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The Great Squeeze: Bay Area Residents Downsize and Adapt to Rising Costs

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News Home / Housing Apr 6, 2026 Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email From top left to bottom right: Keith and Lisa Alvord embrace on their sailboat in Emeryville. Misha Kurita-Ditz and their mom, Barbara Ditz, sit together at the apartment they share in San Francisco. Brooke Dawson sits with her son outside the Airstream where she lives in her mother’s backyard. Christy Brown bartends in Walnut Creek. Chad Morrison works at a bakery in Santa Rosa.
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This Program Helps Californians Buy Affordable Homes. Advocates Want More Funding

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By Erin Baldassari Verified
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Dec 9, 2025 Failed to save article Please try again Andie Rounds and her son, Ari, outside their Novato home with their dog, Luna, in August 2024. Rounds was able to purchase the affordable home thanks to Habitat for Humanity's Greater San Francisco Chapter and state funding through CalHome. (Courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco) Andie Rounds’ Novato home is blue, two stories, with white trim around the windows and doors. In the backyard, her son grows summer vegetables.
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‘It’s Devastating’: More Than $100M for Housing Homeless at Risk Under New HUD Policy

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Nov 18, 2025 Failed to save article Please try again Nurse Julianne Vidal takes vitals for Brandon Radford, 80, in his room at Oak Days, a permanent supportive housing program in a former hotel in Oakland, on May 22, 2024. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness fear this kind of housing could lose funding under federal guidelines released this month.
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