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The Bay Area is the poster child for the nation’s housing affordability crisis, and has been for the past several decades.

However, as housing costs continue to rise from sea to shining sea, San Francisco-style unaffordability seems to be catching on in much of the rest of the country, too, according to a recently released report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.

“The whole country is becoming more unaffordable,” said Amie Fishman, who leads the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. The San Francisco-based group advocates for affordable housing in the Bay Area and is a local partner of the national coalition behind the report.

“We are definitely seeing that the economy is not a rising tide,” she said, “and in light of the federal cuts that are happening to our communities, it’s going to be even more urgent that we all come together to fight for what communities need.”