Rebuilding Los Angeles Is California's Economic Moment of Truth
ALTADENA, Calif.—California’s economic future hinges on solving the state’s crippling housing shortage. The charred landscape around Los Angeles presents a major test.
January’s wildfires turned more than 16,000 buildings in the Altadena and Pacific Palisades into toxic ash. These are largely single-family-home enclaves, but the state in recent years changed laws to make it easier to build apartments.
Now, California faces a choice. Will it build the housing it badly needs? Or will it accept economic stagnation as the price for leafy neighborhoods of single-family homes?
Some housing advocates believe the fires created new urgency to add density. Among them, pro-development group Abundant Housing LA is urging the city of Los Angeles to change zoning rules to allow for more apartments in single-family areas throughout the city.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rebuilding-los-angeles-california-economic-020000908.html
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I think Trump wants the church to buy up all the land and decide who's worthy of getting their houses back. That's disturbing. 
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