Resources on housing prices in the Bay Area
Reporting on home prices in the Bay Area
NY Times reporting on the housing challenges for Silicon Valley teachers
Data on average rental prices in Silicon Valley
Resources on gentrification and displacement
Explainer on how Bay Area communities are at risk or already experiencing gentrification
Reporting on the rates of Oakland and San Francisco neighborhoods experiencing gentrification
Urban Habitat’s report on resegregation in the Bay Area
Research on the impacts of long commutes
Resources on the varied roots of the housing crisis
Explainer on factors contributing to the housing crisis and why 40% of California households struggle to afford the roof over their heads, including economic disincentives for using land for new housing, how most cities have not issued enough housing permits to keep up with new jobs and NIMBYism against affordable housing (such as Marin County’s exemption from the state’s housing mandates)
Reporting on factors contributing to the housing crisis, including why cities often favor commercial development over housing and how there’s been an increase in population but no increase in housing units
Resources about homelessness
Report about the unhoused population in the Bay Area
Analysis of the compounding causes of homelessness
Report on the racial demographics of homelessness
Report on the safety issues for people who are unhoused, related to violence
Discussion of the stigma of being unhoused
Organizations that provide resources and support for unhoused people in Silicon Valley
Sacred Heart Community Service
Women’s Gathering Place
On Route 22
Downtown Streets Team
Policy proposals for addressing the housing crisis
Urban Habitat’s proposals for an Economic Prosperity Strategy
How just cause eviction policies work
Reporting on San Jose’s just cause eviction policy
Reporting on the importance of increasing renter protections, including rent control and just cause eviction
Research on commercial linkage fees and other policies for addressing the housing crisis
Research on anti-displacement strategies
Sociology References
Adair, Vivyan C. 2001. “Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 27(2), 451-471.
Coser, Lewis A. 1965. “The Sociology of Poverty: To the Memory of Georg Simmel.” Social Problems, 13(2), 140-148.
Perry, Samuel L. 2013. “Urban Hybrid Space and the Homeless.” Ethnography, 14 (4): 431-451.
This episode was written by Jennifer Myhre, Melinda Poley and Tori Truscheit. It was produced and edited by Lea Li, Jennifer Myhre, and Deven Sutaria. The music that opens and closes each 1500 Stories episode was composed and produced by Benjamin Henderson. Additional music was composed by Airtone, Jesus Correa, Ben Henderson and Michelle Ordonez. You find the Airtone song Midwinter by Airtone, copyright 2018, here. Sound effects, from Freesounds, include a train stopping at a station recorded by Cornodrig, a dump truck recorded by Kyles, the interior of a bus recorded by Dobroide, and the sound of a train approaching recorded by Markedit. The 1500 Stories podcast was launched thanks to generous financial assistance from the Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies community college faculty fellowship program. However, any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed here are our own and do not necessarily represent those of Mellon or ACLS. Special thanks to all of the storygatherers who conducted interviews for the project and all of the people who shared their stories so openly.
