San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 46.33

2012·50.8 MB·English

by  San Francisco Bay Guardian

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that, despite all the good efforts
by a lot of good people, we
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never address the root cause of
our housing crisis. We routinely
enact laws and ballot initiatives,
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organize endless demonstrations
and elect progressive politicians,
but in the final analysis, these
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efforts are just a Band Aid on a
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heads.
A few years ago, Brian
Politics
Basinger of the AIDS Housing
Tracking the high-stakes Alliance and I pushed “no fast
8 Washington vote pass to eviction” legislation to
stop the eviction of seniors and
The historic preservation controversy
people with AIDS and other dis-
vs. the current board of supes
abilities through the state Ellis
Act.
ThE busInEss-TAx DEbAcLE
Noise Ellis allows a landlord to
override just-cause eviction pro-
Great transgender punk heroes
in history EDITORIAL Labor and much of the business tax from a levy on payroll the Building Owners and Managers tections and evict all of the ten-
progressive community worked with to a levy on gross receipts. There are Association is a sideshow. ants in a building. It’s often used
7 must-see concerts this week downtown and the Mayor’s Office winners and losers in that scenario, The real problem is that the by speculators to flip properties
last year to craft a pension-reform and the business community is mayor’s plan would be revenue-neu- — that is, buy them, evict the
bill that took away benefits from split: High-tech firms tend to have tral — that is, the big business com- tenants, and create a tenancy-
city employees. The unions came high payrolls compared to gross munity, which has never paid its fair in-common (where there’s the
to the table, recognized the city’s receipts, and finance, insurance and share of the city’s tax burden, would same number of owners as there
financial problems and bought into real-estate tends to have high gross be doing nothing at all to help with are apartments). The new own-
a compromise, even though it took receipts compared to payroll. So the the structural budget deficits that ers apply for condo conversion so
money out of their pockets. burden could shift from the likes plague San Francisco. Labor gives that, instead of sharing a percent-
And now big business, with the of Twitter and Zynga, who would up hundreds of millions of dollars. age in the building, they actually
support of Mayor Ed Lee, wants to pay less, to the commercial office Neighborhoods suffer with service own their own units.
Pixel VisioN reform the local business tax in a and financial-services sector, which cuts. The poorest San Franciscans No Fast Pass says that if some-
way that doesn’t bring the city a would pay more. In other words, the give up housing and health care and one uses Ellis to evict tenants,
Caitlin Donohue reports from
dime of new revenue (and hurts new business elite likes the change, social services in the name of bal- then the building can’t convert
Blatimore’s Open Walls street art fest
small business in the process). and the old guard doesn’t. ancing the budget. And the wealthi- to condos for ten years. If any of
Virginia Miller checks out cheap eats In other words, it’s fine to seek Small business doesn’t like it est companies in town smirk and those tenants are seniors or dis-
in the South Bay compromise when it’s about cutting much, either — a lot of the tiniest say: Sorry, we won’t help. abled, it can never be converted.
workers pay and city costs. When it’s companies in town now pay no tax That’s a nonstarter. A lawsuit The legislation helped. There
about asking big business (and a lot at all, and would be hit with at the by 52 big businesses over an earlier was a drop in Ellis evictions.
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of big businesses, particularly tech very least an annual license fee. So gross receipts tax, settled in 2001, Unfortunately, landlords and
Kelly Lovemonster interviews businesses, in this town are doing the percentage paid by the smallest cost the city as much as $50 million speculators now employ intimi-
Feminist Porn Award’s “Heartthrob exceptionally well right now) to would go up a year — and at the very least, this dation, harassment and buy-outs
of the Year” Justin Darling chip in just a little more, to do the You can certainly argue that new tax should get that back. A plan to get rid of tenants, so that they
right thing, address the revenue side tech is creating more jobs than that doesn’t at the very least bring don’t have to use Ellis.
of the ledger and pay a fair share, other sectors of the economy these in $50 million to $100 million a
It’s time to get beyond Band
the answer is No. days. And while it’s fun to watch year of additional revenue from the
Aids. Housing should be a
That’s not ok — and the supervi- the Chamber of Commerce and big operators — tech, finance, real-
human right, guaranteed for all,
sors shouldn’t go along with it. Conway’s San Francisco Citizens for estate, and the rest — amounts to
as healthcare is in other nations.
