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Kai Risdahl

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Appearances Over Time

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

This is not what we normally do.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

Yeah, so talk to me about this.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

I mean, it's kind of a side hustle, but maybe an experiment that's going to work?

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

Yeah, normally what we focus in is adaptive reuse of old buildings.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

So, you know, our mindset is already, how can we take an old building and find something new out of it?

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

So, you know, after the fires, I was just thinking like, okay, I don't have buckets of money to donate to people.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

How can I put my unique, weird skills to use?

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

Then we started a group of architects trying to figure out how can we help rebuild.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

And people were talking about prefab housing and moving RVs.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

And I was like, prefab housing?

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

That's kind of like moving a house, which they used to do in the city.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

We moved hundreds, thousands of houses when they built the Hollywood Freeway.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

We should say Los Angeles has a long history.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

Of moving houses.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

I mean, I'm sure it happened in a lot of cities, too.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

But here with the freeway construction and everything, that was the gig in this town for a long time.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

There was a lot of land open at that time, so it was a possibility.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

And we, to some extent, ran out of space to put houses.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

There's only seven movers in the state.

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Fed eyes sluggish wage growth

Is that right?