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It's become the go-to conversation anywhere you go in the Bay Area, the cost of housing.

Rents are up, housing prices are up, we're all paying more, and it seems like no one is immune.

And the place where prices are rising the fastest isn't

San Francisco anymore. It's Oakland. Between July 2011 and 2016, the median price of

a home nearly doubled to $625,000.

Let that sink in.

That is a ton of money.

The median rent went up by more than $1,100 during that time.

Elena Fushe and her wife know this well.

They were living in a rent-controlled home

in Oakland's Diamond District, raising their first child.

Elena was a social worker, her wife, a teacher. Our house was. A but we were both working full time and so we were having to pay for full time

child care and pay for rent and when I got pregnant with our second kid that's

when we kind of looked at what it was going to cost to put him in full-time child care once I went back to work.

Plus, around this time, their landlord decided to sell the house where they were living.

So this meant they were going to have to pay even more for housing.

So we just were like, we can't afford to stay here.

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