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At least Giants fans \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/14/barry-zito-san-francisco-giants-farewell-ad\">won’t have Barry Zito starts to agonize over any more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/san-jose-sharks-in-crucial-game/\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose Sharks\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/17/warri/\">Golden State Warriors\u003c/a> also made it to the postseason in 2013. The San Jose Earthquakes weren’t so fortunate on the field, although the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/San+Jose+Earthquakes+Fans+Compete+with+Chants\">devotion of their fans continued strong\u003c/a>. The World Baseball Classic went off smoothly in San Francisco, introducing new audiences to the term \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/15/are-you-ready-for-some-honkbal-the-world-baseball-classic-heads-to-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">honkbal\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">tragic death\u003c/a> marred the America's Cup, but the race ended with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">classic comeback story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2013 also brought new attention to the issue of football players affected by concussions and head injuries – a story KQED \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/sidelined-sports-concussions/\">has been reporting on\u003c/a> since at least 2000, when the late Kathy McAnally \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1068695\">filed this story for NPR\u003c/a> about 49er quarterback Steve Young. This year, local journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada published \"League of Denial,\" a book and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/\">companion Frontline documentary;\u003c/a> California schools \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/11/13/how-new-laws-raise-awareness-of-concussion-in-student-athletes/\">took more precautions\u003c/a>; and the NFL settled a lawsuit with \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309261000\">some retired players\u003c/a> and their families. Baseball is also stepping up \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/buster-posey-ray-fosse-baseball-collision-ban\" target=\"_blank\">player protections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the most consistently engaging story of 2013 in Northern California sports was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/\">battle to keep the Kings NBA franchise in Sacramento\u003c/a>. From the shock felt by Kings fans in January when team owners announced its sale to a group that would move it to Seattle, to the elation when the NBA \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/15/sacramento-kings-fans-rejoice-at/\">officially declared the relocation threat over\u003c/a>, it had more drama, emotion, and suspense than most sports teams generate in an entire season. Under new ownership led by Bay Area tech mogul \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/24/shaq-press-conference-sacramento-kings/\">Vivek Ranadive\u003c/a>, the Kings are looking to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/01/the-sacramento-kings-court-india/\">capture first-time fans in India\u003c/a> and are experiencing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/11/5992920/kings-have-largest-home-attendance.html\" target=\"_blank\">largest attendance boost in the league\u003c/a>. Plans for a new downtown arena continue, despite an ongoing attempt to force a June 2014 ballot measure on the city's financial contributions to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's far from the only sports facility story that made headlines in 2013, and they will certainly do the same in 2014. The city of San Jose decided to move its fight to take the A’s from Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/18/san-jose-city-council-votes-to-sue-mlb-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">into the courtroom in June.\u003c/a> While most of it has been dismissed, some charges will likely be \u003ca href=\"http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/federal-court-hearing-san-jose-ballpark-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\">refiled in state court.\u003c/a> The lawsuit also revealed that Major League Baseball \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/07/major-league-baseball-rejected-oakland-as-move-to-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">turned down the A's relocation \u003c/a>request, though it's not clear whether that applied only to a specific plan or the whole notion of the move south. Oakland fans took heart from renewed attention and \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_24209664/deep-pocketed-developers-sign-up-coliseum-city\" target=\"_blank\">new developers for Coliseum City\u003c/a>, which could house new venues for the A's, Raiders, and Warriors, along with a new proposal for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Oakland-ballpark-backers-tout-waterfront-site-5067603.php\">waterfront stadium in Oakland. \u003c/a> The Warriors ownership, though, continues to be more interested in relocating to San Francisco and their own \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/golden-state-warriors-unveil-slightly-downsized-arena-design-for/\" target=\"_blank\">waterfront jewel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction continued on Levi's Stadium, the new home of the 49ers in Santa Clara; it's touted as the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/49ers-tackle-sustainability-with-new-green-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">greenest in the NFL\u003c/a>. The team and its fans bid \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/18/49ers-tailgaters/\" target=\"_blank\">an emotional farewell \u003c/a>to Candlestick Park a few days ago, evoking memories of the 1989 World Series game postponed by the Loma Prieta earthquake. And