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"content": "\u003cp>This year marks the 125th anniversary of Japantown in San Jose. To celebrate, the neighborhood will host a festival called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nikkeimatsuri.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikkei Matsuri\u003c/a> this coming Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is one of only three historic Japantowns still thriving in the United States, and the only one rooted in the history of California agriculture. In a time before semiconductor chips and suburban housing, the region in and around San Jose was largely farmland, much of it farmed by Japanese-American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Japantown was the heart of the community, and that’s where you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamsj.org/japanese-american-history-museum-san-jose/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese American Museum of San Jose\u003c/a>. Jimi Yamaichi, 92, is one of the curators of the museum’s exhibition on Japanese farming. But more than that, he himself used to work the fields northeast of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459646 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. \"It was hard living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. ‘It was hard living.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi vividly remembers what it was like to grow up on his dad’s row crop farm in Berryessa during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beans, cucumbers and squash and other bell peppers, and tomatoes, and other things. But the beans and cucumber, that’s what he was known for,” Yamaichi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supplying local markets, the Yamaichis sent 200 boxes to Los Angeles on Tuesdays, and another 200 on Saturdays. They shipped produce as far as Denver and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimi was the fourth child out of 10. It was a working childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d get up early in the morning, at 6 o’clock, and we’d cut lettuce for about two hours,” he recalls. “Around 8:30, my dad says, ‘Well, go and clean up.’ ” You can listen to him tell his story \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rmyrow/japaneseag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dad drove them to elementary school in time for the 9 o’clock bell, then picked them up when school was out at 3 to return to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones doing it,” Yamaichi says. “Everybody else was doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not everyone. The non-Japanese farmers, he admits, didn’t work quite so hard, and they didn’t necessarily take kindly to the Japanese-Americans who did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459648 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A produce crate from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A produce crate from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, there are just a handful of Japanese-owned farms and nurseries in the region. But at one time, before World War II, the area around San Jose was dotted with hundreds of Japanese farms growing vegetables for local and regional markets. The story of why they were here, and how they were here, is one of sorrow and suffering, but also success against the odds and the weight of fierce prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime around 1890, Japanese laborers escaping the grim plantation work of Hawaii began to settle around San Jose. Especially after the \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=10459596&action=edit&message=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>, white farmers were eager for alternative sources of cheap labor to pick crops. Some Japanese immigrants saved enough money to buy their own farmland, but California changed the law, several times, to make it close to impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University Professor \u003ca href=\"https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/gary-okihiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Gary Okihiro\u003c/a> co-wrote a history of Japanese farming in the Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land laws were called \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alien land laws\u003c/a>,” he says, “because they were directed at aliens ineligible for citizenship, which meant only Asian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese had no choice but to work as sharecroppers. Others set up land trusts, or began to have American-born children in the hopes that the first to reach maturity would be able to own the farm for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the farmers were farming on land that did not belong to them, in fact, but to some other person, a white landowner,” Okihiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Jimi Yamaichi’s father, Kaneichi Yamaichi, found a way around California law: a white man willing to own 21 acres for him — in exchange for a “royalty,” which today would amount to more than $27,000 a year, staked on nothing more than a handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of World War II, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/asc/projects/sanjose/Part_of_San_Jose_History.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly 4,000\u003c/a> Japanese lived in the Santa Clara Valley. They were just beginning to bounce back from the Great Depression when the federal government forced them into internment camps away from the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyIa11ZtAE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This short film from the United States Office Of War Information — produced as part of the government effort to justify uprooting 120,000 people of Japanese descent — puts a somewhat sunny spin on \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Executive Order 9066\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Japanese sent to camps in 1942 had to liquidate everything they couldn’t carry with them, and at fire-sale prices: farms, homes, cars, businesses. Japanese-Americans left $22 million of crops in the ground across California. The government saw to it that those crops were harvested, but not that the farmers were compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the war was over, many of them returned home destitute and demoralized. They converted buildings in San Jose’s Japantown into makeshift barracks while they figured out what to do next. KTEH broadcast a compelling documentary about that period in history, called “Return to the Valley.” Jimi Yamaichi is one of the people featured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvqPCy1j_0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi’s family spent the war years in the internment camps at \u003ca href=\"http://www.heartmountain.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heart Mountain\u003c/a> in Wyoming and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/tule/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tule Lake\u003c/a> in California. Jimi’s dad was better off than most. A sympathetic insurance agent he’d worked with offered to guard his farm. But that doesn’t mean it was easy to start all over again when the war was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ’Course, he was quite a heavy drinker,” Yamaichi says. “They were all drinkers, you know. Got to the point where it pickled him to death, I think!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Japan-born generation known as \u003cem>issei\u003c/em>, Kaneichi Yamaichi kept a lot of feelings about his life bottled up inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sake was his drink of choice, and when the war broke out, couldn’t get no more,” Jimi Yamaichi says. “He turned to whiskey. One fifth a day. That’s a lot of whiskey to drink, hunh?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the war, American farming was growing increasingly mechanized, moving from horses to tractors, requiring bigger farms to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the American-born \u003cem>nisei,\u003c/em> like Jimi Yamaichi, wanted out of farming. But younger children followed their parents onto new fields, raising labor-intensive crops they could produce on small plots of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459653 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Today, there's almost no evidence how prevalent Japanese farms once were in and around San Jose. A map from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese American farms in the area around 1958.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese-American farms in the area around 1958.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon Kimura was one of those children, back in the 1950s. “I picked 10 crates of strawberries to get money to buy my first Timex watch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where did Kimura go to get the watch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to here to Japantown to Jackson Jewelers [now defunct],” Kimura says. “There always was a feeling that this was home for the JA community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as the rise of Silicon Valley made land more expensive, the strawberry industry moved south to Watsonville and Salinas. The flower business \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpnmag.com/california-cut-flower-industry-still-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved overseas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing generation, it became easier for Japanese-Americans to find work outside of agriculture — and to buy homes in neighborhoods previously closed to them. More and more of the community in the Santa Clara Valley dispersed across the Bay Area, California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japantown San Jose is still a cultural center, with churches, restaurants, shops and, of course, the museum. But it doesn’t have quite the vibrancy that Kimura remembers from his childhood. “Maybe it’s a function of, if you will, at becoming too successful integrating into mainstream America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the love cuts both ways now. Japantown San Jose has become a fond focal point for the whole city, one locals proudly point to as part of their collective heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"On April 26th, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-400x290.