The essence of the proposal Technology and Innovation butt the proverbial shifting of deck chairs
When former Supervisor Tom
from the mayor’s office (orchestrated heads (and progressives are looking on the Titanic. If the mayor won’t
Ammiano realized that 65,000
in significant part by billionaire Ron for ways to exploit those differenc- move, a grassroots alternative needs
San Franciscans (15% of the
Conway) is to shift the city’s main es), the fight between Twitter and to be on the November ballot. 2
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As long as housing is a com-
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modity, affordable only to those
who have the dough, there will
always be people left out in the
cold — literally. Our city has
more than 10,000 homeless
people, not to mention scores
of others living (through no
choice of their own) in deplor-
able conditions. The city builds
more market-rate housing than
it needs, while units for those
below 50 percent of the city’s
median income fall far short of
the demand.
A mandate to house
everyone in the city has never
been tried. I don’t have an exact
plan, but a “Housing SF” (like
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working to pull in more. If the
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offering masters and doctoral degrees in clinical, (cid:7)(cid:28)(cid:40)(cid:14)(cid:8)(cid:35)(cid:29)(cid:36)(cid:38)(cid:34)(cid:24)(cid:40)(cid:32)(cid:36)(cid:35)(cid:14)(cid:36)(cid:35)(cid:14)(cid:5)(cid:24)(cid:26)(cid:31)(cid:14)(cid:36)(cid:29)(cid:14) happens, it should be initially
counsleing, and depth psychology, and the humani- (cid:13)(cid:24)(cid:26)(cid:32)(cid:45)(cid:26)(cid:24)(cid:15)(cid:39)(cid:14)(cid:4)(cid:28)(cid:30)(cid:38)(cid:28)(cid:28)(cid:14)(cid:13)(cid:38)(cid:36)(cid:30)(cid:38)(cid:24)(cid:34)(cid:39) used only for those who need
it most — the homeless and the
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poor, remembering that shelters
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Jung and other eminent scholars. (cid:2)(cid:1)Students (cid:22)(cid:40)(cid:41)(cid:27)(cid:28)(cid:35)(cid:40)(cid:39)(cid:16)(cid:14)(cid:24)(cid:35)(cid:27)(cid:14)(cid:1)(cid:33)(cid:41)(cid:34)(cid:35)(cid:32) considered such under Care
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Put a moratorium on mar-
professional goals. They benefit from a rigorous (cid:10)(cid:28)(cid:24)(cid:38)(cid:35)(cid:14)(cid:24)(cid:25)(cid:36)(cid:41)(cid:40)(cid:14)(cid:6)(cid:32)(cid:35)(cid:24)(cid:35)(cid:26)(cid:32)(cid:24)(cid:33)(cid:14)(cid:1)(cid:32)(cid:27)(cid:14)(cid:24)(cid:35)(cid:27)(cid:14) ket-rate housing. Turn all aban-
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will likely see their tax obligations poorest populations: Laguna Honda punishes companies for growing
increase. Yet some Chamber coun- patients are mostly seniors on Medi- and creating new jobs in our City’ ”
ter-proposals could end up cost- Cal and General is the main public the statement said. “Unlike our cur-
ing small businesses more money, hospital serving the city’s poor. rent payroll tax, a gross receipts tax
creating a puzzle that has yet to be On April 5, city workers got would deliver stable and growing
worked out. creative with a street theater protest revenue to fund vital city services,
But one thing is clear: The that involved six-story projections while promoting job growth and
business leaders don’t want to see on the iconic Hobart Building. continued economic recovery for
overall city revenue increase. “If Protesters dressed as rich CEOs and San Francisco.”
