According to the latest data of the California Department of Housing Construction, a family of three with an annual income below 109 thousand. $ 50 (PLN 394 thousand) belongs to people with low income. In the case of lonely people, this border is 84 thousand. $ 850 (PLN 306 thousand).
And this despite the fact that the median salary is even lower. The office estimates her for 74.6 thousand. hole. (PLN 269 thousand) for lonely people.
The reason for these strange statistics are Extremely high maintenance costs in the California metropolis, powered by inflation. “The costs of living suck out residents” – summed up the Kiplinger Wydawnictwo Wydawnictwo Wydawnictwo two years ago.
Hollywood, located in Los Angeles, is home for many stars with thick wallets.
Good times are over
Also in other regions of California, people earning almost Six -digit salaries They have recently been recognized as low -income people. These include Orange County (threshold of 94 thousand $ 750, or approx. 342 thousand PLN), Santa Barbara (threshold of 98 thousand $ 850, or approx. 357 thousand PLN) and San Diego (threshold of 92.7 thousand dollars, or approx. 335,000 PLN). Within five years, the low income threshold in these three regions increased from 32 to 48 percent.
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The average price of single -family houses in these three counties is currently $ 1 million (PLN 3.6 million). Because the residential area is limited and high demand, rental prices also increase rapidly. Over the past 12 years About 200,000 disappeared from the market in Los Angeles. flatswhose rent once amounted to below 1 thousand. hole. (PLN 3.6 thousand).
“For generations of Americans, $ 100,000 (PLN 362 thousand) was a magical number for a long time. She was considered an annual income, which meant: you achieved success,” we read in the Lendingtree credit institution's report. But these times are over.
“In 25 of the 100 largest metropolises of this country, six -digit household income is not enough to meet basic needs,” say experts.
This is not the only problem of California
Los Angeles also has a problem with homelessness and drugs.
Tents arranged in rows, old clothes and rubbish spill out of store prams. People are lying on asphalt or stand paralyzed, leaning into narcotic dementia. You can feel urine everywhere, and thousands of people sleep on the streets every night. The increase in Fentanyl's popularity led to a new escalation of the homelessness crisis in California. The situation is extremely difficult in one of the Los Angeles districts. – For drug dealers, Skid Row is a testing ground, which works how products work – says one of the policemen in an interview with journalists “Die Welt”.
According to Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, about 63,000 each night. people in Los Angeles remain without shelter. And this number is growing. In 2023, only 900 homeless people died in this city. Many of them because of the Fentanyl – a drug that floods the USA.
California is also measured with painful effects of climate change and more frequent natural disasters. The air is now mostly dry and hot. Fans of forests from the last few years are one of the worst in the history of this area, and the intervals between them are getting shorter. Water is missing anyway, also because huge farms redirect it to their fields.
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