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October of challenges 2 015 for housing 4,400 in The City UNITS IN 1400 Mission began as 25 YEARS low-income, but city made san francisco it plum for a smart builder Affordable housing built unk s enderloin oots By M a rjor i e Beggs P ‘ T R since 1989 t was a sweet bit of chronologi- cal serendipity: In August, the city an- Page 3 I nounced the moderate-income lottery winners who were eligible to buy 167 condos at the new, glass-clad 1400 Mission complex at the corner of 10th Street. Two miles east, at Folsom and Main streets, the first owners began moving into Lumina, 656 super-luxe condos. The connection between the two is direct, the timing’s not coincidental, the backstory convoluted — and telling. Tishman Speyer built 1400 Mission for $65 million and Lumina for $620 million. One is inclusionary affordable housing, the other, by dint of price, exclusionary. With the exception of 23 rental apartments at 1400 Mission, all 823 condos are for sale. How much Tishman will profit from Lumina will probably be known only to Tishman Speyer. At 1400 Mission, the city 2 WHO has posted estimated sales totals for the WERE The city credited Tishman 167 condos at just nearly $50 million for under $50 million. So MOURNED meeting its inclusionary it may be fair to ask if Deosia Henderson, requirement. the big developer has used an affordable Stevie L. Newsom housing project to en- able its lucrative investment in the Lumina. Page 8 Market-rate developers must meet the city’s 13-year-old “inclusionary” require- ment to rent or sell a percentage of their units at a price low- or moderate-income households can afford — a price that in- cludes, rather than excludes, such house- holds from the housing mix. San Francisco, and an estimated 170 cities nationwide, have adopted the tactic to offset the dearth of housing that is below market rate, BMR. Affordable, all cities call it. One interesting aspect of 1400 Mission is that the housing originally planned for the site was to be low-income. In 2000, the land at the site was owned jointly by TNDC, central city’s largest non- profit housing developer, and Citizens Housing Corp., now defunct. That’s when New York-based Tishman purchased water- front land on which to build two pricey ANNUAL condo complexes — the Infinity and the Lumina. To do so, Tishman had to meet the POLICE city’s inclusionary requirements. The inclusionary housing ordinance MEETING of 2002 codified a decade of bureaucrat- ic policy. It gives market-rate developers Commission visits of 10 units or more three options: Make a Tenderloin Oct. 21 percentage of those units affordable, build Photo: Jeanne M. Hansen 1982. Digital collage Lise Stampfli a higher percentage of such units off site, Page 12 or pay a fee into the Mayor’s Office of This club at 162 Turk in the ’80s was the runt half-brother of the top-tier punk rock venues, Housing kitty to build below-market-rate a haven for the hungriest bands. The band in front is Arkansaw Man. projects. Or, they can mix the three options to By M a r k He di n such as the On Broadway and, to a lesser ex- meet their requirement. t’s been 40 years since punk rock first tent, the Stone, down in the Tenderloin, the The percentages today are 12% of on- reared its snarling, safety-pinned head. underground of the underground found itself site units, 20% off-site or a 20% fee, but the Although San Francisco’s thriving punk a home. I Anyone who was anybody could gig at the percentages were different when Tishman scene doesn’t always get its due, the rebellious was in negotiations with the city. music and community flourished here, char- Mabuhay, but to play at Celso Ruperto’s Sound Chandra Egan, manager of MOH’s acterized in large part by bands such as the of Music club at 162 Turk St., you had to truly inclusionary housing program, says Tish- Avengers and Dead Kennedys, whose point- be a nobody. man’s choices were to make 115 (17.5%) ed social commentary and songs of protest “The Sound of Music was a dump, the of its Lumina units affordable, pay to build and angst placed them along the trajectory of sound system sucked, but it was a club where 164 units (25%) off-site, or pay a fee cal- creative dissent that, as poet-about-town “Di- about anyone could play and most people culated on the worth of those units. Egan amond” Dave Whitaker has often said, went could get in free or cheap,” White Trash Debu- puts that fee at around $39 million. from “the beatniks to the hippies to the punks.” tante singer Ginger Coyote recalled. Coyote Tishman chose the off-site option, the While the spotlight — and sometimes has remained active in the punk scene over one least used by developers because it’s searchlight — focused on the “Fab Mab” Mabu- decades now, leading her band and publishing the most financially risky. 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2 CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / OCTOBER 2015 How builder uses off-site affordable housing to enable big money on luxe condos
➤ C o n t i n u e d F r o m p a g e 1 rooms and 67 three-bedrooms. Costs range from $695,000 to $825,000 for a takes years, and labor and material costs 650-square-foot studio; a three-bedroom can spiral beyond original estimates. is more than $5 million. The two-story Since 2003, only nine of the 314 mar- penthouse reportedly was going for $49 ket-rate developments in the city have million. resulted in off-site units — 156 apart- Again, Tishman chose the off-site op- ments, 419 condos. tion, but sponsored 1400 Mission itself, “The inclusionary program has been building four studios, 52 one-bedroom, successful to the extent that developers 94 two-bedroom and 17 three-bedroom have actually created those BMR units,” condos, plus rentals — one studio, 13 Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council one-bedroom, eight two-bedroom and Mark Hedin Marjorie Beggs of Community Housing Organizations in one three-bedroom. is the off-site affordable