From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernici, and this is The Daily.

For years, California has been the place where the country's shortage of affordable housing

is at its worst. To tackle this problem, the state is now taking aim at one of the most

cherished features of American life, the single family home. Today, my colleague Connor

Dorety tells the story of one such home in San Diego and explains what it can teach us

about the larger housing crisis and how we might solve it.

It's Tuesday, October 11th.

So I'm an economics reporter at the Times, and I cover housing. Since the pandemic and

continuing through today, there's been a lot of discussion about how obscenely expensive

housing has gotten, even in a lot of cities like Spokane or Kansas City, where people have

expected the costs of living to be pretty low. And it kind of just makes me think of my

home state and where I live, California. California's housing market keeps breaking records

that have been. Housing affordability in California is at its lowest level in nearly

15 years. Here, the median home price is about $800,000, which is about twice the cost

of a house nationally. You need to make at least $300,000 a year to buy a home right now

in four of our Bay Area counties. To afford the rent, a person earning the minimum wage

here in California must work three jobs. California has some of the most overcrowded homes in

the country. Three, four families in a house meant for one. You drive through cities like San

Francisco and LA, and there are these block long homeless encampments across the sidewalks.

Nearly a quarter of homeless people in the entire United States live here in California.

The state is basically the most extreme example of this affordable housing crisis that is

now spreading everywhere. In a way, it sort of feels like the rest of the country is just

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