How 1 Oakland Woman Is Building Community in an Increasingly Unaffordable Bay Area ^24.1%

KQED - By Otis R. Taylor Jr. - 6/10/2026, 11:00 AM

Anecdotal 15.5% - Negativity Bias 14.9% - Appeal to Emotion 12.5%

This story is part of How We Get By, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the full series here. When KQED launched How We Get By, its affordability project, I immediately thought of my friend and neighbor Nancy Morton. We see the faces of the affordability crisis everywhere... more