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December 29, 2017 10:59 am PST
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California's record poverty and real-estate bubble are creating a "wheel-estate" boom of people with good jobs living in their cars
Extreme housing prices in California -- driven by a combination of speculation, favorable legal/tax positions for landlords, foreclosures after the 2008 crisis, and an unwillingness to build public housing -- has created vast homeless encampments, but there's a less visible side to the crisis: working people in "good jobs" who have to live in their cars. (more…)
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