One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
ICYMI: You Need At Least $109K A Year To Afford The Average 2-Bedroom Apartment In L.A.
(Photo by Andrew Pfeifer via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
- Follow LAist on Twitter, on Instagram, and like us on Facebook. And to get the top stories mailed to you, sign up here.
- To afford the average 2-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, you need a salary of over $109,000. What affordable housing crisis?
- The Harvard Medical School just encoded a movie into the DNA of bacteria. Don't delete your Google Drive just yet, but yeah, it blew our minds too.
- Bill Nye wants you to tie your shoelaces better.
- The New Yorker explains another of its punctuation quirks—the reasoning behind that pesky second comma in "Donald Trump, Jr.,'s"
- Check out this 8mm (contraband) color film footage from the set of I Love Lucy.
- Mindy Kaling has a pretty swanky Hancock Park home.
- Here's John Turturro ending things with his therapist:
One year ago, Congress voted to defund public media, eliminating a critical $1.7 million from our budget every year going forward. But they couldn’t silence us, and we’re not going anywhere. LAist is now 100% community funded and that means we’re taking our future into our own hands and turning to you to keep local reporting strong.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief
