Blue-State Voters Feel Harshest Squeeze From Soaring Home Prices
- Districts from New York to California among priciest in U.S.
- Texas and Georgia also boast some of least-affordable housing
Makeshift tents line a street in Downtown Los Angeles in November.
Photographer: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images
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Democratic presidential hopefuls accustomed to viewing the housing crunch as a back-burner issue will be in one of the epicenters of the crisis on Thursday.
Indeed, a drive around California may be an eye-opener for some of the candidates taking the debate stage in Los Angeles. The housing crisis is so severe in Oakland that a city council president has proposed turning a cruise ship into temporary housing, while a Sonoma County homeless camp with hundreds of residents stretches more than a mile along a hiking trail. In many major cities, public parks and freeway overpasses serve as homeless compounds.