country — has gone rogue,” says Brownstein. “It’s no longer sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600580 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16001_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Jon Pedigo of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church talks with service workers. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, a new study calculated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/29/bay-area-income-gap-now-more-than-250000-between-top-and-bottom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the income gap\u003c/a> between the top and bottom Bay Area households at more than a quarter-million dollars, 50 percent higher than the gap nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a research think tank that did \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the report\u003c/a>, says the wage gap in this region is a stark situation for workers in the service sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make this economy hum and their wages have been stagnant,” he says. “There’s no growth in their wages over a period of decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Rising took two years to get organized. Father Jon Pedigo, the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, is one of the leaders who worked to hammer out a shared strategy for the campaign. He says extensive groundwork had to be laid down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t like, ‘Let’s all get on board and do this together.’ It was really through some meetings of getting people to listen, to talk to each other and kind of trust each other,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign is intended to focus attention on workers such as 33-year-old Maria, a cafeteria worker at Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. She doesn’t want to use her real name for fear of losing her job with Bon Appetit, the Palo Alto-based company Yahoo contracts with for food services. A single mother, she lives in a tiny trailer not far from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get paid $12 an hour, and it is hard work for $12,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she pays for her trailer space — $700 a month — and other bills, she says she has barely $400 for food and to support her 15-year-old and 10-year-old daughters\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600521\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10600521 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"https://youtu.be/ftUeX6f_wzs\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16015_image1-qut1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yahoo cafeteria worker says she has little money left after paying $700 a month for her trailer space and her bills. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her older daughter says her mother doesn’t have the time to participate in Rising Silicon Valley activities, but hopes the organizing will pay off in her workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She feels if she keeps working there, she’ll get paid more so she does have hope,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on this story, both Yahoo and Bon Appetit emailed identical statements that said their contractors’ wages and benefits compare favorably with those across the food service industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the radio story aired on KQED and this blog post was published, a Yahoo spokeswoman emailed another statement that said there was a misunderstanding in sending the same statement as Bon Appetit. The spokeswoman said “fairness is a guiding principle at Yahoo and we are looking into this matter with Bon Appetit.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley companies are reluctant to discuss the issue of wages and their relationships with their service workers. And they refuse to discuss the recent labor agitation and organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they have to be aware of the increased activism. In February, for example, shuttle bus drivers for Yahoo, Apple, Genentech, eBay and Zynga voted to joined the Teamsters union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tech corporations have made a number of policy changes impacting service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Mountain View-based Google gave pay raises to its shuttle drivers, who did not join the Teamsters. Also in March, Cupertino-based Apple brought contract security workers onto its payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park-based Facebook in May said its contractors with more than 25 employees must pay them at least $15 an hour and provide sick leave and vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Goler of Facebook says the social media company increased wages and benefits because it was the right thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve really been working on it awhile, and it sort of came from us and our thinking about what’s important to us and our business and our community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 3:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/07/09/exclusiveapple-signs-major-lease-in-north-san-jose.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> has reported that Apple Inc. signed a major lease for space in San Jose. Citing unnamed sources, the business publication said the Cupertino-based company has reached an agreement to lease nearly 300,000 square feet in North San Jose. The deal, if confirmed, would mark Apple’s first major entry into San Jose in quite some time. Apple wouldn’t comment on the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of two-part series looking at why San Jose, the third largest city in California, has faced fiscal problems while the tech boom is enriching the Silicon Valley communities around it. