{"id":825756,"date":"2026-05-27T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/825756\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:09:14","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-our-housing-market-is-creating-the-manhattanization-of-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/825756\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Our housing market is creating \u2018the Manhattanization of Los Angeles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the editor<\/b>: I share staff writer Hailey Branson-Potts\u2019 sadness and outrage (\u201cThis burnt-out 3-bedroom in Torrance sold for over $1 million. Welcome to California\u2019s housing market,\u201d<\/a> May 19). When my parents came to West L.A. in 1967, they were able to buy a three-bedroom house for $35,000. Ten years later, they sold it for $350,000. Today, no doubt it would sell for close to $2 million or $3 million.<\/p>\n

I want my son to settle in L.A. and realistically, he will not be able to afford Torrance. But there are many, many great neighborhoods in outlying areas that are still relatively affordable. I call it the Manhattanization of Los Angeles. A neighborhood 50 years ago that no one would\u2019ve dreamed of living in New York City is now very groovy. Ditto with Los Angeles County. Think about joining me here in South L.A.!<\/p>\n

Randy Farhi, Leimert Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I share staff writer Hailey Branson-Potts\u2019 sadness and outrage (\u201cThis burnt-out 3-bedroom in Torrance sold…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":825757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,7129,8166,2961,19945,224,5337,339152,339155,20038,153102,265436,54909,339154,87159,339153,1628],"class_list":["post-825756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-editor","tag-housing-market","tag-la","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-manhattanization","tag-many-great-neighborhood","tag-neighborhood","tag-outrage","tag-randy-farhi","tag-sadness","tag-staff-writer-hailey-branson-pott","tag-torrance","tag-west-l-a","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116647177018794953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}