{"id":269961,"date":"2026-04-16T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:11:21","slug":"l-a-residents-are-not-satisfied-with-their-quality-of-life-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269961\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. residents are not satisfied with their quality of life \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> Los Angeles County residents are the least satisfied with their quality of life now than at any time in the past decade, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/ucla.app.box.com\/s\/xvnrvyzugaakpptqeaqem4us6gq2iab0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ucla.app.box.com\/s\/xvnrvyzugaakpptqeaqem4us6gq2iab0\">University of California, Los Angeles survey<\/a> published Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs released its 11 annual L.A. County Quality of Life Index, revealing an all-time low index score of 52 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The score is based on residents\u2019 level of satisfaction with nine categories: education, transportation and traffic, cost of living, relations between people of different races and religions, the resident\u2019s own neighborhood, public safety, the environment, jobs and the economy and healthcare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bOf the nine categories, eight of the nine went down in satisfaction,\u201d Zev Yaroslavsky, the director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA Luskin, said. \u201cThat has never happened before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Healthcare was the only category that remained unchanged from last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cost of living, traffic and education, which were already the lowest-rated topics in 2025, saw the steepest decline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo many people I already know who left the city have just been priced out,\u201d Graham Millington, an LA resident of 30 years, said. \u201cIf you can\u2019t afford the rents that are rising, and the job opportunities that are shrinking, what\u2019s left for you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The study also analyzed the impacts of immigration enforcement on the decline in quality of life in L.A. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nearly one-third of respondents reported knowing someone who lost income or was afraid to leave their home due to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI thought this was the most important finding of our survey this year: the broad impact that the immigration sweeps have had on our society,\u201d Yaroslavsky said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The UCLA survey also highlighted the effects of the 2025 wildfires, such as the Eaton Fire in Altadena and the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Due to the fires, 25% of residents reported losing income, and only a small percentage said they have fully recovered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe were impacted by it,\u201d said Maya Demontreux, who grew up in Topanga and now lives in Echo Park. \u201cIt was just sad to see so many people continue to be displaced and, watching all these places I grew up around, burn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The study also found that LA residents\u2019 attitudes towards fire recovery efforts were largely negative. More than half of respondents reported dissatisfaction with the local government\u2019s wildfire recovery efforts, including rebuilding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just because I\u2019m older now than I was 10 years ago, but I do feel less optimistic,\u201d Demontreux said. \u201cFor me, though, a big part of it is politically. I have less faith in institutions. I feel like we\u2019ve been failed by a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County residents are the least satisfied with their quality of life now than at any time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[117452,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,2934,1092],"class_list":{"0":"post-269961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dissatisfaction","9":"tag-l-a","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-residents","17":"tag-ucla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}