A Proven Way to Ease L.A.’s Housing Crisis
States around the country are showing Southern California how to rebuild.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires
The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen.
Eugene Garcia / AP L.A.’s Twin Crises Finally Seem Fixable
The city is gradually revamping America’s most infamous sprawl.
Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times / Getty Why Dining Rooms Are Disappearing From American Homes
A once-ubiquitous feature of floor plans is becoming a rarity.
Carolyn Drake / Magnum City Planning’s Greatest Innovation Makes a Comeback
Long live the street grid.
Heritage Images / Getty; Underwood Archives / Getty The UCLA Students Who Live in Their Cars
The widespread, poorly understood phenomenon of vehicular homelessness
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty The Housing Revolution Is Coming
Accessory dwelling units might just spell the end of the American suburb as we know it—in the best possible way.
Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic How California Exported Its Worst Problem to Texas
The pandemic was supposed to ease high housing prices in coastal superstar cities. Instead, it spread them nationwide.
John J. Custer Cancel Zoning
If we want to fix the housing-affordability crisis, segregation, and sprawl, zoning must go.
Alex Cochran; Getty Stop Fetishizing Old Homes
Whatever your aesthetic preferences, new construction is better on nearly every conceivable measure.
George S. Zimbel / Getty; The Atlantic
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