Mapping Rent Inwards L.A.

The Los Angeles Times has mapped out Where You Can Afford to Rent inwards California. Using the newspaper's novel interactive map you lot tin sack thought all the zip-codes inwards the dry soil where you lot tin sack afford to alive based on your annual salary.

The L.A. Times' affordable rent map includes a slide tool which allows you lot to operate into the sum of coin you lot tin sack pass on rent a month. After you lot convey entered how much rent you lot wishing to pay the map automatically updates to present where you lot tin sack afford to rent. Each zip-code expanse is colored past times affordability, based on the rental listings on Zillow.

You tin sack also operate into your salary into the tool. If you lot operate into your salary together with thence the map also tells you lot what pct of your wage is beingness spent on rent. The L.A. Times suggests that "you pass no to a greater extent than than 30% of your gross income on rent together with utilities".