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Los Angeles Times4mon
Altadena’s Black population was shrinking even before the fires. What happens next?
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter ... for Black Altadenans Altadena, population nearly 42,000, is the town where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once visited ...
CNN4mon
LA wildfires displaced tens of thousands. With some rents up as much as 20%, finding affordable housing is the next challenge
Martin Johnson and his fiancé, Celeigh Chapman, had spent several years restoring and renovating their home in Altadena by hand ... housing market in Southern California. The massive wildfires ...
abc7NY1mon
In the wake of wildfire, Altadena's Black residents search the past for a path forward
ALTADENA, Calif. -- Time stopped on Jan. 7, 2025, in the town of Altadena, California ... In the 1940s, Mae Reese Johnson founded the Scattergood Club in nearby Pasadena to educate and nurture ...
Yahoo4mon
Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last.
Kevin Devine stands in front of his destroyed home in the Altadena area in Los Angeles, California. Devine and thousands of other lost their homes to the Eaton Fire. The insurance situation is ...
USA Today4mon
'What America should look like:' loss in the Altadena fires, and a hard road to recovery
There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California, Erion Taylor remembers. Instead, she got a text from her neighborhood group chat ...