Trying to survive in Los Angeles as a renter is even harder than previously understood. A news study by researchers at USC, uses a new methodology to break down the disparity between rent and wages, finding that Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have the nation's widest disparity between income and rental housing affordability.

It's a reality that workers and renters intuitively know, but a new statistical model puts it into stark perspective.

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