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From insurance to affordable housing mandates, California's regulatory noose tightens over wildfire rebuilding efforts.

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. Many working-class families lost their homes, businesses and jobs. In all, more than 16,000 structures – most of them homes – were destroyed, leaving thousands of…

The secret is out, but the charred remains of LA neighborhoods still might not be enough to change the Golden State’s approach to housing.

Joivian Tjuana Hayes, a U.S. Postal Service supervisor in Costa Mesa, California, has pleaded guilty to theft of mail matter… The post Brickbat: Checks in the Mail appeared first on Reason.com.

Alice Evans has claimed she's being "evicted' from her Los Angeles home along with her two daughters and she's struggling to find anywhere else to live amid the housing crisis brought on by the California wildfires which destroyed thousands of properties across the state.

While money can’t buy rich people happiness, it sure can buy many other things, some of which the poor didn’t even know existed. The post 65 Things Crazy-Rich People Purchase That No One Else Would Even Think They Actually Need first appeared on Bored Panda.

They seemed like just another band of anarchist misfits scraping by on the fringes of Silicon Valley — until the deaths began. Io Dodds unravels the complex web of ideology, friendship, and bloody violence that has baffled investigators nationwide

And the problem isn’t limited to the region – across the US, nearly a third of homes are at high risk

Police search for member currently on the run from charges linked to homicides across the US