Associate Professor of Economics at the University of San Diego
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of San Diego
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Alan Gin
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Which Way, L.A.?
San Diego Rebuilding Costs to Soar As they do after every round of wildfires, thousands of victims are promising to rebuild, but that will be more expensive than it’s been in the past. Since San Diego’s Cedar and Paradise fires in 2003 , the cost of residential construction has been going up by as much as 35 to 45 percent.
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