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”amQD6ZjYu8t2YRGCmpFryBtpOyytyVJQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. According to the mayor’s office, 10.3 million square feet of office and R&D space is in the pipeline in North San Jose alone, the neighborhood Apple is considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been growing at a record clip for really the last two or three years in terms of jobs,” says Mayor Sam Liccardo. “What we’re seeing in terms of demand for sites from employers has been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says from the time he moved to Sunnyvale in 1970, “Everything historically has rolled from north to south: high tech companies, occupancies, vacancies, rents, roll from Palo Alto south to San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it is important that San Jose takes advantage of the current boom to lock in new tech companies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 3:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/07/09/exclusiveapple-signs-major-lease-in-north-san-jose.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> has reported that Apple Inc. signed a major lease for space in San Jose. Citing unnamed sources, the business publication said the Cupertino-based company has reached an agreement to lease nearly 300,000 square feet in North San Jose. The deal, if confirmed, would mark Apple’s first major entry into San Jose in quite some time. Apple wouldn’t comment on the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of two-part series looking at why San Jose, the third largest city in California, has faced fiscal problems while the tech boom is enriching the Silicon Valley communities around it. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. According to the mayor’s office, 10.3 million square feet of office and R&D space is in the pipeline in North San Jose alone, the neighborhood Apple is considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been growing at a record clip for really the last two or three years in terms of jobs,” says Mayor Sam Liccardo. “What we’re seeing in terms of demand for sites from employers has been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says from the time he moved to Sunnyvale in 1970, “Everything historically has rolled from north to south: high tech companies, occupancies, vacancies, rents, roll from Palo Alto south to San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it is important that San Jose takes advantage of the current boom to lock in new tech companies. That’s because while he doesn’t think this tech boom is a bubble, he says he’s seen enough economic busts to doubt that any boom lasts forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In most fire stations across America, you’ll find a fire engine ready to fight fires. But in San Jose, budget cuts forced the Fire Department to mothball a handful of engines. So some stations have trucks that can respond to medical emergencies -- but they can't put out fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in those areas, you see a big red vehicle in the building, and you think, 'Oh, we've got a fire engine here; we're OK,' \" explains San Jose Fire Capt. Sean Kaldor, who is also vice president of IAFF, Local 230. \"The reality is they're not carrying the water it would take to put out a fire, or to stop that fire from spreading in your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2RvVMonWOFVa4cxqRSnTUYY2mIxMuSLN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, two years ago, a house \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Serial-San-Jose-Arsonist-Sparks-Concerns-About-Fire-Department-Staffing-240190001.html\" target=\"_blank\">across the street from Station 30\u003c/a> burned. While the neighbors yelled at firefighters to do something, all they could do was call for help from other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's under-resourced fire stations provide just one example of the fiscal challenges facing California's third-largest city. San Jose is barely in the black after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Yet all around San Jose, the Silicon Valley boom is pumping unprecedented wealth into the Bay Area. Why is San Jose -- the self-described “Heart of Silicon Valley” -- not riding the economic wave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10585514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 72 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Fire Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 68 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"In Silicon Valley, in the public sector, we live in a very different world than in the private sector,\" says Mayor Sam Liccardo. \"Many of the employers that drive Silicon Valley innovation and many of the large employers are located just outside our border, and so we don’t get necessarily all the tax revenue from all those companies’ growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, being “wealth-adjacent” doesn’t do anything for city coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213818606\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 1 million residents, San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the United State, according to the U.S. Census. But each workday, it drops to the equivalent of the 13th-largest city. That's because residents leave San Jose for jobs elsewhere in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has negative consequences for the city budget. Take sales taxes, for instance. San Jose pulls in some of the lowest revenues per capita in Santa Clara County. Every business lunch bought in Los Gatos, every pair of hiking boots in Campbell, helps to cement a regional imbalance. The smaller cities are pulling in more sales tax income relative to their population base. That applies to hotel, business, utility and parcel taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/local-taxes/voter-approval-032014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10582009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 728px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10582009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\" alt=\"San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are.