there’s anything that is unifying handed out thank-you cards to com- Daly and Avalos say progressives
in the business community is that muters at the Montgomery transit agree that a gross receipts tax would
it’s revenue neutral,” small business station. SEIU’s “The City We Need, probably be better than the payroll
advocate Scott Hauge told us. “We’re Not Downtown Greed” campaign tax, and they say the controller’s
not going to increase revenues, included a website (www.neednot- report lays out a good analysis and
that’s just a given, so if we have to greed.org), slick video, and direct framework for the discussions to
do battle then so be it.” mailers portraying CEOs as panhan- come. But despite its detailed look at
SEIU and other members of pro- dlers on the street asking city resi- who the winners and losers in the
gressive revenue coalition that has dents, “Can you spare a tax break?” tax reform might be, Daly said, “We
been strategizing in recent weeks are The most dramatic civil dis- haven’t seen an actual proposal yet.”
hoping to exploit the divisions in obedience came on April 18, when Lazarus made a similar state-
the business community and arrive more than 1,000 workers rallied ment: “Nobody likes the payroll tax,
at a compromise that increases reve- outside City Hall — along with but the devil is in the details.”
nue, and if not then they say they’re several progressive supervisors But it’s clear some businesses
willing to go to the ballot with a — and then marched to Van Ness — those with high gross receipts
rival measure. and Market. Protesters blocked the but low payrolls — would pay more
tax eqUity
“We’re working on trying to street, resulting in 23 arrests. At taxes. For example, the finance,
recover what we lost in the 2001 that point, increases in health care insurance, and real estate sector now
settlement and then some,” Sup. cuts and pay cuts to city workers pays about 16 percent of the $410
With the business community divided, can labor and John Avalos, who has been working were still on the table. million the city collects in payroll
with the progressive coalition, told That was followed the next week taxes. That would go up to about 21
progressives force a business-tax reform that actually
us. “We have to have something by hundreds of workers staging percent under a gross receipts tax.
increases revenue? going to the ballot that is revenue noisy demonstrations in City Hall, “Several industries that could
generating.” and then again on May Day when face higher taxes under the propos-
By Steven t. JoneS money back that we lost in 2001.” SEIU workers were well represented al, such as commercial real estate,
laBor’S Campaign
and yael Chanoff The union and the city recently in actions that took over parts of the large retailers, and large construc-
[email protected], [email protected] agreed on a new contract that avoids For labor and progressives, this is Financial District. tion firms, felt the increase was too
more of the salary cuts that SEIU an equity issue. Workers have been In the end, the demands of sharp,” the report said under the
A broad consensus in San members have taken in recent years, asked to give back money, year after union representatives were met in heading of “Policy Issues Arising
Francisco supports reforming the but workers could still face layoffs year, despite the fact that big cor- the contract agreement. Health care From Meetings with Businesses.”
city’s business-tax structure by under a new city budget that Lee is porations have been doing well in cost increases and pay cuts were The report highlighted how the
replacing the payroll tax with scheduled to introduce June 1. Lee, recent years but haven’t contributed eliminated, and a 3 percent pay change would broaden the tax base.
a gross receipts tax through a Board of Supervisors President David any of that wealth to the cash- raise will kick in during the two- Only about 7,500 businesses now
November ballot measure. But the Chiu, and business leaders working strapped city. Labor leaders say that year contract’s second year, a deal pay the payroll tax (others are either
devil is in the details of how indi- on the tax-reform proposal have after they supported last year’s pen- overwhelmingly approved by union too small or are exempt from local
vidual tax bills are affected, which until June 12 to introduce their bal- sion-reform measure, it’s time for members. Labor leaders hope to use taxation, such as banks), whereas
has divided the business commu- lot measure. the business community to support that momentum to force a deal with 33,500 companies would pay the
nity and given a coalition of labor But they don’t yet have an agree- city services. the Mayor’s Office on the tax reform gross receipts tax, which the report
and progressives the opportunity ment on what the measure should “When we talked about Prop C, measure — which some sources say identified as another issue to be
to overcome the insistence by look like — largely because the we said if our members are doing is possible. Otherwise, they say the resolved.
