Issues: Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing: What's New

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Homes for all San Diegans:
The State of the Housing Affordability in the Region
SANDAG Report (pdf),
June 2006
For many residents in San Diego and throughout California, the price of housing has reached a breaking point. Though shelter is a basic need, renting or buying a home becomes more difficult every day.

ARTICLES / COLUMNS
Condominium conversions:
Problem or solution?
By D. Scott Peters, The Daily Transcript
Article, June 9, 2006
According to MarketPointe Realty Advisors, a San Diego-based real estate research firm, a study conducted in 2005 found the average price of a newly constructed detached home in San Diego County was $781,000. The average newly constructed attached condominium averaged $490,000. Result: an affordable housing nightmare for the residents of San Diego. The only encouraging news: The average price for a converted condominium was over $100,000 less than a newly built one.

Manufactured Homes, No Longer Mobile,
Nor Affordable
By EVAN McLAUGHLIN, Voice Staff Writer
Article, July 3, 2006
Before retiring two years ago, Homer and Virginia Barrs charted out their silver years. They soon realized that they would have to move from their Tierrasanta home to more affordable quarters after losing the steady income Homer Barrs earned as a real estate and mortgage broker.

Needed: more housing choices
for all San Diegans
By Ken Sauder, Chair of the San Diego Housing Federation
Article, June 22, 2006
Buying a home may be the American dream, but it's pure fantasy for too many workers in San Diego who struggle to even find affordable rent.

Harvard report sees no losses from slowed sales
By Emmet Pierce
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Article, June 9, 2006
Southern California's housing boom is running out of steam, but the slowing pace of sales won't erode the huge gains in equity that many homeowners have realized in recent years, says a report by Harvard University.