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Oct 2022
34m 29s

The Rise of the Single-Family Home

The New York Times
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To tackle its critical shortage of affordable housing, California has taken aim at a central tenet of the American dream: the single-family home. Telling the story of one such property, in San Diego, can teach us about the larger housing crisis and how we might solve it. 
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