San Jose's 'Quakes...the soccer team, not the seismic event... are building \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjearthquakes.com/blog/new-stadium\" target=\"_blank\">their new stadium\u003c/a> in the South Bay as well, although it won't be ready in time for the 2014 season opener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Raiders are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Raiders-Allen-optimistic-about-job-team-5103452.php\">taking stock after a 4-12 season\u003c/a>, just as they did last year. The 49ers are headed for the postseason, just as they did last year – of course, eventually reaching, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/were-the-ravens-holding-breaking-down-the-super-bowls-most-controversial-play/\">and losing\u003c/a>, the Super Bowl. A’s fans are enjoying their second consecutive AL West championship, cursing, once again, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2013-10-10/alds-2013-justin-verlander-detroit-tigers-oakland-athletics-as-score-results-game-5-american-league-baseball-series\">the name of Justin Verlander\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article/oak/oakland-as-optimistic-for-more-success-as-calendar-turns-to-2014?ymd=20131226&content_id=66133636&vkey=news_oak\">counting the days\u003c/a> until February 14 when pitchers and catchers report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now for something completely different: the San Francisco Giants followed up their \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/29/photos-video-celebrations-of-giants-world-series-win-get-rowdy/\">2012 championship\u003c/a>, the second in three years, with an unmemorable 2013, tied for third place in their division. At least Giants fans \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/14/barry-zito-san-francisco-giants-farewell-ad\">won’t have Barry Zito starts to agonize over any more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/san-jose-sharks-in-crucial-game/\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose Sharks\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/17/warri/\">Golden State Warriors\u003c/a> also made it to the postseason in 2013. The San Jose Earthquakes weren’t so fortunate on the field, although the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/San+Jose+Earthquakes+Fans+Compete+with+Chants\">devotion of their fans continued strong\u003c/a>. The World Baseball Classic went off smoothly in San Francisco, introducing new audiences to the term \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/15/are-you-ready-for-some-honkbal-the-world-baseball-classic-heads-to-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">honkbal\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">tragic death\u003c/a> marred the America's Cup, but the race ended with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">classic comeback story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2013 also brought new attention to the issue of football players affected by concussions and head injuries – a story KQED \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/sidelined-sports-concussions/\">has been reporting on\u003c/a> since at least 2000, when the late Kathy McAnally \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1068695\">filed this story for NPR\u003c/a> about 49er quarterback Steve Young. This year, local journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada published \"League of Denial,\" a book and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/\">companion Frontline documentary;\u003c/a> California schools \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/11/13/how-new-laws-raise-awareness-of-concussion-in-student-athletes/\">took more precautions\u003c/a>; and the NFL settled a lawsuit with \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309261000\">some retired players\u003c/a> and their families. Baseball is also stepping up \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/buster-posey-ray-fosse-baseball-collision-ban\" target=\"_blank\">player protections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the most consistently engaging story of 2013 in Northern California sports was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/\">battle to keep the Kings NBA franchise in Sacramento\u003c/a>. From the shock felt by Kings fans in January when team owners announced its sale to a group that would move it to Seattle, to the elation when the NBA \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/15/sacramento-kings-fans-rejoice-at/\">officially declared the relocation threat over\u003c/a>, it had more drama, emotion, and suspense than most sports teams generate in an entire season. Under new ownership led by Bay Area tech mogul \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/24/shaq-press-conference-sacramento-kings/\">Vivek Ranadive\u003c/a>, the Kings are looking to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/01/the-sacramento-kings-court-india/\">capture first-time fans in India\u003c/a> and are experiencing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/11/5992920/kings-have-largest-home-attendance.html\" target=\"_blank\">largest attendance boost in the league\u003c/a>. Plans for a new downtown arena continue, despite an ongoing attempt to force a June 2014 ballot measure on the city's financial contributions to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Ruling Says San Jose Cannot Cut Employee Pensions",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121871\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/23/121816/San-Jose-Measure-B/rs2453_njneighborwebsj20111205pensions-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121871\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-121871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS2453_NJNeighborWebSJ20111205pensions-1.