Annie Powers

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Public housing used to be enormously popular in Los Angeles, but that changed amid a surge of anti-communist sentiment in the 1950s.

Red scare led to the end of LA’s public housing boom

Public housing used to be enormously popular in Los Angeles, but that changed amid a surge of anti-communist sentiment in the 1950s.

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