1950-1960 Mankin 1981

Eric Mankin Strategies: You Can Win City HallMother JonesVI, no. X, December, 1981. p. 66. 1981, 1950s,

     "In the 1950s, the city fathers ran a freeway through the bungalows and rezoned for apartments with an abandon unusual even in Southern California. The result was a city that came to be about 80 percent renters, the highest proportion of any city in the state."

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