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose City Hall. (pntphoto/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose City Hall. (pntphoto/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a case that could have a big impact on cities throughout California, a judge has ruled that San Jose cannot implement cuts to city employee pensions to save taxpayer funds. But the city can cut salaries to realize the savings expected from pension reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Patricia Lucas released the ruling on Monday. It stems from a lawsuit over Measure B, which called for existing city employees, including police officers and firefighters, to pay 16 percent more into their pensions and retiree health care plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the ruling is expected to be appealed, legal experts say it could set precedent for cities around the state that are considering pension cuts as a way to save taxpayer funds without having to cut services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B won nearly 70 percent voter approval in June 2012, but was challenged by employee unions. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/pensions/ci_24782960/pensions-city-workers-cant-be-cut-but-pay\">San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Municipal unions sued, saying the retirement benefits were previously approved at the bargaining table and represented a \"vested right\" that employees could not lose just because the city ran into hard financial times. A weeklong trial ensued in July. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[In her ruling last week, Lucas] said it forever became the city's responsibility to pay for employee pension costs once officials signed its labor contracts doling out the retirement benefits — and the rising costs of paying for those pensions was not a good enough excuse to wipe out that obligation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Lucas upheld a section of Measure B that allows city officials to cut workers' pay instead of pensions to achieve the taxpayer savings. Reed said city leaders will work out the pay cuts over the next months, before Measure B takes effect on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides claimed victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We won, they lost,” said Jim Unland, president of the Police Officers Association, to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/entries/12_23_13_judge_hands_down_ruling_on_measure_b_pension_reform/\">San Jose Inside\u003c/a>. ... \"The vested right doctrine once again held up again. [City officials] can play their cute numbers game, but the core of what measure B was was invalidated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Pete Constant, a former police officer and Measure B backer, told San Jose Inside about two-thirds of Measure B’s changes were upheld. “The important thing is it preserves the $21 million in savings that we’ve already put in place. That’s really important, because we now move into next year’s budget with certainty. It upheld the rule of voter authority over any future pension changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier story, the Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/pensions/ci_23745027/both-sides-await-ruling-after-san-jose-pension\">reported\u003c/a> that Measure B put some $68 million in yearly retirement savings is at stake, and that the measure is key to Mayor Reed's legacy as well as the political fortunes of his City Council allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of six Council members support Measure B, and are also \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=121816&action=edit&message=10\">potential mayoral candidates\u003c/a> after Reed's final year in office. Reed, meanwhile, has supported a statewide initiative that proposes to allow all California cities to be able to cut worker pensions. He spoke about the initiative, which he hopes to get on the ballot in 2014, on KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310170900\">Forum\u003c/a> in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed had pointed out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/15/94162/san_jose_voters_to_decide_on_pension_reform_measure\">KQED in May 2012\u003c/a> that the city’s pension costs have tripled in the last decade, forcing San Jose to cut services; if the pension plans were left unchecked, the city could face billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>San Jose's public workers contend it is unfair to expect them to the bear the brunt of a problem they didn't create. And they say most retirement pensions are not luxurious. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides claimed victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We won, they lost,” said Jim Unland, president of the Police Officers Association, to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/entries/12_23_13_judge_hands_down_ruling_on_measure_b_pension_reform/\">San Jose Inside\u003c/a>. ... \"The vested right doctrine once again held up again. [City officials] can play their cute numbers game, but the core of what measure B was was invalidated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Pete Constant, a former police officer and Measure B backer, told San Jose Inside about two-thirds of Measure B’s changes were upheld. “The important thing is it preserves the $21 million in savings that we’ve already put in place. That’s really important, because we now move into next year’s budget with certainty. It upheld the rule of voter authority over any future pension changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier story, the Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/pensions/ci_23745027/both-sides-await-ruling-after-san-jose-pension\">reported\u003c/a> that Measure B put some $68 million in yearly retirement savings is at stake, and that the measure is key to Mayor Reed's legacy as well as the political fortunes of his City Council allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of six Council members support Measure B, and are also \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=121816&action=edit&message=10\">potential mayoral candidates\u003c/a> after Reed's final