L.A. prepares for debris flows, slides in major rainstorm expected this week
Southern California faces a risk of damaging debris flows this week, as a potentially strong atmospheric river is set to ...
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LA neighbors have vastly different post-wildfire rebuilding options due to insurance crisis
Before a wildfire ravaged their street in northwest Altadena, Louise Hamlin and Chris Wilson lived next door to each other in nearly identical houses.
A Sore Spot in L.A.’s Housing Crisis: Foreign-Owned Homes Sitting Empty
International buyers, from China in particular, have contributed to the hundreds of thousands of vacant residential ...
‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsen. For a century, the lure of ...
Who gets to rebuild? Los Angeles fires expose the weakness of U.S. home insurance.
Along with this more than fivefold increase in billion-dollar disasters came rising insurance costs - exacerbated by weather disasters striking densely populated areas more frequently, the rising ...