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How small wealthy suburbs contribute to regional housing problems

  • Written by Paul G. Lewis, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
How small wealthy suburbs contribute to regional housing problemsThe line between Atherton, Calif., (right) and its neighbor is obvious in property sizes.Google Earth

The odd headlines about little towns in the San Francisco Bay Area just keep coming.

First Woodside, a tiny suburb where several Silicon Valley CEOs have lived, tried to declare itself a mountain lion habitat to evade a new California law that...

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