year in office. Reed, meanwhile, has supported a statewide initiative that proposes to allow all California cities to be able to cut worker pensions. He spoke about the initiative, which he hopes to get on the ballot in 2014, on KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310170900\">Forum\u003c/a> in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed had pointed out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/05/15/94162/san_jose_voters_to_decide_on_pension_reform_measure\">KQED in May 2012\u003c/a> that the city’s pension costs have tripled in the last decade, forcing San Jose to cut services; if the pension plans were left unchecked, the city could face billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>San Jose's public workers contend it is unfair to expect them to the bear the brunt of a problem they didn't create. And they say most retirement pensions are not luxurious. The average for San Jose is about $40,000 a year with a cost of living allowance of 3 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2200\">Statement\u003c/a> from San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed on the ruling released today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/23/121816/San-Jose-Measure-B/capture-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121857\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-121857\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Capture2-e1387848597834.png\" alt=\"San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's statement on the Measure B ruling.\" width=\"640\" height=\"671\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's statement on the Measure B ruling.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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This is the biggest gain for California since 2003-2004, before the recession. While most of the gain is due to a \"natural increase\" of more births than deaths, demographic experts say the state also saw increased migration to the recovering labor market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is particularly true of the Bay Area. 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The county grew by nearly 26,000 people to a total of roughly 1.6 million residents — a growth rate of 1.7 percent compared to a statewide rate of 0.9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, 103,000 more people left California than came here during the July 2012-July 2013 period — a decline that has continued since 2001. But in the Bay Area, 4,800 more people moved in than left, with Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa and Santa Cruz counties picking up the biggest gains. Santa Clara and San Francisco counties, where most of the area jobs are, saw 3,522 and 1,824, respectively, move away. Just over 1,900 people left San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn't necessarily mean people are leaving the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not leaving the region,\" said John Malson, a demographer who helped produce the Department of Finance report, to the Mercury News. \"They're just leaving San Francisco and Santa Clara counties because of the cost of living. They're probably just moving over to Alameda and Contra Costa where they can afford to live, but work in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreign immigration helped boost Bay Area numbers during the 12-month period, and because of that San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties all saw net migration gains. Alameda County showed the largest increase, with more than 15,000 people coming in due to both foreign and domestic migration. Santa Clara County was close behind with a net migration of 11,537.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An excerpt from \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-snapshot-of-California-s-increasing-population-5059810.php\">The Associated Press\u003c/a> story based on the report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: What is immigration's impact on growth?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: Without foreign immigration, more people would be leaving California for other states than moving here. 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(Courtesy GunByGun)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, four cities in California are doing gun buybacks — a voluntary exchange where people sell guns for cash and the guns are then destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles and San Francisco, the cities are funding the effort with help from corporate sponsors. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunbygun.org/san-jose-gun-buyback\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunbygun.org/oakland-gun-buyback\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland\u003c/a>, the money is coming from a new source: the crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders are working with a private crowdfunding platform to get regular people to donate small amounts online. The website \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunbygun.org/\">GunByGun.org\u003c/a> has pulled in over $36,000 so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Outreach in Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year, Oakland has had \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak044374.pdf\">84 homicides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sikander Iqbal is an organizer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\">Youth UpRising\u003c/a>, a community-service agency that supports young people. Youth UpRising is sponsoring Oakland's gun buyback this Saturday, along with GunByGun. Iqbal walks past a schoolyard in East Oakland, handing out flyers publicizing the event to people waiting for the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lists the going prices: \"We're doing up to a $100 for handguns, rifles and shotguns and up to $200 for assault weapons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malana Weens, 24, poses a frequently asked question: “Do they make you give your information and all that stuff?