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### How to Create a Housing Crisis in 12 Easy Steps

Written by Dick Plakin on January 03 2019.

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## [Say What?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16844:say-what&catid=312)

It's a big, big house - except for the guys on the lawn with machine guns. Nicest machine guns I’ve ever seen. I was waving to them. I never saw so m…

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Written by Joel Kotkin on January 03 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on December 31 2018.

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Written by Beth Cone Kramer on December 31 2018.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on December 31 2018.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on December 31 2018.

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Written by S. Novi on December 31 2018.

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Written by Joe Mathews on December 31 2018.

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Written by Dennis Zine on December 31 2018.

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Written by Leonard Isenberg on December 31 2018.

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Written by Matthew Hetz on December 31 2018.

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on December 31 2018.

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Written by Kriston Capps on December 31 2018.

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Written by Ben Christopher on December 31 2018.

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Written by Joel Kotkin on December 31 2018.

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Written by Tony Butka on December 31 2018.

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Written by Tracey L. Rogers on December 31 2018.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on December 24 2018.

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