Mayor Ed Lee and other pro-busi- technology sector (led by billionaire this with our pensions now, we’ll see campaign will continue. “While some businesses appreci-
ness moderates that any change venture capitalist Ron Conway, the next year what businesses do with “We may end up on the streets ated the base-broadening aspect of
be revenue-neutral. biggest fundraiser for Lee’s mayoral business tax,” said Larry Bradshaw, gathering signatures soon,” Daly the gross receipts proposal, others
Service Employees International campaign last year), the traditional vice president of SEIU Local 1021. said. “We need to figure it out in the felt that too many small businesses
Union Local 1021, San Francisco’s businesses represented by the San “Then we read about secret meet- next few weeks.” were brought into the Gross Receipts
biggest city employee union, last Francisco Chamber of Commerce, ings where the labor movement was tax,” the report said. Hauge also told
month launched a campaign and the small business community excluded from those talks.” thoSe deviliSh detailS us that he fears a tax increase on
demanding that the measure are pushing different interests and Anger over the “secret meetings” The Controller’s Office released a commercial real estate firms could
increase city revenue, setting a goal priorities. of business leaders that Lee assem- report on May 10 that made the case be passed on to small businesses in
of at least $50 million, which rep- “The technology industry has bled to craft the tax reform measure for switching to a gross receipts tax the form of higher rents.
resents the amount the city has lost to realize they have a tax obligation — meetings at which no labor lead- and summed up the business com- “I don’t want to see the busi-
annually since 2001 when 52 large like any member of the business ers were included — helped inspire munity’s meetings, and the report ness community split,” Hauge said,
downtown corporations sued to community does,” Jim Lazarus, the the fierce protest campaign that was the subject of a joint statement although it’s beginning to look
overturn the last gross receipts tax. Chamber’s vice president for public defined the SEIU’s recent contract put out by Lee and Chiu. like that might be unavoidable.
The union is threatening to place a policy, told us. negotiations. “After months of thorough analysis, The big question now is whether
rival measure on the fall ballot. Conway is reportedly using In the first weeks of negotia- economic modeling and inclusive progressives and labor can find any
“This call for it to be revenue- his influence on Lee to push for a tions, workers were already up in outreach to our City’s diverse busi- allies in this messy situation, and
neutral didn’t make a lot of sense model that keeps taxes low for tech arms. Protest marches at SF General ness community, the City Controller whether they’ll be able to agree
given all the reductions in city companies — even if that comes at Hospital and Laguna Honda and City Economist have produced on a compromise measure that all
services in recent years,” said Chris the expense of other economic sec- Hospital brought hundreds of hos- a report that evaluates a gross sides say is preferable to competing
Daly, the union’s interim political tors, such as commercial real estate pital workers to the streets. These receipts tax, a promising alternative measures. 2
director. “It’s fair to at least get the and big construction firms, which hospitals serve some of the city’s to our current payroll tax, which
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On May 12, the Green Party held indicted the Obama administra- choked up when she told the audi-
a presidential debate between tion for adopting the policies ence that she is able to “represent
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Massachusetts physician and of the Bush administration and the people from whom I came,”
longtime progressive activist Jill called for a Green New Deal to quickly adding “and I’ll fight hard
Stein and comedian turned TV reform transportation, health too—I’ve got balls bigger than
star turned macadamia nut farmer care, and environmental stan- anybody.” Women’s rights also
Roseanne Barr. The debate was dards. Throughout the night, drew fiery proclamations from HelpTest a New App
moderated by Rose Aguilar, host Stein repeatedly invoked the the candidates, with Stein vow-
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Outside the theater before and the Greens “go viral” with The signature issue of the
the event, a battalion of senior- their message of environmental Green Party—the environ- We’re testing a new mobile app that provides local
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to take up single-payer health vengeance on Wall Street, with sion, emerging as a topic only
care. Inside, the audience steadily Stein calling for a breakup of the later in the debate. While Stein perdayandgivefeedback.Applyonline.
