Study: (California) State is one of poorest in U.S. (high rents)

[NVMojo]

HIGH RENT EATS UP BIG CHUNK OF INCOME
By Brandon Bailey
Mercury News

* Download the full PPIC California poverty report (PDF)

California's high cost of housing has given the state one of the worst poverty rates in the nation, according to an independent study that was welcomed by critics who believe the government's method of counting the poor overlooks many people.

Thousands of Silicon Valley residents, for example, are living in poverty even though they earn more than the official federal standard, according to researchers at the non-profit Public Policy Institute of California, who calculated the numbers after adjusting for local housing costs.

The study confirms what social workers and the working poor have known for years:

``If you're poor here, you're really poor,'' said Candy Capograssi, deputy executive director of the Santa Clara County Housing Authority, which recently had more than 70,000 people submit applications for a housing subsidy waiting list.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14552485.htm

[EFerrari]

1. According to Gavin Newsom, the SF homeless population

has decreased by 28% since he implemented the program he ran on:

Newsom praises Care Not Cash effort

The city's Care Not Cash program reached its two-year mark Thursday, and Mayor Gavin Newsom's office claimed the 1,318 people who have been moved into permanent supportive housing since it began qualify it as a success.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/05/BABADIGEST2.DTL&hw=Homeless&sn=015&sc=182

He's full of it. Who do you have to be to play games with homeless people?

:puke:

[AtomicKitten]

4. actually, they give the homeless 1-way bus tickets to Humboldt County

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/28/BAGHUGV3AG1.DTL&hw=homeless&sn=009&sc=650

[progressivebydesign]

2. That's why I left Cali, after 40+ years.

Sad to say goodbye to where I grew up, in some ways, but happy to see the light after being brainwashed into believing that decent produce and a sandy beach somehow make up for living in a shitty house and spending hundreds of thousands for the pleasure. Last time I checked, the other day, a very unattractive tract home built in the 1960s, at 1,700 square feet, with smallish yard, near nothing in particular, in San Luis Obispo, is selling right now for over a million bux. As I drove across the border, away from the state.. I had to laugh.. "see ya suckas!!".

[NVMojo]

3. wow, that price is ridiculous!