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Reporting from the archive.
Los Angeles
The ADU Mirage
Los Angeles permitted 68,832 backyard apartments. Twenty were documented as affordable.
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Five thousand hours of public meetings, read and measured as one governing record.
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Seventeen years and 8.1 million votes explain America's highest council dissent rate.
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