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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Housing has become so expensive in many places that people can't afford to live where they work. So, some local governments and businesses are helping with down payment costs to attract and keep employees. Is it working?
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| 0:05.4 | Uh-oh, that didn't sound good. Looks like the boilers packed in. |
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| 0:35.6 | listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed. |
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| 1:07.8 | This is On Point. I'm Megna Chacrabardi. When Juan Carlos Cuvedo's parents moved from Mexico, they first landed in California's Bay Area. And it wasn't cheap. His parents could not afford to live close to where they worked. |
| 1:24.9 | And so we were renting a whole bunch of different apartments I remember growing up. |
| 1:30.5 | And one of the greatest accomplishments that my mom and dad did was purchase a home in the East Bay. |
| 1:37.3 | But they were both working in San Francisco. |
| 1:40.0 | So my whole life, we were doing this whole big commute between Antioch, California, and San Francisco. |
| 1:47.3 | And it was just a big stress of challenge for our family, just commuting every day, getting over that bridge. |
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