Study finds Santa Cruz County to be one of the least affordable places in California
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Devin Fehely reports on a new study that found Santa Cruz County rents were even higher than those found in San Francisco and Santa Clara County (6-27-2023)
I was born and raised in Santa Cruz and much of my family is there. They were able to buy homes while it was at least manageable, although not what anyone would call “affordable”. I was late enough in the game that I was priced out of the market and by the late 80s I had to move my family away to the Central Valley. The bigger issue is that while Santa Cruz may be the worst example, none of California is affordable… it’s completely out of control. More than ever, California as a whole is the land of the haves and the have nots. The middle class is devastated.
Correct. If you lack coin, connections, clout, crews, computer code, control, communities, and opportunities... it's basically over. 💪😎✌️ No money, no honey. No cred? Then, yer dead.
Restrictive zoning and CEQA drive up the cost of housing.
the commie goal requires the elimination of the middle class.
People around the world and all over the states are still dreaming about California. You have decades of movies selling the place. The bidding is out of control. If you aint happy with the prices then surfers like Brianna need to move out instead of feeding the frenzy. Stop overspending.
Santa Cruz used to be just a bunch of gross drugged out hippies, but tyranny came in the night, and draconian law was spread far and wide. Santa Cruz, the utopian dream that became a dystopian nightmare.
Isn't most of California "least affordable".
and least livable
SF, Hawaii & New York are the most expensive.
@@sfrealestatedealmaker6001SF isn't a state
draconian to the max
It's nepotant and undeserving is what it is
The middle class can't even afford Bakersfield.
Merced and Fresno are super affordable actually. I’d look to moving there is I were lower income.
👀 Look before it gets more expensive.
@@sfrealestatedealmaker6001 Fresno's cheapest mobile home park just got bought out by some company. Everyone's rents are increasing by 200% or something stupid like that. They're all scrambling trying to find a new place to go.
Also define "affordable"? That's a fairly ambiguous word these days.
A year ago I was looking for a room in Northern California. This guy offered me a room in his dingy apartment in Scotts Valley for $1,800 a month (not including utilities). Tried convincing me it was a sweet deal. "Sweet deal"? I can't tell if he's been brainwashed or telling it like it is?
Clearly people are able to pay the rent. Maybe you just don’t want it that bad.
@@Ap_twsh Yep, capitalism baby... but also it feels wrong to spend that much to share a dingy apartment.
Capitalism for citizens, and socialism for corporations like Ford corporation getting a government bailout as it lays off workers 🤣
As a local, That was absolutely a sweet deal
Yeah, it's a desirable location in the largest concentration of wealth in the history of the world. Considering those factors, it's a sweet deal in 2023. Would that be affordable for someone working fast food?
@@831ryan
I left the poo hole in 2001 when rents were a measly $2800 month for one BR. I 1980 I rented homes for $450ish mo. A BR was $150-200. So I moved into the Sierra mtns and bought a home for $1400 month and I'll never visit The Pit again. 1966-2001....It was a really nice place
I’ve literally tried to live in Santa Cruz out of my car since 2015. I’m a skateboarder and I fell in love with surfing and the beauty of Santa Cruz on my board in the ocean. I’ve seen dolphin swim by, sea otters eating crab, a whale with someone on a stand up paddle board following it, there was a shark in the ocean ones, and we all had to get out of the water, but it was just a adolescent who was sleeping I was there when Jack O’Neill was still alive. I feel like at least one beach on, or one opening on pleasure point should be like a locals only spot.
Here’s my opinion of the expert’s study: “No sheet Sherlock.” It’s not rocket science.
👏🏼😂
If you cant afford to live there, move. Imagine the economic conditions of an individual that refuses ti accept economic reality. Too many people, too few houses = high housing cost. Buying something that you cant afford BECAUSE you "want" it leads to financial degradation.
@reallife401I think he’s saying to move out of state 😂 where it’s cheaper. Not everyone can live in expensive places.
I live in what is known as "South" county, or more formally, Watsonville - considered the strawberry capitol of the world. Rent and home ownership in this State, let alone this county, is beyond all but the affluent and wealthy, w/ the median home price in this county hovering around $1.4M. And that's down ever so slightly from last year. Born in 1960 and have never been able to afford a home in this State, not even in the least desirable places, like the Central Valley and some of the more remote areas along the Sierra Nevada range and the high desert. The only reason I can live here is through the Housing Authority program and that took over fifteen years of waiting in my wheelchair to finally get a voucher. Life is tough and its only getting tougher.