San Francisco, said in an email. “But the The Lumina, at Folsom and Main 1400 Mission For building off-site, the city gave housing that Tishman Speyer built to fact is that many of them simply ‘fee-out’ streets, is Tishman Speyer's luxe condo Tishman nearly $50 million credit to- meet its obligation for being able to because it’s relatively less of a cost bur- counterpart to 1400 Mission Street. Its ward its inclusionary requirement (see keep its tony condo units at the Lumi- den and hassle for them … the cheaper 656 condos start at $695,000 and go sidebar). Had it chosen the fee option, to $49 million for the penthouse. na all priced at market rate. pathway.” it would have paid the same amount di- The fee, set when rectly to MOH. the developer be- condominiums.” PLANNED FOR LOW-INCOME City Planning gave Tish- gins negotiating 25 YEARS OF AFFORDABLE And TNDC’s role in 1400 Mission to- Central City Extra’s premiere issue day? Development consultant. man a special exemption with the city, is due in March 2000 carried a story about on affordability rules for with the project’s HOUSING: 4,400 units “From a technical standpoint, we’re TNDC’s plan to expand its portfolio not part of the property ownership en- the rental units. first construction In 25 years of requiring residential developers to from Tenderloin-only housing into South tity,” Falk says. “We have a contract with permit. There’s no of Market — a 2.2-acre property on 10th provide affordable housing, 314 projects have risk, but some de- produced more than 4,400 units under the city’s the owner, similar to what the architect Street running from Market to Mission. and general contractor and other firms velopers are hard-pressed to come up A year earlier, TNDC and Citizens three inclusionary options. with such a big chunk of change years have. The scope of work laid out in our Housing Corp. had bought the half-block contract included things like playing a before they can sell their sumptuous of vacant, crumbling buildings from Affordable housing, 1989-2014 condos. role in the design and entitlement pro- Bank of America for $4.5 million and be- On-site projects: 210 On-site units: 3,397 cess.” As of 2014, according to Egan, the gan negotiating a $7 million loan. city had collected less than $90 million Off-site projects: 9 Off-site units: 575 TNDC suffered with all developers, By 2004, TNDC’s development Fee projects: 76 Estimated: 400 for-profit and nonprofit, in the years -af in inclusionary fees since the ordinance plans were solidifying. A structure on went into effect. A City Planning docu- *Mixed projects: 16 ter the 2007 recession, but it has had a the property was razed, leaving a deep, string of recent successes and expects ment summarizing the inclusionary pro- wide hole, ready to receive one or more Dedicated land: 3 gram lists 76 projects that opted to pay that by 2019 more than 6,000 low-in- of the buildings TNDC had mapped out Total projects: 314 come people will live in TNDC housing. the fee. for the site: a 15-story, 158-unit tower for The most popular way of meeting Of the dozen properties in its pipeline, low-income seniors; another, 21 stories, *16 builders mixed their options, and 3 developers dedicated the inclusionary requirement has been one has inclusionary funding already in with up to 240 apartments for low- and land to affordable housing. to designate a percentage of on-site place and another is likely. moderate-income families; and a third, Source: Planning Department Forest City, developer with the units affordable: In the Planning summa- 26 stories with 440,000 square feet for ry, of 314 total projects in 25 years, 210 Hearst Corp. of the mammoth 5M proj- city offices. ect at Fifth and Mission, is meeting its builders chose on-site, integrating 3,397 It would have been a significant ad- affordable units into their higher-priced worked in terms of accommodating that inclusionary requirement by dition to affordable housing in San Fran- many units, and more. So we made an putting $18 million to- digs. cisco. How does a developer decide which agreement to sell them the site for $4.25 ward TNDC’s Ed- The city’s involvement was key. Its million.” dy-Taylor Apart- Fewer than 2 units a option is most advantageous? Don Falk, offer to purchase a portion of the land To “informally broker” the deal, Falk ments at 168-186 year have been built chief executive officer of Tenderloin for about $10 million would guarantee Neighborhood Development Corp., says explained, TNDC and Tishman jointly Eddy, paying for under the fee option to that the two nonprofits could finance approached Maracor, a San Francisco they try to comply with the law while 66 of the planned fund affordable housing. affordable housing on the remainder of company that helps developers plan and 110 units. 5M also minimizing “some combination of risk the site. and cost. From the city’s — the public’s manage all phases of residential, com- will have 212 on- Four years later, the hole remained. mercial and retail projects. site affordable — standpoint, it’s none of our business The city had pulled out, deeming the how they accomplish their obligation.” “Maracor conceptualized how it all units. cost of building new offices too high, might work,” Falk said. “It brought both Falk says the 5M project “isn’t really Tishman’s choice is adding modest- leaving the nonprofits with a big loan ly to the affordable housing stock for of us comfort to offer them a strong role consistent with the inclusionary ordi- coming due. in overseeing the architect, general con- nance. It’s something really creative that middle-income earners, but it eliminated TNDC and Citizens sold that portion hundreds of units of low-income rental tractor and construction process and hasn’t been done before, best described of the land in 2006 for $26.5 million to budget. They’re also playing a major role as a ‘directed in-lieu fee’ — they’re housing TNDC had had in the works a developer Crescent Heights to build lux- in overseeing