California’s Housing Crisis is Spreading to Other States
San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2017–Joe Mathews
California’s epidemic shortage of housing hasn’t just sickened the Golden State–driving up prices, forcing residents into rentals and putting a $140 billion annual drag on the economy. The disease is spreading to neighboring states, too. Today, nearly every major Western city–from Seattle to Denver to Boise–is experiencing a minor-league version of the California housing crisis.