A Close Brush With Loss for a Community That Knows It Well

A 2008 fire gutted a mobile home park in the suburb of Sylmar. Last week, the Hurst fire came frighteningly close, and residents still haven’t let their guard down.

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Middle-class Dreams Lie In Ruins in Palisades Mobile Home Park

The Los Angeles wildfires destroyed mobile homes, leaving people who saved to build a middle-class life digging through rubble for anything that remained.

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In One of L.A.’s Richest ZIP codes, Food Service Workers Also Lost Their Homes

In addition to pricey mansions, the homes of working-class people were also lost, including a mobile home park on Pacific Coast Highway.

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C.F.P.B Sues Unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Over Risky Mortgages

A federal consumer bureau claims Vanderbilt Mortgage, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, made loans to buyers of manufactured homes it knew could not repay them.

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