Mission:Turn Los Angeles,CA into an affordable city!

I put this into the After 1900 category because LA became a world class city within this time period.So...whats event(s) need to occur to make LA an affordable metropolis?I hope this question is not in ASB territory:D
 
Could be easy... LA was actually at start... a 'bled', to use the slang of France. A lost backplace, hot, dry, dusty... hell. It only started to get popular when a promoter thought of balnear, health - themed 'positive propaganda', and remained probably a minor place until the WW2 or so... so, with a POD in the 19th maybe...
 
No Hollywood film business might help a bit.

And you can get that by not having Edison try to monopolize the film industry, thus keeping filmmakers in the eastern USA.

More drug warfare might help too... perhaps with a pre-1900 POD, where Mexico keeps territory up to modern-day LA, Los Angeles would be an excellent funnel for drug lords... that would keep land values nice and low
 
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