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Snapshots
To give you a better picture of the affordable housing crisis and solutions, you can find quick stats here. And coming soon, more photos!

In the meantime, take a video tour of exemplary affordable housing developments from the nationally acclaimed NPH public education video collection.

Download the latest two-page snapshot of the widening gap between affordable housing needs and production in the Bay Area. (Update January 2004)

Did you know?

  • Since 1977, the median home price in the Bay Area has increased about 200%. (California Association of Realtors)


  • In booming Santa Clara County, 38,000 new jobs were recently created; in that same time, only about 4,000 new housing units became available. (Santa Clara Valley Manufacturing Group/Housing Action Coalition)


  • More than 60% of Marin County’s public safety employees (fire, police, paramedics) live outside the county, largely because of a lack of affordable housing. In the event of a major emergency, many would be more than an hour by car from their work. (Marin Independent Journal, 2/23/97, p. 1 and 6)


  • 78% of businesses polled said that the cost of housing is a serious problem for businesses trying to keep qualified workers in the Bay Area. (Bay Area Council, 1994)


  • Neighbors living near affordable housing developments perceived them more favorably than neighbors living near similarly priced market rate developments. (“NIMBY Fears, Community Perceptions: Analysis of Affordable and Market Rate Housing Developments in Oakland, California,” Cathy Cha, Masters Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1996)


  • Over the past 15 years, dozens of independent studies have consistently found that well-designed, well-managed affordable housing has no impact on nearby property values or even contributes to a small increase. (Why Affordable Housing Does Not Lower Property Values, Homebase, 1995)





CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHT: Proposition 1C, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006. Click here for election results and campaign wrap-up.



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