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-320x232.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On April 26, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary \u003ccite>(Takahiro Kitamura)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This year marks the 125th anniversary of Japantown in San Jose. To celebrate, the neighborhood will host a festival called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nikkeimatsuri.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikkei Matsuri\u003c/a> this coming Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is one of only three historic Japantowns still thriving in the United States, and the only one rooted in the history of California agriculture. In a time before semiconductor chips and suburban housing, the region in and around San Jose was largely farmland, much of it farmed by Japanese-American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Japantown was the heart of the community, and that’s where you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamsj.org/japanese-american-history-museum-san-jose/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese American Museum of San Jose\u003c/a>. Jimi Yamaichi, 92, is one of the curators of the museum’s exhibition on Japanese farming. But more than that, he himself used to work the fields northeast of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459646 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. \"It was hard living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. ‘It was hard living.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi vividly remembers what it was like to grow up on his dad’s row crop farm in Berryessa during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beans, cucumbers and squash and other bell peppers, and tomatoes, and other things. But the beans and cucumber, that’s what he was known for,” Yamaichi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supplying local markets, the Yamaichis sent 200 boxes to Los Angeles on Tuesdays, and another 200 on Saturdays. They shipped produce as far as Denver and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimi was the fourth child out of 10. It was a working childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d get up early in the morning, at 6 o’clock, and we’d cut lettuce for about two hours,” he recalls. “Around 8:30, my dad says, ‘Well, go and clean up.’ ” You can listen to him tell his story \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rmyrow/japaneseag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dad drove them to elementary school in time for the 9 o’clock bell, then picked them up when school was out at 3 to return to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones doing it,” Yamaichi says. “Everybody else was doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not everyone. The non-Japanese farmers, he admits, didn’t work quite so hard, and they didn’t necessarily take kindly to the Japanese-Americans who did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459648 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A produce crate from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A produce crate from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, there are just a handful of Japanese-owned farms and nurseries in the region. But at one time, before World War II, the area around San Jose was dotted with hundreds of Japanese farms growing vegetables for local and regional markets. The story of why they were here, and how they were here, is one of sorrow and suffering, but also success against the odds and the weight of fierce prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime around 1890, Japanese laborers escaping the grim plantation work of Hawaii began to settle around San Jose. Especially after the \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=10459596&action=edit&message=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>, white farmers were eager for alternative sources of cheap labor to pick crops. Some Japanese immigrants saved enough money to buy their own farmland, but California changed the law, several times, to make it close to impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University Professor \u003ca href=\"https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/gary-okihiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Gary Okihiro\u003c/a> co-wrote a history of Japanese farming in the Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land laws were called \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alien land laws\u003c/a>,” he says, “because they were directed at aliens ineligible for citizenship, which meant only Asian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese had no choice but to work as sharecroppers. Others set up land trusts, or began to have American-born children in the hopes that the first to reach maturity would be able to own the farm for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the farmers were farming on land that did not belong to them, in fact, but to some other person, a white landowner,” Okihiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Jimi Yamaichi’s father, Kaneichi Yamaichi, found a way around California law: a white man willing to own 21 acres for him — in exchange for a “royalty,” which today would amount to more than $27,000 a year, staked on nothing more than a handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of World War II, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/asc/projects/sanjose/Part_of_San_Jose_History.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly 4,000\u003c/a> Japanese lived in the Santa Clara Valley. They were just beginning to bounce back from the Great Depression when the federal government forced them into internment camps away from the West Coast.\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/yVyIa11ZtAE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yVyIa11ZtAE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This short film from the United States Office Of War Information — produced as part of the government effort to justify uprooting 120,000 people of Japanese descent — puts a somewhat sunny spin on \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Executive Order 9066\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Japanese sent to camps in 1942 had to liquidate everything they couldn’t carry with them, and at fire-sale prices: farms, homes, cars, businesses. Japanese-Americans left $22 million of crops in the ground across California. The government saw to it that those crops were harvested, but not that the farmers were compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the war was over, many of them returned home destitute and demoralized. They converted buildings in San Jose’s Japantown into makeshift barracks while they figured out what to do next. KTEH broadcast a compelling documentary about that period in history, called “Return to the Valley.” Jimi Yamaichi is one of the people featured.\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/muvqPCy1j_0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/muvqPCy1j_0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi’s family spent the war years in the internment camps at \u003ca href=\"http://www.heartmountain.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heart Mountain\u003c/a> in Wyoming and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/tule/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tule Lake\u003c/a> in California. Jimi’s dad was better off than most. A sympathetic insurance agent he’d worked with offered to guard his farm. But that doesn’t mean it was easy to start all over again when the war was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ’Course, he was quite a heavy drinker,” Yamaichi says. “They were all drinkers, you know. Got to the point where it pickled him to death, I think!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Japan-born generation known as \u003cem>issei\u003c/em>, Kaneichi Yamaichi kept a lot of feelings about his life bottled up inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sake was his drink of choice, and when the war broke out, couldn’t get no more,” Jimi Yamaichi says. “He turned to whiskey. One fifth a day. That’s a lot of whiskey to drink, hunh?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the war, American farming was growing increasingly mechanized, moving from horses to tractors, requiring bigger farms to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the American-born \u003cem>nisei,\u003c/em> like Jimi Yamaichi, wanted out of farming. But younger children followed their parents onto new fields, raising labor-intensive crops they could produce on small plots of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459653 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Today, there's almost no evidence how prevalent Japanese farms once were in and around San Jose. A map from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese American farms in the area around 1958.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese-American farms in the area around 1958.