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In addition , homeowners who relocate from high housing cost areas are perceived as driving up the cost of housing when they relocate to lower cost areas . As with lone parents , this life-cycle group tends to have low income and high housing costs . This program will help to make home ownership a real possibility for a significant number of low-income working families in North Carolina ’ s high housing cost Triangle region . But architects and other design principals - - jobs that pay about $ 50,000 to the six figures - - do n't want to move to Miami because of the high housing costs , she said . Still , according to this hypothesis , regulation - - not land shortage - - lies at the roots of high housing costs . Far from reducing driving as planners desire , high housing prices force many commuters to live farther away from their jobs , forcing more cars onto the roads . The region 's highways are frequently congested with traffic , and already high housing prices are continuing to skyrocket . High housing costs often prevent low-income parents from moving closer to where jobs are located and thereby improving their chances of finding and retaining employment . It means that low-wage workers are in a trap that not only creates continuing financial pressure and high housing cost burdens , but also leaves many with too little to keep their problems from worsening at retirement . The low tax system has been maintained at the cost of incredibly high housing prices . One of the greatest obstacles for new and potential faculty is the Bay Area 's high housing costs . We need a new economic model which allows resources to flow to those businesses ( and sectors ) which are needed by society , but without automatically being drained off by blood-sucking leeches ( like the rich CEOs or the high housing prices [ including rents ] ) which do n't benefit society at all . Housing production , especially of units affordable to moderate and lower income households , and high housing prices remain the most serious constraints to the economic health of the region .