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A 'Safety Valve' For The Affordable Housing Crisis

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Nathan Banks
30 June 2003 - 9:00am

In search of relief from San Diego's affordable housing crisi, U.S. residents are looking at housing options in northern Mexico.

"The San Diego region's affordable-housing crisis is becoming an international affair, as increasing numbers of U.S. residents look to northern Baja California for low-cost shelter... Despite lengthy border-crossing delays since the Sept. 11 attacks, Baja California offers viable housing to expatriates who can adjust to life in another culture...the number of legal U.S. residents now living in Tijuana alone at between 50,000 and 60,000. "

Full Story: The Baja Option
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 29, 2003
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