grew to about 100 people, nearly banks and the establishment of repeated Barr’s jabs at Monsanto
filling the Victoria, but still was public banks. Barr said that cur- and pledged to “deny the Keystone fidostudy.com/guardian
a grim turnout for what was once rent laws allowed for the prosecut- Pipeline on Day 1,” Barr grew sol-
the Valhalla of progressive politics ing of what she called “the biggest emn, acknowledging the possibility
in America. heist in history,” which is how that it might be too late to save
The audience was primar- she referred to the “transfer of the environment from impending
ily gray; notably absent were the wealth upward” of the last decade. catastrophes. We would need to
20- and 30-something Occupiers, “Everything filthy and disgust- learn, she said, to create “a new sys-
indebted students, and underem- ing originates right there on Wall tem that is not money dependent.”
ployed ranks of America’s youth, a Street,” she said, “and we want our Both candidates broke debate
political class actively courted by money back.” protocol on time limits and turns
the Green Party and its candidates. On the military, Stein vowed of speech, but the atmosphere
Barr read her opening remarks to “bring our dollars home to stop was collegial and supportive, with
straight from her laptop com- being the exploiter of the world,” Barr chiming in “yeahs” to many
puter, in a hurried monotone that and to turn the bomber factories of Stein’s remarks. Each woman
nevertheless reached a crescendo into windmill factories for green repeatedly said she “agreed com-
as she called for “an end to the jobs. Barr warned against the pletely” with what the other said.
system of slavery, war, and usury” militarization of the police and “Our greatest weapon,” Barr said,
in America, and pledged to “make the dangers of what she called is to “resist the fear they force-
getting food to the hungry our the “prison-military-industrial feed us,” linking her remarks to
final cause.” Ending hunger resur- complex,” which she said will be Stein’s claim that “the politics of
faced later in the debate, when “holding a gun on your neighbor fear has brought us everything we
Barr observed that the military while your neighbor does free were afraid of.”
could be used to distribute food. labor for a corporation.” Barr’s Stein railed against a main-
She also claimed that “there condemnation of the prison com- stream press that has effectively
would be no global warming” if plex continued into the debate on sequestered discussion of political
humans chose to get their protein legalization of marijuana, which alternatives. “We do not have a
from nuts rather than eating ani- Barr said would thrust the “tip of functioning press,” she told the
mals. This would only happen, the spear into the beast” of the audience, “We have an o-press.
she charged, by getting Monsanto incarceration industry. We have a re-press.” She repeated
“off the necks of small farmers.” Stein echoed Barr’s support her call for Greens to mobilize
Cribbing lines by turn from of legalization, leaning on her online to get the word out about
JFK and Jesus (via Lincoln), Barr authority as a physician to pro- alternative party movements. Barr
continued, “I beseech the debt claim that “marijuana is danger- said that she was being very care-
creators to ask not what this coun- ous because it is illegal, not illegal ful not to bring any discredit to
try can do for them, but what because it is dangerous.” As a the Green Party. Though biting
they can do for this country,” and doctor, Stein also called for a real and at times sarcastic, Barr said
asked America to give the 1 per- health care system involving bike- she her campaign was “dead seri-
cent a chance to be our partners able cities and reform of the FDA ous. And the message is dead seri-
and not our adversaries, “for a to replace the current “sick-care” ous too.” 2
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is a weighty document. Most cities
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suffice with a paragraph or two to
regulate noise, while San Francisco’s
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Grove street towards the Civic the strategy would continue. But in be affected by random industrial
Center BART station chatting about an interview with the San Francisco noise known to (and in this case
the evening performance. That Chronicle, company founder Gregg intended to) cause agitation, Offer-
night’s show of Don Quixote at War Perloff said the venue has had “an Westort said, “It’s crazy to try to
Memorial & Performing Arts Center enormous amount of complaints” create these conditions, they are
was likely excellent judging by the from patrons about the homeless. quite literally trying to create a civil
theater goers exuberance. Late at night, police are power- disturbance, and not on their own
As they passed by the Bill less to respond to such complaints. property, but in a public space.”