the sale of the completed ➤ dozen years. ury condos. Falk says the two nonprof- C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 10 “Affordable” in San Francisco refers its each cleared about $7 million in that to housing for both low- and middle-in- deal. come renters and owners. But there’s They kept the southern third CENTRAL CITY a world of difference between of the parcel for 150 af- them: Affordable rental 3,397 affordable units fordable apartments to units built by nonprofits, be rented to low-income according to the Mayor’s have been integrated families and the homeless Office of Housing, rent to into market-rate build- — barely half the num- households with incomes ings in 25 years. ber of units they’d want- NEWS IS A COMMUNITY SERVICE ranging from $14,250- s ed originally, but still, it san francisco $42,800 for one person. would be housing for the Affordable units built Central City Extra is published monthly by the nonprofit San Francisco Study poor. Center Inc., serving the community since 1972. The Extra was initiated through under inclusionary rules, says MOH, also As late as March 2009, Falk was tell- can rent to households with incomes of grants from the S.F. Hotel Tax Fund and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund. ing The Extra that the project was “de- The contents are copyrighted by the San Francisco Study Center, 1663 Mission $42,800. At 1400 Mission, however, the layed, not terminated,” confident it still Street, Suite 504, San Francisco, CA 94103. cap goes up to $108,150. The disparity, could fly. a source says, is because City Planning is- What flew was Crescent Heights’ Phone: (415) 626-1650 Designer: Lise Stampfli sued Tishman a special exemption from NEMA. The first of four connected tow- the inclusionary requirements. Fax: (415) 626-7276 PHOTOGRAPHERs: Mark Doneza, Paul Dunn ers containing 754 market-rate condos Email: centralcityextra@ Contributors: John Burks, Ed Bowers HISTORY OF 1400 opened in fall 2013 across the street studycenter.org Don McCartney Tishman Speyer built Infinity — 650 Design Consultant: from the Twitter building, part of the Editor & Publisher: Geoffrey Link units on Rincon Hill — and chose the Distribution: Mark Hedin amazing/distressing mid-Market boom. Senior Writer/Editor: Marjorie Beggs off-site option with 163 affordable units And Falk was almost right — 1400 Editorial assistant: Sophia Heller at 888 Seventh St., a mix of market-rate Mission did make it, but not for the rent- Community Reporter: Tom Carter Community Consultant: Michael Nulty and moderate-income condos built by ers TNDC had originally intended. Reporters: Brian Rinker, Mark Hedin, ONLINE PARTNER: Hoodline project sponsor A.F. Evans. “Tishman Speyer decided to meet Eric Louie, Paul Dunn, Jonathan Newman Tishman followed up with the 1 their inclusionary requirement consis- million-plus-square-foot Lumina, 37- tent with the deal that the One Rincon Central City Extra is a member of the and 42-story towers on Folsom Street Hill developers had made with then-Su- San Francisco Neighborhood Newspaper Publishers Association, between Main and Beale. It has 16 stu- pervisor Chris Daly (25%),” Falk told The Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, and San Francisco/Peninsula Press Club dios, 200 one-bedrooms, 373 two-bed- Extra in an email. “The 1400 Mission site
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Treasurer José Cisneros SFSU College Democrats Service Employees International Union Local 87 Assessor-Recorder Carmen Chu Westside Chinese Democratic Club Teamster Joint Council 7 Board of Supervisors President London Breed Willie B. Kennedy Democratic Club UA Local 38, Plumbers & Pipefitters Supervisor Julie Christensen United Educators of San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen United Food and Commercial Workers Local 648 Supervisor Mark Farrell CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / OCTOBER 2015 5 PAID FOR BY ED LEE FOR MAYOR 2015, FPPC #1373497 Paid Political Advertisement. Financial Disclosures available at sfethics.org Tenderloin’s underground Bobby Castro “I saw all of the bands of the era of the punk underground during my stint there — it was great ➤ C o n t i n u e d F r o m p a g e 1 and chased out of my own life by rich, fun, loud as sin and about as dirty. Bar- self-centered, clueless kids who were tending was easy, as all everyone ever Today, the site is as quiet as it was out of control, yet in control. I found my wanted (or could afford) were the $1 loud back then, with a retractable black heart, my music, my politics, my values cans of beer, with the occasional shot of metal security gate stretched across the and my best friends in the punk scene.” nasty bourbon thrown in on special oc- front and inside, mattresses, a ladder and Many punk bands were already casions. Everyone was broke, pissed off debris visible through the glass façade, a too big for the Sound of Music when about everything and having the time of real estate agent’s sign stuck on the ex- it opened its doors to the scene a few their lives. If I didn’t like a band, I would terior. years after the first wave broke. So no throw half-full beer cans at them from In September, a collective calling it- one saw the touring bands from New the bar. self the Punk Rock Sewing Circle orga- York’s earliest days of punk there: The “The Sound of Music was more nized a series of events in San Francis- Ramones, Cramps, Patti Smith, Television, democratic,” Webster, who performed co and Oakland celebrating 40 years of Blondie and the like, nor the English there, booked bands and worked the Bay Area punk. Among them were four bands that followed — the Sex Pistols door, recalled. Also, at a time when the walking tours, of the Tenderloin, SoMa, had played Winterland in January 1978, Broadway clubs were being harassed by the Mission and North Beach. If you saw after all. And the Avengers and Nuns, lo- the administration of then-Mayor Dianne a group of about a dozen people