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon Kimura was one of those children, back in the 1950s. “I picked 10 crates of strawberries to get money to buy my first Timex watch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where did Kimura go to get the watch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to here to Japantown to Jackson Jewelers [now defunct],” Kimura says. “There always was a feeling that this was home for the JA community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as the rise of Silicon Valley made land more expensive, the strawberry industry moved south to Watsonville and Salinas. The flower business \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpnmag.com/california-cut-flower-industry-still-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved overseas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing generation, it became easier for Japanese-Americans to find work outside of agriculture — and to buy homes in neighborhoods previously closed to them. More and more of the community in the Santa Clara Valley dispersed across the Bay Area, California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japantown San Jose is still a cultural center, with churches, restaurants, shops and, of course, the museum. But it doesn’t have quite the vibrancy that Kimura remembers from his childhood. “Maybe it’s a function of, if you will, at becoming too successful integrating into mainstream America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the love cuts both ways now. Japantown San Jose has become a fond focal point for the whole city, one locals proudly point to as part of their collective heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"On April 26th, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-400x290.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-320x232.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On April 26, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary \u003ccite>(Takahiro Kitamura)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 9:05 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 98 percent of the ballots counted, here’s how the \u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/55313/151229/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race stands\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Tim Orozco 2,230 votes 22.03%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Manh Nguyen 1,940 votes 19.16%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lan Diep 1,912 votes 18.89%\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The top two vote-getters will move on to a June 23 runoff. The registrar’s office said the outcome of the race should be known by Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 11:50 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office said there will be a June 23 runoff between the top two vote-getters in a special election for a District 4 City Council seat in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 86 percent of the vote in, Tim Orozco is now leading the race by 264 votes, followed by Manh Nguyen and Lan Diep, who are just seven votes apart. There are still 1,580 ballots left to count, mostly mail-in votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the race, who will represent north San Jose, will replace Kansen Chu and could shift the balance of power in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Chantri, a spokesman for the registrar’s office, said the outcome should be known by Friday. There is a new state law allowing for receipt and counting of ballots postmarked by election day as long as they are received and counted at the registrar’s office three days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registrar’s office said it expects 25 percent voter turnout after all the ballots are counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will certify the race on April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday morning: \u003c/strong>With 86 percent of ballots counted, Tim Orozco is leading the pack of 10 District 4 City Council candidates, with just over 22 percent of the vote. (See the\u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/55313/151224/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> latest results here\u003c/a>.) He appears headed for a runoff with either Manh Nguyen or Lan Diep, who trails Nguyen by just seven votes. Each currently stands at almost 19 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next update of vote totals for the open seat is due at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special election to replace Kansen Chu could tip the balance of power one way or the other on important issues like pension reform. As the\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20150407/san-jose-early-returns-in-district-4-race-show-near-three-way-tie/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> reports this morning, Orozco is supported by labor groups and Nguyen and Diep by the Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2015/04/08/orozco-leads-in-san-joses-district-4-council-race/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Inside\u003c/a> reports: “If elected, Orozco would become the second LGBT person to serve on the council. Ken Yeager won a seat in 2000, but resigned in the middle of his second term after winning a seat on the county’s Board of Supervisors in 2006.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of a low-key San Jose City Council special election today could have a powerful impact inside City Hall, changing the balance of power over issues like pension reform and critical local services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Theoretically, this could be a swing vote on the San Jose City Council,” said Terry Christensen, political science professor emeritus at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election to replace Kansen Chu will take place in District 4, in north San Jose near Santa Clara, Milpitas and the San Francisco Bay. Chu was elected to the state Assembly in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Theoretically, this could be a swing vote on the San Jose City Council.’\u003ccite>Terry Christensen, San Jose State University.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are 10 candidates in the City Council race, and unless one of them receives more than half the vote, there will be a runoff between the top two candidates June 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates are: Tim Orozco, Lan Diep, Manh Nguyen, Bob Dhillon, Rudy Nasol, Khoa Nguyen, Alex Torres, Johnny Lee, Allen Chiu and Thelma Boac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen said there’s a division currently between council members who are more fiscally conservative about pension reform and those who are moderate to liberal on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Sam Liccardo is working well with both sides at the moment,” he said. “It was thought there would be a more visible division by now. But this person could be a swing vote if the division emerges again in a significant way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo was elected in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen said a shift in the balance of power could also affect other budget issues related to city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are council members who think the city should cut back to core services like police, fire, parks and libraries. Then there are others who think city services should be broader, like afterschool programs, truancy abatement, and gang abatement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100,000 residents live in District 4. Voter turnout is expected to be low.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A controversial drone secretly purchased by the San Jose Police Department's bomb squad in January 2014 could finally take to the air in a one-year pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night, the San Jose Neighborhoods Commission will release a report recommending that the San Jose City Council approve the pilot program for the $7,000 drone, paid for by taxpayers from the city's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199754703\" 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>The recommendations come after input from angry residents and civil liberties groups who attended four public neighborhood meetings. Ernest Guzman, executive analyst for the city manager's office, said the report includes policies that will guide police on what the drone can be used for and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Including potentially the use of the San Jose police auditor to be part of the process that will oversee the pilot program,\" said Guzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement surprised San Jose's outgoing independent police auditor, retired Santa Clara County Superior Court judge LaDoris Cordell, when she heard it on KQED radio this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order for the independent police auditor to have oversight, the city charter would have to be amended by the voters of San Jose to expand our jurisdiction,\" said Cordell. \"It's good the commission is thinking this way, but the mechanism they chose -- this office -- cannot work. They could possibly use the city attorney's office for oversight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said the San Jose Police Department is now doing a better job of engaging the public on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They recognize how essential it is to make sure the public is a part of the conversation when it comes to decisions about whether to equip law enforcement with surveillance technology,\" said Will Matthews, spokesman for the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope that the department is committed to engaging the public in a robust and transparent way anytime they seek to use surveillance technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the commission's recommendation for the one-year pilot program will go to the San Jose City Council's Public Safety, Finance & Strategic Support Committee before possibly going to the full council for a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 19, as seen in the video below, the San Jose Police Department also presented a recommendation for a one-year drone pilot program before the Public Safety Committee. They have been working together with the Neighborhoods Commission to get a strict drone use policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:0\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\" id=\"GranicusFlashPlayerFrame\" src=\"http://sanjose.