These Are the 13 Cities Where Millennials Can't Afford a Home

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17. City of San Diego is light blue, county is more pink.

Areas also tend to be separated more on religiosity than straight-up politics, which makes the republican/democratic split less distinct in the city. Lots of old-school republicans and democrats in the city who aren't willing to just vote party line if faced with what they think is radicalism. But the city does tend to vote center-left if the developers don't get involved in a ballot cause.

Also, the military influx can skew both politics and the cost of housing.
In politics, while most enlisted tend to be democrats and a bit more liberal, most officers are republicans and a bit more conservative. Frankly, the officers are more likely to make a homestead in the area than the enlisted, so they're more likely to vote locally.
In cost of housing, the military encourages living on the economy, so they provide their members with a housing and cost of living allowance that encourages landlords and relators (who know very well what the allowance rates are) to keep housing prices high because even though most military and locals make the same amount, the military families will get up to an extra $2K or more a month tax free to rent or make a mortgage payment on. The military population with that subsidy may only be just shy of 95000, but they make a big impact on the economy and the politics - especially counting the at least 500,000 to 600,000 more retirees who are also collecting similar amounts in some sort of post-retirement allowance or full retirement from the military in addition to their other wages, which many landlords figure in when establishing rents locally. This really prices locals making the average who are not military or retirees out of the market.

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