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The Mercury News
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/13/bay-area-housing-insecurity-deepens-with-covid-pandemic/
Louis Hansen
October 14, 2020
Stubborn unemployment, a lengthening health crisis and California's high housing costs are putting unsustainable pressure on the state's most vulnerable homeowners and renters. More than 1 in 5 California residents surveyed said they lacked confidence they would be able to make rent or mortgage last month, according to new research by the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation. "It paints a really compelling picture about how broad-based the pandemic has hit," said Carolina Reid of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. In particular, renters are feeling growing anxiety about making their monthly payments.