Kamala Harris gave the ‘middle class’ Berkeley neighborhood of her childhood a convention shout-out. But the middle class can’t afford it now

Kamala Harris gave the ‘middle class’ Berkeley neighborhood of her childhood a convention shout-out. But the middle class can’t afford it now

The homes with long, narrow lots along Bancroft Way look much as they did in the 1970s, including the two-story yellow house that Harris grew up in, but it's unlikely that Harris's mother could afford to raise her two daughters there now as a grad student.