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    Commentary: YIMBYism deserves a chance

    by Bill Boyarsky, Los Angeles Times Feb 07, 2019 3 minutes

    My wife and I bought our house, a two-bedroom fixer-upper a couple of miles south of UCLA, in 1978. My dad termed the house "a dump," and he was shocked at its outrageous price tag of $92,000.

    Today our modest bungalow, because of its location, would sell for something approaching $2 million, but we don't have any desire to move. We love the place, and we love the neighborhood. But we also see the problem with leafy neighborhoods of single-family homes like ours.

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