[lbo-talk] Renters priced out of L.A.

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Sun Mar 9 23:21:20 PDT 2008


Steven L. Robinson posted:

Renters priced out of L.A.

David Lazarus The Los Angeles Times March 9, 2008

Deanna Corbin, 46, would live in Los Angeles if she could. But she can't, at least not with a modicum of space and safety, not on her $38,000 salary as an administrative secretary.

So Corbin gets up at 4 a.m. every day and hustles her 11-year-old daughter out the door by 5 for the two-hour drive from their apartment in Lancaster to downtown L.A.

Most days, they don't return home until 8 p.m., when Corbin tries to devote some time to her daughter's homework before they both collapse into bed. It all begins again at 4 the next morning. full: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus9mar09,0,3625243.column

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On top of organizing as a class to shorten the work day, workers should be demanding wages for commute time.

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