1 in 10 Los Angeles homes don’t have insurance, says one estimate

Roughly one out of every 10 Los Angeles homeowners lacks insurance – a share on par with statewide trends, according to one estimate.

My trusty spreadsheet reviewed LendingTree’s tracking of how many owners lacked home insurance in 2023. Analysts at the loan-referral service looked at the Census Bureau’s housing cost data and assumed owners spending less than $100 in a year on insurance meant no coverage.

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