duplex
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“We now live in a large duplex with our landlady and her daughter,” Maggie tells me.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
A mortgage on a house you can comfortably afford or buying that duplex I mentioned above to earn some rental income are perfectly fine examples of “good” debt.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
“I lived in a duplex with my grandparents and saw them downstairs every morning,” Elsesser says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Before that, about 10 years ago, he rented a room in a duplex for $333; that same room now rents for $900, he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The house was a duplex, with two identical front doors that faced each other across a wide front porch, 141A and 14IB.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
Housing reforms that increase supply, such as allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, permitting duplexes, townhomes, and backyard cottages on existing lots, and changing zoning laws to allow housing nearer to jobs, are land-use issues.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Last month, Szabo reworked the numbers, concluding that the city was financially capable of covering all types of buildings, not just single-family homes and duplexes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
They mostly invested in real estate — two commercial buildings and two residential duplexes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
Fueling the anxiety: a raft of recent California laws and bills that make it easier to build duplexes and apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods like Altadena.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
It rose deftly from a small neighborhood of duplexes, laundromats, and mom-and-pop restaurants, mostly Korean and soul food.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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