stand- cals who opened that show, had already Feinstein, nobody in officialdom both- ing outside 162 Turk on Sept. 24, led by dissipated before Sound of Music even ered much with the Sound of Music. a fellow with a microphone and small got started. In the 1979 mayoral election, of speaker — not Del Seymour — that was But for newer local bands such as course, Dead Kennedys singer Jello Bi- it. Other stops included the site of the Faith No More, Flipper and Frightwig, afra had challenged Feinstein, who’d Market Street Cinema, the Crazy Horse who went on to make names for them- become mayor the year before when Jeanne M. Hansen strip club next door to the Warfield, selves in the ’80s, the Sound of Music Dan White murdered Mayor George Oddfellows Hall and the 181 Club. was an important launching pad. Moscone in his office, taking down Su- cops shouting, “Don’t push that plung- Sound of Music stalwarts Frightwig, “There was a movement happening pervisor Harvey Milk as well. Along with er!” But, Weems said, he did anyway. Flipper, Toiling Midgets and Vktms were there at the time and it just grew and serious proposals such as banning cars “You saw fucked-up shit all over the Thompson among the Punk Rock Renaissance acts grew and by ’82, the Sound of Music downtown or requiring police to be place,” she said. “You were a young adult and Webster both described Top left: Slam dancing in the ’80s at the Sound of Music. Society Dog was playing. appearing in concerts at 111 Minna and was happening in a regular way,” recalled elected from the precincts they served, who could be up at night, who could go Ruperto’s haplessness as a businessman. The SFPD came too. Below Mia Simmans, in a reunited Frightwig at the Punk Rock the Mission’s Verdi Club over the course Hood, who worked as a bike messenger, Biafra vacuumed leaves in Feinstein’s Pa- to shows, etcetera, and you could see Thompson eventually would insist that Renaissance bash Sept. 26 at the Verdi Club, tended bar at the Sound of Music at of the week, and Sound of Music flyers along with most of his Toiling Midgets co- cific Heights neighborhood to mock her the nightlife for the first time and it was there be a doorman hired and adequate age 17. Above and right: Flyers from the ’80s for Tenderloin shows. Adolf and the were plentiful among the hundreds dis- horts to support himself while frequent- publicity stunt of spending a couple of crazy.” supplies of beer for sale before her Gassers got some legal heat when a Second Street camera store noticed their name. played at the various events. ly gigging there. “They started to bring in hours with a broom sweeping Tender- “One afternoon, while I was setting bands would agree to play. Club owner Ruperto, usually known bands that could really fill the place — loin streets. Biafra came in third behind up the bar,” Simmans recalled, “two po- “He’d run out of beer. He’d go to the Kathy Peck and I loved watching their and plastic parts, with innovative fea- by his first name, took a cue from fellow Gun Club from L.A., for example. Feinstein and Quentin Kopp, with 6,591 lice officers came in and asked me for store and buy beer to sell at the club,” drummer with her electric drill. There tures, are now displayed at the Rock ’n’ Filipino Ness Aquino, the owner of the “Some of these memories are hazy, votes in the general election. my ID. I said I needed to go get my boss, she said. were many a great time.” Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, donated Mab, and began booking bands in late but we played there with Flipper a lot in Which is not to say the club entirely and ran down the narrow stairs calling Hood remembered how Ruperto let Bassist Peck went on to in 1988 co- by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, who bought 1979 or early 1980 as an alternative to ’80, ’81. We were always paired and put escaped the attention of authorities. ‘Celso, you gotta come up here now!’ He teenage artist Kim Setzer do some “re- found H.E.A.R. — Hearing and Educa- them. the drag shows he’d been hosting, said together. We would be considered one Drummer Jane Weems recalled walk- met me halfway up the staircase and I ally raw” murals of boxers, and now-de- tion Awareness for Rockers, a nonprofit The Sound of Music was hardly the Ian Webster, who worked at both venues. of the bigger bands because we could ing out of the bar one night and into the told him the cops were here and that I ceased Toiling Midgets drummer Tim that battles hearing loss, especially in only locus for punks in the Tenderloin With the city bursting at the seams put more people in the club.” glare of police spotlights, shining on a was 17. He didn’t bat an eye, and told me Mooney about seeing a car burning in teens — after her own experiences and Civic Center, though. Out at the with misfits and outcasts, there were Other frequently appearing acts, man standing in front of the club with very seriously to go downstairs and not the back. He saw someone in there, but with hearing loss and tinnitus. The Con- Civic Center, the Ramones played a free plenty of willing performers and before such as Translator and Romeo Void, a needle in his arm, poised to inject. In- come out until he came down to get me. it was “too hot” to attempt a rescue. tractions appear on the only known concert in August 1979 (https://www. Coyote, Ruperto, who dressed and lived long, the Sound of Music was mostly a Hood recalled, reflected a transition that stead of the suspect pleading with po- I did as he asked, and, unfortunately, nev- Webster remembers doing battle record from the bar, 1983’s “SF Sound youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BE38hu-w8). like a pauper, left half a million in his rock ’n’ roll club, providing a community began to take hold moving away from lice to “Don’t shoot!” this time it was the er bartended there again. The Sound of with the TL’s dope dealers who want- of Music Club Live, Vol. 1” which also in- At the corner of Eddy and Taylor, the up- bank