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### [Missing Middle. LA City Planning’s New Approach to “Attainable” Housing](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33250:missing-middle-la-city-plannings-new-approach-to-attainable-housing&catid=429)

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#  IMPORTANT READS

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### Sixty Days of Chaos Will Follow Election Day

Written by John Dean on November 05 2020.

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## [Boomers Sense Big Changes in Store for America](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20679:boomers-sense-big-changes-in-store-for-america&catid=9)

On the verge of the 2020 election my Boomer cohorts are quietly sharing a nebulous sense of coming change. One characterized it as “a taste in the ai…

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Written by Umair Haque on November 02 2020.

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Written by Alon Ben-Meir on November 02 2020.

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Written by Robert Hunziker on November 02 2020.

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Written by Abby Zimet on October 29 2020.

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Written by Abby Zimet on October 26 2020.

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Written by Michael C. Warnken on October 26 2020.

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Written by Paul Street on October 26 2020.

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Written by Mitchell Zimmerman on October 22 2020.

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Written by Frank Lukacovic on October 22 2020.

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Written by John Davis on October 22 2020.

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Written by Abby Zimet on October 19 2020.

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Written by Kenny Stancil on October 19 2020.

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Written by Jack Delaney on October 15 2020.

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Written by Daniel Hunter on October 15 2020.

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Written by Bob Huff on October 12 2020.

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Written by Pete Dolack on October 12 2020.

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Written by Robert C. Koehler on October 08 2020.

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Written by Alon Ben-Meir on October 08 2020.

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