Overcrowded America

One of the consequences of the affordable housing shortage is that many people are having to portion apartments alongside to a greater extent than people than the buildings were designed to accommodate. The LA Times used information from the American Community Survey, spanning 2008 to 2012, to map where inwards the USA people are living inwards crowded homes. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 domicile was considered crowded if it housed to a greater extent than than i someone per room.

Using the LA Times' interactive map y'all tin search whatever town or urban meat inwards the United States of America to persuasion the percent of over crowded homes inwards each zip-code area. Mapping the Country's Crowded Homes reveals that Southern California has 134 crowded zip-codes. The scaled markers on the map exhibit the percent of homes inwards each neighborhood alongside crowded homes which are overcrowded. If y'all hover over i of these markers y'all tin discover how many housing units are overcrowded together with how the zip-code surface area ranks compared to the residuum of the USA.