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?clip_id=8004&view_id=51&embed=1&player_width=640&player_height=480&entrytime=2326&stoptime=4402&auto_start=0\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department said it takes full responsibility for mishandling the secret purchase of the drone in January 2014. SJPD spokesman Albert Morales said police representatives have attended all of the public hearings on the drone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We admitted we made a mistake, we moved forward with full transparency and we are attempting to make this right,\" Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said the whole point of using the drone is to keep officers and residents out of harm's way in bomb and other situations when lives are in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the San Jose City Council eventually approves a drone policy, the Federal Aviation Administration must approve a certificate of authorization for the department to fly it, a lengthy and cumbersome process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those certificate guidelines include how to fly it, the physical makeup of the device, airspace distances and those types of things,\" said Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesman for the San Jose Police Department added that the process is additionally long because not all the FAA guidelines have been worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the commission recommendation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=261166149 key=key-T8ItJpovL2OyGRrr2luY mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong> The man authorities believe shot and killed San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson late Tuesday night has been found dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10465625\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10465625 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2-400x500.jpeg\" alt=\"San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson, shot and killed Tuesday night.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2-400x500.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2-320x400.jpeg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson, shot and killed Tuesday night. \u003ccite>(San Jose Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police said the suspect, Scott Dunham, was discovered on the balcony of his Senter Road home at 3:20 a.m. He had suffered at least one gunshot wound, though police said it was unclear whether his injuries were self-inflicted or the result of police fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Suspect-in-San-Jose-officer-s-slaying-found-dead-6157643.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Larry Esquivel said there had (been) no additional reports of gunfire after the initial gunbattle between police and Dunham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good possibility he was dead the whole time,” Esquivel said. “There was no contact, or any dialogue or communication with any of our officers after that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:05 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong> San Jose police have identified the officer shot and killed Tuesday evening while responding to a call as 14-year veteran Michael Johnson. He's the 12th San Jose police officer to die in the line of duty and the first since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say the shooting suspect is Scott Dunham, 57, a resident of a townhome complex on Senter Road. In a press conference, police said they believe Dunham is alone inside his residence in the South San Jose neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10465294\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10465294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham-400x469.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose police released this photo of Scott Dunham, 57, the suspect in Tuesday night’s shooting. \" width=\"200\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham-400x469.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham-320x375.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose police released this photo of Scott Dunham, 57, the suspect in Tuesday night’s shooting. \u003ccite>(San Jose Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Larry Esquivel held a press conference near the scene of the fatal encounter and confirmed accounts that the officer was one of several who responded to the 2600 block of Senter Road after a telephoned report from the family member of a man -- apparently Dunham -- who might pose a threat to himself or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The information was the suspect was despondent, intoxicated and possibly had access to weapons, including a rifle,\" Esquivel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An officer who was approaching the residence was reportedly shot when Dunham suddenly appeared on a balcony and opened fire with a rifle, Esquivel said. Officers returned fire and reported they may have hit the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unfortunate this person had the nerve, the audacity, to shoot at our officers, who were on a call for assistance,\" Esquivel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquivel said that since Dunham was believed to still be in his home, officers had evacuated surrounding residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been San Jose's darkest hour,\" said Mayor Sam Liccardo, who appeared alongside Esquivel. \"This strikes the heart of all of us here in San Jose and throughout the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The San Jose Police Department reported late Tuesday night that an officer was shot and killed while responding to a call about a man with a gun who was threatening to kill himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said in a press release that officers responded to the 2600 block of Senter Road at approximately 6:48 p.m. The address police had been called to is a collection of two-story townhomes fronting directly on the busy six-lane thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In police radio traffic captured online, an officer can be heard reporting a man on a balcony a few minutes after 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gray hair, gray mustache, black T-shirt,\" the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 seconds later, another officer reported, \"Officer down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another officer reported multiple shots being fired a few seconds later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10465248\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10465248\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-400x282.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel, center, and Mayor Sam Liccardo, right, at Tuesday night press conference on fatal shooting of police officer. \" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-1440x1013.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-768x541.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-320x225.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel, center, and Mayor Sam Liccardo, right, at Tuesday night press conference on fatal shooting of police officer. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About two minutes after the initial report, an officer confirmed, \"Shots fired both ways, officer down, 10-55 [fatal], suspect had rounds at him, possibly down as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time, officers have the location surrounded in all directions as they attempt to locate the suspect,\" the department reported at about 9 p.m. \"All San Jose police resources are being utilized along with outside agency assistance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197569365\" 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>KQED's Beth Willon reports that the area around where the shooting occurred, in South San Jose about 3 miles southeast of downtown, swarmed with police after the shooting. The San Jose Police Department's MERGE unit, its SWAT team, was sent to the scene immediately after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have not confirmed whether the suspect has been located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unidentified officer was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjpd.org/InsideSJPD/Fallen/\" target=\"_blank\">12th member of the San Jose department\u003c/a> to die in the line of duty. The last before Tuesday night was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjpd.org/InsideSJPD/Fallen/fontana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Jeffrey M. Fontana\u003c/a>, shot and killed during a traffic stop in October 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ted Goldberg and Guy Marzorati contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:10 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong> The man authorities believe shot and killed San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson late Tuesday night has been found dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10465625\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10465625 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2-400x500.jpeg\" alt=\"San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson, shot and killed Tuesday night.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2-400x500.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2-320x400.jpeg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/image-2.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson, shot and killed Tuesday night. \u003ccite>(San Jose Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police said the suspect, Scott Dunham, was discovered on the balcony of his Senter Road home at 3:20 a.m. He had suffered at least one gunshot wound, though police said it was unclear whether his injuries were self-inflicted or the result of police fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Suspect-in-San-Jose-officer-s-slaying-found-dead-6157643.