A family of four is considered “low income” in the United States, if it makes about $24,000 a year. However, in San Francisco a family that size is considered “low income” even if it makes $105,350

According to a report by San Francisco’s local new station KRON TV, a family of four in San Francisco, earning more than $100,000 a year can now qualify for affordable housing" from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and local HUD-subsidized sources.

Liaison Ed Cabrera, the HUD Regional Public Affairs Officer and Homeless said that the “income limits in the Bay Area are the highest of any area in the country."

Nearby regions are also hit hard by the high cost of living: Salaries that qualify families there as "low income" would place Americans squarely in the middle class elsewhere in the country.

For example, "Santa Clara County is at about $84,000. Contra Costa County is at about $80,000. For Napa, it is $74,000. And for Solano, it is $64,000," according to the station.

Earlier this year, KRON TV reported that the lack of affordable housing, even for people who seems to have good salaries, has driven some San Francisco residents to live in their cars.

"In Santa Clara County, a recent survey shows more than 6,000 people in the county are homeless and 23% of them are living in their cars, vans, and RVs."

Elaine Sanchez has been living in this situation for almost 6 years now and cannot share a home with her 40-year-old husband. Instead, they each have their own RV and live side by side. She said “it is a space issue. We are living, not camping.”

The situation has become so bad in the Bay Area that some Facebook employees reportedly asked their CEO Mark Zuckerberg for help and some Twitter employees, who are earning $160,000 feel like they are barely scrapping by.

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