Report Shows Housing Fails To Accommodate Low- And Middle-Income Workers

San Francisco CA

02 November, 2021

7:05 PM

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By Annika Hom, Mission Local November 1, 2021 Only a fraction of certain union workers can afford to live in the city without working more than one job, according to a new report sponsored by the Council of Community Housing Organizations, San Francisco Labor Council, and Jobs with Justice. The report investigates how jobs and housing "fit" together. Roughly 50,000 trade and union workers volunteered wage data for the study, which the UC Berkeley Labor Center analyzed and compared to local housing prices. The report spanned industries from nursing to airport staff, and found that only 7 percent of those employees could afford market-rate rent. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, anyone who pays more than 30 percent of income on rent is "housing cost-burdened." To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.