Young Families Struggle to Afford Bay Area Housing, Controversial Voting Measure in Shasta County

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges young families face in affording housing in the Bay Area and a controversial voting measure in Shasta County.

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People in this episode

Host: Bianca Taylor

Topics covered

• housing affordability
• local news
• voting measures
• young families
• Bay Area
• Shasta County

Keywords

• Bay Area housing
• young families
• voting measure
• Shasta County
• KQED news
• local news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KQED

Places: Bay Area, Shasta County

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