The system is broken here. Restrictive zoning and CEQA drive the price of housing out of reach. It's crazy how long it takes to get a voucher. It's crazy how much it cost nonprofit developers/landlords to build "affordable" housing, $450,000-$990,000 per unit.
Went to school there and then tried to make a living as a young adult. The situation is insulting! Moldy rentals, shady landlords, wages nowhere near costs of living. Enough already. Leaders need to pass some laws here.
how many more laws do you need? you already have enough to throw the moon off its orbit, and you want *more*? y'all ignore state and federal laws as it is, why not adhering to the ones already there first before making more?
@reallife401if it's so bad why would anyone live there?
@@middleguy1776 Because they want to surf every day.
@muzaffarkrylov2365 why do people pay the rents if they're too high?
@@jcop14 then you're paying for convenience
The middle class is hanging by a thread here. Seriously. In California more and more people are becoming the working poor or homeless. Someone has to do something.
well, kind of the consequences of voting for commie traitors. guess they stopped teaching in school how the commie ideal is the elimination of all classes. except for the elites, of course.
those with any common sense and the ability to do so are getting the hell out of dodge.
Something = Get a Uhaul truck and Move 😂
Tru dat, but it's been all by design with the 2 years of ridiculous covid destroying communities policies transforming America from within. While Newsomes administration has the biggest EDD corruption scandal in 2020 🤣 discovered when taxpaying citizens couldn't access their lockdown unemployment benefits, and the head of EDD was forced to resign 🤣 they followed the money $32 Billion dollars right into federal prisons, and out of the United States While taxpaying citizens had no help with their benefits.
This just showcases one of many ways that our system is broken.
It is extremely difficult to build anything new, or to replace anything that gets destroyed by, say, wildfires. This continues to make housing less and less affordable. (In fact, since the Tiny House movement started Santa Cruz County placed a ban on all units less than 900 sq. ft...)
Some of the least expensive rental situations I have found in Santa Cruz County are single rooms in a house. (In the least expensive, you only have bathroom rights, and no other rights to using the rest of the house. You also are not allowed to have any cooking appliances in your room, and sometimes are not allowed to have a refrigerator or room heater.) These rooms are usually smaller than 12' x 12', yet they cost between $1200 - $2200 per month!
More-so, minimum wage and taxes are set based on some of the LEAST EXPENSIVE places to live, in this country, not on ACTUAL LOCATIONS and individual lives and the costs of living in those places. So, many people in California can be in the top, or second to top income bracket, and still be unable to afford a place to live. If they do find housing, it is typically with multiple housemates in a small apartment (250 - 1400 sq feet are quite common sizes to squeeze 2 - 6 unrelated roommates into!
If it’s too expensive to live there then don’t live there?
great comment
top of the morning to ya, have your cup of smug farts. lol
That's why 1 million taxpaying citizens have left California 🤣 sorry about that deficit in taxpaying citizens. And total lack of Tourism money cuz nobodies planning a trip to delapitated, and crime ridden San Francisco 🤣 while Nancy Pelosi lives high on the hill looking down on all the little people "let them eat $12 a pint ice cream like me" and my hammer yielding Gay drunken driving husband getting dates on Grinder apps Pauly Pelosi 🤣 democrats are the biggest JOKE in History.
Property management companies are driving the cost of rent up.
We do need more housing but nobody wants it near their neighborhood.
Start building north of Santa Cruz . There is a lot of land between Santa Cruz and Davenport.
5K for an apartment....LOL
Brianna needs to walk away.
I was born and raised in Santa Cruz and it never used to be like that I mean it was always a little expensive but not that bad. Thank you Galvin newsom for your taxes and policy.
We lived in Santa Cruz for 20 years. We couldn’t afford it anymore and had to leave. Seems like high housing is happening everywhere now. It doesn’t help that they let private investor groups buying up single family homes!
I go to school at UC Santa cruz. Glad to finally say we’re number 1 at something 🎉
haha, santa cruz, the gey capital of the world.
UCSC is an awesome school.
