High Rent, Few Options: Angelenos weigh their choices

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High Rent, Few Options: Angelenos weigh their choices

There's a rule of thumb for deciding how much to pay when renting an apartment: no more than 30-percent of your gross income.

The Orsini apartment complex in downtown LA has had four burglaries in the past week.

There's a rule of thumb for deciding how much to pay when renting an apartment: no more than 30-percent of your gross income.

There's a rule of thumb for deciding how much to pay when renting an apartment: no more than 30-percent of your gross income. But these days, rents are higher than they've ever been in Southern California. More and more Angelinos are spending big chunks of their paychecks on a place to live.

KPCC's Ben Bergman discovers the old rules no longer apply.

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