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The recent expansions have done little to improve traffic flow in the East San Gabriel Valley where public transit use is just 3%.
All-time low unemployment rates for the City of Long Beach made headlines last June, however, taking a look at rates by census tracts reveals that the City of Long Beach has tracts with some of the highest unemployment rates in all of Los Angeles County.
According to homelessness counts between 2010 and 2017, the number of homeless people across Los Angeles County has increased 42%.
In a cluster of neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley including Van Nuys, Panorama City, Valley Glen, North Hollywood, Sun Valley, North Hills, Pacoima, and Arleta, one quarter of the population is uninsured.
Addressing low homeownership rates requires a multi-faceted approach that addresses the various barriers to homeownership such as affordability, access to credit, immigration status and linguistic isolation.
Los Angeles has a median of 3.3 acres of park space per 1,000 people, well below the median of 6.8 acres per 1,000 people in other high-density U.S. cities.
Opportunity youth (disconnected youth) disproportionately live in low-income neighborhoods that often lack access to entry-level jobs and post-secondary education.
A recent survey found that 78% of full-time American workers are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
While more than 4.5 million commuters walk, bike, drive, rideshare or take public transit to get to their jobs, transit ridership has declined more than 19% since 2013.
In Little Tokyo, an area of Downtown L.A. adjacent to Skid Row and the Arts District, 25% of the population is 65 years or older, more than double the county average.
Across Los Angeles County, more than half a million residents lack access to a single bank or credit union within their neighborhoods.
As of 2013, Los Angeles was the most rent-burdened city in the entire nation.