{"id":428132,"date":"2026-08-09T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428132\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:39:28","slug":"the-pandemic-exodus-was-easy-the-return-is-a-housing-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428132\/","title":{"rendered":"The pandemic exodus was easy. The return is a housing nightmare."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words text-warm-gray-700 text-heading-m md:text-heading-l text-left\">Culture shock and long-distance commutes are bringing former Bay Area residents back, only to find the most brutal housing market in years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-full\" width=\"3850\" height=\"5772\" alt=\"A woman with long brown hair wears a dark shirt and silver jewelry, standing outdoors with pine trees and a blue sky in the background.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/-S3840x5757-FPNG.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emily Caruso and her husband moved from Hayes Valley to Lake Tahoe during the pandemic. Now they, like many others, are on the hunt for housing so they can return. | Source: Alejandra Rubio for The Standard<\/p>\n<p>Published Aug. 9, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Culture shock and long-distance commutes are bringing former Bay Area residents back, only to find the most brutal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32135,1085,2655,388,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-428132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-boom-loop","tag-covid","tag-housing-market","tag-real-estate","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428132","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=428132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}