account. for those kids. punk to edgy new wave and pop. Music was not shut down as a result of ed to ply their trade in the club’s bath- cluded Repeat Offenders, ELF, Arkansaw stairs after-hours 181 Club hosted occa- Included in the Punk Rock Sewing “They really made it a place where If a concert fell through for some rea- my age, and Celso remained a gentleman rooms. Maybe that was why, as another Man, Boy Trouble, Defectors, Ibbillly Bib- sional shows in its bordello atmosphere, Circle’s Renaissance week events was we could go and be safe, because there son somewhere else, there was always and a friend. patron recalled, the women’s room had billy, Dogtown, Katherine and Farmers. where patrons could bring in a bottle a tampon drive, organized with St. An- was always shit going down, just like the Sound of Music. Coyote recalled: “Frightwig played our first show no locks. You can’t even find it on eBay. and pay $10 for a setup. And there were thony’s. A pair of mannequin legs with now,” said Paul Hood, who played there “When Agnostic Front was going to play there and many times after. It was a In the basement rooms across the Tragic Mulatto, Webster said, “was plenty of punks hanging out on Polk fishnet stockings was placed at venue often in Toiling Midgets. the Mabuhay Gardens, a certain female great club that welcomed us in all of our street from the Sound of Music where one of our go-to bands. There were only Street and sharing cheap flats. doors, calling attention to the collection “For me it was the antidote to the who ran a distribution company used all freaky flavors, never asked for a demo, bands would practice at Turk Street Stu- three of them. When there was a gap in “I remember seeing Faith No More of sealed boxes of tampons and pads, or shit of the ’80s: typical high school, ruled her pull strings to get the show canceled. just embraced the entire scene and swal- dios, burglary was a constant problem. the bookings — and there were many at the Sound of Music, and that it was cash for a cause. More than 550 boxes by the wealthiest kids with nose jobs She accomplished in getting Ness to can- lowed it whole!” Eric Bradner, who led the TL walking — I’d walk across the street to Turk small and grimy, and later going to 181 were donated. and BMWs. Once I found the weirdos cel the show. But it moved to the Sound Carmela Thompson, a former bike tour during the Punk Rock Renais- Street Studios. And if the show was ad- after shows to dance with the drag The Sound of Music hosted its last who liked to dress up and be silly, I felt of Music and was a sell-out show.” messenger who still performs around sance program, told of bands outside vertised in advance, they could draw a queens,” Michele said. show in 1987, Webster, who worked liberated,” said Michele, an exile from the Mia Simmans, who still performs town in a number of bands when she’s the Sound of Music being offered their pretty good crowd.” Images of burning police cars from there almost to the end, said. It’s cur- Peninsula. “When I think back on it, we around the city as Mama Mia and was not working as a genetic consultant, re- own gear, freshly stolen from the studios Eric Rad, whose band Housecoat the White Night riots of May 21, 1979, rently vacant and “available,” according were given four more years to play and back on stage with Frightwig at the members how at her band Short Dogs across the street, at bargain prices. Project was another mainstay of the outside City Hall were featured on the to signs posted on its windows. Upstairs not have to grow up. Punk Rock Renaissance show at the Grow’s first-ever gig, at the Sound of Bass player Lizard Aseltine said, “I scene, died of a heart attack onstage at cover of the Dead Kennedys’ first album, is the Helen Hotel. Next door, as ever, is a “I have a terrible memory. But for Verdi Club, wrote of those early ’80s Music, they only got to do about three used to swamp the bar so I could see the Mab. His wake was held at the Sound “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables” re- vacant lot on one side and an auto shop sure that time was super-important to days: “Frightwig used to practice at Turk songs before the police shut it down shows. I loved seeing Tragic Mulatto. I of Music. He is remembered for wearing leased later that year — rumor has it that on the other. Most recently, it was a thrift me. I grew up on the Peninsula with Street Studios, right across from the over underage kids in the bar. At their remember Gayle’s green, duct-tape bra. long dresses to work in the copy shop the protest was somber and uneventful shop. And across the street, bands still friends I had known since kindergar- Sound of Music. One day I went into the next gig, she found herself working the They were fantastic. I liked seeing Eric in the lobby of the Mills Building, 220 until some punks decided to start break- practice at Turk Street Studios, although ten. In high school they morphed into club in the afternoon and asked Celso door, telling underage kids, “If the cops Rad’s band Sik Klick — an obvious ref- Montgomery, long before Boy George ing City Hall windows and torching po- these days it’s one of 600 spread across assholes. It felt oddly akin to the entitled for a job. He looked me up and down come, just go hide in the bathroom. erence and reverence to the Lewd’s Bob took that style mainstream. Two of the lice cars. four states owned by a company that gentrification that has been going on and said I could start bartending that Flyer from ’79 mayoral race with Dead “It was pretty loose,” she said. Of the Clic. Another great memory was seeing incredible, industrial-looking guitars he Ruperto died in Reno in 1990, re- calls itself Franciscan Studios. in S.F. now. I felt very disenfranchised evening. I was 17. Kennedys singer Jello Biafra running. band, “I don’t think any of us were 21.” the Contractions. I was a huge fan of designed and built from random metal portedly of a heart attack. According to The beat goes on.
