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<br />I Cost of housing among area's top woes I <br /> By Kelty Zito Survey cites it as major reason their highest concern, 19 percent <br /> CJl~ONICLB STAFF WRITt~ said housing was the biggest proh- <br /> 2 of 5 residents consider leaving lellL Forty percent said they have <br /> You're not the only one dream. considered moving out of the reo <br /> ing of ditching the Bay Area for a gion, and 70 percent of those cited <br /> Midwestern college town or a housing ranked as the region's high housing costs as a major (ac- <br /> coastal city in the Southeast are having a hard time managing. tor. <br /> Two out o( live residents of the second-mOllt-vexing problem, be. "In some cases they're cashing In 1996, as the real estate mar. <br /> nine-<:ounty region have given lie- hind transportation woes, out, and in some cases they fust ket began to recover from the ear- <br /> rious thought to moving away - Even with some recent cooling can't afford to stay," said Jim Iy 1990s receS$ion, ouly I percent <br /> mostly becallSe of high housing in the local housing market, the Wunderman, president of the Bay of respondents cited housing as a <br /> costs, according to a survey re' price for a middle.of-the-road sin- Area Council, which conducted big concern. <br /> leased today by a business and IIle.family home hovers around the survey of 600 randomly select. The armuaJ survey, which takes <br /> public policy group. $628,000, or about triple the na. ed people from Jan. 16 to 23. the public's temperature on a <br /> The Bay Area Council's annual tional averalle. That means many Although 35 percent of respon. range of issues, echoes similar <br /> pOll found that concerns about families with two income-earners denlll ranked transportation as .. POLL: Pllg~ BS <br /> Preferred Method to Address New Home Shorta2e <br /> Infill: Building on Underused Lots in 58OA. <br /> Existing Communities <br /> Qpen Space: Build in The Rural Areas 25OA. <br /> Neither 6OA. <br /> 63 <br />