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Larry Esquivel said there had (been) no additional reports of gunfire after the initial gunbattle between police and Dunham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good possibility he was dead the whole time,” Esquivel said. “There was no contact, or any dialogue or communication with any of our officers after that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:05 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong> San Jose police have identified the officer shot and killed Tuesday evening while responding to a call as 14-year veteran Michael Johnson. He's the 12th San Jose police officer to die in the line of duty and the first since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say the shooting suspect is Scott Dunham, 57, a resident of a townhome complex on Senter Road. In a press conference, police said they believe Dunham is alone inside his residence in the South San Jose neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10465294\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10465294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham-400x469.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose police released this photo of Scott Dunham, 57, the suspect in Tuesday night’s shooting. \" width=\"200\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham-400x469.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham-320x375.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Dunham.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose police released this photo of Scott Dunham, 57, the suspect in Tuesday night’s shooting. \u003ccite>(San Jose Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Larry Esquivel held a press conference near the scene of the fatal encounter and confirmed accounts that the officer was one of several who responded to the 2600 block of Senter Road after a telephoned report from the family member of a man -- apparently Dunham -- who might pose a threat to himself or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The information was the suspect was despondent, intoxicated and possibly had access to weapons, including a rifle,\" Esquivel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An officer who was approaching the residence was reportedly shot when Dunham suddenly appeared on a balcony and opened fire with a rifle, Esquivel said. Officers returned fire and reported they may have hit the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unfortunate this person had the nerve, the audacity, to shoot at our officers, who were on a call for assistance,\" Esquivel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquivel said that since Dunham was believed to still be in his home, officers had evacuated surrounding residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been San Jose's darkest hour,\" said Mayor Sam Liccardo, who appeared alongside Esquivel. \"This strikes the heart of all of us here in San Jose and throughout the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The San Jose Police Department reported late Tuesday night that an officer was shot and killed while responding to a call about a man with a gun who was threatening to kill himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said in a press release that officers responded to the 2600 block of Senter Road at approximately 6:48 p.m. The address police had been called to is a collection of two-story townhomes fronting directly on the busy six-lane thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In police radio traffic captured online, an officer can be heard reporting a man on a balcony a few minutes after 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Gray hair, gray mustache, black T-shirt,\" the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 seconds later, another officer reported, \"Officer down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another officer reported multiple shots being fired a few seconds later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10465248\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10465248\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-400x282.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel, center, and Mayor Sam Liccardo, right, at Tuesday night press conference on fatal shooting of police officer. \" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-1440x1013.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-768x541.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/IMG_0787-e1427263466293-320x225.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel, center, and Mayor Sam Liccardo, right, at Tuesday night press conference on fatal shooting of police officer. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About two minutes after the initial report, an officer confirmed, \"Shots fired both ways, officer down, 10-55 [fatal], suspect had rounds at him, possibly down as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time, officers have the location surrounded in all directions as they attempt to locate the suspect,\" the department reported at about 9 p.m. \"All San Jose police resources are being utilized along with outside agency assistance.\"\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/197569365&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/197569365'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Beth Willon reports that the area around where the shooting occurred, in South San Jose about 3 miles southeast of downtown, swarmed with police after the shooting. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose's City Council is the first in California to declare support for a state Senate bill raising the minimum wage throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted Tuesday after a lengthy debate on SB3, a measure by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would raise the statewide minimum wage from the current $9 an hour to $13 by July 2017. The proposal would supersede local ordinances, such as San Jose's, that have wage rates lower than the proposed minimum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would allow cities to set higher minimum wages -- such as San Francisco's scheduled rise to $14 an hour in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We live in one valley but in two worlds. And we know many of our residents are not sharing in the growing prosperity of this valley.'\u003ccite>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said raising wages is the right thing to do in Silicon Valley, where the wage gap, particularly between service and tech workers, needs to be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live in one valley but in two worlds,\" said Liccardo. \"And we know many of our residents are not sharing in the growing prosperity of this valley.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo said he supports a statewide approach to raising the minimum wage rather than piecemeal efforts that have led a growing number of communities throughout the state to take action on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them: San Jose, where voters adopted a higher minimum wage -- $10 an hour -- in 2012. The rate in the city is currently $10.30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's higher wage, $12.25 an hour and also the product of a ballot measure, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/02/oakland-minimum-wage-measure-ff\" target=\"_blank\">took effect\u003c/a> earlier this month. Richmond and Berkeley have also raised their basic wage above the state minimum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo is among six mayors across the state who last month issued \u003ca href=\"http://media.bizj.us/view/img/5120101/big-10-mayors-letter-minimum-wage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a letter\u003c/a> supporting SB3, along with Ed Lee of San Francisco, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, Robert Garcia of Long Beach and Miguel Pulido of Santa Ana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the San Jose City Council debate, several community organizers commended Leno's attempts to raise the minimum-wage floor but said it isn't high enough with the cost of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nearly impossible today for many working families in San Jose to work hard and be able to live here,\" said Louis Rocha, a San Jose community organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an unsuccessful attempt by City Councilman Johnny Khamis to include exemptions to the minimum-wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted 7-2 to support SB3, with two members not voting.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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To a man, the Southsiders are here to have a good time with each other — although it doesn’t hurt that the team won this particular game, 4-0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10436741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14298_TheTeam-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10436741 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14298_TheTeam-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Dan West, Jason Yan, Chris, Winchester, Jonathon Stone, Damon Doe, Tibor Nagy, Gabriel De La Rosa, Jonny Yan, Trevor Lobert, Bryan Gesicki, Michael Wilson, Ken Nichols (Goalie), John Garret (behind), Wayne Johnson\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14298_TheTeam-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14298_TheTeam-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14298_TheTeam-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Dan West, Jason Yan, Chris Winchester, Jonathon Stone, Damon Doe, Tibor Nagy, Gabriel De La Rosa, Jonny Yan, Trevor Lobert, Bryan Gesicki, Michael Wilson, Ken Nichols (Goalie), John Garret (behind), Wayne Johnson (Courtesy of Michael Stivers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? 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When you see how hard these guys play, it’s hard to imagine how this 47-year-old finance executive from Sunnyvale does it. But hockey players work in short shifts, switching in and out of the game as they tire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We play about a minute per shift,” Doe says, gasping for breath between phrases, “because that’s about all you can last, you know, go full speed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional ice hockey players switch out even more frequently, he says. “We play too long for our own good. And there’s a direct relationship between age and how long you can be out there. Ha! The first shift I ever played, I almost threw up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Nobody cares what people do as their professions. So everybody just gets to put that away for about two hours. Just come out and play. You could be yelling at a CEO. You don’t know. It doesn’t matter.’