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DEOSIA HENDERSON land Hotel on Geary Street for the last some peace.” Musician and artist six months of his life. Glaucoma, long Diana Noel, her miniature pinscher, Pride of place at his Raman Hotel me- untreated, had rendered him blind four Sonny, in tow, remembered Mr. Newsom morial was not a photo of Deosia Hen- years ago and this disability, coupled as “a good man. I miss him dearly.” derson at the front of the room but one with the struggle to adapt from the en- Mr. Newsom’s short time at the Hart- of his art pieces. Signed “OSI,” the middle forced routine of life in custody to the land left Brianna Varner with a quandary. letters of his first name, the artwork col- unstructured freedom of daily existence “With his blindness, he couldn’t see me, orfully combines abstract elements and outside the walls, proved difficult for only hear my voice. He always called me practically over-the-top pointillism with him. Sir. I never figured out how to tell him a recognizable guitar — Mr. Henderson’s Mr. Newsom was raised in the Fill- I’m transgender,” she said. instrument — subdued but demanding more and attended Balboa High in the Mallory Cain, one of Mr. Newsom’s attention, perhaps a self-portrait of sorts. mid-’70s. He worked many years at Copy case workers, remembered Mr. New- “He was a musician who loved clas- Copia in the Financial District. His family som’s anger: “I called him the Lion. He sic rock, and an artist,” said Tigran Pell, recalled the pride he took in reporting to had a big roar, but there wasn’t any his case manager at the SRO. “He did that work, well-dressed and on-time, earning meanness in it.” painting two weeks before he died and his own living. But troubles and addic- Jesse Greenwood hadn’t known Mr. gave it to me.” tions beset him and steady employment Newsom long. “He struggled, but he kept The Raman, 1011 Howard St., was gave way to crimes and jail sentences. on going. That made him all right in my Mr. Henderson’s home for nine months On Sept. 11, friends and fellow resi- book,” she said. after being homeless and living in shel- dents met in memorial to Mr. Newsom at For Lori Dashiell, a Hartland manag- ters for years. The Colorado native died the Hartland Hotel, led by Joao Mira In- er, the memorial was an opportunity to at the SRO in late July, according to Sama- gram of Quest4Light, a lay Buddhist min- rally round the memory of Mr. Newsom ra Miller, head of support services, who Painting by Desoie Henderson that istry. In prelude, Stevie Wonder ballads and forgive his temper. thought he was “in his 60s” adding that he completed two weeks before he died. played softly, a tribute to Mr. Newsom’s “When Stevie had an outburst, he he didn’t talk about any family. preference for “the old school.” would apologize. He’d say, ‘So sorry. I’ll “His death was a surprise to all of us,” to follow Mallory in placing a pinch of People paused before a table bearing be good.’ You know what? He meant it Miller told the two Raman residents and incense on burning charcoal in a small a vase of white roses and lilies to ring a every time. He was trying. He had a hard four staff attending the memorial. “He dish and ringing a brass bell. Later, he small chime for Mr. Newsom’s spirit. life and been through a lot, but he was was a very humble and sweet man who asked them to sing along with a record- Incense perfumed the room, and some very brave. I know where he’s at, he can loved to tell stories and whose art was ing of “Amazing Grace” and invited peo- made the sign of the cross. Ms. Ingram see now. He can find his keys at last,” she important to him. And he was so happy ple to record their memories of Mr. Hen- invited all to share thoughts of Mr. New- said. to be here after the shelters.” derson in a diary. som as “his soul travels the cycle of birth Mr. Newsom is survived by his moth- Miller, too, received one of Mr. Hen- “It’s been one year since I began con- and death.” er, Bernice Ware, and his sisters, Gwenie, derson’s art pieces before he died. ducting memorials,” Mallory said. “With Many remembered him as a man Valerie and Tarita. Mel Beetle, the Raman’s tenant or- this one, this book will now be full.” quick to anger, frustrated that his blind- — Jonathan Newman ganizer and 10-year resident of the SRO, He reminded the mourners, “To ness hampered his progress in the world, said he got to know Mr. Henderson grieve is to love,” and ended the service rendering him prone to numerous falls, “somewhat, but not well” in the short with a rock recording that Pell had told including a recent horrific tumble down time he lived at the South of Market SRO. him Mr. Henderson liked. the Hartland’s elevator shaft. He survived CLARIFICATION “I think he liked yellow,” Beetle said, — Marjorie Beggs without crippling injuries. Hartland resident Antionette Baines looking at the art work. “I know that he To clarify a point in “Super smack puts knew Mr. Newsom for six months: “He was a genuine and sincere person who STEVIE L. NEWSOM Public Health in crisis mode” (Septem- could be ornery as hell. He tried to hit cared for other people and who would ber): The Dope Project also distributes Troubled native son me with his cane once,” she said, “but I have contributed here — he volunteered FDA-approved, prepackaged auto-injec- Stevie Lafayette Newsom, a native liked him.” to be a hotel safety monitor, but then he tion kits worth $300 or more. The man- son, died at S.F. General Aug. 27. He was “Stevie was very courteous,” Mark passed away.” ufacturer Kaleo has donated 1,300 of 54. Fleming recalled. “It was obvious that During the memorial, conducted by those to the program since last fall. Michael Mallory, mourners were invited Mr. Newsom, who spent long years he suffered a lot. He always gave me a of his adult life in jail, lived at the Hart- warm and friendly hello. I hope he’s got
