Rising Housing Costs and Re-Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area
UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project and the California Housing Partnership Philip Verma, Dan Rinzler, Eli Kaplan, and Miriam Zuk
This report finds that increases in housing prices in the San Francisco Bay Area between 2000 and 2015 were correlated with shifts in where low-income people of color lived in the region. It also provides evidence that these shifts contributed to new concentrations of poverty and racial segregation in the region and the perpetuation of racial disparities in access to high-resource neighborhoods.
The report concludes that the Bay Area needs policies and investments that specifically support housing affordability and stability for low-income people of color, while also increasing their access to high-resource neighborhoods. To be successful, these policies and investments must account for both the legacies of racial segregation and recent patterns of re-segregation.