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iqbal explains police do not know people's names. Civilian volunteers check. “When you pull up, I'll be at the front,\" he says. \"I'll check your ID just to make sure you’re from Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalls two years ago they didn’t do resident checks and \"hella people came from like Tahoe. And they brought hella guns and took all the money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this block, he's only asking people to bring in guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Oakland's downtown, near businesses and shoppers, Youth UpRising put up billboards to ask people to donate money online. Iqbal says the crowdfunding campaign lets different parts of the community work together, even when they don't talk to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in a neighborhood that doesn't have that much gun violence, \"he says, \"we would like you to contribute by putting up money to help fund getting guns off the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crowdfunding: a New Political Tactic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Johnstone is the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunbygun.org/\" target=\"_blank\">GunByGun.org\u003c/a>, the crowdfunding platform behind the buybacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really just a market-based system,” he says. “There's demand to have fewer guns in a city. And on the other side there's a lot of guns people are ready to part with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnstone is an entrepreneur in San Francisco who's seen his peers use crowdfunding to raise millions of dollars for things like underwater robots and smartwatches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He felt frustrated that even after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/12/us/sandy-hook-timeline/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandy Hook school massacre\u003c/a> in Newtown, Conn., last December, lawmakers failed to pass comprehensive background check laws. He decided to put crowdfunding technology to work for a cause that's personal to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Johnstone was 10, his father was shot and killed in an attempted robbery in San Francisco. “The 16-year-old kid just fired one shot into his back,\" he says. \"And the gun, we later found out, had been stolen from a home in Marin two weeks before the shooting had happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnstone is working on buybacks in cities around the country. He says giving money is a hard indicator of commitment in the online and offline worlds. It also lets people feel like they're doing something about an intractable problem. \"We're giving them this immediate, tangible outlet right away,\" he says, \"without waiting for changes in legislation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Playing on Emotions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuck Michel is the lawyer for the \u003ca href=\"http://home.nra.org/\">National Rifle Association\u003c/a> in California. He says the crowdfunding campaign is playing with people’s emotions: \"What they're selling is a promise that there'll be some sort of a difference made, and that's a false promise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nraila.org/media/10883516/nij-gun-policy-memo.pdf\">Research\u003c/a> from the Department of Justice indicates that buybacks alone are not an effective way to reduce gun violence. They need to happen on a large scale, and be reinforced by legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Buybacks] ignore the substitution effect,\" Michel says. \"There are plenty of other guns out there that can be stolen or bought on the black market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has limited funds. It is putting its tax dollars into trauma counseling and nonviolent conflict resolution — \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/pubs/info/reports/gun-violence-prevention.aspx?item=6\">proven strategies\u003c/a> in violence reduction. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/26/obama-defends-medical-marijuana-crackdown-in-rolling-stone-interview/an-initiative-to-legalize-marijuana-in-california-to-appear-on-nov-ballot-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63639\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-63639\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/MedicalMarijuanaJustinSullivanGetty-e1386697667421.jpg\" alt=\"(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just as a new statewide survey finds \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/120315/marijuana-legalization-Field-Poll\" target=\"_blank\">widespread support\u003c/a> for legalizing marijuana, San Jose officials are talking about taking steps that would likely shut down most of the city's 80 medical cannabis outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_24673821/san-jose-take-new-shot-at-limiting-medical\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News explains\u003c/a>, the action is made possible by a state Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana regulation earlier this year. The paper quotes Mayor Chuck Reed as a strong supporter of new limits:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We can't just have a laissez-faire regulation system,\" said Reed, who suggested that the city get \"mean\" with problem pot shops.