The New York Times explores the Bay Area housing crisis through one woman’s three-hour commute.
In a feature that connects the dots between housing and transportation, New York Times writers Conor Dougherty and Andrew Burton join "standard American office worker" Sheila James on her commute from Stockton, California to San Francisco.
"Long commutes are a byproduct of the region’s tech boom, which has given rise to a full-blown housing crisis," the Times writes, noting that James initially moved to Stockton after a developer bought her building and evicted the tenants.
"As home prices have escalated beyond middle-class reach, areas far inland have become an oasis of (relative) affordability ... Prices are so high, and people are commuting so far, that gentrification has moved well beyond prime city neighborhoods to secondary cities and even far-reaching suburbs. As more people move inland, home prices are rising faster in the Central Valley than anywhere else in the state."
Read the full story: A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M.
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A new study finds evidence that the ripple effect from the San Francisco Bay Area's housing affordability crisis has reached all the way to Sacramento.
A Comprehensive Examination of the Bay Area Housing Crisis
The Google Bus protests got the media’s attention, and the Ellis Act has politicians' attention, but the Bay Area’s current tech-housing-gentrification crisis is a big, complicated mess.
Louisville Launches ‘Anti-Displacement Tool’
After a years-long, tenant-led effort, Louisville will use a new tool to analyze whether a proposed housing development can meet a neighborhood’s housing needs and income levels. If it doesn’t, the city won’t subsidize it.
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California plans to bury El Niño’s downpour
If the state plays its cards right, it may be able to store a billion acre-feet of El Niño’s water in aquifers.
Desperate measures: Advocates weigh draining Lake Powell to fill Colorado River
Draining the reservoir could reduce evaporation losses by a couple hundred thousand acre-feet.
US buildings threatened, destroyed by fires set to triple by 2060
Researchers found a high fire risk for socioeconomically vulnerable neighborhoods in the American West.
LA residents may be allowed to paint their own crosswalks
Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky put out a motion instructing the Los Angeles Department of Public Transportation to study the feasibility of allowing volunteers to paint crosswalks.
Dallas moves to overhaul its zoning code
The city's zoning reform will allow more multi-family and mixed-use developments.
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