The Bad PlaceOpinion Voices | Letters to the Editor: Our housing market is creating 'the Manhattanization of Los Angeles'
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A fire‑damaged, vacant three‑bedroom home on Lenore Street in Torrance recently sold for over $1 million, prompting a letter to the editor that laments how dramatically housing prices have risen since the writer’s parents bought a similar house for $35,000 in 1967 and later sold it for $350,000; the writer notes that today such a home would fetch $2‑3 million, making it unaffordable for his son, and urges consideration of more affordable neighborhoods in the county, describing the rapid “Manhattanization” of Los Angeles and encouraging settlement in South LA.
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Letters to the Editor: Our housing market is creating ‘the Manhattanization of Los Angeles’
'I want my son to settle in L.A. and realistically, he will not be able to afford Torrance. But there are many, many great neighborhoods in outlying areas that are still relatively affordable,' writes an L.A. Times reader.