Cost of housing in SF Bay Area continues to rise…
Ever fewer can afford a house in Bay Area
You’ll need to earn at least $124,000, study calculates
Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
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URL: sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/28/MNG9N4JGO01.DTL
The yawning gap between incomes and Bay Area housing costs is pushing
home ownership out of reach for all but the older and most affluent,
according to a new report.
Even though last year’s falling mortgage rates helped some Bay Area
residents purchase homes, they did not increase low-income home
buying, the report says.
“It’s no longer just a poor person’s problem,” said Erin Riches,
senior policy analyst at the California Budget Project, a Sacramento
advocacy group for low- and middle-income people. “You have more and
more middle-income people who are devoting higher and higher amounts
of their incomes to housing.”
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