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For tenants on the edge, paying the rent often takes more than half their income

Published by Anne Johnson on

Los Angeles Times quoted Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on why declining incomes do not result in lower rents.

In theory, rent growth shouldn’t consistently soar past gains in income. But Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, said his research shows that while rising incomes push rents up, when incomes fall, rents don’t always fall as much because landlords don’t want to earn less money.

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