How Kamala Harris’s Berkeley neighborhood is a greater struggle for the Middle Class

BERKELEY — The fog lifted early Friday over the flatlands of Berkeley where a diverse mix of homeowners and renters had gathered for a block party the night before to watch Kamala Harris on a big screen accept the Democratic nomination for president and deliver a shout-out to her childhood neighborhood.

“We lived in the flats,” Harris said from the convention stage in Chicago Thursday night, “a beautiful, working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers — all...