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Article: Getting Priced Out.(effect of rent control on population in two Los Angeles County cities)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 9, 2001
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Santa Monica, West Hollywood Populations Dip in '90s
PROSPERITY has its Costs.
While almost all of California experienced population growth during the 1990s, two of L.A. County's most desirable cities, West Hollywood and Santa Monica, actually saw their populations decline, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 census.
While the beach town and the home of the Sunset Strip are in many ways as different as prosperous cities can be, they do share one thing in common: rent control.
And depending on whom you talk to, the causes for the population declines in these quintessential L.A. places is either the stringency or flexibility of ...