‘Recovery Is Failing Survivors’: Fire Survivors Say Billions Still Needed to Come Home, One Year Later
About 70% of survivors remain displaced due to insurance delays and soaring rents, with many facing homelessness and mounting debt, advocates said.
- On Jan. 7, 2026, Joy Chen, Eaton Fire Survivors Network executive director, said thousands of Eaton and Palisades fire survivors remain displaced and unable to rebuild, with a Department of Angels survey showing about 70% still displaced.
- Insurance and housing-market pressures have left survivors and survivor advocates citing delays from insurance companies, doubled rents by landlords, and thousands of contaminated homes unsafe to inhabit.
- The fires' scale is stark: the Eaton Fire burned more than 14,000 acres and destroyed more than 9,400 buildings, while some families have moved between 10 to 15 Airbnbs or motels.
- Southern California Edison has offered interim compensation, receiving 1,840 claims and extending 82 offers totaling $34 million as emergency housing funding for Ada Hernandez ends Jan. 14.
- Lawmakers have proposed bills including SB877 and SB878, but only about 15% of homes have permits, as critics blame political leaders like Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom ahead of this year’s elections.
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