Erin Baldassari
Senior editor covering housing affordability at KQED, reporting on how people cope with the Bay Area's high cost of living and related policy issues.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 55min
How Do You Get By In the Pricey Bay Area?
Neale Mahoney, a Stanford economist who analyzes housing and policy, and Erin Baldassari, a KQED housing affordability editor, explore Bay Area survival tactics. They discuss soaring housing costs, pandemic price spikes, rent rules and policy trade-offs. Conversations cover multi‑gen living, side hustles, long commutes, and the limits of single fixes for childcare, health care and housing.
