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Shane Phillips
Shane Phillips manages the Randall Lewis Housing Initiative for the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and is the author of
The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (And Keeping It There)
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Renting Is Terrible. Owning Is Worse.
A third option is necessary: a way to rent without making someone else rich.
Shane Phillips
March 11, 2021