\" width=\"728\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png 728w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Jose Auditor's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more taxes a city has coming in, the more money it has to pay for services like police and fire protection. Ideally, a city cultivates a healthy mix of residential, corporate and retail taxes to pay the bills. Here again is where San Jose is out of balance: It's housing-heavy. More housing means more people who draw on city services. And in a post-Proposition 13 era when many property tax bills are more or less frozen in time, that’s a big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did San Jose get into this budgetary pickle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals start by blaming A.P. “Dutch” Hamann, city manager back in the '50s and '60s. He was the guy who started paving over farmland to create a sprawling suburb in the image of Los Angeles. (Before the city tied itself to the Silicon Valley moniker, the area was \"The Valley of Heart’s Delight.\") This video shows how dramatically the city grew after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5sDrsHEtPI]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a good idea at the time. The \"Greatest Generation\" was raising a bumper crop of baby boomers. Defense firms were hiring locally. And Hamann could count on an ever-growing pot of property taxes because Prop 13 hadn’t passed yet. By the time he left in 1969,\u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2013-04-04/shaping-downtown-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose had grown\u003c/a> from 17 to 136 square miles, from 95,000 to roughly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was city manager when it was the Divine Right of Kings-era of city managers,\" says Tom McEnery, mayor through much of the 1980s and the son of \"Big John\" McEnery, who was good friends with Hamann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamann wasn’t the last housing-happy bureaucrat. Long after San Jose planners should have known better, they kept paving over not just farmland but factories, warehouses and office complexes in favor of housing, McEnery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands of acres that should have been the tax base for cops, youth workers, firefighters, et cetera, was pretty much gobbled up in a mistaken attempt to satisfy a lot of developers that didn’t deserve to be satisfied in that way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10584434 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From an overpass above 280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an overpass above I-280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose is now the biggest bedroom community in Silicon Valley, but it didn’t find the right balance to create the tax base it needs today. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> tech boom offers San Jose another chance to get that mix right. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In most fire stations across America, you’ll find a fire engine ready to fight fires. But in San Jose, budget cuts forced the Fire Department to mothball a handful of engines. So some stations have trucks that can respond to medical emergencies -- but they can't put out fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in those areas, you see a big red vehicle in the building, and you think, 'Oh, we've got a fire engine here; we're OK,' \" explains San Jose Fire Capt. Sean Kaldor, who is also vice president of IAFF, Local 230. \"The reality is they're not carrying the water it would take to put out a fire, or to stop that fire from spreading in your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, two years ago, a house \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Serial-San-Jose-Arsonist-Sparks-Concerns-About-Fire-Department-Staffing-240190001.html\" target=\"_blank\">across the street from Station 30\u003c/a> burned. While the neighbors yelled at firefighters to do something, all they could do was call for help from other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's under-resourced fire stations provide just one example of the fiscal challenges facing California's third-largest city. San Jose is barely in the black after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Yet all around San Jose, the Silicon Valley boom is pumping unprecedented wealth into the Bay Area. Why is San Jose -- the self-described “Heart of Silicon Valley” -- not riding the economic wave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10585514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 72 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Fire Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 68 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"In Silicon Valley, in the public sector, we live in a very different world than in the private sector,\" says Mayor Sam Liccardo. \"Many of the employers that drive Silicon Valley innovation and many of the large employers are located just outside our border, and so we don’t get necessarily all the tax revenue from all those companies’ growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, being “wealth-adjacent” doesn’t do anything for city coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213818606&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213818606'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 1 million residents, San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the United State, according to the U.S. Census. But each workday, it drops to the equivalent of the 13th-largest city. That's because residents leave San Jose for jobs elsewhere in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has negative consequences for the city budget. Take sales taxes, for instance. San Jose pulls in some of the lowest revenues per capita in Santa Clara County. Every business lunch bought in Los Gatos, every pair of hiking boots in Campbell, helps to cement a regional imbalance. The smaller cities are pulling in more sales tax income relative to their population base. That applies to hotel, business, utility and parcel taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/local-taxes/voter-approval-032014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10582009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 728px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10582009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\" alt=\"San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are.