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➤ C o n t i n u e d F r o m p a g e 3 ber work group that helped put together the changes proposed in 2014, says that, Inclusionary Determination for 1400 Mission routing the money through MOHCD as income disparity in the city increases, and have signed a development agree- housing development “skews just to the Lumina 1400 Mission x Fee = Inclusionary credit ment with the city, which trumps the top end.” ordinance, as it were. To us, this looks Part of the proposal is a swap for 16 studios 4 studios $171,558* $ 686,232 much like any other project we do, with developers — they can charge more for 200 1-bedrooms 52 1-bedrooms $236,545 $ 12,300,340 MOHCD loaning the money to us.” The rentals or condos off-site if they’ll build city loan to TNDC is 3% with payment more units — that puts the inclusionary 373 2-bedrooms 94 2-bedrooms $326,086 $ 30,652,084 program “squarely in the low- and mod- 67 3-bedrooms 17 3-bedrooms $372,956 $ 6,340,252 deferred for 55 years, a typical formula erate-income housing range,” Cohen for low-income housing, Falk says. $ 49,978,908 A parking lot and two small com- says. mercial buildings at Fifth and Howard He dismisses the notion that inclu- *2013 fee. The fee, which is the difference between the cost of building affordable units and affordable sales prices — comprise the other property TNDC sionary fees or other options mitigate called the affordability gap. Fee source: San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing plans to develop with the help of in- the negative effect of market-rate devel- clusionary support, again, it hopes, with opment on affordable housing. Tishman Speyer. Purchased in 2009, it “Imagine digging two shovels of dirt $139,050 for a three-person household. Most nontech professionals can’t af- would include 200 family apartments from a hole and then putting just one This is “affordable” housing in a city ford that. An average salary and benefits plus 100 moderate-income units, Falk shovel full back in. Extrapolate again and where the average rent for a one-bed- for tech workers in 2014 was $156,000. says, if TNDC can strike a deal similar again — that is the challenge of thinking room in May was $3,213 per month. The proposed improvements to in- to the one with Forest City for the Ed- that affordable housing somehow relies That’s $38,556 a year for a roof over clusionary regulations may get more dy-Taylor Apartments. upon market-rate housing development your head. Teachers’ salaries in S.F. start units built, but won’t solve the underly- “We’re hoping to reach an agree- fees.” at $46,000, program coordinators at ing housing problem in a city that vies to ment with Tishman in relation to its The proposed changes, he adds, nonprofits take home about $45,000 be the most expensive in the world. Creamery project,” he said. stretch “the layer more widely in recog- and nongovernment social workers av- — Jonathan Newman contrib- The Creamery coffee shop and Iron nition of the growing need of people left erage $54,000. uted to this story Cactus Mexican restaurant, a block from out of any access to ‘the market.’ ” the Caltrain station at 655 Fourth St., are • • • on land where Tishman plans to build The lottery for the 167 condos two condo towers. at 1400 Mission drew 355 applicants If successful, that will give TNDC and winners were notified Aug. 10. A KNOW YOUR RIGHTS three inclusionary-funded projects un- 631-square-foot studio — more than twice the size of a Tenderloin SRO der its belt. Are inclusionary options an San Francisco Mental Health Clients’ Rights Advocates informs, supports effective tool to raise money for afford- — will cost $225,000.One-bedrooms and helps individuals receiving mental health services or who need help or advice able housing? Falk hedges. are priced at $269,000, two-bedroom “That’s a big question, and the short $303,000, and a 1,415-square-foot three- about your rights by listening to your concerns and needs and advocating for your answer is yes,” he says. “There’s a debate bedroom for $328,000. legal rights. Buyers’ household income caps going on whether improvement (of in- If you’re being treated for a mental disorder, voluntarily or involuntarily, you have clusionary requirements) is possible and run from $71,350 for one person to the same legal rights and responsibilities that the U.S. Constitution and California beneficial.” $110,050 for five. Mayor Lee and Supervisors Mark Far- Rentals go to the middle class. They laws guarantee to all other persons: rell and Katy Tang introduced legislation range from $2,664 for a studio to $3,780 Sept. 15 that would change the inclu- for three bedrooms. There was a lottery Call: (415) 552-8100 or (800) 729-7727, fax (415) 552-8109 sionary regulations to make it easier — for those units, too, Sept. 24. The rentals, and more lucrative — for developers to monitored by MOH, fall into the city’s San Francisco Mental Health Clients’ Rights Advocates build off-site. Middle Income Rental Program — for 1663 Mission Street, Suite 310 Cohen, one of the mayor’s 40-mem- individuals and families who earn up to
