{"id":468611,"date":"2026-09-19T02:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468611\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:44:13","slug":"markkula-center-for-applied-ethics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468611\/","title":{"rendered":"Markkula Center for Applied Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, published by The Mercury News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The median rent in California was $747 a month in 2000. Today, it\u2019s over $2,700. Even after adjusting for inflation, rent climbed 44% in real terms, while renter income grew just 11%. The cost of keeping a roof over your head has risen roughly four times faster than renter income,&#8221; writes Davina Hurt, director, government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>For millions of Californians, that gap is the affordability crisis, says Hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The moment software starts treating it purely as an asset class to optimize, extracting the maximum a tenant will tolerate, renters lose ground they don\u2019t get back,&#8221; says Hurt.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/09\/16\/opinion-californias-rent-crisis-housing-prices-artificial-intelligence-antitrust-affordability-algorithmic-collusion-rob-bonta\/#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mercury News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, published by The Mercury News. &#8220;The median rent in California was $747 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-468611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468611","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=468611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}