San José’s Price-to-Income Ratio Ballooned From 2.0x to 10.3x Over 51 Years, City Document Reveals

A housing policy analysis traces the compounding divergence between home prices and household incomes back to a single federal planning document filed in 1977, with implications for development feasibility across the Bay Area. A newly surfaced analysis of San José's 1977 Housing Assistance Plan has put precise numbers on the city's half-century affordability erosion, revealing […]