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Info: Police Commission: tect SoMa resources for all residents. Gene Friend Rec 837-7070. Ronnie Goodman-Soul Journey, 4th floor, Main Center, 270 Sixth St. Info: Tim Figueras, 554-9532. Library, through Oct. 22. Paintings and prints of the Healthy Digestion and the Microbiome, Oct. 13, Tenderloin Community Benefit District. Board self-taught S.F. homeless artist and distance runner. Main Library, lower level, 6-7:30 p.m., presentation by meets 3rd Monday at 5 p.m., 55 Taylor. Info: 292-4812. Dr. Jennifer Griffin and nutritionist Sharon Meyer about Safe Haven Project, 4th Tuesday of each month, 3 the effects of gut bacteria. Info: 557-4277. REGULAR SCHEDULE p.m., 519 Ellis St. (Senator Hotel). Contact: 563-3205, Diabetes-Healthier Living, Free workshops on HOUSING x115, or [email protected]. managing pain, stress, and fatigue, eating healthier, Tenant Associations Coalition of San Francis- SoMa Community Stabilization Fund Advisory monitoring and balancing blood sugar, and more, co, 1st Wednesday of each month, noon, 201 Turk St., Committee, 3rd Thursday of month, 5:30 p.m., 1 presented by S.F. Healthier Living Coalition. Six-week Community Room. Contact Michael Nulty, 339-8327. South Van Ness, 2nd floor. Info: Claudine del Rosario, program begins Oct. 16, Fridays, 9-11:30 a.m., Boed- Resident unity, leadership training. 701-5580. deker Park clubhouse. Registration required: Gloria HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH Tenderloin Futures Collaborative, 3rd Wednesday Garcia, 292-2316. of the month, 11 a.m.-noon, Tenderloin Police 3rd annual Tenderloin Healthy Corner Store CBHS Client Council, 3rd Tuesday of month, 3-5 Rose Linda’s 1990 pastel on paper at Community Room, 301 Eddy. Presentations on issues Coalition event, Oct. 22, Boeddeker Park Clubhouse, p.m., 1380 Howard, Room 515. Consumer advisers Hospitality House’s Art for the House. of interest to neighborhood residents, nonprofits and 4-6 p.m., distribution of the 2015 resident shopping from self-help groups and mental health consumer businesses. Info: 820-1412. Community Building, 220 Golden Gate Ave., 2nd guide, health tips from more than a dozen groups, free advocates. Public welcome. Info: 255-3695. Call floor auditorium or 5th floor gym. Public meetings to healthy snacks. Info: healthytl.org or Ryan Thayer, ahead as meeting location may change. SENIORS AND DISABLED discuss encouraging corner stores to sell fresh food (415) 358-3962. Healthcare Action Team, 2nd Wednesday of and reduce tobacco and alcohol sales. Info: Jessica Mayor’s Disability Council, 3rd Friday of month, month, 1010 Mission St., Bayanihan Community Cen- Estrada, [email protected], 581-2483. 1-3 p.m., City Hall, room 400. 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Church, 1187 Franklin St. SDA Housing Collaborative Penelope Houson, Gary Kamiya and more. $25 ticket- ings at various times, conducted by Mental Health As- meeting, 3rd Wednesday, 1 p.m. HealthCare Action Tenderloin Police Station Community Meeting, ed event co-hosted by Litquake and Friends of the San sociation of San Francisco, 870 Market St., Suite 928. Team meeting, 2nd Wednesday, 1010 Mission St., last Tuesday of month, 6 p.m., police station Commu- Francisco Public Library. Info: litquake.org. Info: 421-2926 or mentalhealthsf.org/group-search. (Bayanihan Community Center). For info about SDA’s nity Room, 301 Eddy St. Call Susa Black, 345-7300. Survival School, University and computer class Boeddeker Park piano, coming to the Clubhouse Legal clinic, 4th Thursday of the month, 507 Neighborhood safety. through Oct. 13. Piano for all to play daily plus les- Polk St., 10 a.m.-noon. 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Board of Directors; vice-chair Transportation Authority performances, food, “cheap art” sale and art activities 6:30-8:30 p.m., City Hall, room 278. CBHS advisory Central Market Community Benefit District, Plans & Programs Committee. for children. Info: luggagestoregallery.org. committee, open to the public. Call: 255-3474. board meets 2nd Tuesday of month, Hotel Whitcomb, Legislative aides: Sunny Angulo, Ivy Lee and April Art for the House 2015, Oct. 22, 6-9 p.m., Arc Tenderloin Healthy Corner Store Coalition, 1231 Market St., 3 p.m. Info: 882-3088, http://cen- Veneracion. Jane [email protected] 554-7970. Gallery, 1246 Folsom St., Hospitality House’s annual 4th Thursday of the month, 3 p.m., Kelly Cullen tral-market.org.
Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the New de Young
Please join us Saturday October 17, 2015 10 am–10 pm All exhibition spaces and events are free and open to the public.
Sponsors: Hanson Bridgett, PG&E, and Swinerton. Community Partners: BiRite Foodservice Distributors, Drew Altizer, Design Build Solutions, NorCal Printers, Maruca Design, Pacific Coast Trane Service, and Popcorn Movie Posters Company.
Golden Gate Park • 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco • deyoungmuseum.org
PHOTO: GREGORY BERTOLINI
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