\" width=\"728\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png 728w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Jose Auditor's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more taxes a city has coming in, the more money it has to pay for services like police and fire protection. Ideally, a city cultivates a healthy mix of residential, corporate and retail taxes to pay the bills. Here again is where San Jose is out of balance: It's housing-heavy. More housing means more people who draw on city services. And in a post-Proposition 13 era when many property tax bills are more or less frozen in time, that’s a big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did San Jose get into this budgetary pickle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals start by blaming A.P. “Dutch” Hamann, city manager back in the '50s and '60s. He was the guy who started paving over farmland to create a sprawling suburb in the image of Los Angeles. (Before the city tied itself to the Silicon Valley moniker, the area was \"The Valley of Heart’s Delight.\") This video shows how dramatically the city grew after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/y5sDrsHEtPI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/y5sDrsHEtPI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a good idea at the time. The \"Greatest Generation\" was raising a bumper crop of baby boomers. Defense firms were hiring locally. And Hamann could count on an ever-growing pot of property taxes because Prop 13 hadn’t passed yet. By the time he left in 1969,\u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2013-04-04/shaping-downtown-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose had grown\u003c/a> from 17 to 136 square miles, from 95,000 to roughly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was city manager when it was the Divine Right of Kings-era of city managers,\" says Tom McEnery, mayor through much of the 1980s and the son of \"Big John\" McEnery, who was good friends with Hamann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamann wasn’t the last housing-happy bureaucrat. Long after San Jose planners should have known better, they kept paving over not just farmland but factories, warehouses and office complexes in favor of housing, McEnery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands of acres that should have been the tax base for cops, youth workers, firefighters, et cetera, was pretty much gobbled up in a mistaken attempt to satisfy a lot of developers that didn’t deserve to be satisfied in that way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10584434 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From an overpass above 280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an overpass above I-280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose is now the biggest bedroom community in Silicon Valley, but it didn’t find the right balance to create the tax base it needs today. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> tech boom offers San Jose another chance to get that mix right. 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"content": "\u003cp>UPDATE 9/15/15: The Pacific Legal Foundation, representing the California Building Industry Association, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/releases/release-9-15-15-CBIA-San-Jose-4-1508\" target=\"_blank\">appealed\u003c/a> \u003cem>California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose\u003c/em> to the US Supreme Court. Legal analysts are split on whether the highest court in the land is likely to take the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the California Supreme Court\u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S212072.PDF\" target=\"_blank\"> sided\u003c/a> with the city of San Jose in a case that could affect affordable housing rules all over the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/\" target=\"_blank\">League of California Cities\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Association of Counties\u003c/a> estimate more than 170 municipalities have some kind of ordinance on the books to tackle the fact that real estate, especially in coastal markets, has become increasingly unaffordable for many renters and would-be homeowners. Both groups backed San Jose in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years ago, San Jose tried to require that all new residential developments of 20 units or more set aside 15 percent of those units for sale below the market rate. Developers could opt out of building affordable units by paying a fee. That’s pretty common, a tactic that goes by the name \"inclusionary zoning,\" but the city side-stepped the usual study showing a relationship between the development of for-sale housing and the city’s need for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Jose Knew It Was Breaking New Ground\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were the largest city that was applying inclusionary housing citywide,\" explains San Jose’s interim Housing Director Jacky Morales-Ferrand. \"In addition to that, we used our legislative powers to impose inclusionary on developers. What we said was that because affordable housing is such a priority of the highest order, cities should have the power to legislate this requirement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Building Industry Association\u003c/a> sued, calling the new ordinance an unconstitutional taking of property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Francisco law professor Tim Iglesias organized and co-wrote an amicus brief for the city of San Jose. \"Most inclusionary ordinances give developers a number of different ways to comply with the requirement. So what the opponents have done is to seize on those alternative options and say, 'Hey look: This is an exaction,' which is kind of a term of art in law that makes the city have to justify that requirement in a different, stricter way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210511868\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Santa Clara County judge invalidated San Jose's ordinance in 2012, referencing a case called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/san-remo-hotel-v-city-and-county-san-francisco-32243\" target=\"_blank\">San Remo Hotel L.P. v. 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