In Orange County, six-figure salaries now qualify as 'low income'
In Orange County, six-figure salaries now qualify as 'low income'
- June 15, 2026
- Nicholas Marantz, urban planning and public policy and CPIP, explains in the LAist
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“Even if you have an income that seems high by national standards, you're very likely to find housing extremely unaffordable” in Orange County, said Nicholas Marantz, an associate professor of urban planning and public policy at UC Irvine. Marantz said the rules behind the government calculations account for this imbalance between wages and housing costs, which “results in these situations that seem, to many people, somewhat absurd.”
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