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Title: How an Exclusive Los Angeles Suburb Lost Its Whiteness

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: More than a year ago, the Los Angeles Times reported that San Marino, a suburb with a population of about 13,000, was the only residential community in Southern California where housing prices actually rose during the recession. The Times attributed this to high-performing schools, luxurious housing stock, and a "small-town ambience." It also mentioned a final factor: the constant and reliable demand for housing there among Asians: But [San Marino] also has something else going for it, real estate experts say: an influx of money from Asian home buyers and investors. "If you go to mainland China and someone asks, 'Where do you live?,' San Marino represents that you are wealthy," said YanYan Zhang, a real estate agent whose clients include overseas buyers looking for homes here. San Marino is an extreme exemplar of a larger process in the region, one thats accelerated in the past 30 years: the development of massive suburban enclaves of Asian immigrants in Southern Californias San Gabriel Valley.

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Authors: Chowkwanyun, Merlin; Segall, Jordan

Publication Name: The Atlantic Cities

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Publication Date: 2012

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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

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