For you are quite deliberately placing individual numbers (per capita) against unit (household) numbers without taking into account the change in the number of capitas in the unit.

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If the marital household fails as a financial unit (like a company going under), job security is lost.

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The upshot: even if a household were perfectly sorted, so that the 25th percentile income household was matched with the 25th percentile unit, renters in Los Angeles would pay more than 40 percent of their income in rent.

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