San Francisco has become the epicenter of the Bay Area’s affordability crisis, with high-tech corporations moving in, rents climbing skyward, and despair and evictions sweeping through long-established but lower-income communities. Yet for the sold-out crowd of 140 housing-policy visionaries, advocates, experts and activists at Hack the Housing Crisis, San Francisco’s struggle to house its citizens is an opportunity to build a better city for all. Part of a special report on solutions for housing affordability.
Author Archives: Lyndal Cairns
A journalist by trade, Lyndal Cairns now consults with several Bay Area nonprofits in communications strategy and business development. She blogs about media, technology and sustainability at LyndalCairns.com