San Francisco Chronicle, January 24, 2022, Who did the Bay Area’s COVID housing boom leave behind?
As the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic upended life in the Bay Area, an unexpected housing boom emerged, shattering price records from Wine Country to Oakland to the Silicon Valley suburbs.
But a new report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition suggests that the pandemic frenzy also heightened racial and economic inequality in housing across California and the rest of the U.S.