Between 2000 and 2013, the number of low-income households in the Bay Area increased by 10%, but the region lost 50% of units defined affordable for this population, according to researchers at the University of Berkeley, California, who have closely studied gentrification and displacement.
Studies have also repeatedly shown that Silicon Valley tech firms are exacerbating inequality and that many local workers do not make enough to support a family.
The region that has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country.