Articles by Elizabeth Weil and Mollie Simon ProPublicaorg

California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse
California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Monday morning, Sept. 28, California woke up sweaty, devastated, even shocked to find the state burning again. But if we’re honest, and to our great shame, no one was surprised. We’d seen this horror movie in this town. Three years ago, wildfire killed 25 people in Sonoma County. Now the Glass Fire was there, again, burning toward Santa Rosa. At 12:30 a.m., a string of seniors stood in line, many in pajamas, waiting to board an evacuation bus f...
04 Oct, 2020
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