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2013/12/10/san-jose-mulls-pot-shop-ban-again\" target=\"_blank\">a summary from the East Bay Express\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/24269\" target=\"_blank\">a staff proposal\u003c/a> the City Council will consider later today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Prohibit dispensaries within 1,000 feet of public and private schools, child daycare centers, churches with child daycare centers, community/recreation centers, parks, libraries and other Medical Marijuana establishments\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prohibit them within 500 feet from substance abuse rehabilitation centers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prohibit them within 150 feet from residential uses;\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And then either:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Return within 90 days with a complete Medical Marijuana regulatory program; or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Return in 30 days with a ban prohibiting the operation of Medical Marijuana establishments in San Jose.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mike Rosenberg of the San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_24673821/san-jose-take-new-shot-at-limiting-medical\" target=\"_blank\">gives the background\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Jose has not approved zoning for medical marijuana shops, making them technically illegal and subject to closure under city code enforcement. But there are no city laws specifically banning or regulating them. And San Jose voters in 2010 overwhelmingly approved a 10 percent tax on marijuana businesses, pumping $5.4 million a year into a $1 billion city general fund that has struggled with chronic shortfalls. City officials have limited enforcement action against marijuana stores to those that have generated complaints, are located near schools or failed to pay the city tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pushing for the new law, city officials cite concerns from neighborhood and law enforcement groups, and a survey that found nearly half of Lincoln High School students got their marijuana from nearby collectives. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... The City Council — half of which is running for mayor in June — not only has to deal with the perennial hot-potato issue before them, but whether the law they pass would be upheld by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical cannabis attorney James Anthony took one look at the proposed map the city published showing the few places where dispensaries could operate and said: \"That's absurd; that's not going to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than causing problems, Anthony said the pot shops have installed increased security systems, raised tax money, provided jobs and supplied local patients with convenient access to their \"medicine.\" He predicted a repeat of the referendum drive he led when San Jose officials tried enacting similar regulations in September 2011.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/07/major-league-baseball-san-jose-lawsuit-oakland-athletics/oaklandcoliseum072913/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106140\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/oaklandcoliseum072913-e1386446537995.jpg\" alt=\"A 2013 game at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's are at the center of a court battle to force Major League Baseball to allow the team to move to San Jose. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2013 game at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's are at the center of a court battle to force Major League Baseball to allow the team to move to San Jose. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a surprising development, attorneys for Major League Baseball say Commissioner Bud Selig formally rejected a request by Oakland Athletics ownership to move the team to San Jose last June. That claim comes in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/190083132/SJ-v-MLB-Case-Mgmt-Statement\" target=\"_blank\">case-management statement\u003c/a> prepared in advance of a federal court hearing scheduled next week in San Jose's lawsuit against the the major leagues. The suit alleges that Major League Baseball interfered with the A's attempt to relocate to San Jose in part by not making a timely decision on the matter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the newly filed case-management document, attorneys for Major League Baseball say a decision was made and communicated to A's owner Lew Wolff. \"In fact, MLB denied the Athletics’ relocation request on June 17, 2013,\" the document says, \"one day before this lawsuit was filed. On that date, Commissioner Selig formally notified the Athletics’ ownership that he was not satisfied with the club’s relocation proposal.\" (Coincidentally, June 17 was the day after \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2013/06/16/raw-sewage-on-clubhouse-level-creates-postgame-chaos/\" target=\"_blank\">a highly publicized sewage spill\u003c/a> following an A's game at the Oakland Coliseum.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from Selig to the Athletics has not been made public. The legal filing says that major league officials notified San Jose of its existence on Oct. 22, and offered to share it with the city if it would agree to a \"protective order\" to keep it confidential and/or agree not to use it for further legal action. 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The latter is implied by an anonymous source cited by\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2013/12/07/did-mlb-deny-the-as-request-to-move-to-san-jose-in-june/\" target=\"_blank\"> Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed a major part\u003c/a> of San Jose's suit — allegations that Major League Baseball was guilty of violating federal antitrust law by blocking the A's move — in an October ruling. The case-management statement filed Friday from both sides in the case states their positions on how to proceed on a remaining claim that Major League Baseball violated California law by interfering with San Jose's contract with the A's for a stadium site downtown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's originally made the proposal to move to San Jose in 2009. