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I found this claim dubious so I Googled: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44725026

You can't just change words like that. It's dishonest. Poverty != "low income".

> In San Francisco, high rents have driven the government's "low income" threshold of $117,400 (£87,970) almost as high as the median income for a family of four in the area - $118,400 (£88,630).

You know something has gone haywire when "low income" and "median" incomes are basically the same amount.

That article literally refers to it as poverty line as well a bit further down. "Poverty line" isn't a thing, thing. It'll always require some math to localize.

No, it literally does not.

Lower down it discusses the nationally averaged poverty line. At no point does it make any claims to a number for a SF specific localized poverty line. As you say, local values are going to be different, but the national number is far below the "low income" threshold set earlier in the article.

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