Housing
While never as expensive as New York or San Francisco, Los Angeles is not a cheap place to live. And, the recent housing boom only drove rents and mortgages higher.
While the average price for buying a home is in the neighborhood of $400,000, some neighborhoods (Santa Monica, Studio City, Los Feliz) still offer rent control apartments that only allow an increase of 3% per rental year.
Visit the website for the Westside Rental Connection to tap into the area’s top housing resource.