The skyrocketing expenses, often more burdensome than home ownership, are hitting women as well as Latinx and Black families most.
In Los Angeles and elsewhere across the country, your home’s square footage used to be the ultimate reflection of wealth and status. But with soaring energy costs, skyrocketing insurance premiums and other factors moving buyers toward more modest homes, there’s another measure of prosperity: the number of children you can afford.
Latinx men and women and Black men are crowded into the lowest-paying occupations, including maids and house cleaners for Latinx women, with a median wage of $50,516; security guards and gambling surveillance officers for Black men with a median wage of $46,951; and driver/sales workers and truck drivers for Latinx men, with a median wage of $86,498.
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