Rents are rising at a slower pace in the Bay Area as more people make the leap into homeownership and new rental housing enters the market, says Joshua Howard of the California Apartment Association.
Joshua Howard
“Still, quite frankly, we don’t have enough rental housing in Silicon Valley to meet the demand,” said Howard, executive director of CAA’s Tri-County Division, in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News.
He also pointed to reductions in rent subsidies and the loss of redevelopment agencies for the slowing of rent increases. According to the Mercury News article, Bay Area rent prices rose in the third quarter by 2.6 percent. Earlier this year, rents rose 5.2 percent, the news agency said, citing data from RealFacts.
The article also looks at rental price changes on the Peninsula, as well as in the South Bay and East Bay areas.
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