Reply #11: "Hungry in the [San Fernando] Valley"

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http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2907650,00.html?search=filter

The number of San Fernando Valley adults on the verge of going hungry jumped 16 percent from 2001 to 2003 -- double the rate of Los Angeles County -- primarily due to high unemployment and housing costs, a UCLA study being released today found.

An estimated 166,000 Valley adults were considered at risk of going hungry in 2003, about 10 percent of the Valley's entire population and more than one-third of its low-income adults.

High housing costs mean less money to buy food. Poverty is relative to the cost of living.

or as they said during the 1980's housing boom: "Making a killing in real estate is not a victimless crime"