Stanton, from a cleaner's point of view
Three square miles is not much room, and Stanton uses all of it. The detached houses are small, mostly 1,000 to 1,400 square feet from the fifties and sixties, on lots that barely clear the building. Between them sit two-story apartment courts, fourplexes with a shared stair, and a substantial number of mobile home parks. The mix means our week here looks different from a tract-home city.
Short visits, plenty of them, close together. A two-bedroom unit takes a fraction of the time a four-bedroom house does, so we can run several 90680 addresses in a morning without anybody waiting. What the small homes need is precision rather than scale: kitchens where every surface is within reach, bathrooms with no ventilation, and entries that carry the whole household traffic. Stanton Central Park and the newer blocks nearby are the exception, with more modern finishes.
The building stock here
Detached homes run 900 to 1,400 square feet, single-story, slab, with one or two bathrooms and an attached or carport garage. Multi-family is a large share of the stock: garden apartments, fourplexes and older two-story courts with exterior stairs and shared landings. Manufactured homes in the parks are typically two bedrooms with vinyl or laminate floors and compact wet rooms. Almost nothing here has more than one floor inside a single dwelling.