Graham Civic Auditorium, a half- The city’s carefully crafted sit-lie With the adverse effects of noise
dozen homeless people seated along ordinance, which bars people from pollution well-outlined, the ordi-
the route begged the procession for assuming either of those postures nance goes on to state, “In order to
change. Across the street and a block on city sidewalks during the day, is protect public health, it is hereby
down Grove, a few homeless indi- lifted between the hours of 11pm declared to be the policy of San
viduals had bedded down for the and 7am to satisfy constitutional Francisco to prohibit unwanted,
night in front of the Main Library. concerns that have overturned simi- excessive, and avoidable noise.”
It is these encounters, normal to lar ordinances in other cities. The ordinance pays particularly
urban life, that are at the center of “This it the first time I’ve heard attention to licensed entertain-
a controversial strategy by Another of a strategy like this used against ment venues like the Bill Graham
Planet Entertainment, which leases the homeless,” Bob Offer-Westort, auditorium: “No noise or music
the auditorium from the city, to civil rights organizer with the associated with a licensed Place
drive the homeless away. They hope Coalition on Homelessness, said of of Entertainment shall exceed the
that by blasting a late night sam- the noise. “It is really problematic for low frequency ambient noise level
pling of industrial noise through a business to say that people on pub- defined in Section 2901(f) by more
the venue’s sound system between lic property not breaking the law are than 8 dBC.”
the hours of 11pm and 7am, making a public nuance. It is a intrusion of a As a matter of comparison the
sleep nearly impossible, the home- private company on public space.” difference between a whisper and
less will be discouraged from con- Standing in front of the build- a quiet conversation is roughly an
gregating there. ing late on a foggy night, it’s easy eight decibel increase, a relatively
A women selling the Street Sheet to see why the homeless would narrow margin. It seems reasonable
newspaper on the corner sums up gravitate to here. The building’s that if you’re standing outside a
the social tension that invoked the huge awning, covering much of the venue, and the music coming from
strategy. “They’re doing it to keep broad sidewalk, must be the easiest inside sounds louder than the per-
the homeless from sleeping there. place to stay dry outdoors for many son talking next to you, the city’s
All these people don’t want to see blocks. And since the demolition of noise ordinance has been exceeded.
the homeless when they come the city’s old central bus terminal So motorcycles, saws, and
through here,” she said, gesturing to last year, it is perhaps the largest dry other industrial sounds that were
the now thin stream from the ballet. public space in the city’s core. described at the auditorium late
She had heard the noise over But is this sonic attack even at night would range around 100
the past few nights and described legal? That’s a question that decibels without being amplified.
it as deafening. “The first time I Amplify it enough to shake the
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Everyone who has ever held
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a ticket and the end of your gather-
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ing. Do it again in a year and the (cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:86)(cid:84)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:71)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:74)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:77)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:77)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:69)’(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:78)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:66)(cid:72)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:86)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:15)(cid:1)
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fines doubles.
