It is interesting how the story makes virtually no effort to determine why housing on the west coast is getting too expensive to be affordable, other than blaming "the tech industry." If the authors were anything but lazy themselves, they would dig further. They would find that those setting policy for the cities, while giving lip service to making things better for the poor, actually enact policies which make things worse. The policy makers over-regulate, adding vastly to the cost of building affordable housing. They constrict where housing may be built causing all land values to skyrocket. They increase property taxes trying to deal with the dysfunction their other policies have caused. And they never, ever consider that it is they who are causing these problems, because they think "I'm one of the good guys. I'm a liberal." It is no coincidence the West Coast is entirely run by liberals, and that is exactly where the problem resides.