Before readers raised the issue, I posed the same question to Mya Mack, whom I first met at the public lottery last fall for Natalie Gubb Commons, a new 95-unit affordable housing development in San Francisco that drew 6,580 applicants. She had been looking for housing since the summer, when she left an affordable apartment for a relationship that didn’t work out. Ms. Mack, who works as a phlebotomist, applied to every housing opportunity she could find. She checked the city’s online affordable housing site on her phone as reflexively as she looked at Facebook. But when I asked if she had ever considered moving somewhere much cheaper, that solution was off the table.

Source: New York Times May 15, 2018 16:37 UTC