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L.A.’s housing crisis is predicted to worsen in the next two years

In this episode of See It Live, Mayor Eric Garcetti tells us that the next mayor needs to make the unhoused community a priority.

A USC forecast released today predicts that rent prices will increase over the next two years, a economist tells us the pros and cons of rent control as a solution to rent hikes.

About a quarter of the unhoused population suffers from substance abuse disorder or serious mental illness, according to a 2022 report by the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority. A USC clinical professor tells us why.

Want to know how much rent you can afford to pay? The website Rent Cafe has a cost of living calculator where you can see how much you would have to earn to live in the city of your choosing.

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Credits:

Executive Producer: Alexis Gebhardt

Producers: Patrick Warren, Jason Lopez Lopez

Art Director: Aanii Tate

Anchors: Bella Durgin-Johnson, Eric Yeh, and Avery Goodman

Multimedia Journalists: Matthew Dutrisac, Joseph Hyslop, Kassydi Rone, Benjamin Papp, Marco Ramirez, Alice Chiang, Vincent Demonte, Aidan Willams, Angela Zhu, Sophia Ruiz

Control Room:

Director: Emily Hricak

Assistant Director: Rachel Rosenblatt, Eric GyuMin Choi

Floor Manager: Gabriella Rudy

Teleprompter: Claire Sures

Livestream Manager: Michael Gribbon

TVU Operator: Valeria Macias

Camera Operator: Hayes Flanagan