I wanna surf everyday 🙄…😂
“And live in an expensive location” 😂 fantasy land style
I’d love to live in Beverly Hills but I can’t. That’s life
So you’re saying a 3 bedroom beach house in Carmel-by-the-sea would be pricey?!?! 😂😂😂🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
The fact is affordable housing cannot be expected from the private developers as they are in the business of making a profit.
Increasing minimal wage will not solve the problem as it will just lead to the increase costs of other things.
What must happen is the federal and/or state government must have a robust public housing program. There is no lack of successful models from cities in other developed countries like Austria and Singapore.
Unfortunately, in California with CEQA and restrictive zoning, it can cost nonprofit developers/landlords $450,000-$990,000 per unit to build. I'm all for a public housing option but we need to bring the cost WAY down.
america isn't austria or singapore. nor are we denmark, sweden, germany. i wish we would stop pretending it's all the same.
what you're saying is nothing more than subsidized housing, and we already have that. you can call it 'social housing' if it makes you feel better, but i'd as soon not live in a building called 'the karl marx.' that's a bit too on the nose.
CA couldn't manage a hot dog stand. even if they could, would you want to live there? again, this isn't austria, a homogenous population of just 9 million people. the government isn't supposed to be in competition with business at levels high enough to destroy the market, for good reason and by design.
the pathetic irony is CA does what it can to become communist, and after it succeeds in turning itself into a dystopian hellscape, it'll require capitalism, that thing it's destroying every day, to rescue it.
@ryanbarker5217 The mentioned country are not the same or like the US. But they do work. It would be smart to look at examples and learn unless we have too much hubris and prefer to continue to rot.
@ryanbarker5217 Educate yourself and learn the difference between Communism and Social Democracy.
@@ryanbarker5217Great comment, that is what so many people do not understand.
Rental price gouging like everything else. Everyone is a thief.
Could you provide evidence of gouging? And also show me where greed doesn't exist please. Thanks
Get that experimental vaccines with boosters, or lose your job, and income said the Biden administration in collusion with corporations 🤮
Yup. If you don't have a house right now, trust me, YOU AIN'T NEVER GONNA HAVE ONE. 💪😎✌️ Not unless you become an internet sensation, and you're popular, connected, influential, etc.
Houses are for the top 6%. Everyone else needs to rent or sleep in their cars. It is what it is. Acceptance is key.
Top 3% actually 😂 but I get what you’re saying.
true dat!
We have 50 states to choose from. People need to wise up and move out. Stop participating in the feeding frenzy.
or your black.
Living in my car in California. Acceptance is the key 😆 too bad California homeowners, etc aren't accepting of me.
Wow. Beautiful. I want to live there and surf everyday too. Even short term remote work would be nice. Competition is hot and I could outbid Brianna and her roomates. Would they approve a row of high rises on the water that would block the views. Until then people could move out so prices can go down.
Name a city in California where minimum age meets rent. I'll wait .... so our homeless problem is because we bus em in and they all do drugs and are crazy. You mean rent being 1,800+ 3x requirement . It takes two full time jobs just to qualify to rent a room these days. Like it's not an availability issue. It's a cost issue , people are packing in like sardines now not cause overpopulation especially now after the mass exodus. It's cause people can't afford rent otherwise
Can't afford 5,000 rent while holding a 1,000+ phone 😂😂😂😂 oh man priorities
And what does it matter what Santa Cruz County is? Its CA, its overvalued by 30% at least.
democrats
@reallife401 racist
And their crazy crappy 2 years of covid policies 🤣 YOU will eat Thanksgiving outdoors. And YOU will wear your masks in between every bite. And absolutely NO singing allowed 🤣 while I Gavin Newsome who knew all along the covid policies were Bogus will crowd around a table with my donors maskless at the most expensive restaurant the French laundry $10 Grand in expensive French wine on the taxpayers dime 🤣 and my children will never be masked at our private school afforded only by corrupt politicians like Newsome, and Nancy high on the hill of San Francisco watching its destruction "let them eat $12 a pint ice cream like me" 🤣 while we wheel into the WH very sick, and old, easily manipulated elder abuse of Diane Feinstein 🤣 democrats the biggest JOKE in history.
This is why we have such a homeless problem In Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is like San Francisco minus all the poop.
poop and needles everywhere in Santa Cruz, can't even walk down the beach without fear of catching hepatitis.
