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Home construction ramps up

Miles Campbell holds a place in line for a good friend in front of the Huntington Beach sales offices of home builder Woodbridge Pacific Group. Potential buyers were attracted by a dozen new homes for sale.

Miles Campbell holds a place in line for a good friend in front of the Huntington Beach sales offices of home builder Woodbridge Pacific Group. Potential buyers were attracted by a dozen new homes for sale.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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In Southern California, home builders are bidding up land prices, scrambling to find workers and constructing bigger, more expensive homes than they did just a few years ago.
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A framer measures lumber on the walls of a clubhouse at a new subdivision in Huntington Beach.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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The Larm family of Hesperia tours a model home at Rosena Ranch, a 386-acre subdivision in San Bernardino County, where construction slowed dramatically during the recession.   (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

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The Larm family tours model homes at Rosena Ranch, which is now bustling with builders pounding away at massive home frames.  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

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Hoa Nguyen holds the No. 1 spot in line for his son at Woodbridge Pacific, which was touting new homes in Huntington Beach “starting in the low 1,200,000s.”  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Chris Thibodeau, a biotech executive, waits in line to buy into a new Huntington Beach subdivision earlier this year.   (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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