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LA Equity Index: How Where You Live Impacts The Opportunities Available To You

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 27:  Residential units are constructed downtown on April 27, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. New U.S. home sales unexpectedly jumped 12.2 percent in March, a strikingly high record, according to a government report. Economists had expected sales to decline, but sales jumped 21.9 percent in the Midwest, 13.8 percent in the South and 9.9 percent in the West.  (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Residential units are constructed downtown on April 27, 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
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LA Equity Index: How Where You Live Impacts The Opportunities Available To You

Have you ever wondered how the geographic and socioeconomic facts of where you live affect you? 

A new interactive map of Los Angeles from the City Controller attempts to explore how variables like the environment, the cost of housing and education levels all influence opportunities available to Angelenos, based on where they live. 

We sit down with L.A. Controller Ron Galperin to discuss how the L.A. Equity Index was put together and what it’s meant to achieve.

Guest: 

Ron Galperin, controller of the City of Los Angeles; he tweets