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The strategy at the auditorium
seems to be having some effect, but thursdAy 17
where the homeless will be shuffled BeAutiful trOuBle & OrgAnizing cOOls
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off to is anybody’s guess. The reality (cid:88)(cid:88)(cid:88)(cid:15)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:90)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:77)(cid:15)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:78)(cid:16)(cid:81)(cid:78)(cid:81)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:15)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:81)(cid:78)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:70)(cid:15)(cid:1)(cid:53)(cid:73)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:1)
of the homelessness crisis is there is (cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:80)(cid:80)(cid:76)(cid:1)(cid:77)(cid:66)(cid:86)(cid:79)(cid:68)(cid:73)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:88)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:80)(cid:80)(cid:76)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:68)(cid:70)(cid:15)(cid:1)(cid:35)(cid:70)(cid:66)(cid:86)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:71)(cid:86)(cid:77)(cid:1)
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no place for the homeless to simply
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move off too. With their numbers (cid:49)(cid:77)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:81)(cid:66)(cid:78)(cid:81)(cid:73)(cid:77)(cid:70)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:87)(cid:74)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:72)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:74)(cid:91)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:1)
in the thousands, only bold political (cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:81)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:77)(cid:74)(cid:76)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:71)(cid:1)(cid:55)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:52)(cid:73)(cid:74)(cid:87)(cid:66)(cid:1)
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ship can solve the problem. (cid:70)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:15)(cid:1)(cid:53)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:74)(cid:77)(cid:77)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:84)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:81)(cid:81)(cid:66)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:77)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:70)(cid:1)“(cid:84)(cid:86)(cid:81)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:84)(cid:81)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:74)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:1)
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“The root of the problem is that
people can’t afford rent. Everyone FridAy 18
who rents in San Francisco knows DecOlOnizeDyOgA,(cid:18)(cid:23)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:46)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:35)(cid:34)(cid:51)(cid:53)(cid:1)
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that it is way too expensive to live
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in this city,” says Offer-Westort. “We (cid:70)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:14)(cid:68)(cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:86)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:90)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:74)(cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:73)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:73)(cid:80)(cid:84)(cid:85)(cid:1)
stopped creating public housing. (cid:69)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:77)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:74)(cid:91)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:90)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:78)(cid:66)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:66)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:78)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)
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Housing has become a commodity, (cid:79)(cid:80)(cid:88)(cid:15)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:71)(cid:1)(cid:90)(cid:80)(cid:86)(cid:181)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:69)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:90)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:1)
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By mirissa neff
Chain alternative
sports Basement
Although based locally, Sports
Basement (www.sportsbasement.
com) is technically a chain, as
it now boasts four locations: an
80,000 square-foot building at the
old commissary in the Presidio,
SoMa’s brick-and-wood location,
a store in Sunnyvale that once
mimicked the inside of a computer
(look for the remaining “ESC” key-
board sign), and another nearing
Mount Diablo in Walnut Creek.
But beyond the fact that it offers
the only real alternative to nation-
al conglomerates when it comes to
one-stop athletic and outdoor gear,
to treat customers as individu- India, an organization dedicated to
the retail company is fiercely dedi-
als with a continuum of outdoor providing education for underpriv-
cated to its Bay Area community.
lifestyle needs. And the Basement ileged children in India; Bryant St.
Plus, its cozy, with hand-painted
recognizes that it’s an expansive houses the AIDS Lifecycle organi-
cardboard signs detailing specials,
company with the power to affect zation, and Presidio is the meeting
comfy couches, and super-friendly
various neighborhoods. Last year, spot for Golden Gate Mother’s
staff.
its locations hosted more than Group — just to mention a few.
Founder Eric Prosnitz came
2,000 community groups at 7,000 Aaron Schweifler, Director of
up with the Sports Basement
events, averaging around four Operations at Sports Basement,
idea in an effort to create a more
events per store per day. Ten-15% says the staff is encouraged to be
personalized experience in an
of the retail space serves as free creatively autonomous, and hopes
off-price retail outlet, something
community space. Examples: each store will provide a shopping
tailored more closely to Northern
Walnut Creek holds a fundraiser in experience that can “wow” local
California’s environment. Products
the form of a kid apparel fashion residents. We are wowed!
change every week, discounts rule,
show, Sunnyvale hosts ASHA for (Soojin Chang)
and employees are encouraged
tenant advoCate
Women in Business and take a class, but you didn’t
greg marKoulis
necessarily need to become some
Kelly malone, WorKshop
expert knitter. A place for people to
In 1975, Greg Markoulis of
and indie mart sit down and get their hands dirty,
American Industrial Center (2345
learn to make something, and get
Third St., SF. www.aicproperties.
In a tech-obsessed society, our inspired.”
com) was scouring San Francisco
hands navigate today’s gleaming Malone started Workshop on
to find a new home for his fami-
gadgets more often than those of scant funding. Instead of relying
ly’s 25-year-old shoe manufactur-
yesteryear: a sewing machine, say, on bank loans, she looked to her
ing company. When American
or a manual drill. DIY goddess Kelly immediate community for investors.
Can Company, one of the city’s
Malone has spent years trying to “I’ve started every business without
oldest and busiest industrial com-
change that — and in so doing has money, which has forced me to real-
plexes, offered an attractive deal
created a business that serves as a ly put myself out there and grow my
on a vacant Third Street building,
cultural touchstone for the budding businesses by meeting people and
Markoulis gladly took them up.
Divisadero Street corridor. being super-passionate about what I
The new abode reinvigorated the
Malone’s brick-and-mortar do,” she says.
company, transforming it from a
shop is named Workshop (1798 Malone says having a big budget
street corner location to a com-
McAllister, SF. 415-874-9186. to open her businesses would have Greg Makoulis says the company’s the fact that people’s needs
munity space housing more than
www.workshopsf.org), and it’s a been fun, but saving her pennies priorities align much more with are ever-changing. Markoulis
285 businesses — now including
place where aspiring crafters receive and having flea markets and garage how relatives interact with one describes AIC’s priority to be “giv-
graphic designers, commercial
hours of instruction in oft-neglect- sales to pay for sewing machines another rather than those of a ing everyone a stable place to
photographers, architects, light
ed skills like sewing, knitting, and gives her more street cred, DIY all typical business. “The ideas of the operate in.”
industrial manufacturers, a win-
terrarium-making — all while the way. oldest generation with the most In Markoulis’ experience, one
ery, a yoga center, a martial arts
drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon and And like our favorite kind of experience are considered first,” of the biggest challenges that AIC
studio, and a medley of Web-
meeting new friends. After receiv- businesspeople, Malone hardly says Markoulis. has faced over the years has to do
based companies and art collec-
ing an enthusiastic response from sees her enterprises as a sterile way As this side of town is rapidly with the cost and time for newly
tives. That expansive spirit soon
her Indie Mart (www.indie-mart. to make a quick buck. “I’m never undergoing gentrification, he opening businesses to acquire
spread, helping to reinvigorate
com), a handmade craft fair she going to get rich off these business- could very well have sold the permits. He hopes to see changes
the entire Dogpatch area, which
started six years ago in the backyard es, but if I get to the point where I building to a corporation. But he in San Francisco’s building and
had suffered a lengthy period of
of her Mission digs, Malone saw a can have a couple people on staff sees his tenants as valuable com- planning department, because he
industrial decline.
need for a hub for would-be crafters. like I do now, and have enough to munity members, not just pay- thinks a faster turnaround would
Thirty-seven years later, AIC
“I wanted to create a space that pay bills and go get some beers, hey, checks. Markoulis thrives on find- help foster employment opportu-
still keeps the family ethos alive.
was super ‘hit it and quit it,’ ” she that’s good enough for me.” ing working solutions to accom- nities. (Soojin Chang)
When making executive decisions,
says. “Where you could come in (Mia Sullivan) modate his tenants, and respects
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