LOS ANGELES – Nearly 20% of California adults worried about their ability to pay their rent or mortgage during 2024, prompting some of them to either take a second job, cut back on health care or stop saving for retirement to help make ends meet, according to data from a UCLA survey released Thursday.

According to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s California Health Interview Survey, roughly 5.9 million California adults, or 19.9%, said they worried very often or somewhat often about paying their monthly housing costs in 2024. That’s up from 18.8% in 2023 and up from 15.1% in 2021.

About 15.6% of adults said they took a second job or performed additional work at their existing job to help pay their housing costs. About 14.2% said they stopped saving for retirement, while 15.9%

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