Twelve months later, recovery has been many things: plodding and painful, hard and hopeful, confusing and chaotic. I don’t want to commit to building something if I don’t understand what they’ll allow to be built next to me. Six in 10 Altadena homeowners whose houses were destroyed or severely damaged have neither sold nor applied for a rebuilding permit. Parcel sales data: Parcel sales data was provided by the Los Angeles County Assessor’s Office on Dec. 1. The data categorized buyers and sellers as “corp” and “non-corp.” That data showed more than half of buyers as corporations.

Source: Washington Post December 29, 2025 20:37 UTC