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118632\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/15/listeners-weigh-in-gentricication-is-_____________/attachment/93075709/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118632\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118632 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/93075709.jpg\" alt=\"Thinkstock Image\" width=\"442\" height=\"386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinkstock Image\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In nearly every \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum\u003c/a> show on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, KQED’s series on affordable housing in the Bay Area, many listeners and commenters opine, to paraphrase, “Build Baby Build.” That is to say, San Francisco simply needs to accept its popularity and booming economy and build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Forum decided to take up the question, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the Bay Area build its way out of a lack of affordable housing?\u003c/a>” The answer, to paraphrase again, is “It’s complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Forum guests agreed that building needs to be part of the solution, they also agreed that creating housing is a complex problem, requiring a multi-pronged, nuanced approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a person who enjoys listening, the full Forum show is online \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. But if you’re short on time and just want the highlights, this post’s for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.Work backwards\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Show affordable housing the money\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also goes on to criticize Plan Bay Area for its lack of monetary teeth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no funding source for the affordable housing that’s necessary to make that kind of vision work,” he said. “It’s just basically a numerical game plan and then the market builds. But the market only builds for a segment of that need and without the money, what you have is a recipe for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just how much does it cost to build affordable or subsidized housing? A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably costs, depending on who you’re building for, a few hundred thousand dollars in subsidies per unit,” said Gabriel Metcalf. “And maybe a third of that [comes from local sources]. So call it a $100,000 in subsidy, locally, per unit. You can kind of multiply that by how many people you want to help, and you can help thousands of people, but there will still be hundreds of thousands of people who are not going to get one of those units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Think beyond the single-family unit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a study on the East Bay of the potential for building in-law units, and compared it to the potential for building multi-family buildings, and we found that about half of our in-field developments should be coming from in-law units,” said Karen Chapple. “In many of our larger lots it’s very hard to assemble, it’s very expensive. It can cost one quarter the amount to build an in-law unit in the back of a single-family home. That said, it does need to be price controlled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials are starting to recognize the role that secondary units can play in easing the housing crunch. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed allowing in-law units to be built in his district\u003c/a> and Board of Supervisor President David Chiu introduced legislation that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize existing secondary units\u003c/a> that were built illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think Bay Area officials should do to increase the amount of affordable housing in the region? We welcome your suggestions in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. 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Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. 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John Laws, spokesman for the San Jose State University police, said that after an investigation of a report they received on Oct. 14, the incidents \"appear to meet the criteria for a hate crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents reportedly took place in one the high-rise Campus Village Buildings housing university students on campus, Laws said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Aug. 20 and Oct. 13 this year, the three defendants lived with the then 17-year-old black student, also a freshman, and four other white male students in an eight-person suite, West said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three defendants allegedly called their black roommate \"three-fifths\" and \"fraction\" and put up a Confederate flag in the campus suite they shared, West said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Three-fifths\" is a reference to the fraction the U.S. Census used to count black slaves in the South in the 18th and early 19th centuries for the purpose of representation in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early September, the defendants are alleged to have placed a \"U\" shaped bike lock on his neck and refused to give him the key for five to 10 minutes before finally letting him out, West said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, they tried to lock him in it again but he resisted and fought them and in the process bruised his lip, which led to the battery charge, West said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24566367/san-jose-state-students-charged-hate-crime\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> spoke to the student who is accusing the men of harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The freshman, now 18, said in a brief telephone interview that he's never experienced this kind of mistreatment, even though he was one of only a few black students at his high school in Santa Cruz. 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