\u003ccite> Gabriel De La Rosa,\u003cbr>\nteam captain for the Southsiders\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of these guys have known each other for more than a decade. They’ve been to each other’s BBQs and weddings. Most work in Silicon Valley, at Apple, Applied Materials, Ariba. One guy works at PG&E. Another at Pfizer. Another is a nursing student at West Valley College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that any of that really matters. Gabriel De La Rosa is a project manager for an engineering firm — when he’s not focused on being team captain of the Southsiders. “Nobody cares what people do as their professions. So everybody just gets to put that away for about two hours. Just come out and play. You could be yelling at a CEO. You don’t know. It doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 36 years old. So I ask him what part of the body goes first on a hockey player. “Pride!” he says, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10436480\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14297_BloodOnTheIce-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10436480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14297_BloodOnTheIce-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"RS14297_BloodOnTheIce-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14297_BloodOnTheIce-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14297_BloodOnTheIce-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14297_BloodOnTheIce-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blood on the ice from Damon Doe’s pinkie finger. 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"content": "\u003cp>When we think of Silicon Valley, a lot of us think of hard-working people living high on the corporate hog: high-end restaurants on campus, on-site gyms, concierge services, et cetera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this fabulous work world full of people dreaming up new ways of doing business sits on a base of people doing business the Old-Fashioned Way. Many of those service workers, the ones chopping carrots and mowing lawns, are working for subcontractors, and those workers are struggling to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Joint Venture Silicon Valley has tracked local economic trends for the last 20 years. This year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointventure.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157&Itemid=182%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Index\u003c/a> reported the income gap is wider than ever, and wider in Silicon Valley than elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area or California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joint Venture divides the workforce into three different “tiers.” For high-skilled, high-wage jobs, Tier 1 in Silicon Valley, the median wage is $119,000 a year. For low-skilled, low-wage jobs, or Tier 3, the median is $27,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thirty percent of our population is living below the self-sufficiency standard,” says Joint Venture Vice President Rachel Massaro. “That means they can’t survive without public or informal private assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Thirty percent of our population is living below the self-sufficiency standard. That means they can’t survive without public or informal, private assistance.’\u003ccite> Rachel Massaro,\u003cbr>\nVP, Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing Costs a Major Strain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Hugg, with the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County, says what many economic analysts do, that the \u003cem>housing\u003c/em> boom that has come along with the latest tech boom has made it much harder for anybody making a modest salary to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of our chronic underproduction [of housing] for decades now, we are in such a huge hole that even that addition of affordable housing, that addition of market rate housing, is not enough to move the needle here,” Hugg says. “When you have two to three, some say four to five, service-level jobs being created for every tech job, that’s a burden and a responsibility that the community has to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But aside from some government mandates requiring developers to set aside a small percentage of new units for affordable housing, individuals are largely left to their own devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massaro at Joint Venture says, “One of the definitions of informal private assistance is living with a relative or a friend. That’s what a lot of people are doing here to get by.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting By in One Room\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would describe how Michael Johnson is getting by. He rents a room in the San Jose apartment of a friend he used to be in a band with years ago. In between boxes stuffed to the gills with his belongings, there’s just enough room for Johnson’s bed, desk, chair and three bass guitars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10436818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10436818 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Johnson was an engineer once. Since he was laid off in the dot.com bust, he has been unable to get back into tech. 'It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Johnson worked as an engineer until he was laid off in the dot.com bust. He has been unable to get back into tech. ‘It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.’ \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a security guard making less than $20 an hour, this is all he can afford. “There’s no place to go except to move out of the valley, and a lot of us have families here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is 52 years old, divorced, with three kids, two of them in local colleges, the other just graduated. He’s working full time, but unless he finds a more lucrative line of work, it’s hard to see how his life is going to improve soon. Or for that matter, the lives of people like him working in service jobs across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once We Were Young, And Engineers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn up Tuesday mornings at 7:30 outside a certain tech office in Santa Clara, and you’ll spot Johnson waiting for a weekly delivery from his buddy, Norman Meeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are famous for lavish food at catered events and campus restaurants. There are a lot of leftovers. No use in that food going to waste, Meeks thinks. So, with permission, he distributes it to other security guards and janitors. Today, Meeks has chicken wings and bok choy, a kind of Chinese cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s in a situation, you know, hey, pitch in and try to help,” Meeks says. Both men work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Protection Service\u003c/a>, a major security subcontractor. That’s where they met. But that’s not where either of them started. Johnson says both men know what it is to be on the sunny side of Silicon Valley’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at two black engineers,” Johnson says. “I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘You’re looking at two black engineers. I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.’\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Remember the dot.com bust about 15 years ago? Both men got laid off, and neither man recovered, not fully. Meeks was a field engineer. “It took me almost a year to find something, and then I got laid off again. I had a friend that said ‘Why don’t you try security?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security guard gigs were supposed to be temporary, but that’s not how it’s worked out. “Once you get out of the workforce, it’s hard to get back in,” Meeks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says human resources people who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> call him about his job applications ask why he’s looking for something in tech when he’s been in security for 10 years. He suspects it doesn’t help that he’s 52 and black, even though Silicon Valley companies are under pressure to diversify their employee base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk of a Union\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is doing better than many in security. He works \u003cem>full\u003c/em> time, and his company provides benefits, although the package is a lot thinner than it used to be. “You know, when I started in security in 2004, we used to have better medical benefits. We had paid time off. Yeah, my benefit package was really comparable. The big difference was stock. When I was an IT person, I had stock options and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before security firms started cutting costs to compete during the Great Recession, about seven years back. Universal Protection Service does offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/documents/2010BenefitGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health coverage\u003c/a>, but Johnson can’t afford it. It would cost him 40 percent of his take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson doesn’t blame his employer or security contractors in general. He blames their customers, the tech companies. “The truth of the matter is, they determine how much we earn. They determine our benefits. They determine the whole thing. Our contract agencies will do whatever they say do.”\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best,” he adds, referring to the liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts. “She said, ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best. ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ “\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But security guards will never make what engineers do. I press him to make an elevator pitch to a CEO worried about defending himself before shareholders who want to know why he would pay security guards a penny more than he has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these companies are now setting record profits!” Johnson says. “When is that going to trickle down to the rest of us? That were in the boat with you. That tightened up our belts along with you. That have participated in your success. Why can’t we participate in your prosperity? When are you going to open the door for the rest of us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s still shopping his IT resume on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-johnson/6/218/202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, but whether he breaks out of security or not, he’s now involved in an effort to unionize security officers in Silicon Valley. Security officers are unionized in San Francisco and the East Bay, but not in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Field is executive officer of the South Bay Labor Council, which represents 93 local unions. Field says Johnson’s comment about losing ground in the recession applies more broadly. “I think that’s been the case not just in security, but in service work generally. The wages and benefits haven’t recovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a union contract for janitorial services in Silicon Valley, but Field and his cohorts are still working on trying to organize security officers, bus drivers and cafeteria workers. Once there are contracts, the next challenge is getting one tech firm after another to agree to play ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field muses, “You know, it seems like such a revolutionary idea that workers should be paid enough to live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Hugg, with the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County, says what many economic analysts do, that the \u003cem>housing\u003c/em> boom that has come along with the latest tech boom has made it much harder for anybody making a modest salary to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of our chronic underproduction [of housing] for decades now, we are in such a huge hole that even that addition of affordable housing, that addition of market rate housing, is not enough to move the needle here,” Hugg says. “When you have two to three, some say four to five, service-level jobs being created for every tech job, that’s a burden and a responsibility that the community has to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But aside from some government mandates requiring developers to set aside a small percentage of new units for affordable housing, individuals are largely left to their own devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massaro at Joint Venture says, “One of the definitions of informal private assistance is living with a relative or a friend. That’s what a lot of people are doing here to get by.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting By in One Room\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would describe how Michael Johnson is getting by. He rents a room in the San Jose apartment of a friend he used to be in a band with years ago. In between boxes stuffed to the gills with his belongings, there’s just enough room for Johnson’s bed, desk, chair and three bass guitars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10436818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10436818 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Johnson was an engineer once. Since he was laid off in the dot.com bust, he has been unable to get back into tech. 'It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Johnson worked as an engineer until he was laid off in the dot.com bust. He has been unable to get back into tech. ‘It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.’ \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a security guard making less than $20 an hour, this is all he can afford. “There’s no place to go except to move out of the valley, and a lot of us have families here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is 52 years old, divorced, with three kids, two of them in local colleges, the other just graduated. He’s working full time, but unless he finds a more lucrative line of work, it’s hard to see how his life is going to improve soon. Or for that matter, the lives of people like him working in service jobs across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once We Were Young, And Engineers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn up Tuesday mornings at 7:30 outside a certain tech office in Santa Clara, and you’ll spot Johnson waiting for a weekly delivery from his buddy, Norman Meeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are famous for lavish food at catered events and campus restaurants. There are a lot of leftovers. No use in that food going to waste, Meeks thinks. So, with permission, he distributes it to other security guards and janitors. Today, Meeks has chicken wings and bok choy, a kind of Chinese cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s in a situation, you know, hey, pitch in and try to help,” Meeks says. Both men work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Protection Service\u003c/a>, a major security subcontractor. That’s where they met. But that’s not where either of them started. Johnson says both men know what it is to be on the sunny side of Silicon Valley’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at two black engineers,” Johnson says. “I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘You’re looking at two black engineers. I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.’\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Remember the dot.com bust about 15 years ago? Both men got laid off, and neither man recovered, not fully. Meeks was a field engineer. “It took me almost a year to find something, and then I got laid off again. I had a friend that said ‘Why don’t you try security?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security guard gigs were supposed to be temporary, but that’s not how it’s worked out. “Once you get out of the workforce, it’s hard to get back in,” Meeks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says human resources people who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> call him about his job applications ask why he’s looking for something in tech when he’s been in security for 10 years. He suspects it doesn’t help that he’s 52 and black, even though Silicon Valley companies are under pressure to diversify their employee base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk of a Union\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is doing better than many in security. He works \u003cem>full\u003c/em> time, and his company provides benefits, although the package is a lot thinner than it used to be. “You know, when I started in security in 2004, we used to have better medical benefits. We had paid time off. Yeah, my benefit package was really comparable. The big difference was stock. When I was an IT person, I had stock options and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before security firms started cutting costs to compete during the Great Recession, about seven years back. Universal Protection Service does offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/documents/2010BenefitGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health coverage\u003c/a>, but Johnson can’t afford it. It would cost him 40 percent of his take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson doesn’t blame his employer or security contractors in general. He blames their customers, the tech companies. “The truth of the matter is, they determine how much we earn. They determine our benefits. They determine the whole thing. Our contract agencies will do whatever they say do.”\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best,” he adds, referring to the liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts. “She said, ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best. ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ “\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But security guards will never make what engineers do. I press him to make an elevator pitch to a CEO worried about defending himself before shareholders who want to know why he would pay security guards a penny more than he has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these companies are now setting record profits!” Johnson says. “When is that going to trickle down to the rest of us? That were in the boat with you. 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"content": "\u003cp>At 6 a.m. Tuesday, the teams receive their marching orders at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityteam.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CityTeam\u003c/a> in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alum Rock!\" calls out a representative with Applied Survey Research, the San Jose nonprofit that's coordinating this \"Point-in-Time\" homeless census for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up step social workers Jen Sandhu and Pauline Bayati of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homefirstscc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">HomeFirst\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Santa Clara County. They're teamed up with Nick, a formerly homeless guide, before they set off for Alum Rock and Eastside San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might imagine they'll travel by foot, but the trip is mostly by car, slowly cruising down individual streets, looking for what can be spotted without disturbing people living rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the back side of \u003ca href=\"http://www.olgparishsj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Guadalupe Church\u003c/a>, we spot the first encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right there,\" says Nick, pointing at a clutch of sleeping bags and tents huddled against a fence at the end of a cul-de-sac. A neighborhood cat prowls around as the folks inside sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, wow,\" says Sandhu, counting \"one, two, three, four, five, six tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick says many homeless people choose to stay near places where food is distributed or other services are provided. Shelters report their numbers to HUD independent of this street survey. While it's possible this team will double-count some people, the hope is the early hour means there won't be redundancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway off-ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway offramp. