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What Does It Really Cost to Live in San Francisco?
A measure called "location affordability" makes major metro areas look like a bargain—and they are, for the wealthy.
Is living in San Francisco unreasonable? That depends on who and how you ask.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation released a new report demonstrating that, yes, it's totally unreasonable to live in San Francisco. The report describes a shortfall of nearly 41,000 affordable homes for low-wage workers in the city, a problem well beyond the scope of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's promise to build at least 10,000 below-market-rate housing units by 2020.