{"id":364729,"date":"2026-06-17T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:08:07","slug":"watch-the-economic-pressures-that-are-driving-californians-to-leave-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364729\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The economic pressures that are driving Californians to leave home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Californians, in every part of the state, live with an uneasy day-to-day preoccupation: Housing is so expensive here, food and gas and utilities are so expensive \u2014 would it make sense to pull up stakes and leave for another state?<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/capolicylab.org\/priced-out-relocation-amidst-californias-affordability-crisis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a>, researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/capolicylab.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Policy Lab<\/a> dove deep into the data to discover who leaves, where they go and what happens to their finances in their new communities. In this <a href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/topics\/101-in-101\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">101 in 101 video<\/a>, lab co-Executive Director Evan White details how the high cost of living is driving some residents to consider relocation outside the Golden State. The ongoing video series challenges UC Berkeley\u2019s scholars and experts to explain the basics of their research in only 101 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>White says <a href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2026\/03\/31\/high-cost-of-living-suppresses-california-population-growth-uc-berkeley-study-finds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the number of people leaving <\/a>in recent years is just a tiny percentage of California\u2019s overall population of 39 million residents \u2014 an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 per year. But their departures, combined with the declining numbers of incoming migrants, signal trouble in paradise.<\/p>\n<p>People who leave are \u201cmoving to places where the overall housing costs are often 30 to 50% lower than in California,\u201d he explains. \u201cPeople who leave the state of California see really large increases in their ability to own a home over the next seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White says that neighboring states such as Oregon, Nevada and Arizona are a big draw for cost-conscious Californians. At the same time, the number of migrants who come here from other states and countries is down somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, he says, these trends are putting pressure on state and local policymakers to address California\u2019s high cost of living, especially for housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLi80c3aYgKxChi4wDM4IfUTgKNu70dWd-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch more 101 in 101 videos featuring UC Berkeley faculty and experts here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of Californians, in every part of the state, live with an uneasy day-to-day preoccupation: Housing is so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[102609,143,145,144,102610],"class_list":["post-364729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-101-in-101","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-uc-berkeley-news-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}