Political Report, Tuesday, April 27th on Talk of the Bay with Chris Krohn: We Used to Call Santa Cruz Home

Posted by Ronnie Lipschutz | Apr 28, 2021 | All Talk, Chris Krohn, Local, Politics, Talk of the Bay | 0

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Political Report, Tuesday, April 27th on Talk of the Bay with Chris Krohn: We Used to Call Santa Cruz Home

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Million dollar homes, rents passing $3,500 a month for a two-bedroom apartment, and only minimum wage service jobs available. Santa Cruz is hemorrhaging artists, musicians, our young people and seniors too. Many have exited Surf City because the rent is too damn high and the wages too damn low. On today’s show we hear from the voices of those who’ve been priced out of what all of them once believed was paradise. We go to Chico, Humboldt County, a Portland suburb, and Port Angeles, Washington to hear from former Santa Cruzans about why they left and what their new lives are like.

Talk of the Bay, this Tues., 5-6pm on KSQD.90.7 and KSQD.org

About The Author

Ronnie Lipschutz

Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Emeritus Professor of Politics at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught from 1990 to 2020, and Co-director of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz (https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/). He received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He teaches and writes about energy, resources and social sustainability, foreign policy, global politics and sociology, politics and popular culture, and surveillance society. He is the author/co-author and editor/co-editor of numerous books and articles. His most recent book, with Dr. Doreen Stabinsky, is Environmental Politics for Changing World—Power, Perspectives and Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).