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick points out the telltale signs: holes cut into fences, makeshift sheds, shopping carts packed with possessions. We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. Bayati, who studied psychology at San Jose State, says: \"A lot of it is mental illness or drug abuse.\" There are also unstable families, as well as work that doesn’t pay enough to cover rent. And even though there are programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hacsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8\u003c/a>, Bayati says a one-bedroom apartment in a rough part of San Jose can run $1,700 a month or more. All this explains the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the survey every two years to figure out where to spend its money. \"Using an actual head count and having statistically figured multipliers to assess the issue is much better than an educated guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s census won’t include everybody. Counters invariably miss people on the streets, especially those living in cars and RVs. 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While it's possible this team will double-count some people, the hope is the early hour means there won't be redundancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway off-ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14087_TellTaleSign.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where you see a shopping cart packed with possessions, there's probably a homeless person nearby, and probably an encampment. Behind this cart, back in the bushes, there are signs somebody is living in the greenery by a freeway offramp. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick points out the telltale signs: holes cut into fences, makeshift sheds, shopping carts packed with possessions. We see quite a few alongside freeway on- and offramps. As cars roar past, we tiptoe past the carts to the bushes that grow along the concrete walls. Sure enough, there are sofas and sleeping bags, as well as cleared spots that indicate someone was sleeping on the ground recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just gives you a new perspective for who’s around you and who’s part of your community,\" says Sandhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from obvious encampments, it proves remarkably hard to identify people who are homeless, other than those deep into addiction and/or mental illness. A disheveled woman on the street in her housecoat and slippers attracts our attention, until she walks up and into a house. There's no way to know a kid wearing a worn hoodie or carrying a backpack too big for him is homeless just because of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg\" alt=\"Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-800x629.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14091_Nick-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick grew up in the Alum Rock area. Family troubles and alcoholism led him to the streets, but he's housed now, working with a local group called Downtown Streets Team. He's also an excellent guide for a homeless survey. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counters don't try to engage the people they see on the street. There's concern about safety, and an awareness that concern cuts both ways. A homeless person may not trust a stranger to have his best interests at heart. Many of those living on the streets are easy targets for robbery and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aguirre, who used to live in the Jungle -- a massive homeless camp dismantled in December -- has another concern: that San Jose city officials are using intelligence they gather to evict people from encampments, like they did at the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle\u003c/a>, Aguirre says. \"Since they closed the Jungle, all those people scattered, and now every time they settle down somewhere, the city goes and finds where they are. They clear them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day survey, which continues Wednesday, doesn't track specific locations. Only the counters would know exactly where they spotted an encampment, and that's not to say they would share that information with police. That said, local agencies and nonprofits are using information they gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other counties, Santa Clara County will send out teams after this count is over to meet and talk with people, gather more information about who they are and what they need, and potentially hook them up with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Supervisor and Board President Dave Cortese called for a new task force to address the problem in his State of the County \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/d3/Documents/SOTC%20Speech%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">speech\u003c/a> Tuesday night. \"In a valley among the highest in per capita income, productivity and wealth in the world, it is unthinkable that homelessness is one of our largest challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the count found more than \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">7,631\u003c/span>\u003c/span> homeless people in Santa Clara County, two-thirds of them in San Jose. HUD will release the official results for 2015 in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10417475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10417475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the survey is.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14089_CensusMaps.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps of San Jose give a sense of how detailed and extensive the homeless survey is. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The numbers are shocking, but not the reasons people become homeless. Bayati, who studied psychology at San Jose State, says: \"A lot of it is mental illness or drug abuse.\" There are also unstable families, as well as work that doesn’t pay enough to cover rent. And even though there are programs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hacsc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Section 8\u003c/a>, Bayati says a one-bedroom apartment in a rough part of San Jose can run $1,700 a month or more. All this explains the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the survey every two years to figure out where to spend its money. \"Using an actual head count and having statistically figured multipliers to assess the issue is much better than an educated guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s census won’t include everybody. Counters invariably miss people on the streets, especially those living in cars and RVs. It’s also impossible to count the people living on the edge in somebody else’s home, staying indoors thanks to the kindness of friends or family.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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We certainly are thrilled to be able to see more and more employers in North San Jose and downtown. We're seeing vacancy rates drop considerably. All that is great. The other city, of course, is really characterized by the homelessness we see in San Jose. We know this is a huge challenge in cities throughout California, but it's seen no more acutely than in Silicon Valley where, obviously, the disparities are so grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is displacement inevitable? Is that just something that we have to accept as a price of progress in a city like San Jose?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are policies that we can put in place to soften the blow for those that have been left behind in the boom. The reality is, there are much larger market forces at work here. And while I think big-city mayors have the best opportunity to have an impact in the great challenges we face -- poverty, crime and so many other challenges -- the reality is that those larger market forces are more powerful than City Hall. And the best we can do is try to implement the tools that will help a few hundred here and a few hundred there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You had tried to get developers to chip in more toward affordable housing previously. That got tied up in litigation. What's your next big idea to improve the housing stock in San Jose?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're moving forward now with an impact fee that will require developers to pay a fee that will enable nonprofit builders to build more affordable housing. The reality is, it's really just a drop in the bucket compared to the need. We know at the lowest end of the scale, we need to be doing a lot of things to help get homeless people off the street and out of the creeks. And so this spring we'll be pushing forward with an effort to convert underutilized hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope we'll be able to move forward this year on a microhousing proposal: that is, building very small units. For the workforce, we recognize we need to get more higher-density housing in places like downtown, along our transit corridors, that will enable teachers, nurses, police officers who can't afford the home prices here in our valley, to be able to have a safe place to live. You're going to see very aggressive efforts, particularly in downtown, where we've got 2,000 units that will be under construction or finished by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You are a native San Josean. Your family has deep roots in the area, and you have a deep love of the city. 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