Estafany Londoño considers herself one of the lucky ones. At the height of the pandemic, the 24-year-old had to find a new place to live.
“A lot of the places I was looking at were small apartments for so much money,” said Londoño, an educator with a Master’s degree in sociology.
Hispanic residents in metro Orlando pay a higher percentage of their income on rent than anywhere else in the country, according to a study by real estate website Zillow. The average Hispanic household pays more than 42% of their income on rent in metro Orlando, compared to 34.9% for Black households and 29.7% for Whites.
