What: Randy Shaw discusses his book, Generation Priced Out. When/Where: Skylight Books, Los Angeles; Saturday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m. When I began writing my new book on the pricing out of the working and middle class from urban America — Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America — the first place […]
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