"I was tired of living in Oakland for a lot of reasons, born and raised. I wanted to do something new,"
"Yeah, it's alright, yeah. I just move around, try not to get tickets and stuff. That's the hard part,"
"Tech and engineering. What used to be sort of a working class community, car manufacturing plants and really working class, it has become unaffordable,"
Fremont is a wealthy city with an average household income of $175,000 and a concentration of tech manufacturing and Tesla headquarters. Homelessness increased from 608 people in 2019 to 1,026 in 2022, with a majority of the unhoused originally from Fremont. Demographics show the unhoused are mostly white and African American while Asians make up 64% of the general population but only 2% of the unhoused. Economic shifts from working-class manufacturing to tech have made housing unaffordable. Local shelters operate emergency services and the city has cleared encampments such as at Isherwood Park.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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