They've got the crime like San Francisco does in Santa Cruz.
Anyone else notice Brianna's very nice iPhone? Not cheap. Let's not make Santa Cruz look like Livermore which is no more of what it once was.
I don't get your comparison
@@obijuankenobi420Livermore used to be inexpensive?
@@ronswansonsdog2833 When was Santa Cruz inexpensive ? 😂
She makes money from working. She isn't allowed to have nice things? Lemme guess she should share her money with everyone so lazy asses like you don't have to work?
She is a material girl living in the most expensive material world haha
who works in santa cruz? those rich folk gonna have to hire someone else cause i wouldn't do that...
illegal aliens who get a free ride and non stop handouts.
Rich? They live South on highway one in Carmel By the Sea.
People should move out of CA. The quality of life here isn’t that great
No big deal. We'll just all move to the Central Valley and stare at Miles and Miles of nothing
I pay $1200 for my portion of a 2bed apartment in Scott’s Valley. Rents around me are typical. Yeah, it’s expensive, but man do I love living in Santa Cruz.
Well you have perfect weather most of the year, what do you expect?
non stop fog and drizzle, place sucks.
Affordable housing for citizens, not more profits for Blackrocks portfolio. Corporations over citizens. The Biden adm in collusion with corporations forcing workers to get the experimental vaccines, or lose your job 🤣 nothing like blackmailing citizens for Big Pharma profits huh
WTFUDGE😂... looks like someone took 5 minutes and looked on Zillow...
Thank the real estate industry..
Sounds about right. I live there.
My doctor is moving down there. There will soon be a new OBGYN in town...
Oh muh gawd. I can't believe I am from there. That's like the best spot in the world now. Most of my family split- either out of state or to a bigger, California or Illinois or Washington city.
If i couldnt afford to live in hayward on an elderly salary.. what makes you think i could live in santa cruz?
At least in Nevada its rv friendly and i can park it in a park and treat it like a home.
They have RV parks in Santa Cruz that are affordable
Surfers ruining it for everyone.
It used to be affordable decades ago
The Fed, the State, City and County don't give a damn. this falls on death ears
How is it the governments responsibility to regulate prices? That would be communist
Keep voting democrat so this can get even worse
everyones a airplane pilot
Rich and poooooor,,,the golden state,,,
Voting has consequences. Keep voting for the same people and keep passing the measures. If you live in California, you only need to look in the mirror. I was born and raised in San Jose (close to Pruneyard) and left in 1984. Happy not to call CA home... my opinion. Enjoy!
Don’t worry, we’re voting out all the NIMBYs that your generation voted in. You’re going to see a lot more housing built and improvements in affordability in California.
Lol,of course it's on the beach, whom wouldn't want to live on the temperate coast!
If you can move to another State.
Well off course beach front property is a luxury now even when it's middle class.
ridiculous
This should just state every city in California has rent higher than the minimum wage so what's your point exactly 😂
It’s not crazy, learn to sacrifice your lifestyle for later years.
Supply vs demand model, good luck regulating that fundamental economic property away 👍 Be an adult, move where you can afford to and stop demanding federal intervention because you want & think you deserve to live there.
The supply is artificially low due to restrictive zoning and building policy set forth by the county and CCC. Santa Cruz and the surrounding coast could have 2-3x the current population and housing if the local government was in support.
Golfers Golf-Courses and Golf-Resort-Homes, are never attacked bombed assaulted shot-up protested or marched against: but those're the Fascists' Fundamental-Sacred-Places; don't march on main street, don't protest in public spaces, there're no people in anyone's way but those at the Golf-Courses.
Santa Cruz is like five dollars a night or like three hundred dollars a month area.
Those weird people are illegally occupied the houses and land and never paid for it and never had money or jobs and they are trying to rent or lease himes they don't own and gain on average for to ten times the market value illegally each month or year for rentals or motels
They're so happy to be #2!
#2 out their butts. lol
These reports are stupid. Ain't way most single folks need a 2 bedroom apartment. And if you factor at least one person per bedroom, the income requirement is half (~$32/hr). Still high, but not out of reach. What about avg rental prices for a single bedroom in a home? What about actual available housing stock?
Haven't read the report yet, but those questions seem more telling if the real situation.
