Poll: Housing Scarcity Concerns Surpass Water Worries in San Francisco

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The San Francisco skyline September 2013. Photo by Alex Emslie/KQED

By Alex Emslie, KQED News Fix

A poll released Thursday by a business-backed policy organization found more than three-quarters of Bay Area residents support building more low- to middle-income housing, and a growing number of people favor greater density in their neighborhoods if it would create more places to live.

In San Francisco, the epicenter of housing concern for the whole Bay Area, finding an affordable place to live ranked higher than worries about California’s extreme drought in the 2015 Bay Area Council Poll.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 

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