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Housing: An LA Story
Dreier, Peter | April 15, 2002 issue

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The article focuses on severe housing crisis in Los Angeles, California and the failure of the city's political leaders to address the problem. During the past decade, as the federal government cut funds for construction of low-rent housing and as housing prices spiraled upward, Los Angeles has faced a deepening shortage of affordable housing. Rents are so high that a family needs to earn almost 20 dollars an hour to afford the typical apartment. To keep pace with population increases, the city needs to add at least 5,000 affordable units a year, but last year the city added only 1200 units.

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HOUSING; RENT charges; HOUSE construction; DWELLINGS; LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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