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    LA-owned parking lots could one day house the homeless

    by Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times Feb 11, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES –– In the decades after World War II, when the suburbs were young and the car was king, Los Angeles went on a land-buying spree.

    The city bought parcels in every size and shape, demolished any buildings on them and opened parking lots to serve emerging commercial districts.

    By the 1970s the buying had mostly stopped, and today the119 public lots blend into the urban quilt all but indistinguishable from their free-market competitors.

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