Rent collections by San Francisco’s public housing agency fell precipitously in late 2019 and have continued to decline to less than half of what is owed, according to a San Francisco Public Press analysis — but the agency can’t explain why.
Author Archives: Frank Bass
Frank Bass is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose career has focused on the intersection of government, politics and business. He is a pioneer in data-driven investigations, with almost three decades of multimedia experience and innovation at top journalism organizations, including the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Bloomberg News and Al Jazeera International. Bass has lectured extensively on four continents and is the author of three books about using data for journalism.
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One-Quarter of Bay Area Tenants Say They Can’t Pay the Rent
As the pandemic stretches into its second year, an estimated 278,000 households, or roughly one-quarter of the Bay Area’s 1.1 million renters, have little or no confidence they will be able to make next month’s rent, according to a San Francisco Public Press analysis of Census Bureau data. An estimated 60,000 renters living in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco counties who were behind on their rent in mid-December said they feared eviction in the next 60 days.