9:00 AM (Downtown L.A.) Mayor Bass will join state and regional leaders to launch the “LA Is Open” campaign, a regional recovery effort to restore business confidence, rebuild tourism, and support small businesses across Los Angeles following the devastating January wildfires. This comes as Mayor Bass is taking bold action to support Downtown L.A.’s ongoing revitalization and ensure that City Hall is an advocate for local businesses.
Yada. Yada. Yada. Commies sure love to talk!
Well, the Pacific Palisades fire was 9 months ago, but don’t let that fool you into thinking anything has actually improved.
Report: More Than 70 Percent of Palisades Fire Victims Still in Temporary Housing
Roughly 75% of surveyed Pacific Palisades residents and 67% of surveyed Altadena residents are in temporary housing. Many expect they’ll have to move again in the next few months. The report found that although residents who experienced a total loss have struggled with finding stable housing, residents who experienced structural and smoke or ash damage have had to move more frequently.
For residents who lost their homes in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, Pasadena and Malibu, 22% said they expected to move again within the next six to 12 months and 9% expected to move within the next few months. Of those residents who experienced structural and smoke or ash damage, 19% expected to have to move in the next few months and 18% believed they’d have to move within a year. [Source]
The fire may have left the hills, but the scorched mess of bureaucracy and slow-moving recovery efforts is still very much here. Homes, businesses along Pacific Coast Highway, and local infrastructure are left dangling in a kind of post-fire limbo, where “progress” seems to mean checking boxes and issuing statements rather than actually fixing anything.
Local businesses that survived the flames are still navigating ash-covered streets, paperwork, and insurance nightmares, while waiting for anyone in authority to move faster than a snail on vacation. One might hope that lessons were learned, that fire mitigation plans were updated, and that the next disaster might be met with action rather than press releases. But judging by the pace of recovery, hope might just be another thing left smoldering.
Bottom Line
More BASSturd Bullshit.
We are so screwed.
— Steve
