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### [When the Last-Minute Power Play Failed: Sacramento Finally Ran Out of Time](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33319:when-the-last-minute-power-play-failed-sacramento-finally-ran-out-of-time&catid=375)

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### [Follow the Money: How Does a $3,662 Apartment Become “Affordable Housing”?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33300:follow-the-money-how-does-a-3-662-apartment-become-affordable-housing&catid=312)

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#  LOS ANGELES

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### LA Neighborhood Council Meetings in the Age of the Pandemic

Written by Bob Gelfand on April 23 2020.

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## [Housing, Housing, Everywhere, but not a Room to Rent](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19660:housing-housing-everywhere-but-not-a-room-to-rent&catid=312)

 (Photo: Market rate apartment house under construction in Los Angeles.) While this may seem implausible to you, you can trust your eyes, even duri…

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Written by Rebecca Burns on April 23 2020.

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Written by Ileana Wachtel on April 23 2020.

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Written by Tony Butka on April 24 2020.

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Written by Tom Moutes on April 23 2020.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on April 23 2020.

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Written by Antonia Hernandez & Amar Desai on April 23 2020.

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Written by Robert Lipsyte on April 23 2020.

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Written by Daniel Guss on April 23 2020.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on April 23 2020.

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Written by Peter Merlin on April 23 2020.

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Written by Daniel Guss on April 20 2020.

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Written by Tim Deegan on April 20 2020.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on April 20 2020.

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Written by Lawrence Goldberg on April 20 2020.

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Written by Larry Gross on April 20 2020.

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