LA County Residents Hit New Lows in Quality of Life Survey

Published on April 19, 2024

Los Angeles County residents are worried about the high cost of living and homelessness and feel less satisfied with their quality of life, according to a University of California at Los Angeles survey published April 17. The 2024 Quality of Life Index, a UCLA project that measures county residents’ satisfaction, fell two points this year to 53 out of 100. This is the second time in three years the results came in below the survey’s midpoint of 55 since the index launched in 2016, UCLA reported. “Housing costs have gone up,” said Zev Yaroslavsky, a longtime local politician who sat on both the Los Angeles City Council and the County Board of Supervisors who is now director of the UCLA study. “And incomes have not gone up anywhere near commensurate with what’s happened to housing.”...

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