Ok landlord
california is an illegal alien halfway house.
Americans should do like the illegal immigrants, 20 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment. I lived next to one, the living room lined up with beds, though they were very quiet 🤣 gee I wonder why.
What if your a single parent? What if your a couple with a kid? Child support is almost as much as a full time well paying job, so many people support their wife and kid(s) on a single income. Average 1 bedrooms right now in San Francisco are $3600 + utilities. Jobs haven't increased much in wages in 15 years, yet housing has more than doubled.
Most people already know this
What the h boom what tech boom
That is so crazy
Sacramento is cheap 😂
That's why people are homeless an on drugs. Pricing poor an Middle class out smh. 🤦
Calestine
duh
We have a huge problem with workforce housing in California. Maybe we should allow employers to offer housing as tax-free compensation. You could incentivize the employers by making it clear that employer-employee housing agreements are licensing agreements like hotels, motels, and transitional housing program work under, rather than landlord-tenant rental agreements.
who's going to pay for the potential lost income? if i had a small factory making widgets, how the hell am i going to find you affordable housing? am i supposed to build it or buy it? now i'm supposed to manage that in addition to struggling under oppressive regulations and taxes? and, it being CA, if that employee gets fired i won't be able to evict him for years.
or am i going to go to a state that actually functions on a reasonable level?
@@ryanbarker5217Your I.Q. is above average 😂 good job.
They call that a plantation.
Oh you mean like communist Russia used to do?
@@ryanbarker5217 What lost income? I wouldn't mandate employee housing. I would handle the benefit the way we do employer provide healthcare. Many businesses are in a better position to build housing than they are to compete in the healthcare market. I can't imagine keeping a factory in California. I would move it to a location with lower costs and more rational regulations. For some employers that isn't an option. Some school districts are doing this.
Build more apartments
the brains on you.
Where?
@@highlymedicated2438 they want to build low income housing down along the sides of the freeway, Santa Cruz county is fully onboard with agenda2021 and agenda2030, it's a liberal dominant socialist draconian nightmare.
@@highlymedicated2438 sell a few expensive homes and build apartments
Santa Cruz ... "No bums allowed!!"
That's why I hate the homeless am I right. That you were pissed that Bernie Sanders was telling it like it is
Santa Cruz, homeless capital of the world. plus it's a drug town.
@@investigativeoutcomes9343 Since, as the video points out, you have to be rich to live there, the homeless must be doing a bang up business!
@@outlawbillionairez9780 i was born and raised in Santa Cruz and still live there. research the homeless problem by using the google button, heroin is the drug of choice in santa cruz, that and meth, everyone smokes weed though, it keeps them in their state of ignorant bliss while the rich drive around cavort in there fancy electric cars that i see stranded because of dead batteries all the time
@@outlawbillionairez9780 oh, and their pretty much ALL gey as fk.
That's good. It keeps out the riff-raff.
THE PRICE YOU PAY TO NOT HAVE HOMELESS JUNKIES AND CRIME AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE SCHOOLS😂😂😂😂😂
Low income workers receiving housing subsidies would ease the homeless crisis and improve the local economy. Rent caps (rent control) need to be in place so the corporate real estate companies don’t inflate the rental price to pocket the subsidies. I believe that’s the main reason why we don’t have UBI (universal base income) yet. It’s too easy for corporations to inflate prices and blame it on inflation. The gag is it’s the corporations who are the ones literally inflating prices not government spending. But Republicans don’t want us to know that bc they love to see the world suffer. 🥲
More bad news: Since the eviction moratorium ended, more landlords are evicting, selling and all together quitting the business. This means, way less rentals on the market, which means way higher rents. The landlords sticking around are huge corporations that WILL raise rents ruthlessly not caring what happens to tenants (becoming homeless).
Search up Blackrock on Google.
A huge st*t storm is on the horizon.
actually it's the corrupt liberals who are creating the draconian dystopia.
That's only for illegal immigrants silly 😜 5 star Hotels in NYC one block from time Square and in Chicago on Michigan Avenue at $25 million dollars a month you see USA citizens are treated like crap while their new friends are treated to luxury 😀 be sure to vote for illegal immigrants that cannot speak English, and know nothing about our country to vote in USA elections like AOC did in her district 🤣 democrats the biggest JOKE in history.