{"id":387799,"date":"2026-07-06T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387799\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:23:07","slug":"despite-empty-apartments-and-fewer-people-san-diego-rents-stay-high-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387799\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite empty apartments and fewer people, San Diego rents stay high\u00a0 \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cSan Diego County apartment vacancies are now the highest this century\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/01\/san-diego-county-apartment-vacancies-are-now-the-highest-this-century\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 1<\/a>): There\u2019s a lot of urgent talk lately about San Diego\u2019s \u201chousing crisis.\u201d We need more housing!<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we now see rising around us those giant dwelling cubes that seem to block out the sun. (Remember \u201cThe Borg\u201d?) The data in the report from CoStar confirms that the real housing crisis is that people can\u2019t afford rent.<\/p>\n<p>With the average rental in San Diego costing above $2,500 a month, that\u2019s over $30,000 a year. You practically have to be earning six digits to afford an average rental today.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego population is currently decreasing. Apartment vacancies are at a long-time high.<\/p>\n<p>Our real housing problem is not a \u201chousing shortage.\u201d It\u2019s about predatory pricing. The rush to build more units is about making money, not about providing anything for people trying to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Russ Hamm, Kensington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cSan Diego County apartment vacancies are now the highest this century\u201